2023
MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Logistics hubs hold food supply chains together (News & Views comment). Nature Food.
Schreiber, K., Winkler, K. J., Abellon, K., MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri-urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States. Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems 8: e20041.
Schreiber, K., Soubry, B. Dove-McFalls, C., MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: A case study of farmers in Québec, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 40: 141–156.
2022
McCourt, S. and MacDonald, G.K., 2022. Decomposing three decades of nitrogen emissions in Canada. Earth's Future 10(9), p.e2022EF002774.
Wu, H., MacDonald, G.K., Galloway, J.N., Geng, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, L., Jiang, S. 2022. A new dietary guideline balancing sustainability and nutrition for China’s rural and urban residents. iScience (Cell Press) 25: 105048.
Du, M., Liu, Q., MacDonald, G.K., Liu, Y., Lin, J., Cui, Q., Feng, K., Chen, B., Adeniran, J.A., Yang, L., Li, X. 2022. Examining the Sensitivity of Global CO2 Emissions to Trade Restrictions over Multiple Years. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 9: 293–298.
Schreiber, K., Soubry, B., Dove McFalls, C., MacDonald, G.K. 2022. Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada. Journal of Rural Studies 90: 124-133.
Barbieri P., MacDonald, G.K., de Raymond A., Nesme T. 2022. Food system resilience to phosphorus shortages on a telecoupled planet. Nature Sustainability 5: 114–122.
2021
McCourt, S. and MacDonald, G.K. 2021. Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada. Environmental Research Letters 16: 095077.
Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald GK, Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q. 2021. The persistent threat of emerging plant disease pandemics to global food security. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) 118: e2022239118.
Schreiber, K., Hickey, G.H., Metson, G.S., Robinson, B.E., MacDonald, G.K. 2021. Quantifying the foodshed: A systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research. Environmental Research Letters 16: 023003.
Wu, H., MacDonald, G.K., Galloway, J.N., Zhang, L., Gao, L., Yang, L., Yang, J., Li, X., Li, H. and Yang, T. 2021. The influence of crop and chemical fertilizer combinations on greenhouse gas emissions: A partial life-cycle assessment of fertilizer production and use in China. Early online at Resources, Conservation and Recycling 168: 105303.
Allaby, M., MacDonald, G.K., Turner, S. Growing pains: Small-scale farmer responses to an urban rooftop farming and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 38: 677-692.
2020
Metson, G.S., MacDonald, G.K., Leach, A.M., Compton, J.E., Harrison, J.A., Galloway, J.N. 2020. The U.S. consumer phosphorus footprint: Where do nitrogen and phosphorus diverge? Environmental Research Letters 15: 105022.
Fernandez-Mena, H., MacDonald, G.K., Pellerin, S., & Nesme, T. 2020. Co-benefits and Trade-Offs From Agro-Food System Redesign for Circularity: A Case Study With the FAN Agent-Based Model. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4: 41.
MacDonald, G.K., Talbot, J., Moore, T.R., Arsenault, J., McCourt, S., Goertzen, A., Kessler-Nadeau, M.-É., Manaugh, K., Maranger, R. Robinson, B.E. 2020. Geographic versus institutional drivers of nitrogen footprints: A comparison of two urban universities. Environmental Research Letters 15: 045008.
Boudet, F., MacDonald, G.K., Robinson, B.E., Samberg, L.H. 2020. Rural-urban connectivity and agricultural land management across the Global South. Global Environmental Change 60: 101982.
Fernandez-Mena, H., Gaudou, B., Pellerin, S., MacDonald, G.K., Nesme, T. 2020. Flows in Agro-food Networks (FAN): An agent-based model to simulate local agricultural material flows. Agricultural Systems 180: 102718.
2019
Powers, S., Chowdhury, R.B., MacDonald, G.K., Metson, G.S., Beusen, A.H.W., Bouwman, A.F., Hampton, S.E., Mayer, B.K., McCrackin, M.L., Vaccari, D. A. 2019. Global opportunities to increase agricultural independence through phosphorus recycling. Earth’s Future 7: 370-383.
Keeler B.L., Hamel P., McPhearson T., Hamann M.H., Donahue M.L., Meza Prado K.A., Arkema, K.K., Bratman, G.N., Brauman, K.A., Finlay, J.C., Guerry, A.D., Hobbie, S.E., Johnson, J.A., MacDonald, G.K., McDonald, R.I., Neverisky, N., Wood, S.A. 2019. Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature. Nature Sustainability 2: 29–38. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0202-1
Coomes, O.T., Barnham, B.L., MacDonald, G.K., Ramankutty, N., Chavas, J.-P. 2019. Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming. Nature Sustainability 2: 22–28. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0202-1
Kusmer, A.S., Goyette, J-O., MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Maranger, R., Withers, P.J.A. 2019. Watershed buffering of legacy phosphorus pressure at a regional scale: A comparison across space and time. Ecosystems 22: 1-109.
2018
Zuo, L., Zhang, Z., Carlson, K.M., MacDonald, G.K., Brauman, K.A., Liu, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, H., Wu, W., Zhao, X., Wang, X., Liu, B., Yi, L., Wen, Q., Liu, F., Xu, J., Hu, S., Sun, F., Gerber, J.S., and West, P.C. 2018. Progress towards sustainable intensification in China challenged by land-use change. Nature Sustainability 1: 304–313. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0076-2 (free access via link on this page)
D'Odorico, P. Davis, K.F., Rosa, L., Carr, J.A., Chiarelli, D., Dell'Angelo, J., Gephart, J., MacDonald, G.K., Seekell, D.A., Suweis, S., Rulli, M.C. 2018. The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Reviews of Geophysics 56: 456-531. doi: 10.1029/2017RG000591 (open access)
Ouellet Dallaire, C., Trincsi, K., Ward, M.K., Harris, L.I., Jarvis, J., Dryden, R.L., MacDonald, G.K. 2018. Creating spaces for sustainability literacy outside the classroom: The role of student-centered research symposia. Early Online at International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, doi: 10.1108/IJSHE-08-2017-0126
Coomes, O.T., MacDonald, G.K., le Polain de Waroux, Y. 2018. Viewpoint: Geo-spatial Land Price Data: A Public Good for Global Change Science and Policy. BioScience 68: 481-484. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy047
Metson, G.S., Powers, S.M., Hale, R.L., Sayles, J.S., Öberg, G., MacDonald, G.K., Kuwayama, Y., Springer, N.P., Weatherley, A.J., Hondula, K.L., Jones, K., Chowdhury, R.B., Beusen, A.H.W., Bouwman, A.F. 2018. Socio-environmental consideration of phosphorus flows in the urban sanitation chain of contrasting cities. Regional Environmental Change, Early Online. (open access)
MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Logistics hubs hold food supply chains together (News & Views comment). Nature Food.
Schreiber, K., Winkler, K. J., Abellon, K., MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri-urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States. Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems 8: e20041.
Schreiber, K., Soubry, B. Dove-McFalls, C., MacDonald, G.K. 2023. Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: A case study of farmers in Québec, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 40: 141–156.
2022
McCourt, S. and MacDonald, G.K., 2022. Decomposing three decades of nitrogen emissions in Canada. Earth's Future 10(9), p.e2022EF002774.
Wu, H., MacDonald, G.K., Galloway, J.N., Geng, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, L., Jiang, S. 2022. A new dietary guideline balancing sustainability and nutrition for China’s rural and urban residents. iScience (Cell Press) 25: 105048.
Du, M., Liu, Q., MacDonald, G.K., Liu, Y., Lin, J., Cui, Q., Feng, K., Chen, B., Adeniran, J.A., Yang, L., Li, X. 2022. Examining the Sensitivity of Global CO2 Emissions to Trade Restrictions over Multiple Years. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 9: 293–298.
Schreiber, K., Soubry, B., Dove McFalls, C., MacDonald, G.K. 2022. Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada. Journal of Rural Studies 90: 124-133.
Barbieri P., MacDonald, G.K., de Raymond A., Nesme T. 2022. Food system resilience to phosphorus shortages on a telecoupled planet. Nature Sustainability 5: 114–122.
2021
McCourt, S. and MacDonald, G.K. 2021. Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada. Environmental Research Letters 16: 095077.
Ristaino J.B., Anderson P.K., Bebber D.P., Brauman K.A., Cunniffe N.J., Fedoroff N.V., Finegold C., Garrett K.A., Gilligan C.A., Jones C.M., Martin M.D., MacDonald GK, Neenan P., Records A., Schmale D.G., Tateosian L., Wei Q. 2021. The persistent threat of emerging plant disease pandemics to global food security. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) 118: e2022239118.
Schreiber, K., Hickey, G.H., Metson, G.S., Robinson, B.E., MacDonald, G.K. 2021. Quantifying the foodshed: A systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research. Environmental Research Letters 16: 023003.
Wu, H., MacDonald, G.K., Galloway, J.N., Zhang, L., Gao, L., Yang, L., Yang, J., Li, X., Li, H. and Yang, T. 2021. The influence of crop and chemical fertilizer combinations on greenhouse gas emissions: A partial life-cycle assessment of fertilizer production and use in China. Early online at Resources, Conservation and Recycling 168: 105303.
Allaby, M., MacDonald, G.K., Turner, S. Growing pains: Small-scale farmer responses to an urban rooftop farming and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values 38: 677-692.
2020
Metson, G.S., MacDonald, G.K., Leach, A.M., Compton, J.E., Harrison, J.A., Galloway, J.N. 2020. The U.S. consumer phosphorus footprint: Where do nitrogen and phosphorus diverge? Environmental Research Letters 15: 105022.
Fernandez-Mena, H., MacDonald, G.K., Pellerin, S., & Nesme, T. 2020. Co-benefits and Trade-Offs From Agro-Food System Redesign for Circularity: A Case Study With the FAN Agent-Based Model. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4: 41.
MacDonald, G.K., Talbot, J., Moore, T.R., Arsenault, J., McCourt, S., Goertzen, A., Kessler-Nadeau, M.-É., Manaugh, K., Maranger, R. Robinson, B.E. 2020. Geographic versus institutional drivers of nitrogen footprints: A comparison of two urban universities. Environmental Research Letters 15: 045008.
Boudet, F., MacDonald, G.K., Robinson, B.E., Samberg, L.H. 2020. Rural-urban connectivity and agricultural land management across the Global South. Global Environmental Change 60: 101982.
Fernandez-Mena, H., Gaudou, B., Pellerin, S., MacDonald, G.K., Nesme, T. 2020. Flows in Agro-food Networks (FAN): An agent-based model to simulate local agricultural material flows. Agricultural Systems 180: 102718.
2019
Powers, S., Chowdhury, R.B., MacDonald, G.K., Metson, G.S., Beusen, A.H.W., Bouwman, A.F., Hampton, S.E., Mayer, B.K., McCrackin, M.L., Vaccari, D. A. 2019. Global opportunities to increase agricultural independence through phosphorus recycling. Earth’s Future 7: 370-383.
Keeler B.L., Hamel P., McPhearson T., Hamann M.H., Donahue M.L., Meza Prado K.A., Arkema, K.K., Bratman, G.N., Brauman, K.A., Finlay, J.C., Guerry, A.D., Hobbie, S.E., Johnson, J.A., MacDonald, G.K., McDonald, R.I., Neverisky, N., Wood, S.A. 2019. Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature. Nature Sustainability 2: 29–38. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0202-1
Coomes, O.T., Barnham, B.L., MacDonald, G.K., Ramankutty, N., Chavas, J.-P. 2019. Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming. Nature Sustainability 2: 22–28. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0202-1
Kusmer, A.S., Goyette, J-O., MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Maranger, R., Withers, P.J.A. 2019. Watershed buffering of legacy phosphorus pressure at a regional scale: A comparison across space and time. Ecosystems 22: 1-109.
2018
Zuo, L., Zhang, Z., Carlson, K.M., MacDonald, G.K., Brauman, K.A., Liu, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, H., Wu, W., Zhao, X., Wang, X., Liu, B., Yi, L., Wen, Q., Liu, F., Xu, J., Hu, S., Sun, F., Gerber, J.S., and West, P.C. 2018. Progress towards sustainable intensification in China challenged by land-use change. Nature Sustainability 1: 304–313. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0076-2 (free access via link on this page)
D'Odorico, P. Davis, K.F., Rosa, L., Carr, J.A., Chiarelli, D., Dell'Angelo, J., Gephart, J., MacDonald, G.K., Seekell, D.A., Suweis, S., Rulli, M.C. 2018. The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Reviews of Geophysics 56: 456-531. doi: 10.1029/2017RG000591 (open access)
Ouellet Dallaire, C., Trincsi, K., Ward, M.K., Harris, L.I., Jarvis, J., Dryden, R.L., MacDonald, G.K. 2018. Creating spaces for sustainability literacy outside the classroom: The role of student-centered research symposia. Early Online at International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, doi: 10.1108/IJSHE-08-2017-0126
Coomes, O.T., MacDonald, G.K., le Polain de Waroux, Y. 2018. Viewpoint: Geo-spatial Land Price Data: A Public Good for Global Change Science and Policy. BioScience 68: 481-484. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy047
Metson, G.S., Powers, S.M., Hale, R.L., Sayles, J.S., Öberg, G., MacDonald, G.K., Kuwayama, Y., Springer, N.P., Weatherley, A.J., Hondula, K.L., Jones, K., Chowdhury, R.B., Beusen, A.H.W., Bouwman, A.F. 2018. Socio-environmental consideration of phosphorus flows in the urban sanitation chain of contrasting cities. Regional Environmental Change, Early Online. (open access)
2017
Vermaire, J.C., Taranu, Z.E., MacDonald, G.K., Velghe, K., Bennett, E.M., Gregory-Eaves, I.. 2017. Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Regimes Shifts in Shallow Lakes: Long-Term Response of Cyanobacterial Blooms to Historical Catchment Phosphorus Loading and Climate Warming. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Paleoecology). (open access)
2017
Vermaire, J.C., Taranu, Z.E., MacDonald, G.K., Velghe, K., Bennett, E.M., Gregory-Eaves, I.. 2017. Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Regimes Shifts in Shallow Lakes: Long-Term Response of Cyanobacterial Blooms to Historical Catchment Phosphorus Loading and Climate Warming. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Paleoecology). (open access)
Carlson, K.M., Gerber, J.S., Mueller, N.D., Herrero, M., MacDonald, G.K., Brauman, K.A., Havlik, P., O’Connell, C.S., Johnson, J.A., Saatchi, S., West, P.C. 2017. Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands. Nature Climate Change 7, 63–68. (open access via link on this page)
2016
MacDonald, G.K., Jarvie, H.P., Withers, P.J.A., Doody, D.G., Keeler, B.L., Haygarth, P.M., Johnson, L.T., McDowell, R.W., Miyittah, M.K., Powers, S.M., Sharpley, A.N., Shen, J., Smith, D.R., Weintraub, M.N., Zhang, T. Guiding phosphorus stewardship for multiple ecosystem services. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2(12): e01251. (open access)
Ford, J.D., Tilleard, S.E., Berrang-Ford, L., Araos, M., Biesbroek, R., Lesnikowski, A.C., MacDonald, G.K., Hsu, A., Chen, C., Bizikova, L. 2016. Opinion: Big data has big potential for applications to climate change adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 10729-10732
MacDonald, G.K., D'Odorico, P., Seekell, D.A. 2016. Perspective: Pathways to sustainable intensification through crop water management. Environmental Research Letters 11: 091001. (open access)
Schipanski, M.E., MacDonald, G.K., Rosenzweig, S., Chappell, M.J., Bennett, E.M., Bezner Kerr, R., Blesh, J., Crews, T., Drinkwater, L., Lundgren, J.G., Schnarr, C. 2016. Realizing resilient food systems. BioScience 66: 600-610. (open access via link on this page)
Fry, J.P., Love, D.C., MacDonald, G.K., West, P.C., Engstrom, P.M., Nachman, K.E., Lawrence, R.S. Environmental Health Impacts of Feeding Crops to Farmed Fish. Environment International 91: 201–214. (open access)
Metson, G.S., MacDonald, G.K., Haberman, D., Nesme, T., Bennett, E.M. 2016. Feeding the Corn Belt: Opportunities for phosphorus recycling in U.S. agriculture. Science of the Total Environment 542B: 1117–1126
2015
Rowe, H. Withers, P.J.A., Baas, P., Chan, N., Doody, D. Holiman, J., Jacobs, B., Li, H. MacDonald, G.K., McDowell, R., Sharpley, A.N., Shen, J., Taheri, W. Wallenstein, M. Weintraub, M.N. 2015. Integrating legacy soil phosphorus into sustainable nutrient management strategies for future food, bioenergy and water security. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 104: 393-412
2015
Rowe, H. Withers, P.J.A., Baas, P., Chan, N., Doody, D. Holiman, J., Jacobs, B., Li, H. MacDonald, G.K., McDowell, R., Sharpley, A.N., Shen, J., Taheri, W. Wallenstein, M. Weintraub, M.N. 2015. Integrating legacy soil phosphorus into sustainable nutrient management strategies for future food, bioenergy and water security. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 104: 393-412
MacDonald, G.K., Brauman, K.A., Sun, S., Cassidy, E.S., Carlson, K.C., Gerber, J.S., West, P.C. 2015. Rethinking agricultural trade relationships in an era of globalization. BioScience 65: 275-289. (open access)
Ray, D.K., Gerber, J.S., MacDonald, G.K., West, P.C. 2015. Climate variation explains a third of global crop yield variability. Nature Communications, 6:5898. (open access)
Grill, G., Lehner, B., Lumsdon, A.E., MacDonald, G.K., Zarfl, C., Liermann, C. 2015. An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales. Environmental Research Letters 10: 015001. (open access)
2014
West, P.C., Gerber, J.S., Engstrom, P.M., Mueller, N.D., Brauman, K.A., Carlson, K.M., Cassidy, E.S., Johnston, M., MacDonald, G.K., Ray, D.K., Siebert, S. 2014. Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment. Science 345: 325-328.
Mueller, N.D., West, P.C., Gerber, J.S., MacDonald, G.K., Polasky, S., Foley, J.A. 2014. A tradeoff frontier for global nitrogen use and cereal production. Environmental Research Letters 9:054002. (open access
2013
MacDonald, G.K. 2013. Eating on an interconnected planet. Environmental Research Letters 8:2, 021002. (open access
Liss, K.N., Mitchell, M.G.E., MacDonald, G.K., Mahajan, S.L., Méthot, J, Jacob, A.L., Maguire, D.Y., Metson, G.S., Ziter, C, Dancose, K, Martins, K, Terrado, M, Bennett, E.M. 2013. Variability in ecosystem service measurement: a pollination service case study. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11: 414-422.
2012
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Carpenter, S.R. 2012. Embodied phosphorus and the global connection of United States agriculture. Environmental Research Letters 7: 044024. (open access)
2012
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Carpenter, S.R. 2012. Embodied phosphorus and the global connection of United States agriculture. Environmental Research Letters 7: 044024. (open access)
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Taranu, Z.E. 2012. The influence of time, soil characteristics and land-use history on soil phosphorus legacies: a global meta-analysis. Global Change Biology 18: 1904-1917.
2011 and earlier
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Potter, P., Ramankutty, N. 2011. Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world’s croplands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) 108: 3086-91. (open access)
Keatley, B.E. Bennett, E.M., MacDonald, G.K., Taranu, Z.E., Gregory-Eaves I. 2011. Land-use legacies are important determinants of lake eutrophication in the Anthropocene. PLoSOne 6: e15913. (open access)
Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Tengo, M., Bennett, E.M., Holland, T., Benessaiah, K, MacDonald, G.K., Pfeifer, L. 2010. Untangling the environmentalist's paradox: why is human well-being increasing as ecosystem services degrade? BioScience 60: 576-589.
Richard Albert, M., Chen, G., MacDonald, G.K., Vermaire, J.C., Bennett, E.M., Gregory-Eaves, I. 2010. Phosphorus and land-use changes are significant drivers of Cladoceran community composition and diversity: an analysis over spatial and temporal scales. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 1262-1273.
MacDonald, G.K., Noel, P.E., van Proosdij, D., Chmura, G.L. 2010. The legacy of agricultural reclamation on channel and pool networks of Bay of Fundy salt marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 33: 151-160.
MacDonald, G.K. and E.M. Bennett. 2009. Phosphorus accumulation in Saint Lawrence watershed soils: A century-long perspective. Ecosystems 12: 621-635.
