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ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS 

2024

Wang, H., Yu, H., He, D., Li, M., Si, B., McDonnell, J. J., & Nehemy, M. F. (2024). Cryogenic vacuum distillation vs Cavitron methods in ecohydrology: Extraction protocol effects on plant water isotopic values. Journal of Hydrology, 131853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131853

Perron, N., Baltzer, J.L., Detto, M., Nehemy, M. F., Spence, C., Hould‐Gosselin, G., Alcock, H., Hadiwijaya, B., Laroque, C.P. and Sonnentag, O., 2024. Radiation, air temperature, and soil water availability drive tree water deficit across temporal scales in Canada's western boreal forest. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(8), p.e2023GL107477.

 

Pierrat, Z.A., Magney, T.S., Cheng, R., Maguire, A.J., Wong, C.Y., Nehemy, M.F., Rao, M., Nelson, S.E., Williams, A.F., Grosvenor, J.A.H. and Smith, K.R., 2024. The biological basis for using optical signals to track evergreen needle leaf photosynthesis. BioScience, 74(3), pp.130-145. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad116

2023

Nóbrega, R. L., Alencar, P. H., Baniwa, B., Buell, M. C., Chaffe, P. L., Munduruku Pinto Correa, D., ...Nehemy, M.F. ... & Stein, S. (2023). Co-developing pathways to protect nature, land, territory, and well-being in Amazonia. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 364. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01026-7

Mattos, C., Mazzochini, G. G., Rius, B. F., Penha, D., Giacomin, L., Flores, B., Silva, M. C., Xavier, R. O., Nehemy, M. F., Petroni, A., Silva, J. S. G. M., Schlickmann, M. B., Rocha, M., Rodrigues, G.,  Costa, S. S., Barros, F. V., Tavares, J. V., Furtado, M. N., Verona, L. S., Oliveira-Alves, M. J., Oliveira, R. S., Fan, Y. & Hirota, M. (2023). Rainfall and topographic position determine tree embolism resistance in Amazônia and Cerrado sites. Environmental Research Lettershttps://doi.10.1088/1748-9326/ad0064.

McDowell, N. G., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Biederman, J., Breshears, D. D., Fang, Y., Fernandez de Una, L., Graham, E., Mackay, D. S., McDonnell, J. J., Nehemy, M.F., Stevens Rumann, C., Stegen, J., Tague, N., Turner, M., and Chen, X. (2023). The interdependent coupling of vegetation and hydrology post-disturbance. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.007.

Nehemy, M. F., Pierrat Z., Maillet, J., Richardson, A. D., Stutz, J., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A. G., Laroque, C. P., and McDonnell, J. J. (2023). Phenological assessment of transpiration: The stem-temp approach for determining the start and end of the season. Agricultural and Forest Meteorologyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109319.

Sohel, Md. S. I.,  Herbohn, J., Nehemy, M.F., McDonnell, J. J. (2023). Differences between stem and branch xylem water isotope composition in four tropical tree species. Ecohydrology. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2547.

2022

Nehemy, M. F., Maillet, J., Perron, N., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Baltzer, J. L.,Laroque, C. P., and McDonnell, J. J. (2022). Snowmelt Water Use at Transpiration Onset: Phenology, Isotope Tracing, and Tree Water Transit Time. Water Resources Researchdoi:10.1029/2022WR032344.

Millar, C., Janzen, K., Nehemy, M. F., Koehler, G., Hervé-Fernández, P., Wang, H., Orlowski, N., Barbeta, A., McDonnell, J. J. (2022). On the urgent need for standardization in isotope-based ecohydrological investigations. Hydrological Processdoi:10.1002/hyp.14698. 

Jia, G., Nehemy, M. F., Chen, L., Yu, X., Liu, Z. (2022). Ephemeral Connectivity between Trees and Groundwater in a Temperate Forest in China. Journal of Hydrology. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127887.

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Allen, S. T., Steppe, K., Rinaldo, A., Lehmann, M. M., and McDonnell, J. J. (2022). Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: Potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing. Ecohydrologydoi:10.1002/eco.2417.

​Asadollahi, M., Nehemy, M. F., McDonnell, J. J., Rinaldo, A., Benettin, P. (2022). Towards a closure of catchment mass balance: Insight on the missing link from a vegetated lysimeter. Water Resources Researchdoi:10.1029/2021WR030698.

Maillet, J., Nehemy, M. F., Mood, B., Pappas, C., Bonsal, B., and Laroque, C. (2022). A multi-scale dendroclimatological analysis of four common species in the southern Canadian boreal forest. Dendrochronologiadoi:10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125936.

2021

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. (2021). Tree water deficit and dynamic source water partitioning. Hydrological Processesdoi:10.1002/hyp.14004.

Benettin, P., Nehemy, M. F.,  Cernusak, L. A., Angar, K., McDonnell, J. J. (2021). On the use of leaf water to determine plant water source: A proof of concept. Hydrological Processesdoi:10.1002/hyp.14073

Benettin, P., Nehemy, M. F., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Bensimon, M., McDonnell, J. J., and Rinaldo, A. (2021). Tracing and closing the water balance in a vegetated lysimeter. Water Resources Researchdoi: 10.1029/2020WR029049.

 

Pierrat Z., Nehemy, M. F., Roy, A., Magney, T., Parazoo, N., Laroque, C. P., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O.,

Grossmann, K., Bowling, D. R., Seibt, U., Ramirez, A., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A., Stutz, J. (2021). Tower-based remote sensing reveals mechanisms behind a two-phased spring transition in a mixed-species boreal forest. Biogeosciencedoi:10.1029/2020JG006191.

Millar, C., Janzen, K., Nehemy, M. F., Koehler, G., Hervé-Fernández, P., McDonnell, J. J. (2021). Organic contamination detection for isotopic analysis of water by laser spectroscopy. Rapid Communications in Mass

Spectrometrydoi:10.1002/rcm.9118. 

Prior to 2021

Nehemy, M. F., Millar, C., Janzen, K., Gaj, M., Pratt, D. L., Laroque, C. P. and McDonnell, J.J. (2019). 17O- excess as a detector for co-extracted organics in vapor analyses of plant isotope signatures. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. doi: 10.1002/rcm.8470.

 

Nehemy, M. F. and Laroque, C. P. (2018). Tree-ring analysis of larch sawfly (Pristiphora erichsonii (Hartig)) defoliation events and hydrological growth suppression in a peatland. Dendrochronologia. doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2018.06.006.

PUBLISHED DATASETS (OPEN ACCESS) 

 

Nehemy, M. F., Maillet, J., Perron, N., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Baltzer, J. L., Laroque, C. P., and McDonnell, J.J. (2022) Snowmelt water use at transpiration onset: Dataset. Federated Research Data Repository. doi: 10.20383/102.0554.

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. 2020. Dataset: The
SPIKE II experiment - Tracing the water balance. Zenodo.
doi: 10.5281/667zenodo.4037240.

Nehemy, M. F., Maillet, J. , Laroque, C. 2021. Stem radius change from Picea mariana and Larix laricina at the Old Black Spruce site, Boreal Research Ecosystem and Monitoring Sites (BERMS). Federated Research Data Repository. doi: 10.20383/102.0367

CONFERENCES

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2022

Nehemy, M. F., Mattos, C., Penha, D., Schlickmann, M., Silva, J. G. M., Rocha, M., Rodrigues, G. A., Hirota, M., Oliveira, S. R., Giacomin, L., Fan, Y. and McDonnell, J. J. Linking plant hydraulics, groundwater access, and tree water isotopes to understand water strategies in a tropical ecosystem. Poster presentation.

Ecological Society of America & Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, 2022 

Nehemy, M. F. and McDonnell, J. J. Back to the future: How current ecohydrological research on tree water sources parallels isotope hydrology research of the 1970s. Oral presentation.

European Geophysical Union Meeting, 2022 (Invited)

Maillet, J., Perron, N., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Baltzer, J. L.,Laroque, C. P., and McDonnell, J. J. A thirst for snowmelt? Tree water use in spring. Oral presentation.

European Geophysical Union Meeting, 2021 

Nehemy, M. F.,  Benettin, P., Rinaldo, A.,and McDonnell, J. J. The isotopic composition of phloem water and its relations to xylem water at daily and sub-daily resolutions. vPICO (oral) presentation. doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11487

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2020

Nehemy, M. F., Maillet, J., Pappas, C., Laroque, C., and McDonnell, J. J. Stable isotopes in the cold Critical Zone: Snowmelt water contributes significantly to tree water storage refilling. Oral presentation.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2020

Asadollahi, M., Nehemy, M. F., McDonnell, J. J., Rinaldo, A., and Benettin, P. How can we improve our hydrological models and their predicted travel times? Lessons learned from a vegetated lysimeter experiment. Poster Presentation.

I Regional Workshop on Isotope Ecohydrology, San Luis, Argentina, 2020

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. How plant water status drives tree source water partitioning: The Spike II Experiment. Poster Presentation.

ABoVE Science Team Meeting, Online, 2020
Pierrat, Z., Nehemy, M. F., Roy, A., Magney, T., Parazoo, N., Laroque, C., Köhler, P., Bowling, D., Stutz, J. Remote Sensing of the Spring Onset in the Canadian Boreal Forest. Poster Presentation.

European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Online, 2020

Asadollahi, M., Benettin, P., Nehemy, M. F., McDonnell, J. J., and Rinaldo, A. Manipulation experiments to infer the age and tracer composition of hydrologic fluxes. Oral presentation.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2019

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. Plant water status and source water partitioning: A combined analysis of plant hydraulics, root distribution, isotopic dynamics, and soil matric potential. Oral presentation.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2019

Benettin, P., Nehemy, M. F.,  McDonnell, J. J. and Rinaldo, A. Quantitative tracing of precipitation in the critical zone: The Spike II experiment. Poster Presentation.

XI International workshop on Sap flow, Hyytiälä forestry field station, Finland, 2019

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. Tree water status provides information about plant water source partitioning: High-resolution measurements of stable isotopes, plant hydraulics, and soil matric potential from a controlled experiment. Poster Presentation.

Rhizosphere 5, Saskatoon, Canada, 2019

Nehemy, M. F., Benettin, P., Asadollahi, M., Pratt, D., Rinaldo, A., and McDonnell, J. J. Understanding root water uptake and source partitioning: High-resolution stable isotopes measurements and plant hydrodynamics. Poster Presentation.

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, 2018

Nehemy, M.F., Millar, C., Janzen, K., Pratt, D. L., Pappas, C., Benettin, P., Laroque, C. P. and McDonnell, J.J. The Interactions Between Plant Hydrodynamics and Soil Water Sources at Controlled and Natural Environments. Poster presentation.


Savannah River Site Summer Meeting, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA, 2018

Nehemy, M. F., Millar, C., Janzen, K., Gaj, M., Pratt, D. L., Laroque, C. P. and McDonnell, J.J. Assessment of isotopic composition of tree water using three different extraction methods. Oral Presentation.

 

Canadian Geophysical Union & Canadian Society For Agriculture and Forest Meteorology National Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2017

Coles, A., Chad, S., Nehemy, M.F., Al Masum, Niazi, A.A., Ross, C.A., Vogel, T., Janzen, K. and J.J. McDonnell. Improving prairie snowmelt process understanding with high resolution stable isotope tracing. Poster presentation.

 

Canadian Geophysical Union & Canadian Society For Agriculture and Forest Meteorology National Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2017 

Nehemy, M.F. and Laroque, C. P. Tree-rings: a proxy for peatland water-table variability. Oral presentation.

Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada, 2016

Nehemy, M.F. and Laroque, C. P. Is larch parched? A dendrohydrological perspective of Northern peatlands in boreal Saskatchewan. Oral presentation. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada, 2016

 

Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada, 2016

Laroque, C.P., Cook, A., Elliott, A., Fluney, A., Nehemy, M.F., Magnus, A., Maillet, J., Patton, C., Walz, K., Woodward, J., Blyth, R., Muir, D., Walker, T. and Wentzel, E. Seeing the light: A dendrochemical investigation of the "Crooked Bush" at the Canadian Light Source. Oral presentation.

 

IV Congreso Iberoamericano y del Caribe de Restauración Ecológica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015

Martins, L. A., Guimaraes, J. H., Engel, V.L., Sampaio, R.C.M. and Nehemy, M.F. A restauração passiva na formação de corredores ecológicos. [Passive restoration in the creation of ecological corridors].

 

XXIV International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO World Congress, Salt Lake City, USA, 2014

Nehemy, M.F., Sampaio, R.C.M, Engel, V.L. and Martins, L.A. Edge influence on forest composition and diversity in fragmented landscapes in Atlantic Brazilian forest. Poster presentation.

 

XXIV Congresso de Iniciação Científica da UNESP [XXIV UNESP Undergraduate Research Experience Conference], Botucatu, Brazil, 2012

Nehemy, M.F., Machado, I.S., Garcia, C. W. and Nepomuceno, P.C. Cultivo in Vitro do Fique (Agave fourcroydes Lem.) [In vitru cultivation of Fique (Agave fourcroydes Lem.)]. Oral Presentation.

 

63° Congresso Nacional de Botânica [National Botanic Conference], Joinville, Brazil, 2012

Nehemy, M.F., Sampaio, R.C.N.; Engel, V.L., Martins, L.A., and Albuquerque, C.P. Estudo da regeneração natural no gradiente borda-interior em um fragmento florestal. [Study of natural regeneration in the edge-interior gradient in a forest fragment]. Poster presentation.

 

63° Congresso Nacional de Botânica [National Botanic Conference], Joinville, Brazil, 2012

Albuquerque, C.P., Engel, V.L., Nehemy, M.F., and Sato, L. M. Banco de sementes do solo em sistema agroflorestal e em plantio misto com espécies arbóreas nativas voltadas à restauração da floresta Estacional Semidecidual. [Seed bank of agroforestry system and mixed native species targeting Semidecidual Seasonal Rainforest restauration]. Poster presentation.

 

63° Congresso Nacional de Botânica [63° National Botanic Conference], Joinville, Brazil, 2012

Sampaio, R.C.N., Martins, L.A., Engel, V.L. and Nehemy, M.F. Relação solo e estrutura vegetal no gradiente borda-interior em um fragmento de mata atlântica. [Soil and stand structure relationship in the edge environment of an Atlantic forest fragment]. Poster presentation.

 

II Congresso Paulista de Extensão Universitária [II Sao Paulo State Community Engagement and Outreach Conference], São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.

Prosdocini, H.M., Ribas, L. C., Carmo, M. S., Oliveira, R.M., Nehemy, M.F., Prosdocini, R. M. and Biral, V.C.N. A Extensão Universitária e a Transmissão de Conhecimento para a Revitalização da Sustentabilidade de um Assentamento Rural: O Caso da Fazenda Monte Alegre, em Motuca/SP. [Research outreach and knowledge transmission for the revitalization in agriculture sustainability in a rural settlement: Mont Alegre Farm Study Case]. Poster presentation.

 

II Congresso Paulista de Extensão Universitária[II Sao Paulo State Community Engagement and Outreach Conference], São Paulo, Brazil, 2012

Biral, V.C.N., Ribas, L.C., Carmo, M.S., Nehemy, M. F., Oliveira, R.M. and Prosdocini, H.M. Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais para Realização de Práticas Agrícolas Sutentáveis. [A Model for payment for ecosystem services in view of agricultural sustainable practices]. Poster presentation. II Congresso Paulista de Extensão Universitária

 

II Sao Paulo State Community Engagement and Outreach Conference], São Paulo, Brazil, 2012 

Nehemy, M. F., Ribas, L.C., Carmo, M.S., Oliveira, R.M., Prosdocini, H.M., Prosdocini, R.M., and Biral, V. C. N. Reserva Legal e Área de Preservação Permanente sob a Ótica do Pagamento por Serviço Ambiental em um Assentamento Rural. [Legal Reserve and Area of Permanent Preservation and payment for ecosystem services]. Poster presentation. 

 

II Congresso Paulista de Extensão Universitária [II Sao Paulo State Community Engagement and Outreach Conference], São Paulo, Brazil, 2012

Oliveira, R.M., Ribas, L.C., Carmo, M.S., Nehemy, M.F., Prosdocini, R.M., Prosdocini, H.M. and Biral, V.C.N. Viabilidade de Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais (PSA) para a Promoção da Transição Agroecológica [The feasiability of payment for ecosystem services to promote agroecology transition]. Poster presentation.

 

XVII Encontro Nacional dos Grupos PET [XVII Tutorial Education Program (PET) National Meeting], Goiânia, Brazil, 2011

Andrade, F.R., Soler, R.R., Gabira, M.M., Oliveira, R.M., Keller, A., Paganini, E.A. L., Silva, R.B.G., Nehemy, M. F., Toledo, J.R., Santos, F.N., Silva, R.P., Fernandes, G.C., Silva, M.R. and Fonseca, R.C.B. Metodologia para estudo de egressos e comparação entre petianos e não petianos na graduação. [Study of methodology to evaluate Forest Engineer alumni and compare “petianos” and “non-petianos”]. Oral Presentation.

 

XI Sudeste PET - Encontro dos Grupos PET da Região Sudeste [XI Tutorial Education Program (PET) Southeast Groups Meeting] , Alfenas, Brazil, 2011

Andrade, F.R., Paganini, E.A.L., Fernandes, G.C., Toledo, J.R., Nehemy, M.F., Gabira, M.M., Silva, R.B. G., Oliveira, R.M., Silva, R.P., Fonseca, R.C., Keller, A. and Soler, R. R. Desenvolvimento de Metodologia para os estudos de egressos do curso de engenharia floresta. [Development of new methodology to evaluate alumni students from Forest Engineering program]. Poster presentation.

 

X Sudeste PET - Encontro dos Grupos PET da Região Sudeste [X Tutorial Education Program (PET) Southeast Groups Meeting], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010

Silva, R.B.G., Paganini, E.A.L., Paganelli, K.B., Moraes, C.C.R.N., Gelschin, R.V.C., Rebello, H.P., Luvizutto, P.R., Soler, R.R., Andrade, F.R., Keller, A. and NEHEMY, M.F. Indissociabilidade Ensino-Pesquisa-Extensão: Contribuições do projeto Pomares Urbanos na promoção do desenvolvimento local. [Contribution of the Urban Orchad Project to promote local development]. Poster presentation.

 

5 Congresso de Extensão Universitária da Unesp, [5 Conference of Community Engagement and Outreach from UNESP] Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, 2009

Freitas, T.C.M., Ferreira, M. J., Nehemy, M.F., Gardon, F.R., Bacchim, G.T. Interpretação da Natureza na Trilha Ecológica do Lageado. [Interpretation of nature at lageado Ecological Trail]. Poster presentation.

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