Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Longo, M., M. Keller, L. M. Kueppers, K. Bowman, O. Csillik, A. Ferraz, P. R. Moorcroft, J. P. Ometto, B. S. Soares-Filho, X. Xu, M. L. R. de Assis, E. B. Görgens, E. J. L. Larson, J. F. Needham, E. M. Ordway, F. R. S. Pereira, E. R. Pinagé, L. Sato, L. Xu, and S. Saatchi. Degradation and deforestation increase the sensitivity of the Amazon forest to climate
extremes. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc58c

Gao, X., C. Koven, M. Longo, Z. Robbins, P. Thornton, A. Hall, S. Levis, S. Rahimi, C. Xu, and L. M. Kueppers. 2025. California annual grass phenology and allometry influence ecosystem dynamics and fire regime in a vegetation demography model. New Phytologist 245(6): 2480-2495 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20421

Worsham, H. M., H. M. Wainwright, T. L. Powell, N. Falco, and L. M. Kueppers. 2025. Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed. Remote Sensing of Environment 318: 114587 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114587

Shi, M., M. Keller, B. Bomfim, L. Kueppers, C. Koven, J. Needham, T. Heartsill Scalley, and L. R. Leung. 2025. Assessing simulation of forest hurricane disturbance and recovery in Puerto Rico by ELM using field measurements. JGR- Biogeosciences 130(1): e2024JG008350 https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008350

Herzog, S., L. Kueppers, and A. Louthan. 2025. Neighbor effects on population growth rate differ among populations due to variation in demographic rate sensitivities in Sedum lanceolatum. Oikos 2025(3): e10928 https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10928

Robbins, Z., J. Chambers, R. Chitra-Tarak, B. Christoffersen, T. Dickman, R. Fisher, A.
Jonko, R. Knox, C. Koven, L. Kueppers, N. McDowell, and C. Xu. 2024. Future climate
doubles the risk of hydraulic failure in a wet tropical forest. New Phytologist 244(6): 2239-
2250 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19956

Carper, D. L., T. J. Lawrence, D. Quiroz, L. M. Kueppers, and A.C. Frank. 2024. Needle bacterial community structure across the species range of limber pine. ISME Communications 4(1): ycae062 https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae062

Shuman, J.K., R. A. Fisher, C. D. Koven, R. G. Knox, L. M. Kueppers, and C. Xu. 2024. Dynamic ecosystem assembly and escaping the “fire-trap” in the tropics: Insights from FATES_15.0.0, Geoscientific Model Development 17: 4643–4671 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4643-2024

Gao, X., C. Koven, and L. Kueppers. 2024. Allometric relationships and trade-offs in eleven common Mediterranean-climate grasses. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2976

Knox, R., C. Koven, W. Riley, A. Walker, S. J. Wright, J. Holm, X. Wei, R. Fisher, Q. Zhu, J. Tang, D. Ricciuto, J. Shuman, X. Yang, L. Kueppers, and J. Chambers. 2024. Nutrient dynamics in a coupled terrestrial biosphere and land model (ELM-FATES). JAMES 16(3): e2023MS003689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003689

Shi, M., M. Keller, B. Bomfim, L. Li, C. Koven, L. Kueppers, R. Knox, J. Needham, S.-C. Kao, P. Thornton, M. Thornton, and L. R. Leung. 2024. Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) for hurricane disturbance and recovery. JAMES 16: e2023MS003679, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003679

Ding, J., P. Buotte, R. Bales, B. Christoffersen, R. Fisher, M. Goulden, R. Knox, L. Kueppers, J. Shuman, C. Xu, and C. Koven. 2023. Coordination of rooting, xylem, and stomatal strategies explains the response of conifer forest stands to multi-year drought in the Southern Sierra Nevada of California. Biogeosciences 20: 4491–4510, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4491-2023

Wilcox, K., A. Chen, M. Avolio, E. Butler, S. Collins, R. Fisher, T. Keenan, N. Kiang, A. Knapp, S. Koerner, L. Kueppers, G. Liang, E. Lieungh, M. Loik, Y. Luo, B. Poulter, P.B. Reich, K. Renwick, M. Smith, A. Walker, E. Weng, and K. Komatsu. 2023. Accounting for herbaceous communities in process-based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29(23): 6453-6477, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16950

Xu, C., B. Christoffersen, Z. Robbins, R. Knox, R. A. Fisher, R. Chitra-Tarak, M. Slot, K. Solander, L. Kueppers, C. Koven, and N. McDowell. 2023. Quantification of hydraulic trait control on plant hydrodynamics and risk of hydraulic failure within a demographic structured vegetation model in a tropical forest (FATES-HYDRO V1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 16(21): 6267–6283, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-278

Bloom, D., Bomfim, B., Y. Feng, and L. M. Kueppers. 2023. Combining field and remote sensing data to estimate forest canopy damage and recovery following tropical cyclones across tropical regions. Environmental Research: Ecology 2: 035004, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/acfaa3

Vásquez, V. N., L. M. Kueppers, G. Rasic, and J. M. Marshall. 2023. wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change. Nature Climate Change 3: 848–855, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01746-w

Robbins, Z., C. Xu, A. Jonko, R. Chitra-Tarak, C. J. Fettig, J. Costanza, L. A. Mortenson, B. H. Aukema, L. M. Kueppers, and R. M. Scheller. 2023. Carbon stored in live ponderosa pines in the Sierra Nevada will not return to pre-drought (2012) levels during the 21st century due to bark beetle outbreaks. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11:1112756, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1112756

Bai, Y., Y. Liu, L. Kueppers, X. Feng, T. Powell, E. Li, C. C. Zhang, K. Yu, X.-F. Yang, and X.-Y. Li. 2022. Hydraulic sensitivity and stomatal regulation of two desert riparian species. JGR- Biogeosciences 127(10): e2022JG006971, http://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006971

Chitra-Tarak, R., J. F. Needham, A. Hanbury-Brown, E. Robles, C. Varadharajan, R. Knox, and L. Kueppers. 2023. Advancing our understanding of tropical forests and improving the predictive capability of vegetation models with data-model integration at Barro Colorado Island. The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado Island: Plant and Ecosystem Science. H. C. Muller-Landau and S. J. Wright, editors. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany No. XXX. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. (in press)

Hansen, W. D., A. P. Williams, N. B. Schwartz, K. Albrich, L. M. Kueppers, A. Rammig, C. P.O. Reyer, A. C. Staver, and R. Seidl. 2022. Global forests are influenced by legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability. Environmental Research: Ecology 1 011001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ac6e4a

Bomfim, B., A. Walker, W. McDowell, J. Zimmerman, Y. Feng, and L. M. Kueppers. 2022. Linking soil phosphorus with forest litterfall resistance and resilience to cyclone disturbance: a pantropical meta-analysis. Global Change Biology. 28 (15): 4633-4654, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16223.

Hanbury-Brown, A., R. Ward, and L. M. Kueppers. 2022. Future forests within Earth system models: current process representations and ways forward. New Phytologist. 235 (1): 20-40, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18131 (invited Tansley Review)

Hanbury-Brown, A., T. Powell, H. Muller-Landau, S. J. Wright, and L. M. Kueppers. 2022. Simulating environmentally sensitive tree recruitment in vegetation demographic models. New Phytologist 235 (1): 78-93, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18059

Bomfim, B., E. Rangel Pinagé, F. Emmert and L. M. Kueppers. 2022. Improving sustainable tropical forestry management with voluntary carbon markets. Plant and Soil 479: 53-60, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05249-5

Bai, Y., Y. Liu, L. M. Kueppers, X. Feng, K. Yu, X. Yang, X. Li, and J. Huang. 2021. The coupled effect of soil and atmospheric constraints on the vulnerability and water use of two desert riparian ecosystems. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 311: 108701, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108701

Robbins, Z. J., C. Xu, B. H. Aukema, P. C. Buotte, R. Chitra-Tarak, C. J. Fettig, M. L. Goulden, D. W. Goodsman, A. D. Hall, C. D. Koven, L. M. Kueppers, G. D. Madakumbura, L. A. Mortenson, J. A. Powell, and R. M. Scheller. 2022. Warming increased bark beetle-induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California. Global Change Biology. 28 (2): 509-523 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15927

Buotte, P., C. Koven, C. Xu, J. Shuman, M. Goulden, S. Levis, J. Katz, J. Ding, W. Ma, Z. Robbins, and L. Kueppers. 2021. Capturing functional strategies and compositional dynamics in vegetation demographic models. Biogeosciences 18, 4473–4490, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4473-2021

Ma, W., L. Zhai, A. Pivovaroff†, J. Shuman, P. Buotte, J. Ding, B. Christoffersen, M. Moritz, C. D. Koven, L. Kueppers, and C. Xu. 2021. Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Live Fuel Moisture and Wildfire Risk Using a Hydrodynamic Vegetation Model. Biogeosciences 18, 4005–4020, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4005-2021

Chitra-Tarak, R., C. Xu, S. Aguilar, K. Anderson-Teixeira, J. Chambers, M. Detto, B. Faybishenko, R. Fisher, R. Knox, C. Koven, L. Kueppers, N. Kunert, S. Kupers, N. McDowell, B. Newman, S. Paton, R. Perez, L. Ruiz, L. Sack, J. Warren, B. Wolfe, C. Wright, S. J. Wright, J. Zailaa, and S. McMahon. 2021. Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep water access during droughts in a tropical forest. New Phytologist 231(5): 798-1813, https://doi.org/10.1111/NPH.17464

Madakumbura, G. D., M. L. Goulden, A. Hall, R. Fu, M. A. Moritz, C. D. Koven, L. M. Kueppers, C. A. Norlen, and J. T. Randerson. 2020. Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off. Environmental Research Letters, 15124040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc719

Yang, Y., J. A. Klein, D. E. Winkler, A. Peng, B. E. Lazarus, M. J. Germino, K. N. Suding, J. Smith, and L. M. Kueppers. 2020. Warming of alpine tundra enhances belowground production and shifts community towards resource acquisition traits. Ecosphere 11(10): e03270. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3270

Jabis, M., D. Winkler, and L. M. Kueppers. 2020. Warming acts through earlier snowmelt to advance but not extend alpine community flowering. Ecology 101 (9): e03108. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3108. Data used in the paper: https://doi.org/10.5061

Jabis, M. D., M. J. Germino, and L. M. Kueppers. 2020. Colonisation of the alpine tundra by trees: alpine neighbours assist late-seral but not early-seral conifer seedlings. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 13(3-4): 209-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2020.1762134

Koven, C. D., R. G. Knox, R. A. Fisher, J. Chambers, B. O. Christoffersen, S. J. Davies, M. Detto, M. C. Dietze, B. Faybishenko, J. Holm, M. Huang, M. Kovenock, L. M. Kueppers, G. Lemieux, E. Massoud, N. G. McDowell, H. C. Muller-Landau, J. F. Needham, R. J. Norby, T. Powell, A. Rogers, S. P. Serbin, J. K. Shuman, A. L. S. Swann, C. Varadharajan, A. P. Walker, S. J. Wright, and C. Xu. 2020. Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biogeosciences 17:3017-3044. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3017-2020

McDowell, N. G., C. D. Allen, K. Anderson-Teixeira, B. H. Aukema, B. Bond-Lamberty, L. Chini, J. S. Clark, M. Dietze, C. Grossiord, A. Hanbury-Brown, G. C. Hurtt, R. B. Jackson, D. J. Johnson, L. Kueppers, J. W. Lichstein, K. Ogle, B. Poulter, T. A. M. Pugh, R. Seidl, M. G. Turner, M. Uriarte, A. P. Walker, and C. Xu. 2020. Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world. Science 368: eaaz9463 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9463.

Holm, J., R. Knox, Q. Zhu, R. A. Fisher, C. Koven, A. Lima, W. Riley, M. Longo, R. Negron-Juarez, A. Arujo, L. M. Kueppers, P. Moorcroft, N. Higuchi, and J. Q. Chambers. 2020. The Central Amazon biomass sink under current and future atmospheric CO2: Predictions from big‐leaf and demographic vegetation models. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 125(3): e2019JG005500. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005500

Grossiord, C., B. Christoffersen, A. M. Alonso-Rodríguez , K. Anderson-Teixeira, H. Asbjornsen, L. M. T. Aparecido, Z. C. Berry, C. Baraloto, D. Bonal, I. Borrego, B. Burban, J. Q. Chambers, D. S. Christianson, M. Detto, B. Faybishenko, C. G. Fontes, C. Fortunel, B. O. Gimenez, K. J. Jardine, L. Kueppers, G. R. Miller, G. W. Moore, R. Negron-Juarez, C.Stahl, N. G. Swenson, V. Trotsiuk, C. Varadharajan, J. M. Warren, B. T. Wolfe, L. Wei, T. E. Wood, C. Xu, and N. G. McDowell. 2019. Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics. Oecologia, 191: 519–530, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04513-x.

Massoud, E. C., C. Xu, R. Fisher, R. Knox, A. Walker, S. Serbin, J. Holm, L. M. Kueppers, D. Ricciuto, L. Wei, D. Johnson, C. Koven, N. McDowell, and J. Vrugt. 2019. Identification of key biological controls in forest dynamics based on a sensitivity analysis to the Community Land Model with Ecosystem Demography, CLM4.5(ED). Geoscientific Model Development, 12: 4133–4164, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4133-2019.

Song, J., S. Wan, S. Piao, A. K. Knapp, A. T. Classen, S. Vicca, P. Ciais, M. J. Hovenden, S. Leuzinger, C. Beier, P. Kardol, J. Xia, Q. Liu, J. Ru1, Z. Zhou, Y. Luo, D. Guo, J. A. Langley, J. Zscheischler, J. S. Dukes, J. Tang, J. Chen, K. S. Hofmockel, L. M. Kueppers, L. Rustad, L. Liu, M. D. Smith, P. H. Templer, R. Q. Thomas, R. J. Norby, R. P. Phillips, S. Niu, S. Fatichi, Y. Wang, D. Wang, L. Lei, J. Wang, X. Li, Q. Zhang, H. Han, P. Shao, X. Li, F. Su, B. Liu, F. Yang, G. Ma, G. Li, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Yang, K. Zhang, Y. Miao, M. Hu, C. Yan, A. Zhang, M. Zhong, Y. Hui, Y. Li, and M. Zheng. 2019. A meta-analysis of 1119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon cycling responses to global change. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3: 1309–1320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0958-3.

Brodersen, C., M. Germino, D. Johnson, K. Reinhardt, W. Smith, L. Resler, M. Bader, A. Sala, L. Kueppers, G. Broll, D. Cairns, K. Holtmeier, and G. Wieser. Seedling survival at timberlines critical to conifer mountain forest elevation and extent. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2:9, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00009

Mohan, J. E., S. Wadgymar, D. E. Winkler, J. Anderson, P. Frankson, R. Hanifin, K. Benavides, L. M. Kueppers and J. Melillo. 2019. Plant Reproductive Fitness and Phenology Responses to Climate Warming: Results from Native Populations, Communities and Ecosystems, pp. 61-102 in Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry, J. Mohan, ed. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813493-1.00004-1

Winkler, D. E., K. C. Lubetkin, A. A. Carrell, M. D. Jabis, Y. Yang, and L. M. Kueppers. 2019. Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming, pp. 297-346 in Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry, J. Mohan, ed. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813493-1.00013-2

Dickman, L. T., N. G. McDowell, C. Grossiord, A. D. Collins, B. T. Wolfe, M. Detto, S. J. Wright, J. A. Medina -Vega, D. Goodsman, A. Rogers, S. P. Serbin, J. Wu, K. S. Ely, S. T. Michaletz, C. Xu, L. Kueppers, and J. Q. Chambers. 2018. Homeostatic maintenance of non-structural carbohydrates during the 2015-2016 El Niño drought across a tropical forest precipitation gradient. Plant, Cell and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13501

Lu, Y., X. Yang, and L. M. Kueppers. 2018. Future crop yields and water productivity changes for Nebraska rainfed and irrigated crops. Water International, 43(6): 785-795, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1516093

Winkler, D. E., R. J. Butz, M. J. Germino, K. Reinhardt, and L. M. Kueppers. 2018. Snowmelt timing regulates community composition, phenology, and physiological performance of alpine plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 1140, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01140. Data used in the paper: https://doi.org/10.15485/1756714.

Powell, T., C. Koven, B. Faybishenko, R. Fisher, D. Johnson, R. Knox, N. McDowell, R. Condit, S. Hubbell, S. J. Wright, J. Chambers, and L. M. Kueppers. 2018. Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity. New Phytologist, 219(3): 932-946, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15271.

Carper, D. L., A. A. Carrell, L. M. Kueppers, and C. Frank. 2018. The effects of climate change on above- and belowground bacterial endophytic communities in subalpine conifer seedlings establishing across an elevation gradient. Plant and Soil, 428(1), 335-352, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3682-x.

Thompson, W., Y. Lu, J. E. Campbell, S. Gerlt, L. M. Kueppers, M. A. Snyder, and X. Yang. 2018. Automatic responses of crop stocks and policies buffer climate change effects on crop markets and price volatility. Ecological Economics, 152: 98-105, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.015.

McDowell, N., C. D. Allen, K. Anderson‐Teixeira, P. Brando, R. Brienen, J. Chambers, B. Christoffersen, S. Davies, C. Doughty, A. Duque, F. Espirito‐Santo, R. Fisher, C. G. Fontes, D. Galbraith, D. Goodsman, C. Grossiord, H. Hartmann, J. Holm, D. J. Johnson, A. R. Kassim, M. Keller, C. Koven, L. Kueppers, T. Kumagai, Y. Malhi, S. M. McMahon, M. Mencuccini, P. Meir, P. Moorcroft, H. C. Muller‐Landau, O. L. Phillips, T. Powell†, C. A. Sierra, J. Sperry, J. Warren, C. Xu, X. Xu. 2018. Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests. New Phytologist, 219(3): 851-869, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15027.

Baker, E. A. G., J. L. Wegrzyn, U. U. Sezen, T. Falk, P. E. Maloney, D. R. Vogler, C. Jensen, J. Mitton, J. Wright, B. Knaus, H. Rai, R. Cronn, D. Gonzalez-Ibeas, H. A. Vasquez-Gross, R. A. Famula, J.-J. Liu, L. M. Kueppers, and D. B. Neale. 2018. Comparative transcriptomics among four white pine species. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200257.

Kueppers, L.M., A. Faist, S. Ferrenberg, C. Castanha, E. Conlisk, and J. Wolf. 2017. Lab and field warming similarly advance germination date and limit germination rate for high and low elevation provenances of two widespread subalpine conifers. Forests. 8(11), 433, https://doi.org/10.3390/f8110433.

Conlisk, E., C. Castanha, M. Germino, T. Veblen, J. Smith, A. Moyes, and L. M. Kueppers. 2018. Seed origin and warming constrain lodgepole pine recruitment, slowing the pace of population range shifts. Global Change Biology, 24(1): 197-211, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13840

Christianson, D., C. Varadharajan, B. Christoffersen, M. Detto, B. Faybishenko, K. Jardine, R. Negron-Juarez, B. Gimenez, G. Pastorello, T. Powell, J. Warren, B. Wolfe, J. Chambers, L. Kueppers, N. McDowell, and D. Agarwal. 2017. A metadata reporting framework (FRAMES) for synthesis of earth system science observations. Ecological Informatics, 42: 148-158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.06.002

Lazarus, B. E., C. Castanha, M. J. Germino, L. M. Kueppers, and A. B. Moyes. 2018. Growth strategies and threshold responses to water deficit modulate effect of warming on tree seedlings from forest to alpine. Journal of Ecology, 106(2): 571-585, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12837. Data used in the paper: https://doi.org/10.15485/1686146

Bagley, J., L. M. Kueppers, D. P. Billesbach, I. N. Williams, S. C. Biraud, and M. S. Torn. 2017. Impact of land management on surface water and energy fluxes in the Southern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. 122(11): 5793-5807, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026740

Lubetkin, K., A. L. Westerling, and L. M. Kueppers. 2017. Climate and landscape drive the pace and pattern of conifer encroachment into subalpine meadows. Ecological Applications, 27(6): 1876-1887, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1574.

Lu Y., Williams I.N., Bagley J.E., Torn M.S. and Kueppers L.M. 2017. Representing winter wheat in the Community Land Model (version 4.5). Geoscientific Model Development 10(5): 1873-1888, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1873-2017

Lu, Y., K. Harding, and L. M. Kueppers. 2017. Irrigation effects on land-atmosphere coupling strength in the United States. Journal of Climate, 30: 3671-3685, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0706.1.

Negron-Juarez, R., H. Jenkins, C. Raupp, W. Riley, L. Kueppers, D. Magnabosco Marra, G. Ribeiro, M. Terezinha Monteiro, L. Candido, J. Chambers, and N. Higuchi. 2017. Windthrow variability in Central Amazonia. Atmosphere, 8(2): 28, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8020028

Conlisk, E., C. Castanha, M. Germino, T. T. Veblen, J. Smith, and L. M. Kueppers. 2017. Declines in low elevation subalpine tree populations outpace high elevation population expansion with warming. Journal of Ecology, 105(5): 1347–1357, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12750. Data used in the paper: https://doi.org/10.15485/1730950

Holm, J., L. Kueppers, J. Chambers. 2017. Novel tropical forests: response to global change. New Phytologist, 213: 988–992, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14407.

Kueppers, L.M., E. Conlisk, C. Castanha, A. Moyes, M. Germino, P. de Valpine, M. S. Torn, and J. B. Mitton. 2017. Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest. Global Change Biology, 23(6), 2383 2395, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13561.

Thompson, W., S. Gerlt, J. E. Campbell, L. M. Kueppers, Y. Lu, M. A. Snyder. 2017. A cost of tractability? Estimating climate change impacts using a single crop market understates impacts on market conditions and variability. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 39(2):346-362, https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppw023.

Williams, I. N., Y. Lu, L. M. Kueppers, W. J. Riley, S. Biraud, J. Bagley, and M. S. Torn. 2016. Land-atmosphere coupling and climate prediction over the U.S. Southern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 121(20): 12,125–12,144, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025223.

Williams, I. N., W. J. Riley, L. M. Kueppers, M. S. Torn, and S. C. Biraud. 2016. Separating the effects of phenology and diffuse radiation on gross primary productivity in winter wheat. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 121(7):1903-1915. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JG003317.

Kueppers, L. M., C. M. Iversen, and C. D. Koven. 2016. Expanding use of plant trait observations in Earth system models, Eos, 97, https://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO049947.

Winkler, D. E., K. J. Chapin, and L. M. Kueppers. 2016. Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming. Ecology 97(6): 1553-1563. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1197.1. Data used in the paper: https://doi.org/10.15485/1706730

Moyes, A. B., L. M. Kueppers, J. Pett-Ridge, D. Carper, N. Vandehey, J. O’Neil, and A. C. Frank. 2016. Evidence for foliar endophytic nitrogen-fixation in a widely distributed subalpine conifer. New Phytologist 210:657-668 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13850. Commentary by N. Wurzburger https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13925.

Fernández, M., H. Hamilton, and L. M. Kueppers. 2013. Characterizing uncertainty in species distribution models derived from interpolated weather station data. Ecosphere. 4(5): 61. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00049.1

Lu, Y. and L. M. Kueppers. 2015. Increased heat waves with loss of irrigation in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. 10: 064010, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064010

Reinhardt, K., M. Germino, L. M. Kueppers, J.-C. Domec, and J. Mitton. 2015. Linking carbon and water relations to drought-induced mortality in Pinus flexilis seedlings at their lower-elevation limit. Tree Physiology 35:771-782, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv045.

Moyes, A. B., M. J. Germino, L. M. Kueppers. 2015. Moisture rivals temperature in limiting photosynthesis by trees establishing beyond their cold-edge range limit under ambient and warmed conditions. New Phytologist 207:1005-1014, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13422

Lu, Y., J. Jin, and L. M. Kueppers. 2015. Crop growth and irrigation interact to influence surface fluxes in a regional climate-cropland model (WRF3.3-CLM4crop). Climate Dynamics 45:3347–3363, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2543-z.

Meromy, L., N. P. Molotch, M. Williams, K. Musselman, and L. M. Kueppers. 2015. Snowpack-climate manipulation using infrared heaters in subalpine forests of the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 203: 142-157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.12.015.

Suding, K., E. Farrar, A. King, L. M. Kueppers, and M. Spasojevic. 2015. Vegetation change at high elevation: Scale-dependence and interactive effects on Niwot Ridge. Plant Ecology & Diversity 8:713-725. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2015.1010189.

Moyes, A. B., C. Castanha, M. Germino, and L. M. Kueppers. 2013. Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range. Oecologia. 171:271-282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-012-2410-0

Castanha, C., M.S. Torn, M.J. Germino, B. Weibel, and L.M. Kueppers. 2013. Conifer seedling recruitment across a forest-to-alpine tundra gradient and effects of provenance. Plant Ecology and Diversity. 6(3-4): 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2012.716087.

Lu, Y., and L. M. Kueppers. 2012. Surface energy partitioning over four dominant vegetation types across the United States in a coupled regional climate model (WRF3 CLM3.5). Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. 117: D06111. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016991

Rutishauser, T., R. Stockli, J. Harte, and L. Kueppers. 2012. Climate change: Flowering in the greenhouse. Nature 485:448-449. https://doi.org/10.1038/485448a.

Barbour, E. and L. M. Kueppers. 2012. Conservation and management of ecological systems in a changing California. Climatic Change. 111(1): 135-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0246-y

Kueppers, L. M., and M. A. Snyder. 2011. Influence of agricultural irrigation on surface energy and water fluxes, surface climate, and atmospheric circulation in California. Climate Dynamics. 38(5-6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1123-0.

Reinhardt, K., C. Castanha, M. J. Germino, L. M. Kueppers. 2011. Ecophysiological variation in two provenances of Pinus flexilis seedlings across an elevation gradient from forest to alpine. Tree Physiology. 31(6): 615-625. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpr055.

Subin, Z. M., W. J. Riley, J. Jin, D. S. Christianson, M. S. Torn, L. M. Kueppers. 2011. Ecosystem feedbacks to climate change in California: Development, testing, and analysis using a coupled regional atmosphere and land-surface model (WRF3-CLM3.5). Earth Interactions. 15(15): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010EI331.1.

Luo, Y., J. M. Melillo, S. Niu, C. Beier, J. Clark, E. Davidson, J. Dukes, R. D. Evans, C. Field, C. Czimczik, M. Keller, B. Kimball, L. Kueppers, R. Norby, S. Pelini, E. Pendall, E. Rastetter, J. Six, M. Smith, M. G. Tjoelker, and M. S. Torn. 2011. Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change. Global Change Biology, 17(2): 843-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02265.x.

Anderson, R., J. G. Canadell, J. T. Randerson, R. B. Jackson, B. A. Hungate, D. D. Baldocchi, G. A. Ban-Weiss, G. B. Bonan, K. Caldeira, L. Cao, N. S. Diffenbaugh, K. R. Gurney, L. M. Kueppers, B. E. Law, S. Luyssaert, T. L. O’Halloran. 2011. Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 9(3): 174-182. https://doi.org/10.1890/090179.

Jackson, R. B., J. T. Randerson, J. G. Canadell, R. G. Anderson, R. Avissar, D. D. Baldocchi, G. B. Bonan, K. Caldeira, N. S. Diffenbaugh, C. B. Field, B. A. Hungate, E. G. Jobb´agy, L. M. Kueppers, M. D. Nosetto, and D. E. Pataki. 2008. Protecting climate with forests. Environmental Research Letters 3: 044006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044006.

Lobell, D. B., C. J. Bonfils, L. M. Kueppers, and M. A. Snyder. 2008. Irrigation cooling effect on temperature and heat index extremes. Geophysical Research Letters 35: L09705. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034145.

Kueppers, L. M., M. A. Snyder, L. C. Sloan, D., Cayan, J. Jin, H., Kanamaru, M. Kanamitsu, N. L. Miller, M. Tyree, H., Du, and B. Weare. 2007. Seasonal temperature responses to land-use change in the western United States. Global and Planetary Change, 60: 250-264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.03.005

Kueppers, L. M., M. A. Snyder, and L. C. Sloan. 2007. Irrigation cooling effect: Regional climate forcing by land-use change, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L03703, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028679

Kueppers, L. M., E. Zavaleta, B. Fulfrost, M. A. Snyder, and L. C. Sloan. 2006. The authors reply. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(4): 179.

Kueppers, L. M., and J. Harte. 2005. Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influences of climate and species. Ecological Applications 15(6): 1984-1999. https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1769

Kueppers, L. M., M. A. Snyder, L. C. Sloan, E. S. Zavaleta, and B. Fulfrost. 2005. Modeled regional climate change and California endemic oak ranges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102(45): 16281-16286. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501427102

Kueppers, L. M., J. Southon, P. Baer and J. Harte. 2004. Dead wood biomass and turnover time, measured by radiocarbon, along a subalpine elevation gradient. Oecologia 141(4): 641-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-004-1689-x

Silver, W. L., L. M. Kueppers, A. E. Lugo, R. Ostertag, and V. Matzek. 2004. Carbon sequestration and plant community dynamics following reforestation of tropical pasture. Ecological Applications 14(4): 1115-1127. https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5123

Kueppers, L. M., P. Baer, J. Harte, B. Haya, L. E. Koteen, and M. E. Smith. 2004. A decision matrix approach to evaluating the impacts of land use activities undertaken to mitigate climate change. Climatic Change 63: 247-257. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CLIM.0000018590.49917.50

Other Publications

Perspective retracted (due to paper retraction): Kueppers, L. M. Tree growth in sync. 2020.
Nature Ecology and Evolution. 4, 1578–1579 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01326-7

Jabis, M., D. Winkler, and L. M. Kueppers. 2020. Warming acts through earlier snowmelt
to advance but not extend alpine community flowering. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of
America 101(4): e01760. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3108

U.S. DOE (L. M. Kueppers and J. Clark lead authors). 2018. Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models; Workshop Report, DOE/SC-0196. Office of Biological L. M. KueppersJune 202311and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. (https://tes.science.energy.gov/files/vegetationdynamics.pdf) (Co-lead author with J. Clark)

Koven, C., L. M. Kueppers, C. Iversen, P. Reich, and P. Thornton. 2016. Expanding the use
of plant trait observations and ecological theory in Earth system models. Report of the
workshop on “Trait Methods for Representing Ecosystem Change” U. S. Department of Energy.

Kueppers, L. M. and J. E. Campbell. 2009. Potential effects of climate change on California’s bioenergy resources. California Energy Commission Discussion Paper.

Kueppers, L.M., W. Riley, J. Jin, Z. Subin, D. Christianson, M. Torn. 2009. Ecosystem Feedbacks to Climate Change in California: Integrated Climate Forcing From Vegetation Redistribution. California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Program. CEC-500-2009-075.

Barbour, E., and L. Kueppers. 2008. Conservation and Management of Ecological Systems in a Changing California. Public Policy Institute of California, http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=856, 42pp.

Hanson P. J., A.T. Classen, L. Kueppers, Y. Luo, N.G. McDowell, J. Morris, A. Rogers, P. Thorton, R. Ceulemans, J. Dukes, M. Goulden, R. Jackson, A. Knapp, M. Kirschbaum, K. Lewin, M. MacCracken, J. Melillo, T. Ringler. 2008. Ecosystem research: Understanding climate change impacts on ecosystems and feedbacks to the physical climate. Report of the workshop on “Exploring Science Needs for the Next Generation of Climate Change and Elevated CO2 Experiments in Terrestrial Ecosystems” U. S. Department of Energy.

Kueppers, L. M., M. S. Torn and J. Harte. 2007. Quantifying Ecosystem Feedbacks to Climate Change: Observational Needs and Priorities. A report to the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy.

Kueppers, L.M. 2005. Benefits of a regional climate model. Science 310: 1278-1279. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.310.5752.1278

Snyder, M. A., L. M. Kueppers, L. C. Sloan, D. Cayan, J. Jin, H. Kanamaru, M. Kanamitsu, N. L. Miller, M. Tyree, H. Du, and B. Weare. 2006. Regional Climate Effects of Irrigation and Urbanization in the Western United States: A Model Intercomparison. California Energy Commission, PIER Energy-Related Environmental Research. CEC-500-2006-031.