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J. Patrick Megonigal Publications

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Journals and Books

  1. Dunbar, J, SA Eichorst, LV Gallegos-Graves, S Silva, G Xie, RD, Evans, BA Hungate, RB Jackson, JP Megonigal, CW Schadt, R Vilgalys, DR Zak, CR Kuske. (in review). Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to ten years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Environmental Microbiology.
  2. Richter, D, SS Andrews, AR Bacon, S Billings, CA Cambardella, N Cavallaro, J DeMeester, AJ Franzluebbers, S Grandy, S Grunwald, J Gruver, AS Hartshorn, H Janzen, M Kramer, JK Ladha, K Lajtha, G Liles, D Markewitz, JP Megonigal, A Mermut, MA Mobley, C Rasmussen, CJ Richardson, DA Robinson, P Smith, C Stiles, RL Tate, A Thompson, AJ Tugel, H van Es, L West, S Wills, D Yaalon, T Zobeck (in press). Human-soil relations are changing rapidly: Proposals from SSSA’s new Cross-Division Work Group on Soil Change. Soil Science Society of America Journal.
  3. White, KP, Langley, JA, Cahoon, DR, Megonigal, JP (in review). Contrasting C3 and C4 root-shoot allocation responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen: implications for tidal marsh elevation. Estuaries & Coasts, submitted Spring 2011.
  4. Weber, CF, DR Zak, BA Hungate, RB Jackson, R Vilgalys, RD Evans, SW Schadt, JP Megonigal and CR Kuske (in press). Responses of Soil Cellulolytic Fungal Communities to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 are Complex and Variable across Five Ecosystems. Environmental Microbiology.
  5. Dunbar, J, S Eichorst, LV Gallegos-Graves, S Silva, [others], CR Kuske1 (in review). Responsive bacterial taxa in six ecosystems exposed to ten years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.
  6. Duval, BD, P Dijkstra, SM Natali, JP Megonigal, MT Ketterer, BG Drake, MT Lerdau, G Gordon, AD Anbar, BA Hungate (2011). Plant-soil distribution of potentially toxic elements in response to elevated CO2. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/es102250u
  7. Tzortziou, M, PJ Neale, JP Megonigal, CL Pow, M Butterworth (2011) Spatial gradients in dissolved carbon due to tidal marsh outwelling into a Chesapeake Bay estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 426: 41-56. doi: 10.3354/meps09017
  8. Brantley, SL, JP Megonigal, FN Scatena, Z Balogh-Brunstad, RT Barnes, MA Bruns, P van Cappellen, K Dontsova, H Hartnett, T Hartshorn, A Heimsath, E Herndon, L Jin, CK Keller, JR Leake, WH McDowell, FC Meinzer, TJ Mozdzer, S Petsch, J Pett-Ridge, KS Pregitzer, P Raymond, CS Riebe, K Shumaker, A Sutton-Grier, R Walter, K Yoo. (2011) Twelve testable hypotheses on the geobiology of weathering. Geobiology. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00264.x
  9. Sutton-Grier, AE, JK Keller, R Koch, C Gilmour and JP Megonigal. (2011). Electron donors and acceptors influence rates of decomposition in tidal marshes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
  10. Sutton-Grier, AS, JP Megonigal (2011). Plant species traits regulate methane production in freshwater wetland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43: 413-420. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.11.009
  11. Poffenbarger, HJ, BA Needelman, JP Megonigal (2011). Salinity influence on methane emissions from tidal marshes. Wetlands. doi: 10.1007/s13157-011-0197-0
  12. Langley, JA and JP Megonigal (2010). Ecosystem response to elevated CO2 limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift. Nature 466: 96-99. doi: 10.1038/nature09176.
  13. Megonigal, JP, B Stauffer, S Starrs, P Pakarik, P Drohan, J Havlin (2010). "Dig It!": How an Exhibit Breathed Life into Soils Education. Soil Science Society of America Journal 74 (3): 706-716, doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0409
  14. Drohan, PJ, JL Havlin, JP Megonigal, HH Cheng (2010). The "Dig It!" Smithsonian Soils Exhibition: Lessons Learned and Goals for the Future. Soil Science Society of America Journal 74 (3): 697-705, doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0017.
  15. Rabenhorst, MC, JP Megonigal and JK Keller (2010). Synthetic iron oxides for documenting sulfide in marsh pore water. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 74(4). doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0435
  16. Keller, JK, AA Wolf, PB Weisenhorn, BG Drake and JP Megonigal (2009). Elevated CO2 affects porewater chemistry in a brackish marsh. Biogeochemistry 96:101-117. doi: 10.1007/s10533-009-9347-3
  17. Whigham, DF, JTA Verhoeven, V Samarkin, JP Megonigal (2009). Responses of Avicennia germinans (Black mangrove) and the soil microbial community to nitrogen addition in a hypersaline wetland. Estuaries and Coasts. 32: 926-936.
  18. Fierer, N., KM Carney, MC Horner-Devine and JP Megonigal (2009). The biogeography of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in soil. Microbial Ecology. 58:435-445. doi 10.1007/s00248-009-9517-9
  19. Keller, JK, PB Weisenhorn and JP Megonigal (2009). Humic acids as electron acceptors in wetland decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 41: 1518-1522.
  20. McKinley, DC, JC Romero, BA Hungate, BG Drake and JP Megonigal (2009). Long-term CO2 enrichment alters deep soil N availability in a scrub-oak ecosystem. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01836.x
  21. Megonigal, JP and SC Neubauer (2009). Biogeochemistry of tidal freshwater wetlands. Pages 535-563 in GME Perillo, E Wolanski, DR Cahoon, M Brinson (editors) Coastal Wetlands: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach. Elsevier, The Netherlands.
  22. Langley, JA, KL McKee, DR Cahoon, JA Cherry, JP Megonigal (2009). Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(15): 6182-6186. doi: 10.1073.pnas.0807695106 [PDF Eprint]
  23. Langley, JA, MV Sigrist, J Duls, DL Cahoon, JC Lynch, JP Megonigal (2009). Global change and marsh elevation dynamics: Experimenting where land meets sea and biology meets geology. In: Lang, MA, IG Macintyre and K Rützler (eds.). Pages 391-400 in Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Sciences Symposium. Contributions to the Marine Sciences, No. 38. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, DC.
  24. Langley, JA, DC McKinley, AA Wolf, BA Hungate, BG Drake, JP Megonigal (2009). Priming depletes soil carbon and releases nitrogen in a scrub-oak ecosystem exposed to elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 41: 54-60, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.09.016
  25. Neubauer, SC, D Emerson and JP Megonigal (2008). Microbial oxidation and reduction of iron in the root zone and influences on metal mobility. Pages 339-371 in A Violante, PM Huang, and GM Gadd (editors). Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soil Environments. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, USA.
  26. Megonigal, JP (2008). Frontiers in Wetland Biogeochemistry. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 54(3): 237-238.
  27. Shufen, M, GW Luther, III, J Keller, AS Madison, E Metzger, JP Megonigal, D Emerson (2008). Solid-State Au/Hg Microelectrode for the Investigation of Fe and Mn Cycling in a Freshwater Wetland: Implications for Methane Production. Electroanalysis 20(3): 233-239.
  28. Megonigal, JP and AKT Guenther (2008). Methane emissions from upland forest soils and vegetation. Tree Physiology 28:491-498.
  29. Tzortziou, M, PJ Neale, CL Osburn, JP Megonigal, N Maie, and R Jaffé (2008). Tidal marshes as a source of optically and chemically distinctive colored dissolved organic matter in the Chesapeake Bay. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(1):148-159.
  30. Bridgham, SD, JP Megonigal, JK Keller, NB Bliss, and C Trettin (2007). Wetlands. In: The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks (eds.)]. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA, pp. 139-148.
  31. Cheng, W, K Yagi, H Akiyama, S Nishimura, S Sudo, T Fumoto, T Hasegawa, AE Hartley, JP Megonigal (2007). An empirical model of soil chemical properties that regulate methane production in Japanese rice paddy soils. Journal of Environmental Quality, 36: 1920-1925.
  32. Weiss, JV, JA Rentz, T Plaia, SC Neubauer, M Merrill-Floyd, T Lilburn, C Bradburne, JP Megonigal, and D Emerson (2007). Characterization of neutrophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of  wetland plants and description of Ferritrophicum radicicola gen. nov. sp. nov., and Sideroxydans paludicola sp. nov. Geomicrobiology Journal, 24:559-570. doi: 10.1080/01490450701670152
  33. Wolf, AA, BG Drake, JE Erickson, and JP Megonigal (2007). An oxygen-mediated positive feedback between elevated CO2 and SOM decomposition in a simulated anaerobic wetland. Global Change Biology 13:1-9 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01407.x
  34. Carney, KM, BA Hungate, BG Drake, and JP Megonigal (2007). Altered soil microbial community at elevated CO2 leads to loss of soil carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12:4990-4995.
  35. Cornell, JA, CC Craft and JP Megonigal (2007). Ecosystem gas exchange across a created salt marsh chronosequence. Wetlands. 27(2):240-250.
  36. Neubauer, SC, GE Toledo-Durán, D Emerson and JP Megonigal (2007). Returning to their roots: Iron-oxidizing bacteria enhance short-term plaque formation in the wetland-plant rhizosphere. Geomicrobiology 24:65-73. doi:10.1080/01490450601134309
  37. Erickson, JE, JP Megonigal, G Peresta, BG Drake (2007). Salinity and sea level mediate elevated CO2 effects on C3-C4 plant interactions and tissue nitrogen in a Chesapeake Bay tidal wetland. Global Change Biology 13:202-215. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01285.x
  38. Bodelier, PLE, P Frenzel, HL Drake, T Hurek, K Küsel, C Lovell, P Megonigal, B Reinhold-Hurek and B Sorrell. (2006). Ecological Aspects of Microbes and Microbial Communities Inhabiting the Rhizosphere of Wetland Plants. Pages 205-238 in Verhoeven, JTA, B Beltman, R Bobbink, and DF Whigham (Eds). Wetlands and Natural Resource Management. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  39. Bridgham, SD, JP Megonigal, JK Keller, NB Bliss, and C Trettin (2006). The carbon storage of North American wetlands. Wetlands 26:889-916.
  40. Hines, J, JP Megonigal and RF Denno (2006). Nutrient subsidies to belowground microbes impact aboveground food web interactions. Ecology 87(6):1542-1555.
  41. Burdt, AC, JM Galbraith and JP Megonigal. (2006). Using CO2 efflux rates to indicate below-ground growing seasons by land-use treatment. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 14:133-145.
  42. Hungate, BA, DW Johnson, P Dijkstra, G Hymus, P Stiling, JP Megonigal, AL Pagel, JL Moan, F Day, H Li, CR Hinkle, and BG Drake (2006). Nitrogen cycling during seven years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment in a scrub oak woodland. Ecology  87:26-40.
  43. Saunders, CJ, JP Megonigal and JF Reynolds (2006). Comparison of belowground biomass in C3- and C4-dominated mixed communities in a Chesapeake Bay brackish marsh. Plant and Soil 280:305-322.
  44. Neubauer, SC, K Givler, S Valentine, and JP Megonigal (2005). Seasonal patterns and plant-mediated controls of subsurface wetland biogeochemistry. Ecology 86:3334-3344.   [PDF Eprint]
  45. Marsh, AS, DP Rasse, BG Drake, and JP Megonigal. 2005. Effect of elevated CO2 on carbon pools and fluxes in a brackish marsh. Estuaries 28:694-704.  [PDF Eprint]
  46. Weiss, JV, D Emerson, and JP Megonigal. 2005. Rhizosphere Iron(III) Deposition and Reduction in a Juncus effusus L.-Dominated Wetland. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1861-1870.   [PDF Eprint]
  47. Megonigal, JP, CD Vann, and AA Wolf (2005). Flooding constraints on tree (Taxodium distichum) and herb growth responses to elevated CO2. Wetlands 25:230-238.   [PDF Eprint]
  48. Garnet, KN, JP Megonigal, C Litchfield, and GE Taylor. 2005. Physiological control of leaf methane emission from wetland plants. Aquatic Botany 81:141-155.  [PDF Eprint]
  49. Lim, C, M Kafatos, and JP Megonigal. 2004. Correlation between atmospheric CO2 concentration and vegetation greenness in North America: CO2 fertilization effect. Climate Research 28:11-22. [PDF Eprint]
  50. Morse, JL, JP Megonigal, and MR Walbridge. 2004. Sediment nutrient accumulation and nutrient availability in two tidal freshwater marshes along the Mattaponi River, Virginia, USA. Biogeochemistry 69:165-206. [PDF Eprint]
  51. Megonigal, JP, ME Hines, and PT Visscher. 2004. Anaerobic Metabolism: Linkages to Trace Gases and Aerobic Processes. Pages 317-424 in Schlesinger, W.H. (Editor). Biogeochemistry. Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford, UK. [PDF Eprint]
  52. Pendall, E, S Bridgham, PJ Hanson, B Hungate, DW Kicklighter, DW Johnson, BE Law, Y Luo, JP Megonigal, M Olsrud, MG Ryan, and S Wan. 2004. Below-ground process responses to elevated CO2 and temperature: A discussion of observations, measurement methods, and models. New Phytologist 162:311-322. [PDF Eprint]
  53. Weiss, JV, D Emerson, and JP Megonigal. 2004. Geochemical control of microbial Fe(III) reduction potential in wetlands: comparison of the rhizosphere to non-rhizosphere soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 48:89-100.  [PDF Eprint]
  54. Craft, C, P Megonigal, S Broome, J Stevenson, R Freese, J Cornell, L Zheng, and J Sacco. 2003. The pace of ecosystem development of constructed Spartina alterniflora marshes. Ecological Applications 13:1417-1432. [PDF Eprint]
  55. Weiss, JV, D Emerson, SM Backer, and JP Megonigal. 2003. Enumeration of Fe(II)-oxidizing and Fe(III)-reducing bacteria in the root zone of wetland plants: Implications for a rhizosphere iron cycle. Biogeochemistry 64:77-96. [PDF Eprint]
  56. Darke, AK and JP Megonigal. 2003. Control of sediment deposition rates in two mid-Atlantic coast tidal freshwater wetlands. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 57:255-268. [PDF Eprint]
  57. Vann, CD and JP Megonigal. 2003. Elevated CO2 and water depth regulation of methane emissions: Comparison of woody and non-woody wetland plant species . Biogeochemistry 63:117-134. [PDF Eprint]
  58. Vann, CD and JP Megonigal. 2002. Productivity responses of Acer rubrum and Taxodium distichum seedlings to elevated CO2 and flooding. Environmental Pollution 116:S31-S36. [PDF Eprint]
  59. Neubauer, SC, D Emerson, and JP Megonigal. 2002. Life at the energetic edge: Kinetics of circumneutral iron oxidation by lithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria isolated from the wetland-plant rhizophere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68:3988-3995. [PDF Eprint]
  60. Megonigal, JP and WH Schlesinger. 2002. Methane production and oxidation in a tidal freshwater swamp. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4), 1088, doi:10.1029/2001GB001594 [PDF Eprint]
  61. Oren, R, JS Sperry, BE Ewers, DE Pataki, N Phillips, and JP Megonigal. 2001. Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. Oecologia 126:21-29. [PDF Eprint]
  62. Gitay, H and 47 coauthors including JP Megonigal. 2001. Ecosystems and their goods and services. Pages 235-342 In McCarthy, J.J, OF Canziani, NA Leary, DJ Dokken, and KS White (Editors). Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  63. Day, FP and JP Megonigal. 2000. Plant organic matter dynamics in the Dismal Swamp. Pages 51-57 in Rose, R.K. (ed.). The Natural History of the Great Dismal Swamp. Old Dominion University Press, Norfolk, VA.
  64. Schlesinger, WH, JP Winkler, and JP Megonigal. 2000. Soils and the global carbon cycle. Pages 93-101 in Wigley, TML and DS Schimel (eds.). The Carbon Cycle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  65. Najjar, RG, HA Walker, PJ Anderson, EJ Barron, RJ Bord, JR Gibson, VS Kennedy, CG Knight, JP Megonigal, RE O'Conner, CD Polsky, NP Psuty, BA Richards, LG Sorenson, EM Steele, and RS Swanson. 2000. The potential impacts of climate change on the mid-Atlantic coastal region. Climate Research 14:219-233. [PDF Eprint]
  66. Megonigal, JP, SC Whalen, DT Tissue, BD Bovard, DB Albert, and AS Allen. 1999. A plant - soil - atmosphere microcosm for tracing radiocarbon from photosynthesis through methanogenesis. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63:665-671. [PDF Eprint]
  67. Emerson, D, JV Weiss, and JP Megonigal. 1999. Iron-oxidizing bacteria are associated with ferric hydroxide precipitates (Fe-plaque) on the roots of wetland plants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65:2758-2761. [PDF Eprint]
  68. Oren, R, N Phillips, BE Ewers, DE Pataki, and JP Megonigal. 1999. Sap-flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest. Tree Physiology 19:337-347. [PDF Eprint]
  69. Megonigal, JP and WH Schlesinger. 1997. Enhanced CH4 emissions from a wetland soil exposed to elevated CO2. Biogeochemistry 37:77-88. [PDF Eprint]
  70. Tissue, DT, JP Megonigal, and RB Thomas. 1997. Nitrogenase activity and N2 fixation are stimulated by elevated CO2 in a tropical N2-fixing tree. Oecologia 109:28-33. [PDF Eprint]
  71. Megonigal, JP, WH Conner, S Kroeger, and RR Sharitz. 1997. Aboveground production in southeastern floodplain forests: A test of the subsidy-stress hypothesis. Ecology 78:370-384. [PDF Eprint]
  72. WH Schlesinger and JP Megonigal. 1996. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 41:40.
  73. Megonigal, JP, SP Faulkner, and W.H. Patrick. 1996. The microbial activity season in southeastern hydric soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60:1263-1266. [PDF Eprint]
  74. Megonigal, JP, WH Patrick, and SP Faulkner. 1993. Wetland identification in seasonally flooded forest soils: soil morphology and redox dynamics. Soil Science Society of America Journal Journal 57:140-149.[PDF Eprint]
  75. Young, PJ, JP Megonigal, RR Sharitz, and FP Day. 1993. False ring formation in baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) saplings under two flooding regimes. Wetlands 13:293-298.
  76. Day, FP and JP Megonigal. 1993. The relationship between variable hydroperiod, production allocation, and belowground organic turnover in forested wetlands. Wetlands 13:115-121.
  77. Megonigal, JP and FP Day. 1992. Effects of flooding on root and shoot production of bald cypress in large experimental enclosures. Ecology 73:1182-1193.[PDF Eprint]
  78. Day, FP, JP Megonigal, and L.C. Lee. 1989. Cypress root decomposition in experimental wetland mesocosms. Wetlands 9:263-282.
  79. Megonigal, JP and FP Day. 1988. Organic matter dynamics in four seasonally flooded forest communities of the Great Dismal Swamp. American Journal of Botany 75:1334-1343. [PDF Eprint]
  80. Megonigal, JP 1985. Field Notes: Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen (Northern Copperhead) and Lampropeltis getulus getulus (Eastern Kingsnake). Catesbeiana 5:16.

Other Publications

  • Popular Magazine: Megonigal, JP and WH Schlesinger. 1995. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 40:39-40
  • Popular Magazine: Megonigal, JP and WH Schlesinger. 1994. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 39:19-20.
  • Report: Botkin, DB, JP Megonigal and N Sampson. 1997. Management-Scale Ecosystem Research: Findings and Recommendations. Report to the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • Popular Book: Special Editor for one-third of Earth. JF Luhr (editor-in-chief). 2003. Published by Dorling Kindersley, Ltd., UK
  • Popular Book: Content editor for Ecosystems. 2004. Published by The National Academy of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.
  • Science Curriculum: Content editor for Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century. 2007. A Curriculum Module for Middle School Life Science. The Nutrients for Life Foundation.
  • Letter to Editor: Wetlands play role in reducing CO2. Baltimore Sun. 19 October 2007.
  • Newsletter: Megonigal, JP. 2008. President's Address: Wetland Science Leadership. Society of Wetland Scientists Bulletin 25 (1): 4-5.
  • Report: Schlesinger, WH, VP Aneja, FS Chapin, N Comerford, JP Gibbs, T Hrabik, JP Megonigal, MG Turner, J Whitaker. 2009 Strategic Plan for Scientific Research in Isle Royale National Park. Report to Isle Royale National Park.

 

  
 
 

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