List of works - William Riley

18O composition of CO2 and H2O ecosystem pools and fluxes in a tallgrass prairie: Simulations and comparisons to measurements

article

20th century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: tree-ring-based evaluation of the CLM4.5 and LPX-Bern models

article

20th-century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: Tree-ring based evaluation of the CLM4.5 and LPX-Bern models

article by Kathrin M. Keller et al published 1 December 2016 in Biogeosciences Discussions

21st century tundra shrubification could enhance net carbon uptake of North America Arctic tundra under an RCP8.5 climate trajectory

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

A Hybrid Reduced-Order Model of Fine-Resolution Hydrologic Simulations at a Polygonal Tundra Site

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

A Theory of Effective Microbial Substrate Affinity Parameters in Variably Saturated Soils and an Example Application to Aerobic Soil Heterotrophic Respiration

scientific article

A global trait-based approach to estimate leaf nitrogen functional allocation from observations

scientific article

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

scholarly article

A model-data intercomparison of CO2exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

scholarly article

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane cycles in northern wetlands

article

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands

article

A new theory of plant-microbe nutrient competition resolves inconsistencies between observations and model predictions

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

A total quasi-steady-state formulation of substrate uptake kinetics in complex networks and an example application to microbial litter decomposition

scientific article published in 2013

Abiotic and Biotic Controls on Soil Organo–Mineral Interactions: Developing Model Structures to Analyze Why Soil Organic Matter Persists

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Accelerated Nutrient Cycling and Increased Light Competition Will Lead to 21st Century Shrub Expansion in North American Arctic Tundra

article

Alaskan carbon-climate feedbacks will be weaker than inferred from short-term experiments

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Analysis of Permafrost Thermal Dynamics and Response to Climate Change in the CMIP5 Earth System Models

article

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

scientific article

Assessing Impacts of Plant Stoichiometric Traits on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Accumulation Using the E3SM Land Model

scientific article

Building a machine learning surrogate model for wildfire activities within a global Earth system model

scientific article published on 08 March 2022

Building a machine learning surrogate model for wildfire activities within a global earth system model

scientific article

Causality Guided Machine Learning Model on Wetland Ch4 Emissions Across Global Wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate

scientific article published in 2021

Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis

scholarly article

Climate regime shift and forest loss amplify fire in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Comparison With Global Soil Radiocarbon Observations Indicates Needed Carbon Cycle Improvements in the E3SM Land Model

scientific article

Conceptualizing Biogeochemical Reactions With an Ohm's Law Analogy

scientific article

Controls of rainfall patterns on C and N emissions and stocks in Australian grasslands

scientific article

Coupling a three-dimensional subsurface flow and transport model with a land surface model to simulate stream-aquifer-land interactions (PFLOTRAN_CLM v1.0)

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Coupling a three-dimensional subsurface flow and transport model with a land surface model to simulate stream–aquifer–land interactions (CP v1.0)

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Coupling plant litter quantity to a novel metric for litter quality explains C storage changes in a thawing permafrost peatland

article by Moira Hough et al published 17 November 2021 in Global Change Biology

Deforestation reshapes land-surface energy-flux partitioning

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Development and Verification of a Numerical Library for Solving Global Terrestrial Multiphysics Problems

scientific article published in June 2019

Development and evaluation of a variably saturated flow model in the global E3SM Land Model (ELM) Version 1.0

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Development and evaluation of a variably saturated flow model in the global E3SM Land Model (ELM) version 1.0

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion

scientific article

Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion

scientific article published in 2022

Earlier leaf-out warms air in the north

scientific article

Effects of Soil Moisture on the Responses of Soil Temperatures to Climate Change in Cold Regions*

article

Empirical relationships between environmental factors and soil organic carbon produce comparable prediction accuracy to machine learning

scholarly article

Enhanced methane emissions from tropical wetlands during the 2011 La Niña

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Ensemble Machine Learning Approach Improves Predicted Spatial Variation of Surface Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Data-Limited Northern Circumpolar Region

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Evaluation of the WRF lake module (v1.0) and its improvements at a deep reservoir

scientific article

Evaluation of the WRF lake module (v1.0) and its improvements at a deep reservoir

Evolutionary lineage explains trait variation among 75 coexisting grass species

scientific article published in 2023

Expansion of high-latitude deciduous forests driven by interactions between climate warming and fire

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

scientific article

Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO efflux

scientific article

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

scholarly article

Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

scientific article

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

scientific article published in July 2022

Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics

Grass Evolutionary Lineages Can Be Identified Using Hyperspectral Leaf Reflectance

scientific article published in 2024

Heterogeneous spring phenology shifts affected by climate: supportive evidence from two remotely sensed vegetation indices

scientific article published on 5 September 2019

Hourly water-carbon interactions modulate decadal water-use efficiency trends inferred from ecosystem-scale measurements

scientific article published in 2022

Hysteretic temperature sensitivity of wetland CH4 fluxes explained by substrate availability and microbial activity

scientific article

Hysteretic temperature sensitivity of wetland CH4 fluxes explained by substrate availability and microbial activity

Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

Impacts of microtopographic snow redistribution and lateral subsurface processes on hydrologic and thermal states in an Arctic polygonal ground ecosystem: a case study using ELM-3D v1.0

scientific article published in 2018

Impacts of microtopographic snow-redistribution and lateral subsurface processes on hydrologic and thermal states in an Arctic polygonal ground ecosystem

Improved ELMv1-ECA Simulations of Zero-Curtain Periods and Cold-season CH4 and CO2 Emissions at Alaskan Arctic Tundra Sites

scientific article

Improved ELMv1-ECA simulations of zero-curtain periods and cold-season CH4 and CO2 emissions at Alaskan Arctic tundra sites

scholarly article

Improved modelling of soil nitrogen losses

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Improving Representation of Deforestation Effects on Evapotranspiration in the E3SM Land Model

scientific article published in August 2019

Land-atmosphere coupling and climate prediction over the U.S. Southern Great Plains

article

Landsat NIR band and ELM-FATES sensitivity to forest disturbances and regrowth in the Central Amazon

scientific article

Landsat near-infrared (NIR) band and ELM-FATES sensitivity to forest disturbances and regrowth in the Central Amazon

scientific article

Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden

scholarly article by Kuang-Yu Chang et al published 22 February 2019 in The Cryosphere

Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden

scientific article

Lineage‐based functional types: characterising functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behaviour in Land Surface Models

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Linear two-pool models are insufficient to infer soil organic matter decomposition temperature sensitivity from incubations

scientific article

Mathematical Reconstruction of Land Carbon Models From Their Numerical Output: Computing Soil Radiocarbon From 12C Dynamics

scientific article

Methane Production Pathway Regulated Proximally by Substrate Availability and Distally by Temperature in a High‐Latitude Mire Complex

scientific article

Methanogenesis in oxygenated soils is a substantial fraction of wetland methane emissions

scientific article

Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Microbial contribution to post-fire tundra ecosystem recovery over the 21st century

scientific article published on 11 February 2022

Modeled production, oxidation, and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions

scientific article published on 19 January 2023

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

article

Near‐Surface Hydrology and Soil Properties Drive Heterogeneity in Permafrost Distribution, Vegetation Dynamics, and Carbon Cycling in a Sub‐Arctic Watershed

scientific article published in 2022

Non-growing season plant nutrient uptake controls Arctic tundra vegetation composition under future climate

scientific article

Observed allocations of productivity and biomass, and turnover times in tropical forests are not accurately represented in CMIP5 Earth system models

article

Observed and Simulated Sensitivities of Spring Greenup to Preseason Climate in Northern Temperate and Boreal Regions

article

Observed variation in soil properties can drive large variation in modelled forest functioning and composition during tropical forest secondary succession

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

On the mechanistic foundation and limit of Liebig’s law of the minimum

scholarly article

On the modeling paradigm of plant root nutrient acquisition

scientific article published on 14 January 2021

PeRL: A Circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database

scholarly article published 22 November 2016

PeRL: a circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database

article

Permafrost carbon-climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon decomposability but not deep soil nitrogen dynamics

scientific article

Plant organic matter inputs exert a strong control on soil organic matter decomposition in a thawing permafrost peatland

scientific article published in 2022

Poor relationships between NEON Airborne Observation Platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland

scientific article published on 17 November 2021

Predicted Land Carbon Dynamics Are Strongly Dependent on the Numerical Coupling of Nitrogen Mobilizing and Immobilizing Processes: A Demonstration with the E3SM Land Model

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Predicting the effect of climate change on wildfire behavior and initial attack success

article

Publisher Correction: Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Rapidly changing high-latitude seasonality: Implications for the 21st century carbon cycle in Alaska

scientific article

Representing Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Carbon Interactions in the E3SM Land Model: Development and Global Benchmarking

scientific article published in July 2019

Representing leaf and root physiological traits in CLM improves global carbon and nitrogen cycling predictions

scientific article published on 19 March 2016

Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional

scientific article published on 29 December 2021

Reviews and syntheses: Four Decades of Modeling Methane Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

scientific article

Reviews and syntheses: Four decades of modeling methane cycling in terrestrial ecosystems

article

Root traits explain observed tundra vegetation nitrogen uptake patterns: Implications for trait-based land models

article

Scale matters in understanding the complexity of Amazon fires: A response to the Editor

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Seasonal and interannual variability in 13C composition of ecosystem carbon fluxes in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

article

Separating the effects of phenology and diffuse radiation on gross primary productivity in winter wheat

article

Soil Organic Matter Temperature Sensitivity Cannot be Directly Inferred From Spatial Gradients

scientific article

Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

scientific article

Spatiotemporal Variations of Evapotranspiration in Amazonia Using the Wavelet Phase Difference Analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Spring phenology and phenology-climate links inferred from two remotely sensed vegetation indices across regions and biomes

article

Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions

scientific article

Supplementary material to "A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane cycles in northern wetlands"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Coupling a three-dimensional subsurface flow and transport model with a land surface model to simulate stream-aquifer-land interactions (PFLOTRAN_CLM v1.0)"

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Supplementary material to "Hysteretic temperature sensitivity of wetland CH4 fluxes explained by substrate availability and microbial activity"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Impacts of microtopographic snow-redistribution and lateral subsurface processes on hydrologic and thermal states in an Arctic polygonal ground ecosystem"

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

Supplementary material to "Improved ELMv1-ECA Simulations of Zero-Curtain Periods and Cold-season CH4 and CO2 Emissions at Alaskan Arctic Tundra Sites"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Spring phenology and phenology-climate links inferred from two remotely sensed vegetation indices across regions and biomes"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017"

scientific article

Supporting hierarchical soil biogeochemical modeling: Version 2 of the Biogeochemical Transport and Reaction model (BeTR-v2)

scientific article

Supporting hierarchical soil biogeochemical modeling: version 2 of the Biogeochemical Transport and Reaction model (BeTR-v2)

scientific article published in 2022

Technical Note: Simple formulations and solutions of the dual-phase diffusive transport for biogeochemical modeling

scientific article published in 2014

The BGC Feedbacks Scientific Focus Area 2016 Annual Progress Report

The Central Amazon Biomass Sink Under Current and Future Atmospheric CO 2 : Predictions From Big‐Leaf and Demographic Vegetation Models

scientific article

The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

scientific article published in December 2019

The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

scientific article

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

scientific article

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

preprint

The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) System: Design, Theory, and Implementation

article by Nathan Collier et al published 12 October 2018 in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research

scientific article

The Rainfall Sensitivity of Tropical Net Primary Production in CMIP5 Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Simulations*

article

The global methane budget 2000–2012

article

The influence of fire aerosols on surface climate and gross primary production in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

scientific article published in 2021

The response of the18O/16O composition of atmospheric CO2to changes in environmental conditions

Topographical Controls on Hillslope‐Scale Hydrology Drive Shrub Distributions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska

scientific article

Toward improved model structures for analyzing priming: potential pitfalls of using bulk turnover time

scientific article

Trait-based representation of biological nitrification: model development, testing, and predicted community composition

scientific article

Using Information Theory to Evaluate Directional Precipitation Interactions Over the West Sahel Region in Observations and Models

article by Bessie Y. Liu et al published 12 February 2019 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Using model reduction to predict the soil-surface C&lt;sup&gt;18&lt;/sup&gt;OO flux: an example of representing complex biogeochemical dynamics in a computationally efficient manner

scientific article published in 2013

Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012

scholarly article

Warm-season net CO2 uptake outweighs cold-season emissions over Alaskan North Slope tundra under current and RCP8.5 climate

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Water level changes in Lake Erie drive 21st century CO2 and CH4 fluxes from a coastal temperate wetland

scientific article published in 2022

Wildfire exacerbates high-latitude soil carbon losses from climate warming

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by William Riley

18O composition of CO2 and H2O ecosystem pools and fluxes in a tallgrass prairie: Simulations and comparisons to measurements

20th century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: tree-ring-based evaluation of the CLM4.5 and LPX-Bern models

20th-century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: Tree-ring based evaluation of the CLM4.5 and LPX-Bern models

21st century tundra shrubification could enhance net carbon uptake of North America Arctic tundra under an RCP8.5 climate trajectory

A Hybrid Reduced-Order Model of Fine-Resolution Hydrologic Simulations at a Polygonal Tundra Site

A Theory of Effective Microbial Substrate Affinity Parameters in Variably Saturated Soils and an Example Application to Aerobic Soil Heterotrophic Respiration

A global trait-based approach to estimate leaf nitrogen functional allocation from observations

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

A model-data intercomparison of CO2exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane cycles in northern wetlands

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands

A new theory of plant-microbe nutrient competition resolves inconsistencies between observations and model predictions

A total quasi-steady-state formulation of substrate uptake kinetics in complex networks and an example application to microbial litter decomposition

Abiotic and Biotic Controls on Soil Organo–Mineral Interactions: Developing Model Structures to Analyze Why Soil Organic Matter Persists

Accelerated Nutrient Cycling and Increased Light Competition Will Lead to 21st Century Shrub Expansion in North American Arctic Tundra

Alaskan carbon-climate feedbacks will be weaker than inferred from short-term experiments

Analysis of Permafrost Thermal Dynamics and Response to Climate Change in the CMIP5 Earth System Models

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

Assessing Impacts of Plant Stoichiometric Traits on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Accumulation Using the E3SM Land Model

Building a machine learning surrogate model for wildfire activities within a global Earth system model

Building a machine learning surrogate model for wildfire activities within a global earth system model

Causality Guided Machine Learning Model on Wetland Ch4 Emissions Across Global Wetlands

Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands

Changes in precipitation and air temperature contribute comparably to permafrost degradation in a warmer climate

Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis

Climate regime shift and forest loss amplify fire in Amazonian forests

Comparison With Global Soil Radiocarbon Observations Indicates Needed Carbon Cycle Improvements in the E3SM Land Model

Conceptualizing Biogeochemical Reactions With an Ohm's Law Analogy

Controls of rainfall patterns on C and N emissions and stocks in Australian grasslands

Coupling a three-dimensional subsurface flow and transport model with a land surface model to simulate stream-aquifer-land interactions (PFLOTRAN_CLM v1.0)

Coupling a three-dimensional subsurface flow and transport model with a land surface model to simulate stream–aquifer–land interactions (CP v1.0)

Coupling plant litter quantity to a novel metric for litter quality explains C storage changes in a thawing permafrost peatland

Deforestation reshapes land-surface energy-flux partitioning

Development and Verification of a Numerical Library for Solving Global Terrestrial Multiphysics Problems

Development and evaluation of a variably saturated flow model in the global E3SM Land Model (ELM) Version 1.0

Development and evaluation of a variably saturated flow model in the global E3SM Land Model (ELM) version 1.0

Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion

Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion

Earlier leaf-out warms air in the north

Effects of Soil Moisture on the Responses of Soil Temperatures to Climate Change in Cold Regions*

Empirical relationships between environmental factors and soil organic carbon produce comparable prediction accuracy to machine learning

Enhanced methane emissions from tropical wetlands during the 2011 La Niña

Ensemble Machine Learning Approach Improves Predicted Spatial Variation of Surface Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Data-Limited Northern Circumpolar Region

Evaluation of the WRF lake module (v1.0) and its improvements at a deep reservoir

Evaluation of the WRF lake module (v1.0) and its improvements at a deep reservoir

Evolutionary lineage explains trait variation among 75 coexisting grass species

Expansion of high-latitude deciduous forests driven by interactions between climate warming and fire

FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO efflux

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

Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics

Grass Evolutionary Lineages Can Be Identified Using Hyperspectral Leaf Reflectance

Heterogeneous spring phenology shifts affected by climate: supportive evidence from two remotely sensed vegetation indices

Hourly water-carbon interactions modulate decadal water-use efficiency trends inferred from ecosystem-scale measurements

Hysteretic temperature sensitivity of wetland CH<sub>4</sub> fluxes explained by substrate availability and microbial activity

Hysteretic temperature sensitivity of wetland CH<sub>4</sub> fluxes explained by substrate availability and microbial activity

Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

Impacts of microtopographic snow redistribution and lateral subsurface processes on hydrologic and thermal states in an Arctic polygonal ground ecosystem: a case study using ELM-3D v1.0

Impacts of microtopographic snow-redistribution and lateral subsurface processes on hydrologic and thermal states in an Arctic polygonal ground ecosystem

Improved ELMv1-ECA Simulations of Zero-Curtain Periods and Cold-season CH<sub>4</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions at Alaskan Arctic Tundra Sites

Improved ELMv1-ECA simulations of zero-curtain periods and cold-season CH4 and CO2 emissions at Alaskan Arctic tundra sites

Improved modelling of soil nitrogen losses

Improving Representation of Deforestation Effects on Evapotranspiration in the E3SM Land Model

Land-atmosphere coupling and climate prediction over the U.S. Southern Great Plains

Landsat NIR band and ELM-FATES sensitivity to forest disturbances and regrowth in the Central Amazon

Landsat near-infrared (NIR) band and ELM-FATES sensitivity to forest disturbances and regrowth in the Central Amazon

Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden

Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden

Lineage‐based functional types: characterising functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behaviour in Land Surface Models

Linear two-pool models are insufficient to infer soil organic matter decomposition temperature sensitivity from incubations

Mathematical Reconstruction of Land Carbon Models From Their Numerical Output: Computing Soil Radiocarbon From 12C Dynamics

Methane Production Pathway Regulated Proximally by Substrate Availability and Distally by Temperature in a High‐Latitude Mire Complex

Methanogenesis in oxygenated soils is a substantial fraction of wetland methane emissions

Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations

Microbial contribution to post-fire tundra ecosystem recovery over the 21st century

Modeled production, oxidation, and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

Using model reduction to predict the soil-surface C<sup>18</sup>OO flux: an example of representing complex biogeochemical dynamics in a computationally efficient manner