Kevan Minick

Journal Article Environmental Research Letters · October 1, 2025 Globally, coastal forested wetlands are increasingly affected by relative sea level rise. However, the mechanisms underlying coastal wetland degradation remain unclear. Using the eddy covariance approach, we evaluated the long-term (i.e. 2009-2019) net eco ... Full text Cite

Internal Water Movement and Residence Time Differ in Two Tree Species in a Temperate Deciduous Forest: Evidence From an In Situ D2O Isotope Tracer Study

Journal Article Ecohydrology · April 1, 2025 To facilitate better predictive capabilities of hydrological fluxes in forested ecosystems, quantifying internal tree water movement at the tree species level is necessary. We measured short-term (daily) and long-term (weekly–monthly) water transport using ... Full text Cite

Environmental and Plant-Derived Controls on the Seasonality and Partitioning of Soil Respiration in an American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) Bioenergy Plantation Grown at Different Planting Densities

Journal Article Forests · August 1, 2022 Bioenergy is one of the most considered alternatives to fossil fuels. Short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs) as bioenergy sources are capable of alleviating energy constraints and sequestering atmospheric CO2. However, studies investigating soil car ... Full text Cite

Ecosystem productivity and evapotranspiration are tightly coupled in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda l.) plantations along the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S.

Journal Article Forests · August 1, 2021 Forest water use efficiency (WUE), the ratio of gross primary productivity (GPP) to evapotranspiration (ET), is an important variable to understand the coupling between water and carbon cycles, and to assess resource use, ecosystem resilience, and commodit ... Full text Cite

Effects of land-use change and drought on decadal evapotranspiration and water balance of natural and managed forested wetlands along the southeastern US lower coastal plain

Journal Article Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. · June 2021 Forested wetlands are important in regulating regional hydrology and climate. However, long-term studies on the hydrologic impacts of converting natural forested wetlands to pine plantations are rare for the southern US. From 2005-2018, we quantified water ... Full text Cite

Productivity of low-input short-rotation coppice American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) grown at different planting densities as a bioenergy feedstock over two rotation cycles

Journal Article Biomass and Bioenergy · March 1, 2021 Short rotation coppice culture of woody crop species (SRWCs) has long been considered a sustainable method of producing biomass for bioenergy that does not compete with current food production practices. In this study, we grew American sycamore (Platanus o ... Full text Cite

Effects of Microtopography on Absorptive and Transport Fine Root Biomass, Necromass, Production, Mortality and Decomposition in a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland, Southeastern USA

Journal Article Ecosystems. · September 2020 Forested wetlands are an important carbon (C) sink. Fine roots (diameter < 2 mm) dominate belowground C cycling and can be functionally defined into absorptive roots (order 1–2) and transport roots (order ≥ 3). However, effects of microtopography on the fu ... Full text Cite

Spectral evidence for substrate availability rather than environmental control of methane emissions from a coastal forested wetland

Journal Article Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. · September 2020 Knowledge of the dynamics of methane (CH₄) fluxes across coastal freshwater forested wetlands, such as those found in the southeastern US remains limited. In the current study, we look at the spectral properties of ecosystem net CH₄ exchange (NEECH₄) time ... Full text Cite

Long-term carbon flux and balance in managed and natural coastal forested wetlands of the Southeastern USA

Journal Article Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · July 15, 2020 Wetlands store large carbon (C) stocks and play important roles in biogeochemical C cycling. However, the effects of environmental and anthropogenic pressures on C dynamics in lower coastal plain forested wetlands in the southern U.S. are not well understo ... Full text Cite

Microtopography Alters Hydrology, Phenol Oxidase Activity and Nutrient Availability in Organic Soils of a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland

Journal Article Wetlands · April 1, 2019 Hummock-hollow microtopography is a unique feature of wetland ecosystems, but our understanding of its effects on soil carbon and nutrient cycling is limited. We investigated effects of microtopography on hydrology, phenol oxidase activity (POX) and nutrie ... Full text Cite