Publications

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2024

Individual-based remote sensing of canopy trees.
Kellner, J. R., and J. T. Burley. In The First 100 Years of Research of Barro Colorado Island: Plant and Ecosystem Science, edited by Muller-Landau, H. C. and Wright, J. J. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2024 in press.

2023

GEDI L4B Gridded Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 2.1.
Dubayah, R. O., Armston, J., Healey, S. P., Yang, Z., Patterson, P. l., Saarela, S., Stahl, G., Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R., Bruening, J., Pascual, A. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

Generate verifiable soil carbon credits from croplands.
Fu, P., Schurman, D., Donovan, M., Kellner, J. R. Nature. 624: 252. [ Full Text ]

Impact of leaf phenology on estimates of aboveground biomass density in deciduous broadleaf forest from simulated GEDI lidar.
Cushman, K. C., Armston, J., Dubayah, R. O., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Janik, D., Král, K., Krůček, M., Minor, D. M., Tang, H., Kellner, J. R. Environmental Research Letters. 18: 065009. [ Full Text ]

Assessing the performance of NASA’s GEDI L4A footprint aboveground biomass density models using National Forest Inventory and airborne laser scanning data in Mediterranean forest ecosystems.
Pascual, A., Guerra-Hernández, J., Armston, J., Duncanson, L., Minor, D. M., Kellner, J. R., Dubayah, R. O. Forest Ecology and Management. 538. [ Full Text ]

High-velocity upward shifts in vegetation are ubiquitous in mountains of western North America.
Kellner, J. R., Kendrick, J., Sax, D. F. PLoS Climate. 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000071. [ Full Text ]

Sensitivity of solar-induced fluorescence to spectral stray light in high-resolution imaging spectroscopy.
Albert, L. P., Cushman, K. C., Zong, Y., Allen. D. W., Alonso, L., Kellner, J. R. Remote Sensing of Environment. 285: 113313. [ Full Text ]

2022

GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 2.1.
Dubayah, R. O., Armston, J., Kellner, J. R., Duncanson, L., Healey, S. P., Patterson, P. L., Hancock, S., Tang, H., Bruening, J., Hofton, M. A., Blair, J. B., Luthcke, S. B. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Golden Weeks, Version 1.
Dubayah, R. O., Armston, J., Kellner, J. R., Duncanson, L., Healey, S. P., Patterson, P. L., Hancock, S., Tang, H., Hofton, M. A., Blair, J. B., Luthcke, S. R. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

GEDI L4B Gridded Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 2.
Dubayah, R. O., Armston, J., Healey, S. P., Yang, Z., Patterson, P. l., Saarela, S., Stahl, G., Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

Algorithm theoretical basis document for GEDI footprint aboveground biomass density.
Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Duncanson, L. Earth and Space Science. 10.1029/2022EA002516. [ Full Text ]

GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space.
Dubayah, R. O., Armston, J., Healey, S. P., Bruening, J. M., Patterson, P. L., Kellner, J. R., Duncanson, L., Saarella, S., Ståhl, G., Yang, Z., Tang, H., Blair, J. B., Fatoyinbo, L., Goetz, S., Hancock, S., Hansen, M., Hofton, M., Hurtt G., Luthcke, S. Environmental Research Letters. 17: 095001. [ Full Text ]

The role of microtopography and resident species in post-disturbance recovery of arid habitats in Hawai’i.
Yelenik, S., Rose, E., Cordell, S., Victoria, M., Kellner, J. R. Ecological Applications. 32: e2690. [ Full Text ]

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment.
Duncanson, L., Kellner, J.R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D.M., Hancock, S., Healey, S.P., Patterson, P.L., Saarela, S., Marselis, S., Silva, C.E., Bruening, J., Goetz, S.J., Tang, H., Hofton, M., Blair, B., Luthcke, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Abernethy, K., Alonso, A., Andersen, H.-E., Aplin, P., Baker, T.R., Barbier, N., Bastin, J.F., Biber, P., Boeckx, P., Bogaert, J., Boschetti, L., Boucher, P.B., Boyd, D.S., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Calvo-Rodriguez, S., Chave, J., Chazdon, R.L., Clark, D.B., Clark, D.A., Cohen, W.B., Coomes, D.A., Corona, P., Cushman, K.C., Cutler, M.E.J., Dalling, J.W., Dalponte, M., Dash, J., de-Miguel, S., Deng, S., Ellis, P.W., Erasmus, B., Fekety, P.A., Fernandez-Landa, A., Ferraz, A., Fischer, R., Fisher, A.G., García-Abril, A., Gobakken, T., Hacker, J.M., Heurich, M., Hill, R.A., Hopkinson, C., Huang, H., Hubbell, S.P., Hudak, A.T., Huth, A., Imbach, B., Jeffery, K.J., Katoh, M., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Kljun, N., Knapp, N., Král, K., Krůček, M., Labrière, N., Lewis, S.L., Longo, M., Lucas, R.M., Main, R., Manzanera, J.A., Martínez, R.V., Mathieu, R., Memiaghe, H., Meyer, V., Mendoza, A.M., Monerris, A., Montesano, P., Morsdorf, F., Næsset, E., Naidoo, L., Nilus, R., O’Brien, M., Orwig, D.A., Papathanassiou, K., Parker, G., Philipson, C., Phillips, O.L., Pisek, J., Poulsen, J.R., Pretzsch, H., Rüdiger, C., Saatchi, S., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Sanchez-Lopez, N., Scholes, R., Silva, C.A., Simard, M., Skidmore, A., Stereńczak, K., Tanase, M., Torresan, C., Valbuena, R., Verbeeck, H., Vrska, T., Wessels, K., White, J.C., White, L.J.T., Zahabu, E., Zgraggen, C. Remote Sensing of Environment. 270: 112845. [ Full Text ]

Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old-growth tropical rain forest landscape.
Clark, D. B., Clark, D. A., Kellner, J. R. Ecological Monographs. e01496. [ Full Text ]

2021

Canopy height distributions and estimated above-ground biomass across a tropical rain forest landscape in Costa Rica, 1992 – 2018.
Clark, D.B., Clark, D. A., Kellner, J. R. Dryad. March 2, 2021. [ Full Text ]

GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 2.
Dubayah, R.O., Armston, J., Kellner, J. R., Duncanson, L., Healey, S.P. Patterson, P.L., Hancock, S., Tang, H., Bruening, J., Hofton, M. A., Blair, J. B., Luthcke, S. B. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 1.
Dubayah, R.O., J. Armston, J.R. Kellner, L. Duncanson, S.P. Healey, P.L. Patterson, S. Hancock, H. Tang, M.A. Hofton, J.B. Blair, Luthcke, S. B. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

Corrigendum to ‘Successes and challenges of factor analysis/target transformation application to visible-to-near-infrared hyperspectral data’.
Tarnas, J. D., Mustard, J. F., Wu, X., Das, E., Cannon, K. M., Hundal, C., Pascuzzo, A., Kellner, J. R., Parente, M. Icarus. 368:114598. [ Full Text ]

Impact of a tropical forest blowdown on aboveground carbon balance.
Cushman, K. C., Burley, J. T., Imbach, B., Saatchi, S. S., Silva, C. E., Vargas, O., Zgraggen, C., Kellner, J. R. Scientific Reports. 11: 11279.. [ Full Text ]

Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science.
Porcar-Castell, A., Malenovský, Z., Magney, T., Van Wittenberghe, S., Fernández-Marín, B., Maignan, F., Zhang, Y., Maseyk, K., Atherton, J., Albert, L.P., Robson, T.M., Zhao, F., Garcia-Plazaola, J.-I., Ensminger, I., Rajewicz, P.A., Grebe, S., Tikkanen, M., Kellner, J.R., Ihalainen, J.A., Rascher, U., Logan, B. Nature Plants. 7, 998–1009.. [ Full Text ]

Successes and challenges of factor analysis/target transformation application to visible-to-near-infrared hyperspectral data.
Tarnas, J. D., Mustard, J. F., Wu, X., Das, E., Cannon, K. M., Hundal, C., Pascuzzo, A., Kellner, J. R., Parente, M. Icarus. 365:114402. [ Full Text ]

Genome assemblies for two Neotropical trees: Jacaranda copaia and Handroanthus guayacan.
Burley, J. T., Kellner, J. R., Hubbell, S. P., Faircloth, B. F. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics. jkab010. [ Full Text ]

Dynamic aperature factor analysis/target transformation (DAFA/TT) for serpentine and Mg-carbonate mapping on Mars with CRISM near infrared data..
Lin, H., Tarnas, J. D., Mustard, J. F., Zhang, X., Wei, Y, Weixing, W., Klein, F., and J. R. Kellner Icarus. 355:114168. [ Full Text ]

2020

AfriSAR: Gridded Forest Biomass and Canopy Metrics Derived from LVIS, Gabon, 2016.
Armston, J., Tang, H., Hancock, S., Marselis, S., Duncanson, L., Kellner, J., Hofton, M., Blair, J. B., Fatoyinbo, T., Dubayah, R. O. ORNL DAAC. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. [ Full Text ]

Supervised Segmentation of Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar for Large-Area Mapping of Individual Trees.
Krůček, M., Král, K., Cushman, KC, Missarov, A., Kellner, J.R. Remote Sensing. 2020 12(19): 3260. [ Full Text ]

Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness.
Marselis, S. M. Abernethy, K. Alonso, A. Armston, J. Baker, T. R., Bastin, J-F., Bogaert, J., Boyd, D. S., Boeckx, P. Burslem, D. F. R. P., Chazdon, R., Clark, D. B., Coomes, D. Duncanson, L. Hancock, S. Hill, R. Hopkinson, C. Kearsley, E., Kellner, J. R., Kenfack, D., Labrière, N. Lewis, S. L., Minor, D., Memiaghe, H., Monteagudo, A., Nilus, R., O'Brien, M., Phillips, O. L., Poulsen, J., Tang, H., Verbeeck, H., Dubayah, R. Global Ecology and Biogeography. (29) 10: 1799 - 1816. [ Full Text ]

Biomass estimation from simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR across environmental gradients in Sonoma County, California.
Duncanson, L., Neuenschwander, A., Hancock, S. Thomas, N., Fatoyinbo, T., Simard, M. Silva, C. A., Armston, J. Luthcke, S. B., Hofton, M. Kellner, J. R., Dubayah, R. Remote Sensing of Environment. 242: 111779. [ Full Text ]

The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: high-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography.
Dubayah, R., Blair, J. B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., Hurtt, G., Kellner, J. R., Luthcke, S. Armston, J. Tang, H., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Jantz, P., Marselis, S. M., Patterson, P., Qi, W., and Silva, C. Science of Remote Sensing 1:100002. 2020. [ Full Text ]

Lasers without Lost Cities: Using UAV-mounted LiDAR to capture architectural complexity at Kuelap, Amazonas, Peru.
VanValkenburgh, P., Cushman, KC. Butters, , L. J. C., Vega, C. R., Roberts, C., Kepler, C., and Kellner, J. R. Journal of Field Archaeology. 45:sup1, S75 - S88. 2020. [ Full Text ]

2019

Stray light characterization in a high-resolution imaging spectrometer designed for solar-induced fluorescence.
Albert, L. P., Cushman, K. C., Allen, D. W., Zong, Y., Alonso, L., and Kellner, J. R. Proceedings Volume 10986, Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery XXV; 109860G. 2019. [ Full Text ]

Statistical properties of hybrid estimators proposed for GEDI – NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation.
Patterson, P. L., Healey, S. P., Stahl, G., Saarela, S., Holm, S., Andersen, H., Dubayah, R. O., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Armston, J., Kellner, J. R., Cohen, W. B., and Yang, Z. Environmental Research Letters. 2019. [ Full Text ]

The GEDI simulator: A large-footprint waveform lidar simulator for calibration and validation of spaceborne missions.
Hancock, S., Armston, J., Hofton, M., Sun, X., Tang, H., Duncanson, L. I., Kellner, J. R., and R. O. Dubayah Earth and Space Science. 2019. [ Full Text ]

Diversity, distribution and dynamics of very large trees across and old-growth lowland Neotropical rain forest landscape.
Clark, D. B., Ferraz, A., Clark, D. A., Kellner, J. R. Letcher, S. G., Saatchi, S. PLoS One. 2019. [ Full Text ]

The case for remote sensing of individual plants.
Kellner, J. R. Albert, L. P., Burley, J. T., and Cushman, K. C. American Journal of Botany. 2019. [ Full Text ]

The importance of consistent validation of global forest aboveground biomass products.
Duncanson, L., Armston, J., Disney, M., Avitabile, V., Barbier, N., Calders, K., Carter, S., Chave, J., Herold, M., Crowther, T., Falkowski, M., Kellner, J. R., Labriére, N., Lucas, R., MacBean. N., McRoberts, R. E., Meyer, V., Næsset, E., Nickeson, J. E. Surveys in Geophysics. 2019. [ Full Text ]

New opportunities for forest remote sensing through ultra-high-density drone lidar. Surveys in Geophysics.
Kellner, J. R., Armston, J. D., Birrer, M., Cushman, K. C., Duncanson, L. I., Eck, C., Falleger, C., Imbach, B., Král, K., Krůček, M., Trochta, J., Vrška, T., Zgraggen, C. Surveys in Geophysics.. 2019. [ Full Text ]

Prediction of forest aboveground net primary production from high-resolution vertical leaf-area profiles.
Cushman, K. C., and J. R. Kellner Ecology Letters. 2019. [ Full Text ]

2018

Density-dependent adult recruitment in a low-density tropical tree.
Kellner, J. R. and S. P. Hubbell PNAS. 2018. [ Full Text ]

Chronosequence predictions are robust in a Neotropical secondary forest, but plots miss the mark.
Becknell, J. M., Porder, S., Hancock, S., Chazdon, R., Hofton, M., Blair, J. B. and J. R. Kellner Global Change Biology. 2018. [ Full Text ]

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees.
Bastin J-F., Rutishauser E., Kellner J. R. , et al Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2018. [ Full Text ]

2017

Multidecadal stability in tropical rain forest structure and dynamics across an old-growth landscape.
Clark, D. B., Clark, D. A., Oberbauer, S. F. and J. R. Kellner. PLos One. 2017. [ Full Text ]

Adult mortality in a low-density tree population using high-resolution remote sensing.
Kellner, J. R. and S. P. Hubbell Ecology. 2017. [ Full Text ]

2015

Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion.
Cavanaugh, K. C., Parker, J. D., Cook-Patton, S. C., Feller, I. C., Williams, A. P. and J. R. Kellner. Global Change Biology. 2015. [ Full Text ]

Primary succession on a Hawaiian dryland chronosequence.
Kinney, K. M., Asner, G. P., Cordell, S., Chadwick, O. A., Heckman, K., Hotchkiss, S., Jeraj, M., Kennedy-Bowdoin, T., Knapp, D. E., Questad, E. J., Thaxton, J. M., Trusdell, F. and J. R. Kellner. PLOS One. 2015. [ Full Text ]

Operational tree species mapping in a diverse tropical forest with airborne imaging spectroscopy.
Baldeck, C. A., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Anderson, C. B., Knapp, D. E., Kellner, J. R. and S. J. Wright PLOS One. 2015. [ Full Text ]

Home range use and movement patterns of non-native feral goats in a tropical island montane dry landscape.
Chynoweth, M. W., Lepczyk, C. A., Litton, C. M., Hess, S. C., Kellner, J. R. and S. Cordell PLoS One. 2015. [ Full Text ]

2014

Resilience against exotic species invasion in a tropical montane forest.
Tweiten, M., S. Hotchkiss, P. M. Vitousek, J. R. Kellner, O. Chadwick, and G. P. Asner Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Winners and losers in the competition for space in tropical forest canopies.
Kellner, J. R. and G. P. Asner Ecology Letters. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Reply to Giri and Long: Freeze-mediated expansion of mangroves does not depend on whether expansion is emergence or reemergence.
Cavanaugh, K. C., J. R. Kellner, A. J. Forde, D. S. Gruner, J. D. Parker, W. Rodriguez and I. C. Feller. PNAS. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Mapping habitat suitability for at-risk plant species and its implications for restoration and reintroduction.
Questad, E. J., J. R. Kellner, K. Kinney, S. Cordell, G. P. Asner, J. Thaxton, Diep, J., Uowolo, A., Brooks, S., Inman-Narahari, N., Evans, S. A. and B. Tucker Ecological Applications. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology.
Levy, O., B. A. Ball, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. S. Cheruvelil, A. O. Finley, N. Lottig, S. Punyasena, J. Xiao, J. Zhou, L. B. Buckley, J. Clark, C. T. Filstrup, T. Keitt, J. R. Kellner, A. K. Knapp, A. Richardson, C. Stow, D. Tcheng, M. Toomey, R. Vargas, J. W Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales.
Heffernan, J. B., P. Soranno, M. Angilletta, L. Buckley, W. K. Dodds, D. Gruner, T. Keitt, J. R. Kellner, J. Kominoski, A. Rocha, J. Xiao, T. Harms, S. Goring, L. Koenig, B. McDowell, H. Powell, A. Richardson, C. Stow, R. Vargas, and K. Weathers Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2014. [ Full Text ]

Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events.
Cavanaugh, K. C., J. R. Kellner, A. J. Forde, D. S. Gruner, J. D. Parker, W. Rodriguez and I. C. Feller PNAS. 2014. [ Full Text ]

2013

Response of an old‐growth tropical rainforest to transient high temperature and drought.
Silva, C. E., J. R. Kellner, D. B. Clark, and D. A. Clark Global Change Biology. 2013. [ Full Text ]

Low mortality in tall tropical trees.
Thomas, R. Q., J. R. Kellner, D. B. Clark, and D. R. Peart Ecology. 2013. [ Full Text ]

Forest canopy gap distributions in the southern Peruvian Amazon.
Asner, G. P., J. R. Kellner, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. E. Knapp, C. Anderson and R. E. Martin PLoS ONE. 2013. [ Full Text ]

2012

Tropical forest biomass estimation and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Clark, D. B., and J. R. Kellner Journal of Vegetation Science. 2012. [ Full Text ]

Historical land-cover classification for conservation and management in Hawaiian subalpine drylands.
Kellner, J. R., G. P. Asner, J. Thaxton, K. M. Kinney, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, D. Knapp, E. J. Questad, and S. Ambagis Pacific Science. 2012. [ Full Text ]

2011

Dependence of forest structure and dynamics on substrate age and ecosystem development.
Kellner, J. R., G. P. Asner, P. M. Vitousek, M. A. Tweiten, S. Hotchkiss, and O. A. Chadwick Ecosystems. 2011. [ Full Text ]

Remote analysis of biological invasion and the impact of enemy release.
Kellner, J. R., G. P. Asner, K. M. Kinney, S. R. Loarie, D. E. Knapp, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, E. J. Questad, S. Cordell, and J. M. Thaxton Ecological Applications. 2011. [ Full Text ]

2010

Top-down Analysis of forest structure and biogeochemistry across Hawaiian landscapes.
Vitousek, P. M., M. A. Tweiten, J. Kellner, S. C. Hotchkiss, O. A. Chadwick, and G. P. Asner Pacific Science. 2010. [ Full Text ]

2009

Pervasive canopy dynamics produce short‐term stability in a tropical rain forest landscape.
Kellner, J. R., D. B. Clark, and S. P. Hubbell Ecology Letters. 2009. [ Full Text ]

Canopy height and ground elevation in a mixed-land-use lowland Neotropical rain forest landscape.
Kellner, J. R., D. B. Clark, and M. A. Hofton Ecology. 2009. [ Full Text ]

Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimes.
Kellner J. R. and G. P. Asner Ecology Letters. 2009. [ Full Text ]

Data Paper: Canopy height and ground elevation in a mixed-land-use lowland Neotropical rain forest landscape.
Kellner, J. R., D. B. Clark, and M. A. Hofton Ecological Archives. 2009. [ Full Text ]

2008

How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?.
Hubbell, S. P., F. He, R. Condit, L. Borda-de-Agua, J. Kellner, and H. ter Steege PNAS. 2008. [ Full Text ]

Reply to Feeley and Silman: Extinction risk estimates are approximations but are not invalid.
Hubbell, S. P., F. He, R. Condit, L. Borda-de-Agua, J. Kellner, and H. ter Steege PNAS. 2008. [ Full Text ]

2003

The ontogeny of fluctuating asymmetry.
Kellner, J. R. and R. A. Alford The American Naturalist. 2003. [ Full Text ]