Deciphering the factors relating sun-induced fluorescence to photosynthesis and transpiration in space and time

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Completing my PhD research has been a very stimulating and enriching experience. It would have not been possible without the supervision and advice of Mirco Migliavacca. I would like to thank you for the great supervision and guidance. I am very grateful to Christiaan van der Tol for excellent supervision and advice and for hosting me at the University of Twente's Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) for many months. This research was part of the TRuStEE network. I want to thank Micol Rossini for coordinating the project and to all the TRuStEE PhD students for sharing this journey with me and for providing support and friendship. I am very grateful for my colleagues at the biogeochemical integration department of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biogechemistry; I thank all of you for providing a very stimulating scientific environment that helped me to grow scientifically and personally. A special thank also to Markus Reichstein whose passion for research is very inspiring. Big thanks to the Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions and Experimentation group that hosted me and provided me with excellent scientific advice and a great work environment. I want to specifically thank Javier Pacheco-Labrador and Tarek El-Madany for always being available for discussion. Much of the research has been carried out at the Majadas de Tiétar site, which was set up thanks to the excellent work and expertise of the field experiments and instrumentation group at MPI. Thanks to all of you and especially to Olaf Kolle. A sincere thanks to Karolina Sakowska for providing the moni-PAM data at both the Majadas and Leinefelde site and for helping with the processing of the data. Many thank also to Jasper Denissen for helping with the translation of the summary. I also want to thank all the people at ITC that welcomed me and made the research stay an excellent experience. The biggest thanks goes to my lovely partner, Ingrid Chanca, for the incredible support and love and for being the best companion I could ever ask for. To my parents, Graciela Peña Alfaro and Claudio Martini, thank you so much for everything, especially for the great positivity and support that you always showed. Many thanks to my grandpa, Attilio Martini, who inspired my love for science. 1.6Research gaps.