Riba, A., M. Garcia, A.M. Tarquís, F. Domingo, M. Antala, S. Feng, J. Liu, M.S. Johnson, Y. Kim, S. Wang (2025). Optimizing the revisit frequency of remotely sensed thermal observations for continuous estimation of land surface fluxes in a dryland ecosystem. Remote Sensing. 17:3630. doi: 10.3390/rs17213630

Kim, Y. and M.S. Johnson (2025). Deciphering the role of evapotranspiration in declining relative humidity trends over land. Communications Earth & Environment 6: 105. doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-02076-9

Kim, Y., M. Garcia, T.A. Black and M.S. Johnson (2025). Physically-constrained evapotranspiration models with machine learning parameterization outperform pure machine learning: Critical role of domain knowledge. PLOS ONE 20: e0328798. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0328798

Chignell, S.M., Kim, Y., and Johnson, M.S. (2025). Remote sensing-based ecohydrogeological characterization and perceptual model of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Hydrological Processes. 39: e70006. doi: 10.1002/hyp.70006

Barros-Rosa, L., L.M. Peluso, J. Penha, P. Lemes, M.S. Johnson, H.J. Dalmagro, C. Nunes da Cunha, P.H. Zanella de Arruda and L. Mateus (2025). The ineffectiveness of current environmental and fire policies in the world’s largest tropical wetland. Environmental Research Letters 20: 034039. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f5

Huggins, X., T. Gleeson, J.S. Famiglietti, …, M.S. Johnson, and C. Zheng (2025). A review of Open Data for studying global groundwater in social-ecological systems. Environmental Research Letters 20: 093002. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adf127

Reed, D.E., … Dalmagro, H.J., …, Johnson, M.S., …, Lee, S.-C., …, and Zona, D. (2025). Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 372: 110686. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110686

Pow, P., Black, T.A., Jassal, R., Nesic, Z., Johnson, M.S., Smukler, S., Krzic, M. (2024). The carbon balance and water use efficiency of an intensively managed forage crop in the Lower Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 357: 110178. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110178

De Oliveira Roberto, I., H.J. Dalmagro, P.H. Zanella de Arruda, A.C. Kubo Almada, J.W. Zangeski Novais, K.H.H. Soares Albano, A.A. Rocha, Osvaldo Borges Pinto Junior, G.L. Vourlitis, M.S. Johnson, E.G.Couto (2024). Flooded Pantanal forests absorb CO2, while grass-dominated savannas are sources for the atmosphere in South-Central Brazil. Ensaios e Ciências 28(5): 630-639. doi: 10.17921/1415-6938.2024v28n5p630-639

Orlova, J., Olefeldt, D., Emelko, M.B., Amiri, F., Cuss, C.W., Tank, S.E., Silins, U., Devito, K.J., Hutchins, R.H.S., Floyd, W.C., Johnson, M.S., Jamieson, R., Thompson, L.M., McSorley, H.J., Cherlet, E., Williams, C. Foster, D.E., Buttle, J.M., Bourgeois, A.K., and Webster, K. (2024). Composition of stream dissolved organic matter across Canadian forested ecozones varies in three dimensions linked to landscape and climate. Water Resources Research 60: e2023WR035196. doi: 10.1029/2023WR035196

D’Acunha, B., Dalmagro, H.J., Zanella de Arruda, P.H., Lathuilliere, M.J., Uribe, M., Brando, P., Vourlitis, G., E.G. Couto and Johnson, M.S. (2024). Changes in evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation across natural and managed landscapes in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 346: 109875. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109875

Eyster, T.E., Johnson, M.S., Yarnell, S., Lowry, C. (2024). Analyzing the subsurface consequences of dam removal on groundwater storage and hydrologic niches in a mountain meadow ecosystem. Water Resources Management 38: 717-731. doi: 10.1007/s11269-023-03695-7

Richardson, J.L., Desai, A.R., Thom, J., Lindgren, K., Laudon, H., Peichl, M., Nilsson, M., Campeau, A., Järveoja, J., Hawman, P., Mishra, D.R., Smith, D., D'Acunha, B., Knox, S.H., Ng, D., Johnson, M.S., Blackstock, J., Malone, S.L., Oberbauer, S.F., Detto, M., Wickland, K.P., Forbrich, I., Weston, N., Hung, J.K.Y., Edgar, C., Euskirchen, E.S., Bret-Harte, S., Dobkowski, J., Kling, G., Kane, E.S., Badiou, P., Bogard, M., Bohrer, G., O'Halloran, T., Ritson, J., Arias-Ortiz, A., Baldocchi, D., Oikawa, P., Shahan, J., Matsumura, M. (2024). On the relationship between aquatic CO2 concentration and ecosystem fluxes in some of the world’s key wetland types. Wetlands 44:Article 1. doi: 10.1007/s13157-023-01751-x

Kim, Y., M. Garcia, T.A. Black and M.S. Johnson (2023). Assessing the complementary role of Surface Flux Equilibrium (SFE) theory and Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle in the estimation of actual evapotranspiration. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 15: e2022MS003224. doi: 10.1029/2022MS003224

Drever, M.D., T.J. Douglas, A.D. Domalik, E. Balke, D.C. Scott, M.S. Johnson, D.B. Gurd (2023). Water diversion structures and river discharge dictate salinity dynamics on the tidal flats of the Fraser River delta, British Columbia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 291: 108436. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108436

Satriawan, T., Nyberg, M., Lee, S.C., Christen, A., Black, T.A., Johnson, M.S., Nesic, Z., Merkens, M., and Knox S.H. (2023). Interannual Variability of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4) Fluxes in a Rewetted Temperate Bog. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 342: 109696. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109696

Kim, Y., M. Garcia and M.S. Johnson (2023). Little increase in evaporative demand in a warming climate due to land-atmosphere feedback. Earth’s Future 11: e2022EF002886. doi: 10.1029/2022EF002886

Hounshell, A.G., B. D’Acunha, A. Breef-Pilz, M.S. Johnson, R.Q. Thomas, C.C. Carey (2023). Eddy covariance data reveal that small freshwater reservoirs emit a substantial amount of carbon dioxide and methane. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 128: e2022JG007091. doi: 10.1029/2022JG007091

Fischer, B., L. Morillas, J. Rojas Conejo, R. Sánchez-Murillo, A. Suárez Serrano, J. Frentress, C.H. Cheng, M. Garcia, S. Manzoni, M.S. Johnson and S.W. Lyon (2022). Investigating the impacts of biochar on water fluxes in a rice experiment in the Dry Corridor of Central America, Costa Rica. Hydrological Processes 36: e14765. doi: 10.1002/hyp.14765

*Nyberg, M., Black, T.A., Johnson, M.S., Lee, S.C., Merkens, M., Kettler, R., Nugent, K., Knox S.H. (2022). Impacts of active vs. passive re-wetting on the carbon balance of a previously drained bog. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127: e2022JG006881. doi: 10.1029/2022JG006881

*highlighted in AGU’s Eos https://eos.org/research-spotlights/exploring-carbon-emissions-in-peatland-restoration

Dalmagro, H.J., de Souza, P.J., Engelbrehct, M.M., de Arruda, P.H.Z., Sallo, F.d.S., Vourlitis, G.L., Lathuillière, M.J., Junior, O.B.P., Nogueira, J.d.S., Johnson, M.S. and Couto, E.G. (2022). Net carbon dioxide exchange in a hyperseasonal cattle pasture in the northern Pantanal wetland of Brazil. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 324: 109099. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109099

Lyon, S.W., B.M.C. Fischer, L. Morillas, J. Rojas Conejo, R. Sánchez-Murillo, A. Suárez Serrano, J. Frentress, C.-H. Cheng, M. Garcia, S. Manzoni and M.S. Johnson (2022). On the potential of biochar soil amendments as a sustainable water management strategy. Sustainability. 14(12): 7026. doi: 10.3390/su14127026

Dalmagro, H.J., M.J. Lathuillière, P.H.Z. de Arruda, A.A. Da S. Junior, F. da S. Sallo, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2022). Carbon exchange in rainfed and irrigated cropland in the Brazilian Cerrado. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 316: 108881. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108881

Köppl, C.J., R. Malureanu, C. Dam-Hansen , S. Wang, H. Jin, S. Barchiesi , J.M. Serrano Sandí, R. Muñoz-Carpena, M.S. Johnson, A.M. Durán-Quesada, P. Bauer-Gottwein, U.S. McKnight, M. Garcia (2021). Hyperspectral reflectance measurements from UAS under intermittent clouds: Correcting irradiance measurements for sensor tilt. Remote Sensing of Environment 267: 112719. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112719

*Hund, S., I Grossmann, D. Steyn, D. Allen and M.S. Johnson (2021). Changing water resources under El Niño, climate change and growing water demands in seasonally-dry tropical watersheds. Water Resources Research 57: e2020WR028535. doi: 10.1029/2020WR028535

*highlighted in Nature Climate Change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01210-7

*Kim, Y., Garcia, M., Morillas, L., Weber, U., Black, T.A. and M.S. Johnson (2021). Relative humidity gradients as a key constraint on terrestrial water and energy fluxes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25: 5175-5191. doi: 10.5194/hess-25-5175-2021

*Selected by journal as a Highlight Paper by publisher

*Gómez Gener L., G. Rocher-Ros, T. Battin, M. Cohen, H.J. Dalmagro, K. Dinsmore, T. Drake, C. Duvert, A. Enrich-Prast, Å. Horgby, M.S. Johnson, L. Kirk, F. Machado-Silva, N. Marzolf, M.J. McDowell, W. McDowell, H. Miettinen, A. Ojala, H. Peter, J. Pumpanen, L. Ran, D. Riveros-Iregui, I. Santos, J. Six, E. Stanley, M. Wallin, S. White, R. Sponseller (2021). Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions. Nature Geoscience 14: 289-294. doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00722-3

*Research Highlight published in Nature. “Rivers give off stealth carbon at night”. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01032-9

Jin H., B.M.C. Fischer, J. Rojas-Conejo, C.J. Köppl, M.S. Johnson, L. Morillas, S.W. Lyon, A. Duran-Quesada, A. Suárez-Serrano, S. Manzoni, M. Garcia (2021). Drone-based hyperspectral and thermal imagery for quantifying upland rice growth and water use efficiency after biochar application. Remote Sensing 13: 1866. doi: 10.3390/rs13101866

Shah, S.H., L.M. Harris, M.S. Johnson, and H.W. Wittman (2021). A “drought-free” Maharashtra? Politicizing the conditional, inequitable, and extractive outcomes of state-sponsored livelihood adaptation for rain-dependent agriculture. Water Alternatives 14: 573-596.

Hensgens, G., Laudon H., Johnson, M.S. and M. Berggren (2021). The undetected loss of aged carbon from boreal mineral soils. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6202, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85506-w

Jones, H., T.A. Black, R.S. Jassal, Z. Nesic, M.S. Johnson, S. Smukler (2021). Characterization of shortwave and longwave properties of several plastic film mulches and their impact on the surface energy balance and soil temperature. Solar Energy 214: 457-470. doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.11.058

Mistick, E. and M.S. Johnson (2020). High-frequency analysis of dissolved organic carbon storm responses in headwater streams of contrasting forest harvest history. Journal of Hydrology 590: 125371, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125371

Sobejano-Paz V., T. Nørgaard Mikkelsen, A. Baum, M.S. Johnson, X. Mo, S. Liu, C.J. Köppl, L. Gulyas, M. García (2020). Hyperspectral and thermal sensing of stomatal conductance, transpiration and photosynthesis for soybean and maize under soil drought. Remote Sensing. 12(19), 3182. doi: 10.3390/rs12193182

Pow, P., Black, T.A., Jassal, R., Nesic, Z., Johnson, M.S., Smukler, S., Krzic, M. (2020). Greenhouse gas exchange over a conventionally managed highbush blueberry field in the Lower Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 295: 108152, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108152

Fisher, J. and 57 co-authors including L. Morillas and M.S. Johnson (2020). ECOSTRESS: NASA's next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the International Space Station. Water Resources Research 56: e2019WR026058. doi: 10.1029/2019WR026058

Paul, S.S., L. Dowell, N.C. Coops, M.S. Johnson, M. Krzic and S.M. Smukler (2020). Tracking changes in soil organic carbon across the heterogeneous agricultural landscape of the lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Science of the Total Environment 732: 138994. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138994

Paul, S.S., N.C. Coops, M.S. Johnson, M. Krzic, A. Chandna and S.M. Smukler (2020), Mapping soil organic carbon and clay using remote sensing to predict soil workability for enhanced climate change adaptation, Geoderma 363: 114177. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114177

Kim, Y., M.S. Johnson, S. Knox, T.A. Black, H.J. Dalmagro, M. Kang, J. Kim, D. Baldocchi (2020). Gap-filling approaches for eddy covariance methane fluxes: a comparison of three machine learning algorithms and a traditional method with principal component analysis. Global Change Biology 26:1499-1518. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14845

Nobrega, R.L.B., T. Ziembowicz, G.N. Torres, A.C. Guzha, R.S.S. Amorim, D. Cardoso, M.S. Johnson, T.G. Santos, E.G. Couto, G. Gerold (2020). Ecosystem services of a functionally diverse riparian zone in the Amazon–Cerrado agricultural frontier. Global Ecology and Conservation 21: e00819. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00819

Lathuillière, M.J., K. Solvik, M.N. Macedo, J. Graesser, E.J. Miranda, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2019). Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: implications for land and water management. Environmental Research Letters in press. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab30a7

Paul, S.S., N.C. Coops, M.S. Johnson, M. Krzic and S.M. Smukler (2019). Evaluating sampling efforts of standard laboratory analysis and mid-infrared spectroscopy for cost effective digital soil mapping at field scale. Geoderma 356: 113925 doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113925.

Morillas, L., S.V. Hund and M.S. Johnson (2019). Water use dynamics in double cropping of rainfed upland rice and irrigated melons produced under drought-prone tropical conditions. Water Resources Research 55: 4110-4127. doi: 10.1029/2018WR023757

D’Acunha, B., L. Morillas, T.A. Black, A. Christen and M.S. Johnson (2019). Net ecosystem carbon balance of a peat bog undergoing restoration: integrating CO2 and CH4 fluxes from eddy covariance and aquatic evasion with DOC drainage fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124:884-901. doi: 10.1029/2019JG005123

Dalmagro, H.J., P.H. Zanella de Arruda, G.L. Vourlitis, M.J. Lathuillière, J. de S. Nogueira, E.G. Couto, and M.S. Johnson (2019). Radiative forcing of methane fluxes offsets net carbon dioxide uptake for a tropical flooded forest. Global Change Biology 25:1967-1981. doi:10.1111/gcb.14615    [see also Research Highlight in Nature Plants]

Dalmagro, H.J., M.J. Lathuillière, F. da Silva Sallo, M.F. Gerreiro, O.B. Pinto Jr., P.H.Z. de Arruda, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2019). Streams with riparian forest buffers versus impoundments differ in discharge and DOM characteristics for pasture catchments in southern Amazonia. Water 11(2), 390; doi: 10.3390/w11020390

Lathuillière, M.J., C. Bulle and M.S. Johnson (2019). Complementarity in mid-point impacts for water use in life cycle assessment applied to soybean and cattle production in Southern Amazonia. Journal of Cleaner Production 219:497-507. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.021

Fischer, B., S. Manzoni, L. Morillas, M. Garcia, M.S. Johnson and S.W. Lyon (2019). Improving agricultural water use efficiency with biochar – A synthesis of biochar effects on water storage and fluxes across scales. Science of the Total Environment 657:853-862. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.312

D’Acunha, B. and M.S. Johnson (2019). Water quality and greenhouse gas fluxes for stormwater detained in a constructed wetland. Water Resources Management 231: 1232-1240. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.106

Taccogna, M., G.W. Rawlings and M.S. Johnson (2019). Development of a cost-effective, variable depth, tidal and river current measurement buoy. Journal of Ocean Technology 14(2): 162-180.

McDowell, M.J. and M.S. Johnson (2018). Gas transfer velocities evaluated using carbon dioxide as a tracer shows high streamflow to be major driver of total CO2 evasion flux for a headwater stream. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123: 2183-2197. doi: 10.1029/2018JG004388

Lathuillière, M.J., C. Bulle and M.S. Johnson (2018). A contribution to harmonize water footprint assessments. Global Environmental Change 53: 252-264, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.10.004

Hund, S.V., Allen, D.M., Morillas, L. and M.S. Johnson (2018). Groundwater recharge indicator as tool for decision makers to increase socio-hydrological resilience to seasonal drought. Journal of Hydrology 563:1119-1134. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.069

Dalmagro, H.J., M.J. Lathuillière, I. Hawthorne, D.D. Morais, O. Pinto Jr., E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2018). Carbon biogeochemistry of a flooded Pantanal forest over three annual flood cycles. Biogeochemistry 139:1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10533-018-0450-1

Lathuillière, M.J., H.J. Dalmagro, T.A. Black, P.H.Z. de Arruda, I. Hawthorne, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2018). Rain-fed and irrigated cropland-atmosphere water fluxes and their implications for agricultural production in Southern Amazonia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: 256-257:407-419. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.03.023

Speratti, A.B., M.S. Johnson, H. Martins Sousa, H.J. Dalmagro and E.G. Couto (2018). Biochars from local agricultural waste residues contribute to soil nutrient levels and plant growth in a Cerrado region (Brazil) Arenosol. GCB Bioenergy 10:272-286. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12489

Speratti, A.B., J. Romanyà, J. Garcia-Pausas and M.S. Johnson (2018). Determining the stability of sugarcane filtercake biochar in soils with contrasting levels of organic matter. Agriculture 8: paper 71. doi: 10.3390/agriculture8060071

D’Acunha, B., S.-C. Lee and M.S. Johnson (2018). Ecohydrological responses to rewetting of a highly impacted raised bog ecosystem. Ecohydrology 11:e1922. doi: 10.1002/eco.1922

Lathuillière, M.J., M.T. Coe, A. Castanho, J. Graesser and M.S. Johnson (2018). Evaluating water use for agricultural intensification in southern Amazonia using the water footprint sustainability assessment. Water: 10:349. doi: 10.3390/w10040349

Stephens, J.J., T.A. Black, R.S. Jassal, Z. Nesic, N.J. Grant, A.G. Barr, W. Helgason, A.D. Richardson, M.S. Johnson and A. Christen (2018). Effects of forest tent caterpillar defoliation on carbon and water fluxes in a boreal aspen stand. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 253-254:176-189. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.035

Speratti, A.B., M.S. Johnson, H. Martins Sousa, H.J. Dalmagro and E.G. Couto (2018). Sugarcane filtercake and eucalyptus biochars reduce dissolved organic carbon and nitrate losses from a Brazilian Cerrado Arenosol compared to other local agricultural waste biochars. Journal of Environmental Management 211: 256-268. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.12.052

Hamel P., D. Riveros-Iregui, D. Ballari, T. Browning, R. Célleri, D. Chandler, K. Chun, G. Destouni, S. Jacobs, S. Jasechko, M.S. Johnson, J. Krishnaswamy, M. Poca, P. Pompeu, H. Rocha (2018). Watershed services in the humid tropics: opportunities from recent advances in ecohydrology. Ecohydrology 11:e1921. doi: 10.1002/eco.1921

Leite, N.K., J. Stolberg, S.P. da Cruz, A. de O. Tavela, J.L. Safanelli, H.R. Marchini, R. Exterkoetter, G.M.C. Leite, A.V. Krusche and M.S. Johnson (2018). Hydrochemistry of rural groundwater supplies as influenced by landscape characteristics and access type. Environmental Earth Sciences 77:article 80. doi: 10.1007/s12665-018-7254-4

Johnson, M.S., C. Webster, R.S. Jassal, I. Hawthorne and T.A. Black (2017). Biochar influences on soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes in response to wetting and drying cycles for a forest soil. Scientific Reports 7:6780 doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07224-6

Dalmagro, H.J., M.S. Johnson, C.R. de Musis, M.J. Lathuillière, J. Graesser, O.B. Pinto-Jr. and E.G. Couto (2017). Spatial patterns of DOC concentration and DOM optical properties in a Brazilian tropical river-wetland system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122. doi: 10.1002/2017JG003797

Lathuillière, M.J., O. Pinto Jr., M.S. Johnson, R.S. Jassal, H.J. Dalmagro, N.K. Leite, A.B. Speratti, D. Krampe and E.G. Couto (2017). Soil CO2 concentrations and efflux dynamics of a tree island in the Pantanal wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122. doi: 10.1002/2017JG003877

Speratti, A.B., M.S. Johnson, H. Martins Sousa, H.J. Dalmagro and E.G. Couto (2017). Effect of biochar application on soil physical properties and soil water availability. Agronomy 7:49. doi: 10.3390/agronomy7030049

Jollymore, A.J., M. Haines, T. Satterfield and M.S. Johnson (2017). Citizen science for water quality monitoring: data implications of citizen perspectives. Journal of Environmental Management 200:456-467. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.083

Lee, S.-C., A. Christen, T.A. Black, M.S. Johnson, R.S. Jassal, R. Ketler, Z. Nesic, M. Merkens (2017). Annual greenhouse gas budget for a bog ecosystem undergoing restoration by rewetting. Biogeosciences 14, 2799-2814. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-2799-2017

Lathuillière, M.J., E.J. Miranda, C. Bulle, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2017). Land transformation and occupation impacts of soybean production in Southern Amazonia, Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production 149:680-689. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.120

Hawthorne, I., M.S. Johnson, R.S. Jassal, T.A. Black, N.J. Grant and S.M. Smukler (2017). Application of biochar and nitrogen influences fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O in a forest soil. Journal of Environmental Management 192:203-214. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.12.066

Dias de Morais, D., H.J. Dalmagro, O. Pinto Jr., C.R. de Musis, E.G. Couto and M.S. Johnson (2017). Seasonal Variation of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Optical Properties of Organic Matter in Different Pasture and Soybean Systems in the State of Mato Grosso. Ciência e Natura 39:758-766. doi: 10.5902/2179460X27649

Lathuillière, M.J., C. Bulle and M.S. Johnson (2016). Land use in LCA: including regionally altered precipitation to quantify ecosystem damage. Environmental Science & Technology. 50:11769-11778. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02311

Hund, S.V., M.S. Johnson and T. Keddie (2016). Developing a hydrologic monitoring network in data-scarce regions using open-source Arduino dataloggers. Agricultural & Environmental Letters 1:160011. doi: 10.2134/ael2016.02.0011

Lathuillière, M.J., M.T. Coe and M.S. Johnson (2016). A review of green- and blue-water resources and their trade-offs for future agricultural production in the Amazon Basin: what could irrigated agriculture mean for Amazonia? Hydrology and Earth System Science 20: 2179-2194. doi: 10.5194/hess-20-2179-2016

Jassal, R.S., C. Webster, T.A. Black, I. Hawthorne and M.S. Johnson (2016). Simultaneous measurements of soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes using laser absorption spectroscopy. Agricultural & Environmental Letters 1:150014. doi: 10.2134/ael2015.12.0014

Christen A., R. Jassal, T.A. Black, N. Grant, I. Hawthorne, M.S. Johnson, S.-C. Lee and M. Merkens (2016). Greenhouse gas fluxes in degraded and restored peatlands: Global perspectives. Mires and Peat 17:Article 3 p 1-24. doi: 10.19189/MaP.2015.OMB.207

Dalmagro H.J., M.J. Lathuillière, G.L. Vourlitis, R.C. Campos, O.P. Borges Jr., M.S. Johnson, C.E.R. Ortiz and E.G. Couto (2016). Physiological responses to extreme hydrological events in the Pantanal wetland: heterogeneity of a plant community containing super-dominant species. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:568-577. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12379

Johnson, M.S., M.J. Lathuillière, T.R. Tooke and N.C. Coops (2015). Attenuation of urban agricultural production potential and crop water footprint due to shading from buildings and trees. Environmental Research Letters 10:064007. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064007

Eykelbosh A.J., M.S. Johnson and E.G. Couto (2015). Biochar decreases dissolved organic carbon but not nitrate leaching in relation to vinasse application in a Brazilian sugarcane soil. Journal of Environmental Management 149:9-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.09.033

Mello, J.M., E.G. Couto, R.S.S. Amorim, L.A. Chig, M.S. Johnson and F.A. Lobo (2015), Dynamics of chemical and physical attributes and seasonal variation of soil carbon stocks in different vegetation types of Northern Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Revista Árvore 39: 325-336. doi: 10.1590/0100-67622015000200012

Jassal, R.S., M.S. Johnson, M. Molodovskaya, T.A. Black, A.J. Jollymore and K. Sveinson (2015). Nitrogen enrichment potential of biochar in relation to pyrolysis temperature and feedstock quality. Journal of Environmental Management 152:140-144. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.01.021

Lathuillière, M.J., M.S. Johnson, G.L. Galford and E.G. Couto (2014). Environmental footprints show China and Europe’s evolving resource appropriation for soybean production in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Environmental Research Letters 9:074001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074001

Eykelbosh A.J., M.S. Johnson, E. Santos de Queiroz, H.J. Dalmagro and E.G. Couto (2014). Biochar from sugarcane filtercake reduces soil CO2 emissions relative to raw residue and improves water retention and nutrient availability in a highly-weathered tropical soil. PLoS ONE 9(6): e98523. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098523

Schwerdtfeger, J., M.S. Johnson, E.G. Couto, R.S.S. Amorim, L. Sanches, J.H. Campelo Júnior, and M. Weiler (2014). Inundation and groundwater dynamics for quantification of evaporative water loss in tropical wetlands. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18:4407-4422. doi: 10.5194/hess-18-4407-2014

Schwerdtfeger, J., M. Weiler, M.S. Johnson, and E.G. Couto (2014). Estimating water balance components of tropical wetland lakes in the Pantanal dry season, Brazil. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59:2158-2172. doi: 10.1080/02626667.2013.870665

Christen A., Jassal R., Black A.T., Grant N., Hawthorne I., Johnson M.S., Ketler R., Lee S-C., Merkens M., Moore R.D., Nesic Z., Schmid K., Stevenson A., Wang Y. (2014). Quantifying summertime greenhouse gases fluxes from soils in various stages of restoration in the Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area. Scientific report prepared for the Metro Vancouver Department of Planning, Policy and Environment. December 2014, 64pp. doi: 10.13140/2.1.3977.5042

Johnson, M.S., E.G. Couto, I. Messias, R. Amorim; J. Milesi, O.B. Pinto Jr, and M. Biudes (2013).  Soil CO2 dynamics in a tree island soil of the Pantanal: the role of soil water potential. PLoS ONE 8:e64874. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064874

Dinsmore, K.J., M.B. Wallin, M.S. Johnson, M.F. Billett, K. Bishop, J. Pumpanen and A. Ojala (2013). Contrasting CO2 concentration discharge dynamics in headwater streams: a multi-catchment comparison. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118:445-461. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20047; AGU Research Highlight

Recha, J.W., J. Lehmann, M.T. Walter, A. Pell, L. Verchot, and M.S. Johnson (2013). Stream water nutrient and organic carbon exports from tropical headwater catchments at a soil degradation gradient. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 95:145-158. doi:10.1007/s10705-013-9554-0

Messias, I., E.G. Couto, O.B. Pinto Jr, and M.S. Johnson (2013). Monitoramento contínuo do potencial redox e de variáveis complementares em ambiente hipersazonal no Pantanal Norte (Monitoring soil redox potential and its interactions with associated variables in the northern Pantanal). Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (Brazilian Journal of Soil Science) 37:632-639. doi:10.1590/S0100-06832013000300009

Lathuillière, M.J., M.S. Johnson and S.D. Donner (2012). Water use by terrestrial ecosystems: temporal variability in rainforest and agricultural contributions to evapotranspiration in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Environmental Research Letters 7:024024. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024024

Jollymore, A.J., M.S. Johnson and I. Hawthorne (2012). Submersible UV-Vis spectroscopy for quantifying streamwater organic carbon dynamics: implementation and challenges before and after forest harvest in a headwater stream. Sensors 12(4):3798-3813. doi:10.3390/s120403798 (Special issue: Underwater Sensor Nodes and Networks)

Harma, K.J., M.S. Johnson, and S.J. Cohen (2012). Future water supply and demand in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia: a scenario-based analysis of multiple, interacting stressors. Water Resources Management 26:667-689. doi:10.1007/s11269-011-9938-3

Novães Filho, J.P., E.G. Couto, L.C. Mattos Rodrigues, L.A. Chig, and M.S. Johnson (2012). Indicativos de descontinuidade litológica em perfis de solos de uma microbacia sob floresta amazônica (Indicators of lithological discontinuity in soil profiles of a forested catchment). Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (Brazilian Journal of Soil Science) 36:317-324. doi:10.1590/S0100-06832012000200001

Molodovskaya, M., O. Singurindy, B.K. Richards, J. Warland, M.S. Johnson, and T. S. Steenhuis (2012). Temporal variability of nitrous oxide from fertilized croplands: hot moment analysis. Soil Science Society of America Journal 76:1728-1740. doi:10.2136/sssaj2012.0039

Recha, J.W., J. Lehmann, M.T. Walter, A. Pell, L. Verchot, and M.S. Johnson (2012). Stream discharge in tropical headwater catchments as a result of forest clearing and soil degradation. Earth Interactions 16, paper 13:1-18. doi:10.1175/2012EI000439.1

Johnson M.S., G. Jost (2011) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry of the Rhizosphere in Forested Ecosystems. In: Levia DFF, Carlyle-Moses D & Tanaka T (eds) Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry. Ecological Studies, vol 216. Springer Netherlands. p 483-498. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1363-5_24

Johnson, M.S., J. Lehmann, M. Abdo and E.G. Couto (2011). Fluorescence index as an indicator of dissolved organic carbon quality in hydrologic flowpaths of forested tropical watersheds. Biogeochemistry 105:149-157. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9595-x

Richey, J.E., M.V. Ballester, E.A. Davidson, M.S. Johnson, and A.V. Krusche (2011). Land-Water interactions in the Amazon. Biogeochemistry 105: 1-5. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9622-y

Neill, C, J.E. Chaves, T. Biggs, L.A. Deegan, H. Elsenbeer, R.O. Figuereido, S. Germer, M.S. Johnson, A.V. Krusche, J. Lehmann, and D. Markewitz (2011). Runoff sources and land cover change in the Amazon: an end member mixing analysis from small watersheds. Biogeochemistry 105:7-18. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9597-8

Markewitz, D., C. Lamon, M. Bustamante, J. Chavez, R. de O. Figueiredo, M.S. Johnson, A.V. Krusche, C. Neill, and J. Solimão (2011). Discharge–calcium concentration relationships in streams of the Amazon and Cerrado of Brazil: soil or land use controlled. Biogeochemistry 105:19-35. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9574-2

Chen, B., N.C. Coops, T.A. Black, R. Jassal, J.M. Chen, and M.S. Johnson (2011). Modeling to discern nitrogen fertilization impacts on carbon sequestration in a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest in the first-post fertilization year. Global Change Biology 17: 1442-1460. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02298.x

Johnson, M.S., M.F. Billett, K.J. Dinsmore, M. Wallin, K.E. Dyson, and R.S. Jassal (2010). Direct and continuous measurement of dissolved carbon dioxide in freshwater aquatic systems – method and applications. Ecohydrology 3:68-78, doi:10.1002/eco.95.

Johnson, M.S. (2010). Hydrology, greenhouse gases and forestry implications. Sustainable Forest Management Network, SFM Network Research Note Series No. 76.

Feldpausch, T.R., E.G. Couto, L.C. Rodrigues, D. Pauletto, M.S. Johnson, T.J. Fahey, J. Lehmann, and S.J. Riha (2010). Nitrogen aboveground turnover and soil stocks to 8 m depth in primary and disturbed forest following selective logging in southern Amazonia. Global Change Biology 16: 1793-1805. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02068.x.

Johnson, M.S. (2009). Public participation and perceptions of watershed modeling. Society & Natural Resources 22:79-87. doi: 10.1080/08941920802220347.

Richey, J.E., A.V. Krusche, M.S. Johnson, H.B. da Cunha, and M.V. Ballester (2009). The role of rivers in the regional carbon balance, in Amazonia and Global Change, Geophysical Monograph Series vol. 186, edited by M. Keller et al., pp. 489–504, AGU, Washington, D.C., doi:10.1029/2009GM000876

Moslemi, J.M., K.A. Capps, M.S. Johnson, J. Maul, P.B. Mcintyre, A.M. Melvin, T.M. Vadas, D.M. Vallano, J.M. Watkins and M. Weiss (2009). Training Tomorrow’s Environmental Problem Solvers: An Integrative Approach to Graduate Education (2009). BioScience 59:514-521. doi:10.1025/bio.2009.59.6.10.

Johnson, M.S., J. Lehmann, S.J. Riha, A.V. Krusche, J.E. Richey, J.P.H.B. Ometto and E.G. Couto (2008). CO2 efflux from Amazonian headwater streams represents a significant fate for deep soil respiration. Geophysical Research Letters 35:L17401, doi:10.1029/2008GL034619.

Johnson M.S., J. Lehmann and E.G. Couto (2008). A simple, direct method to measure dissolved CO2 using soda lime. Oecologia Brasiliensis 12:85-91.

Johnson, M.S. and H.K. Wittman (2008). Carbon trading should not reduce social equity (contributed letter). Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:10 doi: 10.1890/1540-9295(2008)6[10a:CT]2.0.CO;2

Wittman, H.K. and M.S. Johnson (2008). Fallow management practices in Guatemala’s Western Highlands: social drivers and biophysical impacts. Land Degradation and Development 19:178-189. doi: 10.1002/ldr.832

Victoria, R.L., M.V.R. Ballester, A.V. Krusche, H.B. da Cunha, M.E. Sales, B.M. Gomes, C. Salimon, K. Munhoz, L. Borma, R. Barbosa, J.E. Richey, C. Neill, L. Deegan, and M.S. Johnson (2008). O papel dos sistemas dos rios no balanço regional e global de carbono (The role of river systems in the regional and global carbon balance). Folha Amazônica 14:20-22.

Chig, L.A., E.G. Couto, J.P. Novães Filho, L.C.M. Rodrigues, M.S. Johnson, and O.L. Weber (2008). Distribuição espacial da granulometria, cor e carbono orgânico do solo ao longo de um transecto em microbacias na Amazônia meridional (Spatial distribution of soil texture, color and soil organic carbon across a headwater transect in the southern Amazon). Acta Amazonica 38: 715-722. doi: 10.1590/S0044-59672008000400015

Johnson, M.S., P.B. Woodbury, A.N. Pell, and J. Lehmann (2007). Land use change and stream water fluxes: Decadal dynamics in watershed nitrate exports. Ecosystems 10:1182–1196. doi: 10.1007/s10021-007-9091-2

Johnson, M. S., M. Weiler, E. G. Couto, S. J. Riha, and J. Lehmann (2007). Storm pulses of dissolved CO2 in a forested headwater Amazonian stream explored using hydrograph separation. Water Resources Research 43, W11201, doi:10.1029/2007WR006359

Selva, E.C., E.G. Couto, M.S. Johnson and J. Lehmann (2007). Litterfall production and fluvial export in headwater catchments of the southern Amazon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23:329-335. doi:10.1017/S0266467406003956

Jirka, S., A.J. McDonald, M.S. Johnson, T.R. Feldpausch, E.G. Couto and S.J. Riha (2007). Relationships between soil hydrology and forest structure and composition in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 183-194. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02529.x

Novães Filho, J.P., E.G. Couto, V.A. de Oliveira, M.S. Johnson, J. Lehmann and S.J. Riha (2007). Variabilidade espacial de atributos físicos de solo usada na identificação de classes pedológicas de microbacias na Amazônia meridional (Spatial variability of soil physical attributes used for soil mapping in small headwater catchments of the southern Amazon). Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (Brazilian Journal of Soil Science) 31: 91-100. doi:10.1590/S0100-06832007000100010

Novães Filho, J.P., E.C. Selva, E.G. Couto, J. Lehmann, M.S. Johnson and S.J. Riha (2007). Distribuição espacial de carbono em solo sob floresta primária na Amazônia Meridional (Spatial distribution of soil carbon under primary forest cover in southern Amazônia). Revista Árvore (Tree Journal) 31: 83-92. doi:10.1590/S0100-67622007000100010

Johnson, M.S., J. Lehmann, S.J. Riha, J.P. Novães Filho and E.G. Couto (2006). DOC and DIC in flowpaths of Amazonian headwater catchments with hydrologically contrasting soils. Biogeochemistry 81: 45-57. doi: 10.1007/s10533-006-9029-3

Johnson, M.S. and J. Lehmann (2006). Double-funneling of trees: stemflow and root-induced preferential flow. Ecoscience 13: 324-333. doi: 10.2980/i1195-6860-13-3-324.1

Johnson, M.S., J. Lehmann, E.C. Selva, M. Abdo, S.J. Riha, and E.G. Couto (2006). Organic carbon fluxes within and streamwater exports from forested headwater catchments in the southern Amazon. Hydrological Processes 20: 2599-2614. doi: 10.1002/hyp.6218

Johnson, M.S. (2006). Invited book review of Forests, water and people in the humid tropics, M. Bonnel and L. A. Bruijnzeel (Eds.), Ecoscience 13(1):131.

Johnson, M.S., J. Lehmann, T.S. Steenhuis, L. Vargem de Oliveira, and E.C.M. Fernandes (2005). Spatial and temporal variability of soil water repellency of Amazonian pastures. Australian Journal of Soil Research 43: 319-326. doi: 10.1071/SR04097

Coon W.F. and M.S. Johnson (2005). Effects of land-use changes and stormflow-detention basins on flooding and nonpoint-source pollution, in Irondequoit Creek basin, Monroe and Ontario Counties, New York--application of a precipitation-runoff model. U.S.G.S. Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5070, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, DC. 67p.

Mehta, V.K., M.T. Walter, E.S. Brooks, T.S. Steenhuis, M.S. Johnson, M.F. Walter, J. Boll, and D. Thongs (2004). Application of SMR for modeling watersheds in the Catskills Mountains. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 9: 77-89. doi: 10.1023/B:ENMO.0000032096.13649.92.

Johnson, M.S., W.F. Coon, V.K. Mehta, T.S. Steenhuis, E.S. Brooks, and J. Boll (2003). Application of two hydrologic models with different runoff mechanisms to a hillslope dominated watershed in the Northeastern U.S.: A Comparison of HSPF and SMR. Journal of Hydrology 284: 57–76. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.07.005.