Model Publications

This list gathers the references cited across the Carbon Model site for the model itself and for the studies that validated it. Full citation details are given on the papers page of the publications section.

Model development and testing

• Running, S.W. and J.C. Coughlan. 1988. A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications.
• Running, S.W. and S.T. Gower. 1991. Forest BGC, a general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications.
• Running, S.W. and E.R. Hunt. 1993. Generalization of a forest ecosystem process model for other biomes, Biome BGC.
• Running, S.W. and colleagues. 2004. A continuous satellite derived measure of global terrestrial primary production.

Applications in boreal and temperate forests

• Bond Lamberty, B. and colleagues. 2005. Improved wetland dynamics in a generalized ecosystem process model.
• Bond Lamberty, B. and colleagues. 2007a. Simulation of multiple interacting vegetation types.
• Bond Lamberty, B. and colleagues. 2007b. Fire as the dominant driver of central Canadian boreal forest carbon balance.
• Ahl, D.E. and colleagues. 2005. The effects of aggregated land cover on estimating net primary production.
• Fassnacht, K.S. and S.T. Gower. 1997. Interrelationships among the edaphic and stand characteristics, leaf area index, and aboveground net primary production.

Industrial and life cycle work

• Gower, S.T. and colleagues. 2003. The role of forest carbon in the global carbon cycle and life cycle assessment of forest products.
• Graedel, T.E. and B.R. Allenby. 2002. Industrial ecology.

The studies that used these models on specific forests are described on the ecosystem process models page and in model outputs.