Rob Jackson's Laboratory
Past Projects
Global Carbon Cycle
The "tunnel" CO2 gradient in Temple, Texas
Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) site at Duke
Soil coring project in the southwestern US
Sample publications
- Gill, RA, HW Polley, HB Johnson, LJ Anderson, H Maherali, RB Jackson. 2002.
Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric
CO2. Nature 417:279-282.
Jackson, RB, JL Banner, EG Jobbágy, WT Pockman, DH Wall. 2002. Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. Nature 418:623-626.
- Jobbágy EG, Jackson RB. 2000. The vertical distribution
of soil organic carbon and its relation to climate and vegetation. Ecological
Applications 10:423-436.
Water Cycle
Caves and resource uptake
Global freshwater cycle
Water in a changing world
Sample publications
- Jackson, RB, SR Carpenter, CN Dahm, DM McKnight, RJ Naiman, SL Postel, and
SW Running. 2001. Water in a changing world. Ecological
Applications 11:1027-1045.
See also the Issues in Ecology
report based on this paper for the Ecological Society of America.
- Baron, JS, NL Poff, PL Angermeier, CN Dahm, PH Gleick, NG Hairston, Jr., RB Jackson, CA Johnston, BG Richter, and AD Steinman. 2002. Balancing human and ecological needs for freshwater. Ecological Applications, in press.
Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions and Climate Modeling
Change in fire risk from savanna conversion
Change in surface temperature
Sample publications
- Hoffmann, WA, W Schroeder, RB Jackson. 2002. Coupled
feedbacks of fire, climate, and vegetation and the conversion of tropical
savanna. Geophysical Research Letters, in press.
- Dickinson, RE, JA Berry, GB Bonan, GJ Collatz, CB Field, IY Fung, M Goulden, WA Hoffmann, RB Jackson, R Myneni, PJ Sellers, M Shaikh. 2002. Nitrogen controls on climate model evapotranspiration. Journal of Climate 15:278-295.
- Jackson RB, HJ Schenk, EG Jobbágy, J Canadell, GD Colello, RE Dickinson,
CB Field, P Friedlingstein, M Heimann, K Hibbard, DW Kicklighter, A Kleidon,
RP Neilson, WJ Parton, OE Sala, MT Sykes. 2000. Belowground
consequences of vegetation change and their treatment in models. Ecological
Applications 10:470-483.
- Hoffmann WA, Jackson RB. 2000. Vegetation-climate
feedbacks in the conversion of tropical savanna to grassland. Journal
of Climate 13: 1593-1602.
Posters and Presentations
Conduit diameter increases with depth
Stomatal density and CO2
Trade-offs among physiological traits
Global Carbon Cycle
- Carbon dioxide as a selective agent for stomatal density
- Effects of a 4-year exposure to pre-industrial and elevated CO2 gradient on stomatal characters of C3 and C4 species
- Global patterns of root turnover for terrestrial ecosystems
- Photosynthetic and stomatal responses to sub-ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations in a C3-C4 grassland
- Soil Responses to Atmospheric CO2: Storage and Fluxes of Carbon and Nitrogen in a Grassland Exposed to a Gradient in CO2 Concentration
Water Cycle
- The contribution of deep root functioning to whole-plant water relations and xylem transport in Juniperus ashei
- Trade-offs among vulnerability to xylem cavitation, water transport, and other physiological traits in temperate forest species
- Variability In Resistance To Water-Stress-Induced Cavitation In Juniperus (Cupressaceae) Species
- The contribution of deep roots to the water cycle: seasonal patterns of water uptake and hydraulic lift from below 7 m on the Edwards Plateau, Texas