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Susan M. Natali is a researcher affiliated with the Woods Hole Research Center in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the interactions between climate change and permafrost regions, exploring carbon cycle feedbacks and related environmental processes.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

The primary topics covered in their research are:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Natali's recent academic papers include:

  • "Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action," 2023, published in One Earth
  • "Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic," 2022, published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties," 2021, published in Global Change Biology
  • "The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)," 2021, published in Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Natali include Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer D. Watts, Edward A. G. Schuur, Stefano Potter, and Anna-Maria Virkkala.

Their scholarly work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

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  • Wetlands In a Changing Climate: Science, Policy and Management

    William R. Moomaw;G. L. Chmura;Gillian T. Davies;C. M. Finlayson

  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic

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  • Increased plant productivity in Alaskan tundra as a result of experimental warming of soil and permafrost

    Susan M. Natali;Edward A. G. Schuur;Rachel L. Rubin

  • Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils

    Christina Schädel;Martin K.-F. Bader;Edward A.G. Schuur;Christina Biasi

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

    Kai Xue;Kai Xue;Mengting M. Yuan;Zhou J. Shi;Yujia Qin

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Effects of experimental warming of air, soil and permafrost on carbon balance in Alaskan tundra

    Susan M. Natali;Edward A. G. Schuur;Christian Trucco;Caitlin E. Hicks Pries

  • Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

    Janet Prevéy;Mark Vellend;Nadja Rüger;Robert D. Hollister

  • Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals.

    Susan M. Natali;John P. Holdren;Brendan M. Rogers;Rachael Treharne

  • Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

    Michael M. Loranty;Benjamin W. Abbott;Daan Blok;Thomas A. Douglas

  • Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra

    César Plaza;César Plaza;César Plaza;Elaine Pegoraro;Rosvel Bracho;Gerardo Celis

  • Nitrogen availability increases in a tundra ecosystem during five years of experimental permafrost thaw.

    Verity G. Salmon;Patrick Soucy;Marguerite Mauritz;Gerardo Celis

  • Permafrost thaw and soil moisture driving CO2 and CH4 release from upland tundra

    Susan M. Natali;Edward A. G. Schuur;Edward A. G. Schuur;Marguerite Mauritz;Marguerite Mauritz;John D. Schade;John D. Schade

  • A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback

    C.D Koven;E.A.G. Schuur;C Schädel;T. J Bohn

  • A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH 4 and CO 2 production from anoxic soil incubations

    Claire C. Treat;Susan M. Natali;Jessica Ernakovich;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • Permafrost degradation stimulates carbon loss from experimentally warmed tundra

    Susan M. Natali;Susan M. Natali;Edward A. G. Schuur;Elizabeth E. Webb;Caitlin E. Hicks Pries

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Christina Schädel
Christina Schädel Northern Arizona University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
David Olefeldt
David Olefeldt University of Alberta
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo
Rosvel Bracho
Rosvel Bracho University of Florida
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University
Benjamin W. Abbott
Benjamin W. Abbott Brigham Young University

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