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Tropical and subtropical drylands dominate the interannual variability in global net terrestrial carbon flux irrespective of different global ecosystem classifications or geographic scales

Published in Environmental Research: Climate, 2026

Our findings demonstrate that drylands persist as the dominant contributor to global terrestrial net C flux IAV, irrespective of different global ecosystem classifications or geographic scales.

Recommended citation: Bogucki, L., Feldman, A., Moore, D.J.P., Amaral, C., Wang, L., Green, J., Babst, F., Ojima, D., Pervin, R., Reed, S., Smith, W.K., Zhang, W. and MacBean, N. (2026) Tropical and subtropical drylands dominate the interannual variability in global net terrestrial carbon flux irrespective of different global ecosystem classifications or geographic scales. Environmental Research: Climate, 5, 035049.
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An Ehrlich-inspired retrobiosynthesis of pharmaceutical scaffolds

This work unveils a generalizable biocatalytic route to clinically important alkaloids by exploiting metabolic logic from a yeast flavor pathway.

Recommended citation: Rumpl, A., Kowalski, D., Goodhew, J., Hirano, M., Bogucki, L., Rosa, C., Lachance, M.A., Pyne, M. (2025) An Ehrlich-inspired retrobiosynthesis of pharmaceutical scaffolds. In revision for Nature Communications.
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Importance of plant functional type, dynamic vegetation, and fire interactions for process-based modeling of gross carbon uptake across the drylands of western North America

Our findings suggest that DGVMs inability to accurately represent the spatial distribution of herbaceous (specifically C4 grass) cover as well as processes controlling dynamically changing vegetation distributions over time (including fire) contribute to poor model performance in capturing annual variability in dryland productivity. Our findings can provide a roadmap for DGVM teams seeking to improve vegetation representation in sparsely vegetated dynamic dryland ecosystems..

Recommended citation: Pervin, R., Robeson, S., Barnes, M., Sitch, S., Walker, A.P., Poulter, B., Maignan, F., Sun, Q., Colligan, T., Zaehle, S., Mahmud, K., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Arora, V.K., Bastrikov, V., Bogucki, L., Decharme, B., Delire, C., Falk, S., Ito, A., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Knauer, J., O’Sullivan, M., Yuan, W. and MacBean, N. (2025) Importance of plant functional type, dynamic vegetation, and fire interactions for process-based modeling of gross carbon uptake across the drylands of western North America. In revision for Biogeosciences.
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