Publications

  • Khanna, J., D. Medvigy, G. Fisch, T.T.A.T. Neves (2018) Regional hydroclimate variability due to contemporary deforestation in southern Amazonia and associated boundary layer characteristics. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, in press, doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027888.
  • Guan, K., S. Good, K. Caylor, D. Medvigy, M. Pan, E. Wood, H. Sato, M. Biasutti, M. Chen, A. Ahlström, X. Xu (2018) Simulated sensitivity of African terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis to rainfall frequency, intensity, and rainy season length. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 025013, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f30.
  • Xu, X., D. Medvigy, A.T. Trugman, K. Guan, S.P. Good, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (2018) Tree cover shows strong sensitivity to precipitation variability across the global tropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27, 450-460, doi:10.1111/geb.12707.
  • Trugman, A.T., D. Medvigy, W.R.L. Anderegg, S.W. Pacala (2018) Differential declines in Alaskan boreal forest vitality related to climate and competition. Global Change Biology, 24, 1097-1107, doi:10.1111/gcb.13952.
  • Trugman, A.T., D. Medvigy, W.A. Hoffmann, A.F.A. Pellegrini (2018) Sensitivity of woody carbon stocks to bark investment strategy in Neotropical savannas and forests. Biogeosciences, 15, 233-243, doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-233-2018.
  • Fisher, R.A., C.D. Koven, W.R.L. Anderegg, B.O. Christoffersen, M.C. Dietze, C. Farrior, J.A. Holm, G. Hurtt, R.G. Knox, P.J. Lawrence, J.W. Lichstein, M. Longo, A.M. Matheny, D. Medvigy, H.C. Muller-Landau, T.L. Powell, S.P. Serbin, H. Sato, J. Shuman, B. Smith, A.T. Trugman, T. Viskari, H. Verbeeck, E. Wang, C. Xu, X. Xu, T. Zhang, P. Moorcroft (2018) Vegetation dynamics in Earth system models: a review of progress and priorities. Global Change Biology, 24, 35-54, doi:10.1111/gcb.13910. 
  • Xu, X., D. Medvigy, S.J. Wright, K. Kitajima, J. Wu, L.P. Albert, G.A. Martins, S.R. Saleska, and S.W. Pacala (2017) Variations of leaf longevity in tropical moist forests predicted by a trait-driven carbon optimality model. Ecology Letters, 20, 1097-1106, doi:10.1111/ele12804.
  • Allen, K., J.M. Dupuy, M.G. Gei, C. Hulshof, D. Medvigy, C. Pizano, B. Salgado-Negret, C.M. Smith, A. Trierweiler, S.J. Van Bloem, B.G. Waring, X. Xu, and J.S. Powers (2017) Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes? Environmental Research Letters, 12, 023001, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa5968.
  • Khanna, J., D. Medvigy, S. Fueglistaler, and R. Walko (2017) Regional dry-season climate changes due to three decades of Amazonian deforestation. Nature Climate Change, 7, 200-204, doi:10.1038/nclimate3226.
  • Trugman, A.T., N.J. Fenton, Y. Bergeron, X. Xu, L.R. Whelp, and D. Medvigy. Climate, soil organic layer, and nitrogen jointly drive forest development after fire in the North American boreal zone. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, doi:10.1002/2015MS000576.
  • Xu, X., D. Medvigy, J.S. Powers, J.M. Becknell, and K. Guan (2016) Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests. New Phytologist, 212, 80-95, doi:10.1111/nph14009. Oh, Y., B. Stackhouse, M.C.Y. Lau, X. Xu, A.T. Trugman, J. Moch, T.C. Onstott, C.J. Jørgensen, L. D’Imperio, B. Elberling, C.A. Emmerton, V.L. St. Louis, and D. Medvigy (2016) A scalable model for methane consumption in arctic mineral soils. Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 5143-5150, doi:10.1002/2016GL069049.
  • Medvigy, D., S.-H. Kim, J. Kim, and M.C. Kafatos (2016) Dynamically downscaling predictions for deciduous tree leaf emergence in California under current and future climate. International Journal of Biometeorology, 60, 935-944, doi:10.1007/s00484-015-1086-7.
  • Buermann, W., C. Beaulieu, B. Parida, D. Medvigy, G.J. Collatz, J. Sheffield, and J.L. Sarmiento (2016) Climate-driven shifts in continental net primary production implicated as a driver of recent abrupt increase in the land carbon sink. 2 Biogeosciences, 13, 1597-1607, doi:10.5194/bgd-13-1597-2016.
  • Frasson, R.P.M., G. Bohrer, D. Medvigy, A.M. Matheny, T.H. Morin, C.S. Vogel, C.M. Gough, K.D. Maurer, and P.S. Curtis (2015) Modeling forest carbon cycle response to tree mortality: effects of plant functional type and disturbance intensity. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 120, 2178-2193, doi:10.1002/2015JG003035.
  • Xu, X., D. Medvigy, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (2015) Relation between rainfall intensity and savanna tree abundance explained by water use strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112, 12992-12996, doi:10.1073/pnas.1517382112.
  • Guan, K., M. Pan, H. Li, A. Wolf, J. Wu, D. Medvigy, K.K. Caylor, J. Sheffield, E.F. Wood, Y. Malhi, M. Liang, J. Kimball, S. Saleska, J. Berry, J. Joiner, and A.I. Lyapustin (2015) Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate. Nature Geoscience, 8, 284-289, doi:10.1038/ngeo2382.
  • Lau, M.C.Y., B.T. Stackhouse, A.C. Layton, A. Chauhan, T.A. Vishnivetskaya, K. Chourey, N.C.S. Mykytczuk, P. Bennett, G. Lamarche-Gagnon, N. Burton, J. Ronholm, W. Pollard, C.C. Omelon, D. Medvigy, R. Hettich, S. Pfiffner, L.G. Whyte, and T.C. Onstott (2015) An active atmospheric methane sink in high Arctic mineral cryosols. ISME Journal, 9, 1880-1891, doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.13.
  • Khanna, J., and D. Medvigy (2014) Surface roughness variations control the regional atmospheric response to contemporary deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 119, 13067-13078, doi:10.1002/2014JD022278.
  • Schäfer, K.V.R., H.J. Renninger, K.L. Clark, and D. Medvigy (2014) Hydrological response of an upland oak/pine forest on the Atlantic Coastal Plain to drought and disturbance. Hydrological Processes, 28, 6113-6123, doi:10.1002/hyp.10104.
  • Jeong, S.-J., and D. Medvigy (2014) Macro-scale prediction of autumn leaf coloration throughout the continental United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 1245-1254, doi:10.1111/geb.12206.
  • Guan, K., E.F. Wood, D. Medvigy, J. Kimball, M. Pan, K.K. Caylor, J. Sheffield, X. Xu, and M.O. Jones (2014) Terrestrial hydrological controls on land surface phenology of African savannas and woodlands. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 119, 1652-1669, doi:10.1002/2013JG002572.
  • Guan, K., D. Medvigy, E.F. Wood, K.K. Caylor, S. Li, and S.-J. Jeong (2014) Deriving vegetation phenological time and trajectory information over Africa using SEVIRI daily LAI. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52, 1113-1130.
  • Medvigy, D., R.L. Walko, M.J. Otte, and R. Avissar (2013) Simulated changes in Northwest US climate in response to Amazon deforestation. Journal of Climate, 26, 9115-9136. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00775.1.
  • Medvigy, D., S.-J. Jeong, K.L. Clark, N.S. Skowronski, and K.V.R. Schäfer (2013) Effects of seasonal variation of photosynthetic capacity on the carbon fluxes of a temperate deciduous forest. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 118, 1703-1714, doi:10.1002/2013JG002421 3
  • Guan, K., A. Wolf, D. Medvigy, K.K. Caylor, M. Pan, and E.F. Wood (2013) Seasonality coupling/decoupling of canopy functions and structure in African tropical forests and their environmental controls. Ecosphere, 4(3):35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES12- 00232.1.
  • Jeong, S.-J., D. Medvigy, E. Shevliakova, and S. Malyshev (2013) Predicting changes in temperate forest budburst using continental-scale observations and models. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 359-364, doi:10.1029/2012GL054431.
  • Maurer, K., G. Bohrer, D. Medvigy, and S. Wright (2013) The timing of abscission affects dispersal distance in a wind-dispersed tropical tree. Functional Ecology, 27, 208-218, doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12028.
  • Medvigy, D., K.L. Clark, N.S. Skowronski, and K.V.R. Schäfer (2012) Simulated impacts of insect defoliation on forest carbon dynamics. Environmental Research Letters, 7, 045703, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045703.
  • Beaulieu, C., J.L. Sarmiento, S.E. Mikaloff Fletcher, J. Chen, and D. Medvigy (2012) Identification and characterization of abrupt changes in the land uptake of carbon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB1007, doi:10.1029/2010GB004024.
  • Medvigy, D., and P.R. Moorcroft (2012) Regional scale prediction of forest dynamics: evaluation of a terrestrial biosphere model for northeastern U.S. forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 222-235, doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0253.
  • Kim, Y., R.G. Knox, M. Longo, D. Medvigy, L.R. Hutyra, E.H. Pyle, S.C. Wofsy, R.L. Bras, and P.R. Moorcroft (2012) Seasonal carbon dynamics and water fluxes in an Amazon rainforest. Global Change Biology, 18, 1322-1334, doi:10.1111/j.1365- 2486.2011.02629.x.
  • Medvigy, D., and C. Beaulieu (2012) Changes in daily solar radiation and precipitation coefficients of variation since 1984. Journal of Climate, 25, 1330-1339. Jeong, S.-J., C.-H. Ho, B.-M. Kim, S. Feng, and D. Medvigy (2012) Nonlinear response of vegetation to coherent warming over northern high latitudes. Remote Sensing Letters, 4, 123-130, doi:10.1080/2150704X.2012.703790.
  • Medvigy, D., R.L. Walko, R. Avissar (2012) Simulated links between deforestation and extreme cold events in South America. Journal of Climate, 25, 3851-3866. Jeong, S.-J., D. Medvigy, E. Shevliakova, and S. Malyshev (2012) Uncertainties in terrestrial carbon budgets related to spring phenology. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 117, G01030, doi:10.1029/2011JG001868.
  • Medvigy, D., R.L. Walko, and R. Avissar (2011) Effects of deforestation on spatiotemporal distributions of precipitation in South America. Journal of Climate, 24, 2147-2163.
  • Medvigy, D., S.C. Wofsy, J.W. Munger, and P.R. Moorcroft (2010) Responses of terrestrial ecosystems and carbon budgets to current and future environmental variability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107 (18), 8275- 8280.
  • Medvigy, D., R.L. Walko, M. Otte, and R. Avissar (2010) The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere 4 Model (OLAM): evaluation of the objectively optimized radiation parameterization. Monthly Weather Review, 138(5), 1923-1939.
  • Medvigy, D., S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Munger, D. Y. Hollinger, and P. R. Moorcroft (2009) Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 114, G01002, doi:10.1029/2008JG000812.
  • Medvigy, D., R.L. Walko, and R. Avissar (2008) Modeling interannual variability of the Amazon hydroclimate. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L15817, doi:10.1029/2008GL034941.
  • Albani, M., D. Medvigy, G. C. Hurtt and P. R. Moorcroft (2006) The contributions of landuse change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink. Global Change Biology, 12, 2370-2390.
  • Medvigy, D., P.R. Moorcroft, R. Avissar and R.L. Walko (2005) Mass conservation and atmospheric dynamics in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 5, 109-134.
  • Alavi-Harati, A., …, D. Medvigy, et al. (The KTeV Collaboration) (2002) Radiative decay width measurements of neutral kaon