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Terry Chapin

F.S. Chapin, III
Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7922
Telephone (secondary):
Fax: (907) 474-6967
E-mail1 (primary): fffsc@uaf.edu
E-mail2 (secondary): terry.chapin@uaf.edu
Web URL: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/fffsc/

Address:
Department of Biology and Wildlife; Institute of Arctic Biology: University of Alaska Fairbanks 193 Arctic Health P.O. Box 757000
Fairbanks, AK 99775
United States
Official position at
address above:		 PI, Professor of Ecology
Educational Institutions
attended:		 Ph.D., 1973, Biology, Stanford University
BA, 1966, Biology, Swarthmore College
Roles/Affiliations: Institute of Arctic Biology

Study Areas

Core Areas: Disturbance
Inorganic Fluxes
Modeling/Synthesis
Organic Matter/Decomposition
Primary Production
Categories: Biogeochemistry
Disturbance
Succession
Vegetation
Keywords: fires
human dimensions
succession

Datasets

  • Active Layer Depth Data for the BBC collapse scar for 2003 and 2004
  • Artificial Communities Experiment: Seedling growth
  • Artificial Communities Experiment: Net Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification Potentials
  • Artificial Communities Seedling Growth: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest (planted in 1989; measured in 1992, 1995, and 2002).
  • Average D and 18O isotope data for a core from the center and moat of the BBC collapse scar: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Flood Plains
  • Biomass, %N, and %C data for the BBC collapse scar for 2003 and 2004
  • CO2, CH4, and H2O flux data and associated environmental variables for the BBC collapse scar for 2004
  • Ground cover and biomass projection photos for the BBC collapse scar
  • Growing Season D and 18O isotope data for a core from the center and moat of the BBC collapse scar: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Flood Plains
  • Historical Human Causes and Uses of Fire in Alaska
  • Huslia Fire Ecology Workshops
  • Meteorological data for the BBC collapse scar for 2003 and 2004
  • Raw D and 18O isotope data for a core from the center and moat of the BBC collapse scar: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Flood Plains
  • Raw Diatom assemblages for 3 cores from the center, moat and surrounding burn (0, 12, and 30 m) of the BBC collapse scar
  • Soil carbon stabilization along productivity gradients in interior Alaska: Summer 2003
  • Soil data for cores from a transect from the center of the BBC collapse scar into the surrounding burn
  • Soil profiles along productivity gradients in interior Alaska: Summer 2003
  • Summary Diatom assemblages for 3 cores from the center, moat and surrounding burn (0, 12, and 30 m) of the BBC collapse scar
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, Data from one soil sample/transect to obtain bulk density.
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, data to develop allometric equations re. seedling height or diameter to dry biomass
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, general site data
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, live aspen seedling diameters
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, live seedling counts, by species
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, live spruce seedling diameters
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, pre-fire stem counts and basal areas, for black spruce
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, pre-fire stem counts and basal areas, for species other than black spruce
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, Salix live seedling diameters
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Delta 1994 burn surveys, thickness of different soil layers
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, CPCRW vegetative cover analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, CPCRW soil analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, Delta soil analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, Delta vegetative cover analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, germinated seedlings analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, seedling germination analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Effects of burn severity, transplanted seedlings analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Wickersham Dome long-term vegetation study, aspen height data
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Wickersham Dome long-term vegetation study, birch height data
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Wickersham Dome long-term vegetation study, bl. spruce cone analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Wickersham Dome long-term vegetation study, bl. spruce height data
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Wickersham Dome long-term vegetation study, shrub height data
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Yukon Lodgepole Pine Survey, pre fire analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Yukon Lodgepole Pine Surveys, mineral soil analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Yukon Lodgepole Pine Surveys, organic soil analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Yukon Lodgepole Pine Surveys, seedlings analysis
  • Tree regeneration after fire: Yukon Lodgepole Pine Surveys, tree age analysis
  • Tree ring width data for trees adjacent to the BBC collapse scar
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    Publications (226)

    Journal Articles:

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1974. Phosphate absorption capacity and acclimation potential in plants along a latitudinal gradient. Science 183:521-523.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1974. Morphological and physiological mechanisms of temperature compensation in phosphate absorption along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology 55:1180-1198.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1980 The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11:233-260.

    Chapin, F.S. III. and P.R. Tryon. 1982. Phosphate absorption and root respiration of different plant growth forms from northern Alaska. Holarctic Ecology 5:164-171.

    Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin III and D.R. Klein. 1983. Carbon/nutrient balance of boreal plants in relation to herbivory. Oikos 40:357-368.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1983. Adaptation of selected trees and grasses to low availability of phosphorus. Plant and Soil 72:283-287.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1983. Nitrogen and phosphorus nutrition and nutrient cycling by evergreen and deciduous understory shrubs in an Alaskan black spruce forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13:773-781.

    Chapin, F.S. III and P.R. Tryon. 1983. Habitat and leaf habit as determinants of growth, nutrient absorption, and nutrient use by Alaskan taiga forest species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13:818-826.

    Chapin, F.S. III and R.A. Kedrowski. 1983. Seasonal changes in nitrogen and phosphorus fractions and autumn retranslocation in evergreen and deciduous taiga trees. Ecology 64:376-391.

    Chapin, F.S. III., P.R. Tryon and K. Van Cleve. 1983. Influence of phosphorus on growth and biomass distribution of Alaskan taiga tree seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13:1092-1098.

    Kummerow, J., B.A. Ellis, S. Kummerow and F.S. Chapin III. 1983. Spring growth of shoots and roots in shrubs of an Alaskan muskeg. American Journal of Botany 70:1509-1515.

    Tryon, P.R. and F.S. Chapin III. 1983. Temperature control over root growth and root biomass in taiga forest trees. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13:827-833.

    Van Cleve, K., C.T. Dyrness, L.A. Viereck, J.F. Fox, F.S. Chapin III and W. Oechel. 1983. Taiga ecosystems in interior Alaska. Bioscience 33:39-44.

    Bloom, A.J., F.S. Chapin III and H.A. Mooney. 1985. Resource limitation in plants - an economic analogy. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 16:363-392.

    Chapin, F.S. III, J.P. Bryant and J.F. Fox. 1985. Lack of induced chemical defense in juvenile Alaskan woody plants in response to simulated browsing. Oecologia 67:457-459.

    Coley, P.S., J.P. Bryant and F.S. Chapin III. 1985. Resource availability and plant anti-herbivore defense. Science 230:895-899.

    Chapin, F.S. III, K. Van Cleve and P.R. Tryon. 1986. Relationship of ion absorption to growth rate in taiga trees. Oecologia 69:238-242.

    Chapin, F.S. III, P.M. Vitousek and K. Van Cleve. 1986. The nature of nutrient limitation in plant communities. American Naturalist 127:48-58.

    Jonasson, S., J.P. Bryant, F.S. Chapin III and M. Andersson. 1986. Plant phenols and nutrients in relation to variations in climate and rodent grazing. The American Naturalist 128:394-408.

    Walker, L.R. and F.S. Chapin III. 1986. Physiological controls over seedling growth in primary succession on an Alaskan floodplain. Ecology 67:1508-1523.

    Walker, L.R., J.C. Zasada and F.S. Chapin III. 1986. The role of life history processes in primary succession on an Alaskan floodplain. Ecology 67:1243-1253.

    Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin III, P.B. Reichardt and T.P. Clausen. 1987. Response of winter chemical defense in Alaska paper birch and green alder to manipulation of plant carbon/nutrient balance. Oecologia 72:510-514.

    Chapin, F.S. III, A.J. Bloom, C.B. Field and R.H. Waring. 1987. Plant responses to multiple environmental factors. BioScience 37:49-57.

    Chapin, F.S. III, W.C. Oechel, K. Van Cleve and W. Lawrence. 1987. The role of mosses in the phophorus cycling of an Alaskan black spruce forest. Oecologia 74:310-315.

    Walker, L.R. and F.S. Chapin III. 1987. Interactions among processes controlling successional change. Oikos 50:131-135.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1988 Ecological aspects of plant mineral nutrition. Advances in Mineral Nutrition 3:161-191.

    DeFoliart, L.S., M. Griffith and F.S. Chapin III. 1988. Seasonal patterns of photosynthesis and nutrient storage in Eriophorum vaginatum L. in arctic sedge. Functional Ecology 2:185-194.

    Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver. 1989. Lack of latitudinal variations in graminoid storage reserves. Ecology 70:269-272.

    Mark, A.F. and F.S. Chapin III. 1989. Seasonal control over allocation to reproduction in a tussock-forming and a rhizomatous species of Eriophorum in central Alaska. Oecologia 78:27-34.

    McGraw, J.B. and F.S. Chapin III. 1989. Competitive ability and adaptation to fertile and infertile soils in two Eriophorum species. Ecology 70:736-749.

    Chapin, F.S. III, E.-D. Schulze and H.A. Mooney. 1990 The ecology and economics of storage in plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21:423-447.

    Chapin, F.S. III. and L. Moilanen. 1991. Nutritional controls over nitrogen and phosphorus resorption from Alaskan birch leaves. Ecology 72:709-715.

    Jonasson, S. and F.S. Chapin III. 1991. Seasonal uptake and allocation of phosphorus in Eriophorum vaginatum L., measured by labelling with 32P. New Phytologist 118:349-357.

    Reichardt, P.B., F.S. Chapin III, J.P. Bryant, B.R. Mattes and T.P. Clausen. 1991. Carbon/nutrient balance as a predictor of plant defense in Alaskan balsam poplar: potential importance of metabolite turnover. Oecologia 88:401-406.

    Reichardt, P.B., J.P. Bryant, B.R. Mattes, T.P. Clausen, F.S. Chapin III and M. Meyer. 1991. The winter chemical defense of Alaskan poplar against snowshoe hares. Journal of Chemical Ecology 16:1941.

    Van Cleve, K., F.S. Chapin III, C.T. Dyrness and L.A. Viereck. 1991. Element cycling in taiga forests: state-factor control. Bioscience 41:78-88.

    Field, C.B., F.S. Chapin III, P.A. Matson and H.A. Mooney. 1992 Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the changing atmosphere: a resource-based approach. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:201-235.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1993. The evolutionary basis of biogeochemical soil development. Geoderma 57:223-227.

    Chapin, F.S. III and L.R. Walker. 1993. Direct and indirect effects of calcium sulfate and nitrogen on growth and succession of trees on the Tanana River floodplain, interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23:995-1000.

    Chapin, F.S. III, E. Rincon and P. Huante. 1993. Environmental responses of plants and ecosystems as predictors of the impact of global change. Journal of Biosciences 18:515-524.

    Berg, E.E. and F.S. Chapin III. 1994. Needle loss as a mechanism of winter drought avoidance in boreal conifers. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24:1144-1148.

    Schulze, E.-D., F.S. Chapin III and G. Gebauer. 1994. Nitrogen nutrition and isotope differences among life forms at the northern treeline of Alaska. Oecologia 100:406-412.

    Bonan, G.B., F.S. Chapin III and S.L. Thompson. 1995. Boreal forest and tundra ecosystems as components of the climate system. Climatic Change 29:145-167.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1995. New cog in the nitrogen cycle. Nature 377:199-200.

    Chapin, F.S. III, M.S. Torn and M. Tateno. 1996 Principles of ecosystem sustainability. American Naturalist 148:1016-1037.

    Chapin, F.S. III, S.A. Zimov, G.R. Shaver and S.E. Hobbie. 1996. CO2 fluctuation at high latitudes. Nature 383:585-586.

    Ruohomaki, K., F.S. Chapin, III, E. Haukioja, S. Neuvonen, and J. Suomela. 1996. Delayed inducible resistance in mountain birch in response to fertilization and shade. Ecology 77:2302-2311.

    Starfield, A.M. and F.S. Chapin III. 1996 Model of transient changes in arctic and boreal vegetation in response to climate and land use change. Ecological Applications 6:842-864.

    Chapin, F.S. III and A.M. Starfield. 1997. Time lags and novel ecosystems in response to transient climatic change in arctic Alaska. Climate Change 35:449-461.

    Chapin, F.S. III, B.H. Walker, R.J. Hobbs, D.U. Hooper, J.H. Lawton, O.E. Sala and D. Tilman. 1997. Biotic control over the functioning of ecosystems. Science 277:500-504.

    Eviner, V.T. and F.S. Chapin III. 1997. Plant-microbial interactions. Nature 385:26-27.

    Tateno, M. and F.S. Chapin III. 1997. The logic of carbon and nitrogen interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. American Naturalist 149:723-744.

    Zimov, S.A., Y.V. Voropaev, I.P. Semiletov, S.P. Davydov, S.F. Prosiannikov, F.S. Chapin III, M.C. Chapin, S. Trumbore and S. Tyler. 1997. North Siberian lakes: a methane source fueled by Pleistocene carbon. Science 277:800-802.

    Chapin, F.S. III and G. Whiteman. 1998. Sustainable development of the boreal forest: interaction of ecological, social and consumer feedbacks. Conservation Ecology 2:12.

    Chapin, F.S. III, O.E. Sala, I.C. Burke, J.P. Grime, D.U. Hooper, W.K. Lauenroth, A. Lombard, H.A. Mooney, A.R. Mosier, S. Naeem, S.W. Pacala, J. Roy, W.L. Steffen and D. Tilman. 1998. Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity. Bioscience 48:45-52.

    Grogan, P. and F.S. Chapin III. 1999. Arctic soil respiration: effects of climate and vegetation depend on season. Ecosystems 2:451-459.

    Naeem, S., F.S. Chapin III, R. Costanza, P.R. Ehrlich, F.B. Golley, D.U. Hooper, J.H. Lawton, R.V. O'Neill, H.A. Mooney, O.E. Sala, A.J. Symstad and D. Tilman. 1999. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: maintaining natural life support processes. Issues in Ecology 4:1-12.

    Zimov, S.A., S.P. Davydov, G.M. Zimova, A.I. Davydova, F.S. Chapin III, M.C. Chapin and J.F. Reynolds. 1999 Contribution of disturbance to increasing seasonal amplitude of atmospheric CO2. Science 284:1973-1976.

    Aerts, R. and F.S. Chapin III. 2000. The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns. Advances in Ecological Research 30:1-67.

    Cater, T.C. and F.S. Chapin III. 2000. Differential effects of competition or microenvironment on boreal tree seedling establishment after fire. Ecology 81:1086-1099.

    Chapin, F.S. III, A.D. McGuire, J. Randerson, R. Pielke Sr., D. Baldocchi, S.E. Hobbie, N. Roulet, W. Eugster, E. Kasischke, E.B. Rastetter, S.A. Zimov and S.W. Running. 2000 Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system. Global Change Biology 6 (Suppl. 1):211-223.

    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.

    Chapin, F.S. III, W. Eugster, J.P. McFadden, A.H. Lynch and D.A. Walker. 2000 Summer differences among arctic ecosystems in regional climate forcing. Journal of Climate 13:2002-2010.

    Epstein, H.E., M.D. Walker, F.S. Chapin III and A.M. Starfield. 2000. A transient, nutrient-based model of arctic plant community response to climatic warming. Ecological Applications 10:824-841.

    Eugster, W., W.R. Rouse, R. Pielke, J.P. McFadden, D.D. Baldocchi, T.G.F. Kittel, F.S. Chapin III, G. Liston, P.L. Vidale, E. Vaganov and S. Chambers. 2000 Land-atmosphere energy exchange in arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate. Global Change Biol 6(Suppl. 1):84-115.

    Fleming, M., F.S. Chapin III, W. Cramer, G. Hufford and M.C. Serreze. 2000 Geographic patterns and dynamics of Alaskan climate interpolated from a sparse station record. Global Change Biol 6(Suppl. 1):49-58.

    Kittel, T.G.F., W.L. Steffen and F.S. Chapin III. 2000 Global and regional modeling of arctic-boreal vegetation distribution and its sensitivity to altered forcing. Global Change Biol 6(Suppl. 1):1-18.

    Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield and F.S. Chapin III. 2000 A frame-based spatially explicit model of subarctic vegetation response to climatic change: comparison with a point model. Landscape Ecology 15:383-400.

    Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III and A.M. Starfield. 2000 Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in north-west Alaska. Global Change Biology 6:541-555.

    Sala, O.E., F.S. Chapin III, J.J. Armesto, E. Berlow, J. Bloonfield, R. Dirzo, E. Huber-Sanwald, L.F. Huenneke, R.B. Jackson, A. Kinzig, R. Leemans, D.M. Lodge, H.A. Mooney, M. Oesterheld, N.L. Poff, M.T. Sykes, B.H. Walker, M. Walker and D.H. Wall. 2000. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287:1770-1773.

    Serreze, M.C., J.E. Walsh, F.S. Chapin III, T. Osterkamp, M. Dyurgerov, V. Romanovsky, W. Oechel, F. Morison, T. Zhang and R.G. Barry. 2000 Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Climatic Change 46:159-207.

    Shaver, G.R., J. Canadell, F.S. Chapin III, J. Gurevitch, J. Harte, G. Henry, P. Ineson, S. Jonasson, J. Melillo, L. Pitelka and L. Rustad. 2000 Global warming and terrestrial ecosystems: a conceptual framework for analysis. BioScience 50:871-882.

    Beringer, J., N.J. Tapper , F.S. Chapin III, I. McHugh, A.H. Lynch, M. Serreze and A. Slater. 2001 Impact of arctic treeline on synoptic climate. Geophysical Research Letters 28:4247.

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

    Niemela, P., F.S. Chapin III, K. Danell and J.P. Bryant. 2001 Herbivory-mediated responses of selected boreal forests to climatic change. Climatic Change 48:427-440.

    Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III and A.M. Starfield. 2001 Modeling the influence of topographic barriers on treeline advance of the forest-tundra ecotone in northwestern Alaska. Climatic Change 48:399-416.

    Vance, E.D. and F.S. Chapin III. 2001. Substrate limitations to microbial activity in taiga forest floors. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:173-188.

    Beringer, J., S. McIlwaine, A.H. Lynch, F.S. Chapin III and G.B. Bonan. 2002 The use of a reduced form model to assess the sensitivity of a land surface model to biotic surface parameters. Climate Dynamics 19:455-466.

    Hooper, D.U., Z.G. Cardon, F.S. Chapin III and M. Durant. 2002 Corrected calculations for soil and ecosystem measurements of CO2 flux using the LI-COR 6200 portable photosynthesis system. Oecologia 132:1-11.

    McGuire, A.D., C. Wirth, M. Apps, J. Beringer, J. Clein, H. Epstein, D.W. Kicklighter, J. Bhatti, F.S. Chapin III, B. deGroot, D. Efremov, W. Eugster, M. Fukuda, T. Gower, L. Hinzman, B. Huntley, G.J. Jia, E. Kasischke, J. Melillo, V. Romanovsky, A. Shvidenko, E. Vaganov, and D. Walker. 2002 Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics, and water/energy exchange in high latitudes. Journal of Vegetation Science 13:301-314.

    Randerson, J.T., F.S. Chapin III, J. Harden, J.C. Neff and M.E. Harmon. 2002 Net ecosystem production: A comprehensive measure of net carbon accumulation by ecosystems. Ecological Applications 12:937-947.

    Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield, F.S. Chapin and P. Duffy. 2002 Modeling the impact of black spruce on the fire regime of Alaskan boreal forest. Climatic Change 55:213-233.

    Chambers, S. and F.S. Chapin III. 2003 Fire effects on surface-atmosphere exchange in Alaskan black spruce ecosystems: Implications for feedbacks to regional climate. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D1):8145. 10.1029/2001JD000530.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 2003 Effects of plant traits on ecosystem and regional processes: A conceptual framework for predicting the consequences of global change. Annals of Botany 91:455-463.

    Chapin, F.S., T.S. Rupp, A.M. Starfield, L. DeWilde, E.S. Zavaleta, N. Fresco, J. Henkelman and A.D. McGuire. 2003 Planning for resilience: modeling change in human-fire interactions in the Alaskan boreal forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:255-261.

    Diaz, S., A.J. Symstad, F.S. Chapin III, D.A. Wardle and L. Huenneke. 2003 Functional diversity revealed by removal experiments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:140-146.

    Eviner, V.T. and F.S. Chapin III. 2003 Functional matrix: A conceptual framework for predicting multiple plant effects on ecosystem processes. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 34:455-485.

    Gruenzweig, J.M., S.D. Sparrow and F.S. Chapin III. 2003 Impact of forest conversion to agriculture on carbon and nitrogen mineralization in subarctic Alaska. Biogeochemistry 64:271-296.

    Hinzman, L.D., M. Fukuda, D.V. Sandberg, F.S. Chapin III and D. Dash. 2003 FROSTFIRE: An experimental approach to predicting the climate feedbacks from the changing boreal fire regime. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D1):8153. doi:10.1029/2001JD00415.

    Johnstone, J.F. and F.S. Chapin III. 2003 Non-equilibrium succession dynamics indicate continued northern migration of lodgepole pine. Global Change Biology 9:1401-1409.

    Neff, J.C., F.S. Chapin III, and P.M. Vitousek. 2003 Breaks in the cycle: Dissolved organic nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:205-211.

    Symstad, A.J. , F.S. Chapin III, D.H. Wall, K.L. Gross, L.F. Huenneke, G.G. Mittelbach, D.P.C. Peters and G.D. Tilman. 2003 Long-term and large-scale perspectives on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. BioScience 53:89-98.

    Chapin, F.S. III, G. Peterson, F. Berkes, T.V. Callaghan, P. Angestam, M. Apps, C. Beier, Y. Bergeron, A.-S. Crepin, K. Danell, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, B. Forbes, N. Fresco, G. Juday, J. Niemela, A. Shvidenko, and G. Whiteman. 2004 Resilience and vulnerability of northern regions to social and environmental change. Ambio 33:344-349.

    Chapin, F.S. III, L. Henry, and L. DeWilde. 2004 Wilderness in a Changing Alaska: Managing for Resilience. International Journal of Wilderness 10(2):9-13.

    Chapin, F.S. III, T.V. Callaghan, Y. Bergeron, M. Fukuda, J.F. Johnstone, G. Juday, and S.A. Zimov. 2004 Global change and the boreal forest: Thresholds, shifting states or gradual change? Ambio 33:361-365.

    Epstein, H.E., J. Beringer, W.A. Gould, A.H. Lloyd, C.D. Thompson, F.S. Chapin, III, G.J. Michaelson, C.L. Ping, T.S. Rupp, and D.A. Walker. 2004 The nature of spatial transitions in the Arctic. ournal of Biogeography 31(12), 1917-1933.

    Forbes, B., N. Fresco, A. Shvidenko, K. Danell, and F.S. Chapin III. 2004 Geographic variations in anthropogenic drivers that influence the vulnerability and resilience of high-latitude nations. Ambio 33:377-382.

    Gruenzweig, J.M., S.D. Sparrow, D. Yakir and F.S. Chapin III. 2004 The impact of agricultural land-use change on carbon storage in boreal. Global Change Biology 10:452-472.

    Heijmans, M.P.D, W.J. Arp, and F.S. Chapin III. 2004 Carbon dioxide and water vapour exchange from understory species in boreal forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 123:135-147

    Heijmans, M.P.D., W.J. Arp, and F.S Chapin III. 2004 Controls on moss evaporation in a boreal black spruce forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GB2004, doi:10.1029/2003GB002128.

    Johnstone, J.F., F.S. Chapin III, J. Foote, S. Kemmett, K. Price and L. Viereck. 2004 Decadal observations of tree regeneration following fire in boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 267-273.

    Kruse, J.A., R.G. White, H.E. Epstein, B. Archie, M.Berman, S.R. Braund, F.S. Chapin III, J. Charlie Sr., C.J. Daniel, J. Eamer, N. Flanders, B. Griffith, S. Haley, L. Huskey, B. Joseph, D.R. Klein, G.P. Kofinas, S.M. Martin, S.M. Murphy, W. Nebesky, C. Nicolson, D.E. Russell, J. Tetlichi, A. Tussing, M.D. Walker and O.R. Young. 2004 Modelling sustainability of arctic communities: an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers and local knowledge holders. Ecosystems 7: 815-828.

    Thompson, C., J. Beringer, F.S. Chapin III and A.D. McGuire. 2004 Structural complexity and land-surface energy exchange along a gradient from arctic tundra to boreal forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 15:397-406.

    Ullsten, O., J. G. Speth, and F.S. Chapin III. 2004 Options for enhancing the resilience of northern countries to rapid social and environmental change: A message to policy makers. Ambio 33:343.

    Whiteman, G., B.C. Forbes, J. Niemela, and F.S. Chapin III. 2004 Bringing feedback and resilience of high-latitude ecosystems into the corporate boardroom. Ambio 33:371-376.

    Beringer, J., F.S. Chapin III, C.C. Thompson, and A.D. McGuire. 2005 Surface energy exchanges along a tundra-forest transition and feedbacks to climate. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 131:143-161.

    Chambers, S., J. Beringer, J. Randerson, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2005 Fire effects on net radiation and energy partitioning: Contrasting responses of tundra and boreal forest ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research,110, D09106,doi:10.1029/2004JD005299.

    Chapin, F.S., III, M. Sturm, M.C. Serreze, J.P McFadden, J.R. Key, A.H. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, T.S. Rupp, A.H. Lynch, J.P Schimel, J. Beringer, W.L. Chapman, H.E. Epstein, E.S. Euskirchen, L.D. Hinzman, G. Jia, C.L. Ping, K.D. Tape, C.D.C. Thompson, D.A. Walker, and J.M. Welker. 2005 Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming. Science. Published online September 22 2005;10.1126/science.1117368 (Science Express Reports)

    Foley, J. A., R. DeFries, G. P. Asner, C. Barford, G. Bonan, S. R. Carpenter, F. S. Chapin, III, M. T. Coe, G. C. Daily, H. K. Gibbs, J. H. Helkowski, T. Holloway, E. A. Howard, C. J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, J. A. Patz, I. C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, and P. K. Snyder. 2005 Global consequences of land use. Science 309:570-574.

    Hinzman, L., N. Bettez, W.R. Bolton, F.S. Chapin III, M. Dyurgerov, C. Fastie, B. Griffith, R.D. Hollister, A. Hope, H.P. Huntington, A. Jensen, G.J. Jia, T. Jorgenson, D.L. Kane, D.R. Klein, G. Kofinas, A. Lynch, A. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, F. Nelson, W.C. Oechel, T. Osterkamp, C. Racine, V. Romanovsky, R. Stone, D. Stow, M. Sturm, C.E. Tweedie, G. Vourlitis, M. Walker, D. Walker, P.J. Webber, J. Welker, K. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa. 2005 Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions. Climatic Change 72(3)251-298

    Hooper, D.U., F.S. Chapin III, J.J. Ewel, A. Hector, P. Inchausti, S. Lavorel, J.H. Lawton, D.M. Lodge, M. Loreau, S. Naeem, B. Schmid, H. Setala, A.J. Symstad, J. Vandermeer, and D.A. Wardle. 2005 Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: A consensus of current knowledge and needs for future research. Ecological Applications 75:3-35.

    Liu, H.P., J.T. Randerson, J. Lindfors, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2005 Changes in the surface energy budget following fire in boreal ecosystems of interior Alaska: An annual perspective. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 110, D13101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005158.

    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).

    Amiro, B.D., A.L. Orchansky, A.G. Barr, T.A. Black, S.D. Chambers, F.S. Chapin III, M.L. Goulden, M. Litvak, H. Liu, J.H. McCaughey, and J.T. Randerson. 2006 The effect of post-fire stand age on the boreal forest energy balance. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. Volume 140, Issues 1-4, 30 November 2006, Pages 41-50 doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.02.014

    Chapin, F.S., III, A.L. Lovecraft, E.S. Zavaleta, J. Nelson, M.D. Robards, G.P. Kofinas, S.F. Trainor, G.D. Peterson, H.P. Huntington, and R.L. Naylor. 2006 Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(45):16637-16643.doi:10.1073/pnas.0606955103

    Chapin, F.S., III, G.M. Woodwell, J.T. Randerson, G.M. Lovett, E.B. Rastetter, D.D. Baldocchi, D.A. Clark, M.E. Harmon, D.S. Schimel, R. Valentini, C. Wirth, J.D. Aber, J.J. Cole, M.L. Goulden, J.W. Harden, M. Heimann, R.W. Howarth, P.A. Matson, A.D. McGuire, J.M. Melillo, H.A. Mooney, J.C. Neff, R.A. Houghton, M.L. Pace, M.G. Ryan, S.W. Running, O.E. Sala, W.H. Schlesinger, and E.-D. Schulze. 2006 Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods. Ecosystems 9(7):1041-1050, DOI:10.1007/s10021-005-0105-7

    Chapin, F.S., III, M. Hoel, S.R. Carpenter, J. Lubchenco, B. Walker, T.V. Callaghan, C. Folke, S. Levin, K.-G. Mäler, C. Nilsson, S. Barrett, F. Berkes, A.-S. Crépin, K. Danell, T. Rosswall, D. Starrett, T. Xepapadeas, and S.A. Zimov. 2006 Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment: Vol. 35, No. 4 pp. 198-202. DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[198:BRAATM]2.0.CO;2

    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

    DeWilde, L., and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006 Human impacts on the Fire Regime of Interior Alaska: Interactions among Fuels, Ignition Sources, and Fire Suppression. Ecosystems 9:1342-1353.

    Diaz, S. J. Fargione, F.S. Chapin, III, and D. Tilman. 2006 Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being. PLoS Biology 4(8)1300-1305.DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040277

    Hollingsworth, T.N., M.D. Walker, F.S. Chapin, III, and A.L. Parsons. 2006 Scale-dependent environmental controls over species composition in Alaskan black spruce communities. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:1781-1796.

    Huntington, HP, SF Trainor, DC Natcher, OH Huntington, L DeWilde and FS Chapin. 2006 The significance of context in community-based research: Understanding discussions about wildfire in Huslia, Alaska. Ecology and Society 11(1):40. (online) URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art40

    Johnstone, J.F. and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006 Effects of soil burn severity on post-fire tree recruitment in boreal forest. Ecosystems 9:14-31.

    Johnstone, J.F. and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006 Fire interval effects on successional trajectory in the boreal forest of northwestern Canada. Ecosystems 9:268-277.

    McGuire, A.D., F.S. Chapin, III, J.E. Walsh, and C. Wirth. 2006 Integrated Regional Changes in Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Implications for the Global Climate System. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31:61-91. DOI:10.1146/annurev.energy.31.020105.100253

    Myers-Smith, I. H. , B.K. Arnesen, R.M. Thompson, F.S. Chapin III. 2006 Cumulative impacts on Alaskan arctic tundra of a quarter century of road dust. Ecoscience Volume 13(4):503-510. 2006.

    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.

    Thompson, C.C., A.D. McGuire, J.S. Clein, F.S. Chapin, III, and J. Beringer. 2006 Net carbon exchange across the arctic tundra-boreal forest transition in Alaska 1981-2000. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 11(4)805-827. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-005-9016-3

    Walter KM, Zimov SA, Chanton JP, Verbyla D, Chapin FS III. 2006 Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):71-75

    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.

    Brinkman, T. J., G. P. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III, and D. K. Person. 2007 Influence of Hunter Adaptability on Resilience of Subsistence Hunting Systems, Ecological Anthropology.

    Chapin, F.S., III. 2007 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: A framework for wilderness stewardship in a directionally changing world. 2007. International Journal of Wilderness. Wild Planet Project 13:19-20, 23.

    Chapin, F.S., III, K. Danell, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, and N. Fresco. 2007 Managing climate change impacts to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Fennoscandian forests. Ambio 36(7):528-533

    Cornelissen, Johannes H.C., Peter M. van Bodegom, Rien Aerts, Terry V. Callaghan, Richard S.P. van Logtestijn, Juha Alatalo, F. Stuart Chapin, Renato Gerdol, Jon Gudmundsson, Dylan Gwynn-Jones, Anne E. Hartley, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Ingibjorg S. Jonsdottir, Staffan Karlsson, Julia A. Klein, Jim Laundre, Borgthor Magnusson, Anders Michelsen, Ulf Molau, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Helen M. Quested, Sylvi M. Sandvik, Inger K. Schmidt, Gus R. Shaver, Bjørn Solheim, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Anna Stenstrom, Anne Tolvanen, Ørjan Totland, Naoya Wada, Jeffrey M. Welker, Xinquan Zhao and M.O.L. Team. 2007 Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes. Ecology Letters, 10:619-627. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01051.x

    Euskirchen, S.E., A.D. McGuire, and F.S. Chapin III. 2007 Energy feedbacks of northern high-latitude ecosystems to the climate system due to reduced snow cover during 20th century warming. /Global Change Biology/ *13*:2425-2438, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01450.x

    Milner, Alexander M.; Fastie, Christopher L.; Chapin, F. Stuart; Engstrom, Daniel R.; Sharman, Lewis C. 2007 Interactions and Linkages among Ecosystems during Landscape Evolution. BioScience, Volume 57, Number 3, March 2007, pp. 237-247(11)

    Myers-Smith, I., A.D. McGuire, J.W. Harden, and F.S. Chapin III. 2007 The influence of disturbance on carbon exchange in a permafrost collapse and adjacent burned forest. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biosciences 112, G04017, doi:10.1029 2007JG000423.

    Myers-Smith, I.H., J.W. Harden, M. Wilmking, C.C. Fuller, A.D. McGuire, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2007 Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: Interactions between fire and thermokarst. Biogeosciences Discussion 4:4507-4538.

    Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007 Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12 (1): 7. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art7/.

    Natcher, D., O. Huntington, H. Huntington, F.S. Chapin, III, S.F. Trainor, and L. DeWilde. 2007 Notions of time and sentience: Methodological considerations for arctic change research. Arctic Anthropology 44(2):113-126.

    Soja, A.J., N.M.Tchebakova, N.N.E. French, M.D. Flannigan, H.H. Shugart, B.J. Stocks, A.I. Sukhinin, E.I. Parfenova, F.S. Chapin, III, and P.W. Stackhouse, Jr. 2007 Climate-induced boreal forest change: Predictions versus current observations. Global and Planetary Change 56(3-4).

    Trainor, S.F., Chapin III, F.S., Huntington, H.P., Natcher, D.C. and Kofinas, G. 2007 Arctic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environment 2007 12(6):627-643 DOI: 10.1080/13549830701657414

    Walter, K. M., M. E. Edwards, G. Grosse, F. S. Chapin III, S. A. Zimov. 2007 Thermokarst lakes as a source of atmospheric CH4 during the last deglaciation. Science 318:633-636. DOI: 10.1126/science.1142924

    Walter,Katey M.,Laurence C. Smith and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007 Methane bubbling from northern lakes: present and future contributions to the global methane budget. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2007) 365, 1657-1676 doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.

    Alessa, L. and F.S. Chapin, III. 2008. Anthropogenic biomes: A key contribution to earth-system science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(10):529-531.

    Beier, C.M., T.M. Patterson, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2008 Ecosystem services and emergent vulnerability in managed ecosystems: A geospatial decision-support tool. Ecosystems 10.1007/s10021-008-9170-z.

    Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin, III. 2008 Human influence on wildfire in Alaska from 1988 through 2005: An analysis of the spatial patterns of human impacts. Earth Interactions 12(1)1-17. doi:10:10.1175/2007EI220.1.

    Chapin, F. S., III, S. F. Trainor, O. Huntington, A. L. Lovecraft, E. Zavaleta, D. C. Natcher, A. D. McGuire, J. L. Nelson, L. Ray, M. Calef, N. L. Fresco, H. Huntington, T. S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, and R. L. Naylor. 2008 Increasing wildfire in the boreal forest: Causes, consequences, and pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. BioScience. Vol. 58 No. 6 p531-540 doi:10.1641/B580609

    Chapin, F.S., III. 2008 Climate change and the biosphere. The Scientist 22(1):37.

    Chapin, F.S., III, Randerson, J.T., McGuire, A.D., Foley, J.A., and Field, C.B. 2008 Changing feedbacks in the climate-biosphere system. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(6): 313-320. doi:10.1890/080005.

    Cole, D.N., L. Yung, E.S. Zavaleta, G.H. Aplet, F.S. Chapin, III, D.M. Graber, E.S. Higgs, R.J. Hobbs, P.B. Landres, C.I. Millar, D.J. Parsons, J.M. Randall, N.L. Stephenson, K.A. Tonnessen, P.S. White, and S. Woodley. 2008 Naturalness and beyond: Protected area stewardship in an era of global environmental change. The George Wright Forum 25(1):36-56.

    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.

    Loring, P.A., F.S. Chapin III, and S.C. Gerlach. 2008 The Services-Oriented Architecture: Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Diagnosing Change in Social Ecological Systems. Ecosystems 11: 478-489. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9136-1

    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

    Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008 Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. [online]URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art46/

    Myers-Smith, I.H., Harden, J.W., Wilmking, M., Fuller, C.C., McGuire, A.D., and Chapin III, F.S.. 2008 Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst. Biogeosciences 5: 1-15.

    Nelson, J. L., E. Zavaleta, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2008 Boreal fire effects on subsistence resources in Alaska and adjacent Canada. Ecosystems (2008) 11: 156-171. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9114-z

    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.

    Wirth, C., J. W. Lichstein, J. Dushoff, A. Chen, F. S. Chapin III. 2008 White spruce meets black spruce: Dispersal, postfire establishment, and growth in a warming climate. Ecological Monographs 78(4): 489-505. doi: 10.1890/07-0074.1

    Brinkman, T. J., T. Chapin, G. Kofinas, and D. K. Person. 2009 Linking hunter knowledge with forest change to understand changing deer harvest opportunities in intensively logged landscapes. Ecology and Society 14(1): 36. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art36/

    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

    Eck, T.F., B.N. Holben, J.S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, E.J. Hyer, N.T. O'Neill, G.E. Shaw, J.R. Vande Castle, F.S. Chapin, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E. Vermote, J.S. Schafer, D. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokine, and W.W. Newcomb. 2009 Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, D11201, doi:10.1029/2008JD010870.

    Euskirchen, E. S., A. D. McGuire, F. S. Chapin III, S. Yi, C. C. Thompson. 2009 Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003-2100: Implications for climate feedbacks. Ecological Applications 19(4): 1022-1043. doi: 10.1890/08-0806.1

    Feng, Z., R. Liu, D. L. DeAngelis, J. P. Bryant, K. Kielland, F. Stuart Chapin, III, R. K. Swihart. 2009 Plant Toxicity, Adaptive Herbivory, and Plant Community Dynamics. Ecosystems 12: 534-547. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9240-x

    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

    Trainor, S.F., M. Calef, D. Natcher, F.S. Chapin III, A.D. McGuire, O. Huntington, P. Duffy, T.S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, M. Kwart, N. Fresco, and A.L. Lovecraft. 2009 Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research 28: 100-118. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x


    Books:

    Van Cleve, K., F.S. Chapin III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck and C.T. Dyrness(eds). 1986. Forest ecosystems in the Alaskan taiga. A synthesis of structure and function. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Lambers, H., F.S. Chapin III and J.L. Pons. 1998. Plant physiological ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 2001. Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III, P.A. Matson and H.A. Mooney. 2002. Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III, M. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D. Verbyla. 2006. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press. New York.

    Chapin, F.S., III, G.P. Kofinas, and C. Folke (editors). 2009. Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. Springer, New York.


    Book Chapters:

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1983. Patterns of nutrient absorption and use by plants from natural and man-modified environments. In H.A. Mooney and M. Gordron [eds], Disturbance and ecosystems, 175-187. Ecological Studies 44, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

    Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin III, P. Reichardt and T. Clausen. 1985. Adaptation to resource availability as a determinant of chemical defense strategies in woody plants. Pages 219-237 in G.A. Cooper-Driver, T. Swain and E.E. Conn, editors. Chemically mediated interactions between plants and other organisms. Plenum Press, New York, New York, USA.

    Bryant, J.P. and F.S. Chapin III. 1986. Browsing-woody plant interactions during boreal forest plant succession. Pages 213-225 in K. Van Cleve, F.S. Chapin III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck and C.T. Dyrness, editors. Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga: a Synthesis of Structure and Function. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1986. Controls over growth and nutrient use by taiga forest trees. Pages 96-111 in K. Van Cleve, F.S. Chapin III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck and C.T. Dyrness, editors. Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga: A Synthesis of Structure and Function. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1987. Adaptations and physiological responses of wild plants to nutrient stress. Pages 15-25 in HW Gabelman, BC Loughman, eds. Genetic aspects of plant mineral nutrition. Martinus Nijoff, Boston.

    Schulze, E.D. and F.S. Chapin III. 1987. Plant specialization to environments of different resource availability. Pp. 120-148. In Potentials and lmitations in ecosystem analysis (E.D. Schulze and H. Zwolfer, eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

    Tuomi, J., P.S. Niemala, F.S. Chapin III, J.P. Bryant and S. Siren. 1987. Defensive responses of trees in relation to their carbon/nutrient balance. Pages 57-72 in W.J. Mattson, J. Levieux and C. Bernard-Dagan, editors. Mechanisms of woody plant defenses against insects: search for pattern. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III and K. Van Cleve. 1989. Approaches to studying nutrient uptake, use and loss in plants. Pages 185-207. In Plant physiological ecology. Field methods and instrumentation. (R.W. Pearcy, J. Ehleringer, H.A. Mooney, and P.W. Rundel, eds). Chapman and Hall, London, England.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1991. Effects of multiple environmental stresses on nutrient availability and use by plants. Pages 67-88. In Response of plants to multiple stresses. (H.A. Mooney, W.E. Winner and E.J. Pell, eds). Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1993. Physiological controls over plant establishment in primary succession. Pages 161-178. In Primary succession. (J. Miles and D.W.H. Walton, eds). Blackwell, Oxford, England.

    Chapin, F.S. III. 1993. Functional role of growth forms in ecosystem and global processes. Pages 287-312. In Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe. (J.R. Ehleringer and C.B. Field, eds). Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

    Dawson, T.E., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1993. Grouping plants by their form-function characteristics as an avenue for simplification in scaling between leaves and landscapes. Pages 313-319 In Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe. (J.R. Ehleringer and C.B. Field, eds.). Academic Press, San Diego.

    Hobbie, S.E., D.B. Jensen and F.S. Chapin III. 1993. Resource supply and disturbance as controls over present and future plant deversity. Pages 385-407 in E.-D. Schulze, and H.A. Mooney, editors. Ecosystem function of biodiversity. Springer-Verlag,

    Chapin, F.S., III, J. Lubchenco, and H.L. Reynolds. 1995. Biodiversity effects on patterns and processes of communities and ecosystems. Pages 289-301 In: Global Biodiversity Assessment. UNEP. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

    Chapin, F.S. III, H.L. Reynolds, C.M. D'Antonio and V.M. Eckhart. 1996. The functional role of species in terrestrial ecosystems. Pages 403-428. In B. Walker and W. Steffen, eds. Global change and terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Mooney, H.A., J. Canadell, F.S. Chapin III, J. Ehleringer, C.H. Korner, R. McMurtrie, W.J. Parton, L. Pitelka and E.-D. Schulze. 1999. Ecosystem physiology responses to global change. Pages 141-189 in B. Walker, W. Steffen, J. Canadell and J. Ingram, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Sala, O.E., F.S. Chapin III, R.H. Gardner, W.K. Lauenroth, H.A. Mooney and P.S. Ramakrishnan. 1999. Global change, biodiversity and ecological complexity. Pages 304-328 in B. Walker, W. Steffen, J. Canadell and J. Ingram, editors. The terrestrial biosphere and global change: Implications for natural and managed ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Schulze, E.-D., R.J. Scholes, J.R. Ehlringer, L.A. Hunt, J. Canadell, F.S. Chapin III and W.L. Steffen. 1999. The study of ecosystems in the context of global change. Pages 19-44 in B. Walker, W. Steffen, J. Canadell and J. Ingram, editors. The terrestrial biosphere and global change: implications for natural and managed ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

    Eviner, V.T., F.S. Chapin III and C.E. Vaughn. 2000. Nutrient manipulations in terrestrial ecosystems. Pages 291-307 in O.E. Sala, R.B. Jackson, H.A. Mooney and R.W. Howarth, editors. Methods in ecosystem science. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III, O. Sala, E. Huber-Sannwald and R. Leemans. 2001. The future of biodiversity in a changing world. In Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.

    Chapin, F.S. III. and K. Danell. 2001. Boreal forest. Pages 101-120 in F.S. Chapin III, O.E. Sala and E. Huber-Sannwald, editors. Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, USA.

    Gitay, H.S., S. Brown, W. Easterling, B. Jallow, J. Antle, M. Apps, R. Beamish, F.S. Chapin III, W. Cramer, J. Frangi, J. Laine, L. Erda, J. Magnusen, I. Noble, J. Price, T. Prowse, O. Sirotenko, T. Root, E.D. Schulze, B. Sohngen and F.F. Soussana. 2001. Ecosystems and their goods and services. Pages 235-342 in J.J. McCarthy, O.F. Canziana, N.A. Leary, D.J. Dokken and K.S. White, editors. Climate Change 2001: Impacts Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Austin, A.T., R.W. Howarth, J.S. Baron, F.S. Chapin III, T.R. Christensen, E.A. Holland, M.V. Ivanov, A.Y. Lein, L.A. Martinelli, J.M. Melillo and C. Shang. 2003. Human disruption of element interactions: Drivers, consequences and trends for the 21st century. Pages 15-45 in J.M. Melillo, C.B. Field and B. Moldan, editors. Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Change and Human Impacts. Island Press, Washington, DC, USA.

    Eviner, V.T. and F.S. Chapin III. 2003. Biogeochemical interactions and biodiversity. Pages 151-173 in J.M. Melillo, C.B. Field and B. Moldan, editors. Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Change and Human Impacts. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

    Chapin, F.S. III and V.T. Eviner. 2004. Biogeochemistry of terrestrial net primary production. Pages 215-247 in W. Schlesinger, editor. Treatise on Geochemistry, volume 8, Executive editors H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian Elsevier, Amsterdam.

    McGuire, A.D. , M. Apps , F.S. Chapin III, R. Dargaville , M.D. Flannigan , E.S. Kasischke , D. Kicklighter , J. Kimball , W. Kurz , D.J. McRae , K. McDonald , J. Melillo , R. Myneni , B.J. Stocks , D.L. Verbyla and Q. Zhuang. 2004. Land cover disturbances and feedbacks to the climate system in Canada and Alaska. Chapter 9 (pages 139-161) in Land Change Science; Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Edited by Gutman, G., Janetos, A.C., Justice, C.O., Moran, E.F., Mustard, J.F., Rindfuss, R.R., Skole, D., Turner II, B.L., and Cochrane, M.A. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Chapin, F.S. III, M. Berman, T.V. Callaghan, P. Convey, A.-S. Crepin, K. Danell, H. Ducklow, B. Forbes, G. Kofinas, A.D. McGuire, M. Nuttall, R. Virginia, O. Young, and S. Zimov. 2005. Polar Systems. Pages 717-743 In H. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash (Eds) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Island Press, Washington.

    Diaz, S., D. Tilman, J. Fargione, F.S. Chapin,II, R. Dirzo, T. Kitzberger, B. Gemmill, M. Zobel, M. Vilà, AC. Mitchell, A. Wilby, G.C. Daily, M. Galetti, W.F. Laurance, J. Pretty, R. Naylor, A. Power, and D. Harvell.. 2005. Biodiversity regulation of ecosystem services. Pages 297-329 In H. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash (Eds) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Island Press, Washington.

    Turner, M.G. and F.S. Chapin III. 2005. Causes and consequences of spatial heterogeneity in ecosystem function. Pages 9-30 In Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes, Ed By G. Lovett , C.G. Jones , M.G. Turner and K.C. Weathers. Springer, New York.

    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.

    Chapin, F.S., III, J. Yarie, K. Van Cleve, and L.A. Viereck. 2006. The conceptual basis of LTER studies in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 3-11 In F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

    Chapin, F.S., III, L.A. Viereck, P. Adams, K. Van Cleve, C.L. Fastie, R.A. Ott, D. Mann, and J.F. Johnstone. 2006. Successional processes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 100-120 In F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

    Chapin, F.S., III, T. Hollingsworth, D.F. Murray, L.A. Viereck, and M.D. Walker. 2006. Floristic diversity and vegetation distribution in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 81-99 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.

    McGuire, A.D., and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006. Climate feedbacks in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 309-322 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.

    Schimel, J.P., and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006. Microbial processes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 227-240. 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.

    Sparrow, E.B., J.C. Dawe, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006. Communication of Alaskan boreal science with broader communities. Pages 323-331 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.

    Sparrow, E.B., J.C. Dawe, and F.S. Chapin, III. 2006. Communication of Alaskan boreal science with broader communities. Pages 323-331 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.

    Valentine, D.W., K. Kielland, F.S. Chapin, III, A.D. McGuire, and K. Van Cleve. 2006. Patterns of biogeochemistry in Alaskan boreal forests. Pages 241-266 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.

    Diaz, S., S. Lavorel, F.S., Chapin, III, P.A. Tecco, and D. E. Gurvich. 2007. Functional diversity: At the crossroads between ecosystem functioning and environmental filters. Pages In: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. (eds. Canadell, J.G., Pataki, D.E., and Pitelka, L.F.). IGBP Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin

    McGuire, A.D., F. S. Chapin III, C. Wirth, M. Apps, J. Bhatti, T. Callaghan, T. R. Christensen, J. S. Clein, M. Fukuda, T. Maximov, A. Onuchin, A. Shvidenko, and E. Vaganov. 2007. Responses of High Latitude Ecosystems to Global Change: Potential Consequences for the Climate System, Pages 297-310 in Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Canadell, Josep G.; Pataki, Diane E.; Pitelka, Louis F. (Eds). IGBP Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

    Potvin, C., F.S. Chapin, III, A. Gonzalez, P. Leadley, P. Reich, and J. Roy. 2007. Ecosystem functioning in a more uniform and species-poorer world: Plant biodiversity and responses to elevated carbon dioxide. Pages In: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. (eds. Canadell, J.G., Pataki, D.E., and Pitelka, L.F.). IGBP Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

    Chapin, F.S., III, V.T. Eviner, L.M. Talbot, B.A. Wilcox, D.R. Magness, C.A. Brewer, and D.S. Keebler. 2008. Disease effects on landscape and regional systems: A resilience framework. In R.S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V.T. Eviner, eds. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. pp 284-303.

    Correll, R.W., S.J. Hassol, J.M. Melillo, D. Archer, E. Euskirchen, F.S. Chapin III, A.D. McGuire, T.R. Christensen, V.P. Fichelet, K. Walter, Q. Zhuang, T. Callaghan, S. Bech, and C. McMullen.. 2008. Methane from the Arctic: Global warming wildcard. In: UNEP Year Book 2008 (ed P. Harrison), pp 37-48. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.

    Kasischke, E.S. and F.S. Chapin, III. 2008. Increasing vulnerability of Alaskas boreal forest as a result of climate warming and the changing fire regime. Pages 175-192 in Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them. M.C. MacCracken, F. Moore, and J.C. Topping, Jr., editors. Earthscan, London.


    Conference Proceedings:

    Chapin, F.S. III and K. Van Cleve. 1981. Plant nutrient absorption and retention under differing fire regimes. Pages 301-321 in H.A. Mooney , T.M. Bonnicksen , N.L. Christensen , J.E. Lotun and W.A. Reiners, editors. Fire regimes and ecosystem processes. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, District of Columbia, USA.

    Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin III, P. Reichardt and T.P. Clausen. 1987. Effect of resource availability on the woody plant-mammal interaction. In Proceedings: Symposium on Plant-Herbivore Interactions, Ogden, UT, August 7-9, 1985. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Ogden, Utah, USA). pp. 3-8.

    Lynch, A. H., and F.S. Chapin III.. 1999. Vegetation transition in Alaska: A column modelling approach. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorological Society.

    Sandberg, D.V., F.S. Chapin III and L.D. Hinzman. 2003. Frostfire: a study of the role of fire in global change in the boreal forest. In Proceedings of Fire Conference 2000: The First National Conference on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Tallahassee, FL, 2000. (Miscellaneous Publication No. 13, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, USA).


    Report:

    Chapin, F.S. III and E. Matthews. 1993. Boreal carbon pools: Approaches and constraints in global extrapolations. EPA, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

    Johnstone, Jill F.; Hollingsworth, Teresa N.; Chapin, F. Stuart, III.. 2008. A key for predicting postfire successional trajectories in black spruce stands of interior Alaska. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-767. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p.

    Fagre, D.B., C.W. Charles, C.D. Allen, C. Birkeland, F.S. Chapin III, P.M. Groffman, G.R. Gunternspergen, A.K. Knapp, A.D. McGuire, P.J. Mulholland, D.P.C. Peters, D.D. Roby, and G. Sugihara. 2009. Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems. A report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA. 170 pages.

    Fresco, N., and F. Stuart Chapin, III. 2009. Assessing the potential for conversion to biomass fuels in interior Alaska. Research Paper PNW-RP-579. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 56 pp.


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