Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Biogeochemistry

Principal Investigator

Patrick Megonigal

megonigalp@si.edu

Publications

Weber, Carolyn F. ; Zak, Donald R. ; Hungate, Bruce A. ; Jackson, Robert B. ; Vilgalys, Rytas ; Evans, R. David ; Schadt, Christopher W. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Kuske, Cheryl R. (2011). Responses of soil cellulolytic fungal communities to elevated atmospheric CO2 are complex and variable across five ecosystems . Environmental microbiology, 13 (10) , 2778-2793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02548.x
Drohan, Patrick J. ; Havlin, John L. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Cheng, H. H. (2010). The 'Dig It!' Smithsonian Soils Exhibition: Lessons Learned and Goals for the Future . Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74 (3) , 697-705. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2009.0017
Langley, J. Adam ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2010). Ecosystem response to elevated CO2 levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift . Nature, 466 (7302) , 96-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09176
Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Megonigal, E. J. (2010). News from Online-Smithsonian's Dig It! Web Site Shows That Soil Is Not a Dirty, Four-Letter Word . Journal of chemical education, 87 (2) , 133-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed8000667
Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Stauffer, Barbara W. ; Starrs, Siobhan ; Pekarik, Andrew J. ; Drohan, Patrick ; Havlin, John. (2010). 'Dig It!': How an Exhibit Breathed Life into Soils Education . Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74 (3) , 706-716. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2009.0409
Rabenhorst, Martin C. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Keller, Jason. (2010). Synthetic Iron Oxides for Documenting Sulfide in Marsh Pore Water . Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74 (4) , 1383-1388. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2009.0435
Fierer, Noah ; Carney, Karen M. ; Horner-Devine, M. Claire ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). The Biogeography of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterial Communities in Soil . Microbial ecology, 58 (2) , 435-445. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-009-9517-9
Keller, Jason K. ; Weisenhorn, Pamela B. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Humic acids as electron acceptors in wetland decomposition . Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41 (7) , 1518-1522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.04.008
Keller, Jason K. ; Wolf, Amelia A. ; Weisenhorn, Pamela B. ; Drake, Bert G. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Elevated CO2 affects porewater chemistry in a brackish marsh . Biogeochemistry, 96 (1-3) , 101-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-009-9347-3
Langley, J. Adam ; McKee, Karen L. ; Cahoon, Donald R. ; Cherry, J. A. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (15) , 6182-6186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807695106
Langley, J. Adam ; McKinley, Duncan C. ; Wolf, Amelia A. ; Hungate, Bruce A. ; Drake, Bert G. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Priming depletes soil carbon and releases nitrogen in a scrub-oak ecosystem exposed to elevated CO2 . Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41 (1) , 54-60.
Langley, J. Adam ; Sigrist, M. V. ; Duls, J. ; Cahoon, D. R. ; Lynch, J. C. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Global change and marsh elevation dynamics: experimenting where land meets sea and biology meets geology . Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium (391-400) http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.391 Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press .
McKinley, D. C. ; Romero, J. C. ; Hungate, Bruce A. ; Drake, Bert G. ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Does soil N availability sustain long-term ecosystem response to elevated CO2? . Global Change Biology, 15 (8) , 2035-2048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01836.x
Megonigal, J. Patrick ; Neubauer, S. C. (2009). Biogeochemistry of tidal fresh-water wetlands . Coastal wetlands: an integrated ecosystem approach (535-562) Elsevier Science .
Whigham, Dennis F. ; Verhoeven, Jos T. A. ; Samarkin, Vladimir ; Megonigal, J. Patrick. (2009). Responses of Avicennia germinans (Black Mangrove) and the Soil Microbial Community to Nitrogen Addition in a Hypersaline Wetland . Estuaries and Coasts, 32 (5) , 926-936. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-009-9184-6

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