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Paul R. Moorcroft

Paul R. Moorcroft

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
16421
World Ranking
2051
National Ranking
745

Overview

Paul R. Moorcroft is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses various subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, focusing notably on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Recent publications by Paul R. Moorcroft include:

  • 'Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests' (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • 'Experimental evidence of memory-based foraging decisions in a large wild mammal' (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 'Impacts of climate change and deforestation on hydropower planning in the Brazilian Amazon' (2020), Nature Sustainability
  • 'Leaf surface water, not plant water stress, drives diurnal variation in tropical forest canopy water content' (2021), New Phytologist
  • 'The Central Amazon Biomass Sink Under Current and Future Atmospheric CO2: Predictions From Big-Leaf and Demographic Vegetation Models' (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors of Moorcroft have included:

  • Francesca Cagnacci
  • Nathan Ranc
  • Marcos Longo
  • Federico Ossi
  • Michael Keller

Paul R. Moorcroft's publications appear regularly in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates.

    S. W. Pacala;G. C. Hurtt;D. Baker;P. Peylin

  • A METHOD FOR SCALING VEGETATION DYNAMICS: THE ECOSYSTEM DEMOGRAPHY MODEL (ED)

    P. R. Moorcroft;G. C. Hurtt;Stephen Wilson Pacala

  • Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon Accumulation in U.S. Forests

    John P. Caspersen;Stephen W. Pacala;Jennifer C. Jenkins;George C. Hurtt

  • 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

  • The home-range concept: are traditional estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

    John G. Kie;Jason Matthiopoulos;John R Fieberg;Roger A. Powell

  • Building the bridge between animal movement and population dynamics

    Juan M. Morales;Paul R. Moorcroft;Jason Matthiopoulos;Jacqueline L. Frair

  • Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

    D. Medvigy;D. Medvigy;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Munger;D. Y. Hollinger

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback

    Takeshi Ise;Allison L. Dunn;Steven C. Wofsy;Paul R. Moorcroft

  • Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Projecting the future of the U.S. carbon sink

    G. C. Hurtt;S. W. Pacala;Paul R Moorcroft;J. Caspersen

  • Erratum: Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

    Thomas L. Powell;David R. Galbraith;David R. Galbraith;Bradley O. Christoffersen;Anna Harper;Anna Harper

  • Stochastic modelling of animal movement

    Peter E. Smouse;Stefano Focardi;Paul R. Moorcroft;John G. Kie

  • Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

    Rosie Fisher;Nate G McDowell;Drew Purves;Paul Moorcroft

  • Mechanistic home range models capture spatial patterns and dynamics of coyote territories in Yellowstone

    Paul R Moorcroft;Mark A Lewis;Robert L Crabtree

  • The contributions of land-use change, CO 2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink

    Marco Albani;David Medvigy;George C. Hurtt;Paul R. Moorcroft

  • Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change

    Naomi M. Levine;Naomi M. Levine;Ke Zhang;Ke Zhang;Marcos Longo;Alessandro Baccini

  • Deforestation and climate feedbacks threaten the ecological integrity of south–southeastern Amazonia

    Michael T. Coe;Toby R. Marthews;Marcos Heil Costa;David R. Galbraith

  • How close are we to a predictive science of the biosphere

    Paul R. Moorcroft

  • Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon dieback

    Chris Huntingford;Rosie A. Fisher;Lina Mercado;Ben B. B. Booth

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcos Longo
Marcos Longo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona
David Medvigy
David Medvigy University of Notre Dame
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology

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