Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison

(2016) E. Lokupitiya et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Contrasting strategies of hydraulic control in two codominant temperate tree species

(2016) Ashley M. Matheny et al.   Ecohydrology

Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests

(2016) Rico Fischer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Predicting vegetation type through physiological and environmental interactions with leaf traits: evergreen and deciduous forests in an earth system modeling framework

(2016) Ensheng Weng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes

(2016) Tommaso Jucker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

(2016) Michelle O. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global variations in ecosystem-scale isohydricity

(2016) Alexandra G. Konings et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities

(2016) Niv DeMalach et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting stomatal responses to the environment from the optimization of photosynthetic gain and hydraulic cost

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying the influences of spectral resolution on uncertainty in leaf trait estimates through a Bayesian approach to RTM inversion

(2016) Alexey N. Shiklomanov et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

(2016) Jan U.H. Eitel et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests

(2016) C. E. Farrior et al.   SCIENCE

Climate, soil organic layer, and nitrogen jointly drive forest development after fire in the North American boreal zone

(2016) A. T. Trugman et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The Impact of Fine-Scale Disturbances on the Predictability of Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Flux

(2016) G. C. Hurtt et al.   PLoS One

Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences for South American climate

(2015) Abigail L.S. Swann et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

(2015) Pierre Gentine et al.   Ecohydrology

Imaging spectroscopy algorithms for mapping canopy foliar chemical and morphological traits and their uncertainties

(2015) Aditya Singh et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography

(2015) Scott C. Stark et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relevance of methodological choices for accounting of land use change carbon fluxes

(2015) Eberhard Hansis et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model

(2015) Lieneke M. Verheijen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO2,and land use

(2015) Ke Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nitrogen limitation on land: how can it occur in Earth system models?

(2015) R. Quinn Thomas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Alteration of forest succession and carbon cycling under elevated CO2

(2015) Adam D. Miller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

(2015) Boris Sakschewski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Potential impact of large ungulate grazers on African vegetation, carbon storage and fire regimes

(2015) Adrian Pachzelt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A Representative Democracy to Reduce Interdependency in a Multimodel Ensemble

(2015) Benjamin M. Sanderson et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Geoscience

What plant hydraulics can tell us about responses to climate-change droughts

(2015) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modeling terrestrial carbon and water dynamics across climatic gradients: does plant trait diversity matter?

(2015) Christoforos Pappas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change

(2015) Naomi M. Levine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decreased water limitation under elevated CO2amplifies potential for forest carbon sinks

(2015) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

(2015) Jean-Luc Widlowski et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remotely estimating photosynthetic capacity, and its response to temperature, in vegetation canopies using imaging spectroscopy

(2015) Shawn P. Serbin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

(2015) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought

(2015) D. Scott Mackay et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Observations of stem water storage in trees of opposing hydraulic strategies

(2015) Ashley M. Matheny et al.   Ecosphere

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

(2015) David M Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

A general ecophysiological framework for modelling the impact of pests and pathogens on forest ecosystems.

(2014) Michael C. Dietze et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Imaging spectroscopy- and lidar-derived estimates of canopy composition and structure to improve predictions of forest carbon fluxes and ecosystem dynamics

(2014) A. S. Antonarakis et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Contribution of Dynamic Vegetation Phenology to Decadal Climate Predictability

(2014) Martina Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2Enrichment studies

(2014) Sönke Zaehle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biogeographic variation in evergreen conifer needle longevity and impacts on boreal forest carbon cycle projections

(2014) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water storage dynamics in the main stem of subtropical tree species differing in wood density, growth rate and life history traits

(2014) L. Oliva Carrasco et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest

(2014) Benjamin D. Stocker et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Competition for Water and Light in Closed-Canopy Forests: A Tractable Model of Carbon Allocation with Implications for Carbon Sinks

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Community Earth System Model: A Framework for Collaborative Research

(2013) James W. Hurrell et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Testing individual-based models of forest dynamics: Issues and an example from the boreal forests of Russia

(2013) Jacquelyn K. Shuman et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The impacts of tropical cyclones on the net carbon balance of eastern US forests (1851–2000)

(2013) J P Fisk et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A stand-alone tree demography and landscape structure module for Earth system models

(2013) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

(2013) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

(2013) V. Brovkin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Our limited ability to predict vegetation dynamics under water stress

(2013) Chonggang Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-induced defoliation and long periods of near-zero gas exchange play a key role in accentuating metabolic decline of Scots pine

(2013) Rafael Poyatos et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework

(2013) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gaps in knowledge and data driving uncertainty in models of photosynthesis

(2013) Michael C. Dietze   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Guess the impact of Ips typographus—An ecosystem modelling approach for simulating spruce bark beetle outbreaks

(2012) Anna Maria Jönsson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Implementing storm damage in a dynamic vegetation model for regional applications in Sweden

(2012) Fredrik Lagergren et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models

(2012) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

(2012) William A. Hoffmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

(2012) Scott C. Stark et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Simulated impacts of insect defoliation on forest carbon dynamics

(2012) D Medvigy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Seasonal carbon dynamics and water fluxes in an Amazon rainforest

(2012) Yeonjoo Kim et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simulating the Biogeochemical and Biogeophysical Impacts of Transient Land Cover Change and Wood Harvest in the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) from 1850 to 2100

(2012) Peter J. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

(2012) Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Effect of plant dynamic processes on African vegetation responses to climate change: Analysis using the spatially explicit individual-based dynamic global vegetation model (SEIB-DGVM)

(2012) Hisashi Sato et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hydraulic limits preceding mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under experimental drought

(2012) JENNIFER A. PLAUT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

On improving the communication between models and data

(2012) MICHAEL C. DIETZE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Toward a Mechanistic Modeling of Nitrogen Limitation on Vegetation Dynamics

(2012) Chonggang Xu et al.   PLoS One

Carnegie Airborne Observatory-2: Increasing science data dimensionality via high-fidelity multi-sensor fusion

(2012) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying tree mortality in a mixed species woodland using multitemporal high spatial resolution satellite imagery

(2012) Steven R. Garrity et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Root niche separation can explain avoidance of seasonal drought stress and vulnerability of overstory trees to extended drought in a mature Amazonian forest

(2012) Valeriy Y. Ivanov et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Carbon Allocation to Foliage, Wood, and Fine Roots in Trees Competing for Light and Nitrogen: An Analytically Tractable, Individual-Based Model and Quantitative Comparisons to Data

(2011) Ray Dybzinski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Using lidar data and a height-structured ecosystem model to estimate forest carbon stocks and fluxes over mountainous terrain

(2011) R. Quinn Thomas et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tree mortality in the eastern and central United States: patterns and drivers

(2011) Michael C. Dietze et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

(2011) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

(2011) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Mechanistic causes of tree drought mortality: recent results, unresolved questions and future research needs

(2011) Melanie J. B. Zeppel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting ecosystem dynamics at regional scales: an evaluation of a terrestrial biosphere model for the forests of northeastern North America

(2011) D. Medvigy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modelling ecological systems in a changing world

(2011) M. R. Evans   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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 interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Carbon–nitrogen interactions on land at global scales: current understanding in modelling climate biosphere feedbacks

(2011) Sönke Zaehle et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Estimating plot-level tree structure in a deciduous forest by combining allometric equations, spatial wavelet analysis and airborne LiDAR

(2011) Steven R. Garrity et al.   Remote Sensing Letters

EC-Earth

(2010) Wilco Hazeleger et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Carbon and nitrogen cycle dynamics in the O-CN land surface model: 1. Model description, site-scale evaluation, and sensitivity to parameter estimates

(2010) S. Zaehle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Uncertainties in the 20th century carbon budget associated with land use change

(2010) V. K. ARORA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking models and data on vegetation structure

(2010) G. C. Hurtt et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hot spots of vegetation-climate feedbacks under future greenhouse forcing in Europe

(2010) Anna Wramneby et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A one-dimensional model of water flow in soil-plant systems based on plant architecture

(2010) Michael Janott et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Influences of Forest Structure, Climate and Species Composition on Tree Mortality across the Eastern US

(2010) Emily R. Lines et al.   PLoS One

Modeling Dryland Landscapes

(2010) E. Meron   Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

A model of the coupled dynamics of climate, vegetation and terrestrial ecosystem biogeochemistry for regional applications

(2010) Benjamin Smith et al.   TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Multivariate forecasts of potential distributions of invasive plant species

(2009) Inés Ibáñez et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Simulation of the vegetation structure and function in a Malaysian tropical rain forest using the individual-based dynamic vegetation model SEIB-DGVM

(2009) Hisashi Sato   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Simulation study of the vegetation structure and function in eastern Siberian larch forests using the individual-based vegetation model SEIB-DGVM

(2009) Hisashi Sato et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

(2009) J. Pongratz et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests

(2009) Nicolas Barbier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

(2009) D. Medvigy et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics

(2009) B. J. Enquist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mathematical models of vegetation pattern formation in ecohydrology

(2009) F. Borgogno et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Woody Species as Landscape Modulators and Their Effect on Biodiversity Patterns

(2008) Moshe Shachak et al.   BIOSCIENCE

EVALUATING THE SOURCES OF POTENTIAL MIGRANT SPECIES: IMPLICATIONS UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

(2008) Inés Ibáñez et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

SCALING FROM TREES TO FORESTS: TRACTABLE MACROSCOPIC EQUATIONS FOR FOREST DYNAMICS

(2008) Nikolay Strigul et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

An analysis of the sensitivity of sap flux to soil and plant variables assessed for an Australian woodland using a soil–plant–atmosphere model

(2008) Melanie Zeppel et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model

(2008) D. W. Purves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics

(2008) D. Purves et al.   SCIENCE

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

(2003) Kirsten Thonicke et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY