Lab Readings

This is intended to be a curated list of “important” papers for lab members to read as they get started in the lab. It is not exhaustive, but a starting point for common ways we look at the world and do our research.

Baldocchi DD. How eddy covariance flux measurements have contributed to our understanding of Global Change Biology. Glob Change Biol. 2020; 26: 242–260. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14807

Baldocchi DD. ‘Breathing’ of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems. Australian Journal of Botany, 56(1) 1-26 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT07151

Butterworth, B.J., Desai, A.R., Metzger, S., Townsend, P.A., Schwartz, M.D., Petty, G.W., Mauder, M., Vogelmann, H., Andresen, C.G., Augustine, T.J., Bertram, T.H., Brown, W.O.J., Buban, M., Cleary, P., Durden, D.J., Florian, C.R., Ruiz, E.G., Iglinski, T.J., Kruger, E.L., Lantz, K., Lee, T.R., Meyers, T.P., Mineau, J.K., Olson, E.R., Oncley, S.P., Paleri, S., Pertzborn, R.A., Pettersen, C., Plummer , D.M., Riihimaki, L., Sedlar, J., Smith, E.N., Speidel, J., Stoy, P.C., Sühring, M., Thom, J.E., Turner, D.D., Vermeuel, M.P., Wagner, T.J., Wang, Z., Wanner, L., White, L.D., Wilczak, J.M.M., Wright, D.B., and Zheng, T., 2021. Connecting Land-Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(2), E421-E445, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0346.1.

Chapin, F.S., Woodwell, G.M., Randerson, J.T. et al. Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods. Ecosystems 9, 1041–1050 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-005-0105-7

Chaudhary VB, Berhe AA (2020) Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab. PLoS Comput Biol 16(10): e1008210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210

Desai, A.R., Murphy, B., Wiesner, S., Thom, J., Butterworth, N.J., Koupaei-Abyazani, N., Muttaqin, A., Paleri, S., Talib, A., Turner, J., Mineau, J., Merrelli, A., Stoy, P.C., Davis, K.J., 2022. Drivers of decadal carbon fluxes across temperate ecosystems. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG007014, doi:10.1029/2022JG007014.

Desai, A.R., 2014. Influence and predictive capacity of climate anomalies on daily to decadal extremes in canopy photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research, 119, 31-47, doi:10.1007/s11120-013-9925-z.

Foley, J.A., Costa, M.H., Delire, C., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P. (2003), Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1: 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2003)001[0038:GSHTEC]2.0.CO;2

Friedlingstein, P., M. Meinshausen, V. K. Arora, C. D. Jones, A. Anav, S. K. Liddicoat, and R. Knutti, 2014: Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks. J. Climate, 27, 511–526, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00579.1.

Massman, W., and Lee, X., 2002. Eddy covariance flux corrections and uncertainties in long-term studies of carbon and energy exchanges. Ag. Forest Meteorology, 113:121-144, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-1923(02)00105-3

McDowell, N.G., et al. Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world.Science368,eaaz9463(2020).DOI:10.1126/science.aaz9463

Novick, K.A., Biederman, J.A., Desai, A.R., Litvak, M.E., Moore, D.J.P., Scott, R.L., and Torn, M.S., 2018. The AmeriFlux Network: A Coalition of the Willing. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 444-456, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.009. 

Rogers, A., Medlyn, B.E., Dukes, J.S., Bonan, G., von Caemmerer, S., Dietze, M.C., Kattge, J., Leakey, A.D.B., Mercado, L.M., Niinemets, Ü., Prentice, I.C., Serbin, S.P., Sitch, S., Way, D.A. and Zaehle, S. (2017), A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models. New Phytol, 213: 22-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14283

Swann, A., Fung, I., Chiang, J., 2011. Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation. PNAS, 109: 712-716 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116706108

Tans, P., Fung, I., Takahashi, T., 1990. Observational Contrains on the Global Atmospheric Co2 Budget. Science 247,1431-1438(1990). https://10.1126/science.247.4949.1431

Other good material and Textbooks

Flux course virtual lectures: http://www.fluxcourse.org/virtual-learning-materials.html

Bonan, G. Ecological Climatology https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ecological-climatology/D146443B007985BC366B2512345692C0

Dietze, M.C. Ecological Forecasting https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400885459/html

Hiscox, A. Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology https://shop.elsevier.com/books/conceptual-boundary-layer-meteorology/hiscox/978-0-12-817092-2