Research Highlights
Listed below are recent highlights of our research activities.
2017
- RUBISCO SFA researchers share the latest Earth system science results at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans (November 6, 2017)
- Interactions between land use change and carbon cycle feedbacks (January 23, 2017)
- Carbon input and residence times determine ecosystem carbon storage capacity (January 12, 2017)
2016
- Spaceborne observations enable benchmarking of land–atmosphere moisture feedback strength in ESMs (December 9, 2016)
- Modeling the carbon cycle as a nonautonomous system (December 1, 2016)
- BGC Feedbacks researchers and partner projects report the latest global biogeochemistry science at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco (November 18, 2016)
- Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface (October 1, 2016)
- Radiocarbon constraints imply reduced carbon uptake by soils during the 21st century (September 22, 2016)
- Climate change impacts on net primary production (NPP) and export production (EP) in the CMIP5 models (September 16, 2016)
- Drought severity mediated by plant responses to increasing CO2 (September 6, 2016)
- Strategies for improving predictions of heterotrophic respiration (June 27, 2016)
- How does phosphorus cycling affect carbon uptake in the Amazon? (June 25, 2016)
- Software release of the ILAMB Version 2 benchmarking system (June 1, 2016)
- Spatial representation of high latitude soil properties in CMIP5 ESMs (May 2, 2016)
- Greening of the Earth and responsible driving mechanisms (April 25, 2016)
- Temperature influence on phytoplankton community growth rates (April 5, 2016)
- Can representing leaf and root traits improve model predictions? (April 1, 2016)
- Predicting biomass of hyperdiverse and structurally complex central Amazonian forests — A virtual approach using extensive field data (March 11, 2016)
- Attribution of changes in global wetland methane emissions from pre-industrial to present using CLM4.5-BGC (March 10, 2016)
- Responses of two nonlinear microbial models to warming and increased carbon input (February 18, 2016)
- Multiple soil nutrient competition between plants, microbes, and mineral surfaces (January 18, 2016)
2015
- BGC Feedbacks Researchers Report the Latest Global Biogeochemistry Science and Host the ILAMB Town Hall Meeting at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco (December 7, 2015)
- Toward improved model structures for analyzing priming: Potential pitfalls of using bulk turnover time (December 1, 2015)
- How can we most directly combine datasets to estimate the magnitude of the permafrost carbon–climate feedback? (November 13, 2015)
- Global distribution and surface activity of macromolecules in offline simulations of marine organic chemistry (November 1, 2015)
- Incorporating phosphorus cycling into global scale modeling efforts: A worthwhile tractable endeavor (October 1, 2015)
- Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial ET trends (September 8, 2015)
- What processes most strongly govern terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in Earth system models? (September 7, 2015)
- UCI and NASA researchers uncover link between Amazon fire risk and devastating hurricanes (August 18, 2015)
- Improved modeling of soil nitrogen loss (August 1, 2015)
- Quantifying impacts of spatial scaling on environmental controls and spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon stocks (July 2, 2015)
- J. Keith Moore receives 2015 CESM Distinguished Award (June 15, 2015)
- Do Climate–Carbon Feedbacks Intensify over Time? (June 1, 2015)
- Understanding the Controls on the Magnitude of the Permafrost Carbon–Climate Feedback (March 24, 2015)
- Weaker Soil Carbon–Climate Feedbacks Resulting from Microbial and Abiotic Interactions (January 1, 2015)
2014
- CESM1(BGC) Historical Carbon Cycle Characterized (December 15 2014)
- Observations in Tundra Imply Needed Improvements in Land Models (December 11, 2014)
- Quantifying Drivers of CO2 Interannual Variability (November 1, 2014)
- Jinyun Tang Wins Outstanding Publication Award from the Ecological Society of America (August 25, 2014)
- Causes and Implications of Persistent Atmospheric CO2 Biases in ESMs (February 14, 2014)