keywords
- Ecosystems, ecology, carbon cycling, climate change, permafrost, wildfire, disturbances
- Contact Info
Turetsky, Merritt
Positions
- Faculty Director, National Security Working Grp
- Professor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)
- Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of Sphagnum moss.
New Phytologist.
2025
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Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts.
Nature Ecology and Evolution.
2025
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Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
2024
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Permafrost instability negates the positive impact of warming temperatures on boreal radial growth.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
2024
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Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions.
Global Change Biology.
2024
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Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gas Budgets Suggest a Weak CO2 Sink and CH4 and N2O Sources, But Magnitudes Differ Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Methods.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
2024
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Controls on Stable Methane Isotope Values in Northern Peatlands and Potential Shifts in Values Under Permafrost Thaw Scenarios.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2024
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The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys.
Earth System Science Data.
2605-2624.
2024
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The Net GHG Balance and Budget of the Permafrost Region (2000-2020) From Ecosystem Flux Upscaling.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
2024
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Persistent net release of carbon dioxide and methane from an Alaskan lowland boreal peatland complex.
Global Change Biology.
2024
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Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests.
Ecosystems.
1623-1639.
2023
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The Northwest Territories Thermokarst Mapping Collective: a northern-driven mapping collaborative toward understanding the effects of permafrost thaw.
Arctic Science.
886-918.
2023
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The Zero Emissions Commitment and climate stabilization
2023
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Drivers of legacy soil organic matter decomposition after fire in boreal forests.
Ecosphere.
2023
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Permafrost thaw causes large carbon loss in boreal peatlands while changes to peat quality are limited.
Global Change Biology.
5720-5735.
2023
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Permafrost thaw induces short-term increase in vegetation productivity in northwestern Canada.
Global Change Biology.
2023
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Structuring Life After Death: Plant Leachates Promote CO2 Uptake by Regulating Microbial Biofilm Interactions in a Northern Peatland Ecosystem.
Ecosystems.
1108-1124.
2023
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Past permafrost dynamics can inform future permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks.
Communications Earth & Environment.
2023
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Burned area and carbon emissions across northwestern boreal North Americafrom 2001-2019.
Biogeosciences.
2785-2804.
2023
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The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation.
Ecosphere.
2023
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Material Legacies and Environmental Constraints Underlie Fire Resilience of a Dominant Boreal Forest Type.
Ecosystems.
473-490.
2023
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Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements.
Reviews of Geophysics.
2023
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Black spruce (Picea mariana) seed availability and viability in boreal forests after large wildfires.
Annals of Forest Science.
2023
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Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale.
PLoS One.
2022
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Carbon and nitrogen cycling dynamics following permafrost thaw in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Science of the Total Environment.
2022
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Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands.
Global Change Biology.
6752-6770.
2022
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Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene
2022
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We Must Stop Fossil Fuel Emissions to Protect Permafrost Ecosystems.
Frontiers in Environmental Science.
2022
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Cascading effects of predators on algal size structure.
Journal of Phycology: an international journal of algal research.
308-317.
2022
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Fuel Loads and Plant Traits as Community-Level Predictors of Emergent Properties of Vulnerability and Resilience to a Changing Fire Regime in Black Spruce Forests of Boreal Alaska.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2022
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Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
343-371.
2022
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Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic.
55-67.
2022
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Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
2021
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BAWLD-CH4: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems.
Earth System Science Data.
5151-5189.
2021
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Mechanisms and impacts of climate tipping elements
2021
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Natural selection on a carbon cycling trait drives ecosystem engineering by Sphagnum (peat moss).
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
2021
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Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire (vol 3, 68, 2020).
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2021
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Deep roots of Carex aquatilis have greater ammonium uptake capacity than shallow roots in peatlands following permafrost thaw.
Plant and Soil: international journal on plant-soil relationships.
261-272.
2021
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Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science (vol 11, pg 279, 2021).
Nature Climate Change.
716-716.
2021
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Identifying increasing risks of hazards for northern land-users caused by permafrost thaw: integrating scientific and community-based research approaches.
Environmental Research Letters.
2021
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The Rhizosphere Responds: Rich Fen Peat and Root Microbial Ecology after Long-Term Water Table Manipulation.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
2021
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Mapping and understanding the vulnerability of northern peatlands to permafrost thaw at scales relevant to community adaptation planning.
Environmental Research Letters.
2021
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Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada - Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
1849-1882.
2021
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Predicting patterns of terrestrial lichen biomass recovery following boreal wildfires.
Ecosphere.
2021
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Trophic interactions regulate peatland carbon cycling.
Ecology Letters.
781-790.
2021
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Carbon Fluxes and Microbial Activities From Boreal Peatlands Experiencing Permafrost Thaw.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2021
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Consequences of Increased Variation in Peatland Hydrology for Carbon Storage: Legacy Effects of Drought and Flood in a Boreal Fen Ecosystem.
Frontiers in Earth Science.
2021
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Ten new insights in climate science 2020-a horizon scan.
Global Sustainability.
2021
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Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions.
Nature Climate Change.
1130-U100.
2020
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Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems (vol 2, 28, 2020).
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
2020
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Spatial pattern of intraspecific trait variability in Sphagnum fuscum.
Botany.
717-723.
2020
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Getting to the Root of Plant-Mediated Methane Emissions and Oxidation in a Thermokarst Bog.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2020
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Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world.
Global Change Biology.
6062-6079.
2020
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Arctic fires re-emerging.
Nature Geoscience.
658-660.
2020
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Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy.
Ecography: pattern and diversity in ecology.
1464-1474.
2020
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Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon After Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of 14C Measurements From the Northern Permafrost Region.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
2020
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When the Source of Flooding Matters: Divergent Responses in Carbon Fluxes in an Alaskan Rich Fen to Two Types of Inundation.
Ecosystems.
1138-1153.
2020
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Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
20438-20446.
2020
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Evaluating Sphagnum traits in the context of resource economics and optimal partitioning theories.
OIKOS.
1204-1215.
2020
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Tradeoffs between phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation influence the ecophysiology of the moss,Sphagnum magellanicum.
Oecologia.
867-877.
2020
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Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Wildfire Carbon Combustion Across Six Ecoregions of the North American Boreal Forest.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2020
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Increased rainfall stimulates permafrost thaw across a variety of Interior Alaskan boreal ecosystems.
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
2020
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Impact of wildfire on permafrost landscapes: A review of recent advances and future prospects.
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes.
371-382.
2020
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Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2020
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Permafrost Mapping with Electrical Resistivity Tomography: A Case Study in Two Wetland Systems in Interior Alaska.
Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics.
199-209.
2020
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Diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity from Members of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.
FACETS.
138-165.
2020
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Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
2020
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Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America.
Global Change Biology.
1592-1607.
2020
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Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society.
Environmental Research Letters.
2020
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Assessing Boreal Peat Fire Severity and Vulnerability of Peatlands to Early Season Wildland Fire.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2020
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Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw.
Nature Geoscience.
138-+.
2020
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Plant functional group effects on peat carbon cycling in a boreal rich fen.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
305-327.
2019
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Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils.
Nature.
520-+.
2019
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Characterizing Boreal Peatland Plant Composition and Species Diversity with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing.
Remote Sensing.
2019
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Effect of permafrost thaw on plant and soil fungal community in a boreal forest: Does fungal community change mediate plant productivity response?.
Journal of Ecology.
1737-1752.
2019
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Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada.
Global Change Biology.
2310-2324.
2019
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Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release.
Nature.
32-34.
2019
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Warming Effects of Spring Rainfall Increase Methane Emissions From Thawing Permafrost.
Geophysical Research Letters.
1393-1401.
2019
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The response of boreal peatland community composition and NDVI to hydrologic change, warming, and elevated carbon dioxide.
Global Change Biology.
93-107.
2019
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Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires.
Global Change Biology.
4251-4265.
2018
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Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system.
Environmental Research Letters.
2018
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Controls on boreal peat combustion and resulting emissions of carbon and mercury.
Environmental Research Letters.
2018
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Recovery of carbon pools a decade after wildfire in black spruce forests of interior Alaska: effects of soil texture and landscape position.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1-10.
2018
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Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
International Journal of Wildland Fire.
125-134.
2018
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The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project.
New Phytologist.
16-25.
2018
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Influence of Holocene permafrost aggradation and thaw on the paleoecology and carbon storage of a peatland complex in northwestern Canada.
The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change.
1391-1405.
2017
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Soil microbial community composition is correlated to soil carbon processing along a boreal wetland formation gradient.
European Journal of Soil Biology.
17-26.
2017
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Legacy effects of drought alters the aquatic food web of a northern boreal peatland.
Freshwater Biology.
1377-1388.
2017
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A decade of boreal rich fen greenhouse gas fluxes in response to natural and experimental water table variability.
Global Change Biology.
2428-2440.
2017
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Mapping boreal peatland ecosystem types from multitemporal radar and optical satellite imagery.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
545-559.
2017
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Losing Legacies, Ecological Release, and Transient Responses: Key Challenges for the Future of Northern Ecosystem Science.
Ecosystems.
23-30.
2017
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A Thermodynamic Analysis of Soil Ecosystem Development in Northern Wetlands.
Wetlands: the journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists.
1143-1153.
2016
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Effects of permafrost thaw on nitrogen availability and plant-soil interactions in a boreal Alaskan lowland.
Journal of Ecology.
1542-1554.
2016
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Variation in plant community composition and vegetation carbon pools a decade following a severe fire season in interior Alaska.
Journal of Vegetation Science.
1187-1197.
2016
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Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes.
Nature Communications.
2016
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Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils.
Nature Climate Change.
950-+.
2016
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More frequent burning increases vulnerability of Alaskan boreal black spruce forests.
Environmental Research Letters.
2016
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Decadal and long-term boreal soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration rates across a variety of ecosystems.
Biogeosciences.
4315-4327.
2016
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The Sphagnum microbiome: new insights from an ancient plant lineage.
New Phytologist.
57-64.
2016
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Variation in fuel structure of boreal fens.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
683-695.
2016
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Effects of disturbance on understory succession in upland and lowland boreal forests and implications for woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou).
Forest Ecology and Management.
17-26.
2016
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Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment.
Environmental Research Letters.
2016
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Modeling CH4 and CO2 cycling using porewater stable isotopes in a thermokarst bog in Interior Alaska: results from three conceptual reaction networks.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
57-87.
2016
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A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
2015
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The effect of long-term drying associated with experimental drainage and road construction on vegetation composition and productivity in boreal fens.
Wetlands Ecology and Management.
845-854.
2015
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Algae alleviate carbon limitation of heterotrophic bacteria in a boreal peatland.
Journal of Ecology.
1165-1171.
2015
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Wildfire as a key determinant of peatland microtopography.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1132-1136.
2015
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A pan-Arctic synthesis of CH4 and CO2 production from anoxic soil incubations.
Global Change Biology.
2787-2803.
2015
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Fuel load, structure, and potential fire behaviour in black spruce bogs.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
888-899.
2015
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Multi-omics of permafrost, active layer and thermokarst bog soil microbiomes.
Nature.
208-+.
2015
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Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback.
Nature.
171-179.
2015
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Response of plant community structure and primary productivity to experimental drought and flooding in an Alaskan fen.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
185-193.
2015
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Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift.
Scientific Reports.
2015
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Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss.
Nature Geoscience.
11-14.
2015
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Organic matter stocks increase with degree of invasion in temperate inland wetlands.
Plant and Soil: international journal on plant-soil relationships.
107-123.
2014
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Transport of oxygen in soil pore-water systems: implications for modeling emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from peatlands.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
455-470.
2014
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A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation.
The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change.
1028-1042.
2014
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Spatial and temporal variability of algal community dynamics and productivity in floodplain wetlands along the Tanana River, Alaska.
Freshwater Science.
765-777.
2014
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Differential response of carbon fluxes to climate in three peatland ecosystems that vary in the presence and stability of permafrost.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
1576-1595.
2014
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A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands.
Global Change Biology.
2183-2197.
2014
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Controls on methane released through ebullition in peatlands affected by permafrost degradation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
418-431.
2014
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Influence of the permafrost boundary on dissolved organic matter characteristics in rivers within the Boreal and Taiga plains of western Canada.
Environmental Research Letters.
2014
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Circumpolar assessment of permafrost C quality and its vulnerability over time using long-term incubation data.
Global Change Biology.
641-652.
2014
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Altered Composition and Microbial versus UV-Mediated Degradation of Dissolved Organic Matter in Boreal Soils Following Wildfire.
Ecosystems.
1396-1412.
2013
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Controls on ecosystem and root respiration across a permafrost and wetland gradient in interior Alaska.
Environmental Research Letters.
2013
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Modeling the effects of fire severity and climate warming on active layer thickness and soil carbon storage of black spruce forests across the landscape in interior Alaska.
Environmental Research Letters.
2013
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Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change.
Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change.
359-374.
2013
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The ecohydrology of forested peatlands: Simulating the effects of tree shading on moss evaporation and species composition.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
422-435.
2013
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Algal community response to experimental and interannual variation in hydrology in an Alaskan boreal fen.
Freshwater Science.
1-11.
2013
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Response of anaerobic carbon cycling to water table manipulation in an Alaskan rich fen.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
50-60.
2013
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Environmental and physical controls on northern terrestrial methane emissions across permafrost zones.
Global Change Biology.
589-603.
2013
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The response of soil organic carbon of a rich fen peatland in interior Alaska to projected climate change.
Global Change Biology.
604-620.
2013
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Evidence for elevated emissions from high-latitude wetlands contributing to high atmospheric CH4 concentration in the early Holocene.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
131-140.
2013
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Sources and fate of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in lakes of a Boreal Plains region recently affected by wildfire.
Biogeosciences.
6247-6265.
2013
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The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems.
New Phytologist.
49-67.
2012
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Bacterial and enchytraeid abundance accelerate soil carbon turnover along a lowland vegetation gradient in interior Alaska.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
188-198.
2012
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Contributions of algae to GPP and DOC production in an Alaskan fen: effects of historical water table manipulations on ecosystem responses to a natural flood.
Oecologia.
821-832.
2012
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Abundance of microbial genes associated with nitrogen cycling as indices of biogeochemical process rates across a vegetation gradient in Alaska.
Environmental Microbiology.
993-1008.
2012
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Effects of trees on the burning of organic layers on permafrost terrain.
Forest Ecology and Management.
127-133.
2012
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Effects of soil rewetting and thawing on soil gas fluxes: a review of current literature and suggestions for future research.
Biogeosciences.
2459-2483.
2012
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Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in boreal peatlands.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
47-58.
2012
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Experimental drying intensifies burning and carbon losses in a northern peatland.
Nature Communications.
2011
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Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors.
Geoderma.
71-84.
2011
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Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2011
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Model comparisons for estimating carbon emissions from North American wildland fire.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2011
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Conceptual frameworks in peatland ecohydrology: looking beyond the two-layered (acrotelm-catotelm) model.
Ecohydrology.
1-11.
2011
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Interactive effects of vegetation, soil moisture and bulk density on depth of burning of thick organic soils.
International Journal of Wildland Fire.
418-429.
2011
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Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands.
Nature Geoscience.
27-31.
2011
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Land Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventional Oil Production and Oil Sands.
Environmental Science and Technology (Washington).
8766-8772.
2010
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A dynamic organic soil biogeochemical model for simulating the effects of wildfire on soil environmental conditions and carbon dynamics of black spruce forests.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2010
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Seasonal ice and hydrologic controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in a boreal-rich fen.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2010
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The importance of nutrient co-limitation in regulating algal community composition, productivity and algal-derived DOC in an oligotrophic marsh in interior Alaska.
Freshwater Biology.
1845-1860.
2010
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Topographic controls on black carbon accumulation in Alaskan black spruce forest soils: implications for organic matter dynamics.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
39-56.
2010
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Modeling fire severity in black spruce stands in the Alaskan boreal forest using spectral and non-spectral geospatial data.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
1494-1503.
2010
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Alaska's changing fire regime - implications for the vulnerability of its boreal forests.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1313-1324.
2010
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Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior Alaska.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1302-1312.
2010
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Resilience of Alaska's boreal forest to climatic change.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1360-1370.
2010
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The role of mosses in ecosystem succession and function in Alaska's boreal forest.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
1237-1264.
2010
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Effects of Experimental Water Table and Temperature Manipulations on Ecosystem CO2 Fluxes in an Alaskan Rich Fen.
Ecosystems.
1329-1342.
2009
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Effects of soil moisture and water depth on ERS SAR backscatter measurements from an Alaskan wetland complex.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
1868-1873.
2009
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Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest.
Global Change Biology.
549-560.
2009
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Interactive Effects of Fire, Soil Climate, and Moss on CO2 Fluxes in Black Spruce Ecosystems of Interior Alaska.
Ecosystems.
57-72.
2009
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Trade-offs in resource allocation among moss species control decomposition in boreal peatlands.
Journal of Ecology.
1297-1305.
2008
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Special Issue BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF FORESTED ECOSYSTEMS Selected papers from BIOGEOMON, the 5th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behaviour, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on June 25-30, 2006 Preface.
Science of the Total Environment.
221-221.
2008
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Short-term response of methane fluxes and methanogen activity to water table and soil warming manipulations in an Alaskan peatland.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2008
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Sphagnum mosses limit total carbon consumption during fire in Alaskan black spruce forests.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
2328-2336.
2008
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Evaluating the potential of Landsat TM/ETM+ imagery for assessing fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests.
International Journal of Wildland Fire.
500-514.
2008
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Evaluation of the composite burn index for assessing fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests.
International Journal of Wildland Fire.
515-526.
2008
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Topographic influences on wildfire consumption of soil organic carbon in interior Alaska: Implications for black carbon accumulation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2007
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The disappearance of relict permafrost in boreal north America: Effects on peatland carbon storage and fluxes.
Global Change Biology.
1922-1934.
2007
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Effects of wildfire and permafrost on soil organic matter and soil climate in interior Alaska.
Global Change Biology.
2391-2403.
2006
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Methanogenesis and methanogen diversity in three peatland types of the discontinuous permafrost zone, boreal western continental Canada.
Geomicrobiology Journal: an international journal of geomicrobiology and microbial biogeochemistry.
641-651.
2006
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Wildfires threaten mercury stocks in northern soils.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2006
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Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region-Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska (vol 33, art no L09703, 2006).
Geophysical Research Letters.
2006
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Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region - Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2006
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Decomposition in extreme-rich fens of boreal Alberta, Canada.
Soil Science Society of America Journal.
1856-1860.
2005
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Historical burn area in western Canadian peatlands and its relationship to fire weather indices.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
2004
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Decomposition and organic matter quality in continental peatlands: The ghost of permafrost past.
Ecosystems.
740-750.
2004
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Chemistry of burning the forest floor during the FROSTFIRE experimental burn, interior Alaska, 1999.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
2004
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Dating recent peat deposits.
Wetlands: the journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists.
324-356.
2004
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The role of bryophytes in carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Bryologist.
395-409.
2003
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Response of Sphagnum fuscum to nitrogen deposition:: A case study of ombrogenous peatlands in Alberta, Canada.
Bryologist.
235-245.
2003
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Boreal peatland C fluxes under varying permafrost regimes.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
907-912.
2002
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Current disturbance and the diminishing peatland carbon sink.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2002
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Modelling long-term peatland dynamics. II. Processes and rates as inferred from litter and peat-core data.
Ecological Modelling.
159-173.
2001
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A direct approach to quantifying organic matter lost as a result of peatland wildfire.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
363-366.
2001
- Organic matter accumulation, peat chemistry, and permafrost melting in peatlands of boreal Alberta. Ecoscience. 379-392. 2000
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Boreal bog Sphagnum refixes soil-produced and respired 14CO2.
Ecoscience.
587-591.
1999
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The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of Sphagnum moss.
New Phytologist.
2025
Teaching
courses taught
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EBIO 4460 - Special Topics
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Familiarizes students with specialized areas of biology. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisites: EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 (minimum grade C-). Same as EBIO 5460. -
EBIO 6100 - Seminar in Environmental Biology
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as EBIO 6120.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Alberta (Canada) 2002
- B.Sc., Villanova University 1997
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Canada Country