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Most faculty members who are affiliated with ECI have a primary affiliation in a regular University department. They publish extensively within their own fields as well as pursuing interdisciplinary collaborations. The following list of publications is only a small sampling of recent research results and topics of interest to faculty associated with the ECI. For a full list of faculty publications, visit the Brown's database of research and researchers.

Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature. By: Bradford, Mark A.; Davies, Christian A.; Frey, Serita D.; Maddox, Thomas R.; Melillo, Jerry M.; Mohan, Jacqueline E.; Reynolds, James F.; Treseder, Kathleen K.; Wallenstein, Matthew D.. Ecology Letters, Dec2008, Vol. 11 Issue 12, p1316-1327, 12p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01251.x; (AN 35118563)

The importance of zooplankton to the daily metabolic carbon requirements of healthy and bleached corals at two depths. By: Palardy, James E.; Rodrigues, Lisa J.; Grottoli, Andréa G.. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology, Dec2008, Vol. 367 Issue 2, p180-188, 9p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.09.015; (AN 35330703)

Organic carbon, and not copper, controls denitrification in oxygen minimum zones of the ocean. By: Ward, Bess B.; Tuit, Caroline B.; Jayakumar, Amal; Rich, Jeremy J.; Moffett, James; Naqvi, S. Wajih A.. Deep-Sea Research Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers, Dec2008, Vol. 55 Issue 12, p1672-1683, 12p; DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.07.005; (AN 35202471)

A framework for predicting global silicate weathering and CO[sub2] drawdown rates over geologic time-scales. By: Hilley, George E.; Porder, Stephen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 11/4/2008, Vol. 105 Issue 44, p16855-16859, 5p, 1 chart, 2 graphs, 1 map; (AN 35418038)

Microbial biomass, functional capacity, and community structure after 12 years of soil warming. By: Frey, S.D.; Drijber, R.; Smith, H.; Melillo, J.. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Nov2008, Vol. 40 Issue 11, p2904-2907, 4p; DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.020; (AN 34745223)

Potential for Sudden Shifts in Transient Systems: Distinguishing Between Local and Landscape-Scale Processes. By: Wesenbeeck, Bregje; Koppel, Johan; Herman, Peter; Bertness, Mark; Wal, Daphne; Bakker, Jan; Bouma, Tjeerd. Ecosystems, Nov2008, Vol. 11 Issue 7, p1133-1141, 9p; DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9184-6; (AN 34963328)

Impacts of extreme winter warming in the sub-Arctic: growing season responses of dwarf shrub heathland. By: BOKHORST, S.; BJERKE, J. W.; BOWLES, F. W.; MELILLO, J.; CALLAGHAN, T. V.; PHOENIX, G. K.. Global Change Biology, Nov2008, Vol. 14 Issue 11, p2603-2612, 10p, 10 graphs; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01689.x; (AN 34883140)

Switching from negative to positive density-dependence among populations of a cobble beach plant. By: Goldenheim, William; Irving, Andrew; Bertness, Mark. Oecologia, Nov2008, Vol. 158 Issue 3, p473-483, 11p; DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1157-0; (AN 35176660)

Urbanization and Fertility: An Event-history analysis of coastal Ghana. By: WHITE, MICHAEL J.; MUHIDIN, SALUT; ANDRZEJEWSKI, CATHERINE; TAGOE, EVA; KNIGHT, RODNEY; REED, HOLLY. Demography, Nov2008, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p803-816, 14p; (AN 34944972)

Effects of leg loss on male crab spiders Misumena vatia. By: Lutzy, Rebecca M.; Morse, Douglass H.. Animal Behaviour, Nov2008, Vol. 76 Issue 5, p1519-1527, 9p; DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.025; (AN 34869932)

Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years. By: Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Yongsong Huang; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Hopmans, Ellen C.; Cohen, Andrew S.. Science, 10/10/2008, Vol. 322 Issue 5899, p252-255, 4p; DOI: 10.1126/science.1160485; (AN 35094113)

Sustainable Biofuels Redux. By: Robertson, G. Philip; Dale, Virginia H.; Doering, Otto C.; Hamburg, Steven P.; Melillo, Jerry M.; Wander, Michele M.; Parton, William J.; Adler, Paul R.; Barney, Jacob N.; Cruse, RIchard M.; Duke, Clifford S.; Fearnside, Philip M.; Follett, Ronald F.; Gibbs, Holly K.; Goldemberg, Jose; Mladenoff, David J.; Ojima, Dennis; Palmer, Michael W.; Sharpley, Andrew; Wallace, Linda. Science, 10/3/2008, Vol. 322 Issue 5898, p49-50, 2p, 1 color; (AN 34846999)

SECONDARY SUCCESSION DYNAMICS IN ESTUARINE MARSHES ACROSS LANDSCAPE-SCALE SALINITY GRADIENTS. By: Crain, Caitlin Mullan; Albertson, Lindsey K.; Bertness, Mark D.. Ecology, Oct2008, Vol. 89 Issue 10, p2889-2899, 11p, 2 charts, 7 graphs; (AN 34964896)

DEAD ZONES ENHANCE KEY FISHERIES SPECIES BY PROVIDING PREDATION REFUGE. By: Altiere, Andrew H.. Ecology, Oct2008, Vol. 89 Issue 10, p2808-2818, 11p, 11 graphs; (AN 34964888)

Impacts of land use, anthropogenic disturbance, and harvesting on an African medicinal liana. By: McGeoch, Lauren; Gordon, Ian; Schmitt, Johanna. Biological Conservation, Sep2008, Vol. 141 Issue 9, p2218-2229, 12p; DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.06.021; (AN 34298304)

Three Years after Katrina: Lessons for Community Resilience. By: Colten, Craig E.; Kates, Robert W.; Laska, Shirley B.. Environment, Sep2008, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p36-47, 12p; (AN 34054389)

Upwelling, species, and depth effects on coral skeletal cadmium-to-calcium ratios (Cd/Ca). By: Matthews, Kathryn A.; Grottoli, Andréa G.; McDonough, William F.; Palardy, James E.. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Sep2008, Vol. 72 Issue 18, p4537-4550, 14p; DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.05.064; (AN 34092294)

Patch structure dynamics and mechanisms of cyclical succession in a Patagonian steppe (Argentina). By: Armas, C.; Pugnaire, F.I.; Sala, O.E.. Journal of Arid Environments, Sep2008, Vol. 72 Issue 9, p1552-1561, 10p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.03.002; (AN 32738438)

Ecological Responses to Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula. By: McClintock, James; Ducklow, Hugh; Fraser, William. American Scientist, Jul/Aug2008, Vol. 96 Issue 4, p302-310, 9p; (AN 32782285)

Brown Superfund Basic Research Program: A multistakeholder partnership addresses real-world problems in contaminated communities By: Senier, L; Hudson, B; Fort, S, et al. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 42(13):4655-4662. July 2008

Defining Linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER Program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) Relates to GCDML and Other Outcomes. By: Inigo San Gil; Wade Sheldon; Tom Schmidt; Mark Servilla; Raul Aguilar; Corinna Gries; Tanya Gray; Dawn Field; James Cole; Jerry Yun Pan; Giri Palanisamy; Donald Henshaw; Margaret O'Brien; Linda Kinkel; Katherine McMahon; Renzo Kottmann; Linda Amaral-Zettler; John Hobbie; Philip Goldstein; Robert P. Guralnick. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, Jun2008, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p151-156, 6p;

Melting Glaciers: A Probable Source of DDT to the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem. By: Geisz, Heidi N.; Dickhut, Rebecca M.; Cochran, Michele A.; Fraser, William R.; Ducklow, Hugh W.. Environmental Science & Technology, 6/1/2008, Vol. 42 Issue 11, p3958-3962, 5p;

Statistics of an unstable barotropic jet from a cumulant expansion. Marston, JB; Conover, E; Schneider, T. JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES  65(6): 1955-1966. June 2008.

Plant functional types do not predict biomass responses to removal and fertilization in Alaskan tussock tundra. By: Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia; Mack, Michelle C.; Goldsmith, Gregory R.; Sloan, Daniel B.; DeMarco, Jennie; Shaver, Gaius R.; Ray, Peter M.; Biesinger, Zy; Chapin III, F. Stuart. Journal of Ecology, Jul2008, Vol. 96 Issue 4, p713-726, 14p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01378.x;

Natural Abundance of 15N in Nitrogen-Limited Forests and Tundra Can Estimate Nitrogen Cycling Through Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Review. By: Hobbie, E.; Hobbie, J.. Ecosystems, Aug2008, Vol. 11 Issue 5, p815-830, 16p, 2 charts, 1 diagram, 5 graphs; DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9159-7

Spatio-temporal patterns of throughfall and solute deposition in an open tropical rain forest.
Zimmermann, Alexander; Germer, Sonja; Neill, Christopher; Krusche, Alex V.; Elsenbeer, Helmut. Journal of Hydrology, Oct2008, Vol. 360 Issue 1-4, p87-102

Consequences of Considering Carbon–Nitrogen Interactions on the Feedbacks between Climate and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle.
Journal of Climate. Aug2008.
Sokolov, Andrei P.; Kicklighter, David W.; Melillo, Jerry M.; Felzer, Benjamin S.; Schlosser, C. Adam; Cronin, Timothy W.. , Vol. 21 Issue 16, p3776-3796

Surface-water freshening: A cause for the onset of North Pacific stratification from 2.75 Ma onward?
Global and Planetary Change, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 7 September 2008
Junsheng Nie, John King, Zhengyu Liu, Steve Clemens, Warren Prell and Xiaomin Fang

Effects of leg loss on male crab spiders Misumena vatia
Animal Behaviour, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 August 2008. Rebecca M. Lutzy and Douglass H. Morse

Microbial biomass, functional capacity, and community structure after 12 years of soil warming
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 17 August 2008
S.D. Frey, R. Drijber, H. Smith and J. Melillo

Impacts of land use, anthropogenic disturbance, and harvesting on an African medicinal liana
Biological Conservation, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2008
Lauren McGeoch, Ian Gordon and Johanna Schmitt

The household energy transition in India and China
Energy Policy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 July 2008 Shonali Pachauri and Leiwen Jiang

The dynamics of city formation
Review of Economic Dynamics, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 June 2008
J. Vernon Henderson and Anthony J. Venables

UPWELLING, SPECIES, AND DEPTH EFFECTS ON CORAL SKELETAL CADMIUM-TO-CALCIUM RATIOS (CD/CA)
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 June 2008
Kathryn A. Matthews, Andréa G. Grottoli, William F. McDonough and James E. Palardy

Organic carbon, and not copper, controls denitrification in oxygen minimum zones of the ocean
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 July 2008
Bess B. Ward, Caroline B Tuit, Amal Jayakumar, Jeremy J. Rich, James Moffett and S. Wajih A. Naqvi

Spatio–temporal patterns of throughfall and solute deposition in an open tropical rain forest
Journal of Hydrology, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 July 2008
Alexander Zimmermann, Sonja Germer, Christopher Neill, Alex V. Krusche and Helmut Elsenbeer

Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Stephen Porder, Peter M. Vitousek, Oliver A. Chadwick, C. Page Chamberlain, and George E. Hilley. Ecosystems (2007) 10: 158–170

Can Sedimentary Leaf Waxes record D/H ratios of Continental Precipitation? Field, Model, and Experimental Assessments
Juzhi Hou, William DÁndrea and Yongsong Huang. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 May 2008

Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading. By: Mulholland, Patrick J.; Helton, Ashley M.; Poole, Geoffrey C.; Hall, Robert O.; Hamilton, Stephen K.; Peterson, Bruce J.; Tank, Jennifer L.; Ashkenas, Linda R.; Cooper, Lee W.; Dahm, Clifford N.; Dodds, Walter K.; Findlay, Stuart E. G.; Gregory, Stanley V.; Grimm, Nancy B.; Johnson, Sherri L.; McDowell, William H.; Meyer, Judy L.; Valett, H. Maurice; Webster, Jackson R.; Arango, Clay P.. Nature, 3/13/2008, Vol. 452 Issue 7184, p202-205, 4p, 4 diagrams; DOI: 10.1038/nature06686;

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. By: KNAPP, ALAN K.; BRIGGS, JOHN M.; COLLINS, SCOTT L.; ARCHER, STEVEN R.; BRET-HARTE, M. SYNDONIA; EWERS, BRENT E.; PETERS, DEBRA P.; YOUNG, DONALD R.; SHAVER, GAIUS R.; PENDALL, ELISE; CLEARY, MEAGAN B.. Global Change Biology, Mar2008, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p615-623, 9p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01512.x;

Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Chapter 47, Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4, 2007, Pages 3051-3083

Top-down and bottom-up control of infauna varies across the saltmarsh landscape. By: Fleeger, J.W.; Johnson, D.S.; Galván, K.A.; Deegan, L.A.. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology, Mar2008, Vol. 357 Issue 1, p20-34, 15p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.12.003;

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses
Edwards, Erika J.; Still, Christopher J.
Ecology Letters. March 1, 2008.

Does drought control emergence and survival of grass seedlings in semi-arid rangelands?: An example with a Patagonian species.
Cipriotti, P.A.; Flombaum, P.; Sala, O.E.; Aguiar, M.R. Journal of Arid Environments. March 2008.

Wavelet analysis of MODIS time series to detect expansion and intensification of row-crop agriculture in Brazil.
Galford, Gillian L.; Mustard, John F.; Melillo, Jerry; Gendrin, Aline; Cerri, Carlos C.; Cerri, Carlos E.P.
Remote Sensing of Environment. February 15, 2008

Hydrogen isotope ratio values of plant leaf lipids are unaffected by a twofold pCO2change in growth chambers
Zhonghui Liu and Yongsong Huang
Organic Geochemistry, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 February 2008

Reconstructing in-situ vegetation dynamics using carbon isotopic composition of biopolymeric residues in the central Chinese Loess Plateau
Weiguo Liu and Yongsong Huang
Chemical Geology, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 February 2008

Eutrophication and Consumer Control of New England Salt Marsh Primary Productivity.
Caitlin; Holdredge E, Christine; Sala, Nicholas
Conservation Biology. February 1 2008. Bertness, Mark D.; Crain,

Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in Chesapeake Bay Sediments.
Rich, Jeremy J.; Dale, Olivia R.; Bongkeun Song; Ward, Bess B
Microbial Ecology. February 1, 2008

Study of the inter-annual food web dynamics in the Kuparuk River with a first-order approximation inverse model By: Wan, Zhenwen; Vallino, Joseph J.; Peterson, Bruce J.. Ecological Modelling, Feb2008, Vol. 211 Issue 1/2, p97-112, 16p; DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.08.022;

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age. By: Lambers, Hans; Raven, John A.; Shaver, Gaius R.; Smith, Sally E.. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Feb2008, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p95-103, 9p; DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2007.10.008; (AN 29375481)

Early onset and origin of 100-kyr cycles in Pleistocene tropical SST records.
Liu, Zhonghui; Cleaveland, Laura C.; Herbert, Timothy D.
Earth & Planetary Science Letters. January 20, 2008

IInteractions between marsh plant species vary in direction and strength depending on environmental and consumer context. Crain, Caitlin Mullan. Journal of Ecology.January 2008.

China's Urban Transition – By John Friedmann. A review by: Logan, John R.. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, Dec2007, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p884-885, 2p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00763_3.x; (AN 27872240)

Cascading events in linked ecological and socio-economic systems: Predicting change in an uncertain world. By: Peters, D., O. Sala, C. Allen, A. Covich, and M. Brunson. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5 (4): 221-224. 2007.

Limpet grazing on a physically stressful Patagonian rocky shore. By: Bazterrica, M. Cielo; Silliman, Brian R.; Hidalgo, Fernando J.; Crain, Caitlin M.; Bertness, Mark D.. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology, Dec2007, Vol. 353 Issue 1, p22-34, 13p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.08.018; (AN 27447011)

Erosion and landscape development decouple strontium and sulfur in the transition to dominance by atmospheric inputs. By: Bern, Carleton R.; Porder, Stephen; Townsend, Alan R.. Geoderma, Dec2007, Vol. 142 Issue 3/4, p274-284, 11p; DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.08.016; (AN 27243753)

C23–C31 n-alkan-2-ones are biomarkers for the genus Sphagnum in freshwater peatlands. By: Nichols, Jonathan E.; Huang, Yongsong. Organic Geochemistry, Nov2007, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p1972-1976, 5p; DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.07.002; (AN 27242930)

A sequential extraction to determine the distribution of apatite in granitoid soil mineral pools with application to weathering at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA. By: Nezat, Carmen A.; Blum, Joel D.; Yanai, Ruth D.; Hamburg, Steven P.. Applied Geochemistry, Nov2007, Vol. 22 Issue 11, p2406-2421, 16p; DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.06.012; (AN 27242400)

Health Status of Temporary Migrants in Urban Areas in Vietnam<sup>1</sup>. By: Nguyen, Liem T.; White, Michael J.. International Migration, Oct2007, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p101-134, 34p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00421.x; (AN 26612290)

Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. By: Daleo, Pedro; Fanjul, Eugenia; Casariego, Agustina Mendez; Silliman, Brian R.; Bertness, Mark D.; Iribarne, Oscar. Ecology Letters, Oct2007, Vol. 10 Issue 10, p902-908, 7p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01082.x; (AN 26451366)

Extracting Phenological Signals From Multiyear AVHRR NDVI Time Series: Framework for Applying High-Order Annual Splines With Roughness Damping. By: Hermance, John F.; Jacob, Robert W.; Bradley, Bethany A.; Mustard, John F.. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Oct2007, Vol. 45 Issue 10, p3264-3276, 13p, 2 charts, 3 graphs, 4bw; DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903044; (AN 26991819)

The Limits of Consensus. By: Oppenheimer, Michael; O'Neill, Brian C.; Webster, Nort; Agrawala, Shardul. Science, 9/14/2007, Vol. 317 Issue 8544, p1505-1506, 2p; (AN 26708098)

Impacts of Demographic Trends on US Household Size and Structure. By: Jiang, Leiwen; O'Neill, Brian C.. Population & Development Review, Sep2007, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p567-591, 25p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00186.x; (AN 26451474)

Century-to-millennial scale climatic variability in Lake Malawi revealed by isotope records. By: Barker, Philip A.; Leng, Melanie J.; Gasse, Françoise; Huang, Yongsong. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, Sep2007, Vol. 261 Issue 1/2, p93-103, 11p; DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.010; (AN 26414002)

Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda–DR Congo). By: Eggermont, Hilde; Russell, James; Schettler, Georg; Damme, Kay; Bessems, Ilse; Verschuren, Dirk. Hydrobiologia, Sep2007, Vol. 592 Issue 1, p151-173, 23p; DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0741-3; (AN 26429899)

Paleolimnological evidence for the onset and termination of glacial aridity from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa. By: Felton, Anna A.; Russell, James M.; Cohen, Andrew S.; Baker, Mark E.; Chesley, John T.; Lezzar, Kiram E.; McGlue, Michael M.; Pigati, Jeffrey S.; Quade, Jay; Curt Stager, J.; Tiercelin, Jean Jacques. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Sep2007, Vol. 252 Issue 3/4, p405-423, 19p; DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.04.003; (AN 26250627)

Confronting the challenges of implementing marine ecosystem-based management. By: Heather M Leslie and Karen L McLeod. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Aug 2007.