UNH Ecohydrology Lab Publications
UNH ECOHYDROLOGY LAB AUTHORS AND ALUMNI ARE INDICATED IN BOLD TEXT.
2025
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
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
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, M, Asbjornsen H; 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
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
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
2024
Mosquera G, Marin F, Carabajo-Hidalgo A, Asbjornsen H, Celleri R, Crespo P. 2024. Water balance of the world’s highest elevation tropical forested (Polylepis) microcatchment. Science of the Total Environment. 941:173671. https://10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173671
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
Riano K., Cuevas R, Zuloaga-Aguilar S, Jardel E, Briones O, Asbjornsen H. 2024. Assemblage of forest communities in subtropical montane forests of western Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 40(e3). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467424000014
Zukswert J, Vadeboncoeur MA, Yanai RD. Responses of stomatal density and carbon isotope composition of sugar maple and yellow birch foliage to N, P, and CaSiO3 fertilization. Tree Physiology, 44, tpad142. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad142
2023
Carabajo-Hidalgo A, Sabate S, Crespo P, Asbjornsen H. 2023. Brief windows with favorable atmospheric conditions explain patterns of Polylepis reticulata tree water use in a high altitude Andean forest. Tree Physiology. 43(12):2085-2097. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad109.
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
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, Kenefice LS, Moore DB, Wason JW. 2023. Temporary thinning shock effects in previously shaded red spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 35: 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0227
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
Mosquera G, Hofstede R, Bremer L, Asbjornsen H, Carabajo A, Celleri R, Crespo P, Esquivel-Hernandez G, Feyen J, Manosalvas R, Marin F, Mena P, Montenegro-Diaz P,Ochoa-Sanchez A, Pesantez J, Riveros-Irequi D, Suarez E. Frontiers in paramo water resources research: a multidisciplinary assessment. 892:164373. Science of the Total Environment 892:164373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164373
Urcuqui-Bustamante AM, Selfa TL, Jones KW, Ashcraft CM, Asbjornsen H, Jones KW, Manson RH, Mayer A. 2023. Using science-based role-play simulations to inform payment for hydrological services program design in Mexico. Environmental Science & Policy, 139: 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.10.016
Zhang Z, Zhang L. Hang, Creed IF, Blanco JA, Wei X, Sun G, Asbjornsen H, Bishop K. 2023. Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes. Forest Ecology and Management 534: 120853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120853
2022
Asbjornsen H, Wang Y, Ellison D, Ashcraft CM, Atallah SS, Jones K, Mayer A, Altamirano M, Yu P. Multi-Targeted payments for the balanced management of hydrological and other forest ecosystem services. Forest Ecology and Management, 522: 120482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120482
Contosta AR, Asbjornsen H, Orefice J, Perry A, Smith R. 2022. Climate consequences of conversion of forest-to-pasture or forest-to silvopasture within the New England region. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 333: 107972 . https://doi.org/0.1016/j.agee.2022.107972
Guerrieri R, Belmecheri S, Asbjornsen H, Xiao J, Hollinger DY, Clark K, Jennings K, Kolb TE, Munger JW, Richardson AD, Ollinger SV. 2022. Detecting long-term changes instomatal conductance:challenges and opportunities oftree-ring ẟ18O proxy. New Phytologist, 236: 809-812. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18430
Zhang M, Liu S, Jones J, Sun G, Wei X, Ellison D, Archer E, McNulty S, Asbjornsen H, Zhang Z, Serengil Y, Zhang M, Yu Z, Li Q, Luan J, Yurtseven I, Hou Y, Deng S, Liu Z. 2022. Managing the forest-water nexus for climate change adaptation. Forest Ecology and Management, 525: 120545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120545
Mayer A, Jones K, Hunt D, Manson R, Berry ZC, Asbjornsen H, Wright TM, Salcone J, Lopez Ramirez S, Avila-Coucat S, von Thaden Ugalde J. 2022. Assessing ecosystem service outcomes from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: Future deforestation threats and spatial targeting. Ecosystem Services, 53: 101401. https://doi.org/0.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101401
Urcuqui-Bustamante AM, Selfa TL, Jones KW, Ashcraft CM, Manson RH, Asbjornsen H. 2022. Learning impacts of policy games: investigating role-play simulations (RPS) for stakeholder engagement in payment for hydrological services program in Veracruz, Mexico. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 4: 305–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00131-9
2021
Asbjornsen H, McIntire CD, Vadeboncoeur MA, Jennings KA, Coble AP, Berry ZC. 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
Brum M, Oliveira RS, Lopez JG, Licata J, Pypker T, Chia GS, Tinôco RS, Asbjornsen H. 2021. Effects of irrigation on oil palm transpiration during ENSO-induced drought in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon. Agricultural Water Management, 245: 106569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106569
Brydon-Williams R, Munck I, Asbjornsen H. 2021. Distribution, presence, and tree health impacts of the chaga fungus (Inontus obliquus) in hardwood forests of the northeastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51: 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0144
Gutierrez Lopez J, T. Pypker, J. Licata, S. Burgess, H. Asbjornsen. 2021. Maximum heat ratio: bio-directional method for fast and slow sap flow measurements. Plant and Soil 469: 503-523. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05066-w
Lopez-Ramirez SM, Mayer A, Saenz L, Munoz-Villers LE, Holwerda F, Looker N, Schurz C, Berry ZC, Manson R, Asbjornsen H, Kolka R, Geissert D, Lezama C. 2021. A comprehensive calibration and validation of SWAT-T using local datasets, evapotranspiration and streamflow in a tropical montane cloud forest area with permeable substrate in central Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 603: 126781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126781
Martin MP, Peters CM, H. Asbjornsen, Ashton MS. 2021. Diversity and niche-differentiation of pine and oak species in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. Ecosphere 12: e03475. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3475
Mendoza-Hernandez JHR, Vazquez-Navarrete CJ, Lagunes-Espinoza LDC, Rincon-Ramirez JA, del Rivero-Bautista N, Perez-Bonilla MDC, Gutierrez-Lopez J, Asbjornsen H. 2021. Effect of supplementary irrigation on the transpiration and reproductive development of oil palm trees during the dry season in Tabasco, Mexico. Cahiers Agricultures 30: 41. https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2021026.
McIntire CD, Huggett BA, Dunn E, Munck IA, Vadeboncoeur MA, Asbjornsen H. 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
2020
Berry ZC, Jones KW, Gomez-Aguilar LR, Congalton R, Holwerda F, Kolka R, Looker N, Lopez Ramirez SM, Manson R, Mayer A, Muñoz-Villers L, Ortiz-Colin P, Romero-Uribe H, Saenz L, Von Thaden JJ, Quetzalli MVB, Williams-Linera G, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Evaluating ecosystem service trade-offs along a land-use intensification gradient in central Veracruz, Mexico. Basic and Applied Ecology, 45: 101181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101181
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 [PDF available from USFS]
Jones KW, Mayer A, Asbjornsen H, Berry ZC, López-Ramírez S, Salcone J, Manson R, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Integrating impact evaluation and ecosystem service modeling to measure the net economic benefit of Payments for Hydrological Services Programs in Mexico. Ecological Economics, 175: 106666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106666
Malcomb J, Scanlon T, Epstein H, Vadeboncoeur MA, Druckenbrod D, Wang L, Lanning M, Adams MB. 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 available from USFS]
Quetzalli M, Williams-Linera G, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Biodiversity and carbon storage are correlated across land use intensification in a tropical montane forest watershed, Veracruz, Mexico. Basic and Applied Ecology, 44: 24-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2019.12.004
Sinacore K, Asbjornsen H, Hernandez-Santana V, Hall JS. 2020. Differential and dynamic water regulation responses to El Niño for monospecific and mixed species planted forests. Ecohydrology, 13: e2238. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2238
Stewart A, Coble AP, Contosta AR, Orefice JN, Smith RG, Asbjornsen H. 2020. Forest conversion to silvopasture and open pasture: effects on soil hydraulic properties. Agroforestry Systems 94:869-879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00454-9
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 available from NSF]
2019
Asbjornsen H, Campbell JL, D’Amato AW, Garnas J, Gunn JS, Iverson LR, Ontl TA, Pederson N, Peters MP, Shannon P. 2019. Managing effects of drought in the Midwest and Northeast US. In: Vose JM; Peterson DL; Luce CH; Patel-Weynand T, eds. Effects of drought on forests and rangelands in the United States: translating science into management responses. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-98. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington Office. pp165-190. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-98
Berry C, Espejel X, Asbjornsen H, Linera-Williams G. 2019. Linking coordinated hydraulic traits to drought and recovery responses in a tropical montane cloud forest. American Journal of Botany, 106: 1316-1326. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1356
Brydon-Williams RT. 2019. Distribution, presence, ecology, and harvest dynamics of the chaga fungus (Inonotus obliquus) in the White Mountain National Forest. M.Sc. thesis. University of New Hampshire. https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/1269/
Grossiord C, Christofferson B, Alonso-Rodriguez A, Anderson-Teixeira, Asbjornsen H, et al. 2019. Transpiration sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics. Oecologia, 191:519-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04513-x
Guerrieri R, Belmecheri S, Ollinger SV, Asbjornsen H, Jennings K, Xiao J, Stocker BD, Martin M, Hollinger DY, Bracho-Garrillo R, Clark K, Dore S, Kolb T, Mungers JW, Novick K, Richardson AD. 2019. Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116: 16909-16914. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905912116
Gutiérrez López JA. 2019. Ecohydrology of aspen and eucalyptus plantations: considerations for management. Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/2446/
Gutiérrez López JA, Licata J, Pypker T, Asbjornsen H. 2019. Effects of heater wattage on sap flux density estimates using an improved tree-cut experiment. Tree Physiology, 39:679–693. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy137
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)
Pischke EC, Berry ZC, Kolka RK, Salcone J, Cordoba D, Shinbrot X, Lopez Ramirez SM, Jones KW, Congalton RG, Manson RH, Von Thaden Ugalde JJ, Selfa T, Avila S, Asbjornsen H. 2019. Lessons Learned About Collaborating Across Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research on Mexico’s Payments for Hydrological Services Program. In: Perz, S. (Ed.) Collaboration Across Boundaries for Interdisciplinary Environmental Systems Science. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13827-1_2
Sinacore K, Asbjornsen H, Hernandez Santana V, Hall JS. 2019. Drought differentially affects growth, transpiration, and water use efficiency of mixed and monospecific planted forests. Forests, 10: 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020153v (open access)
Sinacore K, Breton C, Asbjornsen H, Hernandez Santana V, Hall JS. 2019. Drought effects on Tectona grandis water regulation are mediated by thinning, but the effects of thinning are temporary. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2: 82. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00082 (open access)
Yang Y, Meng L, Yanai RD, Montesdeoca M, Templer PH, Asbjornsen H, Rustad LE, Driscoll CT. 2019. Climate change may alter mercury fluxes in northern hardwood forests. Biogeochemistry, 146: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00605-1
2018
Aparecido LMT, Teodoro GS, Mosquera G, Brum M, Barros FD V, Pompeu PV, Rodas M, Lazo P, Müller CS, Mulligan M, Asbjornsen H, Moore GW, Oliveira RS, 2018. Ecohydrological drivers of Neotropical vegetation in montane ecosystems. Ecohydrology, 11: e1932. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1932
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: 3210-2325. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13094 [PDF available from USFS]
Asbjornsen H, Manson R, Lopez C, Negreros-Castillo P. 2018. Agroforestry and Climate Change in Mexico. In: Schoeneberger MM, Bentrup G, Patel-Weynand T, eds. Agroforestry and Climate Change: Reducing Threats and Enhancing Resiliency in Agricultural Landscapes. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report WO-96. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-96
Berry ZC, Evaristo J, Moore GW, Poca M, Steppe K, Verrot L, Asbjornsen H, Borma LS, Bretfeld M, Hervé-Fernández P, Seyfried M, Schwendenmann L, Sinacore K, De Wispelaere L, McDonnell J. 2018. The two water worlds hypothesis: Addressing multiple working hypotheses and proposing a way forward. Ecohydrology, 11: e1843. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1843
Berry ZC, Looker N, Holwerda F, Gomez-Aguilar LR, Ortiz-Colin P, Gonzales-Martinez T, Asbjornsen H. 2018. Why size matters: The interactive influence of tree diameter distribution and sap flow parameters on upscaled transpiration. Tree Physiology, 38: 263-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpx124
Brum M, Gutiérrez López JA, Asbjornsen H, Licata J, Pypker T, Sanchez G, Oiveira RS. 2018. ENSO effects on the transpiration of eastern Amazon trees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 373: 20180085. https://doi.org.10.1098/rstb.2018.0085
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 RS. 2018. 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 [postprint available from UNH]
Djukic I et al. (with 322 co-authors). 2018. Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629: 1369-1394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012
Gutierrez Lopez J, Asbjornsen H, Pypker T, Licata J. 2018. Analysis of changes in the current supplied to heat dissipation sensors. Acta Horticulturae, 1222: 155-160. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1222.32
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)
McIntire CD. 2018. Impacts and management of foliar pathogens of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in the northeastern United States. University of New Hampshire. Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/2397/
McIntire CD, Munck IA, Ducey MJ, Asbjornsen H. 2018. Thinning treatments reduce severity of foliar pathogens in eastern white pine. Forest Ecology and Management, 423:1 06–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.032
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
Ouimette AP, 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 available from USFS]
Sinacore K. 2018. Variation in plant water use, growth, and water-use efficiency of planted mixtures and monocultures: toward proper species selection for reforestation efforts in the seasonally dry tropics. University of New Hampshire. Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/2422/
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 [PDF avaialble from USFS]
Vargas K. 2018. Developing spectral metrics as early indicators of water stress detection at the canopy level. M.Sc. thesis, University of New Hampshire. https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/1215
Wilcox BP, Asbjornsen H. 2018. Emerging issues in tropical ecohydrology. Ecohydrology, 11: e1970. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1970
Wyka SA, McIntire CD, Smith C, Munck IA, Rock BN, Asbjornsen H, Broders KD. 2018. Effect of climatic variables on abundance and dispersal of Lecanosticta acicola spores and impact of defoliation on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). Phytopathology, 108: 374-383. https//doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-02-17-0065-R
2017
Asbjornsen H, Manson R, Scullion J, Holwerda F, Munoz-Villers L, Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Geissert D, Dawson TE, McDonnell J, Bruijnzeel LA. 2017. Exploring interactions between payment for hydrologic service policies, landowner decisions, and ecohydrology in a Mexican cloud forest watershed: Is there a disconnect between the policy and the resource? Ecology and Society, 22: 25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09144-220225 (open access)
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 available from USFS]
Guerrieri R, Jennings K, Belmecheri S, Asbjornsen H, Ollinger S. 2017. Evaluating climate signal recorded in tree-ring δ13C and δ18O values from bulk wood and α-cellulose for six species across four sites in the northeastern US. Rapid Commununications in Mass Spectrometry, 31: 2081–2091. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7995
Orefice J, Smith RG, Carroll J, Asbjornsen H, Kelting D. 2017. Soil and understory plant dynamics during conversion of forest to silvopasture, open pasture, and heavily thinned woodlot. Agroforestry Systems, 91: 729-739. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-016-0040-y
Schulte LA, Niemi JB, Helmers MJ, Liebman M, Arbuckle JG, James DE, Kolka RK, O’Neal ME, Tomer MD, Tyndall JC, Asbjornsen H, Drobney P, Neal J, Van RysWyk GV, Witte C. 2017. Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn-soybean croplands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114: E10851. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620229114
Stewart AJ. 2017. Land use change in the northeast united states: retaining forest structure and its soil hydraulic properties through silvopasture. M.Sc. thesis, University of New Hampshire. http://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/1125
Sun G, Hallema D, Asbjornsen H. 2017. Ecohydrological processes and ecosystem services in the Anthropocene: a review. Ecological Processes, 6: 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-017-0104-6 (open access)
2016
Berry ZC, Gotsch S, Holwerda F, Munoz-Villers LE, Asbjornsen H. 2016. Slope position influences vegetation-atmosphere interactions in a tropical montane cloud forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 221: 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.02.012
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 in: Stringer CE, Krauss KW, Latimer JS (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, North Charleston, SC, pp. 239–241. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/52036
Gotsch SG, Asbjornsen H, Goldsmith GR. 2016. Plant carbon and water fluxes in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 19: 748-1758 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12170
Guerrieri R, Lepine L, Asbjornsen H, Xiao J, Ollinger SV. 2016. Evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in relation to climate and canopy nitrogen in U.S. forests. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 121: 2610-2629. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003415 [postprint available from UNH]
Jennings KA, 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
Orefice J, Smith RG, Carroll J, Asbjornsen H, Howard T. 2016. Forage productivity and profitability in newly-established open pasture, silvopasture, and thinning forest production systems. Agroforestry Systems, 93: 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-016-0052-7
Vose JM, Luce C, Miniat C, Sun G, Campbell J, Grant GE, Isaak D, Asbjornsen H, Loheide S, Caldwell P. 2016. Ecohydrological implications of drought for forests in the United States. Forest Ecology and Management, 380: 335-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.025
2015
Asbjornsen H, Mayer AS, Wendland KJ, Selfa T, Kolka R, Saenz L, Halvorsen KE. 2015. Assessing impacts of payments for watershed services on sustainability in coupled natural-human systems. Bioscience, 65: 579-591. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv051
Asbjornsen H, Manson R. 2015. Managing Watersheds using Payments for Hydrological Services: Mexico’s Experience in Central Veracruz. In: Hall JS, Kirn V, eds. Managing Watersheds for Ecosystem Services in the Steepland Neotropics, pp. 118-131. Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative, Yale University, Inter-American Development Bank, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.
Fahey TJ, Templer PH, Anderson BT, Battles JJ, Campbell JL, Driscoll CT, Fusco AR, Green MB, Kassam KS, Rodenhouse NL, Schaberg PG, Rustad L, 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 available from USFS]
Gollany HT, Titus BD, Resh S, Asbjornsen H, Chimner RA, Scott A, Kaczmarek DJ, Leite LFC, Ferreira ACC, Rod K, Hilbert J, Galdos MV, Cisz M. 2015. Biogeochemical research priorities for sustainable biofuel and bioenergy feedstock production in Pan-America. Environmental Management, 56: 1330–1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-015-0536-7
Hall JS, Lebrija E, Asbjornsen H, Aguirre N, van Breugel M, Berry ZC, Martinez-Ramos M. 2015. Understanding Natural Capital, Part B: Ecosystem Patterns and Processes. In: Hall JS, Kirn V, Yanguas-Fernández E, eds. Managing Watersheds for Ecosystem Services in the Steepland Neotropics pp. 35-46, Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative, Yale University, Inter-American Development Bank, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.
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 [postprint available from Spanish National Research Council]
Muñoz-Villers LE, Holwerda F, Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Geissert Kientz DR, Marín-Castro BE, Gómez-Tagle Chávez A, Asbjornsen H, McDonnell JJ, Dawson TE, Bruijnzeel LA. 2015. Cloud forest hydrology and land use change effects in Veracruz, Mexico. Bosque, 36 :395-407. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92002015000300007
Watkins DW Jr, Moraes MMGA, Asbjornsen H, Mayer AS, Licata J, Gutierrez-Lopez J, Pypker T, Gamez-Molina V, Fernandes-Marques G, Guimaraes-Carneiro AC, Nunez HM, Onal H, da Nobrega-GermanoB. 2015. Bioenergy development and integrated water-energy management in Pan America. Environmental Management, 56: 1295–1314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-015-0460-x
2014
Asbjornsen H, Hernández Santana V, Liebman M, Bayala J, Chen J, Helmers M, Ong CK, Schulte LA. 2014. Targeting perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes for enhancing ecosystem services. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 29: 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170512000385
Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Holwerda F, Geissert DR, Munoz-Villers LE, Gotsch SG, Asbjornsen H, Dawson T. 2014. Nighttime transpiration in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud forest environment. Tree Physiology, 29: 259-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-014-1111-1
Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Holwerda F, Asbjornsen H, Dawson TE, Bruijnzeel LA. 2014. Suppression of transpiration due to cloud immersion in a seasonally dry Mexican weeping pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 186 :12–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.11.002
Gotsch SG, Crausbay SD, Weintraub A, Giambelluca TW, Longman R, Asbjornsen H, Hotchkiss SC, Dawson T. 2014. Water relations and microclimate around the upper limit of cloud forest in Maui, Hawai’i. Tree Physiology, 34: 766-777. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpu050
Gutierrez-Lopez JA, Asbjornsen H, Helmers MJ, Isenhart TM. 2014. Regulation of soil moisture dynamics in agricultural fields using strips of native prairie vegetation. Geoderma, 226: 238-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.02.013
Hale I, Wollheim W, Smith R, Asbjornsen H, Brito A, Broders K, Grandy S, Rowe R. 2014. A scale-explicit framework for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of agricultural land use changes. Sustainability, 6: 8432-8451. https://doi.org/10.3390/su6128432 (open access)
Hernández Hernández A. 2014. Effects of nutrient amendments on water use and water use efficiency in a northeastern forest ecosystem. M.Sc. thesis, University of New Hampshire.
Pérez-Suárez M, Castellano MJ, Kolka R, Asbjornsen H, Helmers MJ. 2014. Nitrogen and carbon dynamics in prairie vegetation strips across topographical gradients in mixed annual-perennial agroecosystems in Central Iowa, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 188: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.01.023 [PDF available from University of Nebraska]
Roman-Cuesta RM, Carmona-Moreno C, Lizcano G, New M, Silman M, Knoke T, Malhi Y, Oliveras I, Asbjornsen H, Vuille M. 2014. Synchronous fire activity in the tropical high Andes: an indication of regional climate forcing. Global Change Biology, 20: 1929-1942. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12538
Zhou X., Helmers MJ, Asbjornsen H, Kolka R, Tomer MD, Cruse RM. 2014. Nutrient removal by prairie filter strips in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Soil Water Conservation, 69: 54-64. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.69.1.54 [PDF available from Iowa State]
2013
Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Asbjornsen H, Holwerda F. 2013. Is nighttime transpiration enhanced after fog events? Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Sap Flow. Acta Horticulturae, 991: 133-139. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2013.991.16
Gotsch SG, Asbjornsen H, Holwerda F, Goldsmith GR, Weintraub AE, Dawson TE. 2013. Foggy days and dry nights determine crown-level water balance in a seasonal tropical montane cloud forest. Plant, Cell & Environment, 37: 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12151
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 [postprint available from UNH]
Jennings KA. 2013. Response of tree growth and water use efficiency to climate and nitrogen deposition in a temperate deciduous forest in the northeastern US. M.Sc. thesis. University of New Hampshire. http://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/807
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 available from Smithsonian]
2012
Alvarado Barrientos S, Hernández Santana V, Asbjornsen H. 2012. Disentangling the radial profile of sap velocity of Pinus patula. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 168: 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.08.004
Helmers MJ, Zhou X, Asbjornsen H, Kolka R, Tomer MD, Cruse RM. 2012. Sediment removal by prairie filter strips in row-cropped ephemeral watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality, 41:1531-1539. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2011.0473
Hernández Santana V, Asbjornsen H, Sauer T, Isenhart T, Schultz R, Schilling K. 2012. Effects of thinning on transpiration by riparian buffer trees in response to advection and solar radiation. Acta Horticulturae, 951: 225–231. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.951.27
Hernández Santana V, Asbjornsen H, Schultz R, Isenhart T, Schilling K. 2013. Native prairie filter strips reduce runoff from hillslopes under annual row-crop systems in Iowa, USA. Journal of Hydrology, 477: 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.013 [PDF available from USFS]
2011
Alberti M, Asbjornsen H, Baker LA, Brozovic N, Drinkwater LE, Drzyzga SA, Fragosa J, Holland DS, Jantz CA, Kohler TA, Liu J, Maschner HDG, McConnell WJ, Millington JDA, Monticino M, Podesta G, Pontius RG Jr, Redman CL, Reo NJ, Sailor D, Urquhart G. 2011. Research on coupled human and natural systems (CHANS): Approach, challenges, and strategies. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 92: 218-228. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-92.2.218
Asbjornsen H, Goldsmith GR, Alvarado-Barrientos MS, Rebel K, van Osch FP, Rietkerk M, Chen J, Gotsch S, Tobon C, Geissert DR, Gomez-Tagle A, Vache K, Dawson TE. 2011. Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant-water relations research: a review. Journal of Plant Ecology, 4: 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtr005
Asbjornsen H, Garnica-Sánchez Z. 2011. Fire and community management of fire in tropical montane cloud forests in southeastern Mexico. pp. 659-670. Bruijnzeel, LA, Scatena FN, Hamilton LS, eds. Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. International Hydrology Series, Cambridge University Press.
Brudvig L, Blunck HM, Asbjornsen H, Mateos-Remigio V, Wagner SA, Randall J. 2011. Influences of woody encroachment and restoration thinning on savanna oak tree radial growth rates. Forest Ecology and Management 262: 1409-1416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.038
Goldsmith GR, Muñoz-Villers LE, Holwerda F, McDonnell JJ, Asbjornsen H, Dawson TE. 2011. Stable isotopes reveal linkages among ecohydrological processes in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud forest. Ecohydrology, 5: 779-790. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.268
Hernández-Santana V, Asbjornsen H, Schultz R, Isenhart T, Schilling K. 2011. Enhanced transpiration by riparian buffer trees in response to advection in a humid temperate agricultural landscape. Forest Ecology and Management, 261: 1415-1427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.027
Holwerda F, Bruijnzeel LA, Muñoz-Villers LE, Gomez-Cardenas M, Equihua M, Asbjornsen H. 2011. Rainfall and cloud water interception in mature and secondary lower montane cloud forests of central Veracruz, Mexico. Hydrological Processes, 384: 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.01.012
Muñoz-Villers L, Holwerda F, Gomez-Cardenas M, Equihua M, Bruijnzeel LA, Asbjornsen H. 2011. Water budgets of old growth and regenerating montane cloud forests in Central Veracruz, Mexico. Hydrological Processes 462:53-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.01.062
Roman-Cuesta RM, Salinas N, Asbjornsen H, Huaman V, Gutierrez Y, Puelles L, Kala J, Yabar D, Rojas M, Astete R, Jordan DY, Carmona-Morena C, Silman M, Mosandl R, Weber M, Stimm B, Günter S, Knoke T, Zimmermann M, Malhi, Y. 2011. Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean Cloud Montane Forest: The importance of peat-soils and vegetation resprouting. Forest Ecology and Management, 261: 1987-1997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.02.025
Wård YA. Malmer A, Asbjornsen H. 2011. Historical 14C evidence of fire in tropical montane cloud forests in the Chimalapas region of Oaxaca, Southern Mexico. pp. 575-578. In: Bruijnzeel, LA, Scatena FN, Hamilton LS, eds. Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. International Hydrology Series, Cambridge University Press.