Dwight Billings
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Dwight Billings's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Davis
- Masters Ecology University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Dwight Billings was an American ecologist. He was one of the foundational figures in the field of plant physiological ecology and made major contributions to desert and arctic/alpine ecology.
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Published Works
- THE ECOLOGY OF ARCTIC AND ALPINE PLANTS (1968) (990)
- North American Terrestrial Vegetation (1988) (609)
- Global Change and the Carbon Balance of Arctic EcosystemsCarbon/nutrient interactions should act as major constraints on changes in global terrestrial carbon cycling (1992) (447)
- An Alpine Snowbank Environment and Its Effects on Vegetation, Plant Development, and Productivity (1959) (446)
- Comparative Physiological Ecology of Arctic and Alpine Populations of Oxyria digyna (1961) (388)
- Arctic and Alpine Vegetations: Similarities, Differences, and Susceptibility to Disturbance (1973) (297)
- Leaf Ultraviolet Optical Properties Along a Latitudinal Gradient in the Arctic‐Alpine Life Zone (1980) (263)
- Stress physiology and the distribution of plants (1987) (253)
- ADAPTATIONS AND ORIGINS OF ALPINE PLANTS (1974) (246)
- Factors Effecting Vegetational Zonation on Coastal Dunes (1942) (246)
- A STEEP LATITUDINAL GRADIENT OF SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET-B RADIATION IN THE ARCTIC-ALPINE LIFE ZONE' (1980) (241)
- CARBON BALANCE OF ALASKAN TUNDRA AND TAIGA ECOSYSTEMS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (1987) (206)
- Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories. A Manual of the Vascular Plants (1969) (204)
- THE ANNUAL CARBOHYDRATE CYCLE OF ALPINE PLANTS AS RELATED TO GROWTH (1960) (198)
- 7 – Effects of Global Change on the Carbon Balance of Arctic Plants and Ecosystems (1991) (198)
- The Alpine Vegetation of the Beartooth Plateau in Relation to Cryopedogenic Processes and Patterns (1962) (195)
- Root Production and Root Turnover in a Wet Tundra Ecosystem, Barrow, Alaska (1975) (192)
- REFLECTION OF VISIBLE AND INFRARED RADIATION FROM LEAVES OF DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL GROUPS (1951) (190)
- VEGETATIONAL CHANGE AND ICE-WEDGE POLYGONS THROUGH THE THAW-LAKE CYCLE IN ARCTIC ALASKA (1980) (184)
- Metabolic Acclimation to Temperature in Arctic and Alpine Ecotypes of Oxyr1A Digyna (1971) (173)
- CONSTRAINTS TO PLANT GROWTH, REPRODUCTION, AND ESTABLISHMENT IN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS (1987) (163)
- Influence of water table on carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane fluxes from Taiga Bog microcosms (1994) (154)
- The Structure and Development of Old Field Shortleaf Pine Stands and Certain Associated Physical Properties of the Soil (1938) (151)
- Arctic tundra: A source or sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide in a changing environment? (1982) (149)
- A comparison of virgin Spruce/Fir forest in the northern and southern appalachian system. (1951) (146)
- Effects of Environmental Factors on Standing Crop and Productivity of an Alpine Tundra (1964) (141)
- Origins and Ecology of the Sierran Alpine Flora and Vegetation (1972) (141)
- The Earth in Transition: Bromus tectorum , a Biotic Cause of Ecosystem Impoverishment in the Great Basin (1991) (135)
- The Environmental Complex in Relation to Plant Growth and Distribution (1952) (131)
- Nutrient-use efficiency of woody plants on contrasting soils in the western Great Basin, Nevada (1989) (118)
- ROOT GROWTH, RESPIRATION, AND CARBON DIOXIDE EVOLUTION IN AN ARCTIC TUNDRA SOIL* (1977) (104)
- DIFFERENTIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC INHIBITION BY ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION IN SPECIES FROM THE ARCTIC-ALPINE LIFE ZONE (1982) (102)
- Water Relations and the Maintenance of Sierran Conifers on Hydrothermally Altered Rock (1988) (102)
- The Shadscale Vegetation Zone of Nevada and Eastern California in Relation to Climate and Soils (1949) (95)
- Vegetational pattern near alpine timberline as affected by fire-snowdrift interactions (2004) (79)
- Vegetation and Plant Growth as Affected by Chemically Altered Rocks in the Western Great Basin (1950) (78)
- Ecotypic Differentiation in Carex Aquatilis on Ice-Wedge Polygons in the Alaskan Coastal Tundra (1979) (71)
- Carbon Dioxide Flux from Tundra Soils and Vegetation as Related to Temperature at Barrow, Alaska (1975) (65)
- Effect of Low Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide on Photosynthesis Rates of Two Races of Oxyria (1961) (63)
- Bark Factors Affecting the Distribution of Corticolous Bryophytic Communities (1938) (59)
- Interactions between Alpine Tundra Vegetation and Patterned Ground in the Mountains of Southern New Zealand (1961) (58)
- Alpine phytogeography across the Great Basin (1978) (56)
- TUNDRA VEGETATIONAL PATTERNS AND SUCCESSION IN RELATION TO MICROTOPOGRAPHY NEAR ATKASOOK, ALASKA (1980) (55)
- Drought tolerance and water use by plants along an alpine topographic gradient (1981) (53)
- Factors Involved in the Persistence of Montane Treeless Balds (1957) (50)
- Growth, Turnover, and Respiration Rates of Roots and Tillers in Tundra Graminoids (1978) (50)
- Effects of Altitude on Carbohydrate Content of Mountain Plants (1965) (49)
- Influence of water table and atmospheric CO/sub 2/ concentration on the carbon balance of arctic tundra (1984) (48)
- The Red Fir Forest of the Sierra Nevada: Abietum Magnificae (1943) (46)
- Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide: possible effects on arctic tundra (1983) (46)
- The plant associations of the Carson Desert Region, western Nevada (1945) (44)
- Vegetation and environment (1974) (43)
- The influence of microtopographic heterogeneity on carbon dioxide efflux from a subarctic bog (1985) (43)
- An Apparent Frost Hummock-Sorted Polygon Cycle in the Alpine Tundra of Wyoming (1959) (41)
- Carbohydrate Accumulation in Tundra Graminoid Plants as a Function of Season and Tissue Age (1976) (37)
- Interaction of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and soil nitrogen on the carbon balance of tundra microcosms (1984) (37)
- Plants and the ecosystem (1978) (36)
- 5 – Phytogeographic and Evolutionary Potential of the Arctic Flora and Vegetation in a Changing Climate (1992) (33)
- Edaphic limitations to growth and photosynthesis in Sierran and Great Basin vegetation (1989) (32)
- Transpiration Rates of Alpine Plants in the Sierra Nevada of California (1965) (31)
- Photosynthetic Utilization of Internal Carbon Dioxide by Hollow-Stemmed Plants (1967) (30)
- Plants Man and the Ecosystem (1972) (30)
- Some Microclimatic Characteristics of Habitats of Endemic and Disjunct Bryophytes in the Southern Blue Ridge (1966) (29)
- Effects of daylength and temperature on root elongation in tundra graminoids (1977) (28)
- Composition of a Stand of Old Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains of California (1957) (27)
- North American terrestrial vegetation (second edition) (2000) (26)
- Temperature Inversions in the Pinyon-Juniper Zone of a Nevada Mountain Range (1954) (25)
- Vegetation and Floristics of Pingos, Central Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska (1991) (24)
- Edapho-Vegetational Relations in Ravenel's Woods, A Virgin Hemlock Forest Near Highlands, North Carolina (1939) (21)
- Geomorphic Processes and Vegetational Change along the Meade River Sand Bluffs in Northern Alaska (1978) (19)
- GROWTH OF ALPINE PLANTS UNDER CONTROLLED DROUGHT (1982) (19)
- The historical development of physiological plant ecology (1985) (18)
- Succession and biomass allocation as controlled by Sphagnum in an Alaskan peatland (1985) (16)
- Photosynthesis and Respiration Rates of Rocky Mountain Alpine Plants Under Field Conditions (1966) (16)
- Introduction Challenges for the Future: Arctic and Alpine Ecosystems in a Changing World (1997) (16)
- Measurement of Root Growth in Simulated and Natural Temperature Gradients over Permafrost (1976) (13)
- Alpine plants. (1979) (11)
- Catton Content of Stemflow in some Forest Trees in North Carolina (1965) (10)
- Seed Germination and Vivipary from a Latitudinal Series of Populations of the Arctic-Alpine Grass Trisetum spicatum (1976) (9)
- Quantitative Correlations Between Vegetational Changes and Soil Development (1941) (8)
- The Importance of Environment to Life (1964) (7)
- The Mountain forests of North America and their environments (1990) (7)
- Correlation of CO2 Exchange with Moisture Regime and Light in Some Wyoming Subalpine Meadow Species (1970) (6)
- New Zealand: An Endemic Biota in a Changing Environment (1977) (2)
- Man’s Influence on Ecosystem Structure, Operation, and Ecophysiological Processes (1983) (1)
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environment and Ecology of the Paramos (1980) (1)
- Australian Vegetation Types (1982) (1)
- Drought and the Ecology of Grassland Ecosystems—Updated (1981) (1)
- A Zonal Approach to Arctic and Antarctic Vegetation (1981) (0)
- Two Symposia on Desert Ecology (1958) (0)
- Corvallis Meeting of the Western Section June 16‐21, 1952 (1952) (0)
- Transects of dune vegetation and the effect of salt spray. (1940) (0)
- Report of the Western Section Meetings at Berkeley, December, 1954 (1955) (0)
- John E. Potzger 1886-1955 (1956) (0)
- A History of the Nebraska School of Ecology (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Kosciusko Alpine Flora. A. B. Costin, M. Gray, C. J. Totterdell, D. J. Wimbush (1981) (0)
- An Illustrated Regional Flora for the Upper Ohio River Basin (1955) (0)
- The Ecology of Mosses and Liverworts (1984) (0)
- Winter Key to the Trees of Eastern Tennessee (1937) (0)
- Hot Deserts of the World (1987) (0)
- Terrestrial vegetation of California by Michael G. Barbour, Jack Major (1978) (0)
- Unusual Rocks and the Evolution of Ecological Tolerance (1985) (0)
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