Publications

A full and up-to-date list is available on my Google Scholar and ORCID profiles.

First author

• Burrell, A. L., Cooperdock, S., Potter, S., Berner, L. T., Hember, R., Macander, M. J., et al. (2024). The predictability of near-term forest biomass change in boreal North America. Ecosphere, 15(1), e4737.
• Burrell, A. L., Sun, Q., Baxter, R., Kukavskaya, E. A., Zhila, S., Shestakova, T., et al. (2022). Climate change, fire return intervals and the growing risk of permanent forest loss in boreal Eurasia. Science of the Total Environment, 831, 154885.
• Burrell, A. L., Kukavskaya, E., Baxter, R., Sun, Q., & Barrett, K. (2021). Post-fire recruitment failure as a driver of forest to non-forest ecosystem shifts in boreal regions. In Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change (Ecological Studies, Vol. 241, pp. 69–100). Springer.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & De Kauwe, M. G. (2020). Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km² of drylands towards desertification. Nature Communications, 11, 3853.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & Liu, Y. (2019). The addition of temperature to the TSS-RESTREND methodology significantly improves the detection of dryland degradation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 12(7), 2342–2348.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & Liu, Y. (2018). The impact of dataset selection on land degradation assessment. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 146, 22–37.
• Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & Liu, Y. (2017). Detecting dryland degradation using Time Series Segmentation and Residual Trend analysis (TSS-RESTREND). Remote Sensing of Environment, 197, 43–57.

Co-authored

• Virkkala, A.-M., Rogers, B. M., Watts, J. D., Arndt, K. A., Potter, S., Burrell, A., et al. (2025). Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO₂ uptake. Nature Climate Change, 15(2), 188–195.
• Watts, J. D., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Virkkala, A.-M., Fiske, G., Arndt, K. A., Burrell, A., et al. (2025). Regional hotspots of change in northern high latitudes informed by observations from space. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(2), e2023GL108081.
• Liu, Z., Rogers, B. M., Keppel-Aleks, G., Helbig, M., Ballantyne, A. P., Kimball, J. S., Burrell, A., et al. (2024). Seasonal CO₂ amplitude in northern high latitudes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5(11), 802–817.
• Zhang, X., Evans, J. P., & Burrell, A. L. (2024). Less than 4% of dryland areas are projected to desertify despite increased aridity under climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 300.
• Potter, S., Cooperdock, S., Veraverbeke, S., Walker, X., Mack, M. C., Goetz, S. J., Burrell, A., et al. (2023). Burned area and carbon emissions across northwestern boreal North America from 2001–2019. Biogeosciences, 20(13), 2785–2804.
• Sun, Q., Burrell, A., Barrett, K., Kukavskaya, E., Buryak, L., Kaduk, J., & Baxter, R. (2021). Climate variability may delay post-fire recovery of boreal forest in southern Siberia, Russia. Remote Sensing, 13(12), 2247.
• Ukkola, A. M., De Kauwe, M. G., Roderick, M. L., Burrell, A., Lehmann, P., & Pitman, A. J. (2021). Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally. Global Change Biology, 27(18), 4367–4380.

Reports

• Mirzabaev, A., Wu, J., Evans, J., García-Oliva, F., et al. (2019). Desertification. In Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Contributing author.