MC1 DGVM | MAPSS Team | VEMAP Project

Background

• Ph. D., 1983, Colorado State University (J. Detling, W. Hunt)

• Quantitative EWcologist, 1988-1994 U.S. EPA Env. Lab., Corvallis, OR
• Assistant Professor, 1988-1999, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Associate Professor, 1999-Present, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Director of Climate Change Science, 2007-Present, The Nature Conservancy, Olympia, WA

Areas of Specialization

• Simulation modeling

• Ecosystems Research
• Nutrient Cycling
• Climate Change Impacts
• Methane Emissions (agricultural and natural wetlands)

Current Research

• Dynamic Vegetation Model MC1
• Biogeochemical cycling
• Potential vegetation distribution
• Dynamic Fire Modeling

Selected Publications

Bachelet D., J.M. Lenihan, R. P. Neilson, R.J. Drapek, and T. Kittel. 2005. Simulating the
response of natural ecosystems and their fire regimes to climatic variability in Alaska.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2224-2257.

Bachelet D., R. P. Neilson, J.M. Lenihan, and R.J. Drapek. 2004. Regional differences
carbon source-sink potential of natural vegetation in the U.S. Environmental
Management 33 (Supp.#1): S23-S43 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9115-4.

Bachelet D., R.P. Neilson, T. Hickler, R.J. Drapek, J. M. Lenihan, M.T. Sykes, B. Smith, S.
Sitch, and K. Thonicke. 2003. Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems
in the United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(2): 1045
DOI:10.1029/2001GB001508.

Bachelet D., R.P. Neilson, J. M. Lenihan, and R.J. Drapek. 2001. Climate change effects on
vegetation distribution and carbon budget in the U.S. Ecosystems 4:164-185.

Bachelet D., J.M. Lenihan, C. Daly, R.P. Neilson, D.S. Ojima, and W.J. Parton. 2001. MC, a
Dynamic Vegetation Model for estimating the distribution of vegetation and associated
carbon and nutrient fluxes, Technical Documentation Version 1.0. USDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Station, General Technical Report PNW-GTR-508. 95pp.

Bachelet D., J.M. Lenihan, C. Daly, and R.P. Neilson. 2000. Climate, fire and Grazing Effects at Wind Cave National Park, S.D. Ecological Modelling 134:229-244.

Selected Co-authored Publications

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

Lenihan J.M., R.J. Drapek, D. Bachelet and R.P. Neilson. 2003. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution, carbon stocks, and fire regimes in California. Ecological Applications. 13(6):1667-1681

Aber, J., R.P. Neilson, S. McNulty, J.M. Lenihan, D. Bachelet, and R.J. Drapek. 2001. Forest
Processes and Global Environmental Change: predicting the effects of individual and
multiple stressors. Bioscience 51(9):735-752.

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

Students

Member of Graduate Student Committees for: Dave Conklin (ES) Debbie Reusser (GS) Charles Hillyer (BE), Julian Licata (FS)