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Overview

Neil Pederson is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and is active in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses predominantly on tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Among their main topics of work are:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Climate variability and models

Pederson has contributed to subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and artificial intelligence.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Change Biology
  • Tree Physiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Pederson include:

  • "Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change," 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • "Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Warm springs alter timing but not total growth of temperate deciduous trees," 2022, Nature

Pederson frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Justin T. Maxwell, David A. Orwig, Rubén D. Manzanedo, Tim Rademacher, and Andrew D. Richardson.

Best Publications

  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States.

    James S. Clark;Louis Iverson;Christopher W. Woodall;Craig D. Allen

  • Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America

    Ryan W. McEwan;James M. Dyer;Neil Pederson

  • The influence of winter temperatures on the annual radial growth of six northern range margin tree species

    Neil Pederson;Edward R. Cook;Gordon C. Jacoby;Dorothy M. Peteet

  • Is the growth of birch at the upper timberline in the Himalayas limited by moisture or by temperature

    Eryuan Liang;Binod Dawadi;Binod Dawadi;Neil Pederson;Dieter Eckstein

  • Hydrometeorological Reconstructions for Northeastern Mongolia Derived from Tree Rings: 1651–1995*

    Neil Pederson;Gordon Jacoby;Rosanne Dorothy D'Arrigo;Edward R. Cook

  • Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

    Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville;Justin Maxwell;Daniel Kneeshaw;Neil Pederson

  • Age, allocation and availability of nonstructural carbon in mature red maple trees.

    Mariah S. Carbone;Claudia I. Czimczik;Trevor F. Keenan;Paula F. Murakami

  • Effects of canopy structure on resource availability and seedling responses in a longleaf pine ecosystem

    Brian J. Palik;Robert J. Mitchell;Greg Houseal;Neil Pederson

  • Is an Epic Pluvial Masking the Water Insecurity of the Greater New York City Region

    Neil Pederson;Andrew R. Bell;Edward R. Cook;Upmanu Lall

  • Northeastern North America as a potential refugium for boreal forests in a warming climate

    L. D’Orangeville;L. D’Orangeville;L. Duchesne;D. Houle;D. Kneeshaw

  • The International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) revisited: Data availability and global ecological representativity

    Shoudong Zhao;Neil Pederson;Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville;Janneke HilleRisLambers

  • The Legacy of Episodic Climatic Events in Shaping Temperate, Broadleaf Forests

    Neil Pederson;James M. Dyer;Ryan W. McEwan;Amy E. Hessl

  • Drought legacies are dependent on water table depth, wood anatomy and drought timing across the eastern US.

    Steven A. Kannenberg;Steven A. Kannenberg;Justin T. Maxwell;Neil Pederson;Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Past and future drought in Mongolia

    Amy E. Hessl;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Casey Jelsema;Benjamin Cook;Benjamin Cook

  • Recent trends in Inner Asian forest dynamics to temperature and precipitation indicate high sensitivity to climate change

    Benjamin Poulter;Neil Pederson;Hongyan Liu;Zaichun Zhu

  • Warm springs alter timing but not total growth of temperate deciduous trees

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  • Convergence in drought stress, but a divergence of climatic drivers across a latitudinal gradient in a temperate broadleaf forest

    Dario Martin‐Benito;Dario Martin‐Benito;Neil Pederson;Neil Pederson

  • Spatial Response to Major Volcanic Events in or about AD 536, 934 and 1258: Frost Rings and Other Dendrochronological Evidence from Mongolia and Northern Siberia: Comment on R. B. Stothers, ‘Volcanic Dry Fogs, Climate Cooling, and Plague Pandemics in Europe and the Middle East’ (Climatic Change, 42, 1999)

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;David Frank;Gordon Jacoby;Neil Pederson

  • Relationships between radial growth rates and lifespan within North American tree species

    Bryan Andrew Black;Jim J. Colbert;Neil Pederson

  • Forest tree growth response to hydroclimate variability in the southern Appalachians.

    Katherine J. Elliott;Chelcy Ford Miniat;Neil Pederson;Stephanie H. Laseter

  • Mongolian tree-rings, temperature sensitivity and reconstructions of northern hemisphere temperature.

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Gordon Jacoby;Neil Pederson;David Frank

  • Overstory mortality and canopy disturbances in longleaf pine ecosystems

    Brian J. Palik;Neil Pederson

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona
Nicole Davi
Nicole Davi Columbia University
Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gordon C. Jacoby
Gordon C. Jacoby Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
David J. P. Moore
David J. P. Moore University of Arizona
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona
Jeffrey P. Donnelly
Jeffrey P. Donnelly Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David A. Orwig
David A. Orwig Harvard University

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