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Ted Schuur

Edward Schuur

Telephone (primary): (352) 392-7913
Telephone (secondary): (352) 392-1175
Fax: (352) 392-3993
E-mail1 (primary): tschuur@ufl.edu
E-mail2 (secondary):
Web URL: http://ecology.botany.ufl.edu/ecosystemdynamics/schuur/

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

Official position at
address above:
Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
Educational Institutions
attended:
Ph.D., 1999, Soil Science/Ecosystem Ecology, University of California/Berkeley
B.S., 1991, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan

Roles/Affiliations: University of Florida Botany Department

Study Areas

Core Areas: Disturbance
Inorganic Fluxes
Organic Matter/Decomposition
Primary Production
Categories: Biogeochemistry
Disturbance
Primary Production
Soils
Keywords: carbon
carbon balance
climate change
disturbance
fires
greenhouse gas
isotopes
nitrogen
old carbon
permafrost
radiocarbon
thaw
thermokarst

Datasets

  • Eight Mile Lake gradient sites: Growing season soil profile CO2 production at 10, 20, 30, and 40 cm from 2005 to 2007
  • Soil nitrogen and carbon from organic and mineral soil of 32 mature black spruce sites across interior Alaska (Sampled 2001)
  • The impact of permafrost thaw on ecosystem carbon balance: Eight Mile Lake soil carbon and nitrogen.
  • The impact of permafrost thaw on ecosystem carbon balance: Plant species composition and productivity following permafrost thaw and thermokarst in Alaskan tundra

  • Publications (22)

    Journal Articles:

    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.

    Kane, E.S., Valentine, D.W., Schuur, E.A.G., Dutta, K. 2005 Soil carbon stabilization along climate and stand productivity gradients in black spruce forests of interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2118-2129.

    Dutta, K., E.A.G Schuur, J.C. Neff, and S.A. Zimov. 2006 Potential carbon release from permafrost soils of Northeast Siberia. Global Change Biology 12:2336-2351.

    Neff, J.C., J.C. Finlay, S.A. Zimov, S.P. Davydov, J.J. Carrasco, E.A.G. Schuur, and A.I. Davydova. 2006 Seasonal changes in the age and structure of dissolved organic carbon in Siberian rivers and streams. Geophysical Research Letters 33:L23401

    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., and S. E. Trumbore. 2006 Partitioning Sources of Soil Respiration in Boreal Black Spruce Forest Using Radiocarbon. Global Change Biology 12(2):165-176. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01066.x

    Zimov, S.A., S.P. Davydov, G.M. Zimova, A.I. Davydova, E.A.G. Schuur, K. Dutta, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006 Permafrost carbon: Stock and decomposability of a globally significant carbon pool. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L20502, doi:10.1029/2006GL027484.

    Zimov, SA, EAG Schuur, FS Chapin. 2006 Permafrost and the global carbon budget. Science 312:1612-1613.

    Schuur, E.A.G., J.G. Vogel, K.G. Crummer, K. Dutta, H. Lee, C. Trucco, and J. Sickman. 2007 Using Radiocarbon to Detect Change in Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in Response to Permafrost Thawing. Physical Environment and Sciences. p36-38.

    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

    Hollingsworth, T.N, E.A.G. Schuur, F.S. Chapin, III, and M.D. Walker. 2008 Plant community composition as a predictor of regional soil carbon storage in Alaskan boreal black spruce ecosystems. Ecosystems 11(4): 629-642.

    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

    Schuur, E.A.G., J. Bockheim, J. Canadell, E. Euskirchen, C.B. Field, S.V Goryachkin, S. Hagemann, P. Kuhry, P. Lafleur, H. Lee, G. Mazhitova, F. E. Nelson, A. Rinke, V. Romanovsky, N. Shiklomanov, C. Tarnocai, S. Venevsky, J. G. Vogel, S.A. Zimov. 2008 Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: Implications for the global carbon cycle. BioScience 58(8): 701-714. doi:10.1641/B580807

    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

    Walter, K.M., J.P. Chanton, F.S. Chapin III, E.A.G. Schuur, and S.A. Zimov. 2008 Methane production and bubble emissions from arctic lakes: Isotopic implications for source pathways and ages, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G00A08, doi:10.1029/2007JG000569.1.

    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.

    Osterkamp, T.E., M.T. Jorgenson, E.A.G. Schuur, Y.L. Shur, M.Z. Kanevsky, J.G. Vogel, and V.E. Tumskoy. 2009. Physical and ecological changes associated with warming. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, in press.

    Schuur, E.A.G., J.G. Vogel, K.G. Crummer, H. Lee, J.O. Sickman, and T.E. Osterkamp. 2009 The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundra. Nature 459: 556-559. DOI: 10.1038/nature08031

    Tarnocai, C., J. G. Canadell, E. A. G. Schuur, P. Kuhry, G. Mazhitova, and S. Zimov. 2009 Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB2023, doi:10.1029/2008GB003327.

    Vogel, J.G., E.A.G. Schuur, C. Trucco, and H. Lee. 2009. The carbon cycling response of arctic tundra to permafrost thaw and thermokarst development. Global Change Biology, in press.


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    Conference Proceedings:

    Schuur, E.A.G., J.G. Vogel, K.G. Crummer, K. Dutta, H. Lee, C. Trucco, and J. Sickman. 2007. Using radiocarbon to detect change in ecosystem carbon cycling in response to permafrost thawing. Proceedings of the Central Alaska Park Science Symposium 6:34-36.


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