Integrative Biology 452 - Ecosystem Ecology - Required Readings

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Burgess SSO and Dawson TE. 2004. The contribution of fog to the water relations of Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don): foliar uptake and prevention of dehydration.  Plant, Cell and Environment 27:1023-1034.

Chadwick OA et al. 1999. Changing sources of nutrients during four million yeas of ecosystem development. Nature 397:491-497.

Chapin FS et al. 2000. Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system. Global Change Biology 6 (Suppl. 1):211-223.

DeLucia EH, Moore DJ, and Norby RJ. 2005. Contrasting responses of forest ecosystems to rising atmospheric CO2: implications for the global C cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19:GB3006.

Foley JA et al. 2003. Green surprises? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:38-44.

Mann et al. 2000. Global temperature patterns in past centuries: An interactive presentation. Earth Interactions 4.  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ei/ei_cover.html

Norby RJ et al. 2001. Elevated CO2, litter chemistry, and decomposition: a synthesis.  Oecologia 127:153-165.

Post DM. 2002. Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods, and assumptions. Ecology 83:703-718.

Reich PB, Walters MB, and Ellsworth DS. 1997. From tropics to tundra: global convergence in plant functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:13730-13734.

Tilman D et al. 2001. Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment.  Science 294:843-845.

Walther GR et al. 2002. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416:389-395

Wardle DA et al. 2003. Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient. Science 300:972-975.