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Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Study


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Corvallis, Oregon 97331

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2006

Cary, G.; Keane, R.; Gardner, R.; Lavorel, S.; Flannigan, M.; Davies, I.; Liu, C.; Lenihan, J.; Rupp, T.; Mouillot, F. 2006. Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather. Landscape Ecology. 21: 121-137.


Malcolm, J.; Liu, C.; Neilson, R.; Hansen, L.; Hannah, L. 2006. Global warming and extinctions of endemic species from biodiversity hotspots. Conservation Biology. 20(2): 538-548.


Wiedinmyer, C.; Ti, X.; Guenther, A.; Neilson, R.; Granier, C. 2006. Future changes in biogenic isoprene emissions: How might they affect regional and global atmospheric chemistry? Earth Interactions. 10(3): 1-9.

2005

Bachelet D.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Drapek, R.; Kittel, T. 2005. Simulating the response of natural ecosystems and their fire regimes to climatic variability in Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 35: 2073-2293.


Calkin, D.; Gebert, K.; Jones, J.; Neilson, R. 2005 Forest Service large fire area burned and suppression expenditure trends, 1970-2002. Journal of Forestry. 103(4): 179-183.


Neilson, R.; Pitelka, L.; Solomon, A.; Nathan, R.; Midgley, G.; Fragoso, J.; Lischke, H.; Thompson, K. 2005. Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change. BioScience. 55(9): 749-759.

2004

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Drapek, R. 2004. Regional differences in the carbon source-sink potential of natural vegetation in the U.S.A. Environmental. Management 33(Supplement 1): S23-S43.


Daly, C.; Gibson, W.; Doggett, M.; Smith, J.; Taylor G. 2004. Up-to-date monthly climate maps for the conterminous United States. Proceedings, 14th AMS Conference on Applied Climatology. Seattle, WA: American Meteorological Society: 1-8.


Hayhoe, K.; Cayan, D.; Field, C.; Frumhoff, P.; Maurer, E.; Miller, N.; Moser, S.; Schneider, S.; Cahill, K.; Cleland, E.; Dale, L.; Davis, F.; Drapek, R.; Hanemann, W.; Kalkstein, L.; Lenihan, J.; Lunch, C.; Neilson, R.; Sheridan, S.; Verville, J. 2004. Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(34): 12422-12427.


Keane, R.; Cary, G.; Davies, I.; Flannigan, M.; Gardner, R.; Lavorel, S.; Lenihan, J.; Liu, C.; Rupp, T. 2004. A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations for fire and vegetation dynamics. Ecological Modelling. 179: 3-27.


Kittel, T.; Rosenbloom, N.; Royle, J.; Daly, C.; Gibson, W.; Fisher, H.; Thornton, P.; Yates, D.; Aulenbach, S.; Kaufman, C.; McKeown, R.; Bachelet, D.; Schimel, D.; VEMAP2 Participants. 2004. VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimatic database. I. Gridded historical (20th century) climate for modeling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA. Climate Research. 27: 151-170.


Neilson, R. 2004. Projecting potential landscape dynamics: issues and challenges. In: Gucinski, H.; Miner, C.; Bittner, B., eds. Proceedings: views from the ridge—considerations for planning at the landscape scale. PNW-GTR-596. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 42-47.

2003

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Hickler, T.; Drapek, R.; Lenihan, J.; Sykes, M.; Smith, B.; Sitch, S.; Thonicke, K. 2003. Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 17(2): 14-1—14-21.


Lenihan J.; Drapek R.; Bachelet D.; Neilson R. 2003. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution, carbon, and fire in California. Ecological Applications. 13, 1667-1681.


Marland, G.; Pielke, R.; Apps, M.; Avissar, R.; Betts, R.; Davis,K.; Frumhoff, P.; Jackson, S.; Joyce, L.; Kauppi, P.; Katzenberger, J.; MacDicken, K.; Neilson, R.; Niles, J.; Niyogi, D.; Norby, R.; Pena, N.; Sampson, N.; Xue,Y. 2003. The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy. Climate Policy. 3: 149-157.


Neilson, R. 2003. The importance of precipitation seasonality in controlling vegetation distribution. In Weltzin, J.; McPherson, G., eds. Changing precipitation regimes and terrestrial ecosystems: a North American perspective. Phoenix, AZ: The University of Arizona Press: 47-71.

2002

Luo, T.; Neilson, R.; Tian, H.; Vorosmarty, C.; Zhu, H.; Liu, S. 2002. A model for seasonality and distribution of leaf area index of forests and its application to China. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13: 817-830. (PDF)(Appendix)

2001

Aber, J.; Neilson, R.; McNulty, S.; Lenihan, J.; Bachelet, D.; Drapek, R. 2001. Forest processes and global environmental change: predicting the effect of individual and multiple stressors. 2000. BioScience. 51(9): 735-751.


Bachelet, D.; Lenihan, J.; Daly, C.; Neilson, R.; Ojima, D.; Parton, W. 2001. MC1: a dynamic vegetation model for estimating the distribution of vegetation and associated ecosystem fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and water. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-508. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 95.


Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Drapek, R.; 2001. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution and carbon budget in the United States. Ecosystems. 4: 164-185.


Dale, V.; Joyce, L.; McNulty, S.; Neilson, R.; Ayres, M.; Flannigan, M.; Hanson, P.; Irland, L.; Lugo, A.; Peterson, C.; Simberloff, D.; Swanson, F.; Stocks, B.; Wotton, B. 2001. Climate change and forest disturbance. BioScience. 51(9): 723-734.


Hansen, A.; Neilson, R.; Dale, V.; Flather, C.; Iverson, L.; Currie, D.; Shafer, S.; Cook, R.; Bartlein, P. 2001. Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes. BioScience. 51(9): 765-779.


Joyce, L.; Baer, J.; McNulty, S.; Dale, V.; Hansen, A.; Irland, L.; Neilson, R.; Skog, K. 2001. Potential consequences of climate variability and change for the forests of the United States. In: Climate change impacts in the United States. Report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press: 489-521. (PDF)(Color figures PDF)


Malcolm, J.; Markham, A.; Neilson, R. 2001. Can species keep up with climate change? Conservation Biology in Practice. 2(2): 24-25.

2000

Bachelet, D.; Daly, C.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Parton, W.; Ojima, D. 2000. Interactions between fire, grazing, and climate change at Wind Cave National Park, SD. Ecological Modelling. 134: 229-244.


Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R. 2000. Biome redistribution under climate change. In: Joyce, L.; Birdsey, R., eds. The impact of climate change on America's forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Research Station: 18-44.


Dale, V.; Joyce, L.; McNulty, S.; Neilson, R. 2000. The interplay between climate change, forests, and disturbance. Science of the Total Environment. 262(3): 201-204.


Daly, C.; Bachelet, D.; Lenihan, J.; Parton, W.; Neilson, R.; Ojima, D. 2000. Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change studies. Ecological Applications. 10(2): 449-469.


Jackson, R.; Schenk, H.; Jobbagy, E.; Canadell, J.; Colello, G.; Dickinson, R.; Dunne, T.; Field, C.; Friedlingstein, P.; Heimann, M.; Hibbard, K.; Kicklighter, D.; Kleidon, A.; Neilson, R.; Parton, W.; Sala, O.; Sykes, M. 2000. Belowground consequences of vegetation change and its treatment in models. Ecological Applications. 10(2): 470-483. [abstract]


Lenihan, J.; Sandberg, D.; Neilson, R. 2000. Linking a dynamic vegetation model with the National Fuels Characterization System. In: Neuenschwander, L.; Ryan, K., eds. Crossing the millennium: integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho. 288-289.


Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Bachelet, D. 2000. Overview of dynamic global vegetation models. In: Hawkes, B.; Flannigan, M.; eds. Landscape fire modeling—challenges and opportunities. Victoria, BC: Canadian Forest Service Information Report NOR-X-371. 3-4.


Schimel, D.; Melillo, J.; Tian, H.; McGuire, A.; Kicklighter, D.; Kittel, T; Rosenbloom, N.; Running, S.; Thornton, P.; Ojima, D.; Parton, W.; Kelly, R.; Sykes, M.; Neilson, R.; Rizzo, B. 2000. The contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by natural and agricultural ecosystems of the US 1980-1993. Science. 287: 2004-2006.

1999

Fosberg, M.; Cramer, W.; Brovkin, V.; Fleming, R.; Gardner, R.; Gill, A.; Goldammer, J.; Keane, R.; Koehler, P.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Sitch, S.; Thonicke, K.; Venevski, S.; Weber, M.; Wittenberg, U. 1999. Strategy for a fire module in dynamic global vegetation models. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 9: 79-84.


Neilson, R. 1999. Landscape ecology and global change. In: Wiens, J.; Moss, M., eds. Issues in landscape ecology. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: The International Association for Landscape Ecology. 64-69.


Schmoldt, D.; Peterson, D.; Keane, R.; Lenihan, J.; McKenzie, D.; Weise, D.; Sandberg, D. 1999. Assessing the effects of fire disturbance on ecosystems: a scientific agenda for research and management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-455. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 1-104.

1998

Bachelet, D.; Brugnach, M.; Neilson, R. 1998. Sensitivity of a biogeography model to soil properties. Ecological Modelling. 109: 77-98. [abstract]


Bishop, G.; Church, M.; Aber, J.; Neilson, R.; Ollinger, S.; Daly, C. 1998. A comparison of mapped estimates of long-term runoff in the northeast United States. Journal of Hydrology. 206: 176-190. [abstract]


Lenihan, J., Daly, C.; Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R. 1998. Simulating broad-scale fire severity in a dynamic global vegetation model. Northwest Science. 72(2): 91-103. [abstract]


Neilson, R.; Drapek, R. 1998. Potentially complex biosphere responses to transient global warming. Global Change Biology. 4: 505-521.


Neilson, R.; Prentice, I.; Smith, B.; Kittel, T.; Viner, D. 1998. Simulated changes in vegetation distribution under global warming. In: Watson, R.; Zinyowera, M.; Moss, R.; Dokken, D., eds. The regional impacts of climate change: an assessment of vulnerability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 439-456.


Shriner, D.; Street, R.; Ball, R.; D'Amours, D.; Duncan, K.; Kaiser, D.; Maarouf, A.; Mortsch, L.; Mulholland, P.; Neilson, R.; Patz, J.; Scheraga, J.; Titus, J.; Vaughan, H.; Weltz, M. [et al.]. 1998. North America. In: Watson, R.; Zinyowera, M.; Moss, R.; Dokken, D., eds. The regional impacts of climate change: an assessment of vulnerability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 255-330.


Sohngen, B.; Mendelsohn, R.; Neilson, R. 1998. Predicting CO2 emissions from forests during climatic change: a comparison of natural and human response models. Ambio. 27(7): 509-513. [abstract]

1997

Borchers, J.; Neilson, R. 1997. Projected impacts of global climate change on forests and water resources of the Southeastern United States. In: Fox, S.; Mickler, R., eds. The productivity and sustainability of southern forest ecosystems in a changing environment. New York: Springer-Verlag. 453-478.


Kittel, T.; Royle, J.; Daly, C.; Rosenbloom, N.; Gibson, W.; Fisher, H.; Schimel, D.; Berliner, L.; VEMAP2 Participants. 1997. A gridded historical (1895-1993) bioclimate dataset for the coterminous United States. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Applied Climatology. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society: 219-222.


Neilson, R. 1997. The MAPSS model. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-GTR-237. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 111-112.


Neilson, R.; Chaney, J. 1997. Potential changes in the vegetation distribution in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-GTR-237. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 66-80.


Schimel, D.; Emanuel, W.; Rizzo, B.; Smith, T.; Woodward, F.; Fisher, H.; Kittel, T.; McKeown, R.; Painter, T.; Rosenbloom, N. Ojima, D.; Parton, W.; Kicklighter, D.; McGuire, A.; Melillo, J.; Pan, Y., Haxeltine, A.; Prentice, I.; Sitch, S.; Hibbard, K.; Nemani, R.; Pierce, L.; Running, S.; Borhcers, J.; Chaney, J.; Neilson, R.; Braswell, B. 1997. Continental scale variability in ecosystem processes: models, data, and the role of disturbance. Ecological Monographs. 67: 251-271. [abstract]

1996

Neilson, R.; Running, S. 1996. Global dynamic vegetation modelling: coupling biogeochemistry and biogeography models. In: Walker, B.; Steffen, W.; eds. Global change and terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 451-465.

1995

Kittel, T.; Rosenbloom, N.; Painter, T.; Schimel, D.; Melillo, J.; Pan, Y.; Kicklighter, D.; McGuire, A.; Neilson, R.; Chaney, J.; Ojima, D; McKeown, R.; Parton, W.; Pulliam, W.; Prentice, I.; Haxeltine, A.; Running, S.; Pierce, L.; Nemani, R.; Hunt, E.; Smith, T.; Rizzo, B.; Woodward, F. 1995. The VEMAP integrated database for modelling United States ecosystem/vegetation sensitivity to climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 22: 857-862.


Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R. 1995. Canadian vegetation sensitivity to projected climatic change at three organizational levels. Climatic Change. 30: 27-56.


Neilson, R. 1995. A model for predicting continental-scale vegetation distribution and water balance. Ecological Applications. 5(2): 362-385. [abstract]

Pre-1995

Daly, C.; Neilson, R.; Phillips, D. 1994. A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 33(2): 140-158. [abstract]


Neilson, R.; King, G.; Koerper, G. 1992. Toward a rule-based model. Landscape Ecology. 7(1): 27-43.

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