List of works - Douglas C Morton

A human-driven decline in global burned area

scientific article

A pan-tropical cascade of fire driven by El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

scientific article

Acoustic space occupancy: Combining ecoacoustics and lidar to model biodiversity variation and detection bias across heterogeneous landscapes

scientific article published in June 2020

Airborne lidar-based estimates of tropical forest structure in complex terrain: opportunities and trade-offs for REDD+

scientific article

Amazon forest structure generates diurnal and seasonal variability in light utilization

scientific article published in 2016

Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season.

scientific article

Assessing impacts of canopy 3D structure on chlorophyll fluorescence radiance and radiative budget of deciduous forest stands using DART

scientific article published on 28 August 2021

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

article

Bidirectional effects in Landsat reflectance estimates: Is there a problem to solve?

article

California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system

scientific article published in 2022

Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

scholarly article

DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for Modeling Airborne and Satellite Spectroradiometer and LIDAR Acquisitions of Natural and Urban Landscapes

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia.

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Efficient algorithms for Bayesian Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

El Niño drought increased canopy turnover in Amazon forests

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar

scientific article published in 2019

Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Forecasting fire season severity in South America using sea surface temperature anomalies

scientific article published on November 2011

Geostatistical estimation of forest biomass in interior Alaska combining Landsat-derived tree cover, sampled airborne lidar and field observations

scholarly article published in June 2018

Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

article

Historic emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Mato Grosso, Brazil: 1) source data uncertainties ⬇️

scientific article published on December 30, 2011

How much global burned area can be forecast on seasonal time scales using sea surface temperatures?

scientific article published in 2016

Impact of sensor degradation on the MODIS NDVI time series

article

Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Long-Term Impacts of Selective Logging on Amazon Forest Dynamics from Multi-Temporal Airborne LiDAR

article published in 2019

Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America

Management and climate contributions to satellite-derived active fire trends in the contiguous United States

scientific article

Managing fire risk during drought: the influence of certification and El Niño on fire-driven forest conversion for oil palm in Southeast Asia

article

Mapping canopy damage from understory fires in Amazon forests using annual time series of Landsat and MODIS data

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Modeling Small-Footprint Airborne Lidar-Derived Estimates of Gap Probability and Leaf Area Index

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Morton et al. reply.

scientific article published in March 2016

Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

Patterns of canopy and surface layer consumption in a boreal forest fire from repeat airborne lidar

scientific article published in 2017

Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil

article

Quantifying long-term changes in carbon stocks and forest structure from Amazon forest degradation

Rapid Assessment of Annual Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Using MODIS Data

article

Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests.

scientific article published on 9 May 2007

Satellite-based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010

article

Separating the influence of temperature, drought, and fire on interannual variability in atmospheric CO2

scientific article

Spatial Factor Models for High-Dimensional and Large Spatial Data: An Application in Forest Variable Mapping

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

The Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Energy and Water Balance in Mato Grosso, Brazil

article

The changing rates and patterns of deforestation and land use in Brazilian Amazonia

article

The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics

scientific article published on 11 March 2021

Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

scientific article

Tropical North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere interactions synchronize forest carbon losses from hurricanes and Amazon fires

scientific article published in 2015

Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon

scientific article published on 1 March 2020

List of works by Douglas C Morton

A human-driven decline in global burned area

A pan-tropical cascade of fire driven by El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

Acoustic space occupancy: Combining ecoacoustics and lidar to model biodiversity variation and detection bias across heterogeneous landscapes

Airborne lidar-based estimates of tropical forest structure in complex terrain: opportunities and trade-offs for REDD+

Amazon forest structure generates diurnal and seasonal variability in light utilization

Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season.

Assessing impacts of canopy 3D structure on chlorophyll fluorescence radiance and radiative budget of deciduous forest stands using DART

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

Bidirectional effects in Landsat reflectance estimates: Is there a problem to solve?

California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system

Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for Modeling Airborne and Satellite Spectroradiometer and LIDAR Acquisitions of Natural and Urban Landscapes

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia.

Efficient algorithms for Bayesian Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes

El Niño drought increased canopy turnover in Amazon forests

Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar

Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales

Forecasting fire season severity in South America using sea surface temperature anomalies

Geostatistical estimation of forest biomass in interior Alaska combining Landsat-derived tree cover, sampled airborne lidar and field observations

Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

Historic emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Mato Grosso, Brazil: 1) source data uncertainties ⬇️

How much global burned area can be forecast on seasonal time scales using sea surface temperatures?

Impact of sensor degradation on the MODIS NDVI time series

Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests

Long-Term Impacts of Selective Logging on Amazon Forest Dynamics from Multi-Temporal Airborne LiDAR

Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America

Management and climate contributions to satellite-derived active fire trends in the contiguous United States

Managing fire risk during drought: the influence of certification and El Niño on fire-driven forest conversion for oil palm in Southeast Asia

Mapping canopy damage from understory fires in Amazon forests using annual time series of Landsat and MODIS data

Modeling Small-Footprint Airborne Lidar-Derived Estimates of Gap Probability and Leaf Area Index

Morton et al. reply.

Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

Patterns of canopy and surface layer consumption in a boreal forest fire from repeat airborne lidar

Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Quantifying long-term changes in carbon stocks and forest structure from Amazon forest degradation

Rapid Assessment of Annual Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Using MODIS Data

Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests.

Satellite-based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010

Separating the influence of temperature, drought, and fire on interannual variability in atmospheric CO2

Spatial Factor Models for High-Dimensional and Large Spatial Data: An Application in Forest Variable Mapping

Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps

The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

The Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Energy and Water Balance in Mato Grosso, Brazil

The changing rates and patterns of deforestation and land use in Brazilian Amazonia

The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia

The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics

Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire

Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

Tropical North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere interactions synchronize forest carbon losses from hurricanes and Amazon fires

Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon