Publications
2022
Y Zhao, X Chen, JS Kim, M Williams (2022) Effects of temperature and precipitation on litterfall phenology in four evergreen broad‐leaved forests of southern China. Biotropica 54 (3), 739-753 2022
A Hastie, EN Honorio Coronado, J Reyna, ETA Mitchard, CM Åkesson, … (2022) Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru. Nature Geoscience, 1-6 2022
Y Yang, AA Bloom, S Ma, P Levine, A Norton, NC Parazoo, JT Reager, … (2022) CARDAMOM-FluxVal version 1.0: a FLUXNET-based validation system for CARDAMOM carbon and water flux estimates. Geoscientific Model Development 15 (4), 1789-1802 2022
R Ge, H He, L Zhang, X Ren, M Williams, G Yu, T Luke Smallman, T Zhou, …(2022) Climate sensitivities of carbon turnover times in soil and vegetation: understanding their effects on forest carbon sequestration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 (3), e2020JG005880 2022
JS Kim, JS Kug, S Jeong, JH Yoon, N Zeng, J Hong, JH Jeong, Y Zhao, … Arctic warming-induced cold damage to East Asian terrestrial ecosystems. Communications Earth & Environment 3 (1), 1-8 2022
Caen, A., T. L. Smallman, A. A. de Castro, E. Robertson, C. von Randow, M. Cardoso and M. Williams (2022) Evaluating two land surface models for Brazil using a full carbon cycle benchmark with uncertainties. Climate Resilience and Sustainability: 1 (1), e10 1 2022
S Stettz, N Parazoo, AA Bloom, P Blanken, D Bowling, S Burns, C Bacour, … (2022) Resolving temperature limitation on spring productivity in an evergreen conifer forest using a model–data fusion framework. Biogeosciences 19 (2), 541-558 2022
FTL Smallman, DT Milodowski, M Williams (2022) From ecosystem observation to environmental decision-making: model-data fusion as an operational tool. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2021
Wheeler, C.E, E T A Mitchard, H E Nalasco Reyes, G I Harrera, J I M Rubio, H Carstairs, M Williams (2021) A New Field Protocol for Monitoring Forest Degradation. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4:655280. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.655280.
P Levy, R Clement, N Cowan, B Keane, V Myrgiotis, M van Oijen, …& M Williams (2021) Challenges in scaling up greenhouse gas fluxes: experience from the UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Feedbacks Programme. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, e2021JG006743 2021
TL Smallman, DT Milodowski, ES Neto, G Koren, J Ometto, M Williams (2021). Parameter uncertainty dominates C-cycle forecast errors over most of Brazil for the 21st century. Earth System Dynamics 12 (4), 1191-1237
Kropp, H., M. M. Loranty, S… M. Williams…, K. Langley, M. Lund (2021) Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems, Environmental Research Letters 16: 015001.
R. Baatz, H.J. Hendricks Franssen, E. Euskirchen, D. Sihi, M. Dietze, S. Ciavatta, K. Fennel, H. Beck, G. De Lannoy, V.N.R. Pauwels, A. Raiho, C. Montzka, M. Williams, U. Mishra, C. Poppe, S. Zacharias, A. Lausch, L. Samaniego, K. Van Looy, H. Bogena, M. Adamescu, M. Mirtl, A. Fox, K. Goergen, B. S. Naz, Y. Zeng, H. Vereecken(in press) Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Towards Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis. Reviews in Geophysics, 59: e2020RG000715.
Godlee, J., C.M. Ryan ..many others.., M. Williams, M., and K. Dexter (2021). Structural diversity and tree density drives variation in the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship of woodlands and savannas. New Phytologist, 232: 579-594.
Myrgiotis, V.; P. Harris; A. Revill; H. Sint; M Williams (2021), Inferring management and predicting sub-field scale C dynamics in UK grasslands using biogeochemical modelling and satellite-derived leaf area data, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Duncanson, L., et al.. (2021). Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol. Version 1.0. In L. Duncanson, M. Disney, J. Armston, J. Nickeson, D. Minor, and F. Camacho (Eds.), Good Practices for Satellite Derived Land Product Validation, (p. 236): Land Product Validation Subgroup (WGCV/CEOS), doi:10.5067/doc/ceoswgcv/lpv/agb.001
Famiglietti, C.A, T. L. Smallman, A. Levine, S. Flack-Prain, G. R. Quetin, V. Meyer, N. Parazoo, S. G. Stettz, Y. Yang, D. Bonal, A. A. Bloom, M. Williams, and A. G. Konings (2021). Optimal model complexity for terrestrial carbon cycle prediction. Biogeosciences.
The SEOSAW partnership (2021). A network to understand the changing socio‐ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW): Challenges, benefits, and methods. Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10168
He, H., Ge, R., Ren, X., Zhang, L., Chang, Q., Xu, Q., Zhou, G., Xie, Z., Wang, S., Wang, H., Zhang, Q., Wang, A., Fan, Z., Zhang, Y., Shen, W., Yin, H., Lin, L., Williams, M., Yu, G., 2021. Reference carbon cycle dataset for typical Chinese forests via colocated observations and data assimilation. Scientific Data 8, 42.
Florence, A,. Andrew Revill, Stephen Hoad, Robert Rees, Mathew Williams (2021) The Effect of Antecedence on Empirical Model Forecasts of Crop Yield from Observations of Canopy Properties. Agriculture 11: 258
Revill, R, V. Myrgiotis, A. Florence, S. Hoad, R. Rees, A. MacArthur and M. Williams (2021). Combining process modelling and LAI observations to diagnose winter wheat nitrogen status and forecast yield. Agronomy 11, 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11020314
ForestPlots.net [548 contributors] (in press) Taking the Pulse of Earth’s Tropical Forests using Networks of Highly Distributed Plots. Biological Conservation.
Worden, J., S. Saatchi, M. Keller, A.A Bloom, R. Fu, S. Worden, J. Liu, N. Parazoo, J.B. Fisher, H. Worden, Y. Yin, K. Bowman, P. Gentine, A.G. Konings, G.R. Quetin, M. Williams, J.T. Reager, A. Barkhordarian, K. Fahy, M. Shi & D Schimel (in press) Satellite Observations of the Tropical Terrestrial Carbon Balance and Interactions with the Water Cycle During the 21st Century. Reviews of Geophysics.
Milodowski, D.T, D.A Coomes, T. Swinfield, T. Jucker, T. Riutta, Y. Malhi, M. Svátek, J. Kvasnica, D.F.R.P. Burslem, R.M. Ewers, Y.A. Teh, and M. Williams (in press) The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Flack-Prain, S., L. Shi, P. Zhu, H.R. da Rocha, O. Cabral, S. Hu, and M. Williams (2021) The Impact of Climate Change and Climate Extremes on Sugarcane Production. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 13(3): 408-424
Flack-Prain, S., P. Meir, Y. Malhi, T.L. Smallman, and M. Williams (2021) Does Economic Optimisation Explain LAI and Leaf Trait Distributions Across an Amazon Soil Moisture Gradient? Global Change Biology 27(3): 587-605.
2020
A. A. Bloom, K. W. Bowman, J. Liu, A.G. Konings, J. R. Worden, N. C. Parazoo, V.Meyer, J. T. Reager, H.M. Worden, Z. Jiang, G.R. Quetin, T.L. Smallman, J. Exbrayat, Y. Yin, S. S. Saatchi, M.Williams, and D.S. Schimel (2020). Lagged effects regulate the inter-annual variability of the tropical carbon balance. Biogeosciences 17: 6393–6422.
Kropp et al., (2020). Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, in press.
Williams, M., Y. Zhang, C. Estop-Aragonés, J. Fisher. G. Xenakis, D. Charman, I. Hartley, J. Murton, and G. Phoenix (2020). Boreal permafrost thaw amplified by fire disturbance and precipitation increases. Environmental Research Letters 15: 114050.
Zhao, Y., Chen, X., Smallman, T.L., Flack-Prain, S., Milodowski, D.T., and M. Williams, 2020. Characterizing the Error and Bias of Remotely Sensed LAI Products: An Example for Tropical and Subtropical Evergreen Forests in South China. Remote Sensing 12: 3122.
Rodríguez-Veiga, P., J. Carreiras, T. L. Smallman, J.-F. Exbrayat, J. Ndambiri, F. Mutwiri, D. Nyasaka, S. Quegan, M. Williams and H. Balzter (2020). Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Kenyan Forests and Wooded Grasslands Derived from Earth Observation and Model-Data Fusion. Remote Sensing 12(15): 2380.
Myrgiotis, V., E. Blei, R. Clement, S. K. Jones, B. Keane, M.A. Lee, P.E. Levy, R.M. Rees, U. Skiba, T.L. Smallman, S. Toet and M. Williams (2020). A model-data fusion approach to analyse carbon dynamics in managed grasslands. Agricultural Systems 184: 102907.
Nwobi, C., M. Williams and E. T. A. Mitchard (2020). Rapid Mangrove Forest Loss and Nipa Palm (Nypa fruticans) Expansion in the Niger Delta, 2007–2017. Remote Sensing 12(14): 2344.
Landsberg, J. J., R. H. Waring and M. Williams (2020). The assessment of NPP/GPP ratio. Tree physiology 40(6): 695-699.
Revill, A., A. Florence, A. MacArthur, S. Hoad, R. Rees and M. Williams (2020). Quantifying Uncertainty and Bridging the Scaling Gap in the Retrieval of Leaf Area Index by Coupling Sentinel-2 and UAV Observations. Remote Sensing 12(11): 1843.
Park, S.-W., J.-S. Kim, J.-S. Kug, M. F. Stuecker, I.-W. Kim and M. Williams (2020). Two Aspects of Decadal ENSO Variability Modulating the Long-Term Global Carbon Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters 47(8): e2019GL086390.
Yin, Y., A. A. Bloom, J. Worden, S. Saatchi, Y. Yang, M. Williams, J. Liu, Z. Jiang, H. Worden, K. Bowman, C. Frankenberg and D. Schimel (2020). Fire decline in dry tropical ecosystems enhances decadal land carbon sink. Nature Communications 11(1): 1900.
López-Blanco, E., Jackowicz-Korczynski, M., Mastepanov, M., Skov, K., Westergaard-Nielsen, A., Williams, M., Christensen, T. (2020) Multi-year data-model evaluation reveals the importance of nutrient availability over climate in arctic ecosystem C dynamics. Environmental Research Letters. 15 094007
Kattge, J, Bönisch, G, Díaz, S, et al. (2020) TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 2020; 26: 119– 188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
Sykes, A.J., M. Macleod, V. Eory, R. M. Rees, F. Payen, V. Myrgiotis, M. Williams, S. Sohi, J. Hillier, D. Moran, D. A. C. Manning, P. Goglio, M. Seghetta, A. Williams, J. Harris M. Dondini, J. Walton, J. House, P. Smith (2020). Characterising the biophysical, economic and social impacts of soil carbon sequestration as a greenhouse gas removal technology. Global Change Biology 26(3): 1085-1108.
2019
Sabater, A M, H Ward. THill, T Wade J Gornal, J Evans, M Disney, G Phoenix, M Williams, B Huntley, R Baxter, M Mencuccini, R Poyatos (2019). Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration. Ecohydrology e2190.
Kim, J-S, S-J Jeong J-S Kug and M Williams (2019). Role of local air-sea interaction in fire activity over Equatorial Asia. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 14789-14797.
Flack-Prain, S., P Meir, Y Malhi, TL Smallman and M Williams (2019). The Importance of Physiological, Structural and Trait Responses to Drought Stress in Driving Spatial and Temporal Variation in GPP across Amazon Forests. Biogeosciences 16(22): 4463-4484.
Thomas, R.Q., M. Williams, M.A. Cavaleri, J.-F. Exbrayat, T. L. Smallman, L.E. Street (2019). Alternate trait-based leaf respiration schemes evaluated at ecosystem-scale through carbon optimization modeling and canopy property data. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11: 4629-4644
Malhotra, A. K. Todd-Brown, L.E. Nave, N.N. Batjes, J.R. holmquist, A.M. Hoyt, C.M. Iversen, R.B. Jackson, K. Lajtha, C. Lawrence, O. Vinduskova, W. Wieder, M. Williams, G. Hugelius, J. Harden (2019). The landscape of soil carbon data: emerging questions, synergies and databases. Progress in Physical Geography 43(5): 707-719.
Revill, A., A. Florence, A. MacArthur, S. Hoad, R. Rees and M. Williams (2019). The value of Sentinel-2 spectral bands for the assessment of winter wheat growth and development. Remote Sensing 11(17), 2050.
Smallman, TL and M. Williams (2019). Description and validation of an intermediate complexity model for ecosystem photosynthesis and evapotranspiration: ACM-GPP-ETv1. Geophys. Mod. Dev.12, 2227-2253
Quegan, S., Le Toan, T., Chave, J., Dall, J., Exbrayat, J.-F., Minh, D. H. T., Lomas, M., D’Alessandro, M. M., Paillou, P., Papathanassiou, K., Rocca, F., Saatchi, S., Scipal, K., Shugart, H., Smallman, T. L., Soja, M. J., Tebaldini, S., Ulander, L., Villard, L., and Williams, M (2019). The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 227, 44-60.
Duncanson, L., Armston, J., Disney, M., Avitabile, V., Barbier, N., Calders, K., Carter, S., Chave, J., Herold, M., Crowther, T.W., Falkowski, M., Kellner, J.R., Labrière, N., Lucas, R., MacBean, N., McRoberts, R.E., Meyer, V., Næsset, E., Nickeson, J.E, Paul, K.I., Phillips, O.L. , Réjou- Méchain, M., Román, M., Roxburgh, S., Saatchi, S., Schepaschenko, D., Scipal, K., Siqueira, P.R., Whitehurst, A., Williams, M. (2019) The importance of consistent global forest aboveground biomass product validation. Surveys in Geophysics 40 (4), 979-999
Myrgiotis, V., M. Williams, R. M. Rees, and C. F. E. Topp (2019). Estimating the soil N2O emission intensity of croplands in northwest Europe. Biogeosciences 16, 1641-1655.
López-Blanco, E. J-F. Exbrayat, M. Lund, T. R. Christensen, M.l P. Tamstorf, D. Slevin, G. Hugelius, A. A. Bloom, and M. Williams (2019). Evaluation of terrestrial pan-Arctic carbon cycling using a data-assimilation system. Earth System Dynamics 10, 233-255.
White, E.D., M. Rigby, M. F. Lunt, A. L. Ganesan, A. J. Manning, S. O’Doherty, A. R. Stavert, K. M. Stanley, M. Williams, T. L. Smallman, E. Comyn-Platt, P. Levy, M. Ramonet, and P. I. Palmer (in press). Quantifying the UK’s Carbon Dioxide Flux: An atmospheric inverse modelling approach using a regional measurement network. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19, 4345-4365.
Lansø, A.S., T. L. Smallman, J. H. Christensen, M. Williams, K. Pilegaard, L.-L. Sørensen, and C. Geels (2019). Simulating the atmospheric CO2 concentration across the heterogeneous landscape of Denmark using a coupled atmosphere-biosphere mesoscale model system. Biogeosciences 16, 1505-1524.
Exbrayat, J.-F., A. A. Bloom, N. Carvalhais, R. Fischer, A. Huth, N. MacBean & M. Williams (2019). Understanding the land carbon cycle with space data: current status and prospects. Surveys in Geophysics 40: 735
2018
Exbrayat, J.-F., Smallman, T. L., Bloom, A. A., Hutley, L. B. & Williams, M (2018). Inverse determination of the influence of fire on vegetation carbon turnover in the pantropics. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32: 1776-1789 10.1029/2018GB005925.
López-Blanco, E, M Lund, T R Christensen, M P Tamstorf, T L Smallman, D Slevin, A Westergaard-Nielsen, B U Hansen, J Abermann and M Williams (2018), Plant Traits are Key Determinants in Buffering the Meteorological Sensitivity of Net Carbon Exchanges of Arctic Tundra, J. Geophysical Research Biogeosciences,9: 2675-2694.
Exbrayat, J. F., A. A. Bloom, P. Falloon, A. Ito, T. L. Smallman, and M. Williams (2018), Reliability Ensemble Averaging of 21st century projections of terrestrial net primary productivity reduces global and regional uncertainties, Earth Syst. Dynam., 9: 153-165.
V. Myrgiotis, R. M. Rees, C. F. E. Topp and M. Williams (2018) Improving model prediction of soil N2O emissions through Bayesian calibration. Science of the Total Environment 624: 1467-1477.
Corona-Núñez, R. O., J. Campo, and M. Williams (2018), Aboveground carbon storage in tropical dry forest plots in Oaxaca, Mexico, Forest Ecology and Management, 409: 202-214, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.11.014.
Estop-Aragonés, C., M. D.A. Cooper, J. P. Fisher, A Thierry, M.H. Garnett, D.J. Charman, J.B. Murton, G. K. Phoenix , R. Treharne, N. K. Sanderson, C. R. Burn, S.V. Kokelj, S.A. Wolfe, A. G. Lewkowicz, M. Williams, I. P. Hartley (2018) Limited release of previously-frozen C and increased new peat formation after thaw in permafrost peatlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 118: 115-129.
Myrgiotis,V, R. M. Rees, C. F. E. Topp, and M. Williams (2018) A Systematic Approach to Identifying Key Parameters and Processes in Agroecosystem Models Ecological Modelling 368: 344-356
Keane, J.B., P. Ineson, H.W. Vallack, E. Blei, M. Bentley, S. Howarth, N.P. McNamara, R.L. Rowe, M.Williams and S. Toet (2018) Greenhouse gas emissions from the energy crop oilseed rape (Brassica napus); the role of photosynthetically active radiation in diurnal N2O flux variation Global Change Biology Bioenergy 10, 306–319, doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12491
McNicol, I., Ryan, C. R., Dexter, K., Ball, S, & Williams, M (2018) Aboveground carbon storage and its links to forest structure, tree species diversity and floristic composition in south-eastern Tanzania, Ecosystems 21: 740–754.
2017
Exbrayat, J-F, Y. Liu and M Williams. (2017) Impact of deforestation and climate on the Amazon Basin’s above-ground biomass during 1993-2012 click here Scientific Reports, 7: 15615
Butler, E. E., Datta, A., Flores-Moreno, H., Chen, M., Wythers, K. R., Fazayeli, F., Banerjee, A., Atkin, O. K., Kattge, J., Amiaud, B., Blonder, B., Boenisch, G., Bond-Lamberty, B., Brown, K. A., Byun, C., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Craine, J. M., Craven, D., de Vries, F. T., Diaz, S., Domingues, T. F., Forey, E., Gonzalez, A., Gross, N., Han, W., Hattingh, W. N., Hickler, T., Jansen, S., Kramer, K., Kraft, N. J. B., Kurokawa, H., Laughlin, D. C., Meir, P., Minden, V., Niinemets, l., Onoda, Y., Penuelas, J., Read, Q., Valladares, F., Sack, L., Schamp, B., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Spasojevic, M. J., Sosinski, E. E., Thornton, P. E., van Bodegom, P. M., Williams, M., Wirth, C., and Reich, P. B. (2017) Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 114(51): E10937-E10946.
Hu, S, L. Shi , Y. Zha, M. Williams, and L. Lin. (2017) Simultaneous state-parameter estimation supports the evaluation of data assimilation performance and measurement design for soil-water-atmosphere-plant system Journal of Hydrology 555: 812-831.
Zhu, P., S. Liangsheng, Y. Zhu, Q. Zhang, K. Huang, and M Williams. (2017) Data assimilation of soil water flow via ensemble Kalman filter: infusing soil moisture data at different scales, Journal of Hydrology 555: 912-925.
Whitley, R., J. Beringer, L. B. Hutley, G.l Abramowitz, M. G. De Kauwe, B. Evans, V. Haverd, L.i Li, C. Moore, Y. Ryu, S. Scheiter, S. J. Schymanski, B. Smith, Y.-P. Wang, M. Williams, and Q. Yu. (2017) Challenges and opportunities in land surface modelling of savanna ecosystems, Biogeosciences 14: 4711-4732.
López-Blanco, E., M. Lund, M. Williams, M. P. Tamstorf, A. Westergaard-Nielsen, J.-F. Exbrayat, B. U. Hansen, and T. R. Christensen (2017) Exchange of CO2 in Arctic tundra: impacts of meteorological variations and biological disturbance, Biogeosciences, 14: 4467-4483.
Milodowski, D.T., E.T.A. Mitchard, M. Williams (2017) Forest loss maps from regional satellite monitoring systematically underestimate deforestation in two rapidly changing parts of the Amazon, Environmental Research Letters 12: 094003.
Cooper, M. D. A., Estop-Aragones, C., Fisher, J. P., Thierry, A., Garnett, M. H., Charman, D. J., Murton, J. B., Phoenix, G. K., Treharne, R., Kokelj, S. V., Wolfe, S. A., Lewkowicz, A. G., Williams, M., and Hartley, I. P. (2017) Limited contribution of permafrost carbon to methane release from thawing peatlands, Nature Climate Change, 7, 507-511, 10.1038/nclimate3328.
Slevin,D., S.F.B. Tett, J-F Exbrayat, A.A. Bloom, M. Williams (2017) Global evaluation of gross primary productivity in the JULES land surface model v3. 4.1, Geoscientific Model Development 10 (7), 2651.
Smallman, T.L., J. -F. Exbrayat, M. Mencuccini, A. A. Bloom and M. Williams (2017) Assimilation of repeated woody biomass observations constrains decadal ecosystem carbon cycle uncertainty in aggrading forests J. Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 122: 528-545.
Ryan, C, M Williams, J Grace, E Woollen, & C Lehmann (2017) Pre-rain green-up is ubiquitous across southern tropical Africa: implications for temporal niche separation and model representation. New Phytologist 213: 625-633.
2016
Myrgiotis, V., M. Williams, R.M. Rees, K.E. Smith, R.E. Thurman & C.F.E. Topp (2016) Model evaluation in relation to soil N2O emissions: An algorithmic method which accounts for variability in measurements and possible time lags. Environmental Modelling & Software 84:251-262.
Whitley, R., Beringer, J., Hutley, L. B., Abramowitz, G., De Kauwe, M. G., Duursma, R., Evans, B., Haverd, V., Li, L.,Ryu, Y., Smith, B., Wang, Y. P., Williams, M. Yu, Q. (2016) A model inter-comparison study to examine limiting factors in modelling Australian tropical savannah. Biogeosciences, 13: 3245-3265.
Revill, A., Bloom, A. A. & Williams, M. Impacts of reduced model complexity and driver resolution on cropland ecosystem photosynthesis estimates. Field Crops Research: 187: 74–86. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2015.12.006
Fisher, J.P., C. Estop-Aragonés, A. Thierry, D. J. Charman, S. Wolfe, I. P. Hartley, J. B. Murton, M. Williams, G. K. Phoenix (2016) The influence of vegetation and soil characteristics on active-layer thickness of permafrost soils in boreal forest. Global Change Biology 22: 3127–3140.
Bloom, A.B., J-F Exbrayat , I. R. van der Velde , L. Feng , M. Williams (2016) The decadal state of the terrestrial carbon cycle: global retrievals of terrestrial carbon allocation, pools and residence times. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 1285-1290.
2015
Safta, C., Ricciuto, D. M., Sargsyan, K., Debusschere, B., Najm, H. N., Williams, M., and Thornton, P. E. (2015) Global sensitivity analysis, probabilistic calibration, and predictive assessment for the data assimilation linked ecosystem carbon model, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1899-1918, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1899-2015.
Hill T.C., C.M. Ryan, and M. Williams (2015). A framework for estimating forest disturbance intensity from successive remotely sensed biomass maps: moving beyond average biomass loss estimates. Carbon Balance and Management 10: 27.
Hartley, I.P., T.C. Hill, T. Wade, R.J. Clement, J.B. Moncrieff, A. Prieto-Blanco, M.I. Disney, B. Huntley, M. Williams, N. Howden, P.A. Wookey, R. Baxter (2015) Quantifying landscape-level methane fluxes in subarctic Finland using a multi-scale approach. Global Change Biology 21:3712-3725
Exbrayat, J and M Williams (2015) Quantifying the net contribution of the Amazonian deforestation to climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 42: 2968–2976. doi: 10.1002/2015GL063497
McNicol, IM, CM Ryan, and M Williams (2015) How resilient are African woodlands to disturbance from shifting cultivation? Ecological Applications, 25: 2320–2336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2165.1
Rowland, L., Harper, A., Christoffersen, B. O., Galbraith, D. R., Imbuzeiro, H. M. A., Powell, T. L., Doughty, C., Levine, N. M., Malhi, Y., Saleska, S. R., Moorcroft, P. R., Meir, P., and Williams, M. (2015) Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses. Geoscientific Model Development, 8: 109-1110, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015
Slevin, D., S. F. B. Tett, and M. Williams (2015) Multi-site evaluation of the JULES land surface model using global and local data. Geoscientific Model Development: 8:295-316.
Bloom, A.A. & M. Williams (2015). Constraining ecosystem carbon dynamics in a data-limited world: integrating ecological “common sense” in a model-data-fusion framework. Biogeosciences 12, 1299-1315.
2014
Chew YH, B Wenden, A Flis, V Mengin, J Taylor, C L Davey, C Tindal, H Thomas, H J Ougham, P de Reffye, M Stitt, M Williams, R Muetzelfeldt, K J Halliday, and A J Millar (2014) Multiscale digital Arabidopsis predicts individual organ and whole-organism growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410238111
Sus, O., R. Poyatos, J. Barba, N. Carvalhais, P. Llorens, M. Williams, and J. M. Vilalta (2014) Time variable hydraulic parameters improve the performance of a mechanistic stand transpiration model. A case study of Mediterranean Scots pine sap flow data assimilation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 198–199:168-180.
Thomas RQ, Williams M. (2014). A model using marginal efficiency of investment to analyse carbon and nitrogen interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (ACONITE Version 1). Geoscientific Model Development 7, 2015-2037.
Williams, M. (2014). ‘That great big broad land ‘way up yonder’: biogeochemical cycling and climate change in the high latitudes. iLEAPS Newsletter 14: 21-24.
Bonan GB, Williams M, Fisher RA, Oleson KW (2014). Modeling stomatal conductance in the Earth system: linking leaf water-use efficiency and water transport along the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Geoscientific Model Development . 7: 2193-2222.
Xenakis, G., and Williams, M. (2014) Comparing microbial and chemical approaches for modelling soil organic carbon decomposition using the DecoChem v1.0 and DecoBio v1.0 models, Geoscientific Model Development , 7, 1519-1533, doi:10.5194/gmd-7-1519-2014
Williams, M., E.B. Rastetter, L. van der Pol & G.R. Shaver (2014). Arctic canopy photosynthetic efficiency enhanced under diffuse light, linked to a reduction in the fraction of the canopy in deep shade. New Phytologist: 202, 1267-1276.
Saito, M., S. Luyssaert, B. Poulter, M. Williams, P. Ciais, V. Bellassen, C. M. Ryan, C. Yue, P. Cadule, and P. Peylin (2014), Fire regimes and variability in aboveground woody biomass in miombo woodland, J. Geophysical Research Biogeosci.., 119: 1014-1029, doi:10.1002/2013JG002505.
van de Weg, M., Meir, P., Williams, M., Girardin, C., Malhi, Y., Silva-Espejo, J., Grace, J.G. (2014). Gross Primary Productivity of a high elevation tropical montane cloud forest. Ecosystems 17: 751-764.
Fisher, J. A., G. Patenaude, K. Giri, K. Lewis, P. Meir, P. Pinho, M. D. A. Rounsevell, and M. Williams (2014). Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework. Ecosystem Services 7: 34-45
Ruehr, N.K., B..E Law, D. Quandt & Williams M. (2014). Effects of heat and drought on carbon and water dynamics in a regenerating semi-arid pine forest: a combined experimental and modeling approach. Biogeosciences 11: 4139-4156.
Smallman, T.L., M. Williams and J. B. Moncrieff (2014) Can seasonal and interannual variation in landscape CO2 fluxes be detected by atmospheric observations of CO2 concentrations made at a tall tower? Biogeosciences, 11: 735-747.
Ciais, P., A. J. Dolman, A. Bombelli, R. Duren, A. Peregon, P. J. Rayner, C. Miller, N. Gobron, G. Kinderman, G. Marland, N. Gruber, F. Chevallier, R. J. Andres, G. Balsamo, L. Bopp, F. M. Bréon, G. Broquet, R. Dargaville, T. J. Battin, A. Borges, H. Bovensmann, M. Buchwitz, J. Butler, J. G. Canadell, R. B. Cook, R. DeFries, R. Engelen, K. R. Gurney, C. Heinze, M. Heimann, A. Held, M. Henry, B. Law, S. Luyssaert, J. Miller, T. Moriyama, C. Moulin, R. B. Myneni, C. Nussli, M. Obersteiner, D. Ojima, Y. Pan, J. D. Paris, S. L. Piao, B. Poulter, S. Plummer, S. Quegan, P. Raymond, M. Reichstein, L. Rivier, C. Sabine, D. Schimel, O. Tarasova, R. Valentini, G. van der Werf, D. Wickland, M. Williams, and C. Zehner. 2014. Current systematic carbon cycle observations and needs for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system. Biogeosciences 11:3547-3602.
2013
Rowland, L., Hill, T., Stahl, C., Siebicke, L., Burban, B., Zaragoza‐Castells, J., Ponton, S., Bonal, D., Meir, P., and Williams, M. (2013) Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest, Global Change Biology 20: 979-991
Rowland, L., Stahl, C., Bonal, D., Siebicke, L., Williams, M. & Meir, P. (2013) The Response of Tropical Rainforest Dead Wood Respiration to Seasonal Drought, Ecosystems 16:1294-1309.
Stoy, P. C., Williams, M., Evans, J. G., Prieto-Blanco, A., Disney, M., Hill, T. C., Ward, H. C., Wade, T. J., and Street, L. E. (2013) Upscaling Tundra CO2 Exchange from Chamber to Eddy Covariance Tower. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 45, 275-284.
Powell, T. L., Galbraith, D. R., Christoffersen, B. O., Harper, A., Imbuzeiro, H., Rowland, L., Almeida, S., Brando, P. M., Costa, A. C. L., Costa, M. H., Levine, N. N., Malhi, Y., Saleska, S. R., Sotta, E., Williams, M., Meir, P., and Moorcroft, P. R. (2013) Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought. New Phytologist, 200, 350-365.
Revill, A, O. Sus, B. Barrett, and M. Williams (2013) Carbon cycling of European croplands: a framework for the assimilation of optical and microwave Earth observation data..
Remote Sensing of the Environment, 137: 84-93.
Smallman, T.L., J. B. Moncrieff, and M. Williams (2013) WRFv3.2-SPAv2: development and validation of a coupled ecosystem–atmosphere model, scaling from surface fluxes of CO2 and energy to atmospheric profiles.
Geoscientific Model Development, 6, 1079-1093.
Hill, T.C, Williams, M., Bloom, A.A., Mitchard, E.T.A., & Ryan, C.M. (2013) Are inventory based and remotely sensed above-ground biomass estimates consistent? PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074170.
Sloan, V., Fletcher, B., Press, M., Williams, M., Phoenix, G. (2013). Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems. Global Change Biology:18: 3668-3676
Wright, J. K., M. Williams, G. Starr, J. McGee, & R. Mitchell (2013). Measured and modelled leaf and stand-scale productivity across a soil moisture gradient and a severe drought. Plant, Cell and Environment: 36: 467-483.
Fisher, J. A., G. Patenaude, P. Meir, A. J. Nightingale, M. D. A. Rounsevell, M. Williams and I. H. Woodhouse (2013). Strengthening conceptual foundations: analysing frameworks for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation research, Global Environmental Change 23: 1098-1111.
Shaver, G.R, E.B. Rastetter, V. Salmon, L.E. Street, M.J. van de Weg, M.T. van Wijk, and M. Williams (2013). PanArctic Modeling of Net Ecosystem Exchange of CO2. Phil. Tran. Royal Soc. B. 368: 1624
Street, L. E., J.-A. Subke, M. Sommerkorn, V. Sloan, H. Ducrotoy, G. K. Phoenix, and M. Williams. 2013. The role of mosses in carbon uptake and partitioning in arctic vegetation. New Phytologist 199:163-175.
Williams, M, T.C. Hill & C.M. Ryan (2013). Using biomass distributions to determine probability and intensity of tropical forest disturbance, Plant Ecology and Diversity: 6, 87-99.
Mitchard, E.T.A, P. Meir, C. M. Ryan, E. S. Woollen, M. Williams, L.E. Goodman, J.A. Mucavele, P.Watts, I.H. Woodhouse & S. S. Saatchi (2013) A novel application of satellite radar data: measuring carbon sequestration and detecting degradation in a community forestry project in Mozambique, Plant Ecology and Diversity: 6, 159-170.
Meir, P, M. Mencuccini, M. Williams & F. Magnani (2013) Forests, instruments and ideas; a tribute to John Grace’s career, Plant Ecology and Diversity: 6, 3-6.
Ryan, CM, M Williams, TC Hill, J Grace, IH Woodhouse (2013) Assessing the Phenology of Southern Tropical Africa: A Comparison of Hemispherical Photography, Scatterometry, and Optical/NIR Remote Sensing, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions: 99, 1-10.
Sus, O., M. W. Heuer, T. P. Meyers, and M. Williams (2013) A data assimilation framework for constraining upscaled cropland carbon flux seasonality and biometry with MODIS Biogeosciences: 10, 2451-2466.
2012
Saatchi, S., L. Ulander, M. Williams, S. Quegan, T. LeToan, H. Shugart & J. Chave (2012) Forest biomass and the science of inventory from space, Nature Climate Change 2, 826-827.
McGuire, A., T. Christensen, D. Hayes, A. Heroult, E. Euskirchen, Y. Yi, J. Kimball, C. Koven, P. Lafleur, P. Miller ,W. Oechel, P. Peylin, M. Williams, and Y. Yi. (2012) An assessment of the carbon balance of arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions. Biogeosciences 9:3185-3204.
Street, L. E., G. R. Shaver, E. B. Rastetter, M. T. van Wijk, B. A. Kaye, and M. Williams (2012) Incident radiation and the allocation of nitrogen within Arctic plant canopies: implications for predicting gross primary productivity. Global Change Biology. 18:2838-2852
Quegan, S.Q., T. LeToan, J Chave, J. Dall, K. Pappathanassiou, F. Rocca, L. Ulander and M. Williams (2012) BIOMASS: report for mission selection. European Space Agency, Norwiijk, Netherlands.
Woollen, E., C.M Ryan, and M. Williams (2012). Carbon stocks in an African woodland landscape: spatial distributions and scales of variation. Ecosystems 15: 804-818.
Stringer, LC, AJ Dougill, AD Thomas, DV Spracklen, S Chesterman, C Ifejika Speranza, H Rueff, M Riddell, M Williams, T Beedy, DJ Abson, P Klintenberg, S Syampungani, P Powell, AR Palmer, MK Seely, DD Mkwambisi, M Falcao, A Sitoe, S Ross, & G Kopolo (2012). Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands, Environmental Science and Policy, 19-20, pp.121-135. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.02.004.
Chew, YH, AM Wilczek, M Williams, SM Welch, J Schmitt, & KJ Halliday (2012) An augmented Arabidopsis phenology model reveals seasonal temperature control of flowering time. New Phytologist 194: 654–665.
Street, L., P. Stoy, M. Sommerkorn, B. Fletcher, V. Sloan, T.C. Hill, & M. Williams (2012). Seasonal bryophyte productivity in the sub-Arctic: a comparison with vascular plants. Functional Ecology 26: 365–378.
Ryan, C. M., T. C. Hill, E. Woollen, C. Ghee, E. T. A. Mitchard, G. Cassells, J. Grace, I. H. Woodhouse, and M. Williams. 2012. Quantifying small-scale deforestation and forest degradation in African woodlands using radar imagery. Global Change Biology 18: 243-257.
Hill, T.C., E. Ryan and M. Williams (2012) The use of CO2 flux time series for parameter and carbon stock estimation in carbon cycle research. Global Change Biology 18: 179-193.
2011
Ryan, C.M. , M. Williams & J Grace (2011) Above and Below Ground Carbon Stocks in a Miombo Woodland Landscape of Mozambique. Biotropica 43: 423-432.
Street, L.E. , J.A. Subke, M. Sommerkorn, A. Heinemeyer, & M.Williams (2011) Turnover of recently assimilated carbon in arctic bryophytes. Oecologia. 167: 325:337.
Whitley, R., C. Macinnis-Ng,L. Hutley, J. Beringer, M, Zeppel, M. Williams, D. Taylor & D. Eamus (2011). Is productivity of mesic savannas light limited or water limited? Results of a simulation study. Global Change Biology. 17: 3130-3149
Macinnis-Ng, C., M. Zeppel, M. Williams and D Eamus (2011) Applying a SPA model to examine the impact of climate change on GPP of open woodlands and the potential for woody thickening. Ecohydrology 4: 379-93.
Hill, T.C., M. Williams, F. I. Woodward and J. B. Moncrieff (2011) Constraining ecosystem processes from tower fluxes and atmospheric profiles. Ecological Applications 21:1474-1489.
Spadavecchia, L., M. Williams and B.E. Law (2011) Uncertainty in predictions of forest carbon dynamics – separating driver error from model error. Ecological Applications 21: 1506-1522.
Hill, T. C., Quaife, T. and Williams, M. (2011) A data assimilation method for using low-resolution Earth Observation data in heterogeneous ecosystems. J. of Geophysical Research 116:D08117.
De Kauwe, M. G., M. I. Disney, T. Quaife, P. Lewis, and M. Williams. (2011). An assessment of the MODIS collection 5 leaf area index product for a region of mixed coniferous forest. Remote Sensing of Environment 115:767-780.
Ciais, P , A. Bombelli, M. Williams, S.L. Piao, J. Chave, C.M. Ryan, M. Henry, P. Brender & R. Valentini (2011) The Carbon balance of Africa: Synthesis of Recent Research Studies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 369: 2038-2057.
Ryan, C.M. & Williams, M. (2011) How does fire intensity and frequency affect miombo woodland tree populations and biomass? Ecological Applications 21: 48-60
2010
Scipal, K., M. Arcioni, J. Chave, J. Dall, F. Fois, T. LeToan, C. Lin, K. Papathanassiou, S. Quegan, F. Rocca, S. Saatchi, H. Shugart, L. Ulander, and M. Williams. 2010. The BIOMASS mission—An ESA Earth Explorer candidate to measure the BIOMASS of the earth’s forests. Proc. IGARSS 2010:52-55.
Grace, J., C. Ryan, M. Williams, P. Powell, L. Goodman, and R. Tipper. 2010. A pilot project to store carbon as biomass in African woodlands. Carbon Management 1:227-235.
Wattenbach, M., O. Sus, N. Vuichard, S. Lehuger, P. Gottschalk, L. Li, A. Leipe, M. Williams, E. Tomelleri, W. Kutsch, N. Buchmann,
W. Eugster, D.Dietiker, M. Aubinet, E. Ceschia, P. Béziat, T. Grünwald, A. Hastings, B. Osborne, P. Ciais, P. Cellier, P. Smith (2010) The carbon balance of European croplands: A cross-site comparison of simulation models. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 139: 419-53.
Sus, O., M. Williams, C. Bernhofer, P. Beziat, N. Buchmann, E. Ceschia, R. Doherty, W. Eugster, T. Gruenwald, W. Kutsch, P. Smith, M. Wattenbach (2010) A linked carbon cycle and crop developmental model: description and evaluation against measurements of carbon fluxes and carbon stocks at several European agricultural sites. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 139: 402-418.
Metcalfe, D. B., P. Meir, L. E. O. C. Aragão, T. F. Domingues, R. Lobo-do-Vale, M. M. Chaves, J. P. Maroco, A. C. L. da Costa, S. S. de Almeida, A. P. Braga, P. H. L. Gonçalves, J. de Athaydes, M. da Costa, T. T. B. Portela, A. A. R. de Oliveira, Y. Malhi, M. Williams (2010) Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon. New Phytologist 187:608-621.
Galbraith ,D., P.E. Levy, S. Sitch, C. Huntingford, P. Cox, M. Williams, P. Meir (2010) Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) under climate change. New Phytologist 187:647-665.
Rastetter, E. B., M. Williams, K. L. Griffin, B. L. Kwiatkowski, G. Tomasky, M. J. Potosnak, P. C. Stoy, G. R. Shaver, M. Stieglitz, J. E. Hobbie, and G. W. Kling (2010) Processing arctic eddy-flux data using a simple carbon-exchange model embedded in the ensemble Kalman filter. Ecological Applications 20: 1285-1301.
Metcalfe, D. B., R. Lobo-do-Vale, M. M. Chaves, J. P. Maroco, L. Aragao, Y. Malhi, A. L. Da Costa, A. P. Braga, P. L. Goncalves, J. De Athaydes, M. Da Costa, S. S. Almeida, C. Campbell, V. Hurry, M. Williams, and P. Meir (2010) Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest. Functional Ecology 24:524-533.
Richardson, A. D., M. Williams, D. Y. Hollinger, D. J. P. Moore, D. B. Dail, E. A. Davidson, N. A. Scott, R. S. Evans, H. Hughes, J. T. Lee, C. Rodrigues, and K. Savage. 2010. Estimating parameters of a forest ecosystem C model with measurements of stocks and fluxes as joint constraints. Oecologia 164:25-40.
2009
Alton, P., Fisher, R., Los, S. & Williams, M. (2009) Simulations of global evapotranspiration using semiempirical and mechanistic schemes of plant hydrology. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23 GB4023 .
Mitchard, E. T. A., S. S. Saatchi, I. H. Woodhouse, G. Nangendo, N. S.Ribeiro, M. Williams, C. M. Ryan, S. L. Lewis, T. R. Feldpausch, and
P. Meir (2009). Using satellite radar backscatter to predict above-ground woody biomass: A consistent relationship across four different African landscapes , Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L23401, doi:10.1029/2009GL040692.
Hernández-Santana, V, J Martínez-Vilalta, J Martínez-Fernández & M Williams (2009) Evaluating the effect of drier and warmer conditions on water use by Quercus pyrenaica, Forest Ecology and Management 258: 1719-1730.
Stoy, PC, AD Richardson, DD Baldocchi, GG Katul, J Stanovick, MD Mahecha, M Reichstein, M Detto, BE Law, G Wohlfahrt, N Arriga, J Campos, JH McCaughey, L Montagnani, KT Paw U, S Sevanto, and M Williams (2009) Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales, Biogeosciences, 6, 2297-2312.
Fox, A, M Williams, AD Richardson, D Cameron, JH Gove, T Quaife, D Ricciuto, M Reichstein, E Tomelleri, C Trudinger, MT van Wijk (2009) The REFLEX project: comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149, 1597–1615.
Stoy, PC, M Williams, M Disney, A Prieto-Blanco, B Huntley, R Baxter, & P Lewis (2009) Upscaling as ecological information transfer: a simple framework with application to Arctic ecosystem carbon exchange. Landscape Ecology 24: 971-986.
Williams, M, AD Richardson, M Reichstein, PC Stoy, P Peylin, H Verbeeck, N Carvalhais, M Jung, DY Hollinger, J Kattge, R Leuning, Y Luo, , E Tomelleri, C Trudinger, and Y-P Wang (2009). Improving land surface models with FLUXNET data, Biogeosciences, 6, 1341-1359.
Stoy, PC, M Williams, L Spadavecchia, R Bell, A Prieto-Blanco, J Evans and M T van Wijk (2009) Using information theory to determine optimum pixel size and shape for ecological studies: Aggregating land surface characteristics in Arctic ecosystems. Ecosystems 12: 574-589..
Spadavecchia, L & M. Williams (2009) Can Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Methods Improve High Resolution Regionalisation of Meteorological Variables? Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149: 1105-1117.
2008
Hill, TC, M. Williams and J. B. Moncrieff (2008) Modelling feedbacks between a boreal forest and the planetary boundary layer. Journal of Geophysical research 113, D15122.
Metcalfe, DB , P Meir, LEOC Aragão, ACL da Costa, AP Braga, PHL Gonçalves, J de Athaydes Silva Junior, SS de Almeida, LA Dawson, Y Malhi, M Williams (2008) The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest. Plant and Soil 311, 189-199.
Zeppel, M, C Macinnis-Ng, A Palmer, D Taylor, R Whitley, S Fuentes, I Yunusa, M Williams and D Eamus (2008) An analysis of the sensitivity of sap flux to soil and plant variables assessed for an Australian woodland using SPA. Functional Plant Biology 35:509-520.
Spadavecchia, L, M Williams, R Bell, PC Stoy, B Huntley & MT van Wijk (2008) Topographic Controls on the Leaf Area Index and Plant Functional Type of a Tundra Ecosystem. Journal of Ecology 96: 1238-1251.
Fox, AM, B Huntley, CR Lloyd, M Williams and R Baxter (2008) Net ecosystem exchange over heterogeneous Arctic tundra: Scaling between chamber and eddy covariance measurements, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22, GB2027
Fisher, RA, M Williams, M de Lourdes Ruivo, A L da Costa & P Meir (2008) Evaluating climatic and edaphic controls on dry season gas exchange at two Amazonian rain forest sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148: 850-861.
Metcalfe D, P Meir, L Aragão, A da Costa, S Almeida, A Braga, P Goncalves, J Athaydes, Y Malhi & M Williams (2008) Sample sizes for estimating key ecosystem characteristics in a tropical terra firme rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 558–566.
Williams M, Bell R, Spadavecchia L, Street LE, van Wijk MT (2008) Upscaling leaf area index in an Arctic landscape through multi-scale observations. Global Change Biology 14:1517-1530.
Quaife, T, P Lewis, M De Kauwe, M Williams, BE Law, M Disney & P Bowyer (2008) Assimilating Canopy Reflectance data into an Ecosystem Model with an Ensemble Kalman Filter. Remote Sensing of the Environment.111: 1347-1364.
Williams M, CM Ryan, RM Rees, E Sambane, J Fernando and J Grace. (2008) Carbon sequestration and biodiversity of re-growing miombo woodlands in Mozambique. Forest Ecology and Management, 254: 145-155.
2007
Metcalfe D, M Williams & P Meir (2007) A comparison of methods for converting rhizotron root length measurements into estimates of root mass production per unit ground area. Plant and Soil301: 279-288.
Metcalfe, DN, P Meir, LEOC Aragão, Y Malhi, ACL da Costa, A Braga, PHL Gonçalves, J de Athaydes, SS de Almeida, and M Williams (2007) Factors controlling spatio-temporal variation in carbon dioxide efflux from surface litter, roots and soil organic matter at four rain forest sites in the eastern Amazon. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: G04001, doi:10.1029/2007JG000443.
Fisher RA, M Williams, A Lola da Costa, Y Malhi, RF da Costa, S Almeida and PW Meir (2007) The response of an Eastern Amazonian rain forest to drought stress: Results and modelling analyses from a through-fall exclusion experiment. Global Change Biology 13: 1-18.
Shaver, GR, LE Street, EB Rastetter, MT. van Wijk and M Williams (2007) Functional convergence in regulation of net CO2 flux in heterogeneous tundra landscapes in Alaska and Sweden. Journal of Ecology 95: 802-817.
Street, LE, GR Shaver, M Williams & MT van Wijk (2007) What is the relationship between changes in canopy leaf area and changes in photosynthetic CO2 flux in arctic ecosystems? Journal of Ecology 95: 139-150.
Metcalfe, DB, M Williams, LEOC Aragao et al. (2007) A method for extracting plant roots from soil which facilitates rapid sample processing without compromising measurement accuracy. New Phytologist 174: 697-703.
2006
Fisher, RA, M Williams, R Lobo do Vale, A Lola da Costa & P Meir (2006) Evidence from Amazonian forests is consistent with a model of isohydric control of leaf water potential. Plant, Cell and Environment 29: 151-165
Williams, M, LE Street, MT Van Wijk, GR Shaver (2006). Identifying differences in carbon exchange among arctic ecosystem types. Ecosystems 9: 288-304.
2005
Engel V, EG Jobbagy, M Stieglitz, M Williams and RB Jackson (2005) Hydrological consequences of eucalyptus afforestation in the argentine pampas. Water Resources Research 41: (10): Art. No. W10409
Aragao, L.E.O.C., Y. E. Shimabukuro, F. D. B. Espirito Santo and M. Williams (2005) Spatial validation of collection 4 MODIS LAI product in Eastern Amazon. IEEE TGRS 43, 2526- 2534.
Aragao, L.E.O.C., Y.E. Shimabukuro, F.D.B. Espirito Santo & M. Williams (2005). Landscape pattern and spatial variability of leaf area index in Eastern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 211, 240-256.
Van Wijk, M.T. and M. Williams (2005). Optical instruments for measuring leaf area index in low vegetation: application in arctic ecosystems. Ecological Applications 15, 1462-1470.
Williams, M., P.A. Schwarz, B.E. Law, J. Irvine & M. Kurpius (2005). An improved analysis of forest carbon dynamics using data assimilation. Global Change Biology 11, 89-105.
Van Wijk, M.T., M. Williams & G.R. Shaver (2005). Tight coupling between leaf area index and foliage N content in arctic plant communities. Oecologia 142: 421-7
2004
Schwarz, P.A., B. E. Law, M. Williams, J. Irvine, M. Kurpius & D. Moore (2004). Climatic versus biotic constraints on carbon and water fluxes in seasonally drought-affected ponderosa pine ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB4007, doi:10.1029/2004GB002234
Winner WE, SC Thomas, JA Berry, BJ Bond, CE Cooper, TM Hinckley, JR Ehleringer, JE Fessenden, B Lamb, S McCarthy, NG McDowell, N Phillips & M Williams (2004). Canopy carbon gain and water use: Analysis of old-growth conifers in the Pacific Northwest. Ecosystems 7: 482-497.
Grace, J. and M. Williams (2004) Understanding and parameterizing the soil-water-atmosphere transfer through vegetation, In: “Unsaturated-zone modeling progress, challenges and applications”, edited by R.A. Feddes, G.H.de Rooij & J.C. van Dam. Frontis.
Williams, M., F I Woodward, D D Baldocchi, D Ellsworth (2004) CO2 capture from the leaf to the landscape, In: “Photosynthetic Adaptation: Chloroplast to Landscape”, edited by W.K. Smith, T.C. Vogelmann & C Critchley. Ecological Studies 178, Springer.
Hanson, P.J., J. S. Amthor, S. D. Wullschleger, K. B. Wilson, R. F. Grant, A. Hartley, D. Hui, E. R. Hunt, D. W. Johnson, J. S. Kimball, A. W. King, Y. Luo, S. G. McNulty, G. Sun, P. E. Thornton, S. Wang, M. Williams, D. D. Baldocchi & R. M. Cushman (2004). Carbon and water cycle simulations for an upland oak forest using 13 stand-level models: intermodel comparisons and evaluations against independent measurements. Ecological Monographs 74: 443-489
Van Wijk, M.T., K. E. Clemmensen, G.R. Shaver, M. Williams, et al. (2004) Long-term ecosystem level experiments at Toolik Lake, Alaska, and at Abisko, Northern Sweden: generalisations and differences in ecosystem and plant type responses to global change. Global Change Biology 10: 105-123.
2003
Herbert, D.A., M. Williams, & E. B. Rastetter (2003) A model analysis of N and P limitation on carbon accumulation in Amazonian secondary forest after alternate land-use abandonment. Biogeochemistry 65: 121-150.
Van Wijk, M.T., M. Williams, L. Gough, S. E. Hobbie & G. R. Shaver (2003) Luxury consumption of soil nutrients: a possible competitive strategy in above-ground and below-ground biomass allocation and root morphology for slow-growing arctic vegetation? Journal of Ecology 91: 664-676
Van Wijk, M.T., M. Williams, J.A. Laundre, & G.R. Shaver (2003) Inter-annual variability of plant phenology in tussock tundra: modelling interactions of plant productivity, plant phenology, snowmelt and soil thaw. Global Change Biology, 9: 743-758.
2002
Williams, M., Y.E. Shimabukuro, D.A. Herbert, S. Pardi Lacruz, C. Renno and E.B. Rastetter (2002) Heterogeneity of soils and vegetation in eastern Amazonian rain forest; implications for scaling up biomass and production. Ecosystems, 5: 692-704.
Engel, V.C., M. Stieglitz, M. Williams and K.L. Griffin (2002) Forest canopy hydraulic properties and catchment water balance: observations and modeling. Ecological Modelling 154: 263-288.
2001
Williams, M., Rastetter, E. B., Shaver, G. R., Hobbie, J. E., Carpino, E. and Kwiatkowski, B. L. (2001). Primary production in an arctic watershed; an uncertainty analysis. Ecological Applications 11: 1800-1816.
Williams, M., Bond, B.J., & Ryan M.G. (2001) Evaluating different soil and plant hydraulic constraints on tree function using a model and sap flow data from ponderosa pine. Plant, Cell and Environment 24:679-690.
Williams, M., B. E. Law, P. M. Anthoni & M. Unsworth (2001) Using a simulation model and ecosystem flux data to examine carbon-water interactions in ponderosa pine. Tree Physiology 21: 287-298
2000
Williams, M., W. Eugster, E.B. Rastetter, J.P. McFadden & F.S. Chapin III (2000) The controls on net ecosystem productivity along an arctic transect: a model comparison with flux measurements. Global Change Biology 6: (suppl. 1) 116-126.
Stieglitz, M., A. Giblin, J.E. Hobbie, M. Williams, G. Kling (2000) Effects of climate change and climate variability on the carbon dynamics in Arctic tundra. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14: 1123-1136
Law, B.E., M. Williams, P.M. Anthoni, D.D. Baldocchi, & M.H. Unsworth (2000) Measuring and modelling seasonal variation of carbon dioxide and water vapour exchange of a Pinus ponderosa forest subject to soil water deficit. Global Change Biology 6: 613-630.
Hobbie, E.A., S. A. Macko & M. Williams (2000) Correlations between foliar nitrogen levels and isotopic ratios indicate possible plant-mycorrhizal interactions. Oecologia 122:272-283.
1999
Williams, M. & E. B. Rastetter (1999) Vegetation characteristics and primary productivity along an arctic transect: implications for scaling up. Journal of Ecology 87: 885-898
Rastetter, E.B., L. Gough, A. E. Hartley, D.A Herbert, K.J. Nadelhoffer & M. Williams (1999) A revised assessment of species redundancy and ecosystem reliability. Conservation Biology13:440-443.
1998
Williams, M., Y. Malhi, A. Nobre, E. B. Rastetter, J. Grace and M.G.P. Pereira (1998) Seasonal variation in net carbon exchange and evapotranspiration in a Brazilian rain forest: a modelling analysis. Plant, Cell and Environment 21: 953-968.
Waring, R.H., J.J. Landsberg and M. Williams (1998) Net primary production of forests: a constant fraction of gross primary production? Tree Physiology 18: 129-134.
Cebrian, J., M. Williams, J. W. McClelland, & I. Valiela (1998) The dependence of heterotrophic consumption and C accumulation on autotrophic nutrient content in ecosystems. Ecology Letters 1:165-170.
1997
Williams, M., E.B Rastetter, D.N Fernandes, M.L. Goulden, G.R. Shaver & L.C. Johnson (1997) Predicting gross primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecological Applications 7: 882-894.
1996
Williams, M., E.B. Rastetter, D.N. Fernandes, M.L. Goulden, S.C. Wofsy, G.R. Shaver, J.M. Melillo, J.W. Munger, S.-M. Fan, and K.J. Nadelhoffer (1996) Modelling the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in a Quercus-Acer stand at Harvard Forest: the regulation of stomatal conductance by light, nitrogen and soil/plant hydraulic properties. Plant, Cell and Environment 19: 911-927.
Williams, M. (1996) A three-dimensional model of forest development and competition. Ecological Modelling 89: 73-98.
Williams, M. & R.D. Yanai (1996) Multi-dimensional sensitivity analysis and ecological implications of a nutrient uptake model. Plant and Soil 180: 311-324.
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