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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Summer 2025

September 2, 2025

Arnold, W., Gewirtzman, J., Raymond, P. A., Duguid, M. C., Brodersen, C. R., Brown, C., … Bradford, M. A., & Peccia, J. (2025). A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees. Nature, 1-10.

Ayers, M., Sanford, L., Gardner, W., & Kuebbing, S. (2025). Causal Carbon: Baselines and Additionality with Potential Outcomes (No. 5pcuh_v1). Center for Open Science.

Brando, P. M., Barlow, J., Macedo, M. N., Silvério, D. V., Ferreira, J. N., Maracahipes, L.,Jacobs, S.,Starinchak, B.,Staver, C.,Potter, N., … & Uribe, M. (2025). Tipping Points of Amazonian Forests: Beyond Myths and Toward Solutions. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 50.

Ferraro, K. M., Leroux, S. J., Bradford, M. A., Schmitz, O. J., & Vander Wal, E. (2025). Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Gurung, B., Mendelsohn, R., Queenborough, S. A., Rai, D. P., & Chaudhary, M. (2025). Assessing the costs of human‒wildlife conflict in the Khata wildlife corridor, Nepal. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(3), 52.

Johnson, K. M., Scherer, M., Gerber, D., Style, R. W., Dufresne, E. R., & Brodersen, C. R. (2025). Ice and air: Visualisation of freeze-thaw embolism and freezing spread in young L. tulipifera leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany, eraf254.

Lan, K., Favero, A., Yao, Y., Mendelsohn, R. O., & Wang, H. S. H. (2025). Global land and carbon consequences of mass timber products. Nature Communications, 16(1), 4864.

Liu, W., Ashton, M. S., Ducey, M. J., Bradford, M. A., & Kuebbing, S. E. (2025). Sustainable forest management for carbon, wood and biodiversity must consider natural disturbance regimes. Environmental Research Letters, 20(6), 064020.

Malone, S. L., Schoettle, A. W., Burns, K. S., Kearns, H. S., Stewart, J. E., Newcomb, M., & Cleaver, C. M. (2025). RustMapper: White Pine Blister Rust Risk Across High Elevation Forests in the Western United States. Scientific Data, 12(1), 1046.

Maracahipes-Santos, L., Maracahipes, L., Silvério, D. V., Macedo, M., Silveiro, A. C., Potter, N.,Starinchak, B., … & Brando, P. (2025). Amazonian forest resilience inferred from fire-induced changes in carbon stocks and tree diversity. Environmental Research Letters.

Martin, M. P., Peters, C. M., Asbjornsen, H., & Ashton, M. S. (2025). Population structures in mixed pine-oak forests demonstrate varying shade-tolerances with elevation in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management, 595, 122992.

Montagnini, F. (2026). La necesidad de incentivos financieros para fomentar los sistemas agroforestales como islas de biodiversidad en paisajes degradados. Revista de Ciencias Ambientales, 60(1), 1-11.

Nassivera, M., Weissflog, A., Bello, C., Comita, L. S., Crowther, T. W., Trujillo, B. R. C., … & Dent, D. H. (2025). Woody, Animal‐Dispersed Species Recovery With Forest Age and Integrity in Secondary Tropical Forest Seed Banks. Biotropica, 57(5), e70071.

Reed, D. E., Chu, H., Peter, B. G., Chen, J., Abraha, M., Amiro, B., … Malone, S. L. … & Zona, D. (2025). Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110686.

Richey, A., Oberbauer, S. F., Castañeda-Moya, E., Troxler, T., Kominoski, J. S., Olivas, P., & Malone, S. L. (2025). Sea-level rise and freshwater management are reshaping coastal landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management, 387, 125842.

Rocci, K. S., Pierson, D., Jevon, F. V., Polussa, A., Oliverio, A. M., Bradford, M. A., … & Wieder, W. R. (2025). Integrating Microbial Community Data Into an Ecosystem‐Scale Model to Predict Litter Decomposition in the Face of Climate Change. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70352.

Sanders‐DeMott, R., Hutyra, L. R., Hurteau, M. D., Keeton, W. S., Fallon, K. S., Anderegg, W. R. L., … Kuebbing, S. E., … & Walker, W. S. (2025). Ground‐Truth: Can Forest Carbon Protocols Ensure High‐Quality Credits?. Earth’s Future, 13(5), e2024EF005414.

Sheban, K. C., Kuebbing, S. E., Duguid, M. C., Ashton, M. S., McAlvay, A. C., Munsell, J. F., … Orefice, J. & Bradford, M. A. (2025). Keeping forests on the agroforestry agenda. Nature Climate Change, 1-4.

Silverio, D. V., Lenza, E., Gomes, L., Paolucci, L., Brando, P., & Macedo, M. (2025). Fire in South American Tropical Forests: Examining the Past to Understand the Present and Predict the Future. In Fire in the South American Ecosystems (pp. 347-368). Springer, Cham.

Stemkovski, M., Bernhardt, J. R., Blonder, B. W., Bradford, J. B., Clark‐Wolf, K., Dee, L. E., … Malone, S. L. … & Adler, P. B. (2025). Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change. Functional Ecology, 39(8), 1923-1939.

Toro, L., Werden, L. K., Addo-Danso, S. D., Andersen, K. M., Batterman, S., Bragadini, M. M., … Comita, L.,Huanca-Nunez, N., Lienau, J. R.,Sánchez-Juliá, M.,Weissflog, A., & Wong, M. Y. (2025). Integrating belowground recovery into tropical forest restoration design and monitoring. BioScience, biaf097.

Ward, E. B., & Bradford, M. A. (2025). Plant nitrogen demand, not soil carbon availability, decouples net mineralization and nitrification following forest canopy disturbances. Biogeochemistry, 168(4), 1-15.

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