Biomass

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3D phenotyping and quantitative trait locus mapping identify core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture. 
  • A coupled geomorphic and ecological model of tidal marsh evolution. 
  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass. 
  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought. 
  • A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. 
  • A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States. 
  • A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland. 
  • A three-stage symbiosis forms the foundation of seagrass ecosystems. 
  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests. 
  • Abundance and molecular diversity of thraustochytrids in coastal waters of southern China. 
  • Actual and potential transpiration and carbon assimilation in an irrigated poplar plantation. 
  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. 
  • Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources. 
  • An experimental study on biomass air-steam gasification in a fluidized bed. 
  • Antimicrobial effects of commercial silver nanoparticles are attenuated in natural streamwater and sediment. 
  • Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • Automated detection and enumeration of marine wildlife using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and thermal imagery. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Biological waste air treatment in biofilters. 
  • Biomass and compositional responses of ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization. 
  • Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Biomass control in waste air biotrickling filters by protozoan predation. 
  • Biomass fuel smoke exposure was associated with adverse cardiac remodeling and left ventricular dysfunction in Peru. 
  • Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages. 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Canopy leaf area constrains [CO2]-induced enhancement of productivity and partitioning among aboveground carbon pools. 
  • Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. 
  • Chapter two: methodologies for characterisation of combustion sources and for quantification of their emissions. 
  • Climate change. Fixing a critical climate accounting error. 
  • Combustion sources of particles: 2. Emission factors and measurement methods. 
  • Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to 10 years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. 
  • Comparison of different packing materials for the biofiltration of air toxics. 
  • Conservation. Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries. 
  • Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors. 
  • Contribution of Brown Carbon to Direct Radiative Forcing over the Indo-Gangetic Plain. 
  • Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes. 
  • Deadwood stocks increase with selective logging and large tree frequency in Gabon. 
  • Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment. 
  • Developing elite Neurospora crassa strains for cellulosic ethanol production using fungal breeding. 
  • Differences in wetland nitrogen cycling between the invasive grass Microstegium vimineum and a diverse plant community. 
  • Differential nutrient limitation of soil microbial biomass and metabolic quotients (qCO2): is there a biological stoichiometry of soil microbes? 
  • Differential responses of Picea asperata and Betula albosinensis to nitrogen supply imposed by water availability. 
  • Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data. 
  • Dominant bacteria and biomass in the Kuytun 51 Glacier. 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Effect of starvation on the performance and re-acclimation of biotrickling filters for air pollution control. 
  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. 
  • Effects of hydraulic architecture and spatial variation in light on mean stomatal conductance of tree branches and crowns. 
  • Effects of integrated fixed film activated sludge media on activated sludge settling in biological nutrient removal systems. 
  • Effects of potassium and sodium supply on drought-adaptive mechanisms in Eucalyptus grandis plantations. 
  • Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants. 
  • Enhanced denitrifying phosphorus removal and mass balance in a worm reactor. 
  • Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. 
  • Estimating above-ground carbon biomass in a newly restored coastal plain wetland using remote sensing. 
  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. 
  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies. 
  • Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drives community divergence in prey. 
  • Fate of flame retardants and the antimicrobial agent triclosan in planted and unplanted biosolid-amended soils. 
  • Field Experiments and Meta-analysis Reveal Wetland Vegetation as a Crucial Element in the Coastal Protection Paradigm. 
  • Flowering in grassland predicted by CO2 and resource effects on species aboveground biomass. 
  • Four-decade responses of soil trace elements to an aggrading old-field forest: B, Mn, Zn, Cu, and Fe. 
  • From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment. 
  • Fruiting and sink competition. 
  • Genetics of superior growth traits in trees are being mapped but will the faster-growing risk-takers make it in the wild? 
  • Genomics and Transcriptomics Analyses of the Oil-Accumulating Basidiomycete Yeast Trichosporon oleaginosus: Insights into Substrate Utilization and Alternative Evolutionary Trajectories of Fungal Mating Systems. 
  • Geographic variation of caste structure among ant populations. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. 
  • Granular bamboo-derived activated carbon for high CO(2) adsorption: the dominant role of narrow micropores. 
  • Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension. 
  • Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. 
  • High phylogenetic diversity and abundance pattern of Labyrinthulomycete protists in the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea. 
  • High tolerance to salinity and herbivory stresses may explain the expansion of Ipomoea cairica to salt marshes. 
  • Household Air Pollution Is Associated with Altered Cardiac Function among Women in Kenya. 
  • Household air pollution from coal and biomass fuels in China: measurements, health impacts, and interventions. 
  • How eco-evolutionary principles can guide tree breeding and tree biotechnology for enhanced productivity. 
  • Hydrologic resilience and Amazon productivity. 
  • Impacts of climate change drivers on C4 grassland productivity: scaling driver effects through the plant community. 
  • Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. 
  • Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and respiratory symptoms of women and children in a Zimbabwean village. 
  • Irreconcilable differences: fine-root life spans and soil carbon persistence. 
  • Is there foul play in the leaf pocket? The metagenome of floating fern Azolla reveals endophytes that do not fix N2 but may denitrify. 
  • It is Time to Stop Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Debate on Corticosteroid Use in Pediatric Heart Surgery. 
  • Landscape-level validation of allometric relationships for carbon stock estimation reveals bias driven by soil type. 
  • Leaf-level gas-exchange uniformity and photosynthetic capacity among loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) genotypes of contrasting inherent genetic variation. 
  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. 
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. 
  • Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario. 
  • Mean canopy stomatal conductance responses to water and nutrient availabilities in Picea abies and Pinus taeda. 
  • Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems. 
  • Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) degradation by a microbial consortium. 
  • Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze-thaw cycles in periglacial soils, 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú. 
  • Modeling of a foamed emulsion bioreactor: II. model parametric sensitivity. 
  • Modifying the 'pulse-reserve' paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water, and plant responses. 
  • Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients. 
  • Nitrogen-addition effects on leaf traits and photosynthetic carbon gain of boreal forest understory shrubs. 
  • Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2). 
  • Nutrient additions to a tropical rain forest drive substantial soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere. 
  • Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species. 
  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities. 
  • Nutrient uptake as a contributing explanation for deep rooting in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. 
  • Parasite infection alters nitrogen cycling at the ecosystem scale. 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world. 
  • Photosynthesis and biomass allocation of radish cv. "Cherry Belle" in response to root temperature and ozone. 
  • Physical stress modifies top-down and bottom-up forcing on plant growth and reproduction in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands. 
  • Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Production and turnover of ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelial biomass and necromass under elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization. 
  • Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Pulmonary function and respiratory health of rural farmers and artisanal and small scale gold miners in Ghana. 
  • Re-assessment of plant carbon dynamics at the Duke free-air CO(2) enrichment site: interactions of atmospheric [CO(2)] with nitrogen and water availability over stand development. 
  • Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes. 
  • Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands. 
  • Relationship between daily exposure to biomass fuel smoke and blood pressure in high-altitude Peru. 
  • Response to CO2 enrichment of understory vegetation in the shade of forests. 
  • Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. 
  • Robust, linear correlations between growth rates and β-lactam-mediated lysis rates. 
  • Separating the influence of resource 'availability' from resource 'imbalance' on productivity-diversity relationships. 
  • Simulated effects of crop rotations and residue management on wind erosion in Wuchuan, west-central Inner Mongolia, China. 
  • Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere. 
  • Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community. 
  • Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. 
  • Spatial response of coastal marshes to increased atmospheric CO2. 
  • Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle. 
  • Stoichiometric control of organic carbon-nitrate relationships from soils to the sea. 
  • The carbon bonus of organic nitrogen enhances nitrogen use efficiency of plants. 
  • The effect of hydraulic lift on organic matter decomposition, soil nitrogen cycling, and nitrogen acquisition by a grass species. 
  • The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity-functioning relationship across ecosystems. 
  • The proteome of seed development in the model legume Lotus japonicus. 
  • The secret gardener: vegetation and the emergence of biogeomorphic patterns in tidal environments. 
  • The universality of lignocellulosic biomass liquefaction by plasma electrolysis under acidic conditions. 
  • Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature. 
  • Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns. 
  • Toluene degradation in the recycle liquid of biotrickling filters for air pollution control. 
  • Tree water balance drives temperate forest responses to drought. 
  • Trends in the maternal investment of harbour porpoises are uncoupled from the dynamics of their primary prey. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits. 
  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. 
  • Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems. 
  • Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra. 
  • Wetlands as an alternative stable state in desert streams. 
  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites. 
  • Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative