Publications

Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, and F.S. Chapin III (2008). Human influences on wildfire in Alaska from 1988 through 2005: An analysis of the spatial patterns of human impacts. Earth Interactions 12(1):1-17. DOI: 10.1175/2007EI220.1. PDF

Chapin, F.S. III, S.F. Trainor, O. Huntington, A.L. Lovecraft, E. Zavaleta, D.C. Natcher, A.D. McGuire, J. Nelson, L. Ray, M. Calef, N. Fresco, H. Huntington, T.S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, and R.A. Naylor (2008). Increasing wildfire in the boreal forest: causes, consequences, and pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. Bioscience 58(6):531-540. PDF

McGuire, A.D., J. Walsh, J. Kimball, J. Clein, S. Euskirchen, S. Drobot, U. Herzfeld, J. Maslanik, R. Lammers, M. Rawlins, C. Vorosmarty, T. Rupp, W. Wu, and M. Calef (2008). The Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE): Overview and synthesis. Earth Interactions DOI: 10.1175/2008EI239.1. PDF

Lapenis, A.G., G. B. Lawrence, S. Baily, B. Aparin, A. Shiklomanov, N. Speranskaya, M.S. Torn, and M. Calef (2008). Climatically driven loss of calcium in steppe soil as a sink for atmospheric carbon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi:10.1029/2007GB003077. PDF

Clein, J.S., A.D. McGuire, E.S. Euskirchen, and M. Calef. (2007) The effects of different climate input data sets on simulated carbon dynamics in the Western Arctic. Earth Interactions 11 (paper 12) DOI: 10.1175/EI229.1. PDF

Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp, and F. S. Chapin III. 2007. Factors contributing to the cultural and spatial variability of landscape burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society, Special Issue: Crossing Scales and Disciplines to Achieve Forest Sustainability 12(1): 7. PDF

Kimball, J.S., M. Zhao, A.D. McGuire, F.A. Heinsch, J. Clein, M. Calef, W.M. Jolly, S. Kang, S.E. Euskirchen, K.C. McDonald, and S.W. Running. 2007. Recent climate-driven increases in vegetation productivity for the Western Arctic: evidence of an acceleration of the Northern terrestrial carbon cycle. Earth Interactions 11(4):1-30 DOI: 10.1175/EI180.1. PDF

Walker, M., H. Wahren, L. Ahlquist, J. Alatolo, S. Bret-Harte, M. Calef, T. Callaghan, A. Carroll, C. Copass, H. Epstein, G. Henry, R. Hollister, I. S. Jonsdottír, J. Klein, B. Magnusson, U. Molau, S. Oberbauer, S. Rewa, C. Robinson, G. Shaver, K. Suding, A. Tolvanen, Ø. Totland, P.L. Turner, C. Tweedie, P. Webber, and P. Wookey. 2006. Tundra plant community response to experimental warming: sensitivity in a rapidly changing environment. PNAS 103(5):1342-1346. PDF

Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, T.S. Rupp, H.E. Epstein, and H.H. Shugart. 2005. Analysis of vegetation distribution in Interior Alaska and sensitivity to climate change using a logistic regression approach. Journal of Biogeography 32:863-878. PDF

Riedel, S. M., H.E. Epstein, D.A. Walker, D.L. Richardson, M.P. Calef, E. Edwards, and A. Moody. 2005. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of vegetation properties among four tundra plant communities at Ivotuk, Alaska. U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 37(1):25-33. PDF

Epstein, H.E., M.P. Calef, M.D. Walker, F.S. Chapin III, and A.M. Starfield. 2004. Detecting changes in arctic plant communities in response to warming over decadal time scales. Global Change Biology 10:1325-1334. PDF