Degradation of South American biomes: What to expect for the future?

RC Delgado, RO de Santana, YA Gelsleichter… - Environmental Impact …, 2022 - Elsevier
South America, a complex geographical area formed by physical, biological, and climatic
diversity and distributed over several biomes, is home to the greatest biodiversity on the …

Heat and drought impact on carbon exchange in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests

MA Arain, B Xu, JJ Brodeur, M Khomik, M Peichl… - Ecological …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Most North American temperate forests are plantation or regrowth
forests, which are actively managed. These forests are in different stages of their growth …

Disturbance‐accelerated succession increases the production of a temperate forest

CM Gough, G Bohrer, BS Hardiman… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many secondary deciduous forests of eastern North America are approaching a transition in
which mature early‐successional trees are declining, resulting in an uncertain future for this …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of forest composition and management on evapotranspiration in the New Jersey Pinelands

BN Isaacson, Y Yang, MC Anderson, KL Clark… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests deliver contrasting ecosystem services in relation to water, both provisioning it
through filtration and recharge, and consuming it through evapotranspiration. Understanding …

Satellite-based land surface temperature and soil moisture observations accurately predict soil respiration in temperate deciduous and coniferous forests

L Weiland, CA Rogers, C Sothe, MA Arain… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil respiration, defined as the total flux of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the soil to the
atmosphere, is a key ecosystem process that affects the regional and global carbon (C) …

Remotely sensed carotenoid dynamics improve modelling photosynthetic phenology in conifer and deciduous forests

CYS Wong, LM Mercado, MA Arain… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting the phenology of photosynthesis, which conveys the length of the growing season,
is key for terrestrial ecosystem models to constrain total annual carbon uptake and estimate …

Revealing how intra-and inter-annual variability of carbon uptake (GPP) affects wood cell biomass in an eastern white pine forest

PF Puchi, M Khomik, D Frigo, MA Arain… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Forests are major terrestrial carbon (C) sinks and play a crucial role in climate change
mitigation. Despite extensive studies on forest C sequestration, the relationship between …

Radial variations in xylem sap flux in a temperate red pine plantation forest

AV Bodo, MA Arain - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
Background Scaling sap flux measurements to whole-tree water use or stand-level
transpiration is often done using measurements conducted at a single point in the sapwood …

Impacts of heat and drought on the dynamics of water fluxes in a temperate deciduous forest from 2012 to 2020

AR Elizabeth, MA Arain - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2024 - Elsevier
Temperate deciduous forests play a significant role in the regional and global water cycles.
However, climate change and associated extreme weather events are affecting the growth …

Early spring onset increases carbon uptake more than late fall senescence: modeling future phenological change in a US northern deciduous forest

A Teets, AS Bailey, K Hufkens, S Ollinger, C Schädel… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
In deciduous forests, spring leaf development and fall leaf senescence regulate the timing
and duration of photosynthesis and transpiration. Being able to model these dates is …