B.S., Environmental Science, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay (1981)
M.S., Environmental Studies, University of Montana, Missoula (1987)

June, 1987 - present, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA - studying potential responses of terrestrial ecosystems to global change with the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model:

Ecological Society of America

Garcia-Montiel DC, Melillo JM, Steudler PA, Tian H, Neill C, Kicklighter DW, Feigl B, Cerri CC. Emissions of N₂O and CO₂ from terra firme forests in Rondônia, Brazil. Ecological Applications.

McGuire AD, Apps M, Chapin III FS, Dargaville R, Flannigan MD, Kasischke ES, Kicklighter DW, Kimball J, Kurz W, McCrae DJ, McDonald K, Melillo JM, Myneni R, Stocks BJ, Verbyla DL, Zhuang Q (in press) Canada and Alaska. IN: Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer.

Webster M, Forest C, Reilly J, Babiker M, Kicklighter DW, Mayer M, Prinn R, Sarofim M, Sokolov A, Stone P, Wang C (in press) Uncertainty analysis of climate change and policy response. Climatic Change.

2003:

Tian H, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Pan S, Liu J, McGuire AD, Moore III B.(2003) Regional carbon dynamics in monsoon Asia and its implications for the global carbon cycle. Global and Planetary Change 37, 201-217, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00205-9

Zhuang Q, McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Clein JS, Dargaville RJ, Kicklighter DW, Myneni RB, Dong J, Romanovsky VE, Harden J, Hobbie JE. (2003) Carbon cycling in extratropical terrestrial ecosystems of the northern hemisphere during the 20^th century: A modeling analysis of the influences of soil thermal dynamics. Tellus 55B, 751-776.

2002:

Clein JS, McGuire AD, Zhang X, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, Wofsy SC, Jarvis PG, Massheder JM (2002) Historical and projected carbon balance of mature black spruce ecosystems across North America: The role of carbon-nitrogen interactions. Plant and Soil 242(1), 15-32.

Dargaville RJ, Heimann M, McGuire AD, Prentice IC, Kicklighter DW, Joos F, Clein JS, Esser G, Foley J, Kaplan J, Meier RA, Melillo JM, Moore III B, Ramankutty N, Reichenau T, Schloss A, Sitch S, Tian H, Williams LJ, Wittenberg U. (2002) Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO₂ measurements: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO₂, climate and land-use effects. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4), 1092, doi:10.1029/2001GB001426.

McGuire AD, Wirth C, Apps M, Beringer J, Clein J, Epstein H, Kicklighter DW, Bhatii J, Chapin III FS, de Groot B, Efremov D, Eugster W, Fukuda M, Gower T, Hinzman L, Huntley B, Jia GJ, Kasischke E, Melillo JM, Romanovsky V, Shvidenko A, Vaganov E, and Walker D (2002) Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics, and water/energy exchange in high latitudes. Journal of Vegetation Science 13, 301-314.

Pan Y, McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Sitch S, and Prentice IC (2002) A biogeochemistry-based dynamic vegetation model and its application along a moisture gradient in the continental United States. Journal of Vegetation Science 13, 369-382.

2001:

Clark DA, Brown S, Kicklighter DW, Chambers JQ, Thomlinson JR, Ni J (2001) Measuring net primary production in forests: concepts and field methods. Ecological Applications 11(2), 356-370.

Clark DA, Brown S, Kicklighter DW, Chambers JQ, Thomlinson JR, Ni J, Holland EA (2001) Net primary production in tropical forests: an evaluation and synthesis of existing field data. Ecological Applications 11(2), 371-384.

McGuire AD, Sitch S, Clein JS, Dargaville R, Esser G, Foley J, Heimann M, Joos F, Kaplan J, Kicklighter DW, Meier RA, Melillo JM, Moore III B, Prentice IC, Ramankutty N, Reichenau T, Schloss A, Tian H, Williams LJ, Wittenberg U (2001) Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the twentieth century: analyses of CO₂, climate and land-use effects with four process-based ecosystem models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 15(1), 183-206.

Pan Y, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Xiao X, McGuire AD (2001) Modeling structural and functional responses of terrestrial ecosystems in China to changes in climate and atmospheric CO₂. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica 25(2), 175-189.

Clein JS, Kwiatkowski BL, McGuire AD, Hobbie JE, Rastetter EB, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW (2000) Modeling carbon responses of moist tundra ecosystems to historical and projected climate: A comparison of fine- and coarse-scale ecosystem models for identification of process-based uncertainties. Global Change Biology 6(Suppl. 1), 127-140. 

Jackson RB, Schenk HJ, Jobbagy EG, Canadell J, Colello GD, Dickinson RE, Field CB, Friedlingstein P, Heimann M, Hibbard K, Kicklighter DW, Kleidon A, Neilson RP, Parton WJ, Sala OE, Sykes MT (2000) Belowground consequences of vegetation change and their treatment in models. Ecological Applications 10, 470-483. 

McGuire AD, Clein JS, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Meier RA, Vorosmarty CJ, Serreze MC (2000) Modeling carbon responses of tundra ecosystems to historical and projected climate: Sensitivity of pan-arctic carbon storage to temporal and spatial variation in climate. Global Change Biology 6(Suppl. 1), 141-159. 

McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Randerson JT, Parton WJ, Heimann M, Meier RA, Clein JS, Kicklighter DW, Sauf W (2000) Modeling the effects of snowpack on heterotrophic respiration across northern temperate and high latitude regions: Comparison with measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide in high latitudes. Biogeochemistry 48, 91-114. 

Schimel D, Melillo J, Tian H, McGuire AD, Kicklighter D, Kittel T, Rosenbloom N, Running S, Thornton P, Ojima D, Parton W, Kelly R, Sykes M, Neilson R, Rizzo B (2000) Contribution of increasing CO₂ and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science 287, 2004-2006. 

Tian H, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Helfrich III J, Moore III B, Vorosmarty CJ (2000) Climatic and biotic controls on annual carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 9, 315-336. 

Bondeau A, Kicklighter DW, Kaduk J, the participants of the Potsdam NPP Model Intercomparison (1999) Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): Importance of vegetation structure on seasonal NPP estimates. Global Change Biology 5(Suppl. 1), 35-45. 

Cramer W, Kicklighter DW, Bondeau A, Moore III B, Churkina G, Nemry B, Ruimy A, Schloss A, the participants of the Potsdam NPP Model Intercomparison (1999) Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): Overview and key results. Global Change Biology 5(Suppl. 1), 1-15. 

Jenkins JC, Kicklighter DW, Ollinger SV, Aber JD, Melillo JM (1999) Sources of variability in net primary production predictions at a regional scale: A comparison using PnET-II and TEM 4.0 in northeastern US forests. Ecosystems 2, 555-570. 

Kicklighter DW, Bondeau A, Schloss AL, Kaduk J, McGuire AD, the Participants of the Potsdam NPP Model Intercomparison (1999) Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): Global pattern and differentiation by major biomes. Global Change Biology 5(Suppl. 1), 16-24. 

Kicklighter DW, Bruno M, Dönges S, Esser G, Heimann M, Helfrich J, Ift F, Joos F, Kaduk J, Kohlmaier GH, McGuire AD, Melillo JM, R. Meyer R, Moore III B, Nadler A, Prentice IC, Sauf W, Schloss A, Sitch S, Wittenberg U, Würth G (1999) A first-order analysis of the potential role of CO₂ fertilization to affect the global carbon budget: A comparison study of four terrestrial biosphere models. Tellus 51B, 343-366. 

Prinn R, Jacoby H, Sokolov A, Wang C, Xiao X, Yang Z, Eckhaus R, Stone P, Ellerman D, Melillo J, Fitzmaurice J, Kicklighter D, Holian G, Liu Y (1999) Integrated global system model for climate policy assessment: Feedbacks and sensitivity studies. Climatic Change 41(3/4), 469-546. 

Reilly J, Prinn R, Harnisch J, Fitzmaurice J, Jacoby H, Kicklighter D, Stone P, Sokolov A, Wang C (1999) Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol. Nature 401, 549-555. 

Schloss AL, Kicklighter DW, Kaduk J, Wittenberg U, the participants of the Potsdam NPP Model Intercomparison (1999). Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): Comparison of NPP to climate and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Global Change Biology 5(Suppl. 1), 25-34. 

Tian H, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Helfrich J (1999) The sensitivity of terrestrial carbon storage to historical climate variability and atmospheric CO₂ in the United States. Tellus 51B, 414-452. 

Xiao X, Vörösmarty CJ, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Tian H, McGuire AD, Pan Y, Yang Z (1999) Tre scenari per il XXI secolo: Cambiamento di clima e agricoltura. Sistema Terra 8, 96-110. (Italian) 

Heimann M, Esser G, Haxeltine A, Kaduk J, Kicklighter DW, Knorr W, Kohlmaier GH, McGuire AD, Melillo J, Moore B, Otto RD, Prentice IC, Sauf W, Schloss A, Sitch S, Wittenberg U, Würth G (1998) Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models through simulations of the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO₂: First results of a model intercomparison study. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12, 1-24. 

Pan Y, Melillo JM, McGuire AD, Kicklighter DW, Pitelka LF, Hibbard K, Pierce LL, Running SW, Ojima DS, Parton WJ, Schimel DS, other VEMAP Members (1998) Modeled responses of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated atmospheric CO₂: A comparison of simulations by the biogeochemistry models of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP). Oecologia 114, 389-404. 

Tian H, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Helfrich III JVK, Moore III B, Vörösmarty CJ (1998) Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. Nature 396, 664-667. 

Xiao X, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Prinn RG, Wang C, Stone PH, Sokolov A (1998) Transient climate change and net ecosystem production of the terrestrial biosphere. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12, 345-360. 

Xiao X, Melillo JM, ,Kicklighter DW, Pan Y, McGuire AD, Helfrich J (1998) Net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems in China and its equilibrium responses to changes in climate and atmospheric CO₂ concentration. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica 22, 97-118. (see also http://www.chinainfo.gov.cn/periodical/zwstxb/980201.htm) 

McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Pan Y, Xiao X, Helfrich J, Moore B III, Vorosmarty CJ, Schloss AL (1997) Equilibrium responses of global net primary production and carbon storage to doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide: Sensitvity to changes in vegetation nitrogen concentration. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11, 173-189. 

Schimel DS, VEMAP Participants, Braswell BH (1997) Continental scalevariability in ecosystem processes: Models, data and the role of disturbance. Ecological Monographs 67, 251-271. 

Xiao X, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, McGuire AD, Stone PH, Sokolov AP (1997) Linking a global terrestrial biogeochemical model and a 2-dimensional climate model: Implications for the carbon budget. Tellus 49B, 18-37. 

Melillo JM, Houghton RA, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD (1996) Tropical deforestation and the global carbon budget. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 21, 293-310. 

Pan Y, McGuire AD, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM (1996) The importance of climate and soils on estimates of net primary production: A sensitivity analysis with the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Global Change Biology 2, 5-23. 

Aber JD, Ollinger SV, Federer CA, Reich PB, Goulden ML, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, Lathrop RG Jr. (1995) Predicting the effects of climate change on water yield and forest production in the northeastern U.S. Climate Research 5, 207-222. 

Kittel TGF, Rosenbloom NA, Painter TH, Schimel DS, VEMAP Modelling Participants (1995) The VEMAP integrated database for modeling United States ecosystem/vegetation sensitivity to climate change. Journal of Biogeography 22, 857-862. 

McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Joyce LM (1995) Equilibrium responses of soil carbon to climate change: Empirical and process-based estimates. Journal of Biogeography 22, 785-796. 

Moraes JL, Cerri CC, Melillo JM, Kicklighter D, Neill C, Skole DL, Steudler PA (1995) Soil carbon stocks of the Brazilian Amazon Basin. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59, 244-247. 

VEMAP Members (1995) Vegetation/ecosystem modeling and analysis project: Comparing biogeography and biogeochemistry models in a continental-scale study of terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change and CO₂ doubling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 9, 407-437. 

Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, Peterjohn WT, Rastetter EB, McGuire AD, Steudler PA, Aber JD (1994) Aspects of spatial and temporal aggregation in estimating regional carbon dioxide fluxes from temperate forest soils. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 1303-1315. 

McGuire AD, Joyce LA, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, Esser G, Vorosmarty CJ (1993) Productivity response of climax temperate forests to elevated temperature and carbon dioxide: A North American comparison between two global models. Climatic Change 24, 287-310. 

Melillo JM, McGuire AD, Kicklighter DW, Moore B III, Vorosmarty CJ, Schloss AL (1993) Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production. Nature 363, 234-240. 

McGuire AD, Melillo JM, Joyce LA, Kicklighter DW, Grace AL, Moore B III, Vorosmarty CJ (1992) Interactions between carbon and nitrogen dynamics in estimating net primary productivity for potential vegetation in North America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 6, 101-124. 

Raich JW, Rastetter EB, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Steudler PA, Peterson BJ, Grace AL, Moore B III, Vorosmarty CJ (1991) Potential net primary productivity in South America: Application of a global model. Ecological Applications 1, 399-429. 

Prentice IC, Farquhar GD, Fasham MJR, Goulden ML, Heimann M., Jaramillo VJ, Kheshgi HS, Quere CL, Scholes RJ, Wallace DWR and contributing authors (including Kicklighter DW). (2001) The carbon cycle and atmospheric carbon dioxide. pages 183-237 in: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assesment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.T. Houghton et al. (editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA

Cramer W, Olson RJ, Prince SD, Scurlock JMO, Members of the Global Primary Production Data Initiative (2001) Determining present patterns of global productivity. pp. 429-448. IN:Terrestrial Global Productivity, Past, Present, Future, edited by Roy J, Saugier B, Mooney H. Academic Press.

Jenkins JC, Kicklighter DW, Aber JD (2000) Regional impacts of increased CO₂ and climate change on forest productivity. pp. 383-423. IN: Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change, edited by Mickler RH, Birdsey RA, Hom J. Springer-Verlag, New York. 

Reilly J, Prinn RG, Harnisch J, Fitzmaurice J, Jacoby HD, Kicklighter D, Stone PH, Sokolov AP, Wang C (1999) Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 45. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 14 p. 

Prinn R, Jacoby H, Sokolov A, Wang C, Xiao X, Yang Z, Eckaus R, Stone P, Ellerman D, Melillo J, Fitzmaurice J, Kicklighter D, Holian G, Liu Y (1998) Integrated global system model for climate policy assessment: Feedbacks and sensitivity studies. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 36 (Supercedes Report No. 7). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 73p. (see also http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt36.html) 

Xiao X, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Tian H, Pan Y, Vorosmarty CJ, Yang Z (1997) Transient climate change and potential croplands of the world in the 21st century. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 18. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 28 p. ( see also http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt18.html) 

McGuire AD, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM (1996) Global climate change and carbon cycling in grasslands and conifer forests. pp. 389-411. IN: Global Change: Effects on Coniferous Forests and Grasslands, SCOPE Volume 56, edited by Breymeyer AI, Hall DO, Melillo JM, Agren GI. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, United Kingdom. 

Prinn R, Jacoby H, Sokolov A, Wang C, Xiao X, Yang Z, Eckaus R, Stone P, Ellerman D, Melillo J, Fitzmaurice J, Kicklighter D, Liu Y, Holian G (1996) Integrated global system model for climate policy analysis: I. Model framework and sensitivity studies. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 76p. (see also http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt7a.html) 

Xiao X, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Stone PH, Sokolov AP (1996) Relative roles of changes in CO₂ and climate to equilibirum responses of net primary production and carbon storage of the terrestrial biosphere. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 34 p. (see also http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt8a.html) 

Xiao X, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Pan Y, McGuire AD, Helfrich J (1996) Net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems in China and its equilibrium responses to changes in climate and atmospheric CO₂ concentration. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (see also http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/rpt12a.html). 

Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, McGuire AD, Peterjohn WT, Newkirk KM (1995) Global change and its effects on soil organic carbon stocks. pp. 175-189. IN: Role of Nonliving Organic Matter in the Earth's Carbon Cycle, edited by Zepp RG, Sonntag Ch. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, United Kingdom. 

Kicklighter DW (1987) Effects of kraft mill effluent on riffle community metabolism in a large river. M.S. Thesis. University of Montana, Missoula 

Felzer B, Kicklighter DW, Melillo JM, Wang C, Zhuang Q, Prinn R. Ozone effects on net primary production and carbon sequestration in the conterminous United States using a biogeochemistry model. Submitted to Tellus.

Felzer B, Reilly J, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Wang C, Prinn R, Sarofim M and Zhuang Q. Past and future effects of ozone on net primary production and carbon sequestration using a global biogeochemical model. Submitted to Climate Change.

Zhuang Q, Melillo JM, Kicklighter DW, Prinn RG, McGuire AD, Steudler PA, Felzer B, and Hu S. A process-based modeling analysis of methane exchanges between Alaskan terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.

Manuscript reviews for refereed journals: Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Climate Research, Global Change Biology, Ecological Modelling, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Ecological Applications, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Kicklighter D, Webster M, Sarofim M, McGuire AD, Melillo J, Reilly J, Prinn R, Tian H. Potential responses of terrestrial carbon storage to increasing atmospheric CO₂ concentration and variable climate: sensitivity to changes in vegetation nitrogen concentration. To be presented at the IGBP Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001.