Completed Projects
PI: Brian Beckage, University of Vermont
Project Title: "Using historical change to predict future distribution of high elevation forests in northern New England"
No publications with current work. Fore related publications see: www.uvm.edu/~bbeckage
PI's: David Bryan Dail, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Eric A. Davidson, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA
Project Title: "Long-term CO2 exchange and biomass measurements in a spruce-hemlock stand near Howland, Maine, supporting regional-scale studies and ecosystem manipulation experiments"
Davidson, E.A., A.D. Richardson, K.E. Savage, and D.Y. Hollinger. 2006. A distinct seasonal pattern of the ratio of soil respiration to total ecosystem respiration in a spruce-dominated temperate forest. Global Change Biology 12:230-239.
Davidson, E.A., I. Janssens, and Y. Luo. 2006. On the variability of respiration in terrestrial ecosystems: moving beyond Q10. Global Change Biology 12:154-164.
Gaige E., Dail, D.B., Hollinger D.Y., Davidson, E.A., Lee, J.T., Fernandez, I.F., SIevering, H., Rodrigues, C. Hughes, H., White, A. and Halteman, W. 2007. Changes in canopy processes following whole-forest canopy nitrogen fertilization of a mature spruce-hemlock forest. Ecosystems. DOI 10.1007/s10021-007-9081-4. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v7707g863101142g/
PI: Eric A. Davidson, Woods Hole Research Center
Susan E. Trumbore - University of California, Irvine
Project Title: "Decadal-Scale Measurements of Decadal-Cycling Forest Soil Carbon"
Savage, K.E., Davidson, E.A., and Richardson, A.D. 2008. Data quality and analysis procedures for high frequency soil respiration measurements. Functional Ecology, doi: 2435.2008.01414.
PI: Russel R. Dickerson, University of Maryland
Project Title: "Sulfate-Coated Soot and Its Impact on Global Climate"
Bueno, P.A., Synthesis and measurements of optical properties of coated soot aerosols: Implications for atmospheric radiative forcing, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, anticipated 2009
Bueno, P. A., M Zachariah, G. Mulholland, and R. R. Dickerson, Optical properties of coated and uncoated soot particles, in preparation for Atmospheric Environment, 2009.
PI's: David R. Foster, Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Julian L. Hadley, Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Project Title: "Effects of forest age, soil drainage and interannual climate variation on deciduous forest carbon exchange: A comparison to long-term Harvard Forest measurements, in a contrasting forest type"
The following paper which includes data from NIGEC and NICCR-funded research at the Little Prospect Hill site, and will acknowledge NIGEC and NICCR support, has been accepted in final form, and is scheduled for publication in Tree Physiology in March 2008:
Hadley, J. L., P.S. Kuzeja, M.J. Daley, N.G. Phillips, S. Singh and T. Mulcahy. 2008. Water use and carbon exchange of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis L.) and deciduous forests in the northeastern U.S.
PI: Xuhui Lee, Yale University, Connecticut
Project Title: "Response of Soil Respiration to Rain"
Lee X., W. Massman, B. Law. 2004, 'Handbook of Micrometeorology: A Guide for Surface Flux Measurement and Analysis'. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Lee, X., J. Finnigan, K.T. Paul U. 2004, 'Coordinate systems and flux bias error', in Handbook of Micrometeorology: A Guide for Surface Flux Measurement and Analysis (X. Lee, W. Massman, B. Law eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 33-66.
Lee, X., H.-J. Wu, J. Sigler, C. Oishi, T. Siccama. 2004, 'Rapid and transient response of soil respiration to rain', Global Change Biology, 10:1017:1026.
Wu, H.-J. Ph.D. thesis title: 'Short-Term Response of Soil Respiration to Rain Events in Temperate Forests and Agricultural Fields' (in preparation), Yale University.
PI: Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Project Title: "Past, present & future rates of terrestrial CO2 flux in North-Eastern Forests: the role of ecophysiological responses, land-use history & disturbance legacies"
Albani, M., G.C. Hurtt & P.R. Moorcroft. 2006. The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization and climate variability to the carbon sink in the Eastern United States. Global Change Biology 12:2370-2390.
Desai, A.R., P.R. Moorcroft, P.V. Bolstad, and K.J. Davis. 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, doi: 10.1029/2006JG000264.
Moorcroft, P.R. 2006. (Invited Feature). How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere? Trends in Ecol. & Evol. 21:400-407.
PI's: Ruth K. Varner, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Patrick M. Crill, Stockholm University, Sweden
Project Title: "High Frequency Measurements of CO2 Efflux from Forest Soil"
Philips, S., R.K. Varner, S. Frolking, J.W. Munger, P.M. Crill, S. Wofsy and J. Bubier. submitted October 2007.
Seasonal variation in soil respiration measured by autochambers along a moisture gradient at Harvard Forest. J. Geophy. Res. Biogeosciences.
Varner, R.K., S. Phillips, S. Frolking, P.M. Crill. In preparation. Diurnal temperature hysteresis of soil CO2 efflux. Geophysical Research Letters.
Ongoing Projects
PI's: Christine L. Goodale, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Scott C. Ollinger, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Project Title: "Effects of Future Changes in Climate and Atmospheric Composition on Forest Ecosystems across the Northeastern U.S.: Model Development, Testing, and Projections"
Ollinger, S.V., C.L. Goodale, K. Hayhoe and J.P. Jenkins. In Press. 'Potential Effects of Climate Change and Rising CO2 on Ecosystem Processes in Northeaster U.S. Forests'. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.
PI: Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory
Project Title: Effects of soil warming on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their interactions in temperate forests; implications for land-atmosphere feedbacks
Burton, A. J., J. M. Melillo and S. D. Frey. 2008. Adjustment of forest ecosystem root respiration as temperature warms. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50(11):1467-1483. Sokolov, A. P., D. W. Kicklighter, J. M. Melillo, B. Felzer, C. A. Schlosser and T. W. Cronin. 2008. Consequences of considering carbon/nitrogen interactions on the feedbacks between climate and the terrestrial carbon cycle. Journal of Climate 21:3776-2796, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2038.1.
PI's:Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University
Project Title: "Impacts of climate variability and change on forest structure, composition, and function in the Northeastern United States"
Medvigy, D.M., 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: the Ecosystem Demography model version 2. Journal of Geophysical Research -Biogeosciences 114 (G1).
Albani, M., P.R. Moorcroft, A.M. Ellison, D.A. Orwig and D.R. Foster (2009). Predicting the impact of hemlock woolly adelgid on carbon dynamics of Eastern U.S. forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research
PI's: J. William Munger, Harvard University
Steven C. Wofsy, Harvard University
Project Title: "Analysis of long-term trends and anomalies in CO2 and H20 exchange at a NE US mixed deciduous forest in response to cimate variabilities"
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, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 114, G01002, DOI: 10.1029/2008jg000812.
Richardson, A. D., D. Y. Hollinger, D. B. Dail, J. T. Lee, J. W. Munger and J. O’Keefe (2009) Influence of spring phenology on seasonal and annual carbon balance in two contrasting New England forests, Tree Physiology, 10.1093/treephys/tpn040.
Ollinger, S. V.,,A. D. Richardson, M. E. Martin, D. Y. Hollinger, S. E. Frolking, P. B. Reich, L. C. Plourde, G. G. Katul, J. W. Munger, R. Oren, M.-L. Smith, K. T. Paw U, P. V. Bolstad, B. D. Cook, M. C. Day, T. A. Martin, R. K. Monson, and H. P. Schmid (2008) Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks, Proc. National Acad. Sci, 105,19336-19341, 10.1073/pnas.0810021105.
PI's: Andrew Richardson (UNH/Harvard University as of July 1, 2009), Eric Davidson (WHRD), and Bryan Dail (U Maine); Unfunded Collaborators: David Hollinger and Paul Schaberg (USDA Forest Service)
Project Title: "Reducing uncertainty about the effects of climatic variation on forest ecosystems by measuring, modeling, and analyzing intermediate-turnover carbon pools"
(a) The following publications contribute directly to the goals and objectives of the present NICCR project:
Data-model fusion, parameter estimation, and multi-scale modeling of forest-atmosphere CO2 exchange:
Fox, A., M. Williams, A.D. Richardson, D. Cameron, J.H. Gove, T. Quaife, D. Ricciuto, M. Reichstein, E. Tomelleri, C. Trudinger and M.T. Van Wijk. 200x. The REFLEX project: comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in press.
Savage, K., Davidson, E., Richardson, A.D., and Hollinger, D.Y. 2009. Three scales of temporal resolution from automated soil respiration measurements. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, revised MS in review.
Savage, K.E., E.A. Davidson, and A.D. Richardson. 2008. A conceptual and practical approach to data quality and analysis procedures for high frequency soil respiration measurements. Functional Ecology, 22: 1000-1007.
van Wijk, M.T., B. van Putten, D.Y. Hollinger, and A.D. Richardson. 2008. Evaluation of different objective functions for parameterization of simple respiration models. Journal of Geophysical Research—Biogeosciences 113: G03008.
Analysis of causes and mechanisms of interannual variability of forest carbon balance:
Yuan, W., Y. Luo, A.D. Richardson, R. Oren, S. Luyssaert, I.A. Janssens, R. Ceulemans, X. Zhou, T. Grünwald, M. Aubinet, C. Berhofer, D.D. Baldocchi, J. Chen, A.L. Dunn, J. Deforest, D. Dragoni, A.H. Goldstein, E. Moors, J.W. Munger, R.K. Monson, A.E.
Suyker, G. Starr, R.L. Scott, J. Tenhunen, S.B. Verma, T. Vesala and S.C. Wofsy. 200x. Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables. Global Change Biology, in press.
Richardson, A.D., D.Y. Hollinger, D.B. Dail, J.T. Lee, J.W. Munger, J. O’Keefe. 2009. Influence of spring phenology on seasonal and annual carbon balance in two contrasting New England forests. Tree Physiology, 29:321-331, doi:10.1093/treephys/tpn040.
Sierra, C.A., H.W. Loescher, M.E. Harmon, A.D. Richardson, D.Y. Hollinger, and S. Perakis. 200x. Interannual variation of carbon fluxes from a tropical, a temperate, and a boreal evergreen forest: The role of forest dynamics and climate. Ecology, in press.
(b) The following publications made use of ancillary ecological, meteorological/ radiometric, and/or CO2 flux data, the collection of which was partially supported (at present or in the past) by NICCR, collected at either Howland Forest or Bartlett Experimental Forest:
White, M.A., K.M. de Beurs, K. Didan, D.W. Inouye, A.D. Richardson, O.P. Jensen, J. O’Keefe, G. Zhang, R.R. Nemani, W.J.D. van Leeuwen, J.F. Brown, A. de Wit, M. Schaepman, X. Lin, M. Dettinger, A.S. Bailey, J. Kimball, M.D. Schwartz, D.D. Baldocchi, J.T. Lee, W.K. Lauenroth. 200x. Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006. Global Change Biology, in press.
Richardson, A.D., B.H. Braswell, D.Y. Hollinger, J.P. Jenkins and S.V. Ollinger. 200x. Near-surface remote sensing of spatial and temporal variation in canopy phenology. Ecological Applications, in press.
Dail, D.B., D.Y. Hollinger, E.A. Davidson, I. Fernandez, H.C. Sievering, N.A. Scott and E. Gaige E. 2009. Distribution of 15N Tracers Applied to the Canopy of a Mature Spruce- Hemlock Stand, Howland, Maine, USA. Oecologia 160:589-599.
Hadley, J.L., J. O’Keefe, J.W. Munger, D.Y. Hollinger and A.D. Richardson. 2009. Phenology of forest-atmosphere carbon exchange for deciduous and coniferous forests in southern and northern New England: Variation with latitude and landscape position. In: A. Noormets, ed. Phenology of Ecosystem Processes. Springer Science + Business, XX. pp. xx-xx.
Ollinger, S.V., A.D. Richardson, M.E. Martin, D.Y. Hollinger, S. Frolking, P.B. Reich, L.C. Plourde, G.G. Katul, J.W. Munger, R. Oren, M.-L. Smith, K.T. Paw U, P.V. Bolstad, B.D. Cook, M.C. Day, T.A. Martin, R.K. Monson, and H.P. Schmid. 2008. Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: functional relations and potential climate feedbacks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 105: 19335-19340.
PI's: Xuhui Lee, Yale University, Connecticut
Edward Patton, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado
Project Title: "Influence of Boundary Layer Flow on Vegetation-Air Exchanges of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide"
Huang J, Lee X., E.G. Patton. 2007, 'A modelling study of flux imbalance and the influence of entrainment in the convective boundary layer', Boundary-Layer Meteorology, submitted. (preprint available at: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~zhlee/huang1.pdf)
PI's: J. L. Sarmiento, Princeton University
D. W. Purves, Princeton University, E. Shevliakova, Princeton University
Project Title: "Evaluation of ecosystem carbon dynamics in North America using hourly to decadal data on local to regional scales"
Sarmiento, J. L., M. Gloor, N. Gruber, A. R. Jacobson, S. Mikaloff-Fletcher, S. Pacala, and K. Rodgers, submitted. Temporal shifts in the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2. Science.
Crevoisier, C., C. Sweeney, M. Gloor, J. L. Sarmiento, and P. P. Tans, in preparation. Estimate of regional U.S. carbon sinks from three-dimensional atmospheric CO2 sampling. Proc. Nat. Acad. Science.
Elena Shevliakova, Stephen W. Pacala, Sergey Malyshev, George C. Hurtt, P.C.D. Milly, John P. Caspersen, Lori Sentman, Christian Wirth, and Cyril Crevoisier, submitted. Carbon cycling under 300 years of land-use changes in the dynamic land model LM3V. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
PI's: Matthew Wallenstein, Richard Conant, and Eldor Paul, Colorado State University
Project Title: Annual Report: Parsing the mechanisms that drive soil decomposition responses to climate change: a test of the substrate depletion and microbial acclimation hypotheses.
Wallenstein, M. D., Steinweg, J. M., Ernakovich, J., Allison, S., Sinsabaugh, R. L. in press. Controls on the temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes: A key driver of in-situ enzyme activity rates.in G. Shukla, A. Varma, editors. Soil Enzymology. Springer.
