Paul R. Moorcroft

 Professor of Biology
 [*on sabbatical through 2008]

• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Future of Energy at Harvard
• Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
• Harvard University Herbaria

Research Interests

Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement

Environmental Courses

OEB 157: Global Change Biology
OEB 311: Ecosystem Ecology

Related Publications

Regional carbon fluxes from an observationally constrained dynamic ecosystem model: Impacts of disturbance, CO2 fertilization, and heterogeneous land cover. (2007)
The influence of previous mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) activity on the 1988 yellowstone fires. (2006)
The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink. (2006)
The global-scale temperature and moisture dependencies of soil organic carbon decomposition: an analysis using a mechanistic decomposition model. (2006)
Potential role of natural enemies during tree range expansions following climate change. (2006)