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List of works by Stephen W. Pacala

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

scientific article (publication date: 14 July 2011)

A Technique for Enclosing Anolis Lizard Populations under Field Conditions

scientific article published in 1983

Aggregation and the population dynamics of parasitoids and predators

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA-TV)

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

An analytical treatment of root-to-shoot ratio and plant competition for soil nutrient and light

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

scientific article published in Science

Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

scientific article

Causes and consequences of resource heterogeneity in forests: interspecific variation in light transmission by canopy trees

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Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Comment on "Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality"

scientific article published on June 29, 2012

Competition for water and light in closed-canopy forests: a tractable model of carbon allocation with implications for carbon sinks.

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Confronting terrestrial biosphere models with forest inventory data

scientific article

Control of arthropod abundance by Anolis lizards on St. Eustatius (Neth. Antilles).

scientific article published in October 1984

Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change

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Coping with uncertainty: a call for a new science-policy forum

scientific article published on August 2003

Crown plasticity and competition for canopy space: a new spatially implicit model parameterized for 250 North American tree species

scientific article

Decreased water limitation under elevated CO2 amplifies potential for forest carbon sinks

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Demographic theory of coral reef fish populations with stochastic recruitment: comparing sources of population regulation

scientific article published on 22 November 2004

Density-dependent speciation alters the structure and dynamics of neutral communities

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Deterministic Limits to Stochastic Spatial Models of Natural Enemies

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Deterministic limits to stochastic spatial models of natural enemies

scientific article published in January 2002

Differential declines in Alaskan boreal forest vitality related to climate and competition

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups.

scientific article

Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests

scientific article published on January 2016

Edge fires drive the shape and stability of tropical forests.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Effects of competitive asymmetry on a local density model of plant interference

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Embolism recovery strategies and nocturnal water loss across species influenced by biogeographic origin

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Emergence and maintenance of nutrient limitation over multiple timescales in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published in February 2009

Energy. Beneficial biofuels--the food, energy, and environment trilemma

scientific article

Evolutionarily stable strategy carbon allocation to foliage, wood, and fine roots in trees competing for light and nitrogen: an analytically tractable, individual-based model and quantitative comparisons to data

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Forest Models Defined by Field Measurements: Estimation, Error Analysis and Dynamics

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Forest models defined by field measurements: I. The design of a northeastern forest simulator

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Future paths for the ‘exploitative segregation of plant roots’ model

scientific article published on 01 March 2021

Global leaf trait relationships: mass, area, and the leaf economics spectrum

scientific article

Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Herbivores and plant diversity

scientific article published on 01 August 1992

Historical warming reduced due to enhanced land carbon uptake

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2013)

Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

scientific article published in Nature

Increased forest carbon storage with increased atmospheric CO2 despite nitrogen limitation: a game-theoretic allocation model for trees in competition for nitrogen and light

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Interspecific variation in tropical tree height and crown allometries in relation to life history traits

article by Isabel Martinez Cano et al published 12 July 2018 in Biogeosciences Discussions

Interspecific vs intraspecific patterns in leaf nitrogen of forest trees across nitrogen availability gradients

scientific article published on 6 June 2013

Intraspecific Variation and Species Coexistence

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Intraspecific variation and species coexistence

scientific article published in December 2007

Juvenile Tree Survivorship as a Component of Shade Tolerance

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Land use change and nitrogen feedbacks constrain the trajectory of the land carbon sink

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Limiting Similarity, Species Packing, and System Stability for Hierarchical Competition‐Colonization Models

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Limiting future atmospheric carbon dioxide

article by Jorge L Sarmiento et al published March 1995 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind

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Models suggesting field experiments to test two hypotheses explaining successional diversity

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Natural climate solutions are not enough

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation over Long-Term Ecosystem Development in Terrestrial Ecosystems

scientific article published on August 3, 2012

Nitrogen cycling and feedbacks in a global dynamic land model

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Optimal sampling of the atmosphere for purpose of inverse modeling: A model study

scientific article published in 2000

Optimal stomatal behavior with competition for water and risk of hydraulic impairment

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

POPULATION REGULATION: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF OPEN VS. CLOSED SYSTEMS

scientific article

Plant hydraulics, stomatal control, and the response of a tropical forest to water stress over multiple temporal scales

scientific article published on 04 April 2022

Plant water potential improves prediction of empirical stomatal models.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Population experiments with the Anolis lizards : A. bimaculatus, A. gingivinus, A. wattsi schwartzi and A. wattsi pogus, and some extensions of ecological theory

1982 thesis (Ph.D.) submitted to Stanford University by Stephen Pacala

Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model

scholarly article

Predicting shifts in the functional composition of tropical forests under increased drought and CO from trade-offs among plant hydraulic traits

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Predicting vegetation type through physiological and environmental interactions with leaf traits: evergreen and deciduous forests in an earth system modeling framework

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Predictive models of forest dynamics

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Quantifying regional, time-varying effects of cropland and pasture on vegetation fire

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Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions

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Reid's Paradox of Rapid Plant Migration

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Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions

scientific article published in November 2013

SCALING FROM TREES TO FORESTS: TRACTABLE MACROSCOPIC EQUATIONS FOR FOREST DYNAMICS

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Sapling growth as a function of resources in a north temperate forest

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Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition

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Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2009)

Spatial Moment Equations for Plant Competition: Understanding Spatial Strategies and the Advantages of Short Dispersal

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Spatial dynamics in model plant communities: what do we really know?

scientific article published on 16 July 2003

Speciation rates decline through time in individual-based models of speciation and extinction

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Species-independent down-regulation of leaf photosynthesis and respiration in response to shading: evidence from six temperate tree species

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Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies

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Stochastic simulation of clonal growth in the tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima

scientific article published on 01 December 1991

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

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The evolution of intergenerational discounting in offspring quality

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The exploitative segregation of plant roots

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The influence of large-scale wind power on global climate

scientific article (publication date: 16 November 2004)

The parasites of Anolis lizards the northern Lesser Antilles : II. The structure of the parasite community

scientific article published on 01 August 1992

The relation between the number of parasites/host and host age: population dynamic causes and maximum likelihood estimation

scientific article published on 01 February 1988

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

scientific article published on 19 August 2018

Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink

scientific article

Tropical tree height and crown allometries for the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama: a comparison of alternative hierarchical models incorporating interspecific variation in relation to life history traits

article by Isabel Martínez Cano et al published 20 February 2019 in Biogeosciences

Unlocking the forest inventory data: relating individual tree performance to unmeasured environmental factors

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Unmask temporal trade-offs in climate policy debates

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Variations of leaf longevity in tropical moist forests predicted by a trait-driven carbon optimality model

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Why abundant tropical tree species are phylogenetically old

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Why are nitrogen-fixing trees rare at higher compared to lower latitudes?

scientific article

Woody plants optimise stomatal behaviour relative to hydraulic risk

article by William R. L. Anderegg et al published July 2018 in Ecology Letters