CARBONO Project publications, and manuscripts in review/revision (50 total)
(October 2004)

Becker, A. 2000. Comparative study of soil carbon stocks and microbial biomass under old-growth forest and in old pasture, on two tropical soils. Master's Thesis. U. Göttingen, Germany.

Boehm, M. 2000. Landscape-scale variation in soil respiration in a tropical lowland rain forest. Master's Thesis. U. Göttingen, Germany.

Clark, D.A. 2004. Tropical forests & global warming: are they slowing it down? or speeding it up? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:73-80.

Clark, D.A. 2004. Sources or sinks?: the responses of tropical forests to current and future climate and atmospheric composition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 359:477-491.

Clark, D.A. 2002. Are tropical forests an important carbon sink?: reanalysis of the long-term plot data. Ecological Applications 12:3-7.

Clark, D.A., S. Brown, D. Kicklighter, J. Chambers, J.R. Thomlinson, and Jian Ni. 2001. Measuring net primary production in forests: concepts and field methods. Ecological Applications 11:356-370.

Clark, D.A., S. Brown, D. Kicklighter, J. Chambers, J.R. Thomlinson, Jian Ni, and E.A. Holland. 2001. NPP in tropical forests: an evaluation and synthesis of existing field data. Ecological Applications 11: 371-384.

Clark, D.A., S. Brown, D. Kicklighter, J. Chambers, J.R. Thomlinson, Jian Ni, and E.A. Holland. 2001. Appendix 1. Estimates from the literature of net primary productivity in tropical forests. Ecological Archives A011-006.

Clark, D.A., S.C. Piper, C.D. Keeling, and D.B. Clark. 2003. Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984-2000. PNAS 100(10):5852-5857.

Clark, D.B., C. Soto Castro, L.D. Alfaro Alvarado, J.M. Read. 2004. Quantifying mortality of tropical rain forest trees using high-spatial-resolution satellite data. Ecology Letters 7:52-59.

Clark, D.B. 2002. Los factores edáficos y la distribución de las plantas. Pp. 193-221 in M. Guariguata and G. Kattan, eds., Ecología y Conservación de Bosques Neotropicales, Libro Universitario Regional, Cartago, Costa Rica.

Clark, D.B., and D.A. Clark. 2000. Landscape-scale variation in forest structure and biomass in a tropical rain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 137:185-198.

Clark, D.B., D.A. Clark, S. Brown, S.F. Oberbauer, and E.Veldkamp. 2002. Stocks and flows of coarse woody debris across a tropical rain forest nutrient and topography gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 164:237-248.

Clark, D.B, J.M. Read, M.L. Clark, A. Murillo Cruz, M. Fallas Dotti & D.A. Clark. 2004. Application of 1-m and 4-m resolution satellite data to studies of tree demography, stand structure and land use classification in tropical rain forest landscapes. Ecological Applications14:61-74.

Clark, D.B., C. Soto Castro, L.D. Alfaro Alvarado, J.M. Read. 2004. Quantifying mortality of tropical rain forest trees using high-spatial-resolution satellite data. Ecology Letters 7:52-59.

Clark, M.L., D.B. Clark, and D.A. Roberts. 2004. Small-footprint lidar estimation of sub-canopy elevation and tree height in a tropical rain forest landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment 91: 68­89

Davidson, E.A., K. Savage, P. Bolstad, D.A. Clark, P.S. Curtis, D.S. Ellsworth, P.J. Hanson, B.E. Law, Y. Luo, K.S. Pregitzer, J.C. Randolph, and D.Zak. 2002. Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113: 39-51..

Drake, J.B. 2001. Estimation of tropical forest aboveground biomass using large-footprint lidar. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Maryand, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Drake, J.B., R. Dubayah, R. Knox, D. B. Clark, and J. B. Blair. 2002. Sensitivity of large-footprint lidar to canopy structure and biomass in a neotropical rainforest. Remote Sensing of Environment 81:378-392.

Drake, J.B., R.G. Knox, R.O. Dubayah, D.B. Clark, and R. Condit. 2003. Above-ground biomass estimation in closed-canopy Neotropical forests using lidar remote sensing: factors affecting the generality of relationships. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:147-159.

Drake, J.B., R.O. Dubayah, D.B. Clark, R.G. Knox, J.B. Blair, M.A. Hofton, R.L. Chazdon, J.F. Weishampel, and S.D. Prince. 2002. Estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics using large-footprint lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment 79:305-319.

Drake, J.B., R.G. Knox, R.O. Dubayah, D.B. Clark, and R. Condit. 2003. Above-ground biomass estimation in closed-canopy Neotropical forests using lidar remote sensing: factors affecting the generality of relationships. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:147-159.

Englund, S.R., J.J. O'Brien and D.B. Clark. 2000. Evaluation of digital and film hemispherical photography and spherical densiometry for measuring forest light environments. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30:1999-2005.

Fichtler, E., D.A. Clark, and M. Worbes. 2003. Age and long-term growth of trees in an old-growth tropical rain forest, based on analyses of tree rings and 14C. Biotropica 35(3):306-317.

Geron, C., A. Guenther, J. Greenberg, H.W. Loescher, B. Baker, and D.A. Clark. 2002. Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from a rain forest in Costa Rica. Atmospheric Environment 36(23): 3793-3802.

Heincke, M. 1999. Spatial and temporal variation in dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) down the soil profile, in a tropical lowland rain forest. Master's Thesis. U. Hohenheim, Germany.

Hurtt, G. C., R. Dubayah, J. Drake, P. R. Moorcroft, S. W. Pacala, J. B. Blair, and M. G. Fearon. 2004. Beyond potential vegetation: combining LIDAR data and a height-structured model for carbon studies. Ecological Applications 14:873-883.

Karl,T., M. Potosnak, A. Guenther, D.A. Clark, J. Walker, J. Herrick, C. Geron. In revision. Exchange processes of volatile organic compounds above a tropical rainforest - implications for modeling tropospheric chemistry above dense vegetation. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Kleber, M., L. Schwendenmann, E. Veldkamp, J. Rossner, R. Jahn. In review. Mineralogical characterization of the dominant terra firme soils in a lowland neotropical rain forest (La Selva, Costa Rica). Geoderma.

Loescher, H.W., S.F. Oberbauer, J.S. Powers, and A.J. Hiremath. 2002. Spatial variation of throughfall volume in an old-growth tropical wet forest, Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:397-407.

Loescher, H.G., S.F. Oberbauer, H.L. Gholz and D.B. Clark. 2003. Environmental controls on net ecosystem-level carbon exchange and productivity in a Central American tropical wet forest. Global Change Biology 9:396-412.

Loescher, H.G., Bentz, S.F. Oberbauer, Ghosh, Tompson, Loyalka. 2004. Characterization and dry deposition of carbonaceous aerosols in a wet tropical forest canopy. Journal of Geophysical Research 109, D02309, doi:10.1029/2002JD003353.

Lovelock CE, SR Wright, KA Nichols. In press. Using glomalin as an indicator for arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphal growth: an example from a tropical rain forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Lovelock, C.E., S. Wright, D.A. Clark, and R.W. Ruess. 2004. Soil stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a tropical rain forest landscape. Journal of Ecology 92: 278-287.

Morehead, S.A. 2001. Geographic variation in host location cues for a dipteran parasitoid of Paraponera clavata. Biotropica 33(3): 495-501.

Murillo Cruz, A., and M. Fallas Dotti. 2001. Georectificación de alta precisión de imágenes del satélite IKONOS y su aplicación a estudios de ecología forestal en la Estación Biológica La Selva. Undergraduate Thesis, School of Forestry, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.

O'Brien, J.J., S.F. Oberbauer, and D.B. Clark. 2004. Whole tree xylem sap flow responses to multiple environmental variables in a wet tropical forest. Plant, Cell, and Environment 27: 551­567.

Oberbauer, S.F., H. Loescher, and D. B. Clark 2000. Effects of climate factors on daytime carbon exchange from an old-growth forest in Costa Rica. Selbyana 21:66-73 (Proceedings of the Second International Forest Canopies Conference-Forest Canopies 1998: Global Perspectives (Part IV))

O'Brien J.J., and S.F. Oberbauer. 2001. An inexpensive portable meter to read soil moisture probes. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 65:1081-1083

O'Brien, J. J. 2001. The effects of climate on the growth and physiology of tropical rain forest canopy trees. Ph.D. Dissertation. Florida International University, Miami FL.
Palmer, M.W., D.B. Clark, and D.A. Clark. 2000. Is the number of tree species in small tropical forest plots nonrandom? Community Ecology 1:95-101.

Peterson, B.E. 2000. Recovery of forest canopy heights using large-footprint lidar. Master's Thesis. Department of Geography. University of Maryland, College Park. 58 pp.

Schwendenmann, L. 2002. Below-ground carbon dynamics as a function of climate variability in undisturbed soils of a neotropical rain forest. Ph.D Dissertation. University of Goettingen. (Berichtsreihe des Forschungszentrums Waldökosysteme. Reihe A 184).

Schwendenmann L., E. Veldkamp, T. Brenes, J.J. O'Brien, J. Mackensen. 2003. Spatial and temporal variation in soil CO2 efflux in an old-growth neotropical rain forest, La Selva, Costa Rica. Biogeochemistry 64: 111-128.

Schwendenmann, L., and E. Veldkamp. In press. Dynamics of dissolved organic carbon, dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved inorganic nitrogen in a tropical wet forest. Ecosystems.

Solano Valverde, V. 2000. Estudio de la diversidad, abundancia y distribuciónde palmas en bosques primarios y secundarios de la región Huétar Norte, Sarapiquí. Undergraduate Thesis, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.

Veldkamp, E. and J.J. O'Brien. 2000. Calibration of a frequency domain reflectrometry sensor for humid tropical soils of volcanic origin. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64: 1549-1553.

Veldkamp, E., A. Becker, L. Schwendenmann, D.A. Clark, and H. Schulte-Bisping. 2003. Substantial labile carbon stocks and microbial activity in deeply weathered soils below a tropical wet forest. Global Change Biology 9: 1171-1184.

Wood,T., D. Lawrence, and D. A. Clark. In press. Precipitation drives variation in leaf litter nutrients of a Costa Rican rain forest. Biogeochemistry.

Wood,T., D. Lawrence, and D. A. Clark. In review. Determinants of leaf litter nutrient cycling in a tropical rain forest: fertility versus topography. Ecosystems.