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PASI Field Course 2011

A Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) in Peru

Tropical Ecology and Biogeochemistry,
from Andean Cloud Forests to the Lowland Amazon

Readings

Volume 1

•   Asbjornsen et al. 2011. Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant–water relations research: a review.
•   Asner et al 2010. High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon.
•   Bardgett, R. D., C. Freeman, and N. J. Ostle. 2008. Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks.
•   Bruijnzeel & Veneklaas. 1998. Climatic conditions and tropical montane forest productivity: the fog has not lifted yet.
•   Fierer N, C.M. et al. 2011. Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals.

•   Girardin, C.A.J. et al. 2010. Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon...

•   Grime, J. P.  2006. Trait convergence and trait divergence in herbaceous plant communities: Mechanisms and consequences.
•   He, Z., M. et al.. 2010. Metagenomic analysis  reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial...

•   Kelly, A. E., and M. L. Goulden. 2008. Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change.
•   Kuzyakov, Y. 2006. Review Sources of CO2 efflux from soil and review of partitioning methods.
•   Lefsky, M., et al. 2002. Lidar remote sensing for ecosystem studies.
•   Little, S. a, Kembel, S. W., & Wilf, P. 2010. Paleotemperature proxies from leaf fossils reinterpreted...
•   Lohse KA, et al.  2009. Interactions between biogeochemistry and hydrologic systems.
•   Malhi Y, Silman M, Salinas N, et al. 2010. Elevation gradients in the tropics....
•   Matesanz et al. 2010. Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants.
•   McGill B.J.et al. 2006. Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.
•   Meier, CL et al..  2010.  Fungal growth on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient...

Volume 2

•   Moreira, M.Z., et al. 1997. Contribution of transpiration to forest ambient vapour based on isotopic measurements.

•   Nobre et al. 2001. Short-term nitrous oxide profile dynamics and emissions response to water, nitrogen and carbon additions...

•   Norberg J., et al. 2001. Phenotypic diversity and ecosystem functioning...

•   Robertson and Hull. 2001. Beyond Biology: toward a More Public Ecology for Conservation.
•   Román-Cuesta et al. 2011. Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest...

•   Salati, E., A. Dallolio, E. Matsui, and J. Gat. 1979. Recycling of water in the amazon basin - isotopic study.
•   Salinas, N., et al. 2010. The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature...

•   Sandbrook, Nelson, Adams, and Agrawal., 2010. Carbon, forests and the REDD paradox.
•   van der Ent, R. J., H. H. G. Savenije, B. Schaefli, and S. C. Steele-Dunne. 2010: Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture...
•   Zimmermann et al. 2010. Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components...

References for Projects

•   Chambers, J., et al. (2007). Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing...

•   Fisher et al. (in review). Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3000 m elevation gradient...
•   Ghalambor C., et al.. 2006. Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited.

•   Parker, G., Harding, D. & Berger, M. 2004. A portable LIDAR system for rapid determination of forest canopy structure.
•   Sousa-Neto et al (2011). Soil-atmosphere exchange of nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide in a gradient of elevation...