Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Detection and attribution of large spatiotemporal extreme events in Earth observation data

(2013) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Ecological Informatics

Drought in the Southern United States over the 20th century: variability and its impacts on terrestrial ecosystem productivity and carbon storage

(2012) Guangsheng Chen et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

500 years of regional forest growth variability and links to climatic extreme events in Europe

(2012) Flurin Babst et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Forest greenness after the massive 2008 Chinese ice storm: integrated effects of natural processes and human intervention

(2012) Ying Sun et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Breeding for the future: what are the potential impacts of future frost and heat events on sowing and flowering time requirements for Australian bread wheat (Triticum aestivium) varieties?

(2012) Bangyou Zheng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Storm pulses and varying sources of hydrologic carbon export from a mountainous watershed

(2012) Byung-Joon Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years

(2012) A. P. Ballantyne et al.   NATURE

Urgent need for a common metric to make precipitation manipulation experiments comparable

(2012) S. Vicca et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity

(2012) J. M. Craine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extreme heat effects on wheat senescence in India

(2012) David B. Lobell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climatic controls and ecosystem responses drive the inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem exchange of an alpine meadow

(2011) Barbara Marcolla et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Impacts of extreme weather on wheat and maize in France: evaluating regional crop simulations against observed data

(2011) Marijn van der Velde et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Soil water repellency and its implications for organic matter decomposition - is there a link to extreme climatic events?

(2011) MARC-O. GOEBEL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

(2011) Francisco Moreira et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

(2011) Martin Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Lakes as sentinels of climate change

(2011) Rita Adrian et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

(2011) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The fluxes of CO2 from grazed and fenced temperate steppe during two drought years on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, China

(2011) Y.F. Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China

(2011) Elisabeth Simelton   Food Security

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

(2010) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

(2010) SUSAN E. PAGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

(2010) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

The real holes in climate science

(2010) Quirin Schiermeier   NATURE

The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling

(2010) John N. Quinton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Whole-system responses of experimental plant communities to climate extremes imposed in different seasons

(2010) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Estimating irrigation use and effects on maize yield during the 2003 heatwave in France☆

(2009) Marijn van der Velde et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

(2009) W. PETERS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis

(2009) CHRISTOPHER R. SCHWALM et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Role of the aquatic pathway in the carbon and greenhouse gas budgets of a peatland catchment

(2009) KERRY J. DINSMORE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system

(2009) Bjorn Stevens et al.   NATURE

Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

(2009) Corinne Le Quéré et al.   Nature Geoscience

Impacts of tropical cyclones on U.S. forest tree mortality and carbon flux from 1851 to 2000

(2009) H. Zeng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon sequestration by a crop over a 4-year sugar beet/winter wheat/seed potato/winter wheat rotation cycle

(2008) M. Aubinet et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Spatial distribution of grassland productivity and land use in Europe

(2008) H.J. Smit et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

The 2007 Eastern US Spring Freeze: Increased Cold Damage in a Warming World?

(2008) Lianhong Gu et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Storms can cause Europe-wide reduction in forest carbon sink

(2008) ANDERS LINDROTH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of soil frost on soil respiration and its radiocarbon signature in a Norway spruce forest soil

(2008) JAN MUHR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Prolonged suppression of ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake after an anomalously warm year

(2008) John A. Arnone III et al.   NATURE

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks

(2008) Martin Heimann et al.   NATURE

Does a warmer climate with frequent mild water shortages protect grassland communities against a prolonged drought?

(2008) C. Zavalloni et al.   PLANT AND SOIL