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Michelle Mack

Michelle Mack

Telephone (primary): (352) 846-2510
Telephone (secondary): (352) 692-5553
Fax: (352) 392-3993
E-mail1 (primary): mcmack@botany.ufl.edu
E-mail2 (secondary):
Web URL: http://web.botany.ufl.edu/people/faculty/faculty-mack-michelle.html

Address:
220 Bartram Hall Department of Botany University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8526
United States

Official position at
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Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
Educational Institutions
attended:
Ph.D., 1998, Integrative Biology, University of California-Berkeley
B.A. and B.S., 1990, Literature and Biology, Evergreen State College

Roles/Affiliations: Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Florida Botany Department

Study Areas

Core Areas: Organic Matter/Decomposition
Primary Production
Categories: Biogeochemistry
Disturbance
Primary Production
Soils
Stand Structure
Succession
Vegetation
Keywords:

Datasets

  • Aboveground component weights (weight and dry) for the major tree species found in interior Alaska
  • Black spruce allometric measurements: 2000 - 2001

  • Publications (14)

    Journal Articles:

    Chapin, F.S. III, E.S. Zavaleta, V.T. Eviner, R.L. Naylor, P.M. Vitousek, H.L. Reynolds, D.U. Hooper, S. Lavorel, O.E. Sala, S.E. Hobbie, M.C. Mack and S. Diaz. 2000 Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405:234-242.

    Schuur, E.A.G., M.C. Mack, J.W. Harden and S.E. Trumbore. 2003 The isotopic composition of carbon dioxide from a boreal forest fire: inferring carbon loss from measurements and modeling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(1), 1001.

    Smithwick, E. A. H., M. C. Mack, M. G. Turner, F. S. Chapin, III, J. Zhu, and T.C. Balser. 2005 Spatial heterogeneity and soil nitrogen dynamics in a burned black spruce forest stand: Distinct controls at different scales. Biogeochemistry 76:517-537.

    Smithwick, E., M. Turner, M. Mack and F.S. Chapin III. 2005 Postfire Soil N Cycling in Norther Conifer Forests Affected by Severe, Stand-Replacing Wildfires. Ecosystems 8(163-181).

    Randerson, J. T., H. Liu, M. Flanner, S. D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P. G. Hess, G. Pfister, M. C. Mack, K. K. Treseder, L. Welp, F. S. Chapin, III, J. W. Harden, M. L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J. C. Neff, E. A. G. Schuur, and C. Zender. 2006 The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming. Science 314:1130-1132.

    Schuur, E.A.G., K.G. Crummer, J.G. Vogel, and M.C. Mack. 2007 Plant Species Composition and Productivity following Permafrost Thaw and Thermokarst in Alaskan Tundra. Ecosystems. DOI:10.1007/s10021-007-9024-0

    Mack, M.C., K.K. Treseder, K.L. Manies, J.W. Harden, E.A.G. Schuur, J.G. Vogel, J.T. Randerson, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2008 Recovery of aboveground plant biomass and productivity after fire in mesic and dry black spruce forests of Interior Alaska. Ecosystems 11:209-225 DOI:10.1007/s10021-007-9117-9

    Nowinski, N., S.E. Trumbore, E.A.G. Schuur, M.C. Mack, and G.R. Shaver. 2008 Nutrient addition prompts rapid destabilization of organic matter in an arctic tundra ecosystem. Ecosystems 11:16-25. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9104-1

    Vogel, J.G., B.P. Bond-Lamberty, E.A.G. Schuur, S.T. Gower, M.C. Mack, K.E.B. O'Connell, D.W. Valentine, and R.W. Ruess. 2008 Plant carbon allocation varies with soil temperature in boreal black spruce forests: Implications for ecosystem response to climate change. Global Change Biology (2008) 14, 1-14. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01600.x

    Craine, J.M., A.J. Elmore, M.P.M. Aidar, R.G. Amundson, M. Bustamante, C. Coetsee, T.E. Dawson, H.J. Hawkins, E.A. Hobbie, A. Kahmen, K. Koba, M.C. Mack, M.I. Makarov, K.K. McLauchlan, A. Michelsen, G.B. Nardoto, L.H. Pardo, J. Penuelas, P.B. Reich, E.A.G. Schuur, W.D. Stock, R. Tateno, P.H. Templer, R.A. Virginia, J.M. Welker, I.J. Wright. 2009. Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. New Phytologist, in press.

    Johnstone, J.F., L. Boby, E. Tissier, M. C. Mack, D. L. Verbyla, and X. Walker. 2009. Post-fire seed rain of black spruce, a semi-serotinous conifer, in forests of interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, in press.

    Johnstone, J.F., T.N. Hollingsworth, F.S. Chapin, III, and M.C. Mack. 2009 Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02051.x


    Books:


    Book Chapters:

    Turetsky, M.R., Mack, M.C., Harden, J.W., and Manies, K.L.. 2005. Spatial patterning of soil carbon storage across boreal landscapes. In Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes. Edited by Lovett, G.M., Jones, C.G., Turner, M.G., and Weathers, K.C. Springer, New York. pp. 229-255.


    Conference Proceedings:


    Report:

    Yarie, J., E. Kane, M. Mack. 2007. Aboveground Biomass Equations for the Trees of Interior Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks; Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Bulletin 115.


    Thesis and Dissertations:


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