Publications

This page lists publications associated with the Global Dynamical and Structural Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (GDSTEM) and its scientific lineage.

Publications using GDSTEM

O’Sullivan, M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Gasser, T., Ciais, P., Arora, V. K., Kato, E., Knauer, J., Monier, E., Nützel, T., Sun, Q., Yuan, W., Yue, X., & Zaehle, S. (2026). An improved approach to estimate the natural land carbon sink. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 9(29). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01302-7
Friedlingstein, P., O’Sullivan, M., Jones, M. W., Andrew, R. M., Bakker, D. C. E., Hauck, J., Landschützer, P., Le Quéré, C., Li, H., Luijkx, I. T., Peters, G. P., Peters, W., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Sitch, S., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Aas, K., Alin, S. R., Anthoni, P., Barbero, L., Bates, N. R., Bellouin, N., Benoit-Cattin, A., Berghoff, C. F., Bernardello, R., Bopp, L., Brasika, I. B. M., Chamberlain, M. A., Chandra, N., Chevallier, F., Chini, L. P., Collier, N. O., Colligan, T. H., Cronin, M., Djeutchouang, L., Dou, X., Enright, M. P., Enyo, K., Erb, M., Evans, W., Feely, R. A., Feng, L., Ford, D. J., Foster, A., Fransner, F., Gasser, T., Gehlen, M., Gkritzalis, T., Goncalves De Souza, J., Grassi, G., Gregor, L., Gruber, N., Guenet, B., Gürses, Ö., Harrington, K., Harris, I., Heinke, J., Hurtt, G. C., Iida, Y., Ilyina, T., Ito, A., Jacobson, A. R., Jain, A. K., Jarníková, T., Jersild, A., Jiang, F., Jones, S. D., Kato, E., Keeling, R. F., Klein Goldewijk, K., Knauer, J., Kong, Y., Korsbakken, J. I., Koven, C., Kunimitsu, T., Lan, X., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Liu, Z., Lo Monaco, C., Ma, L., Marland, G., McGuire, P. C., McKinley, G. A., Melton, J., Monacci, N., Monier, E., Morgan, E. J., Munro, D. R., Müller, J. D., Nakaoka, S.-I., Nayagam, L. R., Niwa, Y., Nutzel, T., Olsen, A., Omar, A. M., Pan, N., Pandey, S., Pierrot, D., Qin, Z., Regnier, P. A. G., Rehder, G., Resplandy, L., Roobaert, A., Rosan, T. M., Rödenbeck, C., Schwinger, J., Skjelvan, I., Smallman, T. L., Spada, V., Sreeush, M. G., Sun, Q., Sutton, A. J., Sweeney, C., Swingedouw, D., Séférian, R., Takao, S., Tatebe, H., Tian, H., Tian, X., Tilbrook, B., Tsujino, H., Tubiello, F., van Ooijen, E., van der Werf, G., van de Velde, S. J., Walker, A., Wanninkhof, R., Yang, X., Yuan, W., Yue, X., and Zeng, J. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discuss. [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-659, in review, 2025.

Select publications from the team using GDSTEM or its predecessor

Felzer, B. S. (2025). Modeling the future carbon sink: Land-use and climate change may offset CO₂ fertilization in the United States. Plants, People, Planet, 7(3), 763–775. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10582
Felzer, B. S., & Andrade, C. (2024). Future (2020–2099) carbon and water dynamics of Lehigh Valley based on land use and land cover change. Environments, 11(7), 133. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11070133
Kodero, J. M., Felzer, B. S., & Shi, Y. (2024). Future transition from forests to shrublands and grasslands in the western United States is expected to reduce carbon storage. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01253-6
Felzer, B. S. (2023). Effect of land-use legacy on the future carbon sink for the conterminous US. Biogeosciences, 20(3), 573–587. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-573-2023
Zhang, J., Felzer, B. S., & Troy, T. J. (2020). Projected changes of carbon balance in mesic grassland ecosystems in response to warming and elevated CO₂ using CMIP5 GCM results in the Central Great Plains, USA. Ecological Modelling, 434, 109247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109247
Kicklighter, D. W., Melillo, J. M., Monier, E., Sokolov, A. P. & Zhuang, Q. (2019). Future nitrogen availability and its effect on carbon sequestration in Northern Eurasia. Nature Communications, 10(3024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10944-0