Peter Vitousek

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Peter Vitousek is affiliated with the following schools: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Washington, University of Auckland, Duke University, University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University Bloomington, University of California, Santa Barbara, Indiana University, Northwestern University , Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Amherst College

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PhD Ecology Duke University
Masters Biology University of Washington
Bachelors Biology Northwestern University

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Morrison Vitousek is an American ecologist, particularly known for his work on the nitrogen cycle. Born in Hawaii, Vitousek graduated from Amherst College in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in biology from Dartmouth College in 1975. Since then, he has worked as an Assistant Professor of Zoology and Biology at Indiana University , an Associate Professor of Botany and Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and a Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University since 1984. He is married to fellow Stanford professor and ecologist Pamela Matson.

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Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems (1997) (9010)
Technical Report: Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Sources and Consequences (1997) (5871)
Consequences of changing biodiversity (2000) (3937)
Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur? (1991) (3350)
Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change (1992) (3235)
Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands (2010) (2600)
Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data (1993) (2354)
INTRODUCED SPECIES: A SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT OF HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL CHANGE (1997) (2110)
Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen-phosphorus interactions. (2010) (1888)
Beyond Global Warming: Ecology and Global Change (1994) (1832)
Enhanced nitrogen deposition over China (2013) (1824)
Nutrient Cycling in Moist Tropical Forest (1986) (1541)
HUMAN APPROPRIATION OF THE PRODUCTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS (1986) (1426)
Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Use Efficiency (1982) (1391)
Litterfall, Nutrient Cycling, and Nutrient Limitation in Tropical Forests (1984) (1374)
The Effects of Plant Composition and Diversity on Ecosystem Processes (1997) (1357)
The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century (2013) (1244)
Biological invasion by Myrica faya in Hawai'i: plant demography, nitrogen fixation, ecosystem effects (1989) (1179)
Biological invasions and ecosystem processes : towards an integration of population biology and ecosystem studies (1990) (1145)
Producing more grain with lower environmental costs (2014) (1132)
Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development (1999) (1124)
Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development (2009) (1117)
Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover (1997) (1106)
Ecosystem Succession and Nutrient Retention: A Hypothesis (1975) (948)
Biological Invasion by Myrica faya Alters Ecosystem Development in Hawaii (1987) (916)
Nitrogen in Agriculture: Balancing the Cost of an Essential Resource (2009) (910)
Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation (2002) (870)
Responses of extracellular enzymes to simple and complex nutrient inputs (2005) (851)
Changes in soil phosphorus fractions and ecosystem dynamics across a long chronosequence in Hawaii. (1995) (840)
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World (2013) (767)
EFFECTS OF SOIL RESOURCES ON PLANT INVASION AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN CALIFORNIAN SERPENTINE GRASSLAND (1990) (762)
Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems (2007) (756)
The Nature of Nutrient Limitation in Plant Communities (1986) (751)
Regulation of soil phosphatase and chitinase activityby N and P availability (2000) (718)
A Comparative Analysis of Potential Nitrification and Nitrate Mobility in Forest Ecosystems (1982) (692)
Nutrient limitation and soil development: Experimental test of a biogeochemical theory (1997) (687)
Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling (1998) (682)
A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere (2008) (668)
Integrated soil–crop system management for food security (2011) (608)
Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System (2004) (591)
Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems (2013) (578)
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF NUTRIENT LIMITATION OF FOREST GROWTH ON WET TROPICAL MOUNTAINS (1998) (553)
Nitrate Losses from Disturbed Ecosystems (1979) (474)
NUTRIENT LIMITATION OF DECOMPOSITION IN HAWAIIAN FORESTS (2000) (472)
Processes Regulating Soil Emissions of NO and N^2O in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest (1993) (465)
Nutrient dynamics on a precipitation gradient in Hawai'i (1998) (464)
Disturbance, nitrogen availability, and nitrogen losses in an intensively managed loblolly pine plantation (1985) (463)
Litter Decomposition on the Mauna Loa Environmental Matrix, Hawai'i: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Models (1994) (441)
Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems (1987) (423)
EFFECTS OF SOIL NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ON INVESTMENT IN ACQUISITION OF N AND P IN HAWAIIAN RAIN FORESTS (2001) (413)
Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests (1999) (384)
Rapid nutrient cycling in leaf litter from invasive plants in Hawai’i (2004) (378)
Integrated reactive nitrogen budgets and future trends in China (2015) (370)
Physiological and morphological variation in Metrosideros polymorpha, a dominant Hawaiian tree species, along an altitudinal gradient: the role of phenotypic plasticity (1998) (363)
Understanding ecosystem retrogression (2010) (354)
Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Properties: Can Species Make a Difference? (1986) (347)
Process modeling of controls on nitrogen trace gas emissions from soils worldwide (1996) (346)
Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China (2018) (346)
Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests (1999) (345)
The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments (1999) (345)
GROWTH RESPONSES OF TROPICAL SHRUBS TO TREEFALL GAP ENVIRONMENTS (1990) (342)
NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS AVAILABILITY IN TREEFALL GAPS OF A LOWLAND TROPICAL RAINFOREST (1986) (312)
Interactions of climate change with biological invasions and land use in the Hawaiian Islands: Modeling the fate of endemic birds using a geographic information system (2002) (309)
Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world (2013) (307)
Nitrogen Availability and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Loblolly Pine Stands (1986) (301)
Temperature influences carbon accumulation in moist tropical forests. (2006) (291)
Deliberate Introductions of Species: Research Needs Benefits can be reaped, but risks are high (1999) (291)
NITRIFICATION POTENTIALS IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUCCESSION (1981) (289)
THE REGULATION OF CHEMICAL BUDGETS OVER THE COURSE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM SUCCESSION (1979) (285)
Remote analysis of biological invasion and biogeochemical change. (2005) (281)
Fungal endophyte communities reflect environmental structuring across a Hawaiian landscape (2012) (280)
Breaks in the cycle: dissolved organic nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems (2003) (279)
Ecosystem approach to a global nitrous oxide budget (1990) (278)
Nitrogen and Nature (2002) (268)
Soil organic matter dynamics along gradients in temperature and land use on the Island of Hawaii (1995) (267)
NUTRIENT LOSSES OVER FOUR MILLION YEARS OF TROPICAL FOREST DEVELOPMENT (2003) (258)
Nutrient limitations to plant growth during primary succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1993) (254)
Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests (2008) (247)
Alien Grass Invasion and Fire In the Seasonal Submontane Zone of Hawai'i (1991) (246)
Exchange of Materials Between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere (1987) (246)
Biological Diversity and Terrestrial Ecosystem Biogeochemistry (1994) (245)
Carbon 13 exchanges between the atmosphere and biosphere (1997) (244)
PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ALONG AN ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT ON MAUNA LOA, HAWAI‘I (1997) (240)
Agricultural Intensification: Will Land Spared from Farming be Land Spared for Nature? (2006) (233)
Mechanisms of Nitrogen Retention in Forest Ecosystems: A Field Experiment (1984) (230)
Variation in foliar δ13C in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha: a case of internal resistance? (1990) (229)
Long‐term carbon storage through retention of dissolved aromatic acids by reactive particles in soil (2012) (224)
An Invader Alters Germination and Growth of Native Dominant Tree in Hawai'i (1991) (222)
Agriculture in Brazil: impacts, costs, and opportunities for a sustainable future (2010) (213)
Production and Resource Use Efficiencies in N- and P-Limited Tropical Forests: A Comparison of Responses to Long-term Fertilization (2001) (206)
Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere‐biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties (1995) (205)
Cross‐system comparisons of soil nitrogen transformations and nitrous oxide flux in tropical forest ecosystems (1987) (204)
Nitrogen transformations in a range of tropical forest soils (1988) (197)
Foliar Nutrients During Long‐Term Soil Development in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest (1995) (195)
The Regulation of Element Concentrations in Mountain Streams in the Northeastern United States (1977) (194)
Nitrogen Transformations Following Tropical Forest Felling and Burning on a Volcanic Soil (1987) (193)
Precipitation, decomposition and litter decomposability of Metrosideros polymorpha in native forests on Hawai’i (2000) (190)
Changing sources of base cations during ecosystem development (1998) (186)
Soil emissions of nitric oxide in a seasonally dry tropical forest of México (1991) (180)
Ecosystem constraints to symbiotic nitrogen fixers: A simple model and its implications (1999) (178)
N:P stoichiometry and protein:RNA ratios in vascular plants: an evaluation of the growth-rate hypothesis. (2009) (176)
The response of native species to removal of invasive exotic grasses in a seasonally dry Hawaiian woodland (1998) (176)
Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification Potentials Following Clearcutting in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana (1981) (173)
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: An Introduction (1992) (170)
Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis (2013) (167)
Soils, Agriculture, and Society in Precontact Hawai`i (2004) (167)
Ecosystem services supplied by soil. (1997) (164)
Resource Optimization and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (2001) (164)
Tropical soils could dominate the short-term carbon cycle feedbacks to increased global temperatures (1992) (163)
Nitrogen availability and nitrification during succession: Primary, secondary, and old-field seres (1989) (161)
Nitrous oxide flux following tropical land clearing (1989) (160)
Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems (2007) (159)
Nutrient dynamics and nitrogen trace gas flux during ecosystem development in montane rain forest (1995) (157)
Foliar 15N natural abundance in Hawaiian rainforest: patterns and possible mechanisms (1989) (157)
Regulation of leaf life-span and nutrient-use efficiency of Metrosideros polymorpha trees at two extremes of a long chronosequence in Hawaii (2001) (154)
Heterotrophic nitrogen fixation in decomposing litter: Patterns and regulation (2000) (153)
Biological and Geochemical Sinks for Phosphorus in Soil from a Wet Tropical Forest (2004) (151)
Extracellular Enzyme Activities and Carbon Chemistry as Drivers of Tropical Plant Litter Decomposition (2004) (149)
Foliar and Litter Nutrients, Nutrient Resorption, and Decomposition in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha (1998) (149)
Cellulose δ18O is an index of leaf-to-air vapor pressure difference (VPD) in tropical plants (2011) (145)
Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos (2004) (145)
An Unexpected Nitrate Decline in New Hampshire Streams (2003) (144)
Sources of variation in nitrous oxide flux from Amazonian ecosystems (1990) (143)
Introduced species in Hawaii. biological effects and opportunities for ecological research. (1987) (141)
The ecology of the climbing fern Dicranopteris linearis on windward Mauna Loa, Hawaii (1998) (140)
Ecosystem development on Hawaiian lava flows: biomass and species composition (1998) (138)
Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on extracellular enzyme activity and soil density fractionation in a California annual grassland (2005) (136)
Element interactions in forest ecosystems: succession, allometry and input-output budgets (1988) (132)
Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest (2018) (129)
An Exotic Tree Alters Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling in A Hawaiian Montane Forest (2004) (129)
Seedling and clonal recruitment of the invasive tree Psidium cattleianum: implications for management of native Hawaiian forests. (1990) (129)
Erosion and the Rejuvenation of Weathering-derived Nutrient Supply in an Old Tropical Landscape (2003) (127)
Factors influencing dynamics of two invasive C4 grasses in seasonally dry Hawaiian woodlands (2001) (127)
HURRICANE DAMAGE TO A HAWAIIAN FOREST: NUTRIENT SUPPLY RATE AFFECTS RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE (1999) (126)
Soil carbon pool structure and temperature sensitivity inferred using CO2 and 13CO2 incubation fluxes from five Hawaiian soils (1997) (126)
Oceanic islands as model systems for ecological studies (2002) (126)
Soil and ecosystem development across the Hawaiian Islands (1997) (126)
Within-System Element Cycles, Input-Output Budgets, and Nutrient Limitation (1998) (124)
Nutrient and mineralogical control on dissolved organic C, N and P fluxes and stoichiometry in Hawaiian soils (2000) (123)
Soil nutrient availability (2000) (123)
Solution chemistry profiles of mixed-conifer forests before and after fire (1994) (119)
An Age--Altitude Matrix Analysis of Hawaiian Rain-Forest Succession (1994) (119)
Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on plant litter quality in a California annual grassland (2004) (118)
Development of a diverse epiphyte community in response to phosphorus fertilization. (2007) (115)
Fertilizer nitrogen recovery efficiencies in crop production systems of China with and without consideration of the residual effect of nitrogen (2014) (114)
Can planted forests counteract increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (1991) (109)
Weathering versus atmospheric sources of strontium in ecosystems on young volcanic soils (1999) (109)
Ca cycling and isotopic fluxes in forested ecosystems in Hawaii (2005) (108)
Long-term Decreases in Stream Nitrate: Successional Causes Unlikely; Possible Links to DOC? (2005) (108)
Soil development and nitrogen turnover, in montane rainforest soils on Hawaii (1983) (107)
Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest (2015) (107)
Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian landscape. (2004) (107)
Opportunities and constraints for intensive agriculture in the Hawaiian archipelago prior to European contact (2009) (106)
Both nitrogen and phosphorus limit plant production on young Hawaiian lava flows (1996) (106)
Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development (2019) (105)
Pedogenic Thresholds and Soil Process Domains in Basalt-Derived Soils (2013) (103)
STAND DYNAMICS, NITROGEN ACCUMULATION, AND SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN REGENERATING STANDS OF ACACIA KOA (2001) (102)
The Mauna Loa environmental matrix: foliar and soil nutrients (1992) (102)
Litterfall and nutrient cycling in four Hawaiian montane rainforests (1995) (101)
Effects of harvest intensity, site preparation, and herbicide use on soil nitrogen transformations in a young loblolly pine plantation (1992) (100)
Primary succession of Hawaiian montane rain forest on a chronosequence of eight lava flows (1995) (99)
The Influence of Nutrient Availability on Soil Organic Matter Turnover Estimated by Incubations and Radiocarbon Modeling (2005) (98)
Combining spectroscopic and isotopic techniques gives a dynamic view of phosphorus cycling in soil (2018) (97)
Regional extrapolation of trace gas flux based on soils and ecosystems (1989) (97)
Terrestrial transects for global change research (1995) (96)
The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments (1999) (96)
Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscape. (2005) (95)
Heavy metals in subalpine and alpine soils of New Hampshire (1975) (94)
Changes in Asymbiotic, Heterotrophic Nitrogen Fixation on Leaf Litter of Metrosideros polymorpha with Long-Term Ecosystem Development in Hawaii (2000) (92)
Evidence for a Historic Change Occurring in China. (2016) (92)
Islands : biological diversity and ecosystem function (1997) (91)
Nitrous oxide flux and nitrogen transformations across a landscape gradient in Amazonia (1988) (91)
Cattle Grazing, Forest Loss, and Fuel Loading in a Dry Forest Ecosystem at Pu'u Wa'aWa'a Ranch, Hawai'i1 (2000) (89)
Nutrient Limitation to Nitrogen Fixation in Young Volcanic Sites (1999) (89)
Phosphorus Fertilization Increases the Abundance and Nitrogenase Activity of the Cyanolichen Pseudocyphellaria crocata in Hawaiian Montane Forests (2007) (88)
Changing sources of strontium to soils and ecosystems across the Hawaiian Islands (2009) (87)
Climate Cycles, Geomorphological Change, and the Interpretation of Soil and Ecosystem Development (2000) (85)
Organic matter and nitrogen accumulation and nitrogen fixation during early ecosystem development in Hawaii (2001) (85)
Nitrogen transformations and nitrous oxide flux in a tropical deciduous forest in México (1991) (84)
Consensus on climate change. (2005) (81)
Use of root-ingrowth cores to assess nutrient limitations in forest ecosystems (1994) (81)
Erosion and landscape development affect plant nutrient status in the Hawaiian Islands (2004) (81)
Interactive Effects of Fire, Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Deposition, and precipitation on a California Annual Grassland (2006) (77)
Convergence and contrast in the community structure of Bacteria, Fungi and Archaea along a tropical elevation‐climate gradient (2017) (76)
Agriculture, the Global Nitrogen Cycle, and Trace Gas Flux (1993) (74)
Decomposition of Metrosideros polymorpha leaf litter along elevational gradients in Hawaii (2000) (74)
The IGBP terrestrial transects: science plan (1995) (74)
Nitrogen Fixation in Bryophytes, Lichens, and Decaying Wood along a Soil-age Gradient in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest1 (2003) (72)
Short-term controls over inorganic phosphorus during soil and ecosystem development (2005) (70)
Vegetation–Climate Interactions among Native and Invasive Species in Hawaiian Rainforest (2006) (69)
Potential Nitrogen Fixation During Primary Succession in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park1 (1994) (69)
Climate‐driven thresholds for chemical weathering in postglacial soils of New Zealand (2016) (69)
Barriers to shrub reestablishment following fire in the seasonal submontane zone of Hawai'i (1993) (69)
Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests (2021) (68)
Variation in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) land use indicates production and population peaks prior to European contact (2015) (68)
Mineralogical controls on soil black carbon preservation (2012) (68)
Leaf morphology along environmental gradients in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha (1994) (67)
Chapter 18 – Community Turnover and Ecosystem Nutrient Dynamics (1985) (67)
Mahele: Sustaining Communities through Small-Scale Inshore Fishery Catch and Sharing Networks1 (2013) (66)
Polyphenols in litter from tropical montane forests across a wide range in soil fertility (2003) (66)
Landslides, Alien Species, and the Diversity of a Hawaiian Montane Mesic Ecosystem 1 (2001) (66)
Microclimate Change and Effect on Fire Following Forest‐Grass Conversion in Seasonally Dry Tropical Woodland 1 (1998) (65)
The response of plants to elevated CO2 (1986) (65)
Controls over the accumulation and decline of a nitrogen‐fixing lichen, Stereocaulon vulcani, on young Hawaiian lava flows (1999) (63)
Are patterns in nutrient limitation belowground consistent with those aboveground: results from a 4 million year chronosequence (2011) (62)
Bioassays of nutrient limitation in a tropical rain forest soil (1987) (62)
Ecosystem structure along bioclimatic gradients in Hawai'i from imaging spectroscopy (2005) (61)
Variability in temperature regulation of CO2 fluxes and N mineralization from five Hawaiian soils: implications for a changing climate (1995) (60)
Decomposition and potential nitrogen fixation in Dicranopteris linearis litter on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i (1997) (59)
Persistence of rock-derived nutrients in the wet tropical forests of La Selva, Costa Rica. (2006) (58)
Phosphorus mineralization potentials in acid organic soils: Processes affecting 32PO43− isotope dilution measurements (1987) (58)
Elevational and age gradients in hawaiian montane rainforest: foliar and soil nutrients (1988) (57)
Ecological Science and the Human Predicament (1998) (57)
Landscape-level variation in forest structure and biogeochemistry across a substrate age gradient in Hawaii. (2009) (56)
Causes of delayed nitrate production in two Indiana forests (1985) (55)
Risky Business: Temporal and Spatial Variation in Preindustrial Dryland Agriculture (2006) (55)
Precontact vegetation and soil nutrient status in the shadow of Kohala Volcano, Hawaii (2007) (54)
Nitrous oxide flux from dry tropical forests (1989) (54)
Business strategies for conservation on private lands: Koa forestry as a case study. (2006) (52)
Soil Phosphorus Fractions and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation across a Substrate-Age Gradient in Hawaii (2002) (50)
Vegetation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Chemistry of Aggregate Fractions in a Hawaiian Forest (2011) (48)
Agricultural potential and actualized development in Hawai’i: an airborne LiDAR survey of the leeward Kohala field system (Hawai’i Island) (2011) (47)
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Nutrient cycling and nutrient limitation in tropical montane cloud forests (2011) (47)
Amplified temperature dependence in ecosystems developing on the lava flows of Mauna Loa, Hawai'i (2008) (47)
Process Studies in Succession (1981) (46)
Soil and nutrient removals by erosion and windrowing at a southeastern U.S. Piedmont site (1985) (46)
Volcano fixes nitrogen into plant-available forms (1999) (45)
Landslides significantly alter land cover and the distribution of biomass: an example from the Ninole ridges of Hawai'i (2003) (45)
Differences in extractable phosphorus among soils of the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (1987) (44)
Ecosystem constraints to symbiotic nitrogen fixers: a simple model and its implications (1999) (44)
Soil nutrient analysis of Rapa Nui gardening (2010) (44)
The Hawaiian Islands as a Model System for Ecosystem Studies (1995) (43)
Intensive harvesting and site preparation decrease soil nitrogen availability in young plantations (1985) (42)
Farming the Rock: A biogeochemical perspective on intensive agriculture in Polynesia (2014) (41)
Stoichiometry of ferns in Hawaii: implications for nutrient cycling (2008) (40)
Soil carbon pool structure and temperature sensitivity inferred using CO2 and 13C02 incubation fluxes from (1997) (40)
Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawai’i (2012) (38)
Higher flexibility in input N:P ratios results in more balanced phosphorus budgets in two long-term experimental agroecosystems (2016) (37)
Effects of nutrient amendments on fine root biomass in a primary successional forest in Hawai'i (1989) (37)
Nutrient uptake by a diverse spring ephemeral community (2004) (36)
Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction (2020) (35)
Prevalence of Tree Regeneration by Sprouting and Seeding Along a Rainfall Gradient in Hawai'i (2010) (35)
Ecosystem science and human–environment interactions in the Hawaiian archipelago (2006) (35)
Nitrogen Fixation in Bryophytes, Lichens, and Decaying Wood along a Soil‐age Gradient in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest (2003) (34)
Exploring global changes in agricultural ammonia emissions and their contribution to nitrogen deposition since 1980 (2022) (34)
Asymbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Litter Decomposition on a Long Soil‐Age Gradient in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest 1 (1997) (33)
Input/Output Balances and Nitrogen Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems (2001) (33)
Prehistoric agricultural depletion of soil nutrients in Hawai'i. (2006) (33)
Denitrification in a clearcut Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation in the southeastern US (1987) (32)
Dependence of Forest Structure and Dynamics on Substrate Age and Ecosystem Development (2011) (32)
Morphological and physiological adjustment to N and P fertilization in nutrient-limited Metrosideros polymorpha canopy trees in Hawaii. (2001) (32)
Rain, Sun, Soil, and Sweat: A Consideration of Population Limits on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) before European Contact (2017) (31)
Gradient Analysis of Ecosystems (1991) (31)
Indicators of soil fertility and opportunities for precontact agriculture in Kona, Hawai'i (2014) (31)
Use of the exotic tree Myrica faya by native and exotic birds in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. (1990) (31)
The effects of deforestation on air, soil, and water. (1983) (31)
Morella cerifera invasion and nitrogen cycling on a lowland Hawaiian lava flow (2007) (30)
Long‐Term Effects of Compost and Cover Crops on Soil Phosphorus in Two California Agroecosystems (2015) (30)
Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i. (2009) (30)
The Ahupua‘a of Puanui: A Resource for Understanding Hawaiian Rain-Fed Agriculture1 (2012) (30)
Islands, Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Function (2004) (29)
Fine-root biomass and nutrient cycling in Aristida stricta in a North Carolina coastal plain savanna (1984) (29)
Contrasting Predictors of Fern versus Angiosperm Decomposition in a Common Garden (2009) (29)
Erosion, Geological History, and Indigenous Agriculture: A Tale of Two Valleys (2010) (28)
A modeling and observational study of East Antarctic surface mass balance (Paper 95JD03034) (1996) (26)
Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawaiʻi (2017) (26)
Potential ecosystem-level effects of genetic variation among populations of Metrosideros polymorpha from a soil fertility gradient in Hawaii (2017) (26)
Nitrogen fixation rates of Stereocaulon vulcani on young Hawaiian lava flows (2001) (26)
Terrestrial nitrogen cycles: Some unanswered questions (1984) (25)
Soil Nutrient Depletion and the Collapse of Rapa Nui Society (2005) (25)
The Effects of Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) on Nutrient Cycling in a 1st-year Old-field (1980) (24)
Nodule Biomass of the Nitrogen-fixing Alien Myrica faya Ait. in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1987) (24)
Restoration of ‘Āina Malo‘o on Hawai‘i Island: Expanding Biocultural Relationships (2018) (24)
Global change and carrying capacity: Implications for life on Earth (1989) (24)
Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on ecological stoichiometry and global change. (2012) (24)
Nitrogen fixation during decomposition of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) is an important contribution to nutrient supply in traditional dryland agricultural systems of Hawai'i (2016) (23)
The Structure and Functioning of Montane Tropical Forests: Control by Climate, Soils, and Disturbance (1998) (23)
Provincial food security in China: a quantitative risk assessment based on local food supply and demand trends (2015) (22)
Analysis of factors regulating ecosystemdevelopment on Mauna Loa using the Century model (2000) (22)
Controls of nitrogen cycling evaluated along a well-characterized climate gradient. (2017) (22)
The Ecosystem Concept (2011) (21)
Microbial transformations of labelled nitrogen in a clear-cut pine plantation (1986) (21)
Long-term effects of agriculture on soil carbon pools and carbon chemistry along a Hawaiian environmental gradient (2013) (21)
EFFECTS OF ALIEN PLANTS ON NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS* (2004) (21)
Modelling phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. (2005) (20)
Landscape Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Dynamics (2011) (19)
Tropical Forests and Trace Gases: Potential Interactions between Tropical Biology and the Atmospheric Sciences (1992) (19)
Parent material and pedogenic thresholds: observations and a simple model (2016) (19)
Decomposition and Ecosystem Carbon Budgets (2011) (19)
Mechanisms of Ion Leaching in Natural and Managed Ecosystems (1983) (18)
Restoring people and productivity to Puanui: challenges and opportunities in the restoration of an intensive rain-fed Hawaiian field system (2017) (17)
Earth’s Climate System (2019) (17)
Soil Phosphorus and Agricultural Development in the Leeward Kohala Field System, Island of Hawai‘i1 (2007) (17)
Soil nitrogen turnover is altered by herbicide treatment in a North Carolina piedmont forest soil (1988) (16)
On regression and residuals: response to Knops et al. (1997) (15)
Global Change and Wilderness Science (2000) (15)
Effects of extreme drought on vegetation of a lava flow on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i. (1995) (15)
The soil and plant biogeochemistry sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network (2016) (15)
Soil fertility response to Ulex europaeus invasion and restoration efforts (2018) (15)
Ecosystem and Landscape Diversity: Islands as Model Systems (1995) (14)
Cyanolichens: a link between the phosphorus and nitrogen cycles in a Hawaiian montane forest (2011) (13)
Grassland ecology: Complexity of nutrient constraints (2015) (13)
Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes (2011) (13)
Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, from 1200-200 yr B.P. (2007) (12)
Strengthening Agronomy Research for Food Security and Environmental Quality. (2016) (12)
Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis Nearly 40 % of potential terrestrial net primary productivity is used directly , co-opted , or foregone because of human activities (2007) (12)
Carbon Inputs to Ecosystems (2011) (12)
Soil-Food-Environment-Health Nexus for Sustainable Development (2021) (12)
Identification and evaluation of risk factors related to provincial food insecurity in China (2015) (11)
10 – Global Dynamics and Ecosystem Processes: Scaling Up or Scaling Down? (1993) (11)
Plant Carbon Budgets (2011) (10)
Introduction-Why Focus on Islands? (1995) (10)
Equitable Exchange: A Framework for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences (2020) (10)
Plant Nutrient Use (2011) (9)
Response—Nutrient Imbalances (2009) (9)
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology Second Edition (2020) (9)
Processes regulating soil emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide in a seasonally dry tropical forest (1993) (9)
Nitrogen Turnover in a Ragweed-dominated 1st-year Old Field in Southern Indiana (1983) (9)
Remote Sensing and Trace Gas Fluxes (1990) (8)
The climate benefits of better nitrogen and phosphorus management (2012) (8)
Pacific islands in the Anthropocene (2013) (8)
Top-Down Analysis of Forest Structure and Biogeochemistry Across Hawaiian Landscapes1 (2010) (8)
Invasions and ecosystems: vulnerabilities and the contribution of new technologies (2010) (8)
Introduced Canopy Tree Species Effect on the Soil Microbial Community in a Montane Tropical Forest (2012) (8)
Quantitative Analysis of Pedogenic Thresholds and Domains in Volcanic Soils (2019) (8)
Geology, Soils, and Sediments (2011) (7)
A “toy” model of biogeochemical dynamics on climate gradients (2021) (7)
Successional development of a Hawaiian montane grassland (1994) (7)
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest ecosystem (1995) (7)
Nutrient Imbalances: Pollution Remains Response (2009) (7)
Nutrient Cycling and Limitation (2018) (6)
Disturbance and element interactions. (2003) (6)
A dual isotopic (32P and 18O) incubation study to disentangle mechanisms controlling phosphorus cycling in soils from a climatic gradient (Kohala, Hawaii) (2020) (6)
Concepts of Ecosystem Ecology. A Comparative View. L. R. Pomeroy and J. J. Alberts, Eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988. xii, 384 pp., illus. $72. Ecological Studies, vol. 67. Based on a conference. (1989) (6)
Hawaiian Agro-Ecosystems and Their Spatial Distribution (2011) (6)
Irrigated taro (Colocasia esculenta) farming in North Kohala, Hawai‘i: sedimentology and soil nutrient analyses (2013) (5)
Water and Energy Balance (2011) (5)
Nitrogen dynamics along a climate gradient on geologically old substrate, Kaua’i, Hawai’i (2018) (5)
Resilience against exotic species invasion in a tropical montane forest (2014) (5)
Traditional Ecological Values, Knowledge, and Practices in Twenty-First Century Hawai‘i (2013) (5)
Factors controlling ecosystem structure and function (2015) (4)
Biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial ecosystems - Modeling, measurement, and remote sensing (1985) (4)
Soil nutrients and pre‐European contact agriculture in the leeward Kohala field system, Island of Hawai‘i (2018) (4)
Anion fluxes in three Indiana forests (2004) (4)
A commentary on: Effects of tropical deforestation on global and regional atmospheric chemistry (1991) (3)
Diversity of putative ericoid mycorrhizal fungi increases with soil age and progressive phosphorus limitation across a 4.1 million-year chronosequence. (2021) (3)
Changes in the Earth System (2011) (3)
Environmental filtering controls soil biodiversity in wet tropical ecosystems (2022) (3)
Causes and consequences of ecosystem retrogression (2010) (3)
A model of global net ecosystem production (1993) (3)
Biological Perspectives on Mauna Loa Volcano: A Model System for Ecological Research (2013) (3)
The Problem of Nutrients (1987) (3)
How Many Creatures (1987) (2)
Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (2020) (2)
Managing and Sustaining Ecosystems (2011) (2)
The effect of an introduced nitrogen-fixer (Myrica faya) on primary succession of volcanic cinder (1986) (2)
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA (2022) (2)
Response: Commentary: Rain, Sun, Soil, and Sweat: A Consideration of Population Limits on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) before European Contact (2018) (2)
Nitrification in the Course of Ecological Succession (1981) (2)
Manganese Oxidation States in Volcanic Soils across Annual Rainfall Gradients. (2022) (2)
Ericoid mycorrhizal diversity increases with soil age and progressive phosphorus limitation across a 4.1 million-year chronosequence (2020) (2)
Comments on “Innovations of phosphorus sustainability: implications for the whole food chain” in special issue of “Sustainable Phosphorus Use in Agri-Food System” (2019) (2)
Soil Phosphorus Exchange as Affected by Drying-Rewetting of Three Soils From a Hawaiian Climatic Gradient (2021) (2)
Managing water, harvesting results (2012) (2)
Hurricane Effects on Nitrogen Trace Gas Emissions in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest1 (2000) (2)
In Appreciation of Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois (2012) (2)
Processes controlling soil P amounts and availability along a weathering gradient (2017) (1)
Endangered Island Ecosystems (1987) (1)
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Deliberate Introductions of Species: Research Needs Deliberate Introductions of Species: Research Needs (2019) (1)
A “toy model” analysis of causes of nitrogen limitation in terrestrial ecosystems (2022) (1)
Annual nitrous oxide emissions from intensively managed soils in Maui, Hawaii (1993) (1)
Hurricane Effects on Nitrogen Trace Gas Emissions in Hawaiian Montane Rain Forest 1 (2000) (1)
Imaging spectroscopy studies of Hawaiian ecosystems, carbon properties, and disturbance (2005) (1)
Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed ‘To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees’ (2014) (1)
How do Soil Microbial Enzyme Activities Respond to Changes in Temperature, Carbon, and Nutrient Additions across Gradients in Mineralogy and Nutrient Availability? (2013) (1)
A framework for sustainability in remote coupled (2016) (1)
Erratum: Nutrient losses over four million years of tropical forest development (Ecology (2003) 84:9 (2231-2255)) (2004) (1)
Evaluating Rapa Nui Prehistoric Terrestrial Resource Degradation (2010) (1)
Net primary production: original calculations. (1987) (1)
Volcano fixes nitrogen into plant-available forms (1999) (1)
Net Primary Production: Original Calculations (1987) (1)
Combining spectroscopic and isotopic techniques gives a dynamic view of phosphorus cycling in soil (2018) (1)
Pathways of nitrogen loss following land clearing in a humid tropical forest (1985) (1)
The Hawai‘i Biocomplexity Project in Retrospect (2011) (1)
Modeling global oceanic nitrogen deposition from food systems and its mitigation potential by reducing overuse of fertilizers. (2023) (0)
Nitrogen dynamics along a climate gradient on geologically old substrate, Kaua’i, Hawai’i (2018) (0)
Threshold responses to interacting global changes in a California grassland ecosystem (2015) (0)
Volume Information (1989) (0)
Quantitative Analysis of Pedogenic Thresholds and Domains in Volcanic Soils (2019) (0)
J. Proctor (ed.). 1989. Mineral nutrients intropical forest and savanna ecosystems. Special Publications Series of The British Ecological Society No. 9. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, v + 473 pages. ISBN 0-632-02559-X. Price: £47.50 (hardback). (1991) (0)
Use of Multiple Isotopic Systems to Interpret Ecosystem Processes in Hawaii (2007) (0)
NUTRIENT DEPLETION AND THE COLLAPSE OF RAPA NUl SOCIETY 1 (2013) (0)
The influence of Mn redox cycling on soil C stability (2021) (0)
Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems (2018) (0)
The influence of manganese redox cycling on soil carbon stability (2022) (0)
Methane uptake in Hawaiian and Martian soils: biological or abiological?. Geomicrobiology and its significance for biosphere processes, (2012) (0)
Iron and aluminum solid phase dynamics and carbon storage across a water balance gradient in volcanic soils (2017) (0)
2010年(第26会)Japan Prize「工業生産・生産技術」分野 Prof. Peter Vitousek: An islander's perspective on global change (lecture summary) (JAPAN PRIZE) (2010) (0)
Ca Isotope Fractionation in the Hawaiian Ecosystem (2003) (0)
Phosphorus distribution and cycling along a climosequence: insights from stable isotopes (2016) (0)
Global N2 fixation and its response to global climate change and increasing CO2 level (2007) (0)
Liko Na Pilina: Developing Novel Ecosystems that Enhance Carbon Storage, Native Biodiversity, and Human Mobility in Lowland Hawaiian Forests (2016) (0)
Biochemical Control of Fungal Biomass and Enzyme Production During Native Hawaiian Litter Degradation (2007) (0)
Biogeochemistry@@@Environmental Biogeochemistry (1984) (0)
Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently (2022) (0)
Association Affairs (2007) (0)
Title Resilience against exotic species invasion in a tropical montane forest Permalink (2015) (0)
Urban Ecosystems - Reviewers of Manuscripts - Volume 1 (2005) (0)
Title: Convergence and contrast in the community structure of Bacteria, Fungi and Archaea along a tropical elevation-climate gradient Running Title: Community Change Along A Tropical Climate Gradient Authors: (2017) (0)
Provincial food security in China: a quantitative risk assessment based on local food supply and demand trends (2015) (0)
The 2010 Japan Prize Laureates, Prof. Peter Vitousek:An Islander's Perspective on Global Change (Summary Text of the Japan Prize Commemorative Lecture) (2010) (0)
Impact of climate on short- and long-term processes governing the P cycle (2017) (0)
After the Volcano. (1997) (0)
Ecological Lessons from Oceanic Islands (1996) (0)
Acid-Base Diagrams (2020) (0)
III.10 Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemistry (2009) (0)
Insightful, Scholarly, and Synthetic: Eville Gorham and the Chemistry of Surface Waters (2014) (0)
The environmental signals that CAN and CANNOT be inferred from δ18O signals in plant cellulose (2009) (0)
Ecological and Historical Controls on Black Carbon Storage in Hawaiian Grassland Soils (2010) (0)
Biogeography of plant-associated fungi: who lives where and why? (2018) (0)
Microbial and Nutrient Responses to Enhanced Availability of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Carbon Dioxide in a California Grassland (2007) (0)
Cattle Grazing, Forest Loss, and Fuel Loading in a Dry Forest Ecosystem at Pu'u Wa'aWa'a Ranch, Hawai'i 1 (2000) (0)
Soil fertility response to Ulex europaeus invasion and restoration efforts (2018) (0)
Islands and Cultures (2022) (0)
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA (2022) (0)
Nitrogen budgets and farm size effects on agricultural nitrogen cycle in China (2019) (0)
Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis (2013) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
Pedogenic Thresholds and Soil Process Domains in Basalt-Derived Soils (2013) (0)
Landslides, Alien Species, and the Diversity of a Hawaiian Montane Mesic Ecosystem1 (2001) (0)
Sources of fixed nitrogen ( a ) Biological fixation ( i ) Terrestrial ecosystems (2013) (0)
Introduction. Environmental controls over ecosystem processes (1986) (0)
38 kyr record of Asian dust deposition in Hawaii: its links to interglacial/glacial changes (2015) (0)
Soil phosphorus fluxes as affected by drying-rewetting: a dual isotopic study (2018) (0)
The Biogeochemical Impact of Global and Local Dust on Hawaiian Ecosystems (2003) (0)
A multi-decade history of soil carbon turnover along a temperature gradient (1993) (0)
Climate control on soil age and weathering thresholds in young, post-glacial soils of New Zealand (2014) (0)
Temporal and spatial variations of atmospheric reactive nitrogen deposition and impacts in China (2016) (0)
Long-term carbon stabilization through sorption of dissolved aromatic acids to reactive particles (Invited) (2010) (0)
Microbially mediated methane oxidation across a 4.1 million year soil chronosequence (2011) (0)

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