Publications

See also the publication group on Mendeley

Note: the following is an incomplete list of publications that use the Ecosystem Demography model

Antonarakis, A.S., S.S. Saatchi, R.L. Chazdon, P.R. Moorcroft (2010). Using Lidar and Radar measurements to constrain predictions of forest ecosystem structure and function. Ecolological Applications. In Press.

Albani, Marco; Moorcroft, Paul; Ellison, Aaron; Orwig, David; Foster, David (2010) Predicting the impact of hemlock woolly adelgid on carbon dynamics of Eastern U.S. Forests Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:119-133.

Hurtt, G.C., J. Fisk, R.Q. Thomas, R.O. Dubayah, P.R. Moorcroft, and H.H. Shugart (2010) Linking Models and Data on Vegetation Structure Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences 115:G00E10.

Medvigy, D., Wofsy, S.C., Munger, J.W. & Moorcroft, P.R. (2010) Responses of terrestrial ecosystems and carbon budgets to current and future environmental variability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107.

Schwalm, C et al. 2010. A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences VOL. 115, G00H0 doi:10.1029/2009JG001229

[Medvigy, D., S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Munger, D. Y. Hollinger, and P. R. Moorcroft (2009), Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2, J. Geophys. Res., 114, G01002, doi:10.1029/2008JG00081] (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JG000812.shtml)

Ise, T, Dunn, A, Wofsy, S, and Moorcroft, P (2008). High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback Nature Geoscience 1:763-766.

Desai, A, Moorcroft, PR, Bolstad, PV, and Davis, KJ (2007). Regional carbon fluxes from an observationally constrained dynamic ecosystem model: Impacts of disturbance, CO2 fertilization, and heterogeneous land cover J. Geophys. Res. 112(G01017).

Albani, M., Medvigy, D., Hurtt, G.C. & Moorcroft, P.R. (2006) The contributions of land-use change, CO 2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink. Global Change Biology, 12, 2370-2390.

Ise, T and Moorcroft, PR (2006). The global-scale temperature and moisture dependencies of soil organic carbon decomposition: an analysis using a mechanistic decomposition model Biogeochemistry 80:217--231.

Medvigy, D.M. (2006) The state of the regional carbon cycle: Results from a coupled constrained ecosystem-atmosphere model. D. thesis, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.

Hurtt, GC, Dubayah, R, Drake, J, Moorcroft, PR, and Fearon, M (2004). Beyond potential vegetation: Combining Lidar remote sensing and a height-structured ecosystem model for improved carbon stock and flux estimates Ecological Applications 14(3):873-883.

Moorcroft, PR, Hurtt, GC, and Pacala, SW (2001). A method for scaling vegetation dynamics: the ecosystem demography model (ED) Ecological Monographs 71(4):557-586.

Hurtt, GC, Moorcroft, PR, Pacala, SW, and Levin, SA (1998). Terrestrial models and global change: challenges for the future Global Change Biology 4(5):581-590.