List of works - William J. Parton

21st‐century biogeochemical modeling: Challenges for Century‐based models and where do we go from here?

scientific article published in 2020

A gap in nitrous oxide emission reporting complicates long-term climate mitigation

scientific article published in 2022

A model for diurnal variation in soil and air temperature

scientific article published on 06 August 2003

A new conceptual model on the fate and controls of fresh and pyrolized plant litter decomposition

scientific article published in 2015

A novel mechanism to simulate intercropping and relay cropping using the DayCent model

scientific article published in 2022

Accounting for photodegradation dramatically improves prediction of carbon losses in dryland systems

article

Agriculture. Sustainable biofuels redux.

scientific article published in October 2008

Beyond Ecosystem Modeling: A Roadmap to Community Cyberinfrastructure for Ecological Data-Model Integration

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Bioenergy crop greenhouse gas mitigation potential under a range of management practices

article

Biogeochemical consequences of regional land use change to a biofuel crop in the southeastern United States

scientific article published in 2015

Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment

scientific article

Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

article

Comparative Biogeochemical Cycles of Bioenergy Crops Reveal Nitrogen-Fixation and Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Miscanthus × giganteus Agro-Ecosystem

article

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

article

Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol

article

DAYCENT and its land surface submodel: description and testing

article

DayCent-Chem Simulations of Ecological and Biogeochemical Processes of Eight Mountain Ecosystems in the United States

Ecological dimensions of biofuels

scientific article published in June 2011

Effects of nitrogen deposition and insect herbivory on patterns of ecosystem-level carbon and nitrogen dynamics: results from the CENTURY model

article by Heather L. Throop et al published July 2004 in Global Change Biology

Evaluating annual nitrous oxide fluxes at the ecosystem scale

article

Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4).

scientific article

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

scientific article

Evaluation of the CENTURY model using long-term fertilization trials under corn-wheat cropping systems in the typical croplands of China

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Fixing a snag in carbon emissions estimates from wildfires

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

ForCent model development and testing using the Enriched Background Isotope Study experiment

scholarly article

Forest ecosystem respiration estimated from eddy covariance and chamber measurements under high turbulence and substantial tree mortality from bark beetles

scientific article

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

scientific article

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

scientific article (publication date: July 2008)

Global potential net primary production predicted from vegetation class, precipitation, and temperature.

scientific article published in August 2008

Global scale DAYCENT model analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies for cropped soils

scientific article

Global-scale similarities in nitrogen release patterns during long-term decomposition

scientific article published in January 2007

Gross primary production responses to warming, elevated CO2 , and irrigation: quantifying the drivers of ecosystem physiology in a semiarid grassland

scientific article

Harvesting Carbon from Eastern US Forests: Opportunities and Impacts of an Expanding Bioenergy Industry

article

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Impact of historical land-use changes on greenhouse gas exchange in the U.S. Great Plains, 1883–2003 ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Impact of second-generation biofuel agriculture on greenhouse-gas emissions in the corn-growing regions of the US

article

Impacts of a 32-billion-gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US

article

Importance of Early Season Conditions and Grazing on Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Colorado Shortgrass Steppe

scientific article published in 2016

Integrating biorefinery and farm biogeochemical cycles offsets fossil energy and mitigates soil carbon losses

scientific article published in June 2015

Land use change: complexity and comparisons

scientific article

Large-scale and local climatic controls on large herbivore productivity: implications for adaptive rangeland management

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Large‐Scale and Local Climatic Controls on Large Herbivore Productivity: Implications for Adaptive Rangeland Management

scientific article published in 2020

Life-cycle assessment of net greenhouse-gas flux for bioenergy cropping systems

scientific article published in April 2007

Litter Decomposition on the Mauna Loa Environmental Matrix, Hawai'i: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Models

scientific article published in 1994

Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains)

scientific article published on 06 November 2008

Long-term changes in forest carbon under temperature and nitrogen amendments in a temperate northern hardwood forest

scientific article

Long-term climate change mitigation potential with organic matter management on grasslands

scientific article

Long-term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Long-term impacts of manure amendments on carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of rangelands

scientific article

Measuring and mitigating agricultural greenhouse gas production in the US Great Plains, 1870-2000

scientific article

Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

article

Modeled responses of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated atmospheric CO2: a comparison of simulations by the biogeochemistry models of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP).

scientific article published in April 1998

Modeling denitrification in a tile-drained, corn and soybean agroecosystem of Illinois, USA

scientific article published in 2008

Modeling denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at regional scales

scientific article published on December 2006

Modeling nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated agriculture: testing DayCent with high-frequency measurements.

scientific article published in April 2014

Modeling the Effects of Climatic and CO2 Changes on Grassland Storage of Soil C

article

Modeling the Effects of Global Change on Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Rainforest

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Modeling the effects of climatic and co2 changes on grassland storage of soil C

article

Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

article

Nitrogen Cycling from Increased Soil Organic Carbon Contributes Both Positively and Negatively to Ecosystem Services in Wheat Agro-Ecosystems

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Nitrogen deposition and greenhouse gas emissions from grasslands: uncertainties and future directions.

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Nitrous oxide emission from Australian agricultural lands and mitigation options: a review

scientific article (publication date: 2003)

Patterns of new versus recycled primary production in the terrestrial biosphere

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Physiological Interactions Along Resource Gradients in a Tallgrass Prairie

article

Predicting greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon from changing pasture to an energy crop

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Predicting long-term carbon sequestration in response to CO2 enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ?

article

Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Ecosystem Responses to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

article

Projected ecosystem impact of the Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment.

scientific article published on January 2007

Regional modeling of grassland biogeochemistry using GIS

scientific article published in 1990

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis

article

Seasonal variabilities in the distribution of the microclimatic factors and evapotranspiration in a shortgrass steppe

scientific article published in 1996

Simulating greenhouse gas mitigation potentials for Chinese Croplands using the DAYCENT ecosystem model.

scientific article

Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

article

Soil microarthropods support ecosystem productivity and soil C accrual: Evidence from a litter decomposition study in the tallgrass prairie

article by Jennifer L. Soong et al published January 2016 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

State-of-the-Art of Models of Production-Decomposition Linkages in Conifer and Grassland Ecosystems

scientific article

Synthesis and modeling perspectives of rhizosphere priming ⬇️

scientific article published on August 19, 2013

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

article

Temperature influences carbon accumulation in moist tropical forests

scientific article

Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles: global interactions with the atmosphere and hydrology

scholarly article by David S Schimel et al published January 1991 in Tellus A

Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles: global interactions with the atmosphere and hydrology

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Testing the ‘CENTURY’ ecosystem level model on data sets from eight grassland sites in the former USSR representing a wide climatic/soil gradient

scientific article published in 1997

The biogeochemistry of bioenergy landscapes: carbon, nitrogen, and water considerations.

scientific article

The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

article

The theoretical limit to plant productivity

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

article

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

article

Using litter chemistry controls on microbial processes to partition litter carbon fluxes with the Litter Decomposition and Leaching (LIDEL) model

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites

scientific article

List of works by William J. Parton

21st‐century biogeochemical modeling: Challenges for Century‐based models and where do we go from here?

A gap in nitrous oxide emission reporting complicates long-term climate mitigation

A model for diurnal variation in soil and air temperature

A new conceptual model on the fate and controls of fresh and pyrolized plant litter decomposition

A novel mechanism to simulate intercropping and relay cropping using the DayCent model

Accounting for photodegradation dramatically improves prediction of carbon losses in dryland systems

Agriculture. Sustainable biofuels redux.

Beyond Ecosystem Modeling: A Roadmap to Community Cyberinfrastructure for Ecological Data-Model Integration

Bioenergy crop greenhouse gas mitigation potential under a range of management practices

Biogeochemical consequences of regional land use change to a biofuel crop in the southeastern United States

Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment

Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

Comparative Biogeochemical Cycles of Bioenergy Crops Reveal Nitrogen-Fixation and Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Miscanthus × giganteus Agro-Ecosystem

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol

DAYCENT and its land surface submodel: description and testing

DayCent-Chem Simulations of Ecological and Biogeochemical Processes of Eight Mountain Ecosystems in the United States

Ecological dimensions of biofuels

Effects of nitrogen deposition and insect herbivory on patterns of ecosystem-level carbon and nitrogen dynamics: results from the CENTURY model

Evaluating annual nitrous oxide fluxes at the ecosystem scale

Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4).

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

Evaluation of the CENTURY model using long-term fertilization trials under corn-wheat cropping systems in the typical croplands of China

Fixing a snag in carbon emissions estimates from wildfires

ForCent model development and testing using the Enriched Background Isotope Study experiment

Forest ecosystem respiration estimated from eddy covariance and chamber measurements under high turbulence and substantial tree mortality from bark beetles

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

Global potential net primary production predicted from vegetation class, precipitation, and temperature.

Global scale DAYCENT model analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies for cropped soils

Global-scale similarities in nitrogen release patterns during long-term decomposition

Gross primary production responses to warming, elevated CO2 , and irrigation: quantifying the drivers of ecosystem physiology in a semiarid grassland

Harvesting Carbon from Eastern US Forests: Opportunities and Impacts of an Expanding Bioenergy Industry

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

Impact of historical land-use changes on greenhouse gas exchange in the U.S. Great Plains, 1883–2003 ⬇️

Impact of second-generation biofuel agriculture on greenhouse-gas emissions in the corn-growing regions of the US

Impacts of a 32-billion-gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US

Importance of Early Season Conditions and Grazing on Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Colorado Shortgrass Steppe

Integrating biorefinery and farm biogeochemical cycles offsets fossil energy and mitigates soil carbon losses

Land use change: complexity and comparisons

Large-scale and local climatic controls on large herbivore productivity: implications for adaptive rangeland management

Large‐Scale and Local Climatic Controls on Large Herbivore Productivity: Implications for Adaptive Rangeland Management

Life-cycle assessment of net greenhouse-gas flux for bioenergy cropping systems

Litter Decomposition on the Mauna Loa Environmental Matrix, Hawai'i: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Models

Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains)

Long-term changes in forest carbon under temperature and nitrogen amendments in a temperate northern hardwood forest

Long-term climate change mitigation potential with organic matter management on grasslands

Long-term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition

Long-term impacts of manure amendments on carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of rangelands

Measuring and mitigating agricultural greenhouse gas production in the US Great Plains, 1870-2000

Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

Modeled responses of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated atmospheric CO2: a comparison of simulations by the biogeochemistry models of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP).

Modeling denitrification in a tile-drained, corn and soybean agroecosystem of Illinois, USA

Modeling denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at regional scales

Modeling nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated agriculture: testing DayCent with high-frequency measurements.

Modeling the Effects of Climatic and CO2 Changes on Grassland Storage of Soil C

Modeling the Effects of Global Change on Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Rainforest

Modeling the effects of climatic and co2 changes on grassland storage of soil C

Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

Nitrogen Cycling from Increased Soil Organic Carbon Contributes Both Positively and Negatively to Ecosystem Services in Wheat Agro-Ecosystems

Nitrogen deposition and greenhouse gas emissions from grasslands: uncertainties and future directions.

Nitrous oxide emission from Australian agricultural lands and mitigation options: a review

Patterns of new versus recycled primary production in the terrestrial biosphere

Physiological Interactions Along Resource Gradients in a Tallgrass Prairie

Predicting greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon from changing pasture to an energy crop

Predicting long-term carbon sequestration in response to CO2 enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ?

Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Ecosystem Responses to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Projected ecosystem impact of the Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment.

Regional modeling of grassland biogeochemistry using GIS

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis

Seasonal variabilities in the distribution of the microclimatic factors and evapotranspiration in a shortgrass steppe

Simulating greenhouse gas mitigation potentials for Chinese Croplands using the DAYCENT ecosystem model.

Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

Soil microarthropods support ecosystem productivity and soil C accrual: Evidence from a litter decomposition study in the tallgrass prairie

State-of-the-Art of Models of Production-Decomposition Linkages in Conifer and Grassland Ecosystems

Synthesis and modeling perspectives of rhizosphere priming ⬇️

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward