Portrait of Will Wieder
Investigator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) •
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
wwieder@ucar.edu

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Global biogeochemical cycles; evaluating and improving Earth System models by incorporating ecological theory and observations.

Education

  • PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: University of Colorado, Boulder, 2011

Publications

For additional publications, see Will's Google Scholar profile.

Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Bradford MA; Berg B; Maynard DS; Wieder WR; Wood SA
Published in: Journal of Ecology
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Reply to 'Land unlikely to become large carbon source'

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Cleveland CC; Smith WK; Todd-Brown K
Published in: Nature Geoscience
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
Type: Journal Article

Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors:
Wieder WR; Allison SD; Davidson EA; Georgiou K; Hararuk O; He Y; Hopkins F; Luo Y; Smith MJ; Sulman B...
  • Wieder WR
  • Allison SD
  • Davidson EA
  • Georgiou K
  • Hararuk O
  • He Y
  • Hopkins F
  • Luo Y
  • Smith MJ
  • Sulman B
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Type: Journal Article

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Cleveland CC; Smith WK; Todd-Brown K
Published in: Nature Geoscience
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Type: Journal Article

Organic forms dominate hydrologic nitrogen export from a lowland tropical watershed

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Taylor PG; Wieder WR; Weintraub S; Cohen S; Cleveland CC; Townsend AR
Published in: Ecology
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Type: Journal Article

A comparison of plot-based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors:
Cleveland CC; Taylor P; Chadwick KD; Dahlin K; Doughty CE; Malhi Y; Smith WK; Sullivan BW; Wieder WR; Townsend AR...
  • Cleveland CC
  • Taylor P
  • Chadwick KD
  • Dahlin K
  • Doughty CE
  • Malhi Y
  • Smith WK
  • Sullivan BW
  • Wieder WR
  • Townsend AR
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Type: Journal Article

Effects of model structural uncertainty on carbon cycle projections: biological nitrogen fixation as a case study

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Cleveland CC; Lawrence DM; Bonan GB
Published in: Environmental Research Letters
Publication Date: 2015-04-01
Type: Journal Article

Representing life in the Earth system with soil microbial functional traits in the MIMICS model

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Taylor PG; Bonan GB
Publication Date: 2015-02-25
Type: Journal Article

Supplementary material to "Representing life in the Earth system with soil microbial functional traits in the MIMICS model"

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Taylor PG; Bonan GB
Publication Date: 2015-02-25
Type: Journal Article

Representing life in the Earth system with soil microbial functional traits in the MIMICS model

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Taylor PG; Bonan GB
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Type: Journal Article

SOIL CARBON Microbes, roots and global carbon

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder W
Published in: Nature Climate Change
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Type: Journal Article

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors:
Bradford MA; Warren RJ; Baldrian P; Crowther TW; Maynard DS; Oldfield EE; Wieder WR; Wood SA; King JR...
  • Bradford MA
  • Warren RJ
  • Baldrian P
  • Crowther TW
  • Maynard DS
  • Oldfield EE
  • Wieder WR
  • Wood SA
  • King JR
Published in: Nature Climate Change
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
Type: Journal Article

Digging Into the World Beneath Our Feet: Bridging Across Scales in the Age of Global Change

CU Boulder Authors: Hinckley, Eve-Lyn; Wieder, Will
All Authors: Hinckley ES; Wieder W; Fierer N; Paul E
Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Type: Journal Article

Palm oil wastewater methane emissions and bioenergy potential

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will; Bilinski, Teresa
All Authors:
Taylor PG; Bilinski TM; Fancher HRF; Cleveland CC; Nemergut DR; Weintraub SR; Wieder WR; Townsend AR...
  • Taylor PG
  • Bilinski TM
  • Fancher HRF
  • Cleveland CC
  • Nemergut DR
  • Weintraub SR
  • Wieder WR
  • Townsend AR
Published in: Nature Climate Change
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Type: Journal Article

Evaluating soil biogeochemistry parameterizations in Earth system models with observations

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Boehnert J; Bonan GB
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Type: Journal Article

Integrating microbial physiology and physiochemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Bonan GB
Publication Date: 2014-01-17
Type: Journal Article

Supplementary material to "Integrating microbial physiology and physiochemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model"

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Bonan GB
Publication Date: 2014-01-17
Type: Journal Article

Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors:
Wang YP; Chen BC; Wieder WR; Leite M; Medlyn BE; Rasmussen M; Smith MJ; Agusto FB; Hoffman F; Luo YQ...
  • Wang YP
  • Chen BC
  • Wieder WR
  • Leite M
  • Medlyn BE
  • Rasmussen M
  • Smith MJ
  • Agusto FB
  • Hoffman F
  • Luo YQ
Published in: Biogeosciences
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Integrating microbial physiology and physio-chemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Grandy AS; Kallenbach CM; Bonan GB
Published in: Biogeosciences
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Do we need to understand microbial communities to predict ecosystem function? A comparison of statistical models of nitrogen cycling processes

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Graham EB; Wieder WR; Leff JW; Weintraub SR; Townsend AR; Cleveland CC; Philippot L; Nemergut DR
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors:
Wang YP; Chen BC; Wieder WR; Luo YQ; Leite M; Medlyn BE; Rasmussen M; Smith MJ; Agusto FB; Hoffman F...
  • Wang YP
  • Chen BC
  • Wieder WR
  • Luo YQ
  • Leite M
  • Medlyn BE
  • Rasmussen M
  • Smith MJ
  • Agusto FB
  • Hoffman F
Publication Date: 2013-12-16
Type: Journal Article

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Wieder WR; Bonan GB; Allison SD
Published in: Nature Climate Change
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Type: Journal Article

Impacts of human alteration of the nitrogen cycle in the US on radiative forcing

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Pinder RW; Bettez ND; Bonan GB; Greaver TL; Wieder WR; Schlesinger WH; Davidson EA
Published in: Biogeochemistry: an international journal
Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Type: Journal Article

Organic matter inputs shift soil enzyme activity and allocation patterns in a wet tropical forest

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will
All Authors: Weintraub SR; Wieder WR; Cleveland CC; Townsend AR
Published in: Biogeochemistry: an international journal
Publication Date: 2013-07-01
Type: Journal Article

Experimental removal and addition of leaf litter inputs reduces nitrate production and loss in a lowland tropical forest

CU Boulder Authors: Wieder, Will; Hinckley, Eve-Lyn
All Authors:
Wieder WR; Cleveland CC; Taylor PG; Nemergut DR; Hinckley E-L; Philippot L; Bru D; Weintraub SR; Martin M; Townsend AR...
  • Wieder WR
  • Cleveland CC
  • Taylor PG
  • Nemergut DR
  • Hinckley E-L
  • Philippot L
  • Bru D
  • Weintraub SR
  • Martin M
  • Townsend AR
Published in: Biogeochemistry: an international journal
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
Type: Journal Article

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