Dr. Nathaniel Brunsell

Name:

Dr. Nathaniel Brunsell

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

417 Lindley Hall, Department of Geography, University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045

United States

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

ORCID:

0000-0002-4460-8283

Publication List:

Caplan JS, Gimenez D, Hirmas DR, Brunsell N, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Decadal-scale shifts in soil hydraulic properties induced by altered precipitation. Science Advances [Internet]. 2019;5(9):eaau6635. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaau6635

Ratajczak Z, D’Odorico PD, Nippert JB, Collins SL, Brunsell N, Ravi S. Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology [Internet]. 2017;105(3):750-760. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.12696

Wagle P, Xiao X, Gowda P, Basara J, Brunsell N, Steiner J, et al.. Analysis and estimation of tallgrass prairie evapotranspiration in the central United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology [Internet]. 2017;232:35-47. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192316303604?via%3Dihub

Brunsell N, van Vleck ES, Nosshi M, Ratajczak Z, Nippert JB. Assessing the roles of fire frequency and precipitation in determining woody plant expansion in central U.S. grasslands. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2017;122(10):2683–2698. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JG004046

Wolf S, Keenan TF, Fisher JB, Baldocchi DD, Desai AR, Richardson AD, et al.. Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2016;:201519620. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/21/5880

Cochran FV, Brunsell N, Sukyer A. A thermodynamic approach for assessing agroecosystem sustainability. Ecological Indicators [Internet]. 2016;67:204-214. https://kundoc.com/pdf-a-thermodynamic-approach-for-assessing-agroecosystem-sustainability-.html

Hufkens K, Keenan TF, Flanagan LB, Scott RL, Bernacchi CJ, Joo E, et al.. Productivity of North American grasslands is increased under future climate scenarios despite rising aridity. Nature Climate Change [Internet]. 2016;6:710-714. https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2942

Petrie MD, Brunsell N, Vargas R, Collins SL, Flanagan LB, Hanan NP, et al.. The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2016;121:280-294. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JG003205

Wagle P, Xiao X, Scott RL, Kolb TE, Cook DR, Brunsell N, et al.. Biophysical controls on carbon and water vapor fluxes across a grassland climatic gradient in the United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology [Internet]. 2015;214-215:293 - 305. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168192315007005

Logan KE, Brunsell N. Influence of drought on growing season carbon and water cycling with changing land cover. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology [Internet]. 2015;213:217 - 225. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192315002099?via%3Dihub

Shi Z, Thomey ML, Mowll M, Litvak ME, Brunsell N, Collins SL, et al.. Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: Synthesis and modeling analysis. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2014;11:621 -633. https://www.biogeosciences.net/11/621/2014/

Brunsell N, Nippert JB, Buck TL. Impacts of seasonality and surface heterogeneity on water-use efficiency in mesic grasslands. Ecohydrology [Internet]. 2014;7:1223 -1233. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.1455

Cochran FV, Brunsell N, Mechem DB. Comparing surface and mid-tropospheric CO2 concentrations from central U.S. grasslands. entropy [Internet]. 2013;15:606 -623. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/2/606

Campbell PPK, Middleton EM, Thome KJ, Kokaly RF, Huemmrich KF, Lagomasino D, et al.. EO-1 Hyperion reflectance time series at calibration and validation sites: stability and sensitivity to seasonal dynamics. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing [Internet]. 2013;6(2):276 - 290. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6507569

Cochran FV, Brunsell N. Temporal scales of tropospheric CO2, precipitation, and ecosystem responses in the central Great Plains. Remote Sensing of Environment [Internet]. 2012;127:316 - 328. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425712003665?via%3Dihub

Petrie MD, Brunsell N. The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology [Internet]. 2012;5:337 -345. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.224

Craine JM, Nippert JB, Elmore AJ, Skibbe AM, Hutchinson SL, Brunsell N. The timing of climate variability and grassland productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Internet]. 2012;109:3401 -3405. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20400.x

Petrie MD, Brunsell N, Nippert JB. Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics in mesic grasslands. Theoretical and Applied Climatology [Internet]. 2012;107:427 -440. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-011-0484-y

Nippert JB, Ocheltree TW, Skibbe AM, Kangas LC, Ham JM, Shonkwiler-Arnold KB, et al.. Linking plant growth responses across topographic gradients in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia [Internet]. 2011;166:1131 -1142. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-011-1948-6

Brunsell N, Ham JM, Arnold KA. Validating remotely sensed land surface fluxes in heterogeneous terrain with large aperture scintillometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing [Internet]. 2011;32:6295 -6314. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2010.508058

Petrie M. Climate forcings and the nonlinear dynamics of grassland ecosystems [Internet]. [Lawrence, KS]: University of Kansas; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6633

Buck T. The impact of land cover change on water and carbon cycling in the US central plains grasslands [Internet]. [Lawrence, KS]: University of Kansas; 2010. https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/6992

Brunsell N, Ham JM, Owensby CE. Assessing the multi-resolution information content of remotely sensed variables and elevation for evapotranspiration in a tall-grass prairie environment. Remote Sensing of Environment [Internet]. 2008;112:2977 -2987. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425708000655?via%3Dihub