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Elevated CO2 and Plant Species Diversity Interact to Slow Root Decomposition (with Marie-Anne de Graaff, Christopher W. Schadt, Kelly Rula, Johan Six, and Jennifer A. Schweitzer), Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2011)

Changes in plant species diversity can result in synergistic increases in decomposition rates, while...

 

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Labile Soil Carbon Inputs Mediate the Soil Microbial Community Composition and Plant Residue Decomposition Rates (with Marie-Anne de Graaff, Hector F. Castro, and Christopher W. Schadt), New Phytologist (2010)

• Root carbon (C) inputs may regulate decomposition rates in soil, and in this study...

 

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Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems (with S. D. Smith, C. Beier, Melinda D. Smith, Jana L. Heisler, S. W. Leavitt, A. K. Knapp, D. Briske, Y. Luo, M. Reichstein, J. E. Bell, P. A. Fay, R. Sherry, and B. Smith), Bioscience (2008)

Amplification of the hydrological cycle as a consequence of global warming is forecast to lead...

 

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Plant genotype, not nutrients, shape aphid population dynamics (with Heather E. Tran, Lara Souza, and Nathan J. Sanders), University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects (2011)