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Peer reviewed work behind Forest BGC and Biome BGC and the ecosystems they model.

Model development and testing

  • Running, S.W. and J.C. Coughlan. 1988. A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications. Ecological Modelling.
  • Running, S.W. and S.T. Gower. 1991. Forest BGC, a general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications. II. Dynamic carbon allocation and nitrogen budgets. Tree Physiology.
  • Running, S.W. and E.R. Hunt. 1993. Generalization of a forest ecosystem process model for other biomes, Biome BGC, and an application for global scale models. Scaling Physiological Processes.
  • Running, S.W., R.R. Nemani, F.A. Heinsch, M. Zhao, M. Reeves, and H. Hashimoto. 2004. A continuous satellite derived measure of global terrestrial primary production. BioScience.

Boreal and temperate forest applications

  • Fassnacht, K.S. and S.T. Gower. 1997. Interrelationships among the edaphic and stand characteristics, leaf area index, and aboveground net primary production of upland forest ecosystems in north central Wisconsin. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
  • Bond Lamberty, B., S.T. Gower, D.E. Ahl, and others. 2005. Improved simulation of wetland dynamics in a generalized ecosystem process model.
  • Bond Lamberty, B., S.T. Gower, and others. 2007a. Simulation of multiple interacting vegetation types in a generalized ecosystem process model.
  • Bond Lamberty, B., S.T. Gower, and others. 2007b. Fire as the dominant driver of central Canadian boreal forest carbon balance. Nature.
  • Ahl, D.E., S.T. Gower, D.S. Mackay, S.N. Burrows, J.M. Norman, and G.R. Diak. 2005. The effects of aggregated land cover on estimating net primary production for a heterogeneous landscape in northern Wisconsin. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Life cycle and industrial ecology

  • Gower, S.T., R. McKeon Rhodes, and B. Bond Lamberty. 2003. The role of forest carbon in the global carbon cycle and the life cycle analysis of wood products.
  • Graedel, T.E. and B.R. Allenby. 2002. Industrial Ecology. Prentice Hall.

The presentation side of this work is collected under presentations, and the model pages that cite these works begin with ecosystem process models.

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