Ph.D (Civil Engineering, Minor - Computer Science), 1997, University of Toronto
M.Sc. (Physical Geography), 1991, University of Toronto
B.Sc. (Specialist - Biophysical Systems, Minor - Computer Science), 1989, University of Toronto

Recent Publications

McDowell, N.G., K. Anderson-Teixeira, J.A. Biederman, D.D. Breshears, Y. Fang, L. Fernandez-de-Una, E.B. Graham, D.S. Mackay, J.J. McDonnell, G.W. Moore, M.F. Nehemy, C.S. Stevens Rumann, J. Stegan, N. Tague, M.G. Turner, X. Chen. 2023. Ecohydrological decoupling under changing disturbances and climate. One Earth., 6(3), 251-266. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.007.
Mackay, D.S. 2023. Cannot see rhizosphere dynamics for the soil? A new multi-imaging study suggests otherwise. New Phytologist, 237(3), 707-709, doi:10.1111/nph.18409.
Gleason, S.N., D.M. Barnard, T.R. Green, D.S. Mackay, D.R. Wang, E.A. Ainsworth, J. Altenhofen, T.J. Brodribb, H. Cochard, L.H. Comas, M. Cooper, D. Creek, K.C. DeJonge, S. Delzon, F.B. Fritschi, G. Hammer, C. Hunter, D. Lombardozzi, C.D. Messina, T. Ocheltree, B.M. Stevens, J.J. Stewart, V. Vadez, J. Wenz, I.J. Wright, K. Yemoto, and H. Zhang. 2022. Physiological trait networks enhance understanding of crop growth and water use in contrasting environments. Plant, Cell & Environment, 45(9), 2554-2572, doi:10.1111/pce.14382.
Li, W., N.G. McDowell, H. Zhang, W. Wang, D.S. Mackay, R. Leff, P. Zhang, N.D. Ward, M. Norwood, S. Yabusaki, A.M. Myers-Pigg, S.C. Pennington, A.L. Pivovaroff, S. Waichler, C. Xu, B. Bond-Lamberty, and V.L. Bailey. 2022. The influence of increasing atmospheric CO2, temperature, and vapor pressure deficit on seawater-induced tree mortality. New Phytologist, 235(5), 1767-1779, doi:10.1111/nph.18275.
McDowell, N., G. Sapes, A. Pivovaroff, H. Adams, C. D. Allen, W.R.L. Anderegg, M. Arend, D.D. Breshears, T. Brodribb, B. Choat, H. Cochard, M. De Caceres, M.G. De Kauwe, C. Grossiord, W.M. Hammond, H. Hartmann, G. Hoch, A. Kahmen, T. Klein, D.S. Mackay, M. Montova, J. Martinez-Vilalta, B.E. Medlyn, M. Mencuccini, A. Nardini, R.S. Oliveira, A. Sala, D.T. Tissue, J.M. Torres-Ruiz, A. Trowbridge, A.T. Trugman, E. Wiley, and C. Xu. 2022. Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2, and vapor pressure deficit. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment., 3, 294-308, doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00272-1.
Pivovaroff, A.L., N.G. McDowell, T. Barrozo Rodgrigues, T. Brodribb, L.A. Cernusak, B. Choat, C. Grossiord, Y. Ishida, K.J. Jardine, S. Laurance, R. Leff, W. Li, M. Liddell, D.S. Mackay, H. Pacheco, J. Peters, I. de J. Sampaio Filho, D.C. Souza, W. Wang, P. Zhang, J. Chambers. 2021. Stability of tropical forest tree carbon-water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth. Global Change Biology, 27(24), 6454-6466, doi:10.1111/GCB.15869.
Tai, X., M.D. Venturas, D.S. Mackay, P.D. Brooks, and L.B. Flanagan. 2021. Lateral subsurface flow modulates forest mortality risk to future climate and elevated CO2. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (2021) 084015, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1135.
Wang, D.R., M.D. Venturas, D.S. Mackay, D.J. Hunsaker, K.R. Thorp, M.A. Gore, and D. Pauli. 2020. Use of hydraulic traits for modeling genotype-specific acclimation in cotton under drought. New Phytologist, 228(3), 898-909, doi:10.1111/nph.16751.
Guadagno, C.R., D. Millar, R. Lai, D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban, C.R. McClung, C. Weinig, D.R. Wang, and B.E. Ewers. 2020. Use of transcriptomic data to inform biophysical models via Bayesian networks. Ecological Modelling., 429, 109086, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109086.
Pleban, J.R., C.R. Guadagno, D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, and C. Weinig. 2020. Rapid chlorophyll a fluorescence light response curves mechanistically inform photosynthesis modeling. Plant Physiology, 183, 602-619, doi:10.1104/pp.19.00375.
Chien, H. and D.S. Mackay. 2020. Assessing effects of model complexity and structure on predictions of hydrological responses using serial and parallel design. Hydrological Processes., 34(2), 404-419, 10.1002/hyp.13594.
Mackay, D.S., P.R. Savoy, C. Grossiord, X. Tai, J.R. Pleban, D.R. Wang, N.G. McDowell, H.D. Adams, and J.S. Sperry. 2020. Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics. New Phytologist, 225(2), 679-692, doi:10.1111/nph.16043.
Tai, X., D.S. Mackay, B.E. Ewers, A.D. Parsekian, D. Beverly, H. Speckman, P.D. Brooks, and W.R.L. Anderegg. 2019. Plant hydraulic stress explained tree mortality and tree size explained beetle attack in a mixed conifer forest. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 124(11), 3555-3568, doi: 10.1029/2019JG005272.
Wang, D.R., C.R. Guadagno, X. Mao, D.S. Mackay, J.R. Pleban, R.L. Baker, C. Weinig, J.-L. Jannink, and B.E. Ewers. 2019. A framework for genomics-informed ecophysiological modeling in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz090.
Fan, Y., M. Clark, D.M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L.E. Band, S.L. Brantley, P.D. Brooks, W.E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J.W. Kirchner, D.S. Mackay, J.J. McDonnell, P.C.D. Milly, P.L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnehad-Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B.P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, and D. Yamazaki. 2019. Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, 55(2), 1737-1772, doi:10.1029/2018WR023903.
Tai, X., D.S. Mackay, J.S. Sperry, P. Brooks, W.R.L. Anderegg, L.B. Flanagan, S.B. Rood, and C. Hopkinson. 2018. Distributed plant hydraulic and hydrological modeling to understand the susceptibility of riparian woodland trees to drought-induced mortality. Water Resources Research, 54(7), 4901-4915, doi:10.1002/2018WR022801.