Publications of Dr. Chris Kucharik

Chris Kucharik, UW-Madison Publication List
Updated March 7, 2010

West, P.C., G.T. Narisma, C.C. Barford, C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley, 2010.  An alternative approach for quantifying climate regulation by ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1890/090015.

Twine, T.E. and C.J. Kucharik, 2009. Climate impacts on net primary productivity trends in natural and managed ecosystems of the central and eastern United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149: 2143-2161. DOI:10.1016/j.agformet.2009.05.012.

Cahill, K.N., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley, 2009. Prairie restoration and carbon sequestration: difficulties quantifying C sources and sinks using a biometric approach. Ecological Applications: Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 2185-2201.doi: 10.1890/08-0069.1.

Glass, S.B., B.M. Herrick, and C.J. Kucharik, (2009). Climate change and ecological restoration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Ecological Restoration, 27(3):345-349 (2009); doi:10.3368/er.27.3.345.

Jelinski, N.A., C.J. Kucharik, and J.B. Zedler (2009).  A test of diversity-productivity models in natural, degraded, and restored wet prairies. Restoration Ecology. July 1, doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00551.x.

Serbin, S.P. and C.J. Kucharik, (2009). Spatio-temporal mapping of temperature and precipitation for the development of a multi-decadal climate dataset for Wisconsin. J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 48, 742-757.

Johnston, M., J.A. Foley, T. Holloway, C. Kucharik, and C. Monfreda (2009). Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels. Environmental Research Letters 4, 014004.

Jelinski, N.A., and C.J. Kucharik (2009). Land-use effects on soil carbon and nitrogen on a Midwestern floodplain. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73:217-225, DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2007.0424

Vano, J.A., J.A. Foley, C.J. Kucharik, and M.T. Coe (2008), Controls of climatic variability and land cover on land surface hydrology of northern Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, G04040, doi:10.1029/2007JG000681.

Steller, R.M., N.A. Jelinski, and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Developing models to predict soil bulk density in southern Wisconsin using soil chemical properties. Invited submission to Soil Quality Special Issue in the Electronic Journal of Integrative Biosciences, 6(1): 53-63.

Kucharik, C.J. (2008).  Soil Response to Re-establishment of Prairie Communities in Southern Wisconsin, in The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife, Edited by Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney.  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Twine, T.E., and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Evaluating a terrestrial ecosystem model with satellite information of greenness. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2007JG000599.

Kucharik, C.J. and S.P. Serbin (2008). Impacts of climate change on Wisconsin corn and soybean yield trends. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034003.

Donner S.D., and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 4513-4518. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708300105.

Kucharik, C.J. (2008). Contribution of planting date trends to increased maize yields in the central United States. Agronomy Journal 100, 328-336, doi:10.2134/agronjnl2007.0145.

Kucharik, C.J. (2007) Impact of prairie age and soil order on carbon and nitrogen sequestration. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 12 March 2007; doi,10.2136/sssaj2006.0074, 71: 430-441.

Urbanski, S., C. Barford, S. Wofsy, C. Kucharik, E. Pyle, J. Budney, K. McKain, D. Fitzjarrald, M. Czikowsky, and J.W. Munger. (2007), Factors controlling CO2 exchange on timescales from hourly to decadal at Harvard Forest, Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G02020, doi:10.1029/2006JG000293.

Kucharik, C.J. and Twine, T.E. (2007) Residue, Respiration, and Residuals: Evaluation of a Dynamic Agroecosystem Model Using Eddy Flux Measurements and Biometric Data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 146, 134-158, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.05.011.

Kucharik, C.J. (2006). A multidecadal trend of earlier corn planting in the central USA. Agron. J. 98, 1544-1550.

Kucharik, C.J., C. Barford, M. El Maayar, S.C. Wofsy, R.K. Monson, D.D. Baldocchi (2006). Evaluation of a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) at the forest stand-level: vegetation structure, phenology, and seasonal and inter-annual CO2 and H2O vapor exchange at three AmeriFlux study sites. Ecological Modelling, 196, 1-31.

Kucharik, C.J., N.J. Fayram, and K.N. Cahill (2006). A paired study of prairie carbon stocks, fluxes, and phenology: comparing the world's oldest prairie restoration with an adjacent remnant. Global Change Biology 12, 122-139. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2468.2005.01053.x

Vano, J. A., J. A. Foley, C. J. Kucharik, and M. T. Coe (2006). Evaluating the seasonal and interannual variations in water balance in northern Wisconsin using a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G02025, doi:10.1029/2005JG000112.

El Maayar, M., N. Ramankutty, and C.J. Kucharik (2006). Modelling global and regional net primary production under elevated atmospheric CO2: On a potential source of uncertainty. Earth Interactions 10, 1-20.

Foley, J.A., R. DeFries, G.P. Asner, C. Barford, G. Bonan, S.R. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin, M.T. Coe, G.C. Daily, H.K. Gibbs, J.H. Helkowski, T. Holloway, E.A. Howard, C.J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, J.A. Patz, I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, and P.K. Snyder (2005). Global Consequences of Land Use. Science, Jul 2005; 309: 570 - 574.

Potter, C., P. T. Pang-Ting, V. Kumar, C. Kucharik, S. Klooster, V. Genovese, W. Cohen, S. Healey, (2005). Recent history of large-scale ecosystem disturbances in North American derived from the AVHRR satellite record. Ecosystems, 8(7), 808-824.

Scholze, M., A. Bondeau, F. Ewert, C. Kucharik, J. Priess, and P. Smith (2005). Advances in Large-Scale Crop Modeling, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(26), 245.

Twine, T.E, C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2005). Effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the climate, water balance and streamflow of the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Climate 18 (22), 4840–4861.

Kucharik, C.J. and N. Ramankutty (2005). Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the 20th Century. Earth Interactions 9, 1-29.

Donner, S.D., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2004). The impact of changing land use practices on nitrate export by the Mississippi River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB1028, doi:10.1029/2003GB002093.

Donner. S.D., C.J. Kucharik, and M. Oppenheimer (2004). The influence of climate on in-stream removal of nitrogen. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L20509, doi:10.1029/2004GL020477.

Howard E.A., S.T. Gower, J.A. Foley, and C.J. Kucharik (2004). Effects of logging on carbon dynamics of a jack pine forest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Global Change Biology 10(8), 1267-1284. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00804.x

Foley, J.A., C.J. Kucharik, T.E. Twine, M.T. Coe, and S.D. Donner (2004). Land use, land cover and climate change across the Mississippi basin: Impacts on selected land and water resources In "Ecosystems and Land Use Change", R. DeFries et al., eds., Geophysical Monograph Series, 153, 249-261.

Twine, T.E., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2004). Effects of land cover change on the energy and water balance of the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 5(4), 640-655.

Donner, S.D and C.J. Kucharik (2003). Evaluating the impacts of land management and climate variability on crop production and nitrate export across the Upper Mississippi Basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(3) 1085, doi:10.1029/2001GB001808.

Kucharik, C.J. (2003). Evaluation of a process-based agro-ecosystem model (Agro-IBIS) across the U.S. cornbelt: simulations of the inter-annual variability in maize yield. Earth Interactions, 7, 1-33.

Kucharik, C.J. and K.R. Brye (2003). Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS) yield and nitrate loss predictions for Wisconsin maize receiving varied amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. Journal of Environmental Quality, 32, 247-268.

Kucharik, C.J., J.A. Roth, and R.T. Nabielski (2003). Statistical assessment of a paired-site approach for verification of C and N sequestration on Wisconsin Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 58, 58-67.

Wilson, T.B., J.M. Norman, W.L. Bland, and C.J. Kucharik (2003). Evaluation of the importance of Lagrangian canopy turbulence formulations in a soil-plant-atmosphere model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 115, 51-69.

Kucharik, C.J., K.R. Brye, J.M. Norman, S.T. Gower, L.G. Bundy and J.A. Foley (2001). Measurements and modeling of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in managed and natural ecosystems in southern Wisconsin: Potential for SOC sequestration in the next 50 years. Ecosystems, 4: 237-258.

Woodward, F.I., W. Cramer, A. Bondeau, I.C. Prentice, D. Bachelet, R.A. Betts, V. Brovkin, P.M. Cox, C. Daly, V. Fisher, J. Foley, A.D. Friend, C. Kucharik, J.M. Lenihan, M.R. Loas, C. Molling, R.P. Neilson, D.S. Ojima, W.J. Parton, N. Ramankutty, S. Sitch, and A. White (2001): Dynamic responses of global terrestrial vegetation to changes in CO2 and climate, Global Change Biology, 7: 357-373.

Kucharik, C.J., J.A. Foley, C. Delire, V.A. Fisher, M.T. Coe, S.T. Gower, J. Lenters, C. Molling, J.M. Norman and N. Ramankutty (2000). Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14(3), 795-825.

Gower S.T., A. Hunter, J. Campbell, J. Vogel, H. Veldhuis, J. Harden, S. Trumbore, J.M. Norman, and C.J. Kucharik (2000). Nutrient dynamics of the southern and northern BOREAS boreal forests. Ecoscience 7 (4), 481-490.

Gower, S.T., C.J. Kucharik, and J.M. Norman, (1999). Direct and indirect estimation of leaf area index, fapar and net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems. Special Issue of EOS Remote Sensing of the Environment, 70(1), 29-51.

Kucharik, C.J., J.M. Norman, and S.T.Gower (1999). Characterization of the radiation regime in nonrandom forest canopies: theory, measurements, and a simplified modeling approach. Tree Physiology 19, 695-706.

Kucharik, C.J., J.M.Norman, and S.T.Gower (1998). Measurements of branch area and adjusting leaf area index indirect measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91, 69-88.

Kucharik, C.J., J.M. Norman, and S.T.Gower (1998). Measurements of leaf orientation, light distribution and sunlit leaf area in a boreal aspen forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91, 127-148.

Gower, S.T., I.G. Vogel, J.M. Norman, C.J. Kucharik, S.J. Steele, and T.A. Stow (1997). Carbon distribution and measurements of aboveground net primary production in aspen,jack pine,and black spruce stands in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 29,029-29,041.

Kucharik, C.J., J.M. Norman, L.M. Murdock, and S.T.Gower (1997).Characterizing canopy nonrandomness with a Multiband Vegetation Imager (MVI). Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 29,455-29,473.

Norman, J.M., C.J. Kucharik, S.T. Gower, D.D. Baldocchi, P.M. Crill, M. Rayment, K. Savage, and R.G. Striegl (1997). A comparison of six methods for measuring soil surface carbon dioxide fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 28,771-28,778.



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