Land Plants, Carbon, and Climate

The Caldeira lab engages in research to understand combine carbon-cycle and biophysical effects of land-cover change.

• 2012: Attribution of atmospheric CO2 and temperature increases to regions: importance of preindustrial land use change (Pongratz and Caldeira, ERL)
• 2011: Climate forcing and response to idealized changes in surface latent and sensible heat (Ban Weiss et al., ERL)
• 2011: Past land use decisions have increased mitigation potential of reforestation (Pongratz et al., GRL)
• 2011: Coupled climate–carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO2 between AD 800 and 1850 (Pongratz et al., The Holocene)
• 2010: Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection (Anderson et al., Front Ecol Environ)
• 2010: Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate change (Cao et al., PNAS)
• 2009: Climate response to physiological forcing of carbon dioxide simulated by the coupled Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3.1) and Community Land Model (CLM3.0) (Cao et al., GRL)
• 2008: Protecting climate with forests (Jackson et al., ERL)
• 2007: Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation (Bala et al., National Academy of Sciences)
• 2006: Biogeophysical effects of CO2 fertilization on global climate (Caldeira et al., Tellus)
• 2005: Climate effects of global land cover change (Gibbard et al., GRL)
• 2005: Increase of carbon cycle feedback with climate sensitivity: results from a coupled climate and carbon cycle model (Govindasamy et al., Tellus)
• 2004: Quantifying the effects of CO2-fertilized vegetation on future global climate and carbon dynamics (Thompson et al., GRL)
• 2001: Land use changes and Northern Hemisphere cooling (Govindasamy et al., GRL)
• 1992: The life span of the biosphere revisited (Caldeira and Kasting, Nature)
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