Kirk R. Wythers

University of Minnesota — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(11), Forest ecology and management(6), Fire effects on ecosystems(5), Plant responses to elevated CO2(5), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(3)

Publications19 total

Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model
Environmental Research Letters·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Seeing the Canopy for the Branches: Improved Within Canopy Scaling of Leaf Nitrogen
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2019· 127 citedOpen Access
Incorporating Trait Distributions into Land Surface Models
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2018
A better way of representing stem area index in two-big-leaf models: the application and impact on canopy integration of leaf nitrogen content
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2017
Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017· 287 citedOpen Access
Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate
Nature Communications·2017· 132 citedOpen Access
Global Land Carbon Uptake from Trait Distributions
AGUFM·2016
Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits
New Phytologist·2015· 432 citedOpen Access
Minnesota forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
2014· 113 citedOpen Access
Forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis for northern Wisconsin and western Upper Michigan: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
2014· 52 citedOpen Access
Michigan forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
2014· 31 citedOpen Access
Potential climate change impacts on temperate forest ecosystem processes
Canadian Journal of Forest Research·2013· 49 cited
Incorporating temperature‐sensitive <i>Q</i><sub>10</sub> and foliar respiration acclimation algorithms modifies modeled ecosystem responses to global change
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences·2012· 46 citedOpen Access
Influence of Disturbance on Temperate Forest Productivity
Ecosystems·2012· 62 cited
Parallel Computing of Forest Biotic Dynamics
University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota)·2012Open Access
Foliar respiration acclimation to temperature and temperature variable<i>Q</i><sub>10</sub>alter ecosystem carbon balance
Global Change Biology·2005· 111 cited
Predicting leaf area index from scaling principles: corroboration and consequences
Tree Physiology·2003· 23 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Peter B. Reich(19), Owen K. Atkin(9), Ethan E. Butler(9), Jens Kattge(8), Habacuc Flores‐Moreno(8), Peter Thornton(6), Ming Chen(5), Emily B. Peters(5), Daniel Ricciuto(5), Abhirup Datta(4), Arindam Banerjee(4), Mark G. Tjoelker(3), Patrick Meir(3), Ülo Niinemets(3), Farideh Fazayeli(3), Chaeho Byun(3), Steven Jansen(3), K. Krämer(3), Vanessa Minden(3), Stephen D. Handler(3)