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Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Since 1988

  • Aber, J. D. 1992. Nitrogen Cycling and Nitrogen Saturation in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 7: 220-223.
  • Aber, J. D. 1993. Modification of nitrogen cycling at the regional scale: the subtle effects of atmospheric deposition. In: McDonnell, M. J., Pickett, S. T. A. , Humans as Components of Ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, NY.
  • Aber, J. D. 2002. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: current theory, remaining questions and recent advances. In: Horst, W.J., Burkert, A., Claassen, N., Flessa, H., Progress in Plant Nutrition: Plenary Lectures of the XIV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  • Aber, J. D. 2004. Biogeochemistry: The Physiology of Ecosystems. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
  • Aber, J. D., Driscoll, C. T. 1997. Effects of land use, climate variation and N deposition on N cycling and C storage in northern hardwood forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11: 639-648.
  • Aber, J. D., Driscoll, C. T., Federer, C. A., Lathrop, R. G., Lovett, G., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Vogelmann, J. 1993. A strategy for the regional analysis of the effects of physical and chemical climate change on biogeographical cycles in northeastern (U.S.) forests. Ecological Modelling 67: 37-47.
  • Aber, J. D., Goodale, C. G., Ollinger, S. V., Hallett, R. A., Magill, A. H., Martin, M. E., Smith, M. L., Stoddard, J. L. 2003. Is nitrogen saturation occurring in northeastern forests?. Bioscience 53: 375-389.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A. H. 2004. Chronic Nitrogen Additions at the Harvard Forest: The First Fifteen Years of a Nitrogen Saturation Experiment.. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 1-5.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D. 1993. Plant and soil responses to three years of chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA. Ecological Applications 3: 156-166.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., McNulty, S. G., Boone, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Hallett, R. A. 1995. Forest biogeochemistry and primary production altered by nitrogen saturation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 85: 1665-1670.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J., Steudler, P. A., Hendricks, J. J., Bowden, R. D., Currie, W. S., McDowell, W., Berntson, G. M. 2004. Exploring the process of nitrogen saturation. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
  • Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Magill, A. H., Berntson, G. M., Kamekea, M., McNulty, S. G., Currie, W. S., Rustad, L. E., Fernandez, I. 1998. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: hypotheses revisited. BioScience 48: 921-934.
  • Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., McClaugherty, C. A. 1990. Predicting long-term patterns of mass-loss, nitrogen dynamics and soil organic matter formation from initial litter chemistry in forest ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 2201-2208.
  • Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Pastor, J., Boone, R. D. 1991. Factors controlling nitrogen cycling and nitrogen saturation in northern temperate forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 1: 303-315.
  • Aber, J. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Steudler, P., Melillo, J. M. 1989. Nitrogen saturation in northern forest ecosystems - Hypotheses and implications. BioScience 39: 378-386.
  • Aber, J. D., Ollinger, S. V., Federer, C. A., Driscoll, C. T. 1997. Modeling nitrogen saturation in forest ecosystems in response to land use and atmospheric deposition. Ecological Modelling 101: 61-78.
  • Aber, J. D., Wessman, C. A., Peterson, D. L., Melillo, J. M., Fownes, J. H. 1990. Remote Sensing of Litter and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition in Forest Ecosystems. In: Mooney, Hobbs, Remote Sensing of Biosphere Functioning, , .
  • Adair, E. C., Parton, W. J., Del Grosso, S. J., Silver, W. L., Harmon, M. E., Hall, S. A., Burke, I. C., Hart, S. C. 2008. Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates. Global Change Biology 14: 2636-2660 .
  • Aitkenhead-Peterson, J. A., Berntson, G. M., McDowell, W. H., Aber, J. D. 2007. Chronic carbon and nitrogen manipulation: effect on the relationships between soil C:N, soil respiration and soil solutation DOC in temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry : .
  • Allen, A. 1995. Soil science and survey at Harvard Forest. Soil Survey Horizons 36: 133-142.
  • Angert, A., Barkan, E., Barnett, B., Brugnoli, E., Davidson, E. A., Fessenden, J., Maneepong, S., Panapitukkul, N., Randerson, J. T., Savage, K. E., Yakir, D., Luz, B. 2003. Contribution of soil respiration in tropical, temperate, and boreal forests to the 18O enrichment of atmospheric O2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1089 doi:10.1029/2003GB002056.
  • Antibus, R. K., Linkins III, A. E. 1992. Effects of Liming a Red Pine Forest Floor on Mycorrhizal Numbers and Mycorrhizal and Soil Acid Phosphatase Activities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 24: 479-487.
  • Baillie, I. C., Ashton, P. S., Chin, S. P., Davies, S. J., Palmioto, P. A., Russo, S .E., Tan, S. 2006. Spatial Associations of Humus, Nutrients and Soils in Mixed Dipterocarp Forest at Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 543-553.
  • Bain*, W. G. 2002. Wind-induced systematic error in the closed dynamic chamber soil respiration measurement method. Thesis, Harvard University.
  • Bain*, W. G., Hutyra, L. R., Patterson*, D. C., Bright, A. V., Daube, B. C., Munger, J. W. , Wofsy, S. C. 2005. Wind-induced error in the measurement of soil respiration using closed dynamic chambers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 131: 225-232.
  • Bell*, S. 2000. Microbial nitrogen utilization under nitrogen-saturation conditions in temperate forests. Thesis, University of Oregon.
  • Berg, B., McClaugherty, C. 2003. Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Berliner, R., Torrey, J. G. 1989. On tripartite Frankia - mycorrhizal associations in the Myricaceae. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 1708-1712.
  • Berliner, R., Torrey, J. G. 1989. Studies on mycorrhizal associations in Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 2245-2251.
  • Berntson, G. M. 1996. Root growth and nitrogen cycling in temperate deciduous forests in an elevated CO2 world. Thesis, Harvard University.
  • Berntson, G. M. 1997. Topological scaling and plant root system architecture: developmental and functional hierarchies. New Phytologist 135: 621-634.
  • Berntson, G. M., Aber, J. D. 2000. Fast nitrate immobilization in N-saturated temperate forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 151-156.
  • Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1996. Belowground positive and negative feedbacks on CO2 growth enhancement. Plant and Soil 187: 119-131.
  • Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1996. The allometry of root production and loss in seedlings of Acer rubrum (Aceraceae) and Betula papyrifera (Betulaceae): implications for root dynamics in elevated CO2. American Journal of Botany 83: 608-616.
  • Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Elevated CO2 and the magnitude and seasonal dynamics of root production and loss in Betula papyrifera. Plant and Soil 190: 211-216.
  • Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Nitrogen cycling in microcosms of yellow birch exposed to elevated CO2: simultaneous positive and negative belowground feedbacks. Global Change Biology 3: 247-258.
  • Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Regenerating temperate forest microcosms in elevated CO2: species composition, belowground growth and nitrogen cycling. Oecologia 113: 115-125.
  • Berntson, G. M., Lynch, J. P., Snapp, S. 1998. Fractal geometry and the description of plant root systems: current perspectives and future applications. In: Baveye, Parlage, Smith, Chaos and Fractals in Soil Science, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
  • Berntson, G. M., Wayne, P. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Belowground architectural and mycorrhizal responses to elevated CO2 in Betula alleghaniensis populations. Functional Ecology 11: 684-695.
  • Bonitti, E. E., Decant, J. P., Munson, S. M, Gathany, M. A., Przeszlowska, A., Haddix, M. L., Owens, S., Burke, I. C., Parton, W. J., Harmon, M. E. 2009. Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains). Global Change Biology 15: 1356-1363.
  • Boone, R. D. 1992. Influence of Sampling Date and Substrate on Nitrogen Mineralization: Comparison of Laboratory-Incubation and Buried-Bag Methods For Two Massachusetts Forest Soils. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22: 1895-1990.
  • Boone, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Canary, J. D., Kaye, J. P. 1998. Roots determine the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration. Nature 396: 571-572.
  • Borken, W., Davidson, E. A. , Savage, K. E. , Sundquist, E. T. , Stuedler, P. 2006. Effect of summer throughfall exclusion, summer drought, and winter snow cover on methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 1388-1395.
  • Borken, W., Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E. 2003. Drying and wetting effects on carbon dioxide release from organic horizons. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67: 1888-1896.
  • Borken, W., Savage, K. E., Davidson, E. A., Trumbore, S. E. 2006. Effects of experimental drought on soil respiration and radiocarbon efflux from a temperate forest soil. Global Change Biology 12: 177-193.
  • Bowden, R. D., Castro, M. C., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1993. Fluxes of greenhouse gases between soils and the atmosphere in a temperate forest following a simulated hurricane blowdown. Biogeochemistry 21: 61-71.
  • Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1991. Effects of nitrogen additions on annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research 96: 9321-9328.
  • Bowden, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Garrison, J. B. 1993. Contributions of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 123: 1402-1407.
  • Bowden, R. D., Newkirk, K. M., Rullo, G. M. 1998. Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes by a forest soil under laboratory-controlled moisture and temperature conditions. Soil Biology Biochemistry 30: 1591-1597.
  • Bowden, R. D., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D. 1990. Annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: 13997-14005.
  • Burton, A. J., Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D. 2008. Adjustment of Forest Ecosystem Root Respiration as Temperature Warms. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50: 1462-1483.
  • Campbell, J. L., Rustad, L. E., Boyer, E. W., Christopher, S. F. , Driscoll, C. T., Fernandez, I. J., Groffman, P. M., Houle, D., Kiekbusch, J., Magill, A. H., Mitchell, M. J., Ollinger, S. V. 2008. Consequences of climate change for biogeochemical cycling in forests of northeastern North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research : .
  • Castro, M. S., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M. , Aber, J. D. , Millham, S. E. 1993. Exchange of N2O and CH4 between the atmosphere and soils in spruce-fir forests in the northeastern United States. Biogeochemistry 18: 119-135.
  • Castro, M. S., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D., Bowden, R. D. 1995. Factors controlling atmospheric methane consumption by temperate forest soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 9: 1-10.
  • Chan, A. S. K., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D., Gulledge, J., Cavanaugh, C. 2005. Consequences of nitrogen fertilization on soil methane consumption in a productive temperate deciduous forest. Biology and Fertility of Soils 41: 182-189.
  • Cole, D. W., Compton, J. E., Homann, P. S., Edmonds, R. L., Miegroet, H. V. 1995. Comparison of carbon accumulation in Douglas fir and red alder forests. In: Kelly, J. M., McFee, W. W., Carbon Forms and Functions in Forest Soils, Soil Science Society of American, Madison, WI.
  • Compton, J. E, Watrud, L. S., Porteous, L. A., DeGrood*, S. 2004. Response of soil microbial biomass and community composition to chronic nitrogen additions at Harvard Forest. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 143-158.
  • Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2000. Long-term impacts of agriculture on soil carbon and nitrogen in New England forests. Ecology 81: 2314-2330.
  • Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2004. Land-use legacies on soil properties and nutrients. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
  • Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 1998. Soil carbon and nitrogen in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: role of vegetation and land-use history. Oecologia 116: 536-542.
  • Currie, W. S. 1995. Forest floor leachate biogeochemistry and decomposition dynamics. Thesis, University of New Hampshire.
  • Currie, W. S. 1999. The responsive C and N biogeochemistry of the temperate forest floor. TREE 14: 316-320.
  • Currie, W. S. 2003. Relationships between carbon turnover and bioavailable energy fluxes in two temperate forest soils. Global Change Biology 9: 919-929.
  • Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D. 1997. Modeling leaching as a decomposition process in humid, montane forests. Ecology 78: 1844-1860.
  • Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D., Driscoll, C. T. 1999. Leaching of nutrient cations from the forests floor: effects of nitrogen saturation in two long-term manipulations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 609-620.
  • Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H., Boone, R. D., McGill, A. H. 1996. Vertical transport of dissolved organic C and N under long-term N amendments in pine and hardwood forests. Biochemistry 35: 471-505.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J. 1999. Dynamic redistribution of isotopically labeled cohorts of nitrogen inputs in two temperate forests. Ecosystems 2: 4-18.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J. 2003. The imprint of land use history: patterns of carbon and nitrogen in downed woody debris at the Harvard Forest. Ecosystems 5: 446-460.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 1999. Soil detrital processes controlling the movement of 15N tracers to forest vegetation. Ecological Applications 9: 87-102.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 2004. Redistributions of 15N highlight turnover and replishment of mineral soil organic N as a long-term control on forest C balance. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 109-127.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Colman, B. P. 2002. Long-term movement of 15N tracers into fine woody debris under chronically elevated N inputs. Plant and Soil 238: 313-323.
  • Cusack, D. F., Chou, W. W., Yang, W. H., Harmon, M. E., Silver, W. L., LIDET 2009. Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests. Global Change Biology 15: 1339-1355.
  • Dail, D. B., Davidson, E. A., Chrover, J. 2001. Rapid abiotic transformation of nitrate in an acid forest soil. Biogeochemistry 54: 131-146.
  • Davidson, E. A., Belk, E., Boone, R. D. 1998. Soil and water content and temperature as independent or confounded factors controlling soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Global Change Biology 4: 217-228.
  • Davidson, E. A., Chorover, J., Dail, B. D. 2003. A mechanism of abiotic immobilization of nitrate in forest ecosystems: The ferrous wheel hypothesis. Global Change Biology 9:: 228-236.
  • Davidson, E. A., Janssens, I. 2006. Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change. Nature 440: .
  • Davidson, E. A., Janssens, I., Luo, Y. 2006. On the variability of respiration in terrestrial ecosystems: moving beyond Q10. Global Change Biology 12: 154-164.
  • Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Bolstad, P. V., Clark, D. A., Curtis, P. S. , Ellsworth, D. S., Hanson, P. J., Law, B. E., Luo, Y., Pregitzer, K. S., Randolph, J. C., Zak, D. 2002. Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology : 39-51.
  • Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Trumbore, S. E., Borken, W. 2006. Vertical partitioning of CO2 production within a temperate forest soil. Global Change Biology 12: 944-956.
  • Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Verchot, L. V., Navarro*, R. I. 2002. Minimizing artifacts and biases in chamber-based measurements of soil respiration.. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113: 21-37.
  • Downs, M. R., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D. 1993. Foliar and fine root nitrate reductase activity in seedlings of four forest tree species in relation to nitrogen availability. Trees, Structure and Function 7: 233-236.
  • Downs, M. R., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D. 1996. Immobilization of a 15N labelled nitrate addition by decomposing forest litter. Oecologia 105: 141-150.
  • Feigl, B. J., Melillo, J. M., Cerri, C. C. 1995. Changes in the origin and quality of soil organic matter after pasture introduction in Rondônia (Brazil). Plant and Soil 175: 21-29.
  • Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
  • Frey, S. D., Drijber, R., Smith, H., Melillo, J. 2008. Microbial biomass, functional capacity, and community composition after twelve years of soil warming. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 2904-2907.
  • Frey, S. D., Knorr, M., Parrent, J. L., Simpson, R. T. 2004. Chronic nitrogen enrichment affects the structure and function of the soil microbial community in temperate hardwood and pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 159-171.
  • Fry, B., Jones, D. E., Kling, G. W., McKane, R. B., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Peterson, B. J. 1995. Adding 15N tracers to ecosystem experiments. In: Wada, E., Yoneyama, T., Minagawa, M., Ando, T., Fry, B., Stable Isotopes in the Biosphere, Kyoto University Press, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Fuller, J. L., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., McLachlan, J., Barry, S. 2004. Broad-scale forest response to land-use and climate change. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
  • Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Belk, E. 1997. Determination of organic carbon turnover rates at Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Proceedings of Agronomy Abstracts Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA.
  • Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Richter, A. 2001. The age of fine-root carbon in three forests of the eastern United States measured by radiocarbon.. Oecologia 129: 420-429.
  • Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Zheng, S. 2000. Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Biogeochemistry 51: 33-69.
  • Godbold, D. L., Berntson, G. M. 1997. Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations lead to changes in ectomycorrhizal morphotype assemblages in Betula papyrifera. Tree Physiology 17: 347-350.
  • Godbold, D. L., Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Growth and mycorrhizal colonization of three North-American tree species under elevated atmospheric CO2. New Phytologist 137: 433-440.
  • Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D. 2000. The long-term effects of land-use history on nitrogen cycling in northern hardwood forests. Ecological Applications 11: 253-267.
  • Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H. 2000. The long-term effects of disturbance on organic and inorganic nitrogen export in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ecosystems 3: 433-450.
  • Harmon, M. E., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Blair, J. M. 1999. Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover and stores in plant litter. In: Robertson, G. P., Bledsoe, C. S., Coleman, D. C., Sollins, P., Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research, Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Harmon, M. E., Silver, W. L., Fasth, B., Chen, H., Burke, I. C., Parton, W. J., Hart, S. C., Currie, W. S., LIDET 2009. Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison. Global Change Biology 15: 1320-1338.
  • Hartley, A. E., Neill, C., Crabtree, R. C., Melillo, J. M., Bowles, F. P. 1999. Plant performance and soil N mineralization in response to simulated climate change in subarctic dwarf shrub heath. Oikos 86: 331-343.
  • Hendricks, J. J. 1994. Assessing the effects of nitrogen availability on fine root turnover and tissue chemistry in forest ecosystems. Thesis, University of New Hampshire.
  • Hendricks, J. J., Aber, J. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Hallett, R. D. 2000. Nitrogen controls on fine root substrate quality in temperate forest ecosystems. Ecosystems 3: 57-69.
  • Hendricks, J. J., Nadelhoffer, K. J. , Aber, J. D. 1993. Assessing the Role of Fine Roots in Carbon and Nutrient Cycling. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 8: 174-178.
  • Hendricks, J. J., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 1993. The role of fine roots in energy and nutrient cycling. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8: 174-178.
  • Hendricks, J. J., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 1997. A 15N tracer technique for assessing fine root production and turnover. Oecologia 112: 300-304.
  • Hobbie, E. A. 2005. Using isotopic tracers to follow carbon and nitrogen cycling of fungi. In: J. Dighton, P. Oudemans, J. White, The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  • Hobbie, E. A. 2006. Carbon allocation to ectomycorrhizal fungi correlates with total belowground allocation in culture studies. Ecology 87: 563-569.
  • Hobbie, E. A., Wallander, H. 2006. Integrating ectomycorrhizal fungi into quantitative frameworks of forest carbon and nitrogen cycling. In: G.M. Gadd, Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Hobbie, J. E., Hobbie, E. A. 2006. 15N content in symbiotic fungi and plants estimates nitrogen and carbon flux rates in Arctic tundra. Ecology 87: 816-822.
  • Holbrook, N. M., Zwieniecki, M. A. 1999. Embolism repair and xylem tension: do we need a miracle?. Plant Physiology 120: 7-10.
  • Holbrook, N. M., Zwieniecki, M. A., Melcher, P. J. 2002. The dynamics of "dead" wood: maintenance of water transport through plant stems. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42: 492-496.
  • Jefts, S., Orwig, D. A. 2005. The effects of HWA outbreaks on ecosystem level changes in southern New England. Proceedings of 3rd Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern United States. Newtown, PA.
  • Jenkins, J. C., Aber, J. D., Canham, C. 1999. Hemlock woolly adelgid impacts on community structure and N cycling rates in eastern hemlock forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 630-645.
  • Kicklighter, D. W., Melillo, J. M., Peterjohn, W. T., Rastetter, E. B., McGuire, A. D., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1994. Scaling field measurements to estimate regional carbon dioxide fluxes from temperate forest soils. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 1303-1315.
  • Lawrence, D., D'Ordorico, P., Diekmann, L., DeLonge, M.D.R., Eaton, E. 2007. Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 20696-20701.
  • Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2001. Determinants of regional variability in litter production of forests in the Southern Yucatan: environmental gradients or human legacy? . EOS. Trans. AGU 82: .
  • Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2002. Changes in forest biomass, litter dynamics and soils following shifting cultivation in southern Mexico: an overview. Interciencia 27: 400-408.
  • Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2003. Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties Following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints. In: Turner, B. L., Geoghegan, J., Foster, D. R., Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers, Oxford University Press, New York.
  • Lewis, D. A., Garrison, W., Wommack, E., Whittemore, A., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. 1999. Influence of environmental changes on degradation of chiral pollutants in soils. Nature 401: 898-901.
  • Linkins, A. E., Sinsabaugh, R. L., McClaugherty, C. M., Melillo, J. M. 1990. Comparison of cellulase activity on decomposing leaves in a hardwood forest and woodland stream. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22: 423-425.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 1998. Long-term effects of chronic nitrogen additions on foliar litter decay and humus formation in forest ecosystems. Plant and Soil 203: 301-311.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2000. Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen relationships in forest litter as affected by nitrogen deposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 603-613.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2000. Variation in soil net mineralization rates with dissolved organic carbon additions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 597-601.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Berntson, G. M., McDowell, W. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 2000. Long-term nitrogen additions and nitrogen saturation in two temperate forests. Ecosystems 3: 238-253.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Martin, M. E., McDowell, W. H., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 2004. Ecosystem Response to 15 years of Chronic Nitrogen Additions at the Harvard Forest LTER, Massachusetts, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 7-28.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Hendricks, J. J., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 1997. Biogeochemical response of forest ecosystems to simulated chronic nitrogen deposition. Ecological Applications 7: 402-415.
  • Magill, A. H., Downs, M. R., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Hallett, R. A., Aber, J. D. 1996. Forest ecosystem response to four years of chronic nitrate and sulfate additions at Bear Brooks Watershed, Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 84: 29-37.
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