picture Marcel Fuchs Ph.D (Emeritus)

Email: fuchsml@agri.gov.il
Tel: +972-3-9683593
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Department of Environmental Physics and Irrigation
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
Agricultural Research Organization
The Volcani Center
P.O.Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Research Interests

Selected Publications

  1. Fuchs, M., Cohen, Y. and S. Moreshet. 1987. Determining transpiration from meteorological data and crop characteristics for irrigation management. Irrig. Sci. 8:91-99.
  2. Cohen, Y., Fuchs, M., Falkenflug, V. and S. Moreshet. 1988. A calibrated heat pulse method for determining water uptake in cotton. Agron. J. 80:398-402.
  3. Cohen, Y. and M. Fuchs. 1989. Problems in calibration the heat pulse method for measuring sap flow in the stem of trees and herbaceous plants. Agronomie 9:321-325.
  4. Fuchs, M., Cohen, Y., Moreshet,S. and Y. Cohen. 1989. Experimental verification of a meteorological transpiration model. Agronomie, 9:827-832.
  5. Cohen, Y., Moreshet, S. And M. Fuchs. 1987. Changes in hydraulic conductance of citrus trees following a reduction in wetted soil volume. Plant, Cell and Environment, 10:53-57.
  6. Pieri, P. and M. Fuchs. 1990. Comparison of Bowen ratio and aerodynamic estimates of evapotranspiration. Agric. For. Meteorol. 49:243-256.
  7. Moreshet, S., Cohen, Y., Green,C.G. and M. Fuchs. 1990. The partitioning of hydraulic conductances in mature citrus trees. J. exp. Bot. 41:833-839.
  8. Fuchs, M. 1990. Canopy thermal infrared observations. In Instrumentation for Studying Vegetation Canopies for Remote Sensing in Optical and Thermal Infrared Regions. Goel, N.S. and Norman, J.M. (Eds.), Remote Sensing Reviews, 5:323-333.
  9. Fuchs, M. 1991. Infrared measurement of canopy temperature and detection of plant water stress. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 42:253-261.
  10. Petersen, K.L., Moreshet, S. and M. Fuchs. 1991. Stomatal response of field-grown cotton to radiation and soil moisture. Agron. J. 83:1056-1065.
  11. Petersen, K.L., Fuchs, M., Moreshet, S., Cohen, Y. and H. Sinoquet. 1992. Computing transpiration of sunlit and shaded foliage under variable water stress. Agron. J. 84:91-97.
  12. Demetriades-Shah, T.H., Fuchs, M., Kanemasu, E.T. and I. Flitcroft. 1992. A note of caution concerning the relationship between accumulated intercepted solar radiation and crop growth. Agric. For. Meteorol. 58:193-207.
  13. Petersen, K.L. Moreshet, S., Fuchs, M. and A. Schwartz. 1992. Field cotton stomatal responses to light spectral composition and variable soil moisture. Eur. J. Agron. 1:117-123.
  14. Demetriades-Shah, T.H., Fuchs, M., Kanemasu, E.T. and I. Flitcroft. 1993. Further discussions on the relationship between cumulated intercepted solar radiation and crop growth. Agric. For. Meteorol. 68:231-242.
  15. Fuchs, M. 1993. Radiation exchange and microclimate in vegetation canopies. In Crop Structure and Light Microclimate. C. Varlet-Grancher, R. Bonhomme and H. Sinoquet (Eds.). INRA Editions. p.387-399.
  16. Moreshet, S., Fuchs, M., Cohen, Y., Cohen, Y., and M. Langensiepen. 1996. Water transport characteristics of cotton as affected by drip irrigation layout. Agron. J. 88:717-722.
  17. Fuchs, M., Dayan, E., Shmuel, D., and I. Zipori. 1997. Effects of ventilation on the energy balance of a greenhouse with bare soil. Agric. For. Meteorol. 86:273-282.
  18. Aloni, B., Karni, L., Rilska, I., Cohen, Y., Lee, Y., Fuchs, M., Moreshet, S., and Yao, C. 1998. Cuticular cracking in pepper fruit. I. Effects of night temperature and humidity. J. Hort. Sci. & Biotech. 73:743-749.
  19. Moreshet, S., Yao, C., Aloni, B., Karni, L., Fuchs, M. and Stanghellini. C. 1999. Environmental factors affecting the cracking of greenhouse-grown bell pepper fruit. J. Hort. Sci. & Biotech. 74:6-12.
  20. Cohen, S. and Fuchs, M. 1999. Measuring and predicting radiometric properties of reflective shade nets and thermal screens. J. Agric. Engng. Res. 73:245-255.
  21. Otterman, J., Brakke, T.W., Fuchs, M., Lakshmi, V. and Cadeddu, M. 1999, Longwave emission from a plant/soil surface as a function of the view direction; dependence on the canopy architecture. Int. J. Remote Sensing 20:2195-2201.
  22. Dayan, E., Fuchs, M., Plaut, Z., Presnov, E., Grava, A., Matan, E. Solphoy, A., Mugira, U., and Pines, N. 2000, Cooling of roses in greenhouses. Proc. International Conference and British-Israeli Workshop on greenhouse techniques towards the 3rd millennium. Acta Horticulturae 534:351-360.
  23. Li, Y., Fuchs, M., Cohen, S., Cohen, Y. and Wallach, R. 2002. Water uptake profile response of corn to soil moisture depletion. Plant, Cell and Environment 25 (4), 491-500.
  24. Cohen, Y., Fuchs, M., Li, Y., Grawa, A. and Dayan, E. 2003. Reducing transpiration by an evaporative pad to delay solute accumulation in closed-loop fertigation systems. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 609:173-179
  25. Presnov, E., Dayan, E., Fuchs, M., Plaut, Z. and Matan, E. 2003. Measured and actual crop parameters to synchrony testing. ISHS Proc. 6th International Symposium on Protected Cultivation, G. La Malfa et al., (eds). Acta Hort. 614:619-624.
  26. Presnov, E., Dayan, E., Fuchs, M. and Plaut,Z. 2003. Matrix model of crop production. Int.J.Biotronics 32:65-73.
  27. Dayan, E. Presnov, E. and Fuchs, M. 2004. Prediction and calculation of morphological characteristics and distribution of assimilates in th ROSGRO model. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 65:101-116.

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Updated: 20 February, 2005