Peer-reviewed literature
Publications
SUBMITTED
Nocco, M.A., N. Feinstein, M. Stock, B. McGill, and C.J. Kucharik. Knowledge coproduction with agricultural trade associations. Submitted to Conservation Letters (April 28, 2020).
Campbell, T.A., E.G. Booth, R.D. Jackson, C. Gratton, and C.J. Kucharik. Agricultural landscape transformation needed to meet water quality goals in the Yahara River watershed of southern Wisconsin. Submitted to Ecosystems (April 24, 2020).
Qiu, J., S.R. Carpenter, E.G. Booth, M. Motew, and C.J. Kucharik. Spatial and temporal variability of future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape. Submitted to Landscape Ecology (Jan 15 2020).
von Haden, E. Marin-Spiotta, R.D. Jackson, and C.J. Kucharik. An empirical assessment of the root growth respiration-maintenance respiration framework at the ecosystem level. Submitted to Global Change Biology (February 15, 2019)
Stack-Whitney, K., T.D. Meehan, C.J. Kucharik, P. Townsend, and C. Gratton. Conservation biological control of soybean aphids influenced by landscape and abiotic drivers in Midwest US agroecosystems. To be submitted to Biological Control.
Wilmot, T., M. Hitchman, and C.J. Kucharik. Modulation of Photosynthetically-active Radiation by the QBO and Volcanic Aerosol, with Application to Cropland Productivity. Submitted to JGR-Atmospheres (November 8, 2019).
In press
Dong, B. J.D. Lenters, Q. Hu, C.J. Kucharik, T. Wang, M.E. Soylu, and P.M. Mykleby. 2020. Seasonal to decadal variability and change in the surface water balance of the central US from 1984-2007. J. of Hydrometeorology (February, 2019).
Sun, S., B. Ordonez, M. Webster, J. Liu, C.J. Kucharik, and T. Hertel. 2020. Fine-scale analysis of the energy-land-water nexus: water quality implications of biomass co-firing in the Midwestern U.S. Environmental Science and Technology (revised, December 2019).
Kucharik, C.J., T. Ramiandantsoa, J. Zhang, and A. Ives. 2019. Spatiotemporal trends in crop yields, yield variability, and yield gaps across the USA. Crop Science (in press).
2020
2019
Kontgis, C., A. Schneider, M. Ozdogan, C.J. Kucharik, V. Pham Dang Tri, D. Nguyen, and J. Schatz. 2019. Climate change impacts on rice productivity in the Mekong River Delta. Applied Geography: 102: 71-83.
Nocco, M.A., M.D. Ruark, and C.J. Kucharik. Apparent electrical conductivity predicts physical properties of coarse soils. 2019. Geoderma, 335: 1-11.
Ziter, C., E.J. Pedersen, C.J. Kucharik, and M.G. Turner. 2019. Scale-dependent interactions between tree canopy cover and impervious surfaces reduce daytime urban heat during summer. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 16(15):7575-7580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817561116.
Qiu, J., S.C. Zipper, M. Motew, E.G. Booth, C.J. Kucharik, and S.P. Loheide II. 2019. Nonlinear ecosystem services response to groundwater availability under climate extremes. Nature Sustainability DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0278-2.
von Haden, A., C.J. Kucharik, R.D. Jackson, and E. Marin-Spiotta. 2019. Litter quantity, litter chemistry, and soil texture control changes in soil organic carbon fractions under bioenergy cropping systems of the North Central U.S. Biogeochemistry, 143: 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00564-7.
Nocco, M.A., R.A. Smail, and C.J. Kucharik. 2019. Observation of irrigation-induced climate change in the Midwest U.S. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14725.
Chen, X., Motew M.M., E.G. Booth, S. Zipper, S.P. Loheide II, and C.J. Kucharik. 2019. Management of minimum lake levels and its effect on flood mitigation: a case study at the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Submitted to Journal of Hydrology, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123920.
von Haden, A., E. Marin-Spiotta, R.D. Jackson, and C.J. Kucharik. 2019. Soil microclimates influence annual carbon loss via heterotrophic soil respiration in maize and switchgrass bioenergy cropping systems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107731.
Motew, M.M., X. Chen, S.R. Carpenter, E.G. Booth, J. Seifert, J. Qiu, S.P. Loheide II, M.G. Turner, S.C. Zipper, and C.J. Kucharik. 2019. Comparing effects of climate and land use on surface water quality using future watershed scenarios. Science of Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.290.
Nocco, M.A., Zipper, S.C., E.G. Booth, Cummings, C., Loheide, SP II., Kucharik, C.J. 2019. Combining evapotranspiration and soil apparent electrical conductivity mapping to identify potential precision irrigation benefits. Remote Sensing, doi.org/10.3390/rs11212460.
Ziter, C., E.J. Pedersen, C.J. Kucharik, and M.G. Turner. 2019. Reply to Michael Drescher: Interdisciplinary collaboration essential to understand and implement climate resilient strategies in cities. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 2019-18746.
2018
Motew, M., E.G. Booth, S. Carpenter, X. Chen, and C.J. Kucharik. 2018. The synergistic effect of manure supply and extreme precipitation on surface water quality. Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaade6.
Qiu, J., S. Carpenter, E. Booth, M. Motew, S. Zipper, C. Kucharik, S. Loheide II, and M. Turner. 2018. Understanding ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aabb87.
Ratajczak, Z., S.R. Carpenter, A.R. Ives, C.J. Kucharik, T. Ramiadantsoa, M.A. Stegner, J.L. Williams, J. Zhang, and M.G. Turner. 2018. Abrupt change in ecological systems: inference and diagnosis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.04.013.
Qiu, J., Carpenter, S.R., Booth, E.G., Motew, M., Zipper, S.C., Kucharik, C.J., Chen, X., Loheide II, S.P., Seifert, J., Turner, M.G. 2018. Scenarios reveal pathways to sustain future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape. Ecological Applications 28(1): 119-134.
Zipper, S.C., Motew, M., Booth, E.G., Chen, X., Qiu, J., Kucharik, C.J., Carpenter, S.R., Loheide II, S.P. 2018. Continuous separation of climate and land use effects on the water balance using principal components regression. Journal of Hydrology 565: 106-122.
2017
Carpenter, S.R., E.G. Booth, and C.J. Kucharik. 2017. Extreme Precipitation and Phosphorus Loads from Two Agricultural Watersheds. Limnology and Oceanography .
Lacasella F., S Marta, A. Singh, K. Stack Whitney, P. Townsend, C. Kucharik, T. Meehan, C. Gratton. 2017. From invasive species data to abundance-based risk maps combining physiology, weather and habitat variability. Ecological Applications, 27(2): 575–588.
Motew, M.M., X. Chen, E.G. Booth, S.R. Carpenter, P. Pinkas, S.C. Zipper, S.P. Loheide II, S.D. Donner, K. Tsuruta, P. Vadas, and C.J. Kucharik. 2017. The influence of legacy P on lake water quality in a Midwestern agricultural watershed. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0125-0.
Nocco, M.A., G.J. Kraft, S.P. Loheide II, and C.J. Kucharik. 2017. Drivers of potential recharge from irrigated agroecosystems in the Wisconsin Central Sands. Vadose Zone Journal Special Issue, Lysimeters in Vadose Zone Research. doi:10.2136/vzj2017.01.0008.
Qiu, J., S. Carpenter, E. Booth, M. Motew, S. Zipper, C. Kucharik, X. Chen, S. Loheide II, J. Seifert, and M. Turner. 2017. Scenarios reveal pathways to sustain future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape. Ecological Applications. .
Soylu, M.E., S.P. Loheide, and C.J. Kucharik. 2017. Effects of Root Distribution and Root Water Compensation on Plant Water Use in Groundwater Influenced Ecosystems, Vadose Zone Journal, 10.2136/vzj2017.06.0118.
Zipper, S.C., J. Schatz, C.J. Kucharik and S.P. Loheide II. 2017. Urban heat island-induced increases in evapotranspirative demand. Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 873–881. doi:10.1002/2016GL072190.
Zipper, S.C., M.E. Soylu, C.J. Kucharik, and S.P. Loheide II. 2017. Quantifying indirect groundwater-mediated effects of urbanization on agroecosystem productivity using MODFLOW-AgroIBIS (MAGI), a complete critical zone model. Ecological Modelling, 359: 201-219.
2016
Booth EG, SC Zipper, SP Loheide II, CJ Kucharik. Is Groundwater Recharge Always Serving Us Well? Water Supply Provisioning, Crop Production, and Flood Attenuation in Conflict in Wisconsin, USA. Ecosystem Services, 21(A), 153-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.08.007.
Booth EG, J Qiu, SR Carpenter, J Schatz, X Chen, CJ Kucharik, SP Loheide II, MM Motew; JM Seifert; MG Turner. 2016. From qualitative to quantitative environmental scenarios: Translating storylines into biophysical modeling inputs at the watershed scale. Enviromental Modelling and Software, 85: 80-97. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.08.008.
Duran BEL, Duncan DS, Oates LG, Kucharik CJ, Jackson RD (2016) Nitrogen Fertilization Effects on Productivity and Nitrogen Loss in Three Grass-Based Perennial Bioenergy Cropping Systems. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151919. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151919.
Gaillard, R., B. Duval, W. Osterholz, and C.J. Kucharik. 2016. Simulated effects of soil texture on N2O emission factors from corn and soybean agroecosystems in Wisconsin. Journal of Environmental Quality, 45, 1540-1548. DOI: doi:10.2134/jeq2016.03.0112.
Kucharik, C.J., A.C. Mork, T. Meehan, S.P. Serbin, A. Singh, P. Townsend, K. Stack Whitney, and C. Gratton. 2016. Evidence for compensatory photosynthetic and yield response of soybeans to aphid herbivory. Journal of Economic Entomology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jee/tow066.
Lokupitiya, E. et al. 2016. Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems – A model-data comparison. Biochemistry, 129: 53-76.
Mykleby, P.M., J.D. Lenters, G.J. Cutrell, K.S. Herrman, E. Istanbulluoglu, D.T. Scott, T.E. Twine, C.J. Kucharik, T. Awada, M.E. Soylu, and B. Dong. 2016. Water and energy balance response of a riparian wetland to herbicide treatment of invasive phragmites australis. Journal of Hydrology, 539: 290-303.
Schatz, J. and C.J. Kucharik. 2016. Urban heat island effects on meteorological growing seasons and heating and cooling degree days in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4675.
Stack Whitney K., T.D. Meehan, C.J. Kucharik, J. Zhu, P.A. Townsend, K. Hamilton, and C. Gratton. 2016. Explicit modeling of abiotic and landscape factors reveals precipitation and forests associated with aphid abundance. Ecological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1418.
VanLoocke A., T. Twine, C.J. Kucharik, and C. Bernacchi. 2016. Assessing the Potential to Decrease the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone with Midwest US Perennial Cellulosic Feedstock Production. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. DOI: doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12385.
Zipper, S., J. Schatz, A. Singh, C.J. Kucharik, P. Townsend and S.P. Loheide. 2016. Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: Intra-urban variability and response to land cover. Environmental Research Letters, 11, 054023. DOI: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054023.
Zipper, S.C., J. Qiu, and C.J. Kucharik. 2016. Drought effects on US maize and soybean production: Spatiotemporal patterns and historical changes. Environmental Research Letters, 11, 094021. DOI: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094021.
2015
Bailey, R., T. Butts, J. Lauer, C. Laboski, C. Kucharik, and V. Davis (2015). Effect of weed management strategy and row width on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in soybean. Weed Science, 63: 962-971. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/WS-D-15-00010.1.
Carpenter, S.R., E.G. Booth, C.J. Kucharik, and R.C. Lathrop (2015). Extreme Daily Loads: Role in Annual Phosphorus Input to a North Temperate Lake. Aquatic Sciences, 77: 71-79, DOI 10.1007/s00027-014-0364-5.
Carpenter, S.R., E.G. Booth, S. Gillon, C.J. Kucharik, S. Loheide, A. Mase, M. Motew, J. Qiu, A. Rissman, J. Seifert, E. Soylu, M.G. Turner, C.B. Wardropper (2015). Changing Drivers and Plausible Futures of a Social-Ecological System: Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, USA. Ecology and Society, vol. 20, no. 2. DOI: 10.5751/ES-07433-200210.
Cruse, M.J., C.J. Kucharik, and J.M. Norman (2015). Using a Simple Apparatus to Measure Direct and Diffuse Photosynthetically Active Radiation at Remote Locations. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0115633. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0115633.
Perillo, A.C., C.J. Kucharik, T. Meehan, S.P. Serbin, A. Singh, P. Townsend, K. Stack Whitney, and C. Gratton (2015). Use of insect exclusion cages in soybean creates an altered microclimate and differential plant response. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 208: 50-61, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.04.014.
Schatz, J. and C.J. Kucharik (2015). Urban climate effects on extreme temperatures in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Environmental Research Letters, 10, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094024.
2014
Soylu, M.E., C.J. Kucharik, and S.P. Loheide (2014). Influence of groundwater on plant water use and productivity: development of an integrated ecosystem-variably saturated soil water flow model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 189-190: 198-210.
Gray, J.M., S. Frolking, E.A. Kort, D. Ray, C.J. Kucharik, N. Ramankutty, and M.A. Friedl (2014). Direct human influence on atmospheric CO2 seasonality from increased cropland activity. Nature, 515: 398–401. doi:10.1038/nature13957.
Schatz, J. and C.J. Kucharik (2014). Seasonality of the urban heat island effect in Madison, Wisconsin USA. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53: 2371-2386.
Osterholz, W., C.J. Kucharik, J. Hedtcke, and J. Posner (2014). Seasonal Nitrous Oxide and Methane Fluxes from Grain- and Forage-Based Production Systems in Wisconsin USA. Journal of Environmental Quality, 43:1833-1843 doi:10.2134/jeq2014.02.0077.
2013
Davis, S.C., C.J. Kucharik, S. Fazio, and A. Monti (2013). Environmental sustainability of advanced biofuels. Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining, 7: 638-646.
Duran, B.E. and C.J. Kucharik (2013). Comparison of two chamber methods for measuring soil trace-gas fluxes in bioenergy cropping systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 77: 1601-1612. doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.01.0023.
Kucharik C.J., VanLoocke A., Lenters J.D., and Motew M.M. (2013). Miscanthus establishment and overwintering risk in the Midwest US: a regional modeling case study of crop residue management impacts on critical minimum soil temperatures. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68847. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068847.
Kucharik, C.J. and K.R. Brye (2013). Soil moisture regime and land use history drive regional differences in soil carbon and nitrogen storage across southern Wisconsin. Soil Science,178: 486-495.
Lawrence, B., R.D. Jackson, and C.J. Kucharik (2013). Testing the stability of carbon pools stored in Carex stricta dominated sedge meadows. Applied Soil Ecology, 71: 48-57.
Licker, R., C.J. Kucharik, T. Doré, M.J. Lindeman, and D. Makowski (2013). Climatic controls of winter wheat yields in Picardy, France and Rostov, Russia: 1973-2010. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 176: 25-37.
Motew, M.M., and C.J. Kucharik (2013). Climate-induced changes in biome distribution, NPP, and hydrology in the Upper Midwest US: a case study for potential vegetation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20025.
Sanford, G.R., and C.J. Kucharik (2013). Effect of methodological consideration on soil carbon parameter estimates obtained via the acid hydrolysis-incubation method. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 67: 295-305.
Stoy, P.C., M. Dietze, A.D. Richardson, R. Vargas, A.G. Barr, R.S. Anderson, M.A. Arain, I.T. Baker, T.A. Black, J.M. Chen, R.B. Cook, C.M. Gough, R.F. Grant, D.Y. Hollinger, C. Izaurralde, C.J. Kucharik, P. Lafleur, B.E. Law, S. Liu, E. Lokupitiya, Y. Luo, J.W. Munger, C. Peng, B. Poulter, D.T. Price, D.M. Ricciuto, W.J. Riley, A.K. Sahoo, K. Schaefer, C.R. Schwalm, H. Tian, H. Verbeeck, and E. Weng (2013). Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and time scales using wavelet coherence: An example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis. Biogeosciences Discuss., 10, 3039-3077.
2012
Levis, S., G. Bonan, E. Kluzek, P.E. Thornton, A. Jones, W.J. Sacks, and C.J. Kucharik (2012). Interactive crop management in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1): Seasonal influences on land-atmosphere fluxes. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00446.1.
Ozdogan, M., A. Robock, and C.J. Kucharik (2012). Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on soybean and maize production in the Midwest United States. Climatic Change, 22 June 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0518-1.
K. Schaefer, Schwalm C., C. Williams , A. Arain , A. Barr , J. Chen , K. Davis , D. Dimitrov , T. Hilton , D. Hollinger , E. Humphreys , B. Poulter , B. Raczka , A. Richardson , A. Sahoo , P. Thornton , R. Vargas , H. Verbeeck , R. Anderson , I. Baker , T. A. Black , P. Bolstad , J. Chen , P. Curtis , A. Desai , M. Dietze , D. Dragoni , C. Gough , R. Grant , L. Gu , A. Jain , C. Kucharik , B. Law , S. Liu , E. Lokipitiya , H. Margolis , R. Matamala , H. McCaughey , R. Monson , J. W. Munger , W. Oechel , C. Peng , D. Price , D. Ricciuto , W. Riley , N. Roulet , H. Tian , C. Tonitto , M. Torn , E. Weng , X. Zhou (2012). A Model-Data Comparison of Gross Primary Productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, G03010, doi:10.1029/2012JG001960.
Sanford, G., J.L. Posner, R.D. Jackson, C.J. Kucharik, and J. Hedtcke (2012). Soil carbon lost from Mollisols of the North Central U.S.A. with 20 years of agricultural best management practices. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 162: 68-76.
Schneider, A., K. Logan, and C.J. Kucharik (2012). Impacts of urbanization on ecosystem goods and services in the U.S. Corn Belt: An agro-ecosystem modeling approach. Ecosystems, doi: 10.1007/s10021-012-9519-1.
2011
Cuadra, S.V., M.H. Costa, C.J. Kucharik, H.R. DaRocha, J.D. Tatsch, G. Inman-Bamber, R.P. DaRocha, C.C. Leite, and O.M.R. Cabral (2011). A biophysical model of sugarcane growth. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01105.x.
Dietze, M.C., R. Vargas, A.D. Richardson, P.C. Stoy, A.G. Barr, R.S. Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, I.T. Baker, T.A. Black, J.M. Chen, P. Ciais, L.B. Flanagan, C.M. Gough, R.F. Grant, D. Hollinger, C. Izaurralde, C.J. Kucharik, P. Lafleur, S. Liu, E. Lokupitiya, Y. Luo, J.W. Munger, C. Peng, B. Poulter, D.T. Price, D.M. Ricciuto, W.J. Riley, A.K. Sahoo, K. Schaefer, H. Tian, H. Verbeeck, S.B. Verma (2011). Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 116, G04029, doi:10.1029/2011JG001661.
Johnston, M., R. Licker, J. Foley, T. Holloway, C. Barford, and C. Kucharik. Closing the gap: global potential for increasing biofuels production through intensification. Environmental Research Letters, 6 034026; doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034028.
Lee, E., C.C. Barford, C.J. Kucharik, B.S. Felzer, J.A. Foley (2011). Roles of turbulent heat fluxes over land in the monsoon over East Asia. International Journal of Geosciences, 2 (4), 420-431.
Sacks, W.J. and C.J. Kucharik (2011). Trends in crop management and phenology in the U.S. Corn Belt, and impacts on yields, evapotranspiration, and energy balance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.010.
Zaks, D.P.M. and C.J. Kucharik (2011). Data and monitoring needs for a more ecological agriculture. Environmental Research Letters, 6 014017 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014017.
Zaks, D.P.M., N. Winchester, C.J. Kucharik, C.C. Barford, S. Paltsev, J. Reilly (2011).The Contribution of Anaerobic Digesters to Emissions Mitigation and Electricity Generation Under U.S. Climate Policy. Environmental Science and Technology, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es104227y.
2010
Kucharik, C.J., S.P. Serbin, S. Vavrus, E.J. Hopkins, and M.M. Motew (2010). Patterns of climate change across Wisconsin from 1950 to 2006. Physical Geography 31, 1-28.
Licker, R., M. Johnston, Foley, J.A., C. Barford, C., Kucharik, C.J., Monfreda, C. and N. Ramankutty. (2010) Mind the Gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world? Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00563.x.
Notaro, M., D. Lorenz, D. Vimont, S. Vavrus, C. Kucharik, and K. Franz (2010). 21st Century Wisconsin snow projections based on an operational snow model driven by statistically downscaled climate data. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2179.
Schwalm, C.R, C. A. Williams, K. Schaefer, R. Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, I. Baker, A. Barr, T. A. Black, G. Chen, J.M. Chen, P. Ciais, K. J. Davis, A. Desai, M. Dietze, D. Dragoni, M. L. Fischer, L. B. Flanagan, R. Grant, L. Gu, D. Hollinger, R. César Izaurralde, C.J. Kucharik, P. Lafleur, B. E. Law, L. Li, Z. Li, S. Liu, E. Lokupitiya, Y. Luo, S. Ma, H. Margolis, R. Matamala, H. McCaughey, R. K. Monson, W. C. Oechel, C. Peng, B. Poulter, D. T. Price, D. M. Riciutto, W. Riley, A. K. Sahoo, M. Sprintsin, J. Sun, H. Tian, C. Tonitto, H. Verbeeck, S. B. Verma, 2010. A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 115, G00H05. doi: 10.1029/2009JG001229.
West, P.C., G.T. Narisma, C.C. Barford, C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2010). An alternative approach for quantifying climate regulation by ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(2): 126–133, doi:10.1890/090015.
2009
Cahill, K.N., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley, 2009. Prairie restoration and carbon sequestration: difficulties quantifying C sources and sinks using a biometric approach. Ecological Applications: Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 2185-2201.doi: 10.1890/08-0069.1.
Glass, S.B., B.M. Herrick, and C.J. Kucharik (2009). Climate change and ecological restoration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Ecological Restoration 27(3):345-349 (2009); doi:10.3368/er.27.3.345.
Jelinski, N.A., and C.J. Kucharik (2009). Land-use effects on soil carbon and nitrogen on a Midwestern floodplain. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73:217-225, DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2007.0424.
Jelinski, N.A., C.J. Kucharik, and J.B. Zedler (2009). A test of diversity-productivity models in natural, degraded, and restored wet prairies. Restoration Ecology. July 1, doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00551.x.
Johnston, M., J.A. Foley, T. Holloway, C. Kucharik, and C. Monfreda (2009). Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels. Environmental Research Letters 4, 014004.
Serbin, S.P. and C.J. Kucharik (2009). Spatio-temporal mapping of daily temperature and precipitation for the development of a multi-decadal climatic dataset for Wisconsin. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48, 742-757.
Twine, T.E. and C.J. Kucharik (2009). Climate impacts on net primary productivity trends in natural and managed ecosystems of the central and eastern United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149, 2143-2161. DOI:10.1016/j.agformet.2009.05.012.
2008
Donner S.D., and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 4513-4518. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708300105.
Kucharik, C.J. (2008). Contribution of planting date trends to increased maize yields in the central United States. Agronomy Journal 100, 328-336, doi:10.2134/agronjnl2007.0145.
Kucharik, C.J. (2008). Soil response to re-establishment of prairie communities in Southern Wisconsin, in The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife, Edited by Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Kucharik, C.J. and S.P. Serbin (2008). Impacts of recent climate change on Wisconsin corn and soybean yield trends. Environmental Research Letters 3 034003 (10pp) doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034003.
Steller, R.M., N.A. Jelinski, and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Developing models to predict soil bulk density in southern Wisconsin using soil chemical properties. Electronic Journal of Integrative Biosciences, 6(1): 53-63.
Twine, T.E., and C.J. Kucharik (2008). Evaluating a terrestrial ecosystem model with satellite information of greenness. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, G03027, doi:10.1029/2007JG000599.
Vano, J.A., J.A. Foley, C.J. Kucharik, and M.T. Coe (2008), Controls of climatic variability and land cover on land surface hydrology of northern Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, G04040, doi:10.1029/2007JG000681.
2007
Kucharik, C.J. (2007). Impact of Prairie age and soil order on carbon and nitrogen sequestration. The Soil Science Society of America Journal. 12 March 2007; doi,10.2136/sssaj2006.0074, 2007 71: 430-441.
Kucharik, C.J. and T.E. Twine (2007). Residue, respiration, and residuals: Evaluation of a dynamic agroecosystem model using eddy flux measurements and biometric data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 146, 134-158, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.05.011.
Urbanski, S., C. Barford, S. Wofsy, C. Kucharik, E. Pyle, J. Budney, K. McKain, D. Fitzjarrald, M. Czikowsky, and J.W. Munger. (2007), Factors controlling CO2 exchange on timescales from hourly to decadal at Harvard Forest, Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G02020, doi:10.1029/2006JG000293.
2006
El Maayar, M., N. Ramankutty, and C.J. Kucharik (2006). Modeling global and regional net primary production under elevated atmospheric CO2: On a potential source of uncertainty. Earth Interactions 10, 1-20.
Kucharik, C.J. (2006). A multidecadal trend of earlier corn planting in the central U.S. Agronomy Journal 98,1544-1550.
Kucharik, C.J., C. Barford, M. El Maayar, S.C. Wofsy, R.K. Monson, D.D. Baldocchi (2006). A multiyear evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model at three AmeriFlux forest sites: Vegetation structure, phenology, soil temperature, and CO2 and H2O vapor exchange. Ecological Modelling 196, 1-31.
Kucharik, C.J., N.J. Fayram, and K.N. Cahill (2006). A paired study of prairie carbon stocks, fluxes, and phenology: comparing the world’s oldest prairie restoration with an adjacent remnant. Global Change Biology 12, 122-139. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2468.2005.01053.x.
Vano, J.A., J.A. Foley, C.J. Kucharik, and M.T. Coe (2006). Evaluating the seasonal and interannual variations in water balance in northern Wisconsin using a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G02025, doi:10.1029/2005JG000112.
2005
Foley, J.A., R. DeFries, G.P. Asner, C. Barford, G. Bonan, S.R. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin, M.T. Coe, G.C. Daily, H.K. Gibbs, J.H. Helkowski, T. Holloway, E.A. Howard, C.J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, J.A. Patz, I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, and P.K. Snyder (2005). Global consequences of land use. Science 309, 570-574.
Kucharik, C.J. and N. Ramankutty (2005). Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the 20th Century. Earth Interactions 9, 1-29.
Potter, C., P. T. Pang-Ting, V. Kumar, C. Kucharik, S. Klooster, V. Genovese, W. Cohen, and S. Healey (2005). Recent history of large-scale ecosystem disturbances in North America derived from the AVHRR satellite record. Ecosystems, 8: 808-824, DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0041-6.
Scholze, M., A. Bondeau, F. Ewert, C. Kucharik, J. Priess, and P. Smith (2005). Advances in Large-Scale Crop Modeling, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(26), 245.
Twine, T.E., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2005). Effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the climate, water balance and streamflow of the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Climate 18,(22), 4840–4861.
2004
Donner, S.D., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2004). The impact of changing land use practices on nitrate export by the Mississippi River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB1028, doi:10.1029/2003GB002093.
Donner. S.D., C.J. Kucharik, and M. Oppenheimer (2004). The influence of climate on in-stream removal of nitrogen. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L20509, doi:10.1029/2004GL020477.
Howard E.A., S.T. Gower, J.A. Foley, and C.J. Kucharik (2004). Effects of logging on carbon dynamics of a jack pine forest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Global Change Biology 10(8), 1267-1284. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00804.x
Twine, T.E., C.J. Kucharik, and J.A. Foley (2004). Effects of land cover change on the energy and water balance of the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology 5(4), 640-655.
2003
Brye, K.R., and C.J. Kucharik (2003). Carbon sequestration in two prairie topochronosequences on contrasting soils in southern Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 149, 90-103.
Donner, S.D. and C.J. Kucharik (2003). Evaluating the impacts of land management and climate variability on crop production and nitrate export across the Upper Mississippi Basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(3) 1085, doi:10.1029/2001GB001808.
Kucharik, C.J. (2003). Evaluation of a process-based agro-ecosystem model (Agro-IBIS) across the U.S. cornbelt: simulations of the inter-annual variability in maize yield. Earth Interactions 7, 1-33.
Kucharik, C.J. and K.R. Brye (2003). Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS) yield and nitrate loss predictions for Wisconsin maize receiving varied amounts of Nitrogen fertilizer. Journal of Environmental Quality 32, 247-268.
Kucharik, C.J., J.A. Roth, and R.T. Nabielski (2003). Statistical assessment of a paired-site approach for verification of C and N sequestration on Wisconsin Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 58, 58-67.
Wilson, T.B., J.M. Norman, W.L. Bland, and C.J. Kucharik (2003). Evaluation of the importance of Lagrangian canopy turbulence formulations in a soil-plant-atmosphere model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 115, 51-69.
2001
Cramer, W., A. Bondeau, F.I. Woodward, I.C. Prentice, R.A. Betts, V. Brovkin, P.M. Cox, V. Fisher, J. Foley, A.D. Friend, C. Kucharik, M.R. Lomas, N. Ramankutty, S. Sitch, B. Smith, A. White, and C. Young-Molling (2001). Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology 7, 347-373.
Kucharik, C.J., K.R. Brye, J.M. Norman, J.A. Foley, S.T. Gower, and L.G. Bundy (2001). Measurements and modeling of carbon and nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems of southern Wisconsin: Potential for SOC sequestration during the next 50 years. Ecosystems 4, 237-258.
2000
Gower S.T., A. Hunter, J. Campbell, J. Vogel, H. Veldhuis, J. Harden, S. Trumbore, J.M. Norman, and C.J. Kucharik (2000). Nutrient dynamics of the southern and northern BOREAS boreal forests. Ecoscience 7 (4), 481-490.
Kucharik, C.J., J.A. Foley, C. Delire, V.A. Fisher, M.T. Coe, J. Lenters, C. Young-Molling, N. Ramankutty, J.M. Norman, and S.T. Gower (2000). Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance and vegetation structure. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 14(3), 795-825.
1999
Gower, S.T., C.J. Kucharik, and J.M. Norman (1999). Direct and indirect estimate of leaf area index fapar and net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems. Special Issue of EOS Remote Sensing of the Environment 70(1), 29-51.
Kucharik,C.J., J.M. Norman, and S.T.Gower (1999). Characterization of the radiation regime in nonrandom forest canopies: theory, measurements, and a simplified modeling approach. Tree Physiology 19, 695-706.
1998
Kucharik,C.J., J.M.Norman, and S.T.Gower (1998a). Measurements of branch area and adjusting leaf area index indirect measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91, 69-88.
Kucharik, C.J., J.M. Norman, and S.T.Gower (1998b). Measurements of leaf orientation, light distribution and sunlit leaf area in a boreal aspen forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 91, 127-148.
1997
Gower, S.T., I.G. Vogel, J.M. Norman, C.J. Kucharik, S.J. Steele, and T.A. Stow (1997). Carbon distribution and measurements of aboveground net primary production in aspen,jack pine,and black spruce stands in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 29,029-29,041.
Kucharik,C.J., J.M.Norman, L.M.Murdock, and S.T.Gower (1997).Characterizing canopy nonrandomness with a Multiband Vegetation Imager (MVI). Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 29,455-29,473.
Norman,J.M., C.J. Kucharik, S.T.Gower, D.D. Baldocchi, P.M.Crill, M.Rayment, K.Savage, and R.G. Striegl (1997). A comparison of six methods for measuring soil surface carbon dioxide fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(D24), 28,771-28,778.