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Chapter 9. Biology and Water Science

Representative Selection of CIRES Publications in Biology and Water Science

Asner, G. P., C. A. Wessman, and D. S. Schimel. 1998. Spatial heterogeneity of plant canopy structure and function in a sub-tropical savanna from imaging spectrometry. Ecological Applications 8:1022-1036.

Asner, G. P., C. A. Wessman, and S. Archer. 1998. Scale dependence of PAR absorption in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecological Applications 8:1003-1021.

Bateson, C. A., G. P. Asner, and C. A. Wessman. 2000. Endmember bundles: a new approach to incorporating endmember variability into spectral mixture analysis. Trans. On Geoscience and Remote Sensing 38:1083-1094.

Burke, I .C., W. K. Lauenroth, and C. A. Wessman. 1998. Progress in understanding biogeochemical cycles at regional and global scales. Pages 165-194. In: Successes, Limitations, and Frontiers in Ecosystem Ecology. Groffman, P. and M. Pace, Editors. New York: Springer.

Chase, T. N., R. A. Pielke, Sr., T.G.F. Kittel, R. Nemani, and S. W. Running. 2000. Simulated impacts of historical land cover changes on global climate in northern winter. Climate Dynamics 16:93-105.

Copley, S. D. 1997. Diverse mechanistic approaches to difficult chemical transformations: microbial dehalogenation of chlorinated aromatic compounds. Chemistry and Biology 4:169-174.

Copley, S. D. 1999. Microbial Dehalogenases. In: Enzymes, Enzyme Mechanisms, Proteins, and Aspects of NO Chemistry. C. D. Poulter, editor., Vol. 5 of Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry, D. Barton and K. Nakanishi, Editor. Oxford: Elsevier.

Copley, S. D. 2000. Evolution of a metabolic pathway for degradation of a toxic xenobiotic: the patchwork approach. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 26:261-265.

de Gouw, J. A., C. J. Howard, T. G. Custer, and R. Fall. 1999. Emissions of volatile organic compounds from cut grass and clover are enhanced during the drying process. Geophysical Research Letters 26:811-814.

Dole R. 2001. Predicting climate variations in the Interior West: What are our prospects? In: Managing Western Water Resources in an Uncertain Climate. W. M. Lewis, Jr., editor. University Press of Colorado. Boulder, CO.

Fall, R. R., J. L. Brown, and T. L. Schaeffer. 1979. Enzyme recruitment allows the biodegradation of recalcitrant branched hydrocarbons by Pseudomonas citronellolis. Applied Environmental Microbiology 38:715-722.

Fall, R., D. Albritton, W. Kuster, F. C. Fehsenfeld, and P. Goldan. 1988. Laboratory studies on the factors regulating sulfur emissions from plants. Journal Atmospheric Chemistry 6:341-362.

Fall, R. and M. C. Wildermuth. 1998. Isoprene synthase: from biochemical mechanism to emission algorithm. Journal of Geophysical Research 103:25599-25609.

Fall, R. and S. D. Copley. 2000. Bacterial sources and sinks in isoprene, a reactive atmospheric hydrocarbon. Environmental Microbiology 2:123-130.

Fall, R., T. Karl, A. Jordan, and W. Lindinger. 2001. Biogenic C5 VOCs: release from leaves after freeze-thaw wounding and occurrence in air at high mountain observatory. Atmospheric Environment 35:3905-3916.

Gupta, V. K. 2000. Analysis and asymptotics of multiscale hydrologic phenomena on river networks. DYNA 128:53-61.

Hudak, A. T. and C. A. Wessman. 2000. Deforestation in Mwanza District, Malawi, Africa from 1981 to 1992 as determined from Landsat MSS imagery. Applied Geography 20:155-175.

Hudak, A. T. and C. A. Wessman. 2001. Textural analysis of high resolution imagery to quantify bush encroachment of Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. 1955- 1996. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22:2731-2740.

Lerdau, M. T. A. B. Guenther, and R. K. Monson. 1997. Plant production and emission of volatile organic compounds. BioScience 47:373-383.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. and M. C. Grant. 1980. Acid precipitation in the Western United States. Science 206:176-177.

Lewis, W. M. Jr., M. C. Grant, and J. F. Saunders, III. 1984. Chemical patterns of atmospheric deposition in the state of Colorado. Water Resources Research 20: 1691-1704.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. 1987. The cost of sex. In : The Evolution of Sex and Its Consequences. S. Stearns, editor. Birkhauser Verlag. pp 33-57.

Lewis, W. M. Jr., J. M. Melack, W. H. McDowell, M. McClain, and J. E. Richey. 1999. Nitrogen yields from undisturbed watersheds in the Americas. Biogeochemistry 46:149-162.

Lewis, W. M. Jr., S. K. Hamilton, M. A. Lasi, M. Rodriguez, and J. F. Saunders, III. 2000. Ecological determinism on the Orinoco floodplain. Bioscience 50:681-692.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. 2001. Yield of nitrogen from undisturbed watersheds of the United States and its relationship to nitrogen deposition. Biogeochemistry 57/58:375- 385.

Lewis, W. M. Jr., S. K. Hamilton, M. A. Lasi, M. Rodriguez, and J. F. Saunders, III. 2001. A foodweb analysis of the Orinoco floodplain based on production estimates and stable isotope data. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20:241-254.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. 2001. Wetlands Explained. Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America. Oxford University Press. New York, NY.

Litvak, M. T. and R. K. Monson. 1998. Patterns of constitutive and induced monoterpene production in coniferous needles in relation to herbivory. Oecologia 114:531-540.

Monson, R. K. and S. R. Szarek. 1979. Ecophysiological studies of Sonoran Desert plants. V. Photosynthetic adaptations of Machaeranthera gracilis, a winter annual. Oecologia 41: 317-327.

Monson, R. K. and S. D. Smith. 1982. Seasonal water potential components of Sonoran Desert plants. Ecology 63:113-123.

Monson, R. K. and R. Fall. 1989. Isoprene emission from aspen leaves. The influence of environment and relation to photosynthesis and photorespiration. Plant Physiology 90: 267-274.

Monson, R. K., M. T. Lerdau, T. D. Sharkey, D. S. Schimel, and R. Fall. 1995. Biological aspects of constructing biogenic hydrocarbon emission inventories. Atmospheric Environment 29:2989-3002.

Monson, R. K. 1999. The origins of C4 genes and evolutionary patter in the C4 photosynthesis. In: C4 Plant Biology, R. Sage and R. K. Monson, editors. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 551-584.

Monson, R. K. and E. Holland. 2001. Biospheric trace gas fluxes and their control over troposheric chemistry. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32:547- 576.

National Research Council. 1991. Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.

Parody-Morreale, A., K. P. Murphy, E. Di Cera, R. Fall, A. L. De Vries, and S. J. Gill. 1988. Inhibition of bacterial ice nucleators by fish antifreeze glycoproteins. Nature 333:782-783.

Raab, T. K., D. A. Lipson, and R. K. Monson. 1999. Soil amino acid utilization among species of the Cyperceae: plant and soil processes. Ecology 80:2408-2419.

Saunders, J. F. III and W. M. Lewis, Jr. 2001. Implications of climate variability for regulatory low flows in the South Platte Basin, Colorado. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (in review).

Wessman, C. A., J. D. Aber, D. L. Peterson, and J.M. Melillo. 1988. Remote sensing of canopy chemistry and nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems. Nature 336:154-156.

Wessman, C. A., J. D. Aber, and D. L. Peterson. 1989. An evaluation of imaging spectrometry for estimating forest canopy chemistry. International Journal of Remote Sensing 10: 1293-1316.

Wessman, C. A., C. A. Bateson, and T. L. Benning. 1997. Detecting fire and grazing patterns in tallgrass prairie using spectral mixture analysis. Ecological Applications 7:493-511.


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