* Colgate student, **Colgate Postdoc
2018
Loranty, M.M., Davydov, S.P., Kropp**, H., Alexander, H.D., Mack, M.C., Natali, S.M., and Zimov, N.S., 2018. Vegetation indices do not capture forest cover dynamics in upland Siberian larch forests. Remote Sensing, 10(11), 1686. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111686
Loranty, M.M., Abbott, B., Blok, D.,Douglas, T.A., Epstein, H.E., Forbes, B., Jones, B., Kholodov, A.K., Kropp, H., Malhotra, A., Mamet, S., Myers-Smith, I., Natali, S.M., O’Donnell, J., Phoenix, G., Rocha, A.V., Sonnentag, O., Tape, K., Walker, D.A. 2018. Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions Biogeosciences 15(17), 5287–5313. http://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5287-2018
Alexander, H.D., Natali, S.M., Loranty, M.M., Ludwig, S., Spektor, V., Davydov, S.P., Zimov, N.S., and Mack, M.C. 2018. Impacts of increased soil burn severity on larch forest regeneration on permafrost soils in far northeastern Siberia. Forest Ecology and Management. 417, 144–153. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.008
Loranty, M.M., Berner, L.T., *Taber, E.C., Kropp, H., Natali, S.M., Alexander, H.D., Davydov, S.P., and Zimov, N.S., 2018 Understory vegetation controls on active layer dynamics and carbon dioxide fluxes in open-canopy Siberian larch forests. PLoS ONE, 13(3), e0194014–17. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194014
Liu, H., McColl, K.A., Li, X., Derksen, C., Berg, A., Black, A., Euskirchen, E., Loranty, M.M., Pulliainen, J., Rautianen, K., Rowlandson, T., Roy, A., Royer, A., Langlois, A., Stephens, J., and Entekhabi, D., 2018. Validation of the SMAP Freeze/Thaw product using Categorical Triple Collocation. Remote Sensing of Environment 205, 329–337. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.12.007
2017
Webb, E.E., Heard, K., Natali, S.M., Bunn, A., Alexander, H.D., Berner, L.T., Kholodov, A.L., Loranty, M.M., Schade, J., Spektor, V., and Zimov, N.S., 2017. Variability in above and belowground carbon stocks in a Siberian larch watershed. Biogeosciences. 14 (18), 4279-4294. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-4279-2017
Mamet, S.D., Chun, K.P., Kershaw, G.G.L., Loranty, M.M., and Kershaw, G.P., 2017. Linear thaw and non-linear areal loss of permafrost: reconciling climatic and non-climatic effects on palsa dynamics in the western Northwest Territories. 2017. Permafrost and Perigalcial Processes. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1951
Derksen, C., Xu, X., Dunbar, R.S., Colliander, A., Kim, Y., Kimball, J., Black, A., Euskirchen, E., Langlois, A., Loranty, M.M., Marsh, P. Rautianen, T., Roy, A., Royer, A., Stephens, J., 2017. Retrieving landscape freeze/thaw state from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment 194, 48-62.
Kropp**, H., Loranty, M.M., Alexander, H.D., Berner, L.T., Natali, S.M., and Spawn, S.A., 2017. Environmental constraints on transpiration and stomatal conductance in a Siberian Arctic boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences.
2016
Epstein, H.E., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Forbes, B.C., Macias-Fauria, M., Loranty, M.M., Phoenix, G., and Bjerke, J. 2016: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2016], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
Loranty, M.M., Liberman-Cribbin*, W., Berner, L.T., Natali, S.M., Goetz, S.J., Alexander, H.D. and Kholodov, A.L., 2016. Spatial variation in vegetation productivity trends, fire disturbance, and soil carbon across arctic-boreal permafrost ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 11(9), 095008.
Curasi*, S.R., Loranty, M.M., and Natali, S.M., 2016. Water track distribution and effects on carbon dioxide flux in an eastern Siberian upland tundra landscape. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4), 045002.
2015
Berner, L. T., H. D. Alexander, M. M. Loranty, P. Ganzlin, M. C. Mack, S. P. Davydov, and S. J. Goetz (2015), Biomass allometry for alder, dwarf birch, and willow in boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of far northeastern Siberia and north-central Alaska, Forest Ecology and Management, 337(C), 110–118, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2014.10.027.
2014
Loranty, M. M., S. M. Natali, L. T. Berner, S. J. Goetz, R. M. Holmes, S. P. Davydov, N. S. Zimov, and S. A. Zimov (2014), Siberian tundra ecosystem vegetation and carbon stocks four decades after wildfire, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 119(11), 2144–2154, doi:10.1002/2014jg002730.
Loranty, M.M., L.T. Berner, S.J. Goetz, Y. Jin, and J.T. Randerson. 2014. Vegetation controls northern high latitude snow-albedo feedback: observations and CMIP5 model simulations. Global Change Biology. 20(2), 594-606. doi:10.1111/gcb.12391
2013
Pearson, R. G., S. J. Phillips, M. M. Loranty, P. S. A. Beck, T. Damoulas, S. J. Knight, and S. J. Goetz, 2013, Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate1858.
2012
Epstein, H.E., D.A. Walker et al and 21 others including M.M. Loranty, 2012, Vegetation [in Arctic Report Card 2012], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard
Rocha, A.V., M.M. Loranty, P.E. Hiquera, M.C. Mack, F.S. Hu, B.M. Jones, A.L. Breen, E.B. Rastetter, S.J. Goetz, and G.R. Shaver. 2012. The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for ecosystem function and resilience. Environmental Research Letters 7 044039 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044039
Berner, L.T., P.S.A. Beck, M.M. Loranty, H.D. Alexander, M.C. Mack, S.J. Goetz. 2012. Cajander larch (Larix cajanderi) biomass distribution, fire regime and post-fire recovery in northeastern Siberia. Biogeosciences 9, 3943-3959, doi:10.5194/bg-9-3943-2012.
Alexander, H. D., M. C. Mack, S. Goetz, M. M. Loranty, P. S. Beck, K. Earl, S. Zimov, S. Davydov, and C. C. Thompson (2012), Carbon Accumulation Patterns During Post-Fire Succession in Cajander Larch (Larix cajanderi) Forests of Siberia, Ecosystems, 15(7), 1065–1082, doi:10.1007/s10021-012-9567-6.
Jin, Y., J.T. Randerson, S.J. Goetz, P.S.A. Beck, M.M. Loranty and M.L. Goulden. 2012 The influence of burn severity on post-fire vegetation recovery and albedo change during early succession in North American boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 117, G01036, doi:10.1029/2011JG001886
Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, M.M. Loranty, E.L. Kruger, S. Samanta 2012. Bayesian analysis of canopy transpiration models: A new test of posterior parameter means. Journal of Hydrology 432-433: 75-83. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.019
Loranty, M.M., and S.J. Goetz. 2012 Shrub expansion and climate feedbacks in Arctic tundra. Environmental Research Letters 7 011005 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/011005 (Invited Perspective Article)
2011
Beck, P.S.A., N. Horning, S. J. Goetz, M.M. Loranty, K. Tape. 2011. Shrub cover on the North Slope of Alaska: a circa 2000 baseline map. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 43(3):355-363. doi: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.3.355
Beck, P. S. A., S. J. Goetz, H. Alexander, M. C. Mack, Y. Jin, J. T. Randerson, M. M. Loranty. 2011. The effects and implications of an intensifying fire regime on boreal forest in Alaska. Global Change Biology, 17: 2853-2866, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02412.x
Loranty, M.M., S. J. Goetz, P.S.A Beck. 2011. The effects of tundra vegetation on pan-Arctic albedo. Environmental Research Letters 6 024014
Loranty, M.M., S. J. Goetz, E. B. Rastetter, A.V. Rocha, G.R. Shaver, E.R. Humphreys, and P.M.Lafleur. 2011. Scaling an instantaneous model of tundra NEE to the Arctic landscape. Ecosystems 14(1):76-93. (Article and photograph featured on cover)
2010
Loranty, M. M., D. S. Mackay, B. E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E. L. Kruger 2010, Competition for light between individual trees lowers reference canopy stomatal conductance: Results from a model. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 115, G04019, doi:10.1029/2010JG001377
Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, M.M. Loranty, E.L. Kruger. 2010. On the representativeness of plot size and location for scaling transpiration from trees to a stand. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, 115, G02016, doi:10.1029/2009JG001092
Loranty, M.M., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E.L. Kruger. 2010. Competition for light contributes to within-species variability in stomatal conductance. Water Resources Research, 46, W05516, doi:10.1029/2009WR008125.
Traver, E., Ewers, B.E., Mackay, D.S., Loranty, M.M., 2010. Tree transpiration varies spatially in response to atmospheric but not edaphic conditions. Functional Ecology, 24, 273-282.
2008
Loranty, M.M., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, J.D. Adelman, E.L. Kruger. 2008. Environmental drivers of spatial variation in whole-tree transpiration in an aspen-dominated upland-to-wetland forest gradient. Water Resources Research, 44, W02441, doi:10.1029/2007WR006272.