Search Results - "NEILSON, R. P"

A model for predicting continental-scale vegetation distribution and water balance by Neilson, Ronald P.

“…A Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) has been constructed for simulating the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks from…”
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Transient ecotone response to climatic change: some conceptual and modelling approaches by Neilson, Ronald P.

“…Accurate prediction of the ecological impacts of climatic change is a pressing challenge to the science of ecology. The current state of the art for…”
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How well do terrestrial biosphere models simulate coarse-scale runoff in the contiguous United States? by Schwalm, C.R., Huntzinger, D.N., Cook, R.B., Wei, Y., Baker, I.T., Neilson, R.P., Poulter, B., Caldwell, Peter, Sun, G., Tian, H.Q., Zeng, N.

“…•We compare 14 runoff products with USGS runoff (depleted and corrected).•TBMs “best” match USGS runoff, coupled reanalysis are “worst”.•Land-based reanalysis…”
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Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Distribution, Carbon, and Fire in California by Lenihan, James M., Raymond Drapek, Bachelet, Dominique, Neilson, Ronald P.

“…The objective of this study was to dynamically simulate the response of vegetation distribution, carbon, and fire to the historical climate and to two…”
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Belowground consequences of vegetation change and their treatment in models by Jackson, R.B, Schenk, H.J, Jobbagy, E.G, Canadell, J, Colello, G.D, Dickinson, R.E, Field, C.B, Friedlingstein, P, Heimann, M, Hibbard, K

“…The extent and consequences of global land-cover and land-use change are increasingly apparent. One consequence not so apparent is the altered structure of…”
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Climate Change and Forest Disturbances by Dale, Virginia H., Joyce, Linda A., McNulty, Steve, Neilson, Ronald P., Ayres, Matthew P., Flannigan, Michael D., Hanson, Paul J., Irland, Lloyd C., Lugo, Ariel E., Peterson, Chris J., Simberloff, Daniel, Swanson, Frederick J., Stocks, Brian J., Wotton, B. Michael

“…Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but…”
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The global terrestrial carbon cycle by SMITH, T. M, CRAMER, W. P, DIXON, R. K, LEEMANS, R, NEILSON, R. P, SOLOMON, A. M

“…There is great uncertainty with regard to the future role of the terrestrial biosphere in the global carbon cycle. The uncertainty arises from both an…”
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Sensitivity of a biogeography model to soil properties by Bachelet, D, Brugnach, M, Neilson, R.P

“…This paper presents the changes in vegetation distribution and hydrological balance resulting from a change in soils input data to the biogeography model MAPSS…”
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Estimated migration rates under scenarios of global climate change by Malcolm, Jay R., Markham, Adam, Neilson, Ronald P., Garaci, Michael

“…Aim Greenhouse‐induced warming and resulting shifts in climatic zones may exceed the migration capabilities of some species. We used fourteen combinations of…”
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A Rule-Based Vegetation Formation Model for Canada by Lenihan, James M., Neilson, Ronald P.

“…A rule-based, equilibrium vegetation model was developed for predicting the distribution of vegetation formations in Canada under current and projected…”
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Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Distribution and Carbon Budget in the United States by Bachelet, Dominique, Neilson, Ronald P., Lenihan, James M., Drapek, Raymond J.

“…The Kyoto protocol has focused the attention of the public and policymarkers on the earth's carbon (C) budget. Previous estimates of the impacts of vegetation…”
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Forest Processes and Global Environmental Change: Predicting the Effects of Individual and Multiple Stressors by Aber, John, Neilson, Ronald P., McNulty, Steve, Lenihan, James M., Bachelet, Dominique, Drapek, Raymond J.

“…Global change involves the simultaneous and rapid alteration of several key environmental parameters that control the dynamics of forests. Aber et al review…”
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The interplay between climate change, forests, and disturbances by Dale, Virginia H, Joyce, Linda A, McNulty, Steve, Neilson, Ronald P

“…Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and…”
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Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States by Bachelet, Dominique, Neilson, Ronald P., Hickler, Thomas, Drapek, Raymond J., Lenihan, James M., Sykes, Martin T., Smith, Benjamin, Sitch, Stephen, Thonicke, Kirsten

“…Simulations of potential vegetation distribution, natural fire frequency, carbon pools, and fluxes are presented for two DGVMs (Dynamic Global Vegetation…”
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A Statistical–Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain by Daly, Christopher, Neilson, Ronald P., Phillips, Donald L.

“…The demand for climatological precipitation fields on a regular grid is growing dramatically as ecological and hydrological models become increasingly linked…”
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Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change studies by Daly, Christopher, Bachelet, Dominique, Lenihan, James M., Neilson, Ronald P., Parton, William, Ojima, Dennis

“…The objective of this study was to simulate dynamically the response of a complex landscape, containing forests, savannas, and grasslands, to potential climate…”
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Biogeography of Two Southwest American Oaks in Relation to Atmospheric Dynamics by Neilson, R. P., Wullstein, L. H.

“…A causal relationship between Holocene patterns of plant distributions in the American Southwest and shifts in atmospheric flow structure has been inferred,…”
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A comparison of mapped estimates of long-term runoff in the northeast United States by Bishop, Gary D., Church, M.Robbins, Aber, John D., Neilson, Ronald P., Ollinger, Scott V., Daly, Christopher

“…We evaluated the relative accuracy of four methods of producing maps of long-term runoff for part of the northeast United States: MAN, a manual procedure that…”
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The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy by Marland, Gregg, Pielke, Roger A., Apps, Mike, Avissar, Roni, Betts, Richard A., Davis, Kenneth J., Frumhoff, Peter C., Jackson, Stephen T., Joyce, Linda A., Kauppi, Pekka, Katzenberger, John, MacDicken, Kenneth G., Neilson, Ronald P., Niles, John O., Niyogi, Dev dutta S., Norby, Richard J., Pena, Naomi, Sampson, Neil, Xue, Yongkang

“…Strategies to mitigate anthropogenic climate change recognize that carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere can reduce the build-up of carbon dioxide…”
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Interactions between fire, grazing and climate change at Wind Cave National Park, SD by Bachelet, Dominique, Lenihan, James M, Daly, Christopher, Neilson, Ronald P

“…Projected changes in global climate have important ramifications for the future of national parks and other reserves set aside to conserve ecological…”
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