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Michael C. Dietze

Michael C. Dietze

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
64
Citations
16906
World Ranking
1856
National Ranking
681

Overview

Michael C. Dietze is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Michael C. Dietze has multiple publications in key venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world," 2020, Science
  • "Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change," 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • "Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects," 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael C. Dietze include:

  • Shawn Serbin
  • Kai Zhu
  • Jody A. Peters
  • James S. Clark
  • Michał Bogdziewicz

Best Publications

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Nonstructural carbon in woody plants.

    Michael C. Dietze;Anna Sala;Mariah S. Carbone;Claudia I. Czimczik

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Craig D. Allen;Ankur R. Desai;Michael C. Dietze

  • A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

    Alistair Rogers;Belinda E. Medlyn;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Gordon Bonan

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Soenke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Soenke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Belinda E Medlyn;Belinda E Medlyn;Sonke Zaehle;Martin G De Kauwe;Anthony P Walker

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites.

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Sönke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Global imprint of mycorrhizal fungi on whole-plant nutrient economics

    Colin Averill;Jennifer M. Bhatnagar;Michael C. Dietze;William D. Pearse

  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve.

    Inés Ibáñez;James S. Clark;Michael C. Dietze;Ken Feeley

  • Resolving the biodiversity paradox

    James S. Clark;Mike Dietze;Sukhendu Chakraborty;Pankaj K. Agarwal

  • Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E Higuera;Paul Duffy;Melissa L Chipman

  • Forest biogeochemistry in response to drought.

    William H. Schlesinger;Michael C. Dietze;Robert B. Jackson;Richard P. Phillips

  • When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Paul Bodesheim;Noah Charney;Andrew D. Friend

  • High‐dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence

    James S. Clark;David Bell;Chengjin Chu;Benoit Courbaud

  • Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models

    David Shaner LeBauer;Dan Wang;Katherine T. Richter;Carl C. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shawn P. Serbin
Shawn P. Serbin Brookhaven National Laboratory
James S. Clark
James S. Clark Duke University
Niels Hovius
Niels Hovius University of Potsdam
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University
David J. P. Moore
David J. P. Moore University of Arizona
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University

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