Dr Benjamin Dechant

Postdoctoral Researcher

sDiv Synthesis Centre

Affiliations

Leipzig University

Postal address

Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Room: A.01.02

Contact details

Email: benjamin.dechant@idiv.de

Phone: +49 341 9733248

Websites

Google Scholar

ResearchGate

iDiv Publications

Publications 2024

Kattenborn, Teja, Wieneke, Sebastian, Montero, David, Mahecha, Miguel D., Richter, Ronny, Guimarães-Steinicke, Claudia, Wirth, Christian, Ferlian, Olga, Feilhauer, Hannes, Sachsenmaier, Lena, Eisenhauer, Nico, Dechant, Benjamin (2024): Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations. Communications Earth & Environment

Open Access 10.1038/s43247-024-01712-0

Jeong, Sungchan, Ryu, Youngryel, Li, Xing, Dechant, Benjamin, Liu, Jiangong, Kong, Juwon, Choi, Wonseok, Fang, Jianing, Lian, Xu, Gentine, Pierre (2024): GEOSIF: A continental-scale sub-daily reconstructed solar-induced fluorescence derived from OCO-3 and GK-2A over Eastern Asia and Oceania. Remote Sensing of Environment

Open Access 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114284

Wan, Liang, Ryu, Youngryel, Dechant, Benjamin, Hwang, Yorum, Feng, Huaize, Kang, Yanghui, Jeong, Sungchan, Lee, Jeongho, Choi, Changhyun, Bae, Joonhwan (2024): Correcting confounding canopy structure, biochemistry and soil background effects improves leaf area index estimates across diverse ecosystems from Sentinel-2 imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment

Open Access 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114224

Yan, Yulin, Ryu, Youngryel, Li, Bolun, Dechant, Benjamin, Zaheer, Sheir Afgen, Kang, Minseok (2024): A multi-objective optimization approach to simultaneously halve water consumption, CH4, and N2O emissions while maintaining rice yield. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109785

Ranjbar, Sadegh, Losos, Danielle, Dechant, Benjamin, Hoffman, Sophie, Başakın, Eyyup Ensar, Stoy, Paul C. (2024): Harnessing Information From Shortwave Infrared Reflectance Bands to Enhance Satellite-Based Estimates of Gross Primary Productivity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

10.1029/2024JG008240

Publications 2023

Dong, Ning, Dechant, Benjamin, Wang, Han, Wright, Ian J., Prentice, Iain Colin (2023): Global leaf-trait mapping based on optimality theory. Global Ecology and Biogeography

10.1111/geb.13680

Jeong, Sungchan, Ryu, Youngryel, Dechant, Benjamin, Li, Xing, Kong, Juwon, Choi, Wonseok, Kang, Minseok, Yeom, Jongmin, Lim, Joongbin, Jang, Keunchang, Chun, Junghwa (2023): Tracking diurnal to seasonal variations of gross primary productivity using a geostationary satellite, GK-2A advanced meteorological imager. Remote Sensing of Environment

10.1016/j.rse.2022.113365

Li, Bolun, Ryu, Youngryel, Jiang, Chongya, Dechant, Benjamin, Liu, Jiangong, Yan, Yulin, Li, Xing (2023): BESSv2.0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes. Remote Sensing of Environment

10.1016/j.rse.2023.113696

Li, Xing, Ryu, Youngryel, Xiao, Jingfeng, Dechant, Benjamin, Liu, Jiangong, Li, Bolun, Jeong, Sungchan, Gentine, Pierre (2023): New-generation geostationary satellite reveals widespread midday depression in dryland photosynthesis during 2020 western U.S. heatwave. Science Advances

10.1126/sciadv.adi0775

Yan, Yulin, Ryu, Youngryel, Dechant, Benjamin, Li, Bolun, Kim, Jongmin (2023): Dark respiration explains nocturnal stomatal conductance in rice regardless of drought and nutrient stress. Plant, Cell & Environment

10.1111/pce.14710

Publications 2022

Kim, Jongmin, Ryu, Youngryel, Dechant, Benjamin (2022): Development of a filter-based near-surface remote sensing system to retrieve far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Remote Sensing of Environment

10.1016/j.rse.2022.113311

Kong, Juwon, Ryu, Youngryel, Liu, Jiangong, Dechant, Benjamin, Rey-Sanchez, Camilo, Shortt, Robert, Szutu, Daphne, Verfaillie, Joe, Houborg, Rasmus, Baldocchi, Dennis D. (2022): Matching high resolution satellite data and flux tower footprints improves their agreement in photosynthesis estimates. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108878

Zeng, Yelu, Hao, Dalei, Huete, Alfredo, Dechant, Benjamin, Berry, Joe, Chen, Jing M., Joiner, Joanna, Frankenberg, Christian, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Ryu, Youngryel, Xiao, Jingfeng, Asrar, Ghassem R., Chen, Min (2022): Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

10.1038/s43017-022-00298-5

Research Interests

I am interested in the spatio-temporal patterns and dynamics of vegetation with a focus on photosynthesis, leaf/canopy traits, as well as diversity. I am using both measurements and models from the leaf over the canopy up to global scales and am working with remote sensing techniques that include reflectance-based approaches as well as those based on lidar and (sun-induced) chlorophyll fluorescence. In terms of modelling, I am using process-based models and statistical approaches (including ML) as well as their combination.

 

Short CV

2021 – : Postdoc, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (sDiv), Leipzig, Germany

2017-2021: Postdoc, Seoul National University, South Korea

2013-2017: PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ / Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

2007-2012: BSc Physics, MSc Ecology, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
(including gap year for language studies in East Asia 2009/2010)

2005-2007: Physics pre-diploma (Vordiplom), Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany

 

Selected Publications

Kim, J., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Lee, H., Kim, H. S., Kornfeld, A., & Berry, J. A. (2021). Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is non-linearly related to canopy photosynthesis in a temperate evergreen needleleaf forest during the fall transition. Remote Sensing of Environment, 258, 112362. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112362

Baldocchi, D. D., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Eichelmann, E., Hemes, K., Ma, S., Rey Sanchez, C., Shortt, R., Szutu, D., Valach, A., Verfaillie, J., Badgley, G., Zeng, Y., & Berry, J. A. (2020). Outgoing Near Infrared Radiation from Vegetation Scales with Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity and Weather. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005534

Dechant, B., Ryu, Y., Badgley, G., Zeng, Y., Berry, J. A., Zhang, Y., Goulas, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, Q., Kang, M., Li, J., & Moya, I. (2020). Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops. Remote Sensing of Environment, 241, 111733. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111733

Dechant, B., Ryu, Y., Kang, M. (2019) Making full use of hyperspectral data for gross primary productivity estimation with multivariate regression: Mechanistic insights from observations and process-based simulations. Remote Sensing of Environment 234, 111435. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111435

Zeng, Y., Badgley, G., Dechant, B., Ryu, Y., Chen, M., & Berry, J. A. (2019). A practical approach for estimating the escape ratio of near-infrared solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Remote Sensing of Environment, 232,  111209. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.05.028

Yang, K., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Berry, J. A., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., … Yang, X. (2018). Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 216, 658–673. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.07.008

Dechant, B., Cuntz, M., Vohland, M., Schulz, E., & Doktor, D. (2017). Estimation of photosynthesis traits from leaf reflectance spectra: Correlation to nitrogen content as the dominant mechanism. Remote Sensing of Environment, 196, 279–292. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.019