Assistant Professor Benjamin Z. Houlton

Earth Systems Ecology and BiogeochemistryGrasslandTropical ForestTemperate Forest

Published and In Press

1. Houlton, B. Z. and Bai, E., Imprint of denitrifying bacterial on the global terrestrial biosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (in press).

2. Houlton, B. Z. and Field, C. B., Nutrient cycling, limitation and global change: From leaves to landscapes in a California rangeland ecosystem. Rangeland Ecology and Management (in press).

3. Cleveland, C. C., Houlton, B. Z., C. Neill, S. Reed, A. R. Townsend, and Y. P. Wang. Using indirect methods to estimate symbiotic nitrogen fixation: A case study from an Amazonian rain forest. Biogeochemistry (accepted).

4. Vitousek, P. M., Porder, S., Houlton, B. Z., and Chadwick, O., Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: Mechanisms, implications and nitrogen-phosphorus interactions. Ecological Applications (in press).

5. Bai, E. and Houlton, B. Z., Coupled isotopic and process-based modeling of gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23 (GB2011) (2009).

6. Houlton, B. Z., Wang, Y. P., Vitousek, P. M., and Field, C. B., A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere. Nature 454 (7202), 327-U334 (2008).

7. Kaiser, J., M. G. Hastings, B. Z. Houlton, T. Rockmann, and D. M. Sigman. Triple oxygen isotope analysis of nitrate using the denitrifier method and thermal decomposition of N2O. Analytical Chemistry 79:599-607 (2007).

8. Houlton, B. Z., Sigman, D. M., Schuur, E. A., and Hedin, L. O., A climate-driven switch in plant nitrogen acquisition within tropical forest communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104 (21), 8902 - 8906 (2007).

9. Wang, Y. P., Houlton, B. Z., and Field, C. B., A model of biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus including symbiotic nitrogen fixation and phosphatase production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 21 (1), - (2007).

10. Houlton, B. Z., Sigman, D. M., and Hedin, L. O., Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 103 (23), 8745-8750 (2006).

11. Houlton, B. Z. et al., Nitrogen dynamics in ice storm-damaged forest ecosystems: Implications for nitrogen limitation theory. Ecosystems 6 (5), 431-443 (2003).

Submitted

Wang, Y. P. and Houlton, B. Z., Estimates of global nitrogen fixation: Implications for global climate change (submitted).