Select recent publications
Adame, M.F., M. Bejarano, C.J. Brown, J.A. Herrera-Silveira, P. Ezcurra, J.B. Kauffman, R. Birdsey. 2018. The undervalued contribution of mangrove protection in Mexico to carbon emission targets. Conservation Letters 11(4). doi:10.1111/conl.12445
Bengston, D.N., J. Peck, R. Olson, M. Barros, R.A. Birdsey, D.R. Williams, J.C.L. Reyes, and F.J. Zamudio. 2018. North American Forest Futures 2018–2090: Scenarios for Building a More Resilient Forest Sector. World Futures Review 10(2). doi:10.1177/1946756718757751
Birdsey R., P. Duffy, C. Smyth, W.A. Kurz, A.J. Dugan, and R. Houghton. 2018. Climate, economic, and environmental impacts of producing wood for bioenergy. Environmental Research Letters 13(5). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aab9d5
Birdsey, R., M.A. Mayes, P. Romero-Lankao, R.G. Najjar, S.C. Reed, N. Cavallaro, G. Shrestha, D.J. Hayes, L. Lorenzoni, A. Marsh, K. Tedesco, T. Wirth, and Z. Zhu. 2018. Executive summary. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 21-40. doi:10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.ES
Dai, Z., C.C. Trettin, S. Frolking, and R.A. Birdsey. 2018. Mangrove carbon assessment tool: Model development and sensitivity analysis. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 208:23-35. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.04.035
Dugan, A.J., R. Birdsey, V.S. Mascorro, M. Magnan, C.E. Smyth, W.A. Kurz, M. Olguin. 2018. A Systems Approach to Assess Climate Change Mitigation Options in Landscapes of the United States Forest Sector. Carbon Balance and Management 13(13). doi:10.1186/s13021-018-0100-x
McGuire, A.D., H. Genet, Z. Lyu, N. Pastick, S. Stackpoole, R. Birdsey, D. D’Amore, Y. He, T.S. Rupp, R. Striegl, B.K. Wylie, X. Zhou, Q. Zhuang, Z. Zhu. 2018. Assessing historical and projected carbon balance of Alaska: A synthesis of results and policy/management implications. Ecological Applications. doi:10.1002/eap.1768
Olguin-Alvarez, M., C. Wayson, M. Fellows, R. Birdsey, C. Smyth, M. Magnan, A. Dugan, V. Mascorro, A. Alanís, E. Serrano, and W. Kurz. 2018. Applying a systems approach to assess carbon emission reductions from climate change mitigation in Mexico’s forest sector. Environmental Research Letters 13(3). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaaa03
Dugan, A.J., R. Birdsey, S.P. Healey, Y. Pan, F. Zhang, G. Mo, J. Chen, C. Woodall, A.J. Hernandez, K. McCullough, J.B. McCarter, C.L. Raymond, and K. Dante-Wood. 2017. Forest Sector Carbon Analyses Support Land Management Planning and Projects: Assessing the Influence of Anthropogenic and Natural Factors. Climatic Change 144(2):207-220.
Johnson, K; G. Domke, M. Russell, B. Walters, J. Hom, A. Peduzzi, R. Birdsey, K. Dolan, and W. Huang. 2017. Estimating aboveground live understory vegetation carbon in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. 12:125010.
Vargas, R., D. Alcaraz-Segura, R. Birdsey, et al. 2017. Enhancing interoperability to facilitate implementation of REDD+: case study of Mexico. Carbon Management. doi:10.1080/17583004.2017.1285177
Anderegg, W.R. L., A.P. Ballantyne, W.K. Smith, J. Majkut, S. Rabin, C. Beaulieu, R. Birdsey, J.P. Dunne, R.A. Houghton, R.B. Myneni, Y. Pan, J.L. Sarmiento, N. Serota, E. Shevliakova, P. Tans, and S.W. Pacala. 2015. Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1521479112
In the news
To curb climate change, we have to suck carbon from the sky. But how? Quoted in National Geographic. January 17, 2019
Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration. An author of the National Academy of Sciences consensus study report. October, 2018
UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US. Dr. Birdsey’s study reviewing the impacts of burning wood for fuel is covered in Mongabay, which also features WHRC Board Chair William Moomaw. May 2, 2018
Recent publications
Boyd, M. A., L.T. Berner, P. Doak, S.J. Goetz, B.M. Rogers, D. Wagner, X.J. Walker, and M.C. Mack. 2019. Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests. Environmental Research Letters 14(8), 085010. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab215f
Foster, A. C., A.H. Armstrong, J.K. Shuman, H.H. Shugart, B.M. Rogers, M.C. Mack, S.J. Goetz, and K.J. Ranson. 2019. Importance of tree- and species-level interactions with wildfire, climate, and soils in interior Alaska: Implications for forest change under a warming climate. Ecological Modelling 409, 108765. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108765
Mekonnen, Z.A., W.J. Riley, J.T. Randerson, R.F. Grant, and B.M. Rogers. 2019. Expansion of high-latitude deciduous forests driven by interactions between climate warming and fire. Nature Plants, 1–7. doi:10.1038/s41477-019-0495-8
Walker, X.J., J.L. Baltzer, S.G. Cumming, N.J. Day, C. Ebert, S. Goetz, J.F. Johnstone, S. Potter, B.M. Rogers, E.A.G. Schuur, M.R. Turetsky, and M.C. Mack. 2019. Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature 572, 520-523. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1474-y
Archibald, S., C.E.R. Lehmann, C.M. Belcher, W.J. Bond, R.A. Bradstock, A.L. Daniau, K.G. Dexter, E.J. Forrestel, M. Greve, T. He, S.I. Higgins, W.A. Hoffmann, B.B. Lamont, D.J. McGlinn, G.R. Moncrieff, C.P. Osborne, J.G. Pausas, O. Price, B.S. Ripley, B.M. Rogers, D.W. Schwilk, M.F. Simon, M.R. Turetsky, G.R. Van der Werf, and A.E. Zanne. 2018. Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system. Environmental Research Letters 13(3). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa9ead
Fisher, J.B., D.J. Hayes, C.R. Schwalm, D.N. Huntzinger, E. Stofferahn, K. Schaefer, Y. Luo, S.D. Wullschleger, S. Goetz, C.E. Miller, P. Griffith, S. Chadburn, A. Chatterjee, P. Ciais, T.A. Douglas, H. Genet, A. Ito, C.S.R. Neigh, B. Poulter, B.M. Rogers, O. Sonnentag, H. Tian, W. Wang, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang, N. Zeng, Z. Zhang. 2018. Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a
Rogers, B.M., K. Solvik, E.H. Hogg, J. Ju, J.G. Mase, M. Michaelian, L.T. Berner, S.J. Goetz. 2018. Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multiscale satellite data. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.14107
Walker, X.J., J.L. Baltzer, S.G. Cumming, N.J. Day, J.F. Johnstone, B.M. Rogers, K. Solvik, M.R. Turetsky, and M.C. Mack. 2018. Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 27(2):125-134. doi:10.1071/WF17095.
Walker, X. J., B.M. Rogers, J.L. Baltzer, S.G. Cumming, N.J. Day, S.J. Goetz, J.F. Johnstone, E.A.G. Schuur, M.R. Turetsky, and M.C. Mack. 2018. Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.14287
Rogers, B.M., P. Jantz, and S.J. Goetz. 2017. Vulnerability of eastern US tree species to climate change. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.13585
Van der Werf, G.R., J.T. Randerson, L. Giglio, T.T. van Leeuwen, Y. Chen, B.M. Rogers, M. Mu, M.J.E. van Marle, D.C. Morton, G.J. Collatz, R.J. Yokelson, and P.S. Kasibhatla. 2017. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997-2015. Earth System Science Data 9:697-720.
Veraverbeke, S., B.M. Rogers, M.L. Goulden, R.R. Jandt, C.E. Miller, E.B. Wiggins, and J.T. Randerson. 2017. Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate3329