Knut Kielland
	Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7164 Telephone (secondary): Fax: (907) 474-6967 E-mail1 (primary): ffkk@uaf.edu E-mail2 (secondary): Web URL: http://www.iab.uaf.edu/~knut_kielland/ Address: Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757000 Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States

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Publications (40)

Journal Articles:

Kielland, K. 1997. Role of free amino acids in the nitrogen economy of arctic cryptogams. Ecoscience 4:75-79.

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.

Rossow, L.J., J.P. Bryant and K. Kielland. 1997. Effects of above-ground browsing by mammals on mycorrhizal infection in an early successional taiga ecosystem. Oecologia 110:94-98.

Kielland, K. and J.P. Bryant. 1998. Moose herbivory in taiga: effects on biogeochemistry and vegetation dynamics in primary succession. Oikos 82:377-383.

Kielland, K. and T. Osborne. 1998. Moose browsing on feltleaf willow: optimal foraging in relation to plant morphology and chemistry. Alces 34:149-155.

Kielland, K., B. Barnette and D. Schell. 1998 Intra-seasonal variation in the 15N signatures of taiga trees and shrubs. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:485-488.

Kielland, K. 2001 Stable isotope signatures of moose in relation to seasonal forage composition: an hypothesis. Alces 37:329-338.

Jones, D.L. and K. Kielland. 2002 Soil amino acid turnover dominates the nitrogen flux in permafrost-dominated taiga forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:209-219.

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.

McKane, R.B., L.C. Johnson, G.R. Shaver, K.J. Nadelhoffer, E.B.. Rastetter, B. Fry, E. Giblin, K. Kielland, B.L. Kwiatkowski, J.A. Laundre and G. Murray. 2002 Resource-based niches provide a basis for species diversity and dominance in an arctic plant community. Nature 415:68-71.

Schneider, W.S., K. Kielland, and G.L. Finstad. 2005. Factors in the adaptation of reindeer herders to caribou on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 42:36-49

Belant, G., K. Kielland, E.H. Follmann, and L. Adams. 2006 Resource partitioning between sympatric populations of ursids in interior Alaska. Ecological Applications Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 2333-2343

Finstad, G.L., K. Kielland, and W.S. Schneider. 2006 Reindeer herding in transition: historical and modern day challenges in reindeer herding in Alaska, in Humans and Reindeer on the Move, special edition of Nomadic Peoples , eds. Stammler, F. and Beach, H. Volume 10, Issue 2/2006. pp31-49.

Kielland, K., J.W. McFarland, and K. Olson. 2006 Amino acid uptake in deciduous and coniferous taiga ecosystems. Plant and Soil 288:297-307

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

Butler, L.G., K. Kielland, T.S. Rupp, and T.A. Hanley. 2007 Interactive controls of herbivory and fluvial dynamics over vegetation patterns along the Tanana River, Interior Alaska. Journal of Biogeography 34:1622-1631

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

Borner, A.P, K. Kielland and M. Walker. 2008 Effects of simulated climate change on plant phenology and nitrogen mineralization in arctic tundra. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 27-38 DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(06-099)[BORNER]2.0.CO;2

Butler, L.G., K. Kielland. 2008 Acceleration of vegetation turnover and element cycling by mammalian herbivory in riparian ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 96:136-144 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01318.x

Cebrian, M.R., K. Kielland, and G. Finstad. 2008 Forage quality and reindeer productivity: multiplier effects amplified by climate change. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 40(1):48-54. DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(06-073)[CEBRIAN]2.0.CO;2.

Clilverd, H.M., J.B. Jones, and K. Kielland. 2008 Nitrogen retention in the hyporheic zone of a glacial river in interior Alaska. Biogeochemistry 88:31-46. doi: 10.1007/s10533-008-9192-9.

Lisuzzo N.J, K. Kielland, and J. Jones. 2008 Hydrologic controls over nitrogen availability in a high-latitude, semi-arid floodplain. Ecoscience. 15:366-376.

Angell, A. and K. Kielland. 2009 Establishment and growth of white spruce on a boreal forest floodplain: interactions between microclimate and mammalian herbivory. Forest Ecology and Management 258(11): 2475-2480.

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

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

Jones, D. L., K. Kielland, F.L. Sinclair, R. A. Dahlgren, K. K. Newsham, J.F. Farrar, and D.V. Murphy. 2009 Soil organic nitrogen mineralization across a global latitudinal gradient. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 23, GB1016, doi:10.1029/2008GB003250

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).

Nasholm,T., K. Kielland and U. Ganeteg. 2009 Uptake of Organic Nitrogen by Plants. New Phytologist (Tansley Review) 182: 31-48.

Rattenbury, K., K. Kielland, G. Finstad, and W. Schneider. 2009 A reindeer herder's perspective on caribou, weather and socio-economic change on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Polar Record 28: 71-88

Werdin-Pfisterer, N.R., K. Kielland, and R.D. Boone. 2009 Soil amino acid composition across a boreal forest successional sequence. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41: 1210-1220. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.03.001

Books:

Book Chapters:

Kielland, K. 2001. Short-circuiting the nitrogen cycle: Strategies of nitrogen uptake in plants from marginal ecosystems. Pages 376-398 in N. Ae, J. Arihara, K. Okada and A. Srinivasan, editors. Plant Nutrient Acquisition: New Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin,

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.

Rexstad, E., and K. Kielland. 2006. Mammalian herbivore population dynamics in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 121-132 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.

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.

Kielland, K. and M. Lee. 2009. The Arctic. World Book Encyclopedia Pages 635-640.

Conference Proceedings:

Kielland, K.. 2004. Fluxes of organic nitrogen across soil thermal gradients in taiga forest ecosystems. Proc. 5th International Workshop on Global Change: Connections to the Arctic, pp. 56-59.

Koyama, L., N. Tokutchi, M. Hirobe, S. Hobara, K. Olson and K. Kielland.. 2007. Plant Responses to Biogeochemical Shifts in Nitrogen Dynamics Following Wild Fire. 2007. Proc. 8th International Workshop on Global Change: Connections to the Arctic, pp. 21-24.

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