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Giardina, C.,New PUb

Giardina, C., M. Coleman, J. Hancock, E. Lilleskov, W. Loya, K. Pregitzer, J. King, M. Ryan and C. Trettin. 2005. The response of belowground carbon allocation in forests to global change. Chapter 7 in D. Binkley and O. Menyailo (eds), The impacts of global climate change on plant--soil interactions. NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Press.

Liu, L., J. King and C. Giardina. 2005. Effects of elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and tropospheric O3 on leaf litter production and chemistry in trembling aspen and paper birch communities. Tree Physiology 25:1511-1522.

Giardina, C., D. Binkley, M. Ryan, J. Fownes, R. Senock. 2004. Belowground carbon cycling in a humid tropical forest decreases with fertilization. Oecologia 139: 545-550.

Hubbard, R., M. Ryan, C. Giardina, and H. Barnard. 2004. The effect of fertilization on sap flux and canopy conductance in a Eucalyptus saligna experimental forest. Global Change Biology 139: 545-550.

Ryan, M., D. Binkley, J. Fownes, C. Giardina, and R. Senock. 2004. An experimental test of the causes of forest growth decline with stand age. Ecological Monographs, 74(3), 2004, pp. 393-414.

Loya, W., K. Pregitzer, N. Karberg, J. King, and C. Giardina. 2003. Reduction of soil carbon formation by tropospheric ozone under elevated carbon dioxide. Nature 425: 705-707.

Giardina, C., M. Ryan, D. Binkley, and J. Fownes. 2003. Primary production and carbon allocation in relation to nutrient supply in an experimental tropical forest. Global Change Biology 9: 1438-1450.

Giardina, C., and M. Ryan. 2002. Total belowground carbon allocation in a fast growing Eucalyptus plantation estimated using a carbon balance approach. Ecosystems 5: 487-499.

Giardina, C., and M. Ryan. 2000. Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature. Nature 404: 858-861.

Giardina, C., and M. Ryan. 2000. Soil warming and organic matter content. Nature 408: 790.

In previous work, I examined the following topics:

A. The effect of tree species, soil type and nutrient additions on carbon and nutrient cycling. Papers and book chapters from this research include:

Funk, J., C. Jones, C. Baker, H. Fuller, C. Giardina and M. Lerdau. 2003. Diurnal variation in the basal emission rate of isoprene. Ecological Applications, 13: 269-278.

Giardina, C., M. Ryan, R. Hubbard and D. Binkley. 2001. Tree species and soil textural controls on carbon and nitrogen mineralization rates. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65: 1272-1279.

Giardina, C., D. White and S. White. 2000. The effects of fertilization on the biomass production of 15 yr old Eucalyptus saligna trees. Journal for Hawaiian and Pacific Agriculture 11: 41-44.

Binkley, D., C. Giardina and M. Bashkin. 2000. Soil phosphorus pools and supply under the influence of Eucalyptus saligna and nitrogen-fixing Albizia falcataria. Forest Ecology and Management 128: 241-247.

Binkley, D., and C. Giardina. 1998. Why do trees species affect soils? The warp and woof of tree-soil interactions. Biogeochemistry 42: 89-106.

Binkley, D., C. Giardina, I. D?ckersmith, D. Morse, K. Tonnesson and T. Maniero. 1997. Status of air quality related values in Class I National Parks and Monuments of the Colorado Plateau. Technical Report of the Air Resources Division-National Park Service (290 p.)

Binkley, D., and C. Giardina. 1997. Nitrogen fixation in tropical forest plantations. Chapter 9 in E. Nambiar and A. Brown, editors. Management of soil, nutrients and water in tropical plantation forests. ACIAR/CSIRO/CIFOR Monograph No. 43, Canberra, Australia.

Giardina, C., S. Huffman, D. Binkley, and B. Caldwell. 1995. Alders increase soil phosphorus availability in a Douglas-fir plantation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 25: 1652-1657.

B. The effects of wild fire and prescribed fire on nutrient and carbon cycles in tropical and temperate ecosystems. Papers from this research include:

Giardina, C., and C. Rhoades. 2001. Clear cutting and burning affect nitrogen supply, phosphorus fractions and seedling growth in soils from a Wyoming lodgepole pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 140: 19-28.

Cromack, K., J. Landsberg, R. Everett, R. Zeleny, C. Giardina, E. Strand, T. Anderson, R. Averill and R. Smyrski. 2000. Assessing the impacts of severe fire on forest ecosystem recovery. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 11: 177-228.

Giardina, C., R. Sanford, Jr. and I. Dockersmith. 2000. Changes in soil phosphorus and nitrogen during slash-and-burn clearing of a dry tropical forest. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64: 399-405.

Giardina, C., R. Sanford, Jr., I. D?ckersmith and V. Jaramillo. 2000. Effects of slash burning on ecosystem nutrients during the land preparation phase of shifting cultivation. Plant and Soil 220: 247-260.

Dockersmith, I., C. Giardina and R. Sanford, Jr. 1999. Persistence of tree related patterns in soil nutrients following slash-and-burn disturbance in the tropics. Plant and Soil 209: 137-156.