D. Scott Mackay

Professor
Department of Geography
State University of New York
105 Wilkeson Quadrangle
Buffalo, NY 14261 USA

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Ecohydrology Group's Publications

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88. Brock, M.T., K. Nozue, D.J. Kliebenstein, B.E. Ewers, D.S. Mackay, L. Maignien, D.R. Wang, C. Weinig, and J.N. Maloof. 2025. Characterization of transcriptional and metabolic responses to a complex plant-growth-promoting soil inoculum. Plant Biology, 10.1111/plb.70034.

87. Mackay, D.S. 2024. Future tree mortality is impossible to observe, but a new model reveals why tropical tree traits matter more than climate change variability for predicting hydraulic failure. New Phytologist., 244(6), 2115-2117, 10.1111/nph.20049.
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86. Bachofen, C., S.J. Tumber-Davila, D.S. Mackay, N. McDowell, A. Carminati, T. Klein, B.D. Stocker, M. Mencuccini, and C. Grossiord. 2024. Tree water uptake patterns across the globe. New Phytologist, 252(5), 1891-1910, 10.1111/nph.19762.
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85. Kim, D., C.R. Guadagno, B.E. Ewers, and D.S. Mackay. 2024. Combining PSII photochemistry and hydraulics improves predictions of photosynthesis and water use from mild to lethal drought. Plant, Cell & Environment, 47(4), 1255-1268, doi:10.1111/pce.14806.
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84. McDowell, N.G., K. Anderson-Teixeira, J.A. Biederman, D.D. Breshears, Y. Fang, L. Fernandez-de-Una, E.B. Graham, D.S. Mackay, J.J. McDonnell, G.W. Moore, M.F. Nehemy, C.S. Stevens Rumann, J. Stegan, N. Tague, M.G. Turner, X. Chen. 2023. Ecohydrological decoupling under changing disturbances and climate. One Earth., 6(3), 251-266, doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.007.
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83. Mackay, D.S. 2023. Cannot see rhizosphere dynamics for the soil? A new multi-imaging study suggests otherwise. New Phytologist, 237(3), 707-709, doi:10.1111/nph.18572.
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82. Gleason, S.N., D.M. Barnard, T.R. Green, D.S. Mackay, D.R. Wang, E.A. Ainsworth, J. Altenhofen, T.J. Brodribb, H. Cochard, L.H. Comas, M. Cooper, D. Creek, K.C. DeJonge, S. Delzon, F.B. Fritschi, G. Hammer, C. Hunter, D. Lombardozzi, C.D. Messina, T. Ocheltree, B.M. Stevens, J.J. Stewart, V. Vadez, J. Wenz, I.J. Wright, K. Yemoto, and H. Zhang. 2022. Physiological trait networks enhance understanding of crop growth and water use in contrasting environments. Plant, Cell & Environment, 45(9), 2554-2572, doi:10.1111/pce.14382.
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81. Li, W., N.G. McDowell, H. Zhang, W. Wang, D.S. Mackay, R. Leff, P. Zhang, N.D. Ward, M. Norwood, S. Yabusaki, A.M. Myers-Pigg, S.C. Pennington, A.L. Pivovaroff, S. Waichler, C. Xu, B. Bond-Lamberty, and V.L. Bailey. 2022. The influence of increasing atmospheric CO2, temperature, and vapor pressure deficit on seawater-induced tree mortality. New Phytologist, 235(5), 1767-1779, doi:10.1111/nph.18275.
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80. McDowell, N., G. Sapes, A. Pivovaroff, H. Adams, C. D. Allen, W.R.L. Anderegg, M. Arend, D.D. Breshears, T. Brodribb, B. Choat, H. Cochard, M. De Caceres, M.G. De Kauwe, C. Grossiord, W.M. Hammond, H. Hartmann, G. Hoch, A. Kahmen, T. Klein, D.S. Mackay, M. Montova, J. Martinez-Vilalta, B.E. Medlyn, M. Mencuccini, A. Nardini, R.S. Oliveira, A. Sala, D.T. Tissue, J.M. Torres-Ruiz, A. Trowbridge, A.T. Trugman, E. Wiley, and C. Xu. 2022. Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2, and vapor pressure deficit. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment., 3, 294-308, doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00272-1.
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79. Pivovaroff, A.L., N.G. McDowell, T. Barrozo Rodgrigues, T. Brodribb, L.A. Cernusak, B. Choat, C. Grossiord, Y. Ishida, K.J. Jardine, S. Laurance, R. Leff, W. Li, M. Liddell, D.S. Mackay, H. Pacheco, J. Peters, I. de J. Sampaio Filho, D.C. Souza, W. Wang, P. Zhang, J. Chambers. 2021. Stability of tropical forest tree carbon-water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth. Global Change Biology, 27(24), 6454-6466, doi:10.1111/GCB.15869.
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78. Tai, X., M.D. Venturas, D.S. Mackay, P.D. Brooks, and L.B. Flanagan. 2021. Lateral subsurface flow modulates forest mortality risk to future climate and elevated CO2. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (2021) 084015, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1135.
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77. Wang, D.R.*, M.D. Venturas, D.S. Mackay, D.J. Hunsaker, K.R. Thorp, M.A. Gore, and D. Pauli. 2020. Use of hydraulic traits for modeling genotype-specific acclimation in cotton under drought. New Phytologist, 228(3), 898-909, doi:10.1111/nph.16751.
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76. Guadagno, C.R., D. Millar, R. Lai,  D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban*, C.R. McClung, C. Weinig, D.R. Wang*, and B.E. Ewers. 2020. Use of transcriptomic data to inform biophysical models via Bayesian networks. Ecological Modelling., 429, 109086, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109086.
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75. Pleban, J.R.*, C.R. Guadagno, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, and C. Weinig. 2020. Rapid chlorophyll a fluorescence light response curves mechanistically inform photosynthesis modeling. Plant Physiology, 183, 602-619, doi:10.1104/pp.19.00375.
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74. Kulmatiski, A., K. Yu, D.S. Mackay, M.C. Holdrege, C. Staver, A. Parolari, Y. Liu, S. Mahumder, and A. Trugman. 2020. Forecasting semi-arid biome shifts in the anthropocene. New Phytologist, 226(2), 351-361, doi:10.1111/nph.16381.
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73. Chien, H.* and D.S. Mackay. 2020. Assessing effects of model complexity and structure on predictions of hydrological responses using serial and parallel design. Hydrological Processes., 34(2), 404-419, 10.1002/hyp.13594.
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72. Mackay, D.S., P.R. Savoy, C. Grossiord, X. Tai*, J.R. Pleban*, D.R. Wang*, N.G. McDowell, H.D. Adams, and J.S. Sperry. 2020. Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics. New Phytologist, 225(2), 679-692, doi:
10.1111/nph.16043.
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71. Tai, X.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, A.D. Parsekian, D. Beverly, H. Speckman, P.D. Brooks, and W.R.L. Anderegg. 2019. Plant hydraulic stress explained tree mortality and tree size explained beetle attack in a mixed conifer forest. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 124(11), 3555-3568, doi: 10.1029/2019JG005272.
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70. Mackay, D.S. 2019. Ecohydrology: what's in a name? EOS, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO123093. Published on 13 May, 2019.

69. McDowell, N.G., C. Grossiord, H.D. Adams, S. Pinzon-Navarro, D.S. Mackay, D.D. Breshears, C.D. Allen, I. Borrego, L.T. Dickman, A. Collins, M. Gaylord, N. McBranch, W.T. Pockman, A. Vilagrosa, B. Aukema, D. Goodsman, and C. Xu. 2019. Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat. Environmental Research Letters. 14 045014, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab0921.
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68. Wang, D.R.*, C.R. Guadagno, X. Mao, D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban*, R.L. Baker, C. Weinig, J.-L. Jannink, and B.E. Ewers. 2019. A framework for genomics-informed ecophysiological modeling in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70(9), 2561-2574, doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz090.
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67. Fan, Y., M. Clark, D.M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L.E. Band, S.L. Brantley, P.D. Brooks, W.E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J.W. Kirchner, D.S. Mackay, J.J. McDonnell, P.C.D. Milly, P.L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnehad-Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B.P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, and D. Yamazaki. 2019. Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1737-1772, doi:10.1029/2018WR023903.
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66. Love, D.M., M.D. Venturas, J.S. Sperry, P.D. Brooks, J.L. Pettit, Y. Wang, W.R.L. Anderegg, X. Tai*, and D.S. Mackay. 2019. Dependence of aspen stands on a subsurface water subsidy: Implications for climate change impacts. Water Resources Research, 55(3), 1833-1848, doi:10.1029/2018WR023468.
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65. Tai, X.*, D.S. Mackay, J.S. Sperry, P. Brooks, W.R.L. Anderegg, L.B. Flanagan, S.B. Rood, and C. Hopkinson. 2018. Distributed plant hydraulic and hydrological modeling to understand the susceptibility of riparian woodland trees to drought-induced mortality. Water Resources Research, 54(7), 4901-4915, doi:10.1029/2018WR022801.
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64. Pleban, J.R.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, T.L. Aston, and C. Weinig.2018. Phenotypic trait identification using a multimodel Bayesian method: a case study using photosynthesis in Brassica rapa genotypes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 448, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00448.
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63. Mitra, B.*, D.S. Mackay, E. Pendall, B.E. Ewers, H. Kwon, M.B. Cleary and K.J. Naithani. 2018. Model-data fusion approach to quantify evapotranspiration and net ecosystem exchange across the sagebrush ecosystem at different temporal resolutions. Ecohydrology, 11:e1957, doi: 10.1002/eco.1957.
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62. Johnson, D.M., J.-C. Domec, Z.C. Berry, A.M. Schwantes, D.R. Woodruff, K.A. McCulloh, H.W. Polley, R. Wortemann, J.J. Swenson, D.S. Mackay, N.G. McDowell, and R.B. Jackson. 2018. Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought. Plant, Cell and Environment, 41(3), 576-588, doi:10.1111/pce.13121.
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61. Millar, D., B.E. Ewers, D.S. Mackay, S.D. Peckham, D. Reed, and A. Sekoni. 2017. Improving ecosystem-scale modeling of evapotranspiration using ecological mechanisms that account for compensatory responses following disturbance. Water Resources Research, 53, 7853-7868, doi:10.1002/2017WR020823.
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60. Clark, M.P., J.A. Bahr, M.F.P. Bierkens, X. Cai, T.S. Hogue, C.H. Luce, J.D. Lundquist, D.S. Mackay, H.J. (Ilja) van Meerveld, H. Rajaram, X. Sanchez-Vila, and P.A. Troch. 2017. A vision for Water Resources Research. Water Resources Research, 53, doi:10.1002/2017WR021050.
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59. Sperry, J.S., M. Venturas, W.R.L. Anderegg, M. Mencuccini, D.S. Mackay, Y. Wang, D. Love. 2017. Predicting stomatal response to the environment from the optimization of photosynthetic gain and hydraulic cost. Plant, Cell & Environment, 40(6), 816-830, DOI: 10.1111/pce.12852.
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58. Tai, X.*., D.S. Mackay, W.R.L. Anderegg, J.S. Sperry, and P.D. Brooks. 2017. Plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern U.S. New Phytologist, 213(1), 113-127. DOI: 10.111/nph.14098.
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57. Mitra, B.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, and E. Pendall. 2016. Response of sagebrush carbon metabolism to experimental precipitation pulses. Journal of Arid Environments, 135, 181-194.
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56. Sperry, J.S., Y. Wang, B.R. Wolfe, D.S. Mackay, W.R.L. Anderegg, N.G. McDowell, and W.T. Pockman. 2016. Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits. New Phytologist, 212, 577-589, DOI: 10.1111/nph.14059.
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55. McDowell, N.G., A.P. Williams, C. Xu, W.T. Pockman, L.T. Dickman, S. Sevanto, R. Rangle, J. Limousin, J. Plaut, D.S. Mackay, J. Ogee, J.C. Domec, C.D. Allen, R.A. Fisher, X. Jiang, J.D. Muss, D.D. Breshears, S.A. Rauscher, and C. Koven. 2016. Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortaility due to chronic temperature rise. Nature Climate Change, 6, 295-300, doi:10.1038/nclimate2873.
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54. Rajaram, H., J. Bahr, G. Bloschl, X. Cai, D.S. Mackay, A. Michalak, Montanari, A., X. Sanchez-Villa, and G. Sander. 2015. A reflection on the first 50 years of Water Resources Research. Water Resources Research, 51(10), 7829-7837, doi:10.1002/2015WR018089.
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53. Montanari, A., J. Bahr, G. Bloschl, X. Cai, D.S. Mackay, A. Michalak, H. Rajaram, and G. Sander. 2015. 50 years of Water Resources Research: Legacy and perspectives for the science of hydrology introduction. Water Resources Research, 51(9), 6797-6803, doi:10.1002/2015WR017998.
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52. Mackay, D.S., D.E. Roberts*, B.E. Ewers, J.S. Sperry, N.G. McDowell, and W.T. Pockman. 2015. Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought. Water Resources Research, 51(8), 6156-6176, doi:10.1002/2015WR017244.
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51. Clark, M.P., Y. Fan, D.M. Lawrence, J.C. Adam, D. Bolster, D.J. Gochis, R.P. Hooper, M. Kumar, L.R. Leung, D.S. Mackay, R.M. Maxwell, C. Shen, S.C. Swenson, and X. Zeng. 2015. Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models. Water Resources Research, 51(8), 5929-5956, doi:10.1002/2015WR017096.
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50. Savoy, P.* and D.S. Mackay. 2015. Modeling the seasonal dynamics of leaf area index based on environmental constraints to canopy development. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 200, 46-56.
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49. Chien, H.* and D.S. Mackay. 2014. How much complexity is needed to simulate watershed streamflow and water quality? A test combining time-series and hydrological models. Hydrological Processes, 28, 5624-5636.
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48. Mitra, B.*, D.S. Mackay, E. Pendall, B.E. Ewers, and M.B. Cleary. 2014. Does vegetation structure regulate the spatial structure of soil respiration within a sagebrush steppe ecosystem? Journal of Arid Environments, 103, 1-10.
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47. Montanari, A., G. Bloschl, X. Cai, D.S. Mackay, A. Michalak, H. Rajaram, and G. Sander. 2013. Towards 50 years of Water Resources Research. Water Resources Research, 49, 1-2, doi:10.1002/2013WR014986.
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46. McDowell, N.G., R.A. Fisher, C. Xu, J.C. Domec, T. Holtta, D.S. Mackay, J.S. Sperry, A. Boutz, L. Dickman, N. Gehres, J.M. Limousin, A. Macalady, J. Martinez-Vilalta, M. Mencuccini, J.A. Plaut, J. Ogee, R.E. Pangle, D.P. Rasse, M.G. Ryan, S. Sevanto, R.H. Waring, A.P. Williams, E.A. Yepez, and W.T. Pockman. 2013. Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multi-model-experiment framework. New Phytologist, 200, 304-321.
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45. Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, M.M. Loranty, E.L. Kruger, and S. Samanta. 2012. Bayesian analysis of canopy transpiration models: A test of posterior parameter means against measurements. Journal of Hydrology, 432-433, 75-83, doi: 10.1016/j.hydrol.2012.02.019.
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44. Ewers, B.E., B. Bond-Lamberty, and D.S. Mackay. 2011. Consequences of stand age and species’ functional trait changes on ecosystem water use of forests. In "Size- and age-related changes in tree structure and function" eds Rick Meinzer, Todd Dawson, Barb Lachenbruch. Springer, Dordrecht, 481-506.

43. Loranty, M.M.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E.L. Kruger, 2010. Competition for light between individual trees lowers reference canopy stomatal conductance: results from a model. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 115, G04019, doi:10.1029/2010JG001377.
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42. Sulman, B,N., A.R. Desai, N.Z. Saliendra, P.M. Lafleur, L.B. Flanagan, O. Sonnentag, D.S. Mackay, A.G. Barr, and G. van der Kamp, 2010. Carbon fluxes at northern fens and bogs have opposite responses to inter-annual fluctuations in water table. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L19702, DOI:10.1029/2010GL044018.
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41. Trawinski, P.R.* and D.S. Mackay, 2010. Identification of environmental covariates of West Nile virus vector mosquito population abundance. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 10(5), 515-526, doi: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0063.
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40. Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, M.M. Loranty, and E.L. Kruger, 2010. On the representativeness of plot size and location for scaling transpiration from trees to a stand. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 115, G02016, doi:10.1029/2009JG001092.
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39. Loranty, M.M.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, E. Traver, and E.L. Kruger, 2010. Contribution of competition for light to within-species variability in stomatal conductance. Water Resources Research, 46, W05516, doi:10.1029/2009WR008125.
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38. Traver, E., B.E. Ewers, D.S. Mackay, and M.M. Loranty*, 2010. Tree transpiration varies spatially in response to atmospheric but not edaphic conditions. Functional Ecology, 24, 273-282, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01657.x.
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37. Mackay, D.S. and L.E. Band. 2009. Integrated ecohydrologic research and hydro-informatics, Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 142, 16-24.
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36. Sulman, B.N., A.R. Desai, B.D. Cook, N. Saliendra, and D.S. Mackay, 2009. Contrasting carbon dioxide fluxes between a drying shrub wetland in northern Wisconsin, USA, and nearby forests, Biogeosciences., 6, 1115-1126.
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35. Trawinski, P.R.* and D.S. Mackay. 2009. Spatial autocorrelation of West Nile Virus vector mosquito abundance in a seasonally wet suburban environment. Journal of Geographical Systems, 11, 67-87, doi:10.1007/s10109-008-0070-8.
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34. Samanta, S.*, M.K. Clayton, D.S. Mackay, E.L. Kruger, and B.E. Ewers. 2008. Quantitative comparison of canopy conductance models using a Bayesian approach. Water Resources Research, 44, W09431, doi:10.1029/2007WR006507.
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33. Trawinski, P.R.* and D.S. Mackay. 2008. Meteorologically conditioned time-series predictions of West Nile Virus vector mosquitoes. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 8(4), 505-522, doi:10.1089/vbz.2007.0202.
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32. Adelman, J.D., B.E. Ewers, and D.S. Mackay. 2008. Using temporal patterns in vapor pressure deficit to explain spatial autocorrelation dynamics in tree transpiration. Tree Physiology, 28, 657-658.
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31. Loranty, M.M.*, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, J.D. Adelman, and E.L. Kruger. 2008. Environmental drivers of spatial variation in whole-tree transpiration in an aspen-dominated upland-to-wetland forest gradient. Water Resources Research, 44, W02441, doi:10.1029/2007WR006272.
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30. Ewers, B.E., D.S. Mackay, J. Tang, P. Bolstad, and S. Samanta. 2008. Intercomparison of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) stand transpiration responses to environmental conditions from the Western Great Lakes Region of the United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.003, 148, 231-246.
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29. Samanta, S.*, D.S. Mackay, M. Clayton, E.L. Kruger, and B.E. Ewers. 2007. Bayesian analysis for uncertainty estimation of a canopy transpiration model. Water Resources Research, 43, W04424, doi:10.1029/2006WR005028.
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28. Mackay, D.S., B.E. Ewers, B.D. Cook, and K.J. Davis. 2007. Environmental drivers of evapotranspiration in a shrub wetland and an upland forest in northern Wisconsin, Water Resources Research, 43, W03442, doi:10.1029/2006WR005149.
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27. Ewers, B.E.*, D.S. Mackay, and S. Samanta*. 2007. Interannual consistency in canopy stomatal conductance control of leaf water potential across seven tree species. Tree Physiology, 27, 11-24.
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26. Noormets A, Ewers B, Sun G, Mackay S, Zheng D, McNulty S, Chen J, 2006. Water and carbon cycles in heterogeneous landscapes: an ecosystem perspective. In: Linking ecology to landscape hierarchies (Eds. Jiquan Chen, Sari C. Saunders, Kimberly D. Brosofske, and Thomas R. Crow), Nova Publishing, Carbondale, IL, USA, pp. 89-123.

25. Ahl, D.E.*, Gower, S.T., Mackay, D.S., Burrows, S.N.*, Norman, J.M., and Diak, G. 2005. The effects of aggregated land cover data on estimating NPP in northern Wisconsin. Remote Sensing of Environment, 97, 1-14.
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24. Chen E.* and D.S. Mackay. 2004. Effects of combining non-spatial simulation units and explicit models of sediment delivery on an agricultural nonpoint source pollution model. Journal of Hydrology, 295, 211-224.

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23. Ahl, D.E.*, S.T. Gower, D.S. Mackay, S.N. Burrows*, J.M. Norman, and G.R. Diak. 2004. Heterogeneity of light use efficiency in a northern Wisconsin forest: implications for modeling net primary production with remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 93, 168-178.
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22. Mackay, D.S. 2003. Watershed management: A regional to global perspective. In Young, R.A. and R.L. Giese (Eds.). Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Science and Management, 3rd Edition, Wiley, New York, 337-361.

21. Burrows, S.N.*, S.T. Gower, J.M. Norman, G. Diak, D.S. Mackay, D.E. Ahl*, and M.K. Clayton. 2003. Spatial variability of aboveground net primary productivity for a forested landscape in northern Wisconsin. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 33, 2007-2018.
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20. Mackay, D.S., S. Samanta*, R.R. Nemani, and L.E. Band. 2003. Multi-objective parameter estimation for simulating canopy transpiration in forested watersheds. Journal of Hydrology, 277(3-4), 230-247.
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19. Mackay, D.S., D.E. Ahl*, B.E. Ewers*, S. Samanta*, S.T. Gower, and S.N. Burrows*. 2003. Physiological tradeoffs in the parameterization of a model of canopy transpiration. Advances in Water Resources, 26(2), 179-194.
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18. Mackay, D.S., S. Samanta*, D.E. Ahl*, B.E. Ewers*, S.T. Gower, and S.N. Burrows*. 2003. Automated parameterization of land surface process models using fuzzy logic. Transactions in GIS, 7(1), 139-153.
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17. Samanta, S.* and D.S. Mackay. 2003. Flexible automated parameterization of hydrologic models using fuzzy logic. Water Resources Research, 39(1), 1009, doi:10.1029/2002WR001349.
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16. Mackay, D.S., D.E. Ahl*, B.E. Ewers*, S.T. Gower, S.N. Burrows*, S. Samanta*, and K.J. Davis. 2002. Effects of aggregated classifications of forest composition on estimates of evapotranspiration in a northern Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology, 8(12), 1253-1265.
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15. Burrows, S.N.*, S.T. Gower, M.K. Clayton, D.S. Mackay, D.E. Ahl*, J.M. Norman, and G. Diak. 2002. Application of geostatistics to characterize LAI for flux towers to landscapes. Ecosystems, 5(7), 667-679.
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14. Ewers, B.E.*, D.S. Mackay, S.T. Gower, D.E. Ahl*, S.N. Burrows*, S. Samanta*. 2002. Tree species effects on stand transpiration in northern Wisconsin. Water Resources Research, 38(7), 10.1029/2001WR000830.
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13. Mackay, D.S. 2001. Evaluation of hydrologic equilibrium in a mountainous watershed: Incorporating forest canopy spatial adjustment to soil biogeochemical processes. Advances in Water Resources, 24(9-10), 1211-1227.
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12. Zhu, A.-X. and D.S. Mackay. 2001. Effects of spatial detail of soil information on watershed modeling. Journal of Hydrology, 248, 54-77.
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11. FitzHugh, T.W.* and D.S. Mackay. 2001. Impact of subwatershed partitioning on modeled source- and transport-limited sediment yields in an agricultural nonpoint source pollution model. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 56(2), 137-143.
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10. FitzHugh, T.W.* and D.S. Mackay. 2000. Effects of parameter spatial aggregation on an agricultural nonpoint source pollution model. Journal of Hydrology, 236(1-2), 35-53.
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9. Liang, C.* and D.S. Mackay. 2000. A general model of watershed extraction and representation using globally optimal flow paths and up-slope contributing areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(4), 337-358.
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8. Mackay, D.S. and V.B. Robinson 2000. A multiple criteria decision support system for testing integrated environmental models. International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 113(1), 53-67.
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7. Mackay, D.S. 1999. Semantic integration of environmental models for application to global information systems and decision-making. ACM SIGMOD Record., 28(1), 16-22.
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6. Mackay, D.S. and L.E. Band 1998. Extraction and representation of nested catchment areas from digital elevation models in lake-dominated topography. Water Resources Research, 34(4), 897-902.
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5. Mackay, D.S. and L.E. Band 1997. Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: dynamic coupling of distributed hydrology and canopy growth. Hydrological Processes, 11, 1197-1217. Reprinted in Hydrological Processes AGU Special Issue, December 1997.
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4. Band, L.E., D.S. Mackay, I. Creed, R. Semkin, and D.S. Jeffries 1996. Ecosystem Processes at the Watershed Scale: Sensitivity to Potential Climate Change. Limnology and Oceanography, 41(5), 928-38.
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3. Robinson, V.B. and D.S. Mackay. 1996. Semantic modeling for the integration of geographic information and regional hydroecological simulation management. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 19(5/6), 321-39.
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2. Mackay, D.S., V.B. Robinson, and L.E. Band 1993. An integrated knowledge-based systems for managing spatiotemporal ecological simulations. AI applications , 7(1), 29-36. [ Link ]

1. Mackay, D.S., V.B. Robinson, and L.E. Band. 1992. Classification of higher order topographic objects on digital terrain data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems , 16, 473-96.
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