New Publications
Merging a mechanistic enzymatic model of soil heterotrophic respiration into an ecosystem model
Predictions of how the Earth will respond to climate change, including positive feedbacks caused by accelerated rates of decomposition of soil organic matter, are based in large part on projections of Earth system models (ESMs). However, one of the biggest …
Lessons from President George H. W. Bush for the Present Political Environment
The recent passing of President George Herbert Walker Bush reminded me of the huge contrast between his tenure and that of our current president. During the week commemorating President Bush’s life, much was said about his compassion, respectfulness, and decency. …
Nitrogen Fixation Inputs in Pasture and Early Successional Forest in the Brazilian Amazon Region
I’ve always told students that data are not like wine – they don’t grow better with age. So it was with some embarrassment that I finally returned to a dataset that was more than a decade old to work on …
The Millennial Model
Rose Abramoff and a group of mostly Millennials (with a few of us old farts included as well) have published a paper describing a new model structure of soil carbon dynamics based on current process-level understanding. The CENTURY and RothC …
Red/Blue and Peer Review
AL Director and President of the American Geophysical Union, Eric Davidson, is joined by Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences, to recount the historical journey from scientific skepticism 40-50 years ago to today’s broad …
Projections of the soil-carbon deficit
Our new article describing how the amount of carbon stored in soil might be a crucial feedback to climate change in the December 2016 issue of Nature. Read it here.…
Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change
Dr. Davidson has co-authored a paper recently published in Nature, which is the result of a workshop sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency. In this review, we discuss how climate change alters key processes in terrestrial and …
