PDFs are available on request

 

Publications updated November 17, 2009

 

Smucker, N.J., DeForest J.L., Vis M.L. 2009. Difference methods and storage duration affect measurements of epilithic extracellular enzyme activities in lotic biofilms. Hydrobiologia., 636: 153-162.


DeForest, JL. 2009. The influence of time, storage temperature, and substrate age on potential soil enzyme activity in acidic forest soils using MUB-linked substrates and L-DOPA.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry., 41: 1180-1186.

 

Yuan W., Luo Y, Richardson RD, et al. 2009. Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables.  Global Change Biology., in press.

 

DeForest, J.L., Chen J., McNulty S.G. 2009. Leaf litter is an important mediator of soil respiration in an oak-dominated forest.  International Journal of Biometeorology. 53: 127-134. 

 

Li, Q, Moorhead D.L., DeForest J.L., Henderson R., Chen J., Jensen R. 2009. Mixed litter decomposition in a managed Missouri Ozark forest ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management. 257: 688-694. 

 

Noormets, A., McNulty S.G., DeForest J.L., Sun G., Li, Q., Chen J. 2008. Drought during canopy development has lasting effect on annual carbon balance in a deciduous temperate forest.  New Phytologist. 179: 818-828.

 

Li, Q, Chen, J, Moorhead DL, DeForest J.L., Jensen R, Henderson R., 2007. Effects of timber harvest on carbon pools in Ozark Forests. Can. J. For. Res., 37: 2337-2348.

 

DeForest, J.L., Noormets, A., McNulty S.G., Tenney, G., Sun, G., Chen, J. 2006. Phenophases in an oak-dominated forest alters the soil respiration-temperature relationship. International Journal of Biometeorology.  51: 135-144.

DeForest, JL, G. Sun, A. Noormets, J.Chen, S. McNulty, M. Gacazzi, D.M. Amatya, and R.W. Skaggs. 2006. Carbon and water fluxes in a drained coastal clearcut and a pine plantation in Coastal North Carolina.  Proc, 2006 ASABE-WeyCo sponsored International Conference on Hydrology and Management of Forested Wetlands.

DeForest, J.L., Zak D.R., Pregitzer K.S., Burton A.J. 2005.  Atmospheric nitrate deposition and enhanced dissolved organic carbon leaching: Test of a potential mechanism.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69: 1233-1237.

 

DeForest, J.L., Zak D.R., Pregitzer K.S., Burton A.J. 2004. Atmospheric nitrate deposition and the microbial degradation of cellobiose and vanillin in a northern hardwood forest.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 36: 965-971.

DeForest, J.L., Zak D.R., Pregitzer K.S., Burton A.J. 2004. Atmospheric nitrate deposition, microbial community composition, and enzyme activity in northern hardwood forests.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 68: 132-138.

 

DeForest, J.L. 2004. Elevated atmospheric nitrate deposition in northern hardwood forests: Impacts on the microbial mechanisms of plant litter decomposition.  Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan. pdf

 

Pregitzer K.S., DeForest J.L., Burton A.J., Allen M.F., Ruess R.W., Hendrick R.L.  2002. Fine root length, diameter, specific root length and nitrogen concentrations of nine tree species across four North America biomes. Ecological Monographs 72:  293-309.

 

DeForest, J.L. 2000. Description of the fine roots of nine north American trees. M.S. Thesis. Michigan Technological University.

 

Pregitzer K.S., Zak D.R., Maziasz J., DeForest J., Curtis P.S., Lussenhop J.  2000.  The interactive effects of atmospheric CO2 and soil nitrogen on the fine root of Populus tremulodies Michx.  Ecological Applications 10: 18-33.