Productivity and Climate Responses to Forest loss in North American Ecoregions

This work was supported primarily through the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov) EF-1550641 to the University of Washington, EF-1550756 to the University of Arizona, and EF-1550686 to Michigan State University. Additional support was provided through the National Science Foundation EF-1340649 to the University of Washington, EF-1340624 to the University of Arizona, and EF-1340604 to Michigan State University, from Arizona Agriculture Experiment Station, and from the Consortium of Arizona—Mexico Arid Lands (CAZMEX). The CESM project is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science (BER) of the US Department of Energy. We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from Yellowstone (ark:/85065/d7wd3xhc) provided by NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.