Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

MC Dietze, A Fox, LM Beck-Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

Why can't we predict traits from the environment?

LDL Anderegg - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits are powerful ecological tools, but the relationships between plant traits
and climate (or environmental variables more broadly) are often remarkably weak. This …

The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) system: design, theory, and implementation

N Collier, FM Hoffman, DM Lawrence… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing complexity of Earth system models has inspired efforts to quantitatively
assess model fidelity through rigorous comparison with best available measurements and …

The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

KA Novick, JA Biederman, AR Desai, ME Litvak… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
AmeriFlux scientists were early adopters of a network-enabled approach to ecosystem
science that continues to transform the study of land-atmosphere interactions. In the 20 …

The sensitivity of North American terrestrial carbon fluxes to spatial and temporal variation in soil moisture: An analysis using radar‐derived estimates of root‐zone soil …

K Zhang, A Ali, A Antonarakis… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact of variation in root‐zone soil moisture (RZSM), a key
component of the Earth's hydrologic cycle and climate system, on regional carbon fluxes …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) …

CD Koven, RG Knox, RA Fisher, JQ Chambers… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Plant functional traits determine vegetation responses to environmental variation, but
variation in trait values is large, even within a single site. Likewise, uncertainty in how these …

Forest biogeochemistry in response to drought

WH Schlesinger, MC Dietze, RB Jackson… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Trees alter their use and allocation of nutrients in response to drought, and changes in soil
nutrient cycling and trace gas flux (N2O and CH 4) are observed when experimental drought …

Prediction in ecology: A first‐principles framework

MC Dietze - Ecological Applications, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative predictions are ubiquitous in ecology, yet there is limited discussion on the
nature of prediction in this field. Herein I derive a general quantitative framework for …

Estimating the sensitivity of stomatal conductance to photosynthesis: a review

GL Miner, WL Bauerle… - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A common approach for estimating fluxes of CO2 and water in canopy models is to couple a
model of photosynthesis (An) to a semi‐empirical model of stomatal conductance (gs) such …

A test of the 'one‐point method'for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis

MG De Kauwe, YS Lin, IJ Wright, BE Medlyn… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Simulations of photosynthesis by terrestrial biosphere models typically need a specification
of the maximum carboxylation rate (Vcmax). Estimating this parameter using A–Ci curves …