Sharon Billings - Global Change Biology and Biogeochemistry
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Kansas Biological Survey
Higuchi Hall
Phone: (785) 864-1560 (office)
Fax: (785) 864-1534
Billings, S.A. 2008. Biogeochemistry: Nitrous oxide in flux. Nature 456:888.
Lichter, J., Billings, S.A., Ziegler, S.E., Gaindh, D., Ryals, R., Finzi, A.C., Jackson, R.B., Stemmler, E.A., Schlesinger, W.H. 2008. Soil carbon sequestration in a pine forest after nine years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Global Change Biology 14:2910-2922. [This paper was selected as a research highlight by Nature Reports Climate Change 3:2.]
Pataki, D.E., Billings, S.A., Naumburg, E., Goedhart, C.M. 2008. Water sources and nitrogen relations of grasses and shrubs in phreatophytic communities of the Great Basin Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 72:1581–1593.
Tiemann, L., Billings, S.A. 2008. Carbon controls on nitrous oxide production with changes in substrate availability in a North American grassland. Soil Science 173:332–341.
Bijoor, N.S., Czimczik, C., Pataki, D., Billings, S.A. 2008. The effects of temperature and fertilization on nitrogen cycling and community composition of an urban lawn. Global Change Biology 14:2119–2131. [This paper was selected as a research highlight by Nature 454:670.]
Billings, S.A., Ziegler, S.E. 2008. Altered patterns of soil carbon substrate usage and heterotrophic respiration in a pine forest with elevated CO2 and N fertilization. Global Change Biology 14:1–12.
Haavik, L., Stephen, F., Fierke, M., Salisbury, V., Leavitt, S., Billings, S.A. 2008. Dendrochronological parameters of northern red oak (Quercus rubra Fagaceae) infested with red oak borer (Enapholodes rufulus (Haldeman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)). Forest Ecology and Management 255:1501–1509.
Billings, S.A., Gaydess, E. 2008. Soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in a fragmented landscape experiencing forest succession. Landscape Ecology 23:581–593.
Billings, S.A., Richter, D. 2008. The science of global soil change: Networking for our future. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 89:151.
Richter, D., Billings, S.A. 2008. Strengthening the world’s long-term soil research base. International Union of Soil Scientists Bulletin 112:10-12.
Schaeffer, S.M., Billings, S.A., Evans, R.D. 2007. Laboratory incubations reveal potential responses of soil nitrogen cycling to changes in soil C and N availability in Mojave Desert soils exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2. Global Change Biology 13:854–865. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01324.x]
Billings, S.A. 2006. Soil organic matter dynamics and land use change at a grassland/forest ecotone. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:2934–2943.
Billings, S.A., Richter, D.D. 2006. Changes in stable isotopic signatures of soil nitrogen and carbon during forty years of forest development. Oecologia 148: 325–333. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0366-7]
Billings, S.A., Brewer, C.M., Foster, B. 2006. Incorporation of plant residues into soil organic matter fractions with grassland management practices in the North American Midwest. Ecosystems 9:805–815 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-006-0080-7.
Billings, S.A., Ziegler S. 2005. Linking microbial activity and soil organic matter transformations in forest soils under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 11:203–212.
Billings, S.A., Schaeffer, S.M., Evans, R.D. 2004. Soil microbial activity and N availability with elevated CO2 in Mojave Desert soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18:GB1011. [DOI: 10.1029/2003GB002137]
Billings, S.A., Zitzer, S., Weatherley, H., Schaeffer, S.M., Charlet, T., Arnone, J., Evans, R.D. 2003. Effects of elevated CO2 on green tissue and litter quality in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem. Global Change Biology 5:729–735.
Billings, S.A., Schaeffer, S.M., Evans, R.D. 2003. Nitrogen fixation by biological soil crusts and free-living bacteria in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem with elevated CO2 and added soil carbon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35:643–649.
Schaeffer, S.M., Billings, S.A., Evans, R.D. 2003. Responses of nitrogen dynamics in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem to manipulations in soil carbon and nitrogen availability. Oecologia 134:547–553.
Billings, S.A., Schaeffer, S.M., Zitzer, S., Evans, R.D. 2003. Trace N gas losses and N mineralization in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem with elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:1777–1784.
Billings, S.A., Schaeffer, S.M., Zitzer, S., Charlet, T., Smith, S.D., Evans, R.D. 2002. Alterations of nitrogen dynamics under elevated CO2 in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem: evidence from d15N. Oecologia 131:463–467.
Yarie, J., Billings, S. 2002. Carbon balance of the taiga forest within Alaska: present and future. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:757–767.
Billings, S.A., Richter, D., Yarie, J. 2000. Sensitivity of soil methane fluxes to an altered precipitation regime in boreal forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32:1431–1441.
Billings, S.A., Richter, D., Yarie, J. 1998. Soil carbon dioxide fluxes and profile concentrations in two boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:1773–1783.
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