Paul R. Moorcroft
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Phone: 617-496-6744
E-mail:
Office: Rm
43, 26 Oxford St
Lab Website:
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/moorcroft/
Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement.
Recent Publications
Desai AR, PR Moorcroft, PV Bolstad, et al., 2007. Regional carbon fluxes from an observationally constrained dynamic ecosystem model: Impacts of disturbance, CO2 fertilization, and heterogeneous land cover. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 112 (G1): Art. No. G01017
Lynch HJ, RA Renkin, RL Crabtree, et al., 2006. The influence of previous mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) activity on the 1988 yellowstone fires. Ecosystems 9 (8): 1318-1327
Albani M, D Medvigy, GC Hurtt, et al., 2006. The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink. Global Change Biology 12 (12): 2370-2390
Ise T, PR Moorcroft, 2006. The global-scale temperature and moisture dependencies of soil organic carbon decomposition: an analysis using a mechanistic decomposition model. Biogeochemistry 80 (3): 217-231
Moorcroft PR, SW Pacala, MA Lewis, 2006. Potential role of natural enemies during tree range expansions following climate change. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241 (3): 601-616
Courses Taught
OEB 157. Global Change Biology
OEB 311. Ecosystem Ecology
