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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Spring 2020

See below for a list of YSE forestry-related faculty publications with their students and alumni (bolded) for January-April 2020.

Churkina, Galina, Alan Organschi, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Andrew Ruff, Kira Vinke, Zhu Liu, Barbara K. Reck, T. E. Graedel, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. 2020. “Buildings as a global carbon sink.” Nature Sustainability 269-276 : - JAN 27 2020 10.1038/s41893-019-0462-4 (link is external)

Changes in tree structure, composition, and diversity of a mixed-dipterocarp rainforest over a 40-year period. (link is external) Ediriweera, S., Bandara, C., Woodbury, D.J., Mi, X., Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N., Gunatilleke, C.V.S., and Ashton, M.S. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 458 : - FEB 15 2020.

Fragmentation reduces community‐wide taxonomic and functional diversity of dispersed tree seeds in the Central Amazon. (link is external) Hooper, E.R. and Ashton, M.S. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : - FEB 17 2020.

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests.  (link is external)Hubau, W., Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Beeckman, H., Cuní-Sanchez, A., Daniels, A.K., Ewango, C.E., Fauset, S., Mukinzi, J.M., and Sheil, D. NATURE 579 : - MAR 42020.

A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi. (link is external) Lustenhouwer, N., Maynard, D.S., Bradford, M.A., Lindner, D.L., Oberle, B., Zanne, A.E. and Crowther, T.W. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 117 : - MAY 26 2020.

Differences in leaf physiology among juvenile pines and oaks following high-severity wildfire in an Arizona Sky Island Mountain range.  (link is external)Poulos, H.M., Barton, A.M., Berlyn, G.P., Schwilk, D.W., Faires, C.E., and McCurdy, W.C. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 457 : - FEB 1 2020.

Identifying the pathways for foliar water uptake in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.): a major role for trichomes. (link is external) Schreel, J.D., Leroux, O., Goossens, W., Brodersen, C., Rubinstein, A., and Steppe, K. THE PLANT JOURNAL : - APR 11 2020.

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. (link is external) Sullivan, M.J., Lewis, S.L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Castilho, C., Costa, F., Sanchez, A.C., Ewango, C.E., Hubau, W., Marimon, B., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., and Qie, L. SCIENCE 368 : - MAY 22 2020.

Long‐term dynamics of liana seedlings suggest decelerating increases in liana relative abundance over time.  (link is external)Umaña, M.N., Manzané‐Pinzón, E., and Comita, L.S., 2020. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 108 (2) : - SEP 27 2019.

Refining national greenhouse gas inventories. (link is external)

Cashore, B., Jackson, R.B., Ometto, J., and Bradford, M.A. AMBIO 49 : - JAN 2020.

Invasive lianas are drivers of and passengers to altered soil nutrient availability in urban forests. (link is external) Ward, E.B., Pregitzer, C.C., Kuebbing, S.E., and Bradford, M. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 22 : -2020.
The Science and Practice of Managing Forests in Cities. (link is external) Charlop-Powers, S., Plitt, S., and Clara C. Pregitzer. CITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT 13 (1): 2020.
Soil carbon science for policy and practice. (link is external) Bradford, Mark A., Carey, CJ., Atwood, L., Bossio, D., Fenichel, Eli P., Kane, Daniel A., Oldfield, Emily E. … Wood, Stephen A. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 2 (12): 1070-1072 DEC 2019 doi: 10.1038/s41893-019-0431-y (link is external)
Social scientific research on the American West: current debates, novel methods, and new directions. (link is external) Burow, Paul Berne., McConnell, Kathryn., and Farrell, Justin. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 14 (12): - DEC 2019 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab4030 (link is external)
Seed-to-seedling transitions exhibit distance-dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest. (link is external) Marchand, P., Comita, Liza S., Wright, SJ., Condit, R., Hubbell, SP. … Beckman, NG. ECOLOGY : - DEC 17 2019 doi: 10.1002/ecy.2926 (link is external)
Arctic Soil Governs Whether Climate Change Drives Global Losses or Gains in Soil Carbon. (link is external) Wieder, WR., Sulman, BN., Hartman, MD., Koven, CD., and Bradford, Mark A. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS : - DEC 19 2019 doi: 10.1029/2019GL085543 (link is external)
Filling a void: Analysis of early tropical soil and vegetative recovery under leguminous, post-coal mine reforestation plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (link is external) Woodbury, David J., Yassir, I., Arbainsyah., Doroski, Danica A., Queenborough, Simon A. … Ashton, Mark S. LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT : - DEC 29 2019 doi: 10.1002/ldr.3464 (link is external)
The Scaling of Genome Size and Cell Size Limits Maximum Rates of Photosynthesis with Implications for Ecological Strategies. (link is external) Roddy, Adam B., Theroux-Rancourt, G., Abbo, T., Benedetti, JW., Brodersen, Craig R. … Simonin, KA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES 181 (1): 75-87 Sp. Iss. SI JAN 1 2020 doi: 10.1086/706186 (link is external)
Legacy forest structure increases bird diversity and abundance in aging young forests. (link is external) Hanle, Juliana., Duguid, Marlyse C., and Ashton, Mark S. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION : - JAN 28 2020 doi: 10.1002/ece3.5967 (link is external)
Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States. (link is external) Meng, L., Mao, JF., Zhou, YY., Richardson, AD., Lee, Xuhui. … Jia, GS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 117 (8): 4228-4233 FEB 25 2020 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911117117 (link is external)
Resource acquisition strategies facilitate Gilbertiodendron dewevrei monodominance in African lowland forests. (link is external) Hall, JS., Harris, DJ., Saltonstall, K., Medjibe, VD., Ashton, Mark S. … Turner, BL. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 108 (2): 433-448 MAR 2020 doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13278 (link is external)
Fish and fisheries in hot water: What is happening and how do we adapt?. (link is external) Pinsky, ML., Fenichel, Eli., Fogarty, M., Levin, S., McCay, B. … Young, T. POPULATION ECOLOGY : - APR 1 2020 doi: 10.1002/1438-390X.12050 (link is external)
Differences in grapevine rootstock sensitivity and recovery from drought are linked to fine root cortical lacunae and root tip function. (link is external) Cuneo, IF., Barrios-Masias, F., Knipfer, T., Uretsky, J., Reyes, C., Brodersen, Craig R. … McElrone, AJ. NEW PHYTOLOGIST : - APR 18 2020 doi: 10.1111/nph.16542 (link is external)
Tunable Molybdenum Disulfide-Enabled Fiber Mats for High-Efficiency Removal of Mercury from Water. (link is external) Fausey, CL., Zucker, I., Lee, DE., Shaulsky, E., Zimmerman, Julie B., Elimelech, M. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 12 (16): 18446-18456 APR 22 2020 doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b22823 (link is external)
Radiation Controls the Interannual Variability of Evaporation of a Subtropical Lake. (link is external) Xiao, W., Zhang, Z., Wang, W., Zhang, M., Liu, Q., Lee, Xuhui. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 125 (8): - APR 27 2020 doi: 10.1029/2019JD031264 (link is external)
Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century. (link is external) Bradford, JB., Schlaepfer, Daniel R., Lauenroth, William K., Palmquist, KA. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY : - APR 27 2020 doi: 10.1111/gcb.15075 (link is external)
A mechanistic investigation of the oasis effect in the Zhangye cropland in semiarid western China. (link is external) Ruehr, Sophie., Lee, Xuhui., Smith, R., Li, X., Xu, ZW. … Zhou, YZ. JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 176: - MAY 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104120 (link is external)
Identifying the pathways for foliar water uptake in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.): a major role for trichomes. (link is external) Schreel, JDM., Leroux, O., Goossens, W., Brodersen, Craig., Rubinstein, Adriana., and Steppe, K. PLANT JOURNAL : - MAY 3 2020 doi: 10.1111/tpj.14770 (link is external)
Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. (link is external) Zhang, LW., Xia, XH., Liu, Shaoda., Zhang, SB., Li, SL., and Raymond, Peter A. NATURE GEOSCIENCE 13 (5): - MAY 2020 doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0571-8 (link is external)
Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid-latitude shrub steppe plant communities. (link is external) Jordan, Samuel E., Palmquist, KA., Bradford, JB., and Lauenroth, William K. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE : - MAY 11 2020 doi: 10.1111/jvs.12874 (link is external)

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