Emeritus Professor Michael Roderick

ANU College of Science

E: Michael.Roderick@anu.edu.au

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Areas of expertise

Terrestrial Ecology 060208
Tree Nutrition And Physiology 070508
Surfacewater Hydrology 040608
Climate Change Processes 040104
Carbon Sequestration Science 050301
Ecosystem Function 050102
Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing 090905
Global Change Biology 069902
Plant Physiology 060705
Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change 050101

Publications

Ukkola, A, De Kauwe, M, Roderick, M et al. 2020, 'Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought inCMIP6Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. -.
De Kauwe, M, Medlyn , B, Ukkola, A et al. 2020, 'Identifying areas at risk of drought-induced tree mortality across South-Eastern Australia', Global Change Biology, vol. 26, pp. 5716-5733.
Han, J, Yang, Y, Roderick, M et al. 2020, 'Assessing the Steady-State Assumption in Water Balance Calculation Across Global Catchments', Water Resources Research, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1-16.
Yang, Y, Zhang, S, Roderick, M et al. 2020, 'Comparing Palmer Drought Severity Index drought assessments using the traditional offline approach with direct climate model outputs', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2921-2930.
Yin, D & Roderick, M 2020, 'Inter-annual variability of the global terrestrial water cycle', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 24, pp. 381-396.
Yang, Y, Roderick, M, Zhang, S et al 2019, 'Hydrologic implications of vegetation response to elevated CO2 in climate projections', Nature Climate Change, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 44-48.
De Kauwe, M, Medlyn, B, Pitman, A et al. 2019, 'Examining the evidence for decoupling between photosynthesis and transpiration during heat extremes', Biogeosciences, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 903-916.
Yang, Y & Roderick, M 2019, 'Radiation, surface temperature and evaporation over wet surfaces', Royal Meteorological Society. Quarterly Journal, vol. 145, no. 720, pp. 1118-1129.
Greve, P, Roderick, M, Ukkola, A et al 2019, 'The aridity index under global warming', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 14, no. 12.
Ukkola, A, Roderick, M, Barker, A et al 2019, 'Exploring the stationarity of Australian temperature, precipitation and pan evaporation records over the last century', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 1-10.
Sun, F, Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2018, 'Rainfall statistics, stationarity, and climate change', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115, no. 10, pp. 2305-2310.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M, McVicar, T et al. 2017, 'A simple hypothesis of how leaf and canopy-level transpiration and assimilation respond to elevated CO2 reveals distinct response patterns between disturbed and undisturbed vegetation', Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 122, no. 1, pp. 168-184.
Yang, Y, McVicar, T, Donohue, R et al 2017, 'Lags in hydrologic recovery following an extreme drought: Assessing the roles of climate and catchment characteristics', Water Resources Research, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 4821-4837pp..
Wolf, S, Roderick, M & Yin, D 2017, 'Using radiative signatures to diagnose the cause of warming during the 2013?2014 Californian drought', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 553, pp. 408-418.
Greve, P, Roderick, M & Seneviratne, S 2017, 'Simulated changes in aridity from the last glacial maximum to 4xCO2', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1-9pp.
Aminzadeh, M, Roderick, M & Or, D 2016, 'A generalized complementary relationship between actual and potential evaporation defined by a reference surface temperature', Water Resources Research, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 385-406.
Lim, W, Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2016, 'A mathematical model of pan evaporation under steady state conditions', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 540, pp. 641-658.
Yang, Y, Donohue, R, McVicar, T et al 2016, 'Long-term CO2 fertilization increases vegetation productivity and has little effect on hydrological partitioning in tropical rainforests', Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 121, no. 8, pp. 2125-2140.
Roderick, M, Greve, P & Farquhar, G 2015, 'On the assessment of aridity with changes in atmospheric CO2', Water Resources Research, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 5450-5463.
Schymanski, S, Roderick, M & Sivapalan, M 2015, 'Using an optimality model to understand medium and long-term responses of vegetation water use to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations', AoB Plants, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-17.
Yang, Y, Donohue, R, McVicar, T et al 2015, 'An analytical model for relating global terrestrial carbon assimilation with climate and surface conditions using a rate limitation framework', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 22, pp. 9825-9835.
Roderick, M, Sun, F, Lim, W et al. 2014, 'A general framework for understanding the response of the water cycle to global warming over land and ocean', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1575-1589.
Lim, W & Roderick, M 2014, 'Up-scaling short-term process-level understanding to longer timescales using a covariance-based approach', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 31-45.
Yin, D, Roderick, M, Leedon, G et al. 2014, 'The contribution of reduction in evaporative cooling to higher surface air temperatures during drought', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 41, no. 22, pp. 7891-7897.
Donohue, R, Hume, I, Roderick, M et al 2014, 'Evaluation of the remote-sensing-based DIFFUSE model for estimating photosynthesis of vegetation', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 155, pp. 349-365.
Wang, Y, Roderick, M, shen, Y et al 2014, 'Attribution of satellite-observed vegetation trends in a hyper-arid region of the Heihe River basin, Western China', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 3499-3509.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M, McVicar, T et al 2013, 'Impact of CO₂ fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 3031-3035.
Brookhouse, M, Farquhar, G & Roderick, M 2013, 'The impact of bushfires on water yield from south-east Australia's ash forests', Water Resources Research, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 4493-4505.
Lim, W, Roderick, M, Hobbins, M et al. 2013, 'The energy balance of a US Class A evaporation pan', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 182, pp. 314- 331.
Vautard, R, McVicar, T, Thepaut, J et al 2012, 'Land Surface winds and atmospheric evaporative demand', American Meteorological Society, Bulletin, vol. 93, no. 7, pp. S36-S38.
McVicar, T, Roderick, M, Roderick, M et al 2012, 'Less bluster ahead? ecohydrological implications of global trends of terrestrial near-surface wind speeds', Ecohydrology, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 381-388.
McVicar, T, Roderick, M, Roderick, M et al 2012, 'Less bluster ahead? ecohydrological implications of global trends of terrestrial near-surface wind speeds', Ecohydrology, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 381-388.
Roderick, M, Sun, F & Farquhar, G 2012, 'Water Cycle Varies over Land and Sea', Science, vol. 336, no. 6086, pp. 1230-1231.
Sun, F, Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2012, 'Changes in the variability of global land precipitation', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. L19402.
Van Niel, T, McVicar, T, Roderick, M et al 2012, 'Upscaling latent heat flux for thermal remote sensing studies: Comparison of alternative approaches and correction of bias', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 468, pp. 35-46.
Sheffield, J, Wood, E & Roderick, M 2012, 'Little change in global drought over the past 60 years', Nature, vol. 491, no. 7424, pp. 435-438.
McVicar, T, Roderick, M, Donohue, R et al 2012, 'Global review and synthesis of trends in observed terrestrial near-surface wind speeds: Implications for evaporation', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 416, pp. 182-205.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M & McVicar, T 2012, 'Roots, storms and soil pores: Incorporating key ecohydrological processes into Budyko's hydrological model', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 436, pp. 35-50.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2012, 'GEOENGINEERING Hazy, cool and well fed?', Nature Climate Change, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 76-77.
Lim, W, Roderick, M, Hobbins, M et al 2012, 'The aerodynamics of a pan evaporation', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 152, pp. 31-43.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M & McVicar, T 2011, 'Assessing the differences in sensitivities of runoff to changes in climatic conditions across a large basin', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 406, no. 3-4, pp. 234-244.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2011, 'A simple framework for relating variations in runoff to variations in climatic conditions and catchment properties', Water Resources Research, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. W00G07-11.
Roderick, M 2011, 'Introduction to special section on Water Resources in the Murray-Darling Basin: Past, present, and future', Water Resources Research, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. W00G01-4.
Van Niel, T, McVicar, T, Roderick, M et al 2011, 'Correcting for systematic error in satellite-derived latent heat flux due to assumptions in temporal scaling: Assessment from flux tower observations', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 409, no. 1-2, pp. 140-148.
Sun, F, M. L. Roderick, W.H.Lim, and G. D. Farquhar 2011, 'Hydroclimatic projections for the Murray-Darling Basin based on an ensemble derived from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 climate models', Water Resources Research, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. W00G02. [AGU Featured Articles, Editors' Choice Award of 2011 (1%)]
Donohue, R, Roderick, M & McVicar, T 2010, 'Can dynamic vegetation information improve the accuracy of Budyko's hydrological model?', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 390, no. 1-2, pp. 23-34.
Donohue, R, McVicar, T & Roderick, M 2010, 'Assessing the ability of potential evaporation formulations to capture the dynamics in evaporative demand within a changing climate', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 386, no. 1-4, pp. 186-197.
McVicar, T, Van Niel, T, Roderick, M et al 2010, 'Observational evidence from two mountainous regions that nearsurface wind speeds are declining more rapidly at higher elevations than lower elevations: 1960-2006', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. L06402.
Farquhar, G & Roderick, M 2007, 'Worldwide Changes in Evaporative Demand', in Ignacio RodriÂ´guez-Iturbe, Marcelo SaÂ´nchez Sorondo (ed.), Water and the environment: 12-14 November 2005, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, pp. 81-103.
McVicar, T & Roderick, M 2010, 'Atmospheric science: Winds of change', Nature Geoscience, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 747-748.
Donohue, R, McVicar, T, Li, L et al. 2010, 'A data resource for analysing dynamics in Australian ecohydrological conditions', Austral Ecology, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 593-594.
Sun,F., M. L. Roderick, G. D. Farquhar, W. H. Lim, Y. Zhang, N. Bennett, and S. H. Roxburgh (2010), Partitioning the variance between space and time, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L12704, doi:10.1029/2010GL043323. [most popular articles among AGU journals]
Roderick, M, McVicar, T & Donohue, R 2009, 'Climate-related trends in Australian vegetation cover as inferred from satellite observations, 1981-2006', Global Change Biology, vol. 15, pp. 1025-1039.
Lim, W & Roderick, M 2009, An Atlas of the Global Water Cycle: Based on the IPCC AR4 Climate Models, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
Schymanski, S, Sivapalan, M, Roderick, M et al 2009, 'An optimality-based model of the dynamic feedbacks between natural vegetation and the water balance', Water Resources Research, vol. 45, no. W01412, pp. 1-18.
Roderick, M, Hobbins, M & Farquhar, G 2009, 'Pan Evaporation Trends and the Terrestrial Water Balance. I. Principles and Observations', Geography Compass, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 746-760.
Roderick, M, Hobbins, M & Farquhar, G 2009, 'Pan Evaporation Trends and the Terrestrial Water Balance. II. Energy Balance and Interpretation', Geography Compass, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 761-780.
Shuttleworth, W, Serrat-Capdevila, A, Roderick, M et al 2009, 'On the theory relating changes in area-average and pan evaporation', Royal Meteorological Society. Quarterly Journal, vol. 135, pp. 1230-1247.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M & McVicar, T 2008, 'Deriving consistent long-term vegetation information from AVHRR reflectance data using a cover-triangle-based framework', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 112, pp. 2938-2949.
Hobbins, M, Dai, A, Roderick, M et al 2008, 'Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of long-term water balance trends', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, pp. 1-6.
Schymanski, S, Sivapalan, M, Roderick, M et al 2008, 'An optimality-based model of the coupled soil moisture and root dynamics', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 12, pp. 913-932.
Schymanski, S, Roderick, M, Sivapalan, M et al 2008, 'A canopy-scale test of the optimal water-use hypothesis', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 31, pp. 97-111.
McVicar, T, Van Niel, T, Li, L et al 2008, 'Wind speed climatology and trends for Australia, 1975-2006: Capturing the stilling phenomenon and comparison with near-surface reanalysis output', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, no. L20403, pp. 1-6.
Donohue, R, Roderick, M & McVicar, T 2007, 'On the importance of including vegetation dynamics in Budyko's hydrological model', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 11, pp. 983-995.
Roderick, M, Rotstayn, L, Farquhar, G et al 2007, 'On the attribution of changing pan evaporation', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 34, no. 17, pp. 1-6.
Gifford, R, Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2007, 'Evaporative demand: Does it increase with global warming?', Global Change Newsletter, vol. 69, pp. 21-23.
McDonnell, J, Sivapalan, M, Vache, K et al 2007, 'Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology', Water Resources Research, vol. 43, pp. W07301 1-6.
Rotstayn, L, Cai, W, Dix, M et al 2007, 'Have Australian rainfall and cloudiness increased due to the remote effects of Asian anthropogenic aerosols?', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, pp. D09202 1-28.
Barnes, B, Mokany, K & Roderick, M 2007, 'Allocation within a generic scaling framework', Ecological Modelling, vol. 201, pp. 223-232.
Canny, M, Sparks, J, Huang, C et al 2007, 'Air embolisms exsolving in the transpiration water - the effect of constrictions in the xylem pipes', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 34, pp. 95-111.
Schymanski, S, Roderick, M, Sivapalan, M et al 2007, 'A test of the optimality approach to modelling canopy properties and CO₂ uptake by natural vegetation', Plant Cell and Environment, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 1586-1598.
Roderick, M 2006, 'The ever-flickering light', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 3-5.
Barnes, S, Bi, H & Roderick, M 2006, 'APPLICATION OF AN ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK LINKING SCALES BASED ON SELF-THINNING', Ecological Applications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 133-142.
Berry, S & Roderick, M 2006, 'Changing Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988: effects of CO2 and land use change', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 54, pp. 325-338.
Rotstayn, L, Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2006, 'A simple pan-evaporation model for analysis of climate simulations: Evaluation over Australia', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, no. L17715, p. 5.
Berry, S, Farquhar, G & Roderick, M 2005, 'Co-evolution of Climate, Soil and Vegetation', in Malcolm G. Anderson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA, pp. 177-192.
Sulistyawati, E, Noble, I & Roderick, M 2005, 'A simulation model to study land use strategies in swidden agriculture systems', Agricultural Systems, vol. 85, pp. 271-288.
Canny, M & Roderick, M 2005, 'A second pathway for gas out of the pressure chamber - what is being squeezed?', Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, vol. 43, pp. 315-321.
Roxburgh, S, Berry, S, Buckley, T et al. 2005, 'What is NPP? Inconsistent accounting of respiratory fluxes in the definition of net primary production', Functional Ecology, vol. 19, pp. 378-382.
Roderick, M & Canny, M 2005, 'A mechanical interpretation of pressure chamber measurements--what does the strength of the squeeze tell us?', Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, vol. 43, pp. 323-336.
Berry, S & Roderick, M 2005, 'Plant-water relations and the fibre saturation point', New Phytologist, vol. 168, pp. 25-37.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2005, 'Changes in New Zealand pan evaporation since the 1970s', International Journal of Climatology, vol. 25, pp. 2031-2039.
Roxburgh, S, Barrett, D, Berry, S et al. 2004, 'A critical overview of model estimates of net primary productivity for the Australian continent', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 31, pp. 1043-1059.
Roderick, M & Barnes, S 2004, 'Self-thinning of plant populations from a dynamic viewpoint', Functional Ecology, vol. 18, pp. 197-203.
Barnes, S & Roderick, M 2004, 'An ecological framework linking scales across space and time based on self-thinning', Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 66, pp. 113-128.
Berry, S & Roderick, M 2004, 'Gross primary productivity and transpiration flux of the Australian vegetation from 1788 to 1988: Effects of CO₂ and land use change', Global Change Biology, vol. 10, pp. 1884-1898.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2004, 'Changes in Australian pan evaporation from 1970 to 2002', International Journal of Climatology, vol. 24, pp. 1077-1090.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2004, 'The pan evaporation paradox', in W Steffen, A Sanderson, P Tyson, J Jager, P Matson, B Moore III, et ors (ed.), Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under pressure, Springer, Germany, p. 167.
Holm, A, Cridland, S & Roderick, M 2003, 'The use of time-integrated NOAA NDVI data and rainfall to assess landscape degradation in the arid shrubland of Western Australia', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 85, pp. 145-158.
Farquhar, G & Roderick, M 2003, 'Pinatubo, diffuse light and the carbon cycle', Science, vol. 299, pp. 1997-1998.
Gifford, R & Roderick, M 2003, 'Soil carbon stocks and bulk density: spatial or cumulative mass coordinates as a basis of expression?', Global Change Biology, no. 9, pp. 1507-1514.
Berry, S & Roderick, M 2002, 'Estimating mixtures of leaf functional types using continental-scale satellite and climatic data', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 11, pp. 3-39.
Roderick, M & Cochrane, M 2002, 'On the conservative nature of the leaf mass-area relationship', Annals of Botany, vol. 89, pp. 537-542.
Berry, S & Roderick, M 2002, 'CO₂ and land use effects on Australian Vegetation over the last two centuries', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 50, pp. 511-531.
Roderick, M & Farquhar, G 2002, 'The cause of decreased pan evaporation over the last 50 years', Science, vol. 298, pp. 1410-1411.
Roderick, M 2001, 'On the use of thermodynamic methods to describe water relations in plants and soil', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, vol. 28, pp. 729-742.
Roderick, M & Berry, S 2001, 'Linking wood density with tree growth and environment: A theoretical analysis based on the motion of water', New Phytologist, vol. 149, no. 3, pp. 473-485.
Roderick, M, Farquhar, G, Berry, S et al. 2001, 'On the direct effect of clouds and atmospheric particles on the productivity and structure of vegetation', Oecologia, vol. 129, pp. 21-30.
Roderick, M 2000, 'On the measurement of growth with applications to the modelling and analysis of plant growth', Functional Ecology, vol. 14, pp. 244-251.
Roderick, M, Berry, S & Noble, I 2000, 'A framework for understanding the relationship between environment and vegetation based on the surface area to volume ratio of leaves.', Functional Ecology, vol. 14, pp. 423-437.
Roderick, M, Chewings, V & Smith, R 2000, 'Remote sensing in vegetation and animal studies.', in Mannetje, L; Jones, RM (ed.), Field and Laboratory Methods for Grassland and Animal Production Research, CABI Publishing, Wallingfond, UK, pp. 205-225.
Roderick, M 1999, 'Estimating the diffuse component from daily and monthly measurements of global radiation', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, no. 95, pp. 169-185.
Roderick, M, Berry, S, Noble, I et al. 1999, 'A theoretical approach to linking the composition and morphology with the function of leaves', Functional Ecology, vol. 13, pp. 683-695.
Roderick, M, Berry, S, Saunders, A et al. 1999, 'On the relationship between the composition, morphology and function of leaves', Functional Ecology, vol. 13, no. n/a, pp. 696-710.
Roderick, M, Berry, S & Noble, I 1999, 'The relationship between leaf composition and morphology at elevated CO2 concentrations', Functional Ecology, no. 143, pp. 63-72.
Weiher, E, Van der Werf, A, Thompson, K et al 1999, 'Challenging Theophrastus: A common core list of plant traits for functional ecology', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 10, pp. 609-620.

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