Predicting spring green-up across diverse North American grasslands

AK Post, K Hufkens, AD Richardson - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology influences many ecosystem and climate processes, such as carbon
uptake and energy and water cycles. Thus, understanding drivers of vegetation phenology is …

Phenology of photosynthesis in winter‐dormant temperate and boreal forests: Long‐term observations from flux towers and quantitative evaluation of phenology …

DR Bowling, C Schädel, KR Smith… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the seasonality of photosynthesis in 46 evergreen needleleaf (evergreen
needleleaf forests (ENF)) and deciduous broadleaf (deciduous broadleaf forests (DBF)) …

Impacts of shifting phenology on boundary layer dynamics in North America in the CESM

X Li, T Ault, AD Richardson, CM Carrillo… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant phenology modulates water and energy exchanges between the biosphere and the
atmosphere and therefore influences planetary boundary layer (PBL) dynamics. Here we …

Representation of the terrestrial carbon cycle in CMIP6

BK Gier, M Schlund, P Friedlingstein, CD Jones… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Simulation of the carbon cycle in climate models is important due to its impact on climate
change, but many weaknesses in its reproduction were found in previous models …

Overcoming barriers to enable convergence research by integrating ecological and climate sciences: the NCAR–NEON system Version 1

DL Lombardozzi, WR Wieder… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Global change research demands a convergence among academic disciplines to
understand complex changes in Earth system function. Limitations related to data usability …

Diverging northern hemisphere trends in meteorological versus ecological indicators of spring onset in CMIP6

X Li, T Ault, CP Evans, F Lehner… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant phenology regulates the carbon cycle and land‐atmosphere coupling. Currently,
climate models often disagree with observations on the seasonal cycle of vegetation growth …

Northern hemisphere land-atmosphere feedback from prescribed plant phenology in CESM

X Li, T Ault, AD Richardson, S Frolking… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Plant phenology influences both the terrestrial carbon cycle and land-atmosphere
interactions, and therefore can potentially modify large-scale circulations in the atmosphere …

Vegetation greening mitigates the impacts of increasing extreme rainfall on runoff events

DL Ficklin, D Touma, BI Cook, SM Robeson… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Future flood risk assessment has primarily focused on heavy rainfall as the main driver, with
the assumption that projected increases in extreme rain events will lead to subsequent …

Evaluation of leaf phenology of different vegetation types from local to hemispheric scale in CLM

X Li, CM Carrillo, T Ault, AD Richardson… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate simulation of plant phenology is important in Earth system models as phenology
modulates land‐atmosphere coupling and the carbon cycle. Evaluations based on grid cell …

Informing grassland ecosystem modeling with in-situ and remote sensing observations

J Arteaga, MD Hartman, WJ Parton… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We simulated historical grassland aboveground plant productivity (ANPP) across the
midwestern and western contiguous United States using the DayCent-UV ecosystem model …