Search Results - "Ballantyne, Ashley P."
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Biophysical feedback of global forest fires on surface temperature
Published in Nature communications (15-01-2019)“…The biophysical feedbacks of forest fire on Earth’s surface radiative budget remain uncertain at the global scale. Using satellite observations, we show that…”
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Is atmospheric phosphorus pollution altering global alpine Lake stoichiometry?
Published in Global biogeochemical cycles (01-09-2015)“…Anthropogenic activities have significantly altered atmospheric chemistry and changed the global mobility of key macronutrients. Here we show that contemporary…”
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Precipitation thresholds regulate net carbon exchange at the continental scale
Published in Nature communications (05-09-2018)“…Understanding the sensitivity of ecosystem production and respiration to climate change is critical for predicting terrestrial carbon dynamics. Here we show…”
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Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-12-2015)“…The terrestrial biosphere is currently a strong carbon (C) sink but may switch to a source in the 21st century as climate-driven losses exceed CO₂-driven C…”
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A Fatty Acid Based Bayesian Approach for Inferring Diet in Aquatic Consumers
Published in PloS one (26-06-2015)“…We modified the stable isotope mixing model MixSIR to infer primary producer contributions to consumer diets based on their fatty acid composition. To…”
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Respiratory loss during late-growing season determines the net carbon dioxide sink in northern permafrost regions
Published in Nature communications (26-09-2022)“…Warming of northern high latitude regions (NHL, > 50 °N) has increased both photosynthesis and respiration which results in considerable uncertainty regarding…”
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Increased high‐latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition
Published in Global change biology (01-02-2020)“…Arctic and boreal ecosystems play an important role in the global carbon (C) budget, and whether they act as a future net C sink or source depends on climate…”
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Field-based tree mortality constraint reduces estimates of model-projected forest carbon sinks
Published in Nature communications (19-04-2022)“…Considerable uncertainty and debate exist in projecting the future capacity of forests to sequester atmospheric CO 2 . Here we estimate spatially explicit…”
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Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration
Published in National science review (01-02-2021)“…Resolving regional carbon budgets is critical for informing land-based mitigation policy. For nine regions covering nearly the whole globe, we collected…”
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Global synthesis for the scaling of soil microbial nitrogen to phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems
Published in Environmental research letters (01-04-2021)“…Abstract Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are associated with the life history of all organisms. Soil microbes play essential roles in nutrient cycling and…”
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Coarse woody debris are buffering mortality-induced carbon losses to the atmosphere in tropical forests
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Below-surface water mediates the response of African forests to reduced rainfall
Published in Environmental research letters (01-03-2020)“…Terrestrial ecosystem gross primary productivity (GPP) is the largest land-atmosphere carbon flux and the primary mechanism of photosynthetic fixation of…”
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The influence of hydroclimate and management on forest regrowth across the western U.S
Published in Environmental research letters (01-06-2021)“…Abstract Forests are subject to a range of management practices but it is unclear which produce the most rapid rates of regrowth across heterogeneous moisture…”
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Estimates of Arctic land surface temperatures during the early Pliocene from two novel proxies
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-04-2011)“…During the Pliocene (2.6 to 5 Ma ago) atmospheric CO 2 levels have been estimated as similar to or slightly above present levels (Tripati et al., 2009; Pagani…”
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Decadal variability in land carbon sink efficiency
Published in Carbon balance and management (10-05-2021)“…Background The climate mitigation target of limiting the temperature increase below 2 °C above the pre-industrial levels requires the efforts from all…”
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Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes
Published in Nature (01-01-2004)“…Determining the factors that control food web interactions is a key issue in ecology. The empirical relationship between nutrient loading (total phosphorus)…”
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The amplification of Arctic terrestrial surface temperatures by reduced sea-ice extent during the Pliocene
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-09-2013)“…Many past warm periods exhibited greatly reduced latitudinal temperature gradients as a result of amplified Arctic surface temperatures as well as more…”
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Data on beetle-killed and surviving lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) radial growth from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, MT prior to a severe mountain pine beetle outbreak
Published in Data in brief (01-10-2018)“…This article contains measurements of raw radial growth, distance to pith, and calculated basal area increments (BAI) from 444 5-mm increment cores (237 trees)…”
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Increases in Land Surface Temperature in Response to Fire in Siberian Boreal Forests and Their Attribution to Biophysical Processes
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-07-2018)“…Wildfire is the most prevalent natural disturbance in boreal forests and impacts climate through biogeochemical (e.g., greenhouse gas emission from biomass…”
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Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization
Published in Nature climate change (01-03-2016)“…Satellite-derived estimates of increases in terrestrial net primary productivity are less than half of those derived from Earth system models. This discrepancy…”
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