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Publications

Most faculty members who are affiliated with ECI have a primary affiliation in a regular University department. They publish extensively within their own fields as well as pursuing interdisciplinary collaborations. The following list of publications is only a small sampling of recent research results and topics of interest to faculty associated with the ECI. For a full list of faculty publications, visit the Brown's database of research and researchers.

Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Stephen Porder, Peter M. Vitousek, Oliver A. Chadwick, C. Page Chamberlain, and George E. Hilley. Ecosystems (2007) 10: 158–170

Can Sedimentary Leaf Waxes record D/H ratios of Continental Precipitation? Field, Model, and Experimental Assessments
Juzhi Hou, William DÁndrea and Yongsong Huang. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 May 2008

Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Chapter 47, Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4, 2007, Pages 3051-3083

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses
Edwards, Erika J.; Still, Christopher J.
Ecology Letters. March 1, 2008.

Does drought control emergence and survival of grass seedlings in semi-arid rangelands?: An example with a Patagonian species.
Cipriotti, P.A.; Flombaum, P.; Sala, O.E.; Aguiar, M.R. Journal of Arid Environments. March 2008.

Wavelet analysis of MODIS time series to detect expansion and intensification of row-crop agriculture in Brazil.
Galford, Gillian L.; Mustard, John F.; Melillo, Jerry; Gendrin, Aline; Cerri, Carlos C.; Cerri, Carlos E.P.
Remote Sensing of Environment. February 15, 2008

Hydrogen isotope ratio values of plant leaf lipids are unaffected by a twofold pCO2change in growth chambers
Zhonghui Liu and Yongsong Huang
Organic Geochemistry, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 February 2008

Reconstructing in-situ vegetation dynamics using carbon isotopic composition of biopolymeric residues in the central Chinese Loess Plateau
Weiguo Liu and Yongsong Huang
Chemical Geology, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 February 2008

Eutrophication and Consumer Control of New England Salt Marsh Primary Productivity.
Caitlin; Holdredge E, Christine; Sala, Nicholas
Conservation Biology. February 1 2008. Bertness, Mark D.; Crain,

Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in Chesapeake Bay Sediments.
Rich, Jeremy J.; Dale, Olivia R.; Bongkeun Song; Ward, Bess B
Microbial Ecology. February 1, 2008

Early onset and origin of 100-kyr cycles in Pleistocene tropical SST records.
Liu, Zhonghui; Cleaveland, Laura C.; Herbert, Timothy D.
Earth & Planetary Science Letters. January 20, 2008

IInteractions between marsh plant species vary in direction and strength depending on environmental and consumer context. Crain, Caitlin Mullan. Journal of Ecology.January 2008.

China's Urban Transition – By John Friedmann. A review by: Logan, John R.. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, Dec2007, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p884-885, 2p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00763_3.x; (AN 27872240)

Cascading events in linked ecological and socio-economic systems: Predicting change in an uncertain world. By: Peters, D., O. Sala, C. Allen, A. Covich, and M. Brunson. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment:  5 (4): 221-224. 2007.

Limpet grazing on a physically stressful Patagonian rocky shore. By: Bazterrica, M. Cielo; Silliman, Brian R.; Hidalgo, Fernando J.; Crain, Caitlin M.; Bertness, Mark D.. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology, Dec2007, Vol. 353 Issue 1, p22-34, 13p; DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.08.018; (AN 27447011)

C23–C31 n-alkan-2-ones are biomarkers for the genus Sphagnum in freshwater peatlands. By: Nichols, Jonathan E.; Huang, Yongsong. Organic Geochemistry, Nov2007, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p1972-1976, 5p; DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.07.002; (AN 27242930)

A sequential extraction to determine the distribution of apatite in granitoid soil mineral pools with application to weathering at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA. By: Nezat, Carmen A.; Blum, Joel D.; Yanai, Ruth D.; Hamburg, Steven P.. Applied Geochemistry, Nov2007, Vol. 22 Issue 11, p2406-2421, 16p; DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.06.012; (AN 27242400)

Erosion and landscape development decouple strontium and sulfur in the transition to dominance by atmospheric inputs. By: Bern, Carleton R.; Porder, Stephen; Townsend, Alan R.. Geoderma, Dec2007, Vol. 142 Issue 3/4, p274-284, 11p; DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.08.016; (AN 27243753)

The Limits of Consensus. By: Oppenheimer, Michael; O'Neill, Brian C.; Webster, Nort; Agrawala, Shardul. Science, 9/14/2007, Vol. 317 Issue 8544, p1505-1506, 2p; (AN 26708098)

Health Status of Temporary Migrants in Urban Areas in Vietnam<sup>1</sup>. By: Nguyen, Liem T.; White, Michael J.. International Migration, Oct2007, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p101-134, 34p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00421.x; (AN 26612290)

Impacts of Demographic Trends on US Household Size and Structure. By: Jiang, Leiwen; O'Neill, Brian C.. Population & Development Review, Sep2007, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p567-591, 25p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00186.x; (AN 26451474)

Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. By: Daleo, Pedro; Fanjul, Eugenia; Casariego, Agustina Mendez; Silliman, Brian R.; Bertness, Mark D.; Iribarne, Oscar. Ecology Letters, Oct2007, Vol. 10 Issue 10, p902-908, 7p; DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01082.x; (AN 26451366)

Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda–DR Congo). By: Eggermont, Hilde; Russell, James; Schettler, Georg; Damme, Kay; Bessems, Ilse; Verschuren, Dirk. Hydrobiologia, Sep2007, Vol. 592 Issue 1, p151-173, 23p; DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0741-3; (AN 26429899)

Century-to-millennial scale climatic variability in Lake Malawi revealed by isotope records. By: Barker, Philip A.; Leng, Melanie J.; Gasse, Françoise; Huang, Yongsong. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, Sep2007, Vol. 261 Issue 1/2, p93-103, 11p; DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.010; (AN 26414002)

Extracting Phenological Signals From Multiyear AVHRR NDVI Time Series: Framework for Applying High-Order Annual Splines With Roughness Damping. By: Hermance, John F.; Jacob, Robert W.; Bradley, Bethany A.; Mustard, John F.. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Oct2007, Vol. 45 Issue 10, p3264-3276, 13p, 2 charts, 3 graphs, 4bw; DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903044; (AN 26991819)

Paleolimnological evidence for the onset and termination of glacial aridity from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa. By: Felton, Anna A.; Russell, James M.; Cohen, Andrew S.; Baker, Mark E.; Chesley, John T.; Lezzar, Kiram E.; McGlue, Michael M.; Pigati, Jeffrey S.; Quade, Jay; Curt Stager, J.; Tiercelin, Jean Jacques. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Sep2007, Vol. 252 Issue 3/4, p405-423, 19p; DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.04.003; (AN 26250627)

Confronting the challenges of implementing marine ecosystem-based management. By: Heather M Leslie and Karen L McLeod. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Aug 2007.