AmeriFlux: Its Impact on our understanding of the 'breathing of the biosphere', after 25 years

D Baldocchi, K Novick, T Keenan, M Torn - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
For over two decades, the AmeriFlux network has quantified the breathing of the biosphere,
as defined by measuring the flux densities of carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange …

Informing nature‐based climate solutions for the United States with the best‐available science

KA Novick, S Metzger, WRL Anderegg… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nature‐based Climate Solutions (NbCS) are managed alterations to ecosystems
designed to increase carbon sequestration or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While they …

A multidimensional stability framework enhances interpretation and comparison of carbon cycling response to disturbance

KC Mathes, Y Ju, C Kleinke, C Oldfield, G Bohrer… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of stability is central to the study and sustainability of vital ecosystem goods and
services as disturbances increase globally. While ecosystem ecologists, including carbon …

Disturbance has variable effects on the structural complexity of a temperate forest landscape

CM Gough, JW Atkins, RT Fahey, PS Curtis… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The temporal dynamics of forest canopy structure are influenced by disturbances that alter
vegetation quantity and distribution. While canopy structural indicators such as leaf area …

Unraveling Forest Complexity: Resource Use Efficiency, Disturbance, and the Structure‐Function Relationship

BA Murphy, JA May, BJ Butterworth… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Structurally complex forests optimize resources to assimilate carbon more effectively,
leading to higher productivity. Information obtained from Light Detection and Ranging …

Sustained three-year declines in forest soil respiration are proportional to disturbance severity

KC Mathes, S Pennington, C Rodriguez… - Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Soil respiration (R s) is the largest outward flux of carbon (C) from terrestrial ecosystems,
accounting for more than half of total temperate forest C loss. Evaluating the drivers of this …

Structural complexity and primary production resistance are coupled in a temperate forest

KM Niedermaier, JW Atkins, MS Grigri… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The capacity of forests to resist structural change and retain material legacies–the biotic and
abiotic resources that persist through disturbance–is crucial to sustaining ecosystem …

Ideas and perspectives: Beyond model evaluation–combining experiments and models to advance terrestrial ecosystem science

S Caldararu, V Rolo, BD Stocker… - Biogeosciences …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Ecosystem manipulative experiments are one of the most powerful tools to understand
terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change because they measure real responses in …

DRMAT: A multivariate algorithm for detecting breakpoints in multispectral time series

Y Li, MA Wulder, Z Zhu, J Verbesselt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecosystem dynamics and ecological disturbances manifest as breakpoints in long-term
multispectral remote sensing time series. Typically, these breakpoints are captured using …

Fire after clear-cut harvesting minimally affects the recovery of ecosystem carbon pools and fluxes in a Great Lakes forest

C Clay, L Nave, K Nadelhoffer, C Vogel… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective forest carbon (C) management requires an understanding of how stand-replacing
disturbances affect C pools and fluxes over successional timescales, and how the growth of …