Mark J. Lara

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University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

mjlara@illinois.edu

Publications

Zhang, Q., X. Zhang, M.J. Lara, Z. Li, J. Xiao, K. Zhao, and T. Hu, 2023: Impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on tundra productivity near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 18, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf7d6

Schore, A.I.G., J.M. Fraterrigo, V.G. Salmon, D. Yang, and M.J. Lara, 2023: Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in low-Arctic tundra, Communications Earth & Environment, 4, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01098-5

Olefeldt, D., M. Hovemyr, M.A. Kuhn, D. Bastviken, T.J. Boh, J. Connolly, P. Crill, E.S. Euskirchen, S.A. Finkelstein, H. Genet, G. Grosse, L.I. Harris, L. Heffernan, M. Helbig, G. Hugelius, R. Hutchins, S. Juutinen, M.J. Lara, and authors, 2021: The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), Earth System Science Data, 13(11), https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5127-2021

NItze, I., J. Van der Sluijs, S. Barth, P. Bernhard, L. Huang, A. Kizyakov, M.J. Lara, N. Nesterova, A. Runge, A. Veremeeva, M. Ward Jones, C. Witharana, Z. Xia, and A.K. Liljedahl, 2024: A Labeling Intercomparison of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by a Diverse Group of Domain Experts, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 36(1):83-92, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2249

Mekonnen, Z.A., W.J. Riley, R.F. Grant, V.G. Salmon, C.M. Iversen, S.C. Biraud, A.L. Breen, and M.J. Lara, 2021: Topographical Controls on Hillslope-Scale Hydrology Drive Shrub Distributions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(2), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005823

Lara, M.J., R. Michaelides, D. Anderson, W. Chen, E.C. Hall, C. Ludden, A.I.G. Schore, U. Mishra, and S.N. Scott, 2022: A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska, Scientific Data, 12(226), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04502-1

Lara, M.J., Y. Chen, and B.M. Jones, 2021: Recent warming reverses forty-year decline in catastrophic lake drainage and hastens gradual lake drainage across northern Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 16(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3602

Hall, E.C. and M.J. Lara, 2022: Multisensor UAS mapping of Plant Species and Plant Functional Types in Midwestern Grasslands, Remote Sensing, 14(14), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143453

Chen, Y., M.J. Lara, B.M. Jones, G.V. Frost, and F.S. Hu, 2021: Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance, One Earth, 4(12):1718-1729, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.011

Chen, Y., F.S. Hu, and M.J. Lara, 2020: Divergent shrub-cover responses driven by climate, wildfire, and permafrost interactions in Arctic tundra ecosystems, Global Change Biology, 27(3):652-663, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15451

Anderson, D.P., R.J. Michaelides, W. Chen, G.V. Frost, M.J. Macander, and M.J. Lara, 2024: Tundra fires and surface subsidence increase spectral diversity on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, Environmental Research Ecology, 3, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad9282

Lara, M.J. and M.L. Chipman, 2021: Periglacial Lake Origin Influences the Likelihood of Lake Drainage in Northern Alaska, Remote Sensing, 13(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050852