Ecosystem Processes, Biodiversity and Climate Change
Tutorials/Seminars
Tutorial/Seminar papers for Week 3
Regional
Tian H, Melillo J, Kicklighter DW et al. (1998). Effect of interannual climate variability on
carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. Nature, 396, 664-667.
DeFries RS, Houghton RA, Hansen MC et al. (2002). Carbon emissions from tropical
deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 (22), 14256-14261.
Gioli B et al (2004). Comparison between tower and aircraft-based eddy covariance fluxes in
five European regions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 127, 1-16.
Ciais P et al. (2005). Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and
drought in 2003. Nature 437, 529-533.
Valentini R, Matteucci G, Dolman AJ et al. (2000). Respiration as the main determinant of
carbon balance in European forests. Nature, 404, 861-865.
Global
Bousquet P, Peylin P, Ciais P et al. (2000). Regional changes in carbon dioxide fluxes of land
and ocean since 1980. Science, 290, 1342-1346.
Prentice IC (2001). Atmospheric measurements and global CO2 budgets. In: IPCC 2001: The
Scientific Basis, pages 205-208. (focus on separating land and oceanic effects)
Stephens BB et al. (2007) Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from
vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2. Science, 316, 1732-1735.
Houghton (2003). Why are estimates of the terrestrial carbon balance so different? Global
Change Biology, 9, 500-509.
Houghton RA (2000). Interannual variability in the global carbon cycle. Journal of
Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 105 (D15), 20121-20130.
Some review papers covering different, but connected, subjects. For background.
Buchmann N (2002). Plant ecophysiology and forest response to global change. Tree
Physiology, 22, 1177-1184.
Davidson, E.A. & Janssens, I.A. 2006 Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition
and feedbacks to climate change. Nature 440, 165-173.
Davidson, E.A. and Artaxo, P. (2004). Globally significant changes in biological processes of
the Amazon Basin: results of the Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment. Global
Change Biology 10, 519-529.
Malhi Y, Baldocchi DD, Jarvis PG (1999). The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and
boreal forests. Plant, Cell and Environment, 22, 715-740.
Meir P, Cox PM, Grace J (2006) The influence of terrestrial ecosystems on climate. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution, 21, 254-259.
Schimel DS, House JI, Hibbard KA et al. (2001). Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon
exchange by terrestrial ecosystems. Nature, 414, 169-172.
Related papers for detail.
Caspersen JP, Pacala SW, Jenkins JC et al. (2000). Contributions of land-use history to carbon
accumulation in US forests. Science, 290, 1148-1151.
Churkina G et al. (2005). Spatial analysis of growing season length control over net ecosystem
exchange. Global change biology, 11 (10), 1777-1787.
Fang C et al. (2005). Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to
changes in temperature. Nature, 433, 57-59.
Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ, Randerson JT, Falkowski P (1998). Primary production of the
biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. Science, 281, 237-240.
Giardina CP & Ryan MG (2000). Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in
mineral soil do not vary with temperature. Nature, 404, 858-861.
Houghton RA (2001). Counting terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon. Climatic Change, 48
(4), 525-534.
Houghton RA, Skole DL, Nobre CA et al. (2000). Annual fluxes of carbon from deforestation
and regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature, 403, 301-304.
Lloyd J & Taylor (1994). On the temperature dependence of soil respiration. Functional
Ecology, 8, 315-323.
Malhi Y, Meir P, Brown S (2002). Forests, carbon and global climate. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society A, 360, 1567-1591.
McGuire AD, Sitch S, Clein JS (2001). Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the
twentieth century: analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process-based
ecosystem models. Global biogeochemical cycles, 15 (1), 183-206.
Medlyn BE et al. (1999). Effects of elevated [CO2] on photosynthesis in European forest
species: a meta-analysis of model parameters. Plant, Cell and Environment, 22, 1475-1495.
Pacala SW, Hurtt GC, Baker D et al. (2001). Consistent land- and atmosphere-based US
carbon sink estimates. Science, 292, 2316-2320.
Schimel DS, Melillo J, Tian H (2000). Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon
storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science, 287, 2004-2006.
Townsend AR, Vitousek PM, Trumbore SE (1992). Tropical soils could dominate the shortterm carbon cycle feedbacks to increased global temperature. Climatic Change, 22, 293-303.
Williams M, Malhi Y, Nobre AD et al. (1998). Seasonal variation in net carbon exchange and
evapotranspiration in a Brazilian rain forest: a modelling analysis. Plant, Cell and
Environment, 21, 953-968.