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Turner, David P.

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Ecological Modeling

Educational Background: 
  • B.A., 1975, University of Colorado, Denver
  • M.A., 1978, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Ph.D., 1984, Washington State University, Pullman
Courses: 
FS 507, Systems Theory
FS 599, Ecological Modeling
SNR 540, Global Environmental Change
Research Interests: 
Forest nutrient cycling, spatially-distributed ecosystem models, application of satellite remote sensing to vegetation analysis.
Research Support: 
  1. NOAA Regional Integrated Science and Assessment Program. Pacific Northwest Climate Decision Support Consortium, 2010-2015, $3,500,000 (PI:  Mote, P., Co-PIs: Lach, D., Adell, A., Bolte, J., Bond, B., Hulse, D., Sridhar, V., Turner, D.).
  2. NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program. Assessing the Sensitivity of Net Ecosystem Exchange over North America to Climate and Disturbance with Prognostic and Diagnostic Models, 2009-2012, $731,770 (PI: Turner, D.P., Co-PIs Nemani, R., Jacobson, A.).
  3. Department of Energy. “Synthesis of remote sensing and field observations to model and understand disturbance and climate effects on the carbon balance of Oregon and N California”, 2004-2007, $1,021,123 (PI: Law, CoPIs: Turner, Cohen, Styles).
  4. NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program. “BigFoot Extension Proposal”, 2004-2005, $218,203.
Current/Recent Programs: 
Spatially-distributed modeling of net primary production for validation of Earth Observing System satellite products. Landscape to regional modeling of net ecosystem production. Development of light use efficiency algorithms for monitoring net primary production with satellite remote sensing.
Selected Publications: 
  1. Turner, D.P., Ritts, D., Yang, Z., Kennedy, R.E., Cohen, W.B., Duane, M.V., Law, B.E. 2011. Decadal trends in net ecosystem production and net ecosystem carbon balance for a regional socioecological system. Forest Ecology and Management 262:1318-1325. PDF
  2. Meigs, G.W., Turner, S.P., Ritts, W.D., Yang Z., Law, B.E. 2011. Detection and simulation of heterogeneous fire effects on pyrogenic carbon emissions, tree mortality, and net ecosystem production.Ecosystems 14:758-775. PDF
  3. Turner, D.P. 2011. Global vegetation monitoring: Towards a sustainable technobiosphere. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:111-116. PDF
  4. Turner, D.P., Göckede, M., Law, B.E., Ritts, W.D., Cohen, W.B., Yang, Z., Hudiburg, T., Kennedy, R., Duane, M. 2011. Multiple constraint analysis of regional land surface carbon flux. Tellus 63B:207-221. PDF
  5. King, D.A., Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D. 2011. Parameterization of a diagnostic carbon cycle model for continental scale application. Remote Sensing of Environment 115:1653-1664. PDF
  6. Göckede, M., Michalak, A., Vickers, D., Turner, D., Law, B. 2010a. Atmospheric inverse modeling to constrain regional scale CO2 budgets at high spatial and temporal resolution. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere 115, D15113. PDF
  7. Göckede, M., Turner, D.P., Michalak, A.M., Vickers, D. and Law, B.E. 2010b. Sensitivity of a subregional scale atmospheric inverse CO2 modeling framework to boundary conditions, Journal of Geophysical Research 115, D24112. PDF
  8. Duane, M.V., Cohen, W.B., Campbell, J.L., Hudiburg, T., Turner, D.P., Weyermann, D. 2010. Implications of alternative field-sampling designs on Landsat-based mapping of stand age and carbon stocks in Oregon forests. Forest Science 56: 405-416. PDF
  9. Nightengale, J., Morisette, J., Wolfe, R., Tan, B., Gao, F., Ederer, G., Collatz, J., Turner, D. 2009. Temporally smoothed and gap-filled MODIS land products for carbon modeling: Application of the FPAR product. International Journal of Remote Sensing 30:1083 – 1090. PDF
  10. Hudiberg, T., Law, B., Turner, D.P., Campbell, J., Donato, D., Duane, M. 2009. Carbon dynamics or Oregon and Northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage. Ecological Applications 19:163-180. PDF
  11. Goward, S.N., Masek, J.G., Cohen, W., Moisen, G., Collatz, G.J., Healey, S., Houghton, R.A., Huang, C., Kennedy, R., Law, B., Powell, S., Turner, D., Wulder, M.A. 2008. Forest disturbance and North American carbon flux. EOS 89:105-116. PDF
  12. Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Law, B.E., Cohen, W.B., Yang, Z., Hudiburg, T., Campbell, J.L., Duane, M. 2007. Scaling net ecosystem production and net biome production over a heterogeneous region in the western United States. Biogeosciences 4:597-612. PDF
  13. Turner, D.P., W.D. Ritts, J.M. Styles, Z. Yang, W.B. Cohen, B.E. Law, and P. Thornton. 2006. A diagnostic carbon flux model to monitor the effects of disturbance and interannual variation in climate on regional NEP. Tellus 58B:476-490. PDF
  14. Turner, D.P. 2006. On “Estimating carbon budgets for U.S. ecosystems”. Eos 87:200. PDF
  15. Gobron, N., Pinty, B., Aussedat, O., Chen, J.M., Cohen, W.B., Fensholt, R., Gond, V., Hummerich, K.F., Lavergne, T., Melin, F., Privette, J.L., Sandholt, I., Taberner, M., Turner, D.P., Verstraete, M.M., Widlowski, J. 2006. Evaluation of FAPAR products for different canopy radiation transfer regimes: methodology and results using JRC products derived from SeaWIFS against ground-based estimations. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, D13110, doi:10.1029/2005JD006511. PDF
  16. Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Cohen, W.B., Gower, S.T., Running, S.W., Zhao, M., Costa, M.H., Kirschbaum, A., Ham, J., Saleska, S., Ahl, D.E. 2006. Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment 102:282-292. PDF
  17. Morisette, J., et al. 2006. Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI Products: a framework proposed within the CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing 44:1804-1817. PDF
  18. Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Zhao, M., Kurc, S.A., Dunn, A.L., Wofsy, S.C., Small, E.E., Running, S.W. 2006. Assessing interannual variation in MODIS-based estimates of gross primary production. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing 44:1899-1907. PDF
  19. Cohen, W.B., Maiersperger, T.K., Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Pflugmacher, D., Kennedy, R.E., Kirschbaum, A., Running, S.W., Costa, M., Gower, S.T. 2006. MODIS land cover and LAI Collection 4 product quality across nine sites in the western hemisphere. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing 44:1843-1857. PDF
  20. Kennedy, R.E., Turner, D.P., Cohen, W.B., Guzy, M. 2006. A method to efficiently apply a biogeochemical model to a landscape. Landscape Ecology 21:213-224. PDF
  21. Law, B.E., Turner, D.P., Lefsky, M., Campbell, J., Guzy, M., Sun, O., Van Tuyl, S., Cohen, W.B. 2006. Carbon fluxes across regions: observational constraints at multiple scales. In J.Wu, B. Jones, H. Li, O. Loucks, eds. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications. Columbia University Press. New York, USA. PDF
  22. Turner, D.P. 2005. Thinking at the global scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:505-508. PDF
  23. Van Tuyl, S., Law, B.E., Turner, D.P., Gitelman, A.I. 2005. Variability in net primary production and carbon storage in biomass across Oregon forests – an assessment integrating data from forest inventories, intensive sites, and remote sensing. Forest Ecology and Management 209:273-291. PDF
  24. Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Cohen, W.B., Maeirsperger, T.K., Gower, S.T., Kirschbaum, A., Running, S.W., Zhao, M., Wofsy, S.C., Dunn, A.L., Law, B.E., Campbell, J.C., Oechel, W.C., Kwon, H.J., Meyers, T.P., Small, E.E., Kurc, S.A., Gamon, J.A. 2005. Site-level evaluation of satellite-based global terrestrial gross primary production and net primary production monitoring. Global Change Biology 11:666-684. PDF
  25. Lefsky, M.A., Turner, D.P., Guzy, M., Cohen, W.B. 2005. Combining lidar estimates of biomass and Landsat estimates of stand age for spatially extensive validation of modeled forest productivity. Remote Sensing of Environment 95:549-558. PDF
  26. Law, B.E., Turner, D., Campbell, J., Sun, O., Van Tuyl, S., Ritts, W.D., Cohen, W. 2004. Disturbance and climate effects on carbon stocks and fluxes across western Oregon USA. Global Change Biology 10:1-16. PDF
  27. Turner, D.P., Ollinger, S.V., Kimball, J.S. 2004. Integrating remote sensing and ecosystem process models for landscape to regional scale analysis of the carbon cycle. BioScience 54:573-584. PDF
  28. Turner, D.P., Ollinger, S., Smith, M.L., Krankina, O., Gregory, M. 2004. Scaling net primary production to a MODIS footprint in support of Earth Observing System product validation. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25:1961-1979. PDF
  29. Turner, D.P., Guzy, M., Lefsky, M., Ritts, W., VanTuyl, S., Law, B.E. 2004. Monitoring forest carbon sequestration with remote sensing and carbon cycle modeling. Environmental Management 33:457-466. PDF
  30. Wythers, K.R., Reich, P.B., Turner, D.P. 2003. Predicting leaf area index from scaling principles: corroboration and consequences. Tree Physiology 23:1171-1179. PDF
  31. Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Cohen, W.B., Gower, S.T., Zhao, M., Running, S.W., Wofsy, S.C., Urbanski, S., Dunn, A., Munger, J.W. 2003. Scaling gross primary production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation. Remote Sensing of Environment 88:256-270. PDF
  32. Cohen, W.B., Maiersperger, T.K., Yang, Z., Gower, S.T., Turner, D.P., Ritts, W.D., Berterretche, M., Running, S.W. 2003. Comparisons of land cover and LAI estimates derived from ETM+ and MODIS for four sites in North America: a quality assessment of 2000/2001 provisional MODIS products. Remote Sensing of Environment 88:233-255. PDF
  33. Cohen, W.B., T.K. Maiersperger, S.T. Gower, and D.P. Turner. 2003. An improved strategy for regression of biophysical variables and Landsat ETM+ data, Remote Sensing of Environment 84:561-571. PDF
  34. Turner, D.P., Urbanski, S., Bremer, D., Wofsy, S.C., Meyers, T., Gower, S.T., Gregory, M. 2003. A Cross-biome comparison of light use efficiency for gross primary production. Global Change Biology 9:383-395. PDF
  35. Turner, D.P., Guzy, M., Lefsky, M.A., VanTuyl, S., Sun, O., Daly, C., and Law, B.E. 2003. Effects of land use and fine scale environmental heterogeneity on net ecosystem production over a temperate coniferous forest landscape. Tellus 55B:657-668. PDF
  36. McDowell, S.C., and Turner, D.P. 2002. Reproductive effort in invasive and non-invasive Rubus. Oecologia 133:102-111. PDF
  37. Turner, D.P., Gower, S.T., Cohen, W.B., Gregory, M., Maiersperger, T.K. 2002. Effects of spatial variability in light use efficiency on satellite-based NPP monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment 80:397-405. PDF
  38. Turner, D.P., Cohen, W.B., and Kennedy, R.E. 2000. Alternative spatial resolutions and estimation of carbon flux over a managed forest landscape in western Oregon. Landscape Ecology 15:441-452. PDF
  39. Turner, D. P., Acker, S. A., Means, J.E. and Garman, S. L. 2000. Assessing alternative algorithms for estimating leaf area index in Douglas-fir trees and stands. Forest Ecology and Management 126:61-76.
  40. Running, S.R., Baldocchi, D.D., Turner, D.P., Gower, S.T., Bakwin, P.S., and Hibbard, K.A. 1999. A global terrestrial monitoring network integrating tower fluxes, flask sampling, ecosystem modeling and EOS satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:108-128.
  41. Turner, D.P., Cohen, W.B., Kennedy, R. E., Fassnacht, K.S., and Briggs, J.M. 1999. Relationships between leaf area index and TM spectral vegetation indices across three temperate zone sites. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:52-68.
  42. Reich, P.B., Turner, D.P. and P. Bolstad. 1999. An approach to spatially-distributed modeling of net primary production (NPP) at the landscape scale and its application in validation of EOS NPP products. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:69-81.
  43. Turner, D.P., Winjum, J.K., Kolchugina, T.P., Vinson, T.S., Schroeder, P.E., Phillips, D.L. and Cairns, M.A. 1998. Estimating the terrestrial carbon pools of the former Soviet Union, conterminous U.S., and Brazil. Climate Research 9:183-196.
  44. Turner, D.P., Winjum, J.K., Kolchugina, T.P. and Cairns, M.A. 1997. Accounting for biological and anthropogenic factors in national land-base carbon budgets. Ambio 26:220-226.
  45. Turner, D.P., Dodson, R. and Marks, D. 1996. Comparison of alternative spatial resolutions in the application of a spatially distributed biogeochemistry model over complex terrain. Ecological Modeling 90:53-67.
  46. Lewis, D.K., Turner, D.P. and Winjum, J.K. 1996. An inventory based procedure to estimate economic costs of forest management on a regional scale to conserve and sequester atmospheric carbon on the global scale. Ecological Economics 16:35-49.
  47. Barker, J.R., Baumgardner, G.A., Turner, D.P. and Lee, J.J. 1996. Carbon dynamics of the Conservation and Wetland Reserve Programs. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 51:340-346.
  48. Barker, J.R., Baumgardner, G.A., Turner, D.P. and Lee J.J. 1995. Potential carbon benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program in the United States. Journal of Biogeography 22:743-751.
  49. Turner, D.P., Koerper, G.J., Harmon, M.E. and Lee, J.J. 1995. A carbon budget for forests of the conterminous United States. Ecological Applications 5:421 436.
  50. Turner, D.P., Koerper, G.J., Harmon, M.E. and Lee, J.J. 1995. A forest carbon budget for the United States: Current flux and projections to the year 2040. Tellus 47B:232 239.
  51. Turner, D.P. and Koerper, G.K., Gucinski, Peterson, C. and Dixon, R.K. 1993. Monitoring global change: comparison of forest cover estimates using remote sensing and inventory approaches. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 26:295 305.
  52. Knoepp, J.D., Turner, D.P. and Tingey, D.T. 1993. Effects of ammonium and nitrate on nutrient uptake and activity of nitrogen assimilating enzymes in western hemlock. Forest Ecology and Management 59:179 191.
  53. Turner, D.P., Sollins, P., Leuking, M. and Rudd, N. 1993. Availability and uptake of inorganic nitrogen in a mixed old growth coniferous forest. Plant and Soil 148:163 173.
  54. Turner, D.P. and van Broekhuizen, H. 1992. Nutrient leaching from conifer needles in relation to foliar apoplast cation exchange capacity. Environmental Pollution 75:259 263.
  55. Dixon, R. and Turner, D.P. 1991. The global carbon cycle and climate change: responses and feedbacks from belowground systems. Environmental Pollution 73:245 262.
  56. Perry, D.A., Borchers, J.G, Turner, D.P., Gregory, S.V., Perry, C.R., Dixon, R.K., Hart, S.C., Kaufmann, B., Neilson, R.P. and Sollins, P. 1991. Biological feedbacks to climate change: terrestrial ecosystems as sinks and sources of carbon and nitrogen. Northwest Environmental Journal 7:203 232.
  57. Turner, D.P., Baglio, J.V., Wones, A.G., Pross, D., Vong, R. and Phillips, D.L. 1991. Global climate change and isoprene emissions from vegetation. Chemosphere 23:37 56.
  58. Turner, D.P. and Tingey, D.T. 1990. Foliar leaching and root uptake of Ca, Mg and K in relation to acid fog effects on conifers. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 49:205 214.
  59. Turner, D.P. and Franz, E.H. 1986. The influence of canopy dominants on understory vegetation patterns in an old growth cedar hemlock forest. American Midland Naturalist 116:387 393.
  60. Turner, D.P. and Franz, E.H. 1985. Size class structure and tree dispersion patterns in old growth cedar hemlock forests of the northern Rocky Mountains (USA). Oecologia 68:52 56.
  61. Turner, D.P. 1985. Successional relationships and a comparison of biological characteristics among six northwestern conifers. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club 112:430 437.
  62. Turner, D.P. and Franz, E.H. 1985. The influence of western hemlock and western redcedar on microbial numbers, nitrogen mineralization and nitrification. Plant and Soil 88:259 267.
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