Research Assistant Professor
Peer-reviewed Publications
Malcomb, JD, Scanlon TM, Epstein HE, Vadeboncoeur MA, Druckenbrod DL, Lanning M, Wang L, Asbjornsen H. 2025. Divergent water use efficiency trends among eastern North American temperate tree species. Oecologia 207:137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05753-w
Jucker T (with 122 co-authors). 2025. The global spectrum of tree crown architecture. Nature Communications 16: 4876. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60262-x
Anders E, Gotsch S, Vadeboncoeur M, Metcalfe D, Bartholomew D, Horwath A, Espinoza B, Galiano D, Asbjornsen H. 2025. Trait Plasticity and adaptive strategies of vascular epiphytes to a large-scale experimental reduction of fog immersion in a tropical montane cloud forest. American Journal of Botany, 112(5): e70042. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70042
Zukswert JM, Fahey TJ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hong DS, Yanai RD. 2025. Changes in foliar chemistry and nutrient resorption in northern hardwood forests in response to long-term experimental nitrogen and phosphorus addition. Oikos, e10867. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10867
Zukswert JM, Vadeboncoeur MA, Fahey TJ, Yanai RD. 2025. Treatment effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on foliar traits in six northern hardwood tree species. Oecologia, 207:23.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05664-w [PDF reprint]
Metcalfe D, Galiano D, Alvarez Mayorga, LM, Cruz R, Alvarez D, Otazu B, Huaraca Huasco W, Chambi J, Ezquerra M; Puma Vilca B; Mulligan M, Vadeboncoeur, MA, Asbjornsen P; Bittencourt P; Horwath A, Bartholomew D. 2025. The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: a new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16:400-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14483
Zukswert J, Vadeboncoeur MA, Yanai RD. 2024. Responses of stomatal density and carbon isotope composition of sugar maple and yellow birch foliage to N, P, and CaSiO3 fertilization. Tree Physiology, tpad142. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad142
Nash, JM, Vadeboncoeur MA, McGee G, Woodall CW, Yanai RD. 2023. Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 54:431-446. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0060
Contosta AR, Battles JJ, Campbell JL, Driscoll CT, Garlick SR, Holmes RT, Likens GE, Rodenhouse NL, Rogers SH, Templer PH, Vadeboncoeur MA, Groffman PM. 2023. Early warning signals of changing resilience in the biogeochemistry and biology of a northern hardwood forest. Environmental Research Letters, 18:094052.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf3fe [PDF reprint]
Brum M, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H, Puma Vilca BL, Galiano D, Horwath AB, Metcalfe DB. 2023. Ecophysiological controls on water use of tropical cloud forest trees in response to experimental drought. Tree Physiology, 43:1514-1532. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad070
French, KL; Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H, Fraver S, Kenefic L, Moore DB, Wason JW. 2023. Resistance of mature red spruce trees to an experimental extreme drought. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology.
35: 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40626-023-00267-3 [PDF reprint]
French, KL, Vadeboncoeur M, Asbjornsen H, Fraver S, Kenefic LS, Moore DB, Wason JW. 2023. Temporary thinning shock effects in previously shaded red spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 53: 491-502.
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0227 [PDF reprint]
Jucker T (with 119 coauthors). 2022. Tallo – a global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Global Change Biology, 28: 5254-5268. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16302 [open access]
Kwon T (with 289 coauthors). 2021. Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4: 90.
https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480 [open access]
Hobbie EA, Chen J, Penttilä, R, Rinne-Garmston, KT, Vadeboncoeur MA, Mäkipää, R. 2021. Carbon and nitrogen acquisition strategies by wood decay fungi influence their isotopic signatures in Picea abies forests. Fungal Ecology, 52: 101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101069
Asbjornsen H, McIntire CD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Jennings KA, Coble AP, Berry ZC. 2021. Sensitivity and threshold dynamics of Pinus strobus and Quercus spp. in response to experimental and naturally-occurring severe droughts. Tree Physiology, 41: 1819-1835. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab056
McIntire CD, Huggett BA, Dunn E, Munck IA, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H. 2021. Pathogen-induced defoliation impacts on transpiration, leaf gas exchange, and non-structural carbohydrate allocation in eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). Trees – Structure and Function, 35: 357-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-02037-z
Malcomb J, Scanlon T, Epstein H, Vadeboncoeur MA, Druckenbrod D, Wang L, Lanning M, Adams MB. 2020. Assessing temperate forest growth and water use in response to a long-term whole-watershed acidification experiment. JGR Biogeosciences, 125: e2019JG005560. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005560 [PDF reprint]
Coble AP, Contosta AR, Smith RG, Siegert NW, Vadeboncoeur MA, Jennings KA, Stewart AJ, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Influence of forest-to-silvopasture conversion and drought on components of evapotranspiration. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 295: 106916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106916
Vadeboncoeur MA, Jennings KA, Ouimette AP, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Correcting tree-ring ẟ13C time series for tree-size effects in eight temperate tree species. Tree Physiology, 40: 333-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz138 [PDF reprint]
Kattge J, (with 700+ coauthors). 2020. TRY plant trait database – Enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904 [open access]
Ouimette AP, Ollinger SV, Lepine LC, Stephens RB, Rowe RJ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Tumber-Davila SJ, Hobbie EA. 2019. Accounting for carbon flux to mycorrhizal fungi may resolve discrepancies in forest carbon budgets. Ecosystems, 23: 715-729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00440-3
Liu X, Lin TC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Yang Z, Xiong D; Xu C; Xie J, Li Y, Yang Y. 2019. Root litter inputs exert greater influence over soil C sequestration than does aboveground litter in a subtropical natural forest. Plant & Soil, 444: 489-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04294-5
Lyu M, Nie Y, Giardina CP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Ren Y, Fu Z, Wang M, Jin C, Liu X, Xie J. 2019. Litter quality and site characteristics interact to affect the response of priming effect to temperature in subtropical forests. Functional Ecology, 33: 2226-2238. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13428 [PDF reprint]
Lanning M, Wang L, Scanlon T, Vadeboncoeur MA, Adams MB, Epstein HE, Druckenbrod D. 2019. Intensified vegetation water use under acid deposition. Science Advances, 5: eaav5168. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav5168 [open access]
Hamburg SP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Johnson CE, Sanderman J. 2019. Losses of mineral soil carbon largely offset biomass accumulation fifteen years after whole-tree harvest in a northern hardwood forest. Biogeochemistry, 144: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00568-3
Lyu M, Xie J, Giardina CP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Feng X, Wang M, Ukonmaanaho, Lin TC, Kuzqykov Y, Yang Y. 2019. Understory ferns alter soil carbon chemistry and increase carbon storage during reforestation with native pine on previously degraded sites. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 132: 80-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.02.004 [PDF reprint]
Lyu M, Xie J, Vadeboncoeur MA, Wang M, Qiu X, Ren Y, Jiang M, Yang Y, Kuzyakov Y. 2018. Simulated leaf litter addition causes opposite priming effects on natural forest and plantation soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 54: 925-934. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-018-1314-5
Vadeboncoeur MA, Green MB, Campbell JL, Asbjornsen H, Adams MB, Boyer EW, Burns DA, Fernandez IJ, Mitchell MJ, Shanley JB. 2018. Systematic variation in evapotranspiration trends and drivers across the northeastern United States. Hydrological Processes, 32: 3547-3560. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13278
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Asbjornsen H, Campbell JL, Jennings KA, McIntire CD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Templer PH, Phillips R, Bauerle TL, Bowles F, Dietze M, Frey S, Groffman P, Guerrieri R, Hanson PJ, Kelsey E, Knapp AK, McDowell NG, Meir PW, Novick KA, Ollinger SV, Pockman W, Schaberg PG, Wullschleger SD, Smith MD, Rustad LE. 2018. Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 2310-2325. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13094 [PDF reprint]
44. Brum M, Vadeboncoeur MA, Ivanov V, Asbjornsen H, Saleska S, Alves L, Penha D; Dias JD, Aragão L, Barros F, Bittencourt P, Pereira L, Oliveira R. 2019. Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest. Journal of Ecology, 107: 318-333.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13022
Ouimette AP, Scott V. Ollinger SV, Richardson AD, Hollinger DY, Keenan TF, Lepine LC, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2018. Carbon fluxes and interannual drivers in a temperate forest ecosystem assessed through comparison of top-down and bottom-up approaches. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 256-257: 420-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.03.017 [PDF reprint]
McIntire CD, Munck I, Vadeboncoeur MA, Livingston WH, Asbjornsen H. 2018. Impacts of White Pine Needle Damage on seasonal litterfall dynamics and wood growth of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in New England. Forest Ecology and Management, 423: 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.02.034
Djukic I (with 322 co-authors). 2018. Litter decomposition across biomes: early stage mass loss. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629: 1369-1394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012
Chang CT, Vadeboncoeur MA, Lin TC. 2018. Resistance and resilience of social-ecological systems to recurrent typhoon disturbance on a subtropical island - Taiwan. Ecosphere 9:e02071. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2071 [open access]
Goswami S, Fisk MC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Garrison-Johnston M, Yanai RD, Fahey TJ. 2018. Phosphorus limitation of aboveground production in northern hardwood forests. Ecology 99:438-449. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2100
Wan X, Xiao L, Vadeboncoeur MA, Johnson CE, Huang Z. 2018. Response of mineral soil C storage to harvest residue retention depends on soil texture: A meta-analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 408:9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.028
Yu Z, Wang M, Huang Z, Lin TC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Searle E, Chen H. 2018. Temporal changes in soil C-N-P stoichiometry over the past 60 years across subtropical China. Global Change Biology, 24:1308–1320. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13939
Coble AP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Berry ZC, Jennings KA, McIntire CD, Campbell JL, Rustad LE, Templer PH, Asbjornsen H. 2017. Are northeastern U.S. forests vulnerable to extreme drought? Ecological Processes, 6:34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-017-0100-x [PDF reprint]
Liu X, Lin TC, Yang Z, Vadeboncoeur MA, Lin C, Xiong D, Lin W, Chen GS, Xie J, Li Y, Yang Y. 2017. Increased litter in subtropical forests boosts soil respiration in natural forests but not plantations of Castanopsis carlesii.
Plant and Soil, 418:141-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2
Remiszewski KA, Bryce JG, Fahnestock MF, Pettitt EA, Blichert-Toft J, Vadeboncoeur MA, Bailey SW. 2016. Elemental and isotopic perspectives on the impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi on mineral weathering across imposed geologic gradients. Chemical Geology, 445:164-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.05.005
Jennings K, Guerrieri R, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H. 2016. Response of Quercus velutina growth and water use efficiency to climate variability and nitrogen fertilization in a temperate deciduous forest in the northeastern U.S. Tree Physiology, 36: 428-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpw003
Durán J, Morse JL, Groffman PM, Campbell JL, Christenson LM, Driscoll CT, Fahey TJ, Fisk MC, Likens GE, Melillo JM, Mitchell MJ, Templer PH, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2016. Climate change decreases nitrogen supply in northern hardwood forests. Ecosphere, 7: e01251. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1251 [open access]
Vadeboncoeur MA, Ouimette AP, Hobbie EA. 2015. Mycorrhizal roots in a temperate forest take up organic nitrogen from 13C- and 15N-labeled organic matter. Plant and Soil, 397: 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2623-1 [PDF postprint]
Hernández-Santana V, Hernández-Hernández A, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H. 2015. Scaling from single-point sap velocity measurements to stand transpiration in a multi-species deciduous forest: uncertainty sources, stand structure effect, and future scenarios impacts. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45: 1489-1497.
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0009 [PDF postprint]
Liu TY, Lin KC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Chen MZ, Huang MY, Lin TC. 2015. Understory plant community and light availability in adjacent abandoned conifer plantations and adjacent natural hardwood forests in northern Taiwan. Applied Vegetation Science, 18: 591-602. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12178 [open access]
See CR, Yanai RD, Fisk MC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Fahey TJ, Quintero B. 2015. Soil nitrogen affects phosphorus recycling: foliar resorption and plant-soil feedbacks in a northern hardwood forest. Ecology, 96: 2488-2498.
https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0188.1 [PDF reprint]
Falster DS, et al. (with 85 co-authors). 2015. BAAD: a biomass and allometry database for woody plants: Ecological Archives E096-128. Ecology, 96: 1445. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1889.1 [open access]
Fahey TJ, Templer PH, Anderson BT, Battles JJ, Campbell JL, Driscoll CT, Fusco AR, Green MB, Kassam KS, Rodenhouse NL, Rustad L, Schaberg PG, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2015. The promise and peril of intensive-site-based ecological research: Insights from the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study. Ecology, 96: 885-901. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1043.1 [PDF reprint]
Vadeboncoeur, MA, Hamburg SP, Yanai RD, Blum JD. 2014. Rates of sustainable forest harvest depend on rotation length and weathering of soil minerals. Forest Ecology and Management, 318: 194-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.01.012 [PDF postprint]
Chang CT, Wang SF, Vadeboncoeur MA, Lin TC. 2014. Relating vegetation dynamics to temperature and precipitation at monthly and annual time scales in Taiwan using MODIS vegetation indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35: 598-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2013.871593
Yanai RD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Arthur MA, Fuss CB, Groffman PM, Siccama TG, Driscoll CT. 2013. From missing source to missing sink: Long-term changes in the nitrogen budget of a northern hardwood forest. Environmental Science & Technology, 47: 11440-11448. https://doi.org/10.1021/es4025723 [PDF reprint]
Rastetter EB, Yanai RD, Thomas RQ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Fahey TJ, Fisk MC, Kwiatkowski BL, Hamburg SP. 2013. Recovery from disturbance requires resynchronization of ecosystem nutrient cycles. Ecological Applications, 23:621-642. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0751.1 [PDF reprint]
Robinson TMP, La Pierre KJ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Byrne KM, Colby SE, Thomey ML. 2013. Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems. Oikos, 122:727-738.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20655.x [PDF reprint]
Hamburg SP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Richardson AD, Bailey AS. 2013. Climate change at the ecosystem scale: A 50-year record in New Hampshire. Climatic Change, 116:457-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0517-2 [PDF reprint]
Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Blum JD, Pennino MJ, Yanai RD, Johnson CE. 2012. The quantitative soil pit method for measuring belowground carbon and nitrogen stocks. Soil Science Society of America Journal 76: 2241-2255. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2012.0111 [PDF reprint]
Groffman, PM, Rustad LE, Templer PH, Campbell JL, Christenson LM, Lany NK, Socci AM, Vadeboncoeur MA, Schaberg PG, Wilson GW. 2012. Long-term integrated studies show complex and surprising effects of climate change in the northern hardwood forest. Bioscience, 62:1056-1066. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.12.7
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Levine CR, Yanai RD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Melvin A, Goodale CL, Rau BM, Johnson DW. 2012. Assessing the suitability of using rotary coring for sampling in rocky soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 76:1707-1718. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2011.0425
Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Cogbill CV, Sugimura WY. 2012. A comparison of presettlement and modern forest composition along an elevation gradient in central New Hampshire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42:190-202. https://doi.org/10.1139/x11-169 [PDF postprint]
Raciti S, Fahey TJ, Hall B, Driscoll CT, Carranti FJ, Foster DR, Gwyther PS, Jenkins JC, Jenkins JP, Hamburg SP, Neill C, Ollinger SV, Peery BW, Quigley EE, Sherman R, Thomas RQ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Weinstein D, Wilson G, Woodbury P, Yandik W. 2012. Local-scale carbon budgets and mitigation opportunities for the northeastern United States. Bioscience 62:23-38. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.7 [PDF reprint]
Fatemi FR, Yanai RD, Hamburg SP, Vadeboncoeur MA, Arthur MA, Briggs RD, Levine CR. 2011. Allometric equations for young northern hardwoods: the importance of age-specific equations for estimating aboveground biomass. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:881-891. https://doi.org/10.1139/x10-248
Lin TC, Hamburg SP, Lin KC, Wang LJ, Chang CT, Hsia YJ, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2011. Typhoon disturbance and forest dynamics: Lessons from a northwest Pacific subtropical forest. Ecosystems 14:127-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-010-9399-1 [PDF reprint]
Chang CT, Lin TC, Wang SF, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2011. Assessing growing season beginning and end dates and their relation to climate in Taiwan using satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32:5035-5058. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2010.494635 [PDF reprint]
Vadeboncoeur MA. 2010. Meta-analysis of fertilization experiments indicates multiple limiting nutrients in northeastern deciduous forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1766-1780.
https://doi.org/10.1139/X10-127 [PDF postprint]
Wielopolski L, Yanai RD, Levine CR, Mitra S, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2010. Rapid, non-destructive carbon analysis of forest soils using neutron-induced gamma-ray spectroscopy. Forest Ecology and Management 260:1132-1137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2010.06.039
Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Pryor D. 2010. Modeled nitrogen loading to Narragansett Bay: 1850 to 2015. Estuaries and Coasts 33:1113-1127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-010-9320-3 [PDF postprint]
Schaller M, Blum JD, Hamburg SP, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2010. Spatial variability of long-term chemical weathering rates in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA. Geoderma 154:294-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.10.017
Weeks BC, Hamburg SP, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2009. Ice storm effects on the canopy structure of a northern hardwood forest after eight years. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39:1475-1483.
https://doi.org/10.1139/X09-076 [PDF postprint]
Lee MF, Lin TC, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hwong JL. 2008. Remote sensing assessment of forest damage in relation to the 1996 strong typhoon Herb at Lienhuachi Experimental Forest, Taiwan. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3297-3306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.010
Hamburg SP, Pryor D, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2008. Nitrogen inputs to Narragansett Bay: an historical perspective. Chapter in Desbonnet A. and Costa-Pierce B. (eds.) Ecosystem-based Management of a Southern New England Estuary: A Case Study of Narragansett Bay. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35299-2_6
Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Yanai RD. 2007. Validation and refinement of allometric equations for roots of northern hardwoods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:1777-1783. https://doi.org/10.1139/X07-032
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Skeldon MA, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP, Blum JD. 2007. Terrestrial gastropod responses to an ecosystem-level calcium manipulation in a northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85:994-1007. https://doi.org/10.1139/Z07-084 [PDF postprint]
Park BB, Yanai RD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Hamburg SP. 2007. Estimating root biomass in rocky soils using pits, cores, and allometric equations. Soil Science Society of America Journal 71:206-213. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2005.0329
Fisher JI, Mustard JF, Vadeboncoeur MA. 2006. Green leaf phenology at Landsat resolution: scaling from the field to the satellite. Remote Sensing of Environment 100:265-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2005.10.022
Published Data Packages
Ton, K., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, N. Cleavitt, and H. Asbjornsen. 2025. Northern red oak regeneration in burned and unburned stands in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA, 2023-2024 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f488d29e300ce386fd6c99920e2d5f3b
Anders, E., S. Gotsch, M. Vadeboncoeur, H. Asbjornsen, D. Metcalfe, D. Bartholomew, and A. Horwath. 2025. Leaf traits plus growth and dieback data for cloud forest epiphytes in a cloud exclusion treatment at Wayqecha Biological Station, Peru ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4eb85bc373653c42053b3f38f394cf4e
Hamburg, S.P., R.D. Yanai, and M.A. Vadeboncoeur. 2025. Multiple Element Limitation in Northern Hardwood Ecosystems (MELNHE): Leaf Area Index (LAI), 2004 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c5aa2fccc8cdd81fa11db6007e9ce959
Yanai, R.D., M.C. Fisk, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, J.M. Zukswert, T. Mann, A. Young, G. Walsh, M. Morley, and C.R. See. 2024. Multiple Element Limitation in Northern Hardwood Ecosystems (MELNHE): Litterfall mass 2009-2022 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e2d437bddf1166a733b0df09c87f89f1
Vadeboncoeur, M.A., S.J. Tumber-Dávila, and A.P. Ouimette. 2023. Soil physical, chemical, and root data from forest stands at Thompson Farm in Durham, NH ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/cb301b6626b614506cd95c8174a48401
Nash, J.M., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, A.D. Wild, A. Zee, E.A. Cornell, M.A. Arthur, and R.D. Yanai. 2023. Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood at Bartlett Experimental Forest, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, the Bowl Natural Research Area, and the White Mountain National Forest, NH, USA ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/bd190341e6c15c02815966083f75ffbb
Ouimette, A.P., J.H. Hastings, S. Zuckerman, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, K. Baillargeon, S.V. Ollinger, and H. Asbjornsen. 2023. Leaf temperature of northeastern US tree species ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/964891a1931f6b562ffa8ce538f29b7f
Scanlon, T.M., H. Epstein, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, L. Wang, D.L. Druckenbrod, H. Asbjornsen, M. Lanning, and J. Malcomb. 2022. Carbon Isotope and Ring Width Measurements from Tree Rings of Selected Canopy Species at Six Sites in the Eastern United States ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/002f7de117e9c72245816a9b2b594d3e
Whittaker, R.H., T.G. Siccama, J.J. Battles, and M.A. Vadeboncoeur. 2021. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Tree component masses sampled west of watershed 6 by Whittaker et al in 1965 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/74d03184e07061ae1bd70054e220deb1
Vadeboncoeur, M.A., K.A. Jennings, A.P. Ouimette, and H. Asbjornsen. 2022. Wood alpha-cellulose stable C and O isotope ratios from New Hampshire and Vermont ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4f307ee004b8835a0dec16093a99e92b
Asbjornsen, H., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, K.A. Jennings, F.P. Bowles, P.H. Templer, and L.E. Rustad. 2022. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Droughtnet soil moisture, temperature and soil water potential ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/2b4df9a8b2609490f8dfbd7e821ee04f
Asbjornsen, H., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, K.A. Jennings, P.H. Templer, and L.E. Rustad. 2022. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Droughtnet fine root production from ingrowth cores ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/384dc65fd09c51d61ffe1f25764f036f
Asbjornsen, H., M.A. Vadeboncoeur, K.A. Jennings, B. Leonardi, G. Winant, P.H. Templer, and L.E. Rustad. 2022. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Droughtnet dendrometer band measurements ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/05cc90ac4b03c5a35ca1c1e7c7219577
Hamburg, S., A. Rhoads, and M. Vadeboncoeur. 2019. Leaf area index following the ice storm of January 1998 at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest ver 7. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e9845b03b82c481d72fcc18c14ba2852
Hamburg, S., C. Johnson, and M. Vadeboncoeur. 2019. Quantitative Pit Soil Carbon and Nitrogen on Watershed 5 at the Hubbard Brook Expermental Forest, 1983-1998 ver 9. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4bad076230659350cfbd9ccf92fc3dcf
Other Publications
Vadeboncoeur MA, Zuckerman S, Brum M, McIntire C, Tumber-Dávila SJ, Asbjornsen H. 2025. Responses of a New Hampshire oak-pine forest to seven years of experimental drought. NESAF News Quarterly 86: 14-18. https://nesaf.org/downloads/5134
Moore DB, Gutierrez Lopez JA, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H. 2024. Predicting Winter-Dormant-Season Sap Flow in Deciduous, Woody Eudicots With Wood Temperature. Acta Horticulturae 1419: XII International Workshop on Sap Flow. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2025.1419.13
Campbell JL, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H, Green, MB, Adams MB, Boyer EW. 2016. Evaluating biological and physical drivers of evapotranspiration trends at northeastern U.S. watersheds. pp. 229-231 in Stringer, C.E.; Krauss, K.W.; Latimer, J.S., eds. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management—Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/52036
Vadeboncoeur, MA. 2013. Mechanisms of nutrient limitation and nutrient acquisition in managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Hampshire. 
Fahey TJ, Carranti FJ, Driscoll CT, Foster DR, Gwyther PS, Hall B, Hamburg SP, Jenkins JC, Jenkins JP, Neill C, Ollinger SV, Peery BW, Quigley EE, Raciti S, Sherman R, Thomas RQ, Vadeboncoeur MA, Weinstein D, Wilson G, Woodbury P, Yandik W. 2011. Carbon and Communities: Linking Carbon Science with Public Policy and Resource Management in the Northeastern United States. Hanover, NH: Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. Science Links 1(4).
http://hubbardbrookfoundation.org/carbon/
Vadeboncoeur, MA. 2003. Using GIS to prioritize land for management in the conservation of a rare species. Sc.B. Thesis, Brown University.
Matt has long been interested in better understanding nutrient acquisition and resource allocation, as well as how these processes interact with plant community dynamics, plant physiology, human management decisions, disturbance history, and climate change to affect the cycling of water, nutrients, carbon, and energy through forest ecosystems.
Recently funded projects include studying the mechanisms by which prescribed fire influences oak regeneration near its northern range limit in New England, as well as an investigation in into possible correlations between sap yield, sap sugar concentration, and taphole wound response in a variety of maple species.
Matt has worked on projects from the Amazon to the Arctic Circle, but has mostly focused on temperate forests. An ongoing research focus include using stable isotopes in tree rings to characterize the response of forest carbon and water cycles to increased atmospheric carbon, climate change, and other stressors such as acid deposition. Matt is also a key collaborator on drought experiments at UNH's Thompson Farm and at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
Matt completed his PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNH in 2013. He studied nutrient limitation of primary production in forest ecosystems, and in particular the role of mycorrhizal fungi in acquiring inaccessible nutrients. His research was supervised by Erik Hobbie, and much of his work was conducted in the UNH Stable Isotope Lab, of which he is now the co-director.
Prior to arriving at UNH for graduate school, Matt worked in the Schmitt (plant evolutionary biology) and Hamburg (forest ecosystem) labs at Brown University. Much of his current and previous research has taken place at Hubbard Brook and Bartlett Experimental Forests in New Hampshire. He continues to be involved in the MELNHE project examining the effects of chronic N, P, and Ca additions to forest ecosystems.
Matt taught Biogeography (GEOG 573) at UNH in spring 2014, and Natural Resources Field Methods (NR415) at UNH in fall 2019.
e-mail: Matt Vadeboncoeur