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Fine-root respiration in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) forest exposed to elevated CO2 and N fertilizationJohn E Drake
Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Plant Cell Environ 31:1663-72. 2008..These results suggest that R(r) is coupled to daily canopy photosynthesis and increases with carbon allocation below ground...
Ecosystem rooting depth determined with caves and DNAR B Jackson
Department of Botany and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:11387-92. 1999..fusiformis confirmed water uptake from 18 m underground. The availability of resources at depth, coupled with small surface pools of water and nutrients, may explain the occurrence of deep roots in this and other systems...
Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestrationRobert B Jackson
Department of Biology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and Center on Global Change, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 1000, USA
Science 310:1944-7. 2005..Plantations can help control groundwater recharge and upwelling but reduce stream flow and salinize and acidify some soils...- From icy roads to salty streamsRobert B Jackson
Department of Biology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Center on Global Change, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-1000, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:14487-8. 2005 - Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forestRobert B Jackson
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Ecology 90:3352-66. 2009..Similar increases were observed for soil-solution conductivity and alkalinity at 200 cm in elevated CO2. Overall, the effect of elevated CO2 belowground shows no sign of diminishing after more than a decade of CO2 enrichment... - Curbing the U.S. carbon deficitRobert B Jackson
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15827-9. 2004..Issues of permanence, leakage, and economic potentials are discussed briefly, as is the recognition that such scenarios are only a first step in addressing total U.S. emissions... - Comment on "A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils"R B Jackson
Department of Biology, and Nicholas School of theEnvironment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0340, USA
Science 304:51; author reply 51. 2004 - Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslandsRobert B Jackson
Department of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0340, USA
Nature 418:623-6. 2002..Assessments relying on carbon stored from woody plant invasions to balance emissions may therefore be incorrect... - Root water uptake and transport: using physiological processes in global predictionsR B Jackson
Dept of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Trends Plant Sci 5:482-8. 2000.... - Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2)Richard A Gill
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0340, USA
Nature 417:279-82. 2002.... - Nutrient uptake as a contributing explanation for deep rooting in arid and semi-arid ecosystemsR L McCulley
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0340, USA
Oecologia 141:620-8. 2004..We propose that hydraulic redistribution of shallow surface water to deep soil layers by roots may be the mechanism through which deep soil nutrients are mobilized and taken up by plants... - Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forestAdrien C Finzi
Department of Biology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Ecology 87:15-25. 2006..widening C-to-N ratios and ecosystem-N accrual as processes that drive and delay PNL, respectively. Only direct observations through time will definitively answer this question... - Re-assessment of plant carbon dynamics at the Duke free-air CO(2) enrichment site: interactions of atmospheric [CO(2)] with nitrogen and water availability over stand developmentHeather R McCarthy
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
New Phytol 185:514-28. 2010.... - Hydraulic lift and tolerance to salinity of semiarid species: consequences for species interactionsCristina Armas
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Oecologia 162:11-21. 2010..Salt also seems to mediate the interaction between the two species, negating the potential positive effects of an additional water source via hydraulic lift... - Physical and economic potential of geological CO2 storage in saline aquifersJordan K Eccles
Nicholas School of the Environment, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Center on Global Change, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Environ Sci Technol 43:1962-9. 2009..Like traditional projects in the extractive industries, geosequestration capacity should be exploited starting with the low-cost storage options first then moving gradually up the supply curve... - A global meta-analysis of soil exchangeable cations, pH, carbon, and nitrogen with afforestationSean T Berthrong
University Program in Ecology, Duke University, Campus Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Ecol Appl 19:2228-41. 2009..These sustainable practices would in turn slow soil compaction, erosion, and organic matter loss, maintaining soil fertility to the greatest extent possible... - Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2Adrien C Finzi
Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:14014-9. 2007..Biogeochemical models must be reformulated to allow C transfers below ground that result in additional N uptake under elevated CO(2)... - Enhanced isoprene-related tolerance of heat- and light-stressed photosynthesis at low, but not high, CO2 concentrationsDanielle A Way
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Oecologia 166:273-82. 2011..We propose that isoprene biosynthesis may have evolved at low CO(2) concentrations, where its physiological effect is greatest, and that rising CO(2) will reduce the functional benefit of isoprene in the near future... - Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field dataDafeng Hui
Department of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
New Phytol 169:85-93. 2006..Based on these results, both geographical variability in f(BNPP) and the divergent responses of f(BNPP) with climatic variables at geographical and temporal scales should be considered in global C modeling... - Afforestation alters the composition of functional genes in soil and biogeochemical processes in South American grasslandsSean T Berthrong
Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:6240-8. 2009..Such changes in microbial functional genes correspond with altered C and N storage and have implications for long-term productivity in these soils... - The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralizationStefano Manzoni
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Science 321:684-6. 2008..Our results suggest that decomposers lower their carbon-use efficiency to exploit residues with low initial nitrogen concentration, a strategy used broadly by bacteria and consumers across trophic levels... - Set-asides can be better climate investment than corn ethanolGervasio Piñeiro
Department of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0338, USA
Ecol Appl 19:277-82. 2009..Our results suggest that conversion of CRP lands or other set-aside programs to corn ethanol production should not be encouraged through greenhouse gas policies... - Amino acid abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soilsKirsten S Hofmockel
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Oecologia 163:1069-78. 2010.... - Coupling diurnal cytosolic Ca2+ oscillations to the CAS-IP3 pathway in ArabidopsisRu Hang Tang
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Science 315:1423-6. 2007..The phase and period of oscillations are likely determined by stomatal conductance. Thus, the internal concentration of Ca2+ in plant cells is constantly being actively revised... - Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assaysNoah Fierer
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:4117-20. 2005..Primers were thoroughly tested for specificity, and the method was applied to three distinct soils. The technique provides a rapid and robust index of microbial community structure... - The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:626-31. 2006..Our results suggest that microbial biogeography is controlled primarily by edaphic variables and differs fundamentally from the biogeography of "macro" organisms... - Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communitiesNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ecology 88:2162-73. 2007..Together these results suggest that microorganisms, like "macro"-organisms, do exhibit biogeographical patterns at the landscape scale and that these patterns may be predictable based on biogeochemical factors... - Aquaporin-mediated changes in hydraulic conductivity of deep tree roots accessed via cavesAndrew J McElrone
USDA ARS, Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Plant Cell Environ 30:1411-21. 2007..Adjustments in FRHC and AQPC to changing canopy water demands may help the trees maintain the use of reliable water resources from depth and contribute to the success of these species in this semi-arid environment... - Responses of tropical native and invader C4 grasses to water stress, clipping and increased atmospheric CO2 concentrationZdravko Baruch
Department Estudios Ambientales, University Simòn Bolívar Aptdo, 89000 Caracas, Venezuela
Oecologia 145:522-32. 2005.... - Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2Richard A Gill
Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning, Washington State University, Pullman 99164, USA
Ecology 87:41-52. 2006.... - Functional coordination between leaf gas exchange and vulnerability to xylem cavitation in temperate forest treesHafiz Maherali
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
Plant Cell Environ 29:571-83. 2006.... - Genetic variance and covariance for physiological traits in Lobelia: are there constraints on adaptive evolution?Christina M Caruso
Department of Biology and Mathematics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 50112, USA
Evolution 59:826-37. 2005..cardinalis are caused primarily by a lack of genetic variation, rather than by genetic correlations between these functionally related traits... - Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteriaNoah Fierer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 88:1354-64. 2007....