Publication profiles:

• Google Scholar
• ORCID

Selected Publications by Year

2026

• Chambers JQ, Nogueira Lima AJ, Pastorello G, Gimenez BO, Meng L, et al. (2026). Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate. Nature.
• Sanderson BM, Baur S, Schleussner CF, Peters GP, Mittal S, Sandstad M, et al. (2026). Robust assessment of Solar Radiation Modification risks and uncertainties must include shocks and societal feedbacks. EGUsphere.
• Eckes-Shephard AH, Argles APK, Brzeziecki B, Cox PM, De Kauwe MG, et al. (2026). Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world’s forests. New Phytologist.

2025

• Alpay G, Fisher J, Braghiere RK, Brzostek E, Dauber G, Allen K, Fisher RA. (2025). Optimizing plant nutrient uptake: cost function sensitivity analysis of the FUN model. Environmental Research: Ecology.
• Foster AC, Hawkins LR, Kennedy D, Bonan GB, Fisher RA, Needham JF, et al. (2025). Contrasting parametric sensitivities in two global vegetation models using parameter perturbation ensembles. JAMES.
• Needham JF, Dey S, Koven CD, Fisher RA, Knox RG, Lamour J, Lemieux G, Longo M, Rogers A, Holm J. (2025). Vertical canopy gradients of respiration drive plant carbon budgets and leaf area index. New Phytologist.
• Gomez JL, Allen RJ, Horowitz LW, Turnock ST, Fisher RA, Clifton OE, Mignone BK, Shevliakova E, Malyshev S. (2025). Climate effects of a future net forestation scenario in CMIP6 models. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
• Keetz LT, Aalstad K, Fisher RA, Poppe Teran C, Naz B, Pirk N, Yilmaz YA, Skarpaas O. (2025). Inferring parameters in a complex land surface model by combining data assimilation and machine learning. JAMES.
• Kennedy D, Dagon K, Lawrence DM, Fisher RA, Sanderson BM, Collier N, Hoffman FM, Koven CD, Kluzek E, Levis S. (2025). One-at-a-time parameter perturbation ensemble of Community Land Model 5.1. JAMES.
• Raoult N, Douglas N, MacBean N, Kolassa J, Quaife T, Roberts AG, Fisher RA, et al. (2025). Parameter estimation in land surface models: challenges and opportunities with data assimilation and machine learning. JAMES.

2024

• Sanderson BM, Booth BBB, Dunne J, Eyring V, Fisher RA, et al. (2024). The need for carbon-emissions-driven climate projections in CMIP7. Geoscientific Model Development. DOI
• Allen RJ, Samset BH, Wilcox LJ, Fisher RA. (2024). Are Northern Hemisphere boreal forest fires more sensitive to future aerosol mitigation than to greenhouse gas-driven warming? Science Advances. DOI
• Liu L, Fisher RA, Douville H, et al. (2024). No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability. Communications Earth & Environment. DOI
• Knox RG, Koven CD, Riley WJ, Walker AP, Wright SJ, Holm JA, Wei X, Fisher RA, et al. (2024). Nutrient dynamics in a coupled terrestrial biosphere and land model (ELM-FATES-CNP). JAMES. DOI
• Hes G, Vanderkelen I, Fisher RA, Chave J, Ogee J, Davin EL. (2024). Projecting future forest microclimate using a land surface model. Environmental Research Letters.
• Poppe Teran C, Naz BS, Vereecken H, Baatz R, Fisher RA, Hendricks Franssen HJ. (2024). Systematic underestimation of type-specific ecosystem process variability in CLM5 over Europe. EGUsphere.
• Robbins Z, Chambers J, Chitra-Tarak R, Christoffersen B, Dickman LT, Fisher RA, et al. (2024). Future climate doubles the risk of hydraulic failure in a wet tropical forest. New Phytologist.
• Douville H, Allan RP, Arias PA, Fisher RA. (2024). Call for caution regarding the efficacy of large-scale afforestation and its hydrological effects. Science of the Total Environment.
• Cheng Y, Wang W, Detto M, Fisher RA, Shoemaker C. (2024). Calibrating tropical forest coexistence in ecosystem demography models using multi-objective optimization. JAMES.

2023

• Lambert MSA, Tang H, Aas KS, Stordal F, Fisher RA, et al. (2023). Integration of a frost mortality scheme into the demographic vegetation model FATES. JAMES. DOI
• Keetz LT, Lieungh E, Karimi-Asli K, Geange SR, Gelati E, Tang H, Yilmaz YA, Aas KS, Althuizen IHJ, Bryn A, Falk S, Fisher RA, et al. (2023). Climate-ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform. Global Change Biology.
• Shuman JK, Fisher RA, Koven CD, Knox RG, Kueppers LM, Xu C. (2023). Dynamic ecosystem assembly and escaping the fire-trap in the tropics: insights from FATES. Geoscientific Model Development.
• Li L, Fang Y, Zheng Z, Shi M, Longo M, Koven CD, Holm JA, Fisher RA, et al. (2023). A machine learning approach for parameter estimation in ELM-FATES (v2.0). Geoscientific Model Development.
• Ding J, Buotte P, Bales R, Christoffersen B, Fisher RA, Knox R, et al. (2023). Coordination of rooting, xylem, and stomatal strategies explains conifer response to multi-year drought. Biogeosciences.
• Wilcox KR, Chen A, Avolio ML, Butler EE, Collins S, Fisher RA, Keenan T, Kiang NY, Knapp AK, Koerner SE, Kueppers L. (2023). Accounting for herbaceous communities in process-based models will advance our understanding of grassy ecosystems. Global Change Biology.

2022

• Needham JF, Arellano G, Davies SJ, Fisher RA, Hammer V, Knox RG, et al. (2022). Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest. Global Change Biology.
• Koven CD, Arora VK, Cadule P, Fisher RA, Jones CD, Lawrence DM, et al. (2022). Multi-century dynamics of climate and carbon cycle under high and net negative emissions. Earth System Dynamics.
• Yao Y, Joetzjer E, Ciais P, Viovy N, Cresto Aleina F, Chave J, Sack L, Bartlett M, Meir P, Fisher RA, Luyssaert S. (2022). Forest fluxes and mortality response to drought (ORCHIDEE-CAN-NHA). Geoscientific Model Development.
• Hardouin L, Delire C, Decharme B, Lawrence DM, Nabel J, Brovkin V, Collier N, Fisher RA, Hoffman FM, Koven CD, Seferian R. (2022). Uncertainty in land carbon budget simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: the role of atmospheric forcing. Environmental Research Letters.
• Needham JF, Johnson DJ, Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Bourg N, et al., Fisher RA. (2022). Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests. Global Change Biology.

2021

• Sanderson BM, Pendergrass A, Koven CD, Brient F, Booth BBB, Fisher RA, Knutti R. (2021). The potential for structural errors in emergent constraints. Earth System Dynamics. DOI
• Walker AP, Johnson AL, Rogers A, et al., Fisher RA. (2021). Multi-hypothesis comparison of Farquhar and Collatz photosynthesis models. Global Change Biology. DOI
• Ma W, Xu C, Koven CD, Fisher RA, et al. (2021). Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model. Biogeosciences. DOI
• Braghiere RK, Fisher JB, Fisher RA, et al. (2021). Mycorrhizal distributions impact global patterns of carbon and nutrient cycling. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI
• Chitra-Tarak R, Xu C, Aguilar S, Anderson-Teixeira K, Chambers J, Detto M, Fisher RA, et al. (2021). Hydraulically vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest. New Phytologist.
• Kovenock M, Swann A, Fisher RA, Koven CD, Knox RG. (2021). Leaf trait plasticity alters competitive ability and functioning of simulated tropical trees under elevated carbon dioxide. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI

2020

• Koven CD, Knox R, Fisher RA, Chambers JQ, Christoffersen BO, Davies S, Detto M, et al. (2020). Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using FATES at BCI, Panama. Biogeosciences.
• Needham JS, Chambers JQ, Fisher RA, Knox R, Koven CD. (2020). Forest responses to simulated elevated CO2 under alternate hypotheses of size- and age-dependent mortality. Global Change Biology.
• Huang M, Xu Y, Longo M, Keller M, Knox R, Koven C, Fisher RA. (2020). Selective logging impacts on water, energy, and carbon budgets in Amazon forests using FATES. Biogeosciences. DOI
• Fisher RA, Koven CD. (2020). Perspectives on the future of land surface models and challenges of representing complex terrestrial systems. JAMES. DOI
• Arora VK, Katavouta A, Williams RG, Jones CD, Brovkin V, Friedlingstein P, Schwinger J, Bopp L, Boucher O, Cadule P, Delire C, Fisher RA, et al. (2020). Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models. Biogeosciences.
• Sanderson BM, Fisher RA. (2020). A fiery wake-up call for climate science. Nature Climate Change.

2019

• Fisher RA, Wieder W, Sanderson B, Koven CD, Oleson KW, Xu C, et al. (2019). Parametric controls on vegetation responses to biogeochemical forcing in CLM5. JAMES. DOI
• Lawrence DM, Fisher RA, Oleson K, Swenson SC, Bonan G, Collier N, Ghimire B, van Kampenhout L, Kennedy D, et al. (2019). The Community Land Model version 5: new features, benchmarking, and forcing uncertainty. JAMES.
• Xu C, McDowell NG, Fisher RA, Wei L, Sevanto S, Christoffersen BO, Weng E, Middleton R. (2019). Increasing impacts of extreme drought on vegetation production under future climate change. Nature Climate Change.
• Massoud EC, Xu C, Fisher RA, Knox R, Walker AP, Serbin S, Christoffersen B, Holm JA, Kueppers LM, Ricciuto DM, Wei L. (2019). Key parameters controlling demographically structured vegetation dynamics in CLM4.5(FATES). Geoscientific Model Development.
• Kennedy D, Swenson S, Oleson KW, Lawrence DM, Fisher RA, da Costa ACL, Gentine P. (2019). Implementing plant hydraulics in CLM5. JAMES.

2018

• Fisher RA, Koven CD, Anderegg WRL, Christoffersen BO, Dietze MC, Farrior CE, Holm JA, Hurtt GC, Knox RG, Lawrence PJ, Lichstein JW, Longo M, et al. (2018). Vegetation demographics in Earth system models: a review of progress and priorities. Global Change Biology.
• Powell TL, Koven CD, Johnson DJ, Faybishenko B, Fisher RA, Knox RG, McDowell NG, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Wright SJ, Chambers JQ. (2018). Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity. New Phytologist.
• Malhi Y, Rowland L, Aragao L, Fisher RA. (2018). New insights into tropical land carbon cycle variability from the El Nino of 2015/2016. Philosophical Transactions B.

2017 and Earlier (selected)

• McDowell NG, Williams AP, Xu C, Pockman WT, Dickman LT, Sevanto S, Pangle R, Limousin J, Ogee J, Domec JC, Allen CD, Fisher RA, et al. (2016). Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise. Nature Climate Change.
• Fisher RA, Muszala S, Verteinstein M, Lawrence P, Xu C, McDowell NG, Knox RG, Koven C, Holm J, Rogers BM, Spessa A. (2015). Taking off the training wheels: a dynamic vegetation model without climate envelopes, CLM4.5(ED). Geoscientific Model Development.
• Bonan GB, Williams M, Fisher RA, Oleson KW. (2014). Modeling stomatal conductance in the Earth system by linking water-use efficiency and soil-plant-atmosphere transport. Geoscientific Model Development.
• Fu R, Yin L, Li W, Arias PA, Dickinson RE, Huang L, Chakraborty S, Fernandes K, Liebmann B, Fisher RA, Myneni RB. (2013). Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia and implications for future climate projections. PNAS.
• Huntingford C, Zelazowski P, Galbraith D, Mercado LM, Sitch S, Fisher RA, et al. (2013). Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change. Nature Geoscience.
• Fisher RA, McDowell N, Purves DW, Moorcroft PR, Sitch S, Meir P, Cox P, Huntingford C, Woodward FI. (2010). Ecological scale limitations in second-generation dynamic vegetation models. New Phytologist.
• Fisher JB, Sitch S, Malhi Y, Fisher RA, Huntingford C, Tan SY. (2010). Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: a globally applicable model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI
• Alton P, Fisher RA, Williams M, Los S. (2009). Simulations of global evapotranspiration using semi-empirical and mechanistic plant hydrology schemes. Journal of Geophysical Research. DOI
• Fisher RA, Williams M, Ruivo ML, Sombroek WG, da Costa AL. (2008). Climatic and edaphic controls of drought stress at two Amazonian rain forest sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• Fisher RA, Williams M, da Costa AL, Malhi Y, da Costa RF, Almeida S, Meir P. (2007). Response of an eastern Amazonian rain forest to drought stress from a through-fall exclusion experiment. Global Change Biology.
• Fisher RA, Williams M, Lobo do Vale R, da Costa AL, Meir P. (2006). Evidence from Amazonian forests is consistent with isohydric control of leaf water potential. Plant, Cell and Environment.

For the complete list, see Google Scholar and ORCID above.