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Maricar Aguilos

North Carolina State University
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Ecosystem Productivity and Evapotranspiration Are Tightly Coupled in Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Plantations along the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern US

M Aguilos, G Sun, A Noormets, JC Domec, S McNulty… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest water use efficiency (WUE), the ratio of gross primary productivity (GPP) to evapotranspiration
(ET), is an important variable to understand the coupling between water and carbon …

Interannual and seasonal variations in ecosystem transpiration and water use efficiency in a tropical rainforest

M Aguilos, C Stahl, B Burban, B Hérault, E Courtois… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Warmer and drier climates over Amazonia have been predicted for the next century with
expected changes in regional water and carbon cycles. We examined the impact of interannual …

Long-term carbon flux and balance in managed and natural coastal forested wetlands of the Southeastern USA

M Aguilos, B Mitra, A Noormets, K Minick… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wetlands store large carbon (C) stocks and play important roles in biogeochemical C cycling.
However, the effects of environmental and anthropogenic pressures on C dynamics in …

Dynamics of ecosystem carbon balance recovering from a clear-cutting in a cool-temperate forest

M Aguilos, K Takagi, N Liang, M Ueyama… - Agricultural and forest …, 2014 - Elsevier
A mixed forest in northern Japan, which had been a weak carbon sink (net ecosystem CO 2
exchange [NEE] = −0.44 ± 0.5 Mg C ha −1 yr −1 ), was disturbed by clear-cutting in 2003 and …

Effects of land-use change and drought on decadal evapotranspiration and water balance of natural and managed forested wetlands along the southeastern US lower …

M Aguilos, G Sun, A Noormets, JC Domec… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forested wetlands are important in regulating regional hydrology and climate. However,
long-term studies on the hydrologic impacts of converting natural forested wetlands to pine …

What drives long-term variations in carbon flux and balance in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana?

M Aguilos, B Hérault, B Burban, F Wagner… - Agricultural and forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
A thorough understanding of how tropical forests respond to climate is important to improve
ecosystem process models and to reduce uncertainties in current and future global carbon …

Microbe-iron interactions control lignin decomposition in soil

…, X Huang, H Qiu, F Tao, L Jiang, M Aguilos… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin decomposition is critically linked to terrestrial carbon (C) cycle due to the enormous
C mass of lignin and its importance in controlling overall rates of litter decomposition. …

Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern US

M Aguilos, G Sun, N Liu, Y Zhang, G Starr… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET) links water, energy, and carbon balances, and its magnitude and
patterns are changing due to climate and land use change in the southeastern US Quantifying …

The challenges of modular learning in the wake of covid-19: a digital divide in the Philippine countryside revealed

E Bustillo, M Aguilos - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is a global health crisis that has affected educational
systems worldwide. North Eastern Mindanao State University (NEMSU), a typical …

Domesticating commercially important native tree species in the Philippines: Early growth performance level

R Aguilos, C Marquez, H Adornado, M Aguilos - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Selection of native tree species for commercial purposes is a continuing challenge and an
opportunity in tropical silviculture. Because of this, we explored domesticating 33 native …