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Yude Pan
Current Research
Dr. Pan is currently a senior research scientist with the Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences group of the Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, and Senior Investigator of Harvard Forest, Harvard University. She is a member of the U.S. Government's Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group, member of the Global Forest Expert Panel (GFEP) on Biodiversity, Forest Management and REDD+, CPF of the United Nations, member of the Editorial Boards of the ESA journals, Ecosphere and Ecological Applications, as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. Her research projects primarily include, but are not limited to,
- Biological responses of terrestrial ecosystems to multiple environmental stresses with emphasis on understanding complex interactions among biotic and abiotic processes and between ecosystem structural and functional dynamics;
- Regional and continental terrestrial carbon dynamics, and the magnitude and causes of carbon sinks/sources on the land, analyzing the relative importance of the factors that regulate terrestrial uptake of C including natural disturbances, LULC, climate variability, increasing CO2 concentration, N deposition, and tropospheric ozone.
- The global forest carbon budget and the role of forests in the global carbon cycle, including assessment of forest carbon management strategies for mitigation, and the UN REDD+ Program.
- Modeling and forecasting complex effects of land use, climate and air pollution, particularly nitrogen deposition, on the health of forested watersheds and the effects of watershed forests on the micro-scale stream environments and aquatic organisms.
Her research is highly interdisciplinary in nature and has integrated intensive field studies with modeling approaches, combining strengths of both process- and statistical-based methods with hierarchic observations and measurements from forest inventories, eddy flux towers and remote sensing to understanding how ecosystems function across multiple scales. She has been involved in a series of collaborative projects for understanding and quantifying the impacts of climate changes on forest ecosystems and watershed health in Northeastern and the Mid-Atlantic regions, and for North America. She has also worked on the global forest C analyses with colleagues from around the world. She has been a PI and Co-PI of several NASA projects and USFS Climate Change Research Grants.
Education
- SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University, Ph.D. Plant Ecology, 1993
- Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.Sc. Quantitative Plant Ecology, 1985
- Oceanography University of China, B.S. Applied Mathematics, 1983
Professional Experience
- Associate Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth Environmental Science 2005 - 2016
- Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University 2007 - 2008
- Postdoc and Research Associate, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 1994 - 1997
Professional Organizations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Global Forest Expert Panel on Biodiversity, Forest Management and Redd++, Cpf, United Nations (2012 - 2014)
- Ecological Society of America
- Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group (CCSSG), United States Carbon Cycle Science Program
- Harvard Forest, Harvard University
- Colegio De Postgraduados, Mexico
- American Geophysical Union
- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (2005 - 2016)
Awards & Recognition
- Elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America for career contributions to science of Ecology., 2020
- Chief's Distinguished Science Award, USDA Forest Service, Washington D.C, 2016
- Charles Bullard Fellowship, Harvard Forest, Harvard University , 2016
- Director's Distinguished Science Award, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 2015
- Awards of Merit for Leading the publication of the US Agricultural Department, USDA, 2011
- International Forestry Award, USDA Forest Service, 2002
Featured Publications & Products
- Pan, Yude ; Jackson, Robert B.; Hollinger, David Y.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Nowak, Robert S.; Norby, Richard J.; Oren, Ram ; Reich, Peter B.; Lüscher, Andreas ; Mueller, Kevin E.; Owensby, Clenton ; Birdsey, Richard ; Hom, John ; Luo, Yiqi. 2022. Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies. Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Pan, Yude; Schimel, David. 2016. Synergy of a warm spring and dry summer. Nature. 534: 483-484.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Jackson, Robert B. 2013. The structure, distribution, and biomass of the world's forests. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 44(1): 593-622.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; Fang, Jingyun; Houghton, Richard; Kauppi, Pekka E.; Kurz, Werner A.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Shvidenko, Anatoly; Lewis, Simon L.; Canadell, Josep G.; Ciais, Philippe; Jackson, Robert B.; Pacala, Stephen W.; McGuire, A. David; Piao, Shilong; Rautiainen, Aapo; Sitch, Stephen; Hayes, Daniel. 2011. A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. Science. 333: 988-993.
- Pan, Y.; Chen, J.M.; Birdsey, R.; McCullough, K.; He, L.; Deng, F. 2011. Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests. Biogeosciences. 8: 715-732.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; Hom, John; McCullough, Kevin. 2009. Separating effects of changes in atmospheric composition, climate and land-use on carbon sequestration of U.S. mid-Atlantic temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 259: 151-164.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; Hom, John; McCullough, Kevin; Clark, Kenneth. 2006. Improved estimates of net primary productivity from MODIS satellite data at regional and local scales. Ecological Applications.
Publications & Products
- Xu, Hang ; Xiao, Jingfeng ; Zhang, Zhiqiang ; Ollinger, Scott V; Hollinger, David Y.; Pan, Yude ; Wan, Jiaming. 2020. Canopy photosynthetic capacity drives contrasting age dynamics of resource use efficiencies between mature temperate evergreen and deciduous forests. Global Change Biology
- Domke, G. ; Williams, C. A.; Birdsey, R. ; Coulston, J. ; Finzi, A. ; Gough, C. ; Haight, B. ; Hicke, J. ; Janowiak, M. ; de Jong, B. ; Kurz, W. A.; Lucash, M. ; Ogle, S. ; Olguín-Álvarez, M. ; Pan, Y. ; Skutsch, M. ; Smyth, C. ; Swanston, C. ; Templer, P. ; Wear, D. ; Woodall, C. W. 2018. Chapter 9: Forests. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. [Cavallaro, N.; Shrestha, G.; Birdsey, R.; Mayes, M. A.; Najjar, R. G.; Reed, S. C.; Romero-Lankao, P.; Zhu, Z., eds. Washington, DC, USA: U.S. Global Change Research Program.
- Luo, Tianxiang ; Liu, Xinsheng ; Zhang, Lin ; Li, Xiang ; Pan, Yude ; Wright, Ian J. 2018. Summer solstice marks a seasonal shift in temperature sensitivity of stem growth and nitrogen-use efficiency in cold-limited forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
- Pan, Yude ; McCullough, Kevin ; Hollinger, David Y. 2018. Forest biodiversity, relationships to structural and functional attributes, and stability in New England forests. Forest Ecosystems
- Soriano-Luna, María ; Ángeles-Pérez, Gregorio ; Guevara, Mario ; Birdsey, Richard ; Pan, Yude ; Vaquera-Huerta, Humberto ; Valdez-Lazalde, José ; Johnson, Kristofer ; Vargas, Rodrigo. 2018. Determinants of Above-Ground Biomass and Its Spatial Variability in a Temperate Forest Managed for Timber Production. Forests
- Ballantyne, Ashley; Smith, William; Anderegg, William; Kauppi, Pekka; Sarmiento, Jorge; Tans, Pieter; Shevliakova, Elena; Pan, Yude; Poulter, Benjamin; Anav, Alessandro; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Houghton, Richard; Running, Steven. 2017. Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration. Nature Climate Change
- Dugan, Alexa J.; Birdsey, Richard; Healey, Sean P.; Pan, Yude; Zhang, Fangmin; Mo, Gang; Chen, Jing; Woodall, Christopher W.; Hernandez, Alexander J.; McCullough, Kevin; McCarter, James B.; Raymond, Crystal L.; Dante-Wood, Karen. 2017. Forest sector carbon analyses support land management planning and projects: Assessing the influence of anthropogenic and natural factors. Climatic Change. 144: 207-220.
- Li, Wei; Ciais, Philippe; Peng, Shushi; Yue, Chao; Wang, Yilong; Thurner, Martin; Saatchi, Sassan S.; Arneth, Almut; Avitabile, Valerio; Carvalhais, Nuno; Harper, Anna B.; Kato, Etsushi; Koven, Charles; Liu, Yi Y.; Nabel, Julia E. M. S.; Pan, Yude; Pongratz, Julia; Poulter, Benjamin; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Santoro, Maurizio; Sitch, Stephen; Stocker, Benjamin D.; Viovy, Nicolas; Wiltshire, Andy; Yousefpour, Rasoul; Zaehle, Sönke. 2017. Land-use and land-cover change carbon emissions between 1901 and 2012 constrained by biomass observations. Biogeosciences Discussions
- Xu, Bing; Pan, Yude; Plante, Alain F.; McCullough, Kevin; Birdsey, Richard. 2017. Modeling forest carbon cycle using long-term carbon stock field measurement in the Delaware River Basin. Ecosphere
- Zhang, Fangmin; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; Chen, Jing M.; Dugan, Alexa. 2017. Seeking potential contributions to future carbon budget in conterminous US forests considering disturbances. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
- Zhu, Jianxiao; Hu, Huifeng; Tao, Shengli; Chi, Xiulian; Li, Peng; Jiang, Lai; Ji, Chengjun; Zhu, Jiangling; Tang, Zhiyao; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; He, Xinhua; Fang, Jingyun. 2017. Carbon stocks and changes of dead organic matter in China's forests. Nature Communications
- Sasaki, N.; Asner, G.P.; Pan, Yude; Knorr, W.; Durst, P.B.; Ma, H.O.; Abe, I.; Lowe, A.J.; Koh, L.P. 2016. Sustainable forest management of tropical forests can reduce carbon emissions and stabilize timber production. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 4: 50. 13 p. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2016.00050
- Xu, B.; Pan, Yude; Johnson, A.H.; Plante, A.F. 2016. Method comparison for forest soil carbon and nitrogen estimates in the Delaware River basin. Science Society of America Journal. 80(1): 227-237.
- Xu, Bing; Pan, Yude; Plante, Alain F.; Johnson, Arthur; Cole, Jason; Birdsey, Richard. 2016. Decadal change of forest biomass carbon stocks and tree demography in the Delaware River Basin. Forest Ecology and Management. 374: 1-10.
- Anderegg, William R. L.; Ballantyne, Ashley P.; Smith, W. Kolby; Majkut, Joseph; Rabin, Sam; Beaulieu, Claudie; Birdsey, Richard; Dunne, John P.; Houghton, Richard A.; Myneni, Ranga B.; Pan, Yude; Sarmiento, Jorge L.; Serota, Nathan; Shevliakova, Elena; Tans, Pieter; Pacala, Stephen W. 2015. Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(51): 15591-15596.
- Anderegg, William R. L.; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Fisher, Rosie A.; Allen, Craig D.; Aukema, Juliann; Bentz, Barbara; Hood, Sharon; Lichstein, Jeremy W.; Macalady, Alison K.; McDowell, Nate; Pan, Yude; Raffa, Kenneth; Sala, Anna; Shaw, John D.; Stephenson, Nathan L.; Tague, Christina; Zeppel, Melanie. 2015. Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.13477.
- Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude. 2015. Trends in management of the world's forests and impacts on carbon stocks. Forest Ecology and Management. 355: 83-90.
- Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude; Zhang, Fangmin. 2015. The future of the U.S. forest carbon sink. In: Stanton, Sharon M.; Christensen, Glenn A., comps. 2015. Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015. 2015 December 8-10; Portland, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-931. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. p. 140.
- Kauppi, P. E.; Birdsey, R. A.; Pan, Y. ; Ihalainen, A. ; Nöjd, P. ; Lehtonen, A. 2015. Effects of land management on large trees and carbon stocks. Biogeosciences
- Zhang, Fangmin ; Chen, Jing M.; Pan, Yude ; Birdsey, Richard A.; Shen, Shuanghe ; Ju, Weimin ; Dugan, Alexa J. 2015. Impacts of inadequate historical disturbance data in the early twentieth century on modeling recent carbon dynamics (1951-2010) in conterminous U.S. forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude; Janowiak, Maria; Stewart, Susan; Hines, Sarah; Parker, Linda; Gower, Stith; Lichstein, Jeremy; McCullough, Kevin; Zhang, Fangmin; Chen, Jing; Mladenoff, David; Wayson, Craig; Swanston, Chris. 2014. Past and prospective carbon stocks in forests of northern Wisconsin: a report from the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Climate Change Response Framework. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-127. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 52 p.
- Ciais, P.; Dolman, A. J.; Bombelli, A.; Duren, R.; Peregon, A.; Rayner, P. J.; Miller, C.; Gobron, N.; Kinderman, G.; Marland, G.; Gruber, N.; Chevallier, F.; Andres, R. J.; Balsamo, G.; Bopp, L.; Bréon, F.-M.; Broquet, G.; Dargaville, R.; Battin, T. J.; Borges, A.; Bovensmann, H.; Buchwitz, M.; Butler, J.; Canadell, J. G.; Cook, R. B.; DeFries, R.; Engelen, R.; Gurney, K. R.; Heinze, C.; Heimann, M.; Held, A.; Henry, M.; Law, B.; Luyssaert, S.; Miller, J.; Moriyama, T.; Moulin, C.; Myneni, R. B.; Nussli, C.; Obersteiner, M.; Ojima, D.; Pan, Y.; Paris, J.-D.; Piao, S. L.; Poulter, B.; Plummer, S.; Quegan, S.; Raymond, P.; Reichstein, M.; Rivier, L.; Sabine, C.; Schimel, D.; Tarasova, O.; Valentini, R.; Wang, R.; van der Werf, G.; Wickland, D.; Williams, M.; Zehner, C. 2014. Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system. Biogeosciences
- Guo, Z. D.; Hu, H. F.; Pan, Y. D.; Birdsey, R. A.; Fang, J. Y. 2014. Increasing biomass carbon stocks in trees outside forests in China over the last three decades. Biogeosciences
- Xiao, Jingfeng; Ollinger, Scott V.; Frolking, Steve; Hurtt, George C.; Hollinger, David Y.; Davis, Kenneth J.; Pan, Yude; Zhang, Xiaoyang; Deng, Feng; Chen, Jiquan; Baldocchi, Dennis D.; Law, Bevery E.; Arain, M. Altaf; Desai, Ankur R.; Richardson, Andrew D.; Sun, Ge; Amiro, Brian; Margolis, Hank; Gu, Lianhong; Scott, Russell L.; Blanken, Peter D.; Suyker, Andrew E. 2014. Data-driven diagnostics of terrestrial carbon dynamics over North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 197: 142-157.
- Birdsey, Richard; Angeles-Perez, Gregorio; Kurz, Werner A; Lister, Andrew; Olguin, Marcela; Pan, Yude; Wayson, Craig; Wilson, Barry; Johnson, Kristofer. 2013. Approaches to monitoring changes in carbon stocks for REDD+. Carbon Management. 4(5): 519-537.
- Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude; Houghton, Richard. 2013. Sustainable landscapes in a world of change: tropical forests, land use and implementation of REDD+: Part I. Carbon Management
- Cole, Jason A.; Johnson, Kristopher D.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Pan, Yude; Wayson, Craig A.; McCullough, Kevin; Hoover, Coeli M.; Hollinger, David Y.; Bradford, John B.; Ryan, Michael G.; Kolka, Randall K.; Wieshampel, Peter; Clark, Kenneth L.; Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Hom, John; Ollinger, Scott V.; McNulty, Steven G.; Gavazzi, Michael J. 2013. Database for landscape-scale carbon monitoring sites. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-119. Newtown square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 12 p.
- Deng, F.; Chen, J.M.; Pan, Y.; Peters, W.; Birdsey, R.; McCullough, K.; Xiao, J. 2013. The use of forest stand age information in an atmospheric CO2 inversion applied to North America. Biogeosciences. 10(8): 5335-5348.
- Dilling, Lisa; Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude. 2013. Opportunities and challenges for carbon management on U.S. public lands. Chapter 18. In: Brown, D.G.; Robinson, D.T.; French, N.H.F.; Reed, B.C., eds. Land use and the carbon cycle: advances in integrated science, management and policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Press. 455-476.
- Hayes, Daniel J.; Turner, David P.; Stinson, Graham; Mcguire, A. David; Wei, Yaxing; West, Tristram O.; Heath, Linda S.; Dejong, Bernardus; McConkey, Brian G.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Kurz, Werner A.; Jacobson, Andrew R.; Huntzinger, Deborah N.; Pan, Yude; Post, W. Mac; Cook, Robert B. 2012. Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data. Global Change Biology. 18: 1282-1299
- He, Liming; Chen, Jing M.; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; Kattge, Jens. 2012. Relationships between net primary productivity and forest stand age in U.S. forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 26(GB3009). doi:10.1029/2010GB003942.
- Kapos, Valerie; Kurz, Werner A.; Gardner, Toby; Ferreira, Joice; Guariguata, Manuel; Koh, Lian Pin; Mansourian, Stephanie; Parrotta, John A.; Sasaki, Nokea; Schmitt, Christine B.; Barlow, Jos; Kanninen, Markku; Okabe, Kimiko; Pan, Yude; Thompson, Ian D.; van Vliet, Nathalie. 2012. Impacts of forest and land management on biodiversity and carbon. IUFRO World Series Volume 31, p. 53-80.
- Thompson, Ian D.; Ferreira, Joice; Gardner, Toby; Guariguata, Manuel; Koh, Lian Pin; Okabe, Kimiko; Pan, Yude; Schmitt, Christine B.; Tylianakis, Jason; Barlow, Jos; Kapos, Valerie; Kurz, Werner A.; Parrotta, John A.; Spalding, Mark D.; van Vliet, Nathalie. 2012. Forest biodiversity, carbon and other ecosystem services: relationships and impacts of deforestation and forest degradation . IUFRO World Series Volume 31. p. 21-51
- Zhang, Fangmin; Chen, Jing M.; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; Shen, Shuanghe; Ju, Weimin; He, Liming. 2012. Attributing carbon changes in conterminous U.S. forests to disturbance and non-disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research. 1: G02021. 1-18.
- Zhang, Fangmin; Chen, Jing M.; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard A.; Shen, Shuanghe; Ju, Weimin; He, Liming. 2012. Attributing carbon changes in conterminous U.S. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Birdsey, Richard; Pan, Yude. 2011. Ecology: Drought and dead trees. Nature Climate Change. 1: 444-445.
- He, Liming; Chen, Jing M.; Zhang, Shaoliang; Gomez, Gustavo; Pan, Yude; McCullough, Kevin; Birdsey, Richard; Masek, Jeffrey G. 2011. Normalized algorithm for mapping and dating forest disturbances and regrowth for the United States. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 13: 236-245.
- Birdsey, R.A.; Lucas, R.; Pan, Y.; Sun, G.; Gustafson, E.J.; Perera, A.H. . 2010. Managing landscapes at multiple scales for sustainability of ecosystem functions (Preface). Forest Ecology and Management 259:1213-1214
- Guo, Zhaodi; Fang, Jingyun; Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard. 2010. Inventory-based estimates of forest biomass carbon stocks in China: A comparison of three methods. Forest Ecology and Management. 259(7): 1225-1231.
- Johnson, K.; Scatena, F. N.; Pan, Y. 2010. Short- and long-term responses of total soil organic carbon to harvesting in a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 259(7): 1262-1267.
- Johnson, Kristofer; Scatena, Frederick N.; Pan, Yude. 2010. Short- and long-term responses of total soil organic carbon to harvesting in a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 259(7): 1262-1267.
- Pan, Y.; Chen, J.M.; Birdsey, R.; McCullough, K.; He, L.; Deng, F. 2010. Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests. Biogeoscience Discussions. 7: 979-1020.
- Clark, Kenneth L.; Skowronski, Nicholas; Hom, John; Duveneck, Matthew; Pan, Yude; Van Tuyl, Stephen; Cole, Jason; Patterson, Matthew; Maurer, Stephen. 2009. Decision support tools to improve the effectiveness of hazardous fuel reduction treatments in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. International Journal ofWildland Fire. 18: 268-277.
- Johnson, K.D.; Scatena, F.N.; Johnson, A.H.; Pan, Y. 2009. Controls on soil organic matter content within a northern hardwood forest. Geoderma. 148(3-4): 346-356.
- Yang, Y.H.; Fang, J.Y.; Pan, Y.D.; Ji, C.J. 2009. Aboveground biomass in Tibetan grasslands. Journal of Arid Environments. 73: 91-95.
- Murdoch, Peter S.; Hom, John L.; Pan, Yude; Fischer, Jeffrey M. 2008. 8.0 Integrating the effect of terrestrial ecosystem health and land use on the hydrology, habitat, and water quality of the Delaware River and estuary. In: Murdoch, Peter S.; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Birdsey, Richard A. The Delaware River Basin Collaborative Environmental Monitoring and Research Initiative. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-25. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 74-82.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; Chen, Jing; McCullough, kevin. 2008. Forest carbon changes of the United States in response to impacts of disturbances, succession, climate variability and atmospheric chemistry. In: Proceedings of the International Conference of IUFRO-8.01.02 Landscape Ecology: 136-137.
- Birdsey, Richard A.; Cook, Robert; Denning, Scott; Griffith, Peter; Law, Beverly; Masek, Jeffrey; Michalak, Anna; Ogle, Stephen; Ojima, Dennis; Pan, Yude; Sabine, Christopher; Sheffner, Edwin; Sundquist, Eric. 2007. Investigators share improved understanding of the North American carbon cycle. American Geophysical Union. 88(24): 255.
- Birdsey, Richard A.; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Johnston, Mark; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Amiro, Brian; de Jong, Ben; Etchevers Barra, Jorge D.; French, Nancy; Garcia-Oliva, Felipe; Harmon, Mark; Heath, Linda S.; Jaramillo, Victor J.; Johnsen, Kurt; Law, Beverly E.; Marin-Spiotta, Erika; Masera, Omar; Neilson, Ronald; Pan, Yude; Pregitzer, Kurt S. 2007. North American forests. In: King, A.W.; Dilling, L.; Zimmerman, G.P.; Fairman, D.M.; Houghton, R.A.; Marland, G.; Rose, A.Z.; Wilbanks, T.J., eds. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC: 117-126, 173-176.
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; Hom, John; McCullough, Kevin. 2007. Modeling complex effects of multiple environmental stresses on carbon dynamics of Mid-Atlantic temperate forests. In: Book of abstracts. The U.S. North American Carbon Program (NACP) Investigators, NACP All Scientists Meeting; 2007 January 22-24; Colorado Springs, CO. 58-59.
- Clark, Kenneth; Skowronski, Nick; Pan, Yude; Van Tuyl, Steve; Heilman, Warren. 2006. Fire research in the pine barrens of New Jersey. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 271.
- Luo, Tianxiang; Brown, Sandra; Pan, Yude; Shi, Peili; Ouyang, Hua; Yu, Zhenliang; Zhu, Huazhong. 2005. Root biomass along subtropical to alpine gradients: global implication from Tibetan transect studies. Forest Ecology and Management 206:349-363
- Luo, Tianxiang; Luo, Ji; Pan, Yude. 2005. Leaf traits and associated ecosystem characteristics across subtropical and timberline forests in the Gongga Mountains, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Oecologia 142:261-273
- Luo, Tianxlang; Pan, Yude; Ouyang, Hua; Shi, Peili; Luo, Ji; Yu, Zhenliang; Lu, Qi. 2004. Leaf area index and net primary productivity along subtropical to alpine gradients in the Tibetan Plateau. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 13: 345-358.
- Pan, Yude; Hom, John; Birdsey, Richard; Mccullough, Kevin. 2004. Impacts of Rising Nitrogen Deposition on N Exports from Forests to Surface Waters in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Environmental Management. 33: S120-S131.
- Pan, Yude; Hom, John; Jenkins, Jennifer; Birdsey, Richard. 2004. Importance of Foliar Nitrogen Concentration to Predict Forest Productivity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Forest Science. 50(3): 279-289.
- Pan, Yude; Hom, John; McCullough, Kevin. 2004. Past and prospective effects of N deposition on carbon recycling and nutrient retention in the Delaware River Basin. In: Renard, Kenneth G.; McElroy, Stephen A.; Gburek, William J.; Canfield, H. Evan; Scott, Russell L., eds. First interagency conference on research in the watersheds; 2003 October 27-30; Benson, AZ. Tucson, AZ: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center: 323. Abstract.
- Pan, Yude; Luo, Tianxiang; Birdsey, Richard; Hom, John; Melillo, Jerry. 2004. New estimates of carbon storage and sequestration in China's forests: effects of age-class and methods on inventory-based carbon estimation. Climatic Change. 67: 211-236.
- Pan, Yude; McGuire, A. David; Melillo, Jerry M.; Kicklighter, David W; Sitch, Stephen; Prentice, I. Colin; Prentice, I. Colin. 2002. A biogeochemistry-based dynamic vegetation model and its application along a moisture gradient in the continental United States. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13: 369-382.
Research Datasets
- Pan, Yude; Birdsey, Richard; McCullough, Kevin; Bernier, Pierre Y.; Beaudoin, Andrè; Villemaire, Philippe; Guindon, Luc. 2015. Forest stand age map of Canada (2011) and the United States (2006 & 2011). Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0043.
- Pan, Yude; Chen, Jing; Birdsey, Richard; McCullough, Kevin; He, Liming; Deng, Feng. 2014. Forest stand age map of Canada (2004) and the United States (2006). Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2014-0025.
National Research Highlights
Decadal Change of Forest Biomass Carbon Stocks and Tree Demography
Year: 2016
Forests in the Delaware River Basin could continue to be a carbon sink in the coming decades at the current middle successional stage, but would also likely experience remarkable composition and structure changes. Research results show the major effects of species-specific disturbances, such as non-native insects and harvest, on forest dynamics and highlights the importance for forest managers to anticipate these effects in their management plans.
Effects of Disturbance, Climate, and Management on U.S. Forest Carbon
Year: 2012
Forest response to fire, insects, harvesting, etc., is responsible for nearly one-half of the U.S. forest carbon sink, offsetting about 12 percent of U.S. fossil fuel emissions
Global Forests Sequester One-third of Annual Fossil Fuel Emissions, Much More Than Previously Thought
Year: 2011
Forested land plays a much larger role in removing carbon from the atmosphere than was previously thought, according to Forest Service scientists working with an international team of scientists. One of the key findings in the study is that global forests have annually removed 2.4 billion tons of carbon (8.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere, about one-third of annual fossil fuel emissions for the period of 1990-2007.