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Aber, J.; Neilson, R.; McNulty, S.; Lenihan, J.; Bachelet, D.; Drapek, R. 2001. Forest processes and global environmental change: predicting the effect of individual and multiple stressors. 2000. BioScience. 51(9): 735-751.

Bachelet,D., J. Lenihan, R. Drapek, and R.Neilson. 2008VEMAP vs VINCERA: A DGVM sensitivity to differences in climate scenarios.Global and Planetary Change 64 (2008) 38–48.

Bachelet, D., Brugnach, M.; Neilson, R. 1998. Sensitivity of a biogeography model to soil properties. Ecological Modelling. 109: 77-98. [abstract]

Bachelet, D.; Daly, C.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Parton, W.; Ojima, D. 2000. Interactions between fire, grazing, and climate change at Wind Cave National Park, SD. Ecological Modelling. 134: 229-244.

Bachelet, D.; Lenihan, J.; Daly, C.; Neilson, R.; Ojima, D.; Parton, W. 2001. MC1: a dynamic vegetation model for estimating the distribution of vegetation and associated ecosystem fluxes of carbon, nutrients, and water. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-508. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 95.

Bachelet D.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Drapek, R.; Kittel, T. 2005. Simulating the response of natural ecosystems and their fire regimes to climatic variability in Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 35: 2073-2293.

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Hickler, T.; Drapek, R.; Lenihan, J.; Sykes, M.; Smith, B.; Sitch, S.; Thonicke, K. 2003. Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 17(2): 14-1—14-21.

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Drapek, R. 2004. Regional differences in the carbon source-sink potential of natural vegetation in the U.S.A. Environmental. Management. 33(Supplement 1): S23-S43.

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Drapek, R. 2001. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution and carbon budget in the United States. Ecosystems. 4: 164-185.

Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R. 2000. Biome redistribution under climate change. In: Joyce, L.; Birdsey, R., eds. The impact of climate change on America's forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Research Station: 18-44.

Bishop, G.; Church, M.; Aber, J.; Neilson, R.; Ollinger, S.; Daly, C. 1998. A comparison of mapped estimates of long-term runoff in the Northeast United States. Journal of Hydrology. 206: 176-190. [abstract]

Blate, G.M.; Joyce, L.A.; Littell, J.S.; McNulty, S.G.; Millar, C.I.; Moser, S.C.; Neilson, R.P.; O'Halloran, K.; Peterson, D.L. 2009. Adapting to climate change in United States national forests. Unasylva 60 (231/232): 57-62.

Borchers, J.; Neilson, R. 1997. Projected impacts of global climate change on forests and water resources of the Southeastern United States. In: Fox, S.; Mickler, R., eds. The productivity and sustainability of southern forest ecosystems in a changing environment. New York: Springer-Verlag. 453-478.

Calkin, D.; Gebert, K.; Jones, J.; Neilson, R. 2005. Forest Service large fire area burned and suppression expenditure trends, 1970-2002. Journal of Forestry. 103(4): 179-183.

Cary, G.M.; Flannigan, M.D.; Keane, R.E.; Bradstock, R.A.; Davies, I.D.; Lenihan, J.M.; Li, C.; Logan, K.A.; Parsons, R.A. 2009. Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: evidence from five landscape-fire-succession models. International Journal of Wildland Fire 18: 147-156.

Cary, G.; Keane, R.; Gardner, R.; Lavorel, S.; Flannigan, M.; Davies, I.; Liu, C.; Lenihan, J.; Rupp, T.; Mouillot, F. 2006. Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather. Landscape Ecology. 21: 121-137.

Dale, V.; Joyce, L.; McNulty, S.; Neilson, R. 2000. The interplay between climate change, forests, and disturbance. Science of the Total Environment. 262(3): 201-204.

Dale, V.; Joyce, L.; McNulty, S.; Neilson, R.; Ayres, M.; Flannigan, M.; Hanson, P.; Irland, L.; Lugo, A.; Peterson, C.; Simberloff, D.; Swanson, F.; Stocks, B.; Wotton, B. 2001. Climate change and forest disturbance. BioScience. 51(9): 723-734.

Daly, C.; Bachelet, D.; Lenihan, J.; Parton, W.; Neilson, R.; Ojima, D. 2000. Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change studies. Ecological Applications. 10(2): 449-469.

Daly, C.; Gibson, W.; Doggett, M.; Smith, J.; Taylor G. 2004. Up-to-date monthly climate maps for the conterminous United States. Proceedings, 14th AMS Conference on Applied Climatology. Seattle, WA: American Meteorological Society: 1-8.

Daly, C.; Neilson, R.; Phillips, D. 1994. A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 33(2): 140-158. [abstract]

Del Grosso, S. J., W. G. Parton, T. Stohlgren, D. Zheng, D. Bachelet, S. Prince, K. Hibbard, and R. Olson. 2008. Global potential net primary production predicted from vegetation class, precipitation, and temperature. Ecology 89:2117-2126.

Fosberg, M.; Cramer, W.; Brovkin, V.; Fleming, R.; Gardner, R.; Gill, A.; Goldammer, J.; Keane, R.; Koehler, P.; Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R.; Sitch, S.; Thonicke, K.; Venevski, S.; Weber, M.; Wittenberg, U. 1999. Strategy for a fire module in dynamic global vegetation models. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 9: 79-84.

Hayhoe, K.; Cayan, D.; Field, C.; Frumhoff, P.; Maurer, E.; Miller, N.; Moser, S.; Schneider, S.; Cahill, K.; Cleland, E.; Dale, L.; Davis, F.; Drapek, R.; Hanemann, W.; Kalkstein, L.; Lenihan, J.; Lunch, C.; Neilson, R.; Sheridan, S.; Verville, J. 2004. Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(34): 12422-12427.

Gonzalez, P.; Neilson, R.P.; Lenihan, J.M.; Drapek, R.J. 2010. Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:755-768.

Hansen, A.; Neilson, R.; Dale, V.; Flather, C.; Iverson, L.; Currie, D.; Shafer, S.; Cook, R.; Bartlein, P. 2001. Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes. BioScience. 51(9): 765-779.

Jackson, R.; Schenk, H.; Jobbagy, E.; Canadell, J.; Colello, G.; Dickinson, R.; Dunne, T.; Field, C.; Friedlingstein, P.; Heimann, M.; Hibbard, K.; Kicklighter, D.; Kleidon, A.; Neilson, R.; Parton, W.; Sala, O.; Sykes, M. 2000. Belowground consequences of vegetation change and its treatment in models. Ecological Applications. 10(2): 470-483. [abstract]

Joyce, L.; Baer, J.; McNulty, S.; Dale, V.; Hansen, A.; Irland, L.; Neilson, R.; Skog, K. 2001. Potential consequences of climate variability and change for the forests of the United States. In: Climate change impacts in the United States. Report for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press: 489-521. — (Color figures PDF)

Joyce,L.A.; Blate,G.M.; McNulty, S.G.; Millar, C.I.; Moser,S.; Neilson, R.P.; Peterson, D.L. 2009. Managing for multiple resources under climate change: National forests. Environmental Management 44:1022-1032.

Keane, R. E., G. J. Cary, I. D. Davies, M. D. Flannigan, R. H. Gardner, S. Lavorel, J. M. Lenihan, C. Li, and T. S. Rupp. 2007. Understanding global fire dynamics by classifying and comparing spatial models of vegetation and fire. Pages 139-148 in J. G. Canadell, D. E. Pataki, and L. F. Pitelka editors. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Keane, R.; Cary, G.; Davies, I.; Flannigan, M.; Gardner, R.; Lavorel, S.; Lenihan, J.; Liu, C.; Rupp, T. 2004. A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations for fire and vegetation dynamics. Ecological Modelling. 179: 3-27.

Kittel, T.; Rosenbloom, N.; Royle, J.; Daly, C.; Gibson, W.; Fisher, H.; Thornton, P.; Yates, D.; Aulenbach, S.; Kaufman, C.; McKeown, R.; Bachelet, D.; Schimel, D.; VEMAP2 Participants. 2004. VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimatic database. I. Gridded historical (20th century) climate for modeling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA. Climate Research. 27: 151-170.

Kittel, T.; Rosenbloom, N.; Painter, T.; Schimel, D.; Melillo, J.; Pan, Y.; Kicklighter, D.; McGuire, A.; Neilson, R.; Chaney, J.; Ojima, D.; McKeown, R.; Parton, W.; Pulliam, W.; Prentice, I.; Haxeltine, A.; Running, S.; Pierce, L.; Nemani, R.; Hunt, E.; Smith, T.; Rizzo, B.; Woodward, F. 1995. The VEMAP integrated database for modelling United States ecosystem/vegetation sensitivity to climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 22: 857-862.

Kittel, T.; Royle, J.; Daly, C.; Rosenbloom, N.; Gibson, W.; Fisher, H.; Schimel, D.; Berliner, L.; VEMAP2 Participants. 1997. A gridded historical (1895-1993) bioclimate dataset for the coterminous United States. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Applied Climatology. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society: 219-222.

Lenihan, J. M., D. Bachelet, R. P. Neilson, and R. Drapek. 2008. Response of vegetation distribution, ecosystem productivity, and fire to climate change scenarios for California. Climatic Change 87:S215-S230.

Lenihan, J. M., D. Bachelet, R. P. Neilson, and R. Drapek. 2008.Simulated response of conterminous United States ecosystems to climate change at different levels of fire suppression, CO2 emission rate, and growth response to CO2. Global and Planetary Change 64(1-2):16-25.

Lenihan, J. M., R. Drapek, and R. Neilson. 2006. Terrestrial ecosystem changes. Pages 60-85 in J. B. Smith, and R. Mendelsohn editors. The Impact of Climate Change on Regional Systems: A Comprehensive Analysis of California. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Lenihan, J. M., R. Drapek, and R. Neilson. 2007. Terrestrial ecosystem changes. Pages 60-85 in J. B. Smith, and R. Mendelsohn editors. The impact of climate change on regional systems. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Lenihan J.; Drapek R.; Bachelet D.; Neilson R. 2003. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution, carbon, and fire in California. Ecological Applications. 13, 1667-1681.

Lenihan, J.; Sandberg, D.; Neilson, R. 2000. Linking a dynamic vegetation model with the National Fuels Characterization System. In: Neuenschwander, L.; Ryan, K., eds. Crossing the millennium: integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho. 288-289.

Lenihan, J.; Daly, C.; Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R. 1998. Simulating broad-scale fire severity in a dynamic global vegetation model. Northwest Science. 72(2): 91-103. [abstract]

Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R. 1995. Canadian vegetation sensitivity to projected climatic change at three organizational levels. Climatic Change. 30: 27-56.

Luo, T.; Neilson, R.; Tian, H.; Vorosmarty, C.; Zhu, H.; Liu, S. 2002. A model for seasonality and distribution of leaf area index of forests and its application to China. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13: 817-830. — (Appendix)

Malcolm, J.; Liu, C.; Neilson, R.; Hansen, L.; Hannah, L. 2006. Global warming and extinctions of endemic species from biodiversity hotspots. Conservation Biology. 20(2): 538-548.

Malcolm, J.R.; Markham, A.; Neilson, R.P. 2001. Can species keep up with climate change? Conservation Biology in Practice. 2(2): 24-25.

Marland, G.; Pielke, R.; Apps, M.; Avissar,R.; Betts, R.; Davis,K.; Frumhoff, P.; Jackson, S.; Joyce, L.; Kauppi, P.; Katzenberger, J.; MacDicken, K.; Neilson, R.; Niles, J.; Niyogi, D.; Norby, R.; Pena, N.; Sampson, N.; Xue,Y. 2003. The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy. Climate Policy. 3: 149-157.

Neilson, R. 2004. Projecting potential landscape dynamics: issues and challenges. In: Gucinski, H.; Miner, C.; Bittner, B., eds. Proceedings: views from the ridge—considerations for planning at the landscape scale. PNW-GTR-596. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 42-47.

Neilson, R. 2003. The importance of precipitation seasonality in controlling vegetation distribution. In: Weltzin, J.; McPherson, G., eds. Changing precipitation regimes and terrestrial ecosystems: a North American perspective. Phoenix, AZ: The University of Arizona Press: 47-71.

Neilson, R. 1999. Landscape ecology and global change. In: Wiens, J.; Moss, M., eds. Issues in landscape ecology. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: The International Association for Landscape Ecology. 64-69.

Neilson, R. 1997. The MAPSS model. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-GTR-237. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 111-112.

Neilson, R. 1995. A model for predicting continental-scale vegetation distribution and water balance. Ecological Applications. 5(2): 362-385. [abstract]

Neilson, R.; Chaney, J. 1997. Potential changes in the vegetation distribution in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-GTR-237. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 66-80.

Neilson, R.; Drapek, R. 1998. Potentially complex biosphere responses to transient global warming. Global Change Biology. 4: 505-521.

Neilson, R.; King, G.; Koerper, G. 1992. Toward a rule-based model. Landscape Ecology. 7(1): 27-43.

Neilson, R. P., G. A. King, and J. Lenihan. 1994. Modeling forest response to climatic change: the potential for large emissions of carbon from dying forests. Pages 150-162 in M. Kanninen editor. Carbon balance of the world's ecosystems: Towards a global assessment. Publications of the Academy of Finland, Painatuskeskus, Helsinki.

Neilson, R.; Lenihan, J.; Bachelet, D. 2000. Overview of dynamic global vegetation models. In: Hawkes, B.; Flannigan, M.; eds. Landscape fire modeling—challenges and opportunities. Victoria, BC : Canadian Forest Service Information Report NOR-X-371. 3-4.

Neilson, R.; Pitelka, L.; Solomon, A.; Nathan, R.; Midgley, G.; Fragoso, J.; Lischke, H.; Thompson, K. 2005. Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change. BioScience. 55(9): 749-759.

Neilson, R.; Prentice, I.; Smith, B.; Kittel, T.; Viner, D. 1998. Simulated changes in vegetation distribution under global warming. In: Watson, R.; Zinyowera, M.; Moss, R.; Dokken, D., eds. The regional impacts of climate change: an assessment of vulnerability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 439-456.

Neilson, R.; Running, S. 1996. Global dynamic vegetation modelling: coupling biogeochemistry and biogeography models. In: Walker, B.; Steffen, W.; eds. Global change and terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 451-465.

Schimel, D.; Emanuel, W.; Rizzo, B.; Smith, T.; Woodward, F.; Fisher, H.; Kittel, T; McKeown, R.; Painter, T.; Rosenbloom, N.; Ojima, D.; Parton, W.; Kicklighter, D.; McGuire, A.; Melillo, J.; Pan, Y.; Haxeltine, A.; Prentice, I; Sitch, S.; Hibbard, K.; Nemani, R.; Pierce, L.; Running, S.; Borhcers, J.; Chaney, J.; Neilson, R.; Braswell, B. 1997. Continental scale variability in ecosystem processes: models, data, and the role of disturbance. Ecological Monographs. 67: 251-271. [abstract]

Schimel, D.; Melillo, J.; Tian, H.; McGuire, A.; Kicklighter, D.; Kittel, T; Rosenbloom, N.; Running, S.; Thornton, P.; Ojima, D.; Parton, W.; Kelly, R.; Sykes, M.; Neilson, R.; Rizzo, B. 2000. The contribution of increasing CO₂ and climate to carbon storage by natural and agricultural ecosystems of the US 1980-1993. Science. 287: 2004-2006.

Schmoldt, D.; Peterson, D.; Keane, R.; Lenihan, J.; McKenzie, D.; Weise, D.; Sandberg, D. 1999. Assessing the effects of fire disturbance on ecosystems: a scientific agenda for research and management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-455. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 1-104.

Shriner, D.; Street, R.; Ball, R.; D'Amours, D.; Duncan, K.; Kaiser, D.; Maarouf, A.; Mortsch, L.; Mulholland, P.; Neilson, R.; Patz, J.; Scheraga, J.; Titus, J.; Vaughan, H.; Weltz, M. [et al.]. 1998. North America. In: Watson, R.; Zinyowera, M.; Moss, R.; Dokken, D., eds. The regional impacts of climate change: an assessment of vulnerability. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 255-330.

Sohngen, B.; Mendelsohn, R.; Neilson, R. 1998. Predicting CO₂ emissions from forests during climatic change: a comparison of natural and human response models. Ambio. 27(7): 509-513. [abstract]

Wiedinmyer, C.; Ti, X.; Guenther, A.; Neilson, R.; Granier, C. 2006. Future changes in biogenic isoprene emissions: How might they affect regional and global atmospheric chemistry? Earth Interactions. 10(3): 1-9.