Selected Works

• Barnes M.L., Suttles S., Carman‐Sweeney E., Houser M., Irvine R., Mooney S., Novick K.A., Pruitt A.N., Royer T.V., Seibert K.S., Tank J.L., Wang X., Yoder L., “Cover Crops as Nature-Based Climate Solutions in the Midwestern US: Potential Benefits, Knowledge Gaps, and Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Work”, Earth's Future, American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024ef005691 (2025)
• Pervin R., Robeson S., Barnes M.L., Sitch S., Walker A., Poulter B., Maignan F., Sun Q., Colligan T., Zaehle S., Mahmud K., Anthoni P., Arneth A., Arora V., Bastrikov V., Bogucki L., Decharme B., Delire C., Falk S., Ito A., Kato E., Kennedy D., Knauer J., O’Sullivan M., Yuan W., MacBean N., “Importance of plant functional type, dynamic vegetation, and fire interactions for process-based modeling of gross carbon uptake across the drylands of western North America”, Preprint egusphere-2025-2841, Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2841
• Wang X., Barnes M.L., Yoder L., Williams C., Tank J., Royer T., Suttles S., Novick K.A., “The potential for albedo-induced climate mitigation using no-till management in midwestern U.S. croplands”, Communications Earth & Environment, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02549-x (2025)
• Lamour J., Serbin S.P., Rogers A., Acebron K.T., Ainsworth E., Albert L.P., Alonzo M., Anderson J., Atkin O.K., Barbier N., Barnes M.L., Bernacchi C.J., Besson N., Burnett A.C., Caplan J.S., Chave J., Cheesman A.W., Clocher I., Coast O., Coste S., Croft H., Cui B., Dauvissat C., Davidson K.J., Doughty C., Ely K.S., Féret J-B., Filella I., Fortunel C., Fu P., Garcia M., Gimenez B.O., Guan K., Guo Z., Heckmann D., Heuret P., Isaac M., Kothari S., Kumagai E., Kyaw T.Y., Liu L., Liu S., Llusià J., Magney T., Maréchaux I., Martin A.R., Meacham-Hensold K., Montes C.M., Ogaya R., Ojo J., Oliveira R., Paquette A., Peñuelas J., Placido A.D., Posada J.M., Qian X., Renninger H.J., Rodriguez-Caton M., Rojas-González A., Schlüter U., Sellan G., Siegert C.M., Song G., Southwick C.D., Souza D.C., Stahl C., Su Y., Sujeeun L., Ting T-C., Vasquez V., Vijayakumar A., Vilas-Boas M., Wang D.R., Wang S., Wang H., Wang J., Wang X., Weber A.P.M., Wong C.Y.S., Wu J., Wu F., Wu S., Yan Z., Yang D., Zhao Y., “The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity”, Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-213 (2025)
• Runkle B.R.K., Barnes M., Dannenberg M., Gamon J.A., Magney T., Pierrat Z., Southwick C.D., Still C., Woodgate W., “Near-surface remote sensing applications for a robust, climate-smart measurement, monitoring, and information system (MMIS)”, Carbon Management, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2025.2465361 (2025)
• Johnston M.R., Barnes M.L., Preisler Y., Smith W.K., Biederman J.A., Scott R.L., Williams A.P., Dannenberg M.P., “Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes”, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jg008146 (2025)
• Pierrat Z.A., Magney T.S., Richardson W.P., Runkle B.R.K., Diehl J.L., Yang X., Woodgate W., Smith W.K., Johnston M.R., Ginting Y.R.S., Koren G., Albert L.P., Kibler C.L., Morgan B.E., Barnes M.L., Uscanga A., Devine C., Javadian M., Meza K., Julitta T., Tagliabue G., Dannenberg M.P., Antala M., Wong C.Y.S., Santos A.L.D., Hufkens K., Marrs J.K., Stovall A.E.L., Liu Y., Fisher J.B., Gamon J.A., Cawse‐Nicholson K., “Proximal remote sensing: an essential tool for bridging the gap between high-resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology”, New Phytologist, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20405 (2025)
• Kannenberg S.A., Babst F., Barnes M.L., Cabon A., Dannenberg M.P., Johnston M.R., Anderegg W.R.L., “Stand density and local climate drive allocation of GPP to aboveground woody biomass”, New Phytologist, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20414 (2025)
• Novick K.A., Barnes M.L., Gentine P., “Large and problematic gradients in temperature and VPD in field research settings”, Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10235 (2025)
• Song Y., Barnes M.L., Browning D.M., Bybee-Finley K.A., Dahlin K.M., Munch S.B., Ponce-Campos G.E., Youngflesh C., Zuckerberg B., Zhu K., “Ecological synchrony in human-modified landscapes under a changing climate”, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.09.621137 (2024)
• Field J.P., Law D.J., Myers O.B., Barnes M.L., Breshears D.D., Acuña K.M., Feng X., Fontaine J.B., Ruthrof K.X., Villegas J.C., “Soil amendment mitigates mortality from drought and heat waves in dryland tree juveniles”, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1215051 (2024)
• Guo J.S., Barnes M.L., Smith W.K., Anderegg W.R.L., Kannenberg S.A., “Dynamic regulation of water potential in Juniperus osteosperma mediates ecosystem carbon fluxes”, New Phytologist, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19805 (2024)
• Barnes M.L., Zhang Q., Robeson S.M., Young L., Burakowski E.A., Oishi A.C., Stoy P.C., Katul G., Novick K.A., “A Century of Reforestation Reduced Anthropogenic Warming in the Eastern United States”, Earth's Future, American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ef003663 (2024)
• Kannenberg, S.A., Anderegg, W.R.L., Barnes, M.L., Dannenberg, M.P., Knapp, A.K., “Dominant role of soil moisture in mediating carbon and water fluxes in dryland ecosystems”, Nature Geoscience, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01351-8 (2024)
• Beverly, D.P., Huenupi, E., Gandolfo, A., Lietzke, C.J., Ficklin, D.L., Barnes, M.L., Raff, J.D., Novick, K.A., Phillips, R.P., “The forest, the cicadas and the holey fluxes: Periodical cicada impacts on soil respiration depends on tree mycorrhizal type”, Ecology Letters, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14349 (2024)
• “Critical Zone Science in the Anthropocene: Opportunities for biogeographic and ecological theory and praxis to drive earth science integration,” (with J. Minor, J.K. Pearl, T.R. Colella, P.C. Murphy, S. Mann, G.A. Barro-Gafford), Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, July 2019
• “Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America,” (with W. Smith, J. Biederman, F. Scott, D. Moore, M. He, J. Kimball, D. Yan, A. Hudson, N. MacBean, A. Fox, and M. Litvak) Geophysical Research Letters (2018)
• “Beyond greenness: potential for detecting temporal changes in photosynthetic metabolism with hyperspectral reflectance data,” (with D. Breshears, D. Law, W. van Leeuwen, R. Monson, A. Fojtick, G. Barron-Gafford, and D. Moore) PLOS One (2018)
• “Vegetation responds to sub-annual climate variability across semiarid biomes,” (with M. Moran, R. Scott, T. Kolb, G. Ponce-Campos, D. Moore, M. Ross, B. Mitra, and S. Dore) Ecosphere (2016)
• “An Assessment of Seasonal and Diurnal Changes in Cloud Cover Over the Hawaiian Islands Using Terra and Aqua MODIS,” (with T. Miura and T. Giambelluca). Journal of Climate (2016).

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