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Roger Ruess

Roger Ruess
Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7153
Telephone (secondary):
Fax: (907) 474-6967
E-mail1 (primary): rwruess@alaska.edu
E-mail2 (secondary):
Web URL: http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~roger_ruess/

Address:
Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757000
Fairbanks, AK 99775-0180
United States
Official position at
address above:		 Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
Educational Institutions
attended:		 Ph.D.-University of North Dakota
Roles/Affiliations: Institute of Arctic Biology

Study Areas

Core Areas: Disturbance
Inorganic Fluxes
Organic Matter/Decomposition
Populations
Primary Production
Categories: Biogeochemistry
Disturbance
Primary Production
Stand Structure
Succession
Trophic Interactions
Vegetation
Keywords:

Datasets

  • Acetylene reduction and 15N2 uptake rates for Alnus tenuifolia and Alnus crispa in six different successional habitats
  • Age, size, and disease severity of thinleaf alder stems along the Tanana River floodplains, collected in 2006 and 2007.
  • Alder Canker Survey Initiated 2005
  • Effects of mammalian browsing on fine root processes and production in the floodplains of BCEF
  • Effects of stem canker disease on N fixation inputs by Alnus tenuifolia to early-successional floodplains in interior and south-central Alaska. II. Nodule biomass and incidence of canker for individual genets.
  • Effects of stem canker disease on N fixation inputs by Alnus tenuifolia to early-successional floodplains in interior and south-central Alaska. I. Nitrogen fixation rates, leaf chemistry and soil chemistry.
  • Fine root and coarse root biomass in Bonaza Creek Experimental Forest: 1990-1991
  • Fine root length and width measurements from digitized minirhizotron images from the floodplains of BCEF
  • Fine root respiration on the floodplain in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest
  • Height of Dominant Woody Plants Inside and Outside Exclosures Located in FP1
  • Litterfall and Hare Pellet Summary at Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Control Plots (1985 - Present)
  • N-fixation rate and leaf N content in two species of Alnus and their relationship to diversity of symbiotic Frankia
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline V. Insitu Nitrogen mineralization
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline VI. Common Litter Decomposition
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline VII. Laboratory Decomposition
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline. I. Study Sites and Vegetation
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline. II. Percent Soil Carbon and Nitrogen
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline. III. Total Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Content
  • Nitrogen cycling at treeline. IV. Soil Profile Descriptions
  • Patterns of and controls over nitrogen inputs by green alder (Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa) to a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska I - N2 Fixation and Soil Temperature
  • Patterns of and controls over nitrogen inputs by green alder (Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa) to a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska II - Soil Physical and Chemical Properties
  • Seasonal patterns of nitrogen fixation by Alnus tenuifolia within successional floodplain forests of the Bonaza Creek Experimantal Forest: 1992
  • Soil Respiration in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Floodplain Black Spruce Sites
  • Soil Respiration in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest from Upland and Floodplain sites 1990-1992
  • Standardized ring-width chronologies of thinleaf alder growth along the Tanana River floodplains spanning 1968-2006.
  • Stem diameter of trees and shrubs in thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains and severity of stem canker infection of alder in 2006.
  • Summary of environmental and stand characteristics of thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains from 2006-2007.
  • Summary of plant community structure of thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains from 2006.
  • Tree band growth data taken at BCEF sites (1989 -Present)
  • White Spruce NPP per tree and per ha averaged across a 15 year period (1993 to 2008)
  • White Spruce NPP per tree calculated from dendrometer bands annually from 1994 to 2008
  • White Spruce NPP: average NPP per tree by age cohort for 4 time periods between 1993 and 2008
  • White Spruce NPP: average NPP per tree by diameter sizeclass for 4 time periods between 1993 and 2008
  • White Spruce NPP: Tree density and basal area by diameter sizeclass in upland and floodplain mid- and late-successional stands: 1989-2008
  • White spruce tree diameter vs age
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    Publications (40)

    Journal Articles:

    Ruess, R.W., K. Van Cleve, J. Yarie and L.A. Viereck. 1996. Comparative estimates of fine root production in successional taiga forests on the Alaskan interior. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26:1326-1336.

    Kielland, K., J.P. Bryant and R. Ruess. 1997. Mammalian herbivory and carbon turnover in early successional stands in interior Alaska. Oikos 80:25-30.

    Ruess, R.W., R.L. Hendrick and J.P. Bryant. 1998 Regulation of fine root dynamics by mammalian browsers in early successional Alaskan taiga forests. Ecology 79:2706-2720.

    Schimel, J.P., R.G. Cates and R. Ruess. 1998 The role of balsam poplar secondary chemicals in controlling nutrient dynamics through succession in the Alaskan taiga. Biogeochemistry 42:221-234.

    Uliassi, D.D., K. Huss-Danell, R.W. Ruess and K. Doran. 2000. Biomass allocation and nitrogenase activity in Alnus tenuifolia: responses to successional soil type and phosphorus availability. Ecoscience 7:73-79.

    Chapin, F.S. and R.W. Ruess. 2001 The roots of the matter. Nature 411:749-752.

    Doran, K., R.W. Ruess, F.G. Plumley and T Wurtz. 2001. Photosynthetic responses of white spruce saplings (Picea glauca) to controlled density gradients of spruce and green alder (Alnus crispa). Ecoscience 8:76-88.

    Burton, A.J., K.S. Pregitzer, R.W. Ruess and R.L. Hendrick. 2002 Fine root respiration rates in North American forests: effects of nitrogen concentration and temperature across biomes. Oecologia 131:559-568.

    McFarland, J.M., R.W. Ruess, K Kielland and A Doyle. 2002 Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid N in soils of a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem. Ecosystems 5:775-788.

    Pregitzer, K.S., J.L. DeForest, A.J. Burton, M.F. Allen, R.W. Ruess and R.L. Hendrick. 2002 Fine root architecture of nine North American trees. Ecological Monographs 72:293-309.

    Uliassi, D.D. and R.W. Ruess. 2002 Limitations to symbiotic nitrogen fixation in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain, Alaska. Ecology 83:88-103.

    Crocker, T.L., R.L. Hendrick, R.W. Ruess, K.S. Pregitzer, A.J. Burton, M.F. Allen, J. Shan and L.A. Morris. 2003 Substituting root numbers for length: Improving the use of minirhizotrons to study fine root dynamics. Applied Soil Ecology 23:127-135.

    Ruess, R.W., R.L. Hendrick, A.J. Burton, K.S. Pregitzer, B. Sveinbjornsson, M.F. Allen and G. Maurer. 2003 Coupling fine root dynamics with ecosystem carbon cycling in black spruce forests of interior Alaska. Ecological Monographs 74:643-662.

    Anderson, M.D., R.W. Ruess, D.D. Uliassi and J.S. Mitchell. 2004 Estimating N2 fixation in two species of Alnus in interior Alaska using acetylene reduction and 15N2 uptake. Ecoscience 11:102-112.

    Brenner, R.E., Boone, R.D., and Ruess, R.W. 2005. Nitrogen Additions to Pristine, High-Latitude, Forest Ecosystems: Consequences for Soil Nitrogen Transformations and Retention in Mid and Late Succession. Biogeochemistry 72: 257-282.

    Vogel, J.G., D.W. Valentine, and R.W. Ruess. 2005 Soil and root respiration in mature Alaskan black spruce forests that vary in soil organic matter decomposition rates. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:161-174.

    Brenner, RE, RD Boone, JB Jones, K Lajtha, RW Ruess. 2006 Successional and physical controls on the retention of nitrogen in an undisturbed boreal forest ecosystem. Oecologia.DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0399-y pages 602-611.

    Chapin, F.S., III, M.D. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, G.P Kofinas R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D.C. Natcher, and R.L. Naylor. 2006 Directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems: A framework for prediction based on Alaskan examples. American Naturalist 168:S36-S49

    Kielland. K., K. Olson, R.W. Ruess, and R.D. Boone. 2006 Contribution of winter processes to soil nitrogen flux in taiga forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 81(3):349-360

    Loomis, T.,R. Ruess,B.Sveinbjornsson, and K. Kielland. 2006 Nitrogen cycling at treeline: Latitudinal and elevational patterns across a boreal landscape. 2006. Ecoscience 13(4):544-556

    Lovelock, C. E., R. W. Ruess, and I. C. Feller. 2006. Root respiration in Rhizophora mangle over variation in forest stature and nutrient availability. Tree Physiology 26:1601-1606.

    Ruess, R. W., M. D. Anderson, J. S.Mitchell, and J. W. McFarland. 2006. Effects of defoliation on growth and N2-fixation in Alnus tenuifolia: Consequences for changing disturbance regimes at high latitudes. Ecoscience 13:402-412.

    Zhang, X., A.D. McGuire, and R.W. Ruess. 2006 Scaling uncertainties in estimating canopy foliar maintenance respiration for black spruce ecosystems in Alaska. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change,Volume 11(1):147-171, DOI: 10.107/s11027-006-1015-5.

    Kielland, K., J.W. McFarland, R.W. Ruess, and K. Olson. 2007 Rapid organic nitrogen cycling in taiga forest ecosystems. Ecosystems (2007) 10: 360–368. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9037-8

    Ely, C.R., J.M. Pearce, and R.W. Ruess. 2008 Nesting biology of Lesser Canada Geese, Branta canadensis parvipes, along the Tanana River, Alaska. Canadian Field-Naturalist 122(1): 29-33.

    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

    Anderson, M.D., R.W. Ruess, D.D. Myrold, and D.L. Taylor. 2009 Host species and habitat affect nodulation by specific Frankia genotypes in two species of Alnus in interior Alaska. Oecologia 160:619-630. DOI:10.1007/s00442-009-1330-0

    Chapin, III, F.S., J. McFarland, A. D. McGuire, E. Euskirchen, R. W. Ruess, and K. Kielland. 2009 The changing global carbon cycle: Linking local plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences. Journal of Ecology 97:840-850. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01529.x

    McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, K.S. Pregitzer, R. Hendrick and M. Allen. 2009. Cross-ecosystem comparisons of in situ plant uptake of amino acid-N and NH4+. Ecosystems (in press).

    McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, R. Hendrick, and K.S. Pregitzer. 2009. In situ glycine mineralization is closely associated to soil carbon availability across six North American forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry (in press).

    Mitchell, J.S., and R.W. Ruess. 2009 Seasonal patterns of climate controls over nitrogen fixation by Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa in a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska. Ecoscience 16(3): 341-351.

    Mitchell, J.S., and R.W. Ruess. 2009 N2-fixing alder (Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa) effects on soil properties across a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska. Biogeochemistry 95: 215-229. DOI 10.1007/s10533-009-9332-x

    Ruess, R.W., J.M. McFarland, L.M. Trummer, and J.K. Rohrs-Richey. 2009 Disease-mediated declines in N-fixation inputs by Alnus tenuifolia to early-successional floodplains in interior and south-central Alaska. Ecosystems 12: 489-502.


    Books:


    Book Chapters:

    Bledsoe, C.S., T.J. Fahey, F.P. Day and R.W. Ruess. 1999. Measurement of static root parameters - biomass, length, and distribution in the soil profile. Pages 413-436 in G.P. Robertson, D.C. Coleman, C.S. Bledsoe and P. Sollins, editors. Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.

    Fahey, T.J., C.J. Bledsoe, F.P. Day, R.W. Ruess and A.J.M. Smucker. 1999. Fine root production and demography. Pages 378-412 in G.P. Robertson, D.C. Coleman, C.S. Bledsoe and P. Sollins, editors. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.

    Myrold, D.D., R.W. Ruess and M. Klug. 1999. Dinitrogen fixation. Pages 241-257 in G.P. Robertson, C.S. Bledsoi, D.C. Coleman and P. Sollins, editors. Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.

    Paul, E.A., D. Harris, M. Klug and R.W. Ruess. 1999. The determination of microbial biomass. Pages 291-317 in G.P. Robertson, C.S. Bledsoi, D.C. Coleman and P. Sollins, editors. Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S., III, A.D. McGuire, R.W. Ruess, M.W. Walker, R. Boone, M. Edwards, B. Finney, L.D. Hinzman, J. B. Jones, G.P. Juday, E.S. Kasischke, K. Kielland, A.H. Lloyd, M.W. Oswood, C.-L. Ping, E. Rexstad, V. Romanovsky, J. Schimel, E. Sparrow, B. Sveinbjornsson, D.W. Valentine, K. Van Cleve, D.L. Verbyla, L.A. Viereck, R.A. Werner, T.L. Wurtz, and J. Yarie.. 2006. Summary and synthesis: Past and future changes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 332-338 in F.S. Chapin, III, M. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

    Kielland, K., J. P. Bryant, and R. W. Ruess. 2006. Mammalian herbivory, ecosystem engineering, and ecological cascades in Alaskan boreal forests. Pages 211-226 in F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla, editors. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

    Ruess, R. W., R. L. Hendrick, J. G. Vogel, and B. Sveinbjornsson. 2006. The role of fine roots in the functioning of Alaskan boreal forests. Pages 189-210 in F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla, editors. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.


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