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PI-Submitted Research Highlights for
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program
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| Title | Author | Submitted | |
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| Temperature Sensitivity of Deep Peat Microbial Enzymes | Christopher W. Schadt | 27-Jul-18 | Read |
| Soil Properties Explain Diversity of Moisture-Driven Microbial Respiration Response | Vanessa Bailey | 11-Jul-18 | Read |
| Local Heterogeneity of Carbon Accumulation Throughout the Peat Profile of an Ombrotrophic Northern Minnesota Bog | Karis McFarlane | 04-Jun-18 | Read |
| Simulating the Spatial Variation of Carbon Processes at a Critical Zone Observatory | David Eissenstat | 02-Jun-18 | Read |
| Spatio-temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll | Jin Wu | 30-May-18 | Read |
| 21st Century Tundra Shrubification Could Enhance Net Carbon Uptake of North America Arctic Tundra Under an RCP8.5 Climate Trajectory | William J. Riley | 25-May-18 | Read |
| Accelerated Nutrient Cycling and Increased Light Competition will Lead to 21st Century Shrub Expansion in North American Arctic Tundra | William J. Riley | 25-May-18 | Read |
| Patterns in Root:Shoot Ratios in Tropical Forests Across the Globe | Jennifer Powers | 23-May-18 | Read |
| Soil Microbial Controls on CO2 Fluxes in a Tropical Dry Forest | Jennifer Powers | 22-May-18 | Read |
| Surviving the Heat: Resilience to Extreme Temperatures Varies by Species | Jeffrey M. Warren | 11-May-18 | Read |
| Depth-Resolved Physicochemical Characteristics of Active Layer and Permafrost Soils in an Arctic Polygonal Tundra Region | Stan D. Wullschleger | 11-May-18 | Read |
| Increased Earthworm Density Supports Soil Carbon Storage in a Forest Exposed to Elevated CO2 | Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon | 30-Apr-18 | Read |
| Drought Drives Rapid Shifts in Tropical Rainforest Soil Biogeochemistry and Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Whendee Silver | 25-Apr-18 | Read |
| Vulnerability of Amazon Forests to Storm-Driven Tree Mortality | Jeffrey Q. Chambers | 23-Apr-18 | Read |
| Teasing Out Molecular Details of Arctic Soil Organic Carbon Degradation Under Warming | Baohua Gu | 23-Apr-18 | Read |
| Reforestation Can Sequester Globally Significant Amounts of Soil Carbon | Julie D. Jastrow | 09-Apr-18 | Read |
| Ecological Role of Xylem Refilling in Woody Plants | Thomas L. Powell | 30-Mar-18 | Read |
| An Effective-Medium Model For P-Wave Velocities Of Saturated, Unconsolidated Saline Permafrost | Jonathan Ajo-Franklin | 26-Mar-18 | Read |
| Soil Moisture Mediates the Effects of Heating, Roots, and Depth on Root Litter Decomposition | Margaret Torn | 22-Mar-18 | Read |
| Portfolio of Land Use Strategies Can Increase Future Carbon Sequestration in Moist Temperate Forests | Beverly Law | 19-Mar-18 | Read |
| Rapid remote sensing assessment of impacts from Hurricane Maria on forests of Puerto Rico | Jeffrey Chambers | 12-Mar-18 | Read |
| Lateral Processes Dominate Control of Water Available to Tropical Forests | L. Ruby Leung | 08-Mar-18 | Read |
| Plant Water Potential Improves Prediction of Empirical Stomatal Models | William R. L. Anderegg | 08-Mar-18 | Read |
| Drought-induced mortality patterns and rapid biomass recovery in a terra firme forest in the Colombian Amazon | Stuart Davies | 08-Mar-18 | Read |
| Vegetation Demographics in Earth System Models: A Review of Progress and Priorities | Rosie Fisher | 08-Mar-18 | Read |
| Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation | Matteo Detto | 07-Mar-18 | Read |
| Photosynthetic Capacity of Branches Increases During the Dry Season in a Central Amazon Forest | Loren Albert | 06-Mar-18 | Read |
| Thermodynamic Links Between Substrate, Enzyme, and Microbial Dynamics | William J. Riley | 28-Feb-18 | Read |
| Forest Lichens May Suffer Changes In Production and Range With Future Environmental Warming | Paul J. Hanson | 28-Feb-18 | Read |
| An Improved Numerical Method For Solving Depth-Resolved Biogeochemical Models | William J. Riley | 23-Feb-18 | Read |
| A Challenging Future for Tropical Forests | Nate McDowell | 16-Feb-18 | Read |
| Community Proteogenomics Reveals the Systemic Impact of Phosphorus Availability on Microbial functions in Tropical Soil | Melanie Mayes | 06-Feb-18 | Read |
| Soil microbiome in Arctic polygonal tundra unlocked | Stan D. Wullschleger | 05-Feb-18 | Read |
| Temporal And Spatial Variation In Peatland Carbon Cycling And Implications For Interpreting Responses Of An Ecosystem-Scale Warming Experiment | Natalie A. Griffiths | 18-Jan-18 | Read |
| The Millennial Model: In Search of Measurable Pools and Transformations for Modeling Soil Carbon in the New Century | Rose Abramoff | 18-Jan-18 | Read |
| Impacts of microtopographic snow redistribution and lateral subsurface processes in an Arctic polygonal ecosystem | William J. Riley | 18-Jan-18 | Read |
| Tropical Forest Soil Carbon Stocks Predicted by Nutrients and Roots, not Aboveground Plant Biomass | Daniela F Cusack | 12-Jan-18 | Read |
| Drought-pathogen interactions and oak tree mortality | Lianhong Gu | 11-Jan-18 | Read |
| How Plant Roots Take Up Water from Soil | Timothy D. Scheibe | 11-Jan-18 | Read |
| Inter-annual variability of net and gross ecosystem carbon fluxes | Dennis Baldocchi | 08-Jan-18 | Read |
| Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization | Scott Fendorf | 07-Jan-18 | Read |
| Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest | Jin Wu | 26-Dec-17 | Read |
| Microtopography Determines Active Layer Depths Responses to Temperature and Precipitation at the NGEE-Arctic’ Barrow Experimental Observatory Sites | William J. Riley | 21-Dec-17 | Read |
| Microtopography Determines How CO2 and CH4 Exchanges Respond to Temperature and Precipitation at an Arctic Polygonal Tundra Site | William J. Riley | 21-Dec-17 | Read |
| Soil Carbon Cycle Confidence and Uncertainty | Will Wieder | 04-Dec-17 | Read |
| Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests | David Medvigy | 04-Dec-17 | Read |
| Predicting and Planning for Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances | Nate McDowell | 28-Nov-17 | Read |
| Hydrogenation of Organic Matter as a Terminal Electron Sink Sustains High CO2:CH4 Production Ratios During Anaerobic Decomposition | Joel E. Kostka | 20-Nov-17 | Read |
| The Power of Traditional Proxies for Measuring the Soil Carbon Cycle | Vanessa Bailey | 14-Nov-17 | Read |
| Will Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests Be Sensitive or Resistant to Future Changes in Rainfall Regime? | Jennifer Powers | 06-Nov-17 | Read |
| Root and rhizosphere bacterial phosphatase activity varies with tree species and soil phosphorus availability in Puerto Rico tropical forest | Richard J. Norby | 25-Oct-17 | Read |
| Developing a Molecular Picture of Soil Organic Matter-Mineral Interactions | Vanessa Bailey | 18-Oct-17 | Read |
| Integration of C1 and C2 Metabolism in Trees | Kolby J. Jardine | 17-Oct-17 | Read |
| Measuring Photosynthesis via the Glow of Plants | Lianhong Gu | 16-Oct-17 | Read |
| Evaluating the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) at a coniferous forest site in northwestern United States using flux and carbon-isotope measurements | James Ehleringer | 13-Oct-17 | Read |
| Synthetic Iron (Hydr)Oxide-Glucose Associations In Subsurface Soil: Effects On Decomposability Of Mineral Associated Carbon | Margaret S. Torn | 12-Oct-17 | Read |
| Microbial Community-Level Regulation Explains Soil Carbon Responses To Long-Term Litter Manipulations | Margaret S. Torn | 12-Oct-17 | Read |
| Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up | J. Elliott Campbell | 10-Oct-17 | Read |
| Networking Science to Improve Soil Organic Matter Management Opportunities | Ben Bond-Lamberty | 05-Oct-17 | Read |
| Quantification of Arctic Soil and Permafrost Properties Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Electrical Resistivity Tomography Datasets | Stan D. Wullschleger | 05-Oct-17 | Read |
| Coincident Aboveground and Belowground Autonomous Monitoring to Quantify Covariability in Permafrost, Soil, and Vegetation Properties in Arctic Tundra | Stan D. Wullschleger | 05-Oct-17 | Read |
| Integration of C1 and C2 Metabolism in Trees | Kolby J. Jardine | 05-Oct-17 | Read |
| Evapotranspiration Across Plant Types And Geomorphological Units In Polygonal Arctic Tundra | Naama Raz-Yaseef | 05-Oct-17 | Read |
| Tree Hydraulic Acclimation Partially Mitigates Effects Of Warming And Drought | Charlotte Grossiord | 02-Oct-17 | Read |
| Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion to estimate soil organic carbon content in the Arctic tundra | Susan Hubbard | 27-Sep-17 | Read |
| An observational benchmark and scaling theory for environmental controls on soil decomposition | Charles Koven | 27-Sep-17 | Read |
| A Parsimonious Modular Approach to Building a Mechanistic Belowground Carbon and Nitrogen Model | Adrien Finzi / Rose Abramoff | 26-Sep-17 | Read |
| A Zero Power Warming Chamber for Investigating Plant Responses to Rising Temperature | Alistair Rogers | 24-Sep-17 | Read |
| Using neutron imaging to measure and modeling poplar root water extraction after drought | Jeffrey M Warren | 22-Sep-17 | Read |
| Electrical And Seismic Response Of Saline Permafrost Soil During Freeze — Thaw Transition | Yuxin Wu | 21-Sep-17 | Read |
| Large Uncertainty in Permafrost Carbon Stocks Due to Hillslope Soil Deposits | Joel C. Rowland | 20-Sep-17 | Read |
| A new approach to represent multi-consumer, multi-species soil biogeochemical reactions for Earth System Models | William J. Riley | 07-Sep-17 | Read |
| Terrestrial Biosphere Models Underestimate Photosynthetic Capacity and CO2 Assimilation in the Arctic | Alistair Rogers | 06-Sep-17 | Read |
| Variations Of Leaf Longevity In Tropical Moist Forests Predicted By A Trait-Driven Carbon Optimality Model | Jin Wu | 01-Sep-17 | Read |
| Dual Role of Microorganisms in Soil Organic Matter Dynamics | Julie D. Jastrow | 23-Aug-17 | Read |
| Flooding Determines Seasonality in Sphagnum Moss Photosynthesis | Anthony P. Walker | 02-Aug-17 | Read |
| Global Photosynthesis Modeling is Stymied by Competing Hypotheses on Scaling of Plant Traits | Anthony P. Walker | 02-Aug-17 | Read |
| A Metadata Reporting Framework (FRAMES) for Synthesis of Ecohydrological Observations | Danielle S. Christianson | 26-Jul-17 | Read |
| FATES Integrations with ACME Model | Charles Koven | 24-Jul-17 | Read |
| A Multi-species Synthesis of Physiological Mechanisms in Drought-induced Tree Mortality | Nate McDowell | 15-Jul-17 | Read |
| Rapid Characterization of Northern Cold-Region Soil Organic Matter | Julie D. Jastrow | 07-Jul-17 | Read |
| International Space Station Observations Offer Insights Into Plant Function | Shawn Serbin | 26-Jun-17 | Read |
| A Direct Measure Of Basin-Wide Evaporation And Transpiration From The Amazon Rainforest | Charles Koven | 23-Jun-17 | Read |
| Fine-Root Growth in a Forested Bog is Seasonally Dynamic, But Shallowly Distributed in Nutrient-Poor Peat Environments | Colleen M. Iversen | 12-Jun-17 | Read |
| Enabling Remote Prediction of Leaf Age in Tropical Forest Canopies | Alistair Rogers | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Partitioning Controls on Tropical Evergreen Forest Photosynthesis across Timescales | Alistair Rogers | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Phosphorus Feedbacks May Constrain Tropical Ecosystem Responses To Changes In Atmospheric CO2 | Xiaojuan Yang | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Tropical Tree Photosynthesis And Nutrients: The Model-Data Connection | Richard J. Norby | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Mechanical Vulnerability And Resistance To Snapping And Uprooting For Central Amazon Tree Species | G.H.P.M. Ribeiro | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Landscape-Scale Consequences Of Differential Tree Mortality From Catastrophic Wind Disturbance In The Amazon | Sami W. Rifai | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Monoterpene ‘Themometer’ of Tropical Forest-Atmosphere Response of High Temperature Stress | Kolby Jardine | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds In Amazonian Ecosystems | Kolby J. Jardine | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Variation In Stem Mortality Rates Determines Patterns Of Above-Ground Biomass In Amazonian Forests: Implications For Dynamic Global Vegetation Models | Brad Christoffersen | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Retention Of Stored Water Enables Tropical Tree Saplings To Survive Extreme Drought Conditions | Brett Wolfe | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Do Dynamic Global Vegetation Models Capture The Seasonality Of Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon Basin? A Data-Model Intercomparison | Brad Christoffersen | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Aboveground Biomass Variability Across Intact and Degraded Forests in the Brazilian Amazon | Michael Keller | 11-Jun-17 | Read |
| Long Term Decomposition: The Influence Of Litter Type And Soil Horizon On Retention Of Plant Carbon And Nitrogen In Soils | Margaret S. Torn | 05-Jun-17 | Read |
| A Trait-Based Plant Hydraulics Model For Tropical Forests | Brad Christoffersen | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| The Role Of Nutrients In Drought-Induced Mortality And Recovery | Nate McDowell | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Improving Predictions of Heterotrophic Respiration | Ben Bond-Lamberty | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Pragmatic Hydraulic Theory Predicts Stomatal Responses To Climatic Water Deficits | Nate McDowell | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Patterns Of Tree Mortality In A Temperate Deciduous Forest Derived From A Large Forest Dynamics Plot | Stuart Davies | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| The Energetic And Carbon Economic Origins Of Leaf Thermoregulation | Nate McDowell | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Shifts in Biomass and Productivity for a Subtropical Dry Forest in Response to Simulated Elevated Hurricane Disturbances | Jeffrey Q. Chambers | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Linking Microbial Community Composition To Carbon Loss Rates During Wood Decomposition | Chonggang Xu | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Using MODIS Weekly Evapotranspiration to Monitor Drought | Nate McDowell | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| A Belowground Perspective On The Drought Sensitivity Of Forests: Towards Improved Model Predictions And Management Prescriptions | Nate McDowell | 02-Jun-17 | Read |
| Can Models Predict Grassland Responses to Environment? | Anthony Walker | 24-May-17 | Read |
| The FLUXNET2015 Dataset | Margaret S. Torn | 23-May-17 | Read |
| Ecological Role of Hydraulic Traits of Amazon Rainforest Trees | Thomas L. Powell | 19-May-17 | Read |
| PeRL: A Circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database | William J. Riley, Charlie Koven | 12-May-17 | Read |
| A Global Trait-Based Approach to Estimate Leaf Nitrogen Functional Allocations from Observations | William J. Riley | 09-May-17 | Read |
| Tundra Carbon Losses With Rapid Permafrost Thaw | Ted Schuur | 08-May-17 | Read |
| Building A Better Foundation: Improving Root-Trait Measurements To Understand And Model Plant And Ecosystem Processes | M. Luke McCormack | 03-May-17 | Read |
| Temperate Forest Methane Sink Diminished By Tree Emissions | Patrick Megonigal | 25-Apr-17 | Read |
| Mapping Snow Depth Within A Tundra Ecosystem Using Multiscale Observations And Bayesian Methods | Stan D. Wullschleger | 18-Apr-17 | Read |
| The Phenology Of Leaf Quality And Its Variation Are Essential For Accurate Modeling Of Photosynthesis In Tropical Evergreen Forests | Jin Wu | 18-Apr-17 | Read |
| Global Photosynthesis on the Rise | Elliott Campbell | 04-Apr-17 | Read |
| The Whole-soil Carbon Flux in Response to Warming: Soils Could Release Much More Carbon Than Expected as Climate Warms | Margaret S. Torn | 15-Mar-17 | Read |
| A Global Fine-Root Ecology Database to Address Belowground Challenges in Plant Ecology | Colleen M. Iversen | 09-Mar-17 | Read |
| An ecosystem-scale, experimental system to study whole-ecosystem-warming was documented | Paul J. Hanson | 24-Feb-17 | Read |
| Plant-Mycorrhizal Interactions Influence Coexistence Patterns in Plants | Aimee T. Classen | 14-Feb-17 | Read |
| Bacteria Living Within Plant Roots Affect Where and How Plants Allocate Carbon for Growth | Aimee T. Classen | 14-Feb-17 | Read |
| Climate Warming Could Cause Plants and Soils to Become Out of Sync on Mountaintops Globally | Aimee T. Classen | 14-Feb-17 | Read |
| Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia | William J. Riley | 10-Feb-17 | Read |
| Observational Needs for Estimating Alaskan Soil Carbon Stocks under Current and Future Climate | Julie D. Jastrow | 30-Jan-17 | Read |
| Differences in Soluble Organic Carbon Chemistry in Pore Waters Sampled from Different Pore Size Domains | Vanessa Bailey | 13-Jan-17 | Read |
| How Moisture Affects the Way Soil Microbes Breathe | Vanessa Bailey | 11-Jan-17 | Read |
| Large CO2 and CH4 Emissions from Polygonal Tundra During Spring Thaw in Northern Alaska | Naama Raz-Yaseef | 09-Jan-17 | Read |
| Seedling Responses to Climate Warming May Slow Tree Advance Upslope | Lara M. Kueppers | 19-Dec-16 | Read |
| Under-utilized Soil Respiration Data Offer Novel Ways to Constrain and Improve Models | Ben Bond-Lamberty | 30-Nov-16 | Read |
| A Roadmap for Improving the Representation of Photosynthesis in Earth System Models | Alistair Rogers | 28-Nov-16 | Read |
| Temperature Response of Soil Respiration Largely Unaltered with Experimental Warming | Scott D. Bridgham | 16-Nov-16 | Read |
| Dynamic Vertical Profiles of Peat Porewater Chemistry in a Northern Peatland | Natalie Griffiths | 25-Oct-16 | Read |
| Vertical Transport of Greenhouse Gases through the Nocturnal Atmospheric Boundary Layer | David Werth | 17-Oct-16 | Read |
| A Belowground Perspective On Forest Drought Offers Improved Predictions for Managing Climate Change Impacts | Paul J. Hanson | 14-Oct-16 | Read |
| Coupled simulations of surface and subsurface thermal hydrology in permafrost-affected regions | Scott L. Painter | 07-Oct-16 | Read |
| The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK) | Amy L. Breen | 30-Sep-16 | Read |
| Radiocarbon constraints imply reduced carbon uptake by soils during the 21st century | Margaret Torn | 26-Sep-16 | Read |
| Aquatic Plants Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions | Christian G. Andresen | 22-Sep-16 | Read |
| Global model improved by incorporating new hypothesis for vegetation nutrient limitation, supported by field experiment | Peter E. Thornton | 21-Sep-16 | Read |
| Biogeochemical modeling of CO2 and CH4 production in anoxic Arctic soil microcosms | Peter E. Thornton | 21-Sep-16 | Read |
| Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface | Jiafu Mao | 21-Sep-16 | Read |
| An observational constraint on stomatal function in forests: evaluating coupled carbon and water vapor exchange with carbon isotopes in the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) | David R. Bowling | 20-Sep-16 | Read |
| Model Guided Field Experiments: Ecosystem CO2 Responses in an Australian Eucalypt Woodland | Anthony Walker | 20-Sep-16 | Read |
| Strong Regional Atmospheric 14C Signature of Respired CO2 Observed from a Tall Tower over the Midwestern United States | Brian LaFranchi | 19-Sep-16 | Read |
| Assessing the Challenges and Benefits of an Online ‘Open Experiment’ | Ben Bond-Lamberty | 13-Sep-16 | Read |
| A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands | William J. Riley | 13-Sep-16 | Read |
| Community-level flux methods provide a foundation for understanding bog carbon cycle warming responses | Paul J. Hanson | 01-Sep-16 | Read |
| Influences and Interactions of Inundation, Peat, and Snow and Active Layer Thickness | Adam Atchley | 15-Aug-16 | Read |
| Shrubs Accelerate Wetland Water Loss | Brian Benscoter | 01-Aug-16 | Read |
| Slow Ecosystem Responses Conditionally Regulate Annual Carbon Balance Over 15 Years in Californian Oak-Grass Savanna | Dennis Baldocchi | 26-Jul-16 | Read |
| Potential Carbon Emissions Dominated by Carbon Dioxide from Thawed Permafrost Soils | Colleen M. Iversen | 20-Jul-16 | Read |
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