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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Fall 2025

January 16, 2026

Ahmad, N., Kandakji, T., Esty, D., Sanford, L., Torres, G., Zhu, Z., & Mach, K. (2025). Enhanced Forecasting Methods for Extreme Weather Events and Vulnerable Populations. Authorea Preprints.

Atwood, A., Coe, M. T., Neill, C., Maracahipes‐Santos, L., Brando, P., Riskin, S. H., … & Macedo, M. N. (2025). Deep soil water reservoirs modulate land use and drought effects on the water budget of Amazon headwaters. Water Resources Research, 61(9), e2024WR039729.

Borsuk, A. M., Randall, J. M., Richburg, J., Montes, K. G., Edwards, E. J., & Brodersen, C. R. (2025). Palisade cell geometry in relation to leaf optical and photosynthetic properties in Viburnum. Plant Physiology, 198(4), kiae659.

Bradford, M. A., Fenichel, E. P., Hosgood, H. D., Oldfield, E., Polussa, A., Potash, E., … Sanford, L., Schmitz, O., & Kuebbing, S. (2025). Quantifying impacts of policy and practice interventions on biodiversity and climate.

Du, H., Liu, K., Xu, T., Xu, C., Lin, M., Fang, Z., … Piao, C.,Yao, Y., …& Pan, X. (2025). Lignocellulosic Films: Preparation, Properties, and Applications. Chemical Reviews.

Eash, L., Bradford, M. A., Oldfield, E. E., Ogle, S. M., & Kuebbing, S. E. (2025). Protocol intercomparison project highlights non-equivalent carbon crediting across agricultural land management protocols. Environmental Research Letters, 20(12), 124065.

Foong, A., Svintsov, S., Seydewitz, T., Holsten, A., & Reck, B. K. (2025). A global spatialized approach to estimate residential building floor area and material stocks. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 221, 108398.

Grover, E. C., Metz, M. R., Valencia, R., & Queenborough, S. A. (2025). Influence of tree height and age on leaf drip‐tip morphology in lowland tropical rainforest trees. Functional Ecology, 39(12), 3766-3777.

Haller, V., Sanford, L., & Gregoire, T. (2025). The importance of local calibration in biomass models for REDD+–a case study in the Chiloe Island, Chile. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 101851.

Harrison Day, B. L., Brodribb, T. J., Walker, N. C., & Brodersen, C. R. (2025). Fine Root Shrinkage Across Intact Root Networks Begins Early During Dehydration in Diverse Plants From Conifers to Angiosperms. Plant, Cell & Environment.

Kim, S. M., & Mendelsohn, R. (2025). Climate change and fractional outcomes: A long-run panel study of US crop failure rates and pasture rates. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130, 103116.

Li, Y., Meng, L., Richardson, A. D., Lee, X., Menzel, A., Mao, J., … & Wang, A. (2025). Cooling outweighs warming across phenological transitions in the Northern Hemisphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(37), e2501844122.

Liu, C., Chen, S., Huang, J., Lee, X., Zhang, C., Zhang, K., … & Wang, D. (2025). Mitigating urban‒rural disparities in humid-heat risks in China. Nature Communications.

Madhubhani, S., Lakmali, M., Surendra, A., Comita, L. S., & Ediriweera, S. (2025). Intraspecific Leaf Trait Responses to Habitat Heterogeneity in a Tropical Rainforest. Forests, 16(11), 1711.

Malone, S. L., McLeod, G., Chen, A., & Tupaj, M. (2025). Contemporary Fire Regimes of the Subtropical Everglades. Scientific Data, 12(1), 1622.

Marques, E. Q., Silvério, D. V., Ribeiro, A. F., Zscheischler, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Marra, D. D., … & Brando, P. M. (2025). Vertical forest dynamics: the influence of windthrows and extreme weather events on Southern Amazon canopy height. Environmental Research Communications, 7(12), 125010.

Martin, M. P., Kuebbing, S., Duguid, M., Hardy, N., & Ashton, M. S. (2025). The Caatinga never went missing: a reply to Zappi et al.(2025). Restoration Ecology, e70228.

McLeod, G., Tupaj, M., Gann, D., Ross, M., & Malone, S. L. (2025). Fires enhanced productivity in fire-adapted subtropical pinelands of the Florida Everglades. Science of the Total Environment, 1003, 180602.

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

Roberts, S. C., Montagnini, F., Lynch, R. L., Toth, J., & Queenborough, S. A. (2025). Incorporating drone imagery and field-data to assess geographic and social drivers of agroforestry biodiversity in western Ecuador. Environmental Development, 101344.

Santos, J. P. B., Brancalion, P. H. S., Ashton, M. S., Montagnini, F., Fontana, C., Pereira, A. K. S., … Piotto, D., & Rodrigues, R. R. (2026). Reforestation strategies integrating tropical timber production can offset costs and finance forest restoration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 602, 123404.

Schneider, A. M., Friedel, E. M., Exton-Smith, F., Holsten, A., Li, C., & Reck, B. K. (2025, November). Carbon Mitigation Potential in Building Design: A Region-Specific LCA Approach for Nature-Based Construction. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 1554, No. 1, p. 012102). IOP Publishing.

Schneider, A., Friedel, E. M., Holsten, A., Li, C., Exton-Smith, F., & Reck, B. K. (2025, November). Evaluating nature-based material choices for structural and envelope components of buildings. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 3140, No. 14, p. 142001). IOP Publishing.

Schreel, J. D., Théroux-Rancourt, G., Diggle, P. K., Brodersen, C., & Roddy, A. B. (2025). Into the spongy-verse: Structural differences between leaf and flower mesophyll. Integrative and comparative biology, 65(1), 81-93.

Tang, T., Ge, J., Shi, H., Wang, L., Cao, J., & Lee, X. (2025). Drought frequency, intensity, and exposure have increased due to historical land use and land cover changes. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 398.

Thadani, R., Singh, S. P., & Ashton, M. S. (2025). Major Forest Types and Associations in the Himalayas. In Himalayan Forests in a Changing World: Volume I: Understanding Structure, Function and Environmental Drivers (pp. 95-148). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Wang, H. S. H., Ren, W., & Yao, Y. (2025). Machine learning-assisted global life cycle assessment for sustainable biochar design.

Weissflog, A., Cinoğlu, D., Dent, D. H., Lewis, M. C. R., & Comita, L. S. (2025). Foliar pathogen incidence on woody seedlings across a tropical forest chronosequence. Biotropica, 57(6), e70116.

Xie, Y., Xu, J., Pu, Y., Huang, L., Zhang, M., Xiao, W., & Lee, X. (2025). Estimation of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes from Different Ecosystems Using the Daily-Scale Flux Variance Method. Atmosphere, 16(9), 1030.

Xu, Q., Li, L., Wei, Z., Lu, X., Wei, N., Lee, X., & Dai, Y. (2025). A multimodal machine learning fused global 0.1° daily evapotranspiration dataset from 1950-2022. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110645.

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