Reports & Publications

Faculty: Kimberly Novick
Selected Works:

• “The role of ecosystem-scale flux measurements in assessing natural climate solutions,” (with K. Hemes, B. Runkle, D. Baldocchi, C. Field), Environmental Science & Technology 55, 3494-3504 (2021)
• “Eastern US deciduous tree species respond dissimilarly to declining soil moisture but similarly to rising evaporative demand,” (with S. Denham, A.C. Oishi, C.F. Miniat, M. Benson, M., K. Yi), Tree Physiology 41, 944-959, (2021)
• “Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit,” (with C. Groissiord, T. Buckley, L. Cernusak, B. Poulter, R. Seigwolf, J. Sperry, N.  McDowell), New Phytologist, 226, 1550-1566, (2020)
• “Reforestation and the duality between surface and air temperature,” (with G.G. Katul) , Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 124, (2020)
• “Reforestation and surface cooling in the Eastern US: mechanisms and implications,” (with Q. Zhang, M. Barnes, M. Benson, et al.), Global Change Biology 26, 3384–3401 (2020)  
• “Beyond soil water potential:  An expanded view on isohydricity including land-atmosphere interactions and phenology,” (with K.G. Konings, P. Gentine), Plant Cell & Environment 42, 1802-1815  (2019)
• “AmeriFlux – A Coalition of the Willing,” (with J. Biederman, A. Desai, M.  Litvak, D. Moore, R.L. Scott, M.S. Torn), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 249, 444-456 (2018)   
• “The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes,” (with D. Ficklin, P.C. Stoy, C.A. Williams, et al.), Nature Climate Change 6, 1023-1027 (2016)

Reports and Publications:

• Novick, K. A., Ficklin, D. L., Stoy, P. C., Williams, C. A., Bohrer, G., Oishi, A. C., ... & Phillips, R. P. (2016). A practical exploration of land cover impacts on surface and air temperature when they are most consequential. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121(2), 508-525.
• Guan, K., Jin, Z., Peng, B., Tang, J., DeLucia, E. H., West, P. C., ... & Kumar, V. (2023). A scalable framework for quantifying field-level agricultural carbon outcomes. Earth Science Reviews, 222, 103699.
• Chang, Q., Denham, S. O., Ficklin, D. L., Cook, D. R., Wang, L., & Novick, K. A. (2023). Earlier ecological drought detection by involving the interaction of phenology and eco-physiological function. Earth's Future, 11(3), e2021EF002062.
• Doane, T. H., Yanites, B. J., Edmonds, D. A., & Novick, K. A. (2023). Hillslope roughness reveals forest sensitivity to extreme winds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3), e2212105120.
• Denham, S. O., Barnes, M. L., Chang, Q., Korolev, M., Wood, J. D., Oishi, A. C., ... & Novick, K. A. (2023). The rate of canopy development modulates the link between the timing of spring leaf emergence and summer moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(4), e2021JG007217.
• Yang, X., Li, R., Jablonski, A., Stovall, A., Kim, J., Yi, K., ... & Lerdau, M. (2023). Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology. Ecology Letters, 26(7), 1005-1020.
• Keenan, T. F., Novick, K. A., Anderegg, W. R., & Normile, C. P. (2023). Nature-based climate solutions: align policy with science. Nature, 624(7879), 42-42.
• Benson, M. C., Miniat, C. F., Oishi, A. C., Denham, S. O., Domec, J. C., Johnson, D. M., ... & Novick, K. A. (2021). The xylem of anisohydric Quercus alba L. is more vulnerable to embolism than isohydric codominants. Plant, Cell & Environment, 44(5), 1448-1462.
• Wood, J. D., Benson, M. L., Oishi, A. C., Miniat, C. F., Denham, S. O., Domec, J. C., ... & Novick, K. A. (2021). Interspecific differences in drought and pluvial responses for Quercus alba and Quercus rubra across the eastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management, 493, 119253.
• “Canopy height and climate dryness parsimoniously explain spatial variation of unstressed stomatal conductance,” (with Yanlan Liu; Olivia Flournoy; Quan Zhang; Randal D Koster; Alexandra G Konings), Geophysical Research Letters, (2022)
• “Comprehensive quantification of the responses of ecosystem production and respiration to drought time scale, intensity and timing in humid environments: A FLUXNET synthesis,” (with Wenzhe Jiao; Lixin Wang; Honglang Wang; Matthew Lanning; Qing Chang), Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, (2022)
• “Confronting the water potential information gap,” (with Darren Ficklin; Dennis Baldocchi; Kenneth J Davis; Teamrat A Ghezzehei; Alexandra G Konings; Natasha Louise Macbean; Nina Raoult; Russell L Scott; Yuning Shi; others), Nature Geoscience, (2022)
• “Coupling of Tree Growth and Photosynthetic Carbon Uptake Across Six North American Forests,” (with Aaron Teets; David JP Moore; M Ross Alexander; Peter D Blanken; Gil Bohrer; Sean P Burns; Mariah S Carbone; Mark J Ducey; Shawn Fraver; Christopher M Gough; others), Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,   (2022)
• “Disentangling the Relative Drivers of Seasonal Evapotranspiration Across a Continental-Scale Aridity Gradient,” (with Adam M Young; Mark A Friedl; Russell L Scott; Minkyu Moon; Steve Frolking; Xiaolu Li; Carlos M Carrillo; Andrew D Richardson)   , Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, (2022)
• “Hydrological intensification will increase the complexity of water resource management,” (with Darren Ficklin; Sarah E Null; John T Abatzoglou;  Daniel T Myers), Earth's Future, (2022)
• “Informing Nature-based Climate Solutions for the United States with the best-available science,” (with Stefan Metzger; William RL Anderegg; Mallory Barnes; Daniela S Cala; Kaiyu Guan; Kyle S Hemes; David Y Hollinger; Jitendra Kumar; Marcy Litvak; others), Global change biology, (2022)
• “Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls in characterizing plant water-use strategies,” (with Steven A Kannenberg; Jessica S Guo; others), Functional Ecology, (2022)
• “The Drought Response of Eastern US Oaks in the Context of Their Declining Abundance,” (with Insu Jo, others), BioScience, (2022)
• “Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought,” (with Tom Au; Justin Timothy Maxwell; others), Nature Climate Change, (December 2022)
• “An Ecosystem-Scale Flux Measurement Strategy to Assess Natural Climate Solutions,” (with Kyle S Hemes; Benjamin RK Runkle; others), Environmental Science & Technology, (2021)
• “Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content,” (with Alexandra G Konings; Sassan S Saatchi; others), Global change biology, (2021)
• “Evaluation of a CONUS-wide ECOSTRESS DisALEXI evapotranspiration product,”           (with Kerry Cawse-Nicholson; Martha C Anderson; others), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, (2021)
• “Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions,” (with Manuel Helbig; Tobias Gerken; others), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, (2021)
• “Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016,” (with Yulong Zhang; Conghe Song; others), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, (2021)
• “Performing gas exchange measurements on excised branches – evaluation and recommendations,” (with Justine Missik; Andrew C. Oishi; others), Photosynthetica, (2021)
• “Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites,” (with Housen Chu; Xiangzhong Luo; others), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, (2021)
• “Seasonality in aerodynamic resistance across a range of North American ecosystems,” (with Adam M Young; Mark A Friedl; others), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, (2021)
• “Site characteristics mediate the relationship between forest productivity and satellite measured solar induced fluorescence,” (with Theresia Yazbeck; Gil Bohrer; others), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change              Frontiers, (2021)
• “Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda,” (with JA Jones; PM Groffman; others)              Earth's Future, (2021)
• “Vapor pressure deficit helps explain biogenic volatile organic compound fluxes from the forest floor and canopy of a temperate deciduous forest,” (with Paul C Stoy; Amy M Trowbridge; others), Oecologia, (2021)