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Michael Roderick

Dr Michael L. Roderick

Environmental Biology Group
Research School of Biological Sciences
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601
ph: +61 (02) 6125 5589
fax: +61 (02) 6125 4919

email: Michael.Roderick@anu.edu.au

CV:      Michael Roderick

Publications ListMichael Roderick

 

Information for prospective students

Current position

Fellow (Joint RSBS, RSES)


Research interests

Environmental Physics

Remote Sensing

Ecohydrology (including plant-water relations)

Ecological Dynamics

Global Change Science

 


Selected Publications

Hobbins MH,  Dai A, Roderick ML, Farquhar GD (2008) Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of long-term water balance trends, Geophysical Research Letters, in press, (accepted 17 April 2008).  In Press

Donohue RJ, Roderick ML, McVicar TR (2008) Deriving consistent long-term vegetation information from AVHRR reflectance data using a cover-triangle-based framework, Remote Sensing of Environment, in press (accepted Feb 2008).   In Press

Schymanski SJ, Roderick ML, Sivapalan M, Hutley LB, Beringer J (2008) A canopy scale test of the optimal water use hypothesis, Plant Cell and Environment, 31, 97-111.

Roderick ML, Rotstayn LD, Farquhar GD and Hobbins MT. (2007)  On the attribution of changing pan evaporation.  Geophysical Research Letters VOL. 34, L17403, doi:10.1029/2007GL031166

Donohue, RJ, Roderick ML and McVicar, TR (2007) On the importance of including vegetation dynamics in Budyko’s hydrological model, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 983-995.

Rotstayn LD. Cai W, Dix MR, Farquhar GD, Feng Y, Ginoux P, Herzog M, Ito A, Penner JE, Roderick ML, and Wang M (2007)  Have Australian rainfall and cloudiness increased due to the remote effects of Asian anthropogenic aerosols?  Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 112 doi:10.1029/2006JD00771

Rotstayn, L. D., Roderick, M. L. and Farquhar, G. D. 2006. A simple pan-evaporation model for analysis of climate simulations: Evaluation over Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L17715, doi:10.1029/2006GL027114.

Roderick, M.L. (2006) The ever-flickering light, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 3-5.

Berry, S. L. and Roderick, M. L. (2006) Changing Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988: effects of CO2 and land use change. Australian Journal of Botany, 54, 325-338.

Roderick, M. L. and Canny, M. J. (2005) A mechanical interpretation of pressure chamber measurements – what does the strength of the squeeze tell us? Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 43, 323-336.

Berry, S. L. and Roderick, M. L. (2005) Tansley Review: Plant water relations and the fibre saturation point, New Phytologist, 168, 25-37.

Roderick, M.L. and Farquhar, G.D. (2004) Changes in Australian pan evaporation from 1970 to 2002, International Journal of Climatology 24, 1077-1090.

Berry, S.L. and Roderick, M. L. (2004) Carbon stocks and fluxes of the Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988 AD: Estimating GPP from vegetation cover and net radiation. Global Change Biology 10, 1884-1898.

Roderick, M.L. and Barnes, B. (2004) Self-thinning of plant populations from a dynamic viewpoint. Functional Ecology 18, 197-203.

Farquhar, G.D. and Roderick, M.L. (2003) Pinatubo, diffuse light, and the carbon cycle. Science 299, 1997-1998.

Roderick, M.L. and Farquhar, G.D. (2002) The cause of decreased pan evaporation over the last 50 years. Science 298, 1410-1411.

 

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