Publications
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Advani, S. 2005. Soil respiration responses to fertilization: a
comparison of two forests with different nitrogen deposition histories.
M.S. Thesis, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University.
40 pp.
Allstott, E.J., 1995. Quality Assurance Report, Loch Vale Watershed
Study, 1991-1994. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO. 80523. 22 pp.
Allstott, E.J., M.Bashkin, and J.S. Baron. 2000. Loch Vale Watershed
Project Quality Assurance Report: 1995-1998: U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 99-111. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. 48 pp.
Allstott, E.J., J.S. Baron, J.A. Botte. 2000. Loch Vale Watershed
Project Methods Manual 2000. 70 pp.
Arthur, M.A. and T.J. Fahey. 1989. Mass and nutrient content of
decaying boles in an Englemann spruce - subalpine fir forest, Rocky
Mountain National Park. Can. J. For. Res. 20:730-737.
Arthur, M.A. 1990. The effects of vegetation on watershed biogeochemistry
at Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.
Arthur, M.A. and T.J. Fahey. 1992. Biomass and nutrients in a Picea
englemannii/Abies lasiocarpa forest in north-central Colorado: pools,
annual production, and nutrient cycling. Can. J. For. Res. 22:315-325.
Arthur, M.A. and T.J. Fahey. 1993. Controls on soil solution chemistry
in a subalpine forest in north-central Colorado. Soil Science Society
of America Journal 57:1122-1130.
Arthur, M.A. and T.J. Fahey. 1993. Throughfall chemistry in an
Englemann spruce, subalpine fir forest in north-central Colorado.
Can. J. For. Resear. 23:738-742.
B
Bachmann, S.A. 1994. Hydrology of a subalpine wetland complex in
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State
University.
Back, J.A. 1992. Stable isotopes as tracers of hydrologic sources
to three alpine lakes, Rocky Mountain National Park. M.S. Thesis,
Colorado State University.
Balk, Ben, Kelly Elder, and Jill Baron. 1998. Estimating the spatial
distribution of snow water equivalence in a mountain watershed using
geostatistical methods. Pp. 100-111 in: C.R. Troendle, ed. Western
Snow Conference Proceedings, Snowbird, UT. April 1998.
Balk, B. 1999. Statistical methods for spatial modeling of snow
distirbution in a Colorado Front Range watershed M.Sc. Thesis, Department
of Earth Resources, Colorado State University. 236 pp.
Balk, B.C., and K. Elder. 2000. Combining binary decision tree
and geostatistical methods to estimate snow distribution in a mountain
watershed. Water Resources Research 36:13-26.
Baron, J. 1983. Comparative water chemistry of four lakes in Rocky
Mountain National Park. Wat. Res. Bull. 19:897-902.
Baron, J.S. 2006. Hindcasting Nitrogen Deposition to Determine an
Ecological Critical Load. Ecol. Appl. In press.
Baron, J.S., K.R. Nydick, H.M. Rueth, B.M. Lafrancois, and A.P. Wolfe.
2005. High elevation ecosystem responses to atmospheric deposition of
nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Global Change and Mountain
Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview. Pp. 429-436 in: Ulli M. Huber,
Harald K.M. Bugmann, and M.A. Reasoner, eds. Springer, Dordrecht,
The Netherlands.
Baron, J. and P.M. Walthall. 1985. The nature of precipitation,
soil and surface water chemistry in a subalpine ecosystem. ch. 42,
pp. 497-509 in: D.E. Caldwell, J.A. Brierly and C.L. Brierly, eds.
PLANETARY ECOLOGY. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. New York.
Baron, J., D.R. Beeson, S.A. Zary, P.M. Walthall, W.L. Lindsay
and D.M. Swift. 1985. Long-term research into the effects of atmospheric
deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park; summary report 1980-1984.
NPS Technical Report 84-ROMO-2. 43 pp.
Baron, J., S.A. Norton, D.R. Beeson and R. Herrmann. 1986. Sediment
diatom and metal stratigraphy from Rocky Mountain lakes with special
reference to atmospheric deposition. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 43:1350-1362.
Baron, J. and O.P. Bricker. 1987. Hydrologic and chemical flux in
Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park. pp. 141-156 in:
R.C. Averett and D. McKnight eds. CHEMICAL QUALITY OF WATER AND
THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE. Lewis Publishers. Ann Arbor, MI.
Baron, J., McKnight, D.M., and A.S. Denning. 1992. Sources of dissolved
and suspended organic carbon in Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain
National Park, USA. Biogeochemistry 15:89-110.
Baron, J. and A. S. Denning. 1993. The influence of mountain meteorology
on precipitation chemistry at low and high elevations of the Colorado
Front Range, USA. Atmos. Environ. 27A:2337-2349.
Baron, J. 1990. Findings from ecological research program. in:
Highlights of Natural Resources Management. Natural Resources Programs,
Natural Resources Report NPS/NRPO/NRR-90/02. National Park Service.
Baron, J.S., 1991. Surface water dynamics and biogeochemical fluxes
of Loch Vale Watershed, Colorado. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department
of Range Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 122
pp.
Baron, J. ed. 1992. Biogeochemistry of a subalpine ecosystem: Loch
Vale Watershed. Ecological Study Series #90. Springer-Verlag, New
York.
Baron J., R.A. Pielke, W.J. Parton, D.S. Ojima, T.B. Kirchner,
S.W. Running, and T.G.F. Kittel. 1992. Dynamic land surface/atmosphere
parameterization for the South Platte River drainage. pp. 273-283
in: R.Herrmann, ed.: Am. Water Resour. Assoc. Symposium Proceedings:
Managing Water Resources During Global Change.
Baron, J., D.S. Ojima, E.A. Holland, and W.J. Parton. 1994. Nitrogen
consumption in high elevation Rocky Mountain tundra and forest and
implications for aquatic systems. Biogeochemistry 27:61-82.
Baron, J.S., and D.H. Campbell. 1997. Nitrogen fluxes in a high
elevation Rocky Mountain basin. Hydrologic Processes 11:783-799.
Baron, J.S., E.J. Allstott, and B.K. Newkirk. 1995. Analysis of
long term sulfate and nitrate budgets in a Rocky Mountain basin.
pp. 255-262 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M. Tranter, eds.
Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments. IASH Publication
No 228: International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Press,
Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.
Baron, Jill, Roger Pielke, Bill Parton, Larry Band, and Steve Running.
1994. Dynamic land surface/atmospheric parameterization at different
spatial scales in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. pp. 34-36 in: P.H.
Gleick, A. Rango, and K. Cooley, eds., Proceedings of a workshop
on the use of hydrological models for evaluating the impacts of
climate change in snowmelt water supply basins, Santa Fe, NM 1993.
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security,
Oakland, CA 94612. 54 pp.
Baron, J.S., M.D. Hartman, L.E. Band, and R.L. Lammers. 1998. Sensitivity
of high elevation Rocky Mountain watersheds to climate change. Pp.
269-273 in: Proceedings of the Fifth National Watershed Conference,
Reno NV, May 1997.
Baron, J.S., D.S. Ojima, M.D. Hartman, T.G.F. Kittel, R.B. Lammers,
L.E. Band, and R.A. Pielke, Sr. 1997. The influence of land cover
and temperature change on hydrological and ecosystem dynamics in
the South Platte River basin. Pp. 279-286 in: J.J. Warwick, ed.
Proceedings of AWRA/UCOWR Symposium on Water Resources Education,
Training, and Practice: Opportunities for the Next Century. AWRA,
Herndon, VA, TPS-97-1, 988 pp.
Baron, J.S., M.D. Hartman, T.G.F. Kittel, L.E. Band, D.S. Ojima,
and R.B. Lammers. 1998. Effects of land cover, water redistribution,
and temperature on ecosystem processes in the South Platte Basin.
Ecol. Appl.8:1037-1051.
Baron, J., and J. Turk. 1998. Aquatic ecosystems. Pp. 4-18 in:
Haddow, D., R. Musselman, T, Blett, R. Fisher, tech. Coords. Guidelines
for evaluating air pollution impacts on wilderness within the Rocky
Mountain Region: report of a workshop, 1990. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-4.
Fort Collins, CO US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station, 31 p.
Baron, J.S., and N. Caine. 2000. The temporal coherence of two
alpine lake basins of the Colorado Front Range, USA. Freshwater
Biology 43: 463-476.
Baron, J.S., D.M. Theobald, and D.B. Fagre. 2000. Management of
land use conflicts in the United States Rocky Mountains. Mountain
Research and Development 20:24-27.
Baron, J.S., M. Hartman, L.E. Band, and R.Lammers. 2000. Sensitivity
of a high elevation Rocky Mountain watershed to altered climate
and CO2. Water Resources Research, 36:89-99.
Baron, J.S., and M.W. Williams. 2000. Preface to special section:
recent Loch Vale Watershed research. Water Resources Research 36:11-12.
Baron, J.S., Heather M. Rueth, Alexander M. Wolfe, Koren R. Nydick,
Eric J. Allstott, J. Toby Minear, and Brenda Moraska.. 2000. Ecosystem
Responses to Nitrogen Deposition in the Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems
3: 352-368.
Baron, J.S. 2001. Lessons learned from long-term ecosystem research
and monitoring in alpine and subalpine basins of the Colorado Rocky
Mountains, USA.. Ekológia (Bratislava) 20, Supplement 2:25-30.
Baron, J.S. ed. 2002. Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective.
Island Press, Washington. 325pp.
Baron, J.S., K.R. Nydick, H.M. Rueth, B.M. Lafrancois, and A.P.
Wolfe. 2003. High elevation ecosystem responses to atmospheric deposition
of nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Global Change
and Mountain Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview. Ulli M. Huber,
Harald K.M. Bugmann, and M.A. Reasoner, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In press.
Baron, J.S., J.A. Botte, and R. Shory, 2004. Effects of Atmospheric
Nitrogen Deposition on High Elevation Colorado Forests. pp. 10-14
in: Warren R. Keammerer and Jeffrey Todd, eds. Proceedings, HIGH
ALTITUDE REVEGETATION WORKSHOP NO. 16. Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado, March 3-5, 2004.
Baron, J.S., S. Del Grosso, D.S. Ojima, D.M. Theobald, and W.J.
Parton. 2004. Nitrogen emissions along the Colorado Front Range:
Response to population growth, land and water use change, and agriculture.
Ecosystems and Land Use Change, Geophysical Monograph Series 153:
117-127.
Bigelow, D.S., A.S. Denning, and J. Baron. 1990. Differences between
Nipher and Alter-shielded Universal Belfort precipitation gages
at two Colorado deposition monitoring sites. Environ. Sci. and Technol.
24:758-760.
Botte, J.A., and J.S. Baron. 2004. Quality Assurance Report, Loch
Vale Watershed, 1999-2002. USGS Open-File Report 2004-1306. 17 pp.
Botte, J.A., and J.S. Baron. 2004. Loch Vale Watershed Project
Methods Manual 2004. 79pp.
Botte, J.A., and J.S. Baron. 2005. Loch Vale/Fraser Nitrogen Fertilization
Experiment Methods 2005. 11pp.
Brock, Cynthia L. 1997. Sulfur isotope methods as an approach to
sulfur dynamics in a subalpine wetland, Loch Vale Watershed. M.S.
Thesis. Department of Earth Resources, Colorado State University.
66 pp.
Burkett, V.R., D.A. Wilcox, R. Stottlemyer, W. Barrow, D. Fagre,
J. Baron, J. Price, J.L. Nielsen, C.Allen, D.L. Peterson, G. Ruggerone,
T. Doyle. 2005. Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic
change: Case studies and policy implications. Ecological
Complexity 2:357-394.
Burns, D.A. 2002. The effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition
in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Southern Wyoming - a synthesis
and critical assessment of published results. Water-resources-investigations
report 02-4066, U.S. Geological Survey, Troy New York.
Burns, D.A. 2003. The effects of atmospheric nitrogen depostion
in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and southern Wyoming, USA-- a
critical review. Environmental Pollution 127: 257-269, U.S. Geological
Survey, Troy, New York.
Campbell, D.H., D.W. Clow, G.P. Ingersoll, M.A. Mast, N.E. Spahr,
and J.T. Turk. 1995. Temporal variations in the chemistry of 2 snowmelt-dominated
streams in the Rocky Mountains. Wat. Resour. Resear. 31:2811-2822.
Campbell, D.H., D.W.Clow, G.P. Ingersoll, M.A. Mast, N.E. Spahr,
and J.T. Turk. 1995. Nitrogen deposition and release in alpine watersheds,
Loch Vale, Colorado, USA. pp. 243-254 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams,
and M. Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered
catchments. IASH Publication No 228: International Association of
Hydrologic Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford,
Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.
Campbell, D.H., J.S. Baron, K. Tonnessen, P. Brooks, and P. Schuster.
2000. Controls on nitrogen flux in alpine/subalpine watersheds.
Water Resources Research 36:37-48.
Campbell, Donald H.; Kendall, Carol; Chang, Cecily C. Y.; Silva,
Steven R.; Tonnessen, Kathy A.. 2002. Pathways for nitrate release
from an alpine watershed: Determination using *15N and *18O. Water
Resources Research 38:10.1029/2001WR000294.
Chase, T.N., R.A. Pielke, Sr., T.G.F. Kittel, J. S. Baron, and T.J.
Stohlgren, 1999. Potential impacts on Rocky Mountain weather and
climate due to land use changes in the adjacent Great Plains. Jour.
Geophys. Resear. 104, D14: 16,673-16,690.
Clements, S. 2001. Spatial and temporal variations of bulk snow
properties and stream water chemistry in an alpine/subalpine watershed,
Rocky Mountain National Park. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University
Department of Earth Resources. 314 pp.
Cline, D.W. 1994. Modeling the spatial distribution and temporal
patterns of alpine and subalpine snowmelt. Proceedings of the 1993
Eastern/Western Snow Conference.
Cline, D. 1995. Snow surface energy exchanges and snowmelt at a
continental alpine site. Biogeochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered
Catchments, IAHS Publ. No. 228, pp. 157-166.
Cline, D.W., 1995. Studies supporting the development of spatially
distributed, physically based snowmelt models for continental alpine
areas. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado Department of
Geography.
Cline, D.W. 1997. Effect of seasonality of snow accumulation and
melt on snow surface energy exchanges at a contintental alpine site.
J. Appl. Meteor. 36: 32-51.
Cline, D.W. 1997. Snow surface energy exchanges and snowmelt at
a continental, midlatitude alpine site. Wat. Resour. Resear. 33:
689-701.
Clow, D.W. 1992. Weathering rates from field and laboratory experiments
on naturally-weathered soils. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Wyoming, Laramie.
Clow, D.W. and M.A. Mast. 1995. Composition of precipitation, bulk
deposition, and runoff at a granitic bedrock catchment in the Loch
Vale Watershed. pp. 235-242 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and
M. Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments.
IAHS Publication No 228: International Association of Hydrologic
Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire,
OX10 8BB, UK.
Clow, D.W., and Drever, J.I., 1996, Weathering rates as a function
of flow through an alpine soil, Chemical Geology, v. 132, pp. 131-141.
Clow, D.W., M.A. Mast, T.D. Bullen, and J.T.Turk. 1997. Strontium
87/strontium 86 as a tracer of mineral weathering reactions and
calcium sources in an alpine/subalpine watershed, Loch Vale Colorado.
Wat. Resour. Resear. 33:1335-1351.
Clow, D.W., and J.K. Sueker. 2000. Relations between basin characteristics
and stream-water chemistry in alpine/subalpine basins in Rocky Mountain
National Park, Colorado. Water Resources Research 36:49-62.
Clow, D.W., J.O. Sickman, R.G. Striegl, D.B. Krabbenhoft, J.G.
Elliott, M. Dornblaser, D.A. Roth, D.H. Campbell. 2003. Changes
in the chemistry of lakes and precipitation in high elevation national
parks in the western United States, 1985-1999. Water Resources Research
39: 6: 1171, doi, 10.1029/2002wr001533.
Clow, D.W., L, Schrott, R. Webb, D.H. Campbell, A. Torizzo, and
M. Dornblaser. 2003. Ground water occurrence and contributions to
streamflow in an alpine catchment, Colorado Front Range. Ground
Water, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 937-950.
Das, B., R. D. Vinebrooke, A. Sanchez-Azofiefa, B. Rivard, and
A.P. Wolfe. 2005. Inferring sedimentary chlorophyll concentrations
with reflectance spectroscopy: a novel approach to reconstructing
historical changes in the trophic status of mountain lakes.
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1067-1078.
Denning, A.S. 1988. Quality assurance report, Loch Vale Watershed
project, surface water chemistry 1982-1987.
Denning, A.S. Baron, J., M.A. Mast, and M.A. Arthur. 1991. Hydrologic
pathways and chemical composition of runoff during snowmelt in Loch
Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado USA. Wat.
Air, Soil, Pollut. 59:107-123.
Drever, J.I., and Clow, D.W., 1996, Weathering rates in catchments;
IN S. Brantley, and A. White (eds.), Chemical Weathering Rates of
Silicate Minerals, Mineral. Soc. Am., Rev. Mineral., v. 31, pp.
463-483.
Edwards, R.L. 1991. Data Quality Report: 1989-1990, Loch Vale Watershed.
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins.
Fenn, M.E., M. Poth, J.D. Aber, J.S. Baron, B.T. Bormann, D.W.
Johnson, A.D. Lemly, S.G. McNulty, D.F. Ryan, and R. Stottlemyer.
1998. Nitrogen excess in North American ecosystems: a review of
predisposing factors, geographic extent, ecosystem responses, and
management strategies. Ecological Applications.8:706-733.
Fenn,M.E., R. Haeuber, G.S. Tonnesen, J.S. Baron, S Grossman-Clarke,
D. Hope, D.A. Jaffe, S. Copeland, L. Geiser, H. M. Rueth, AND J.O.
Sickman. 2003. Nitrogen Emissions, Deposition and Monitoring in
the Western United States. BioScience 53:391-403.
Fenn, M.E. J.S. Baron, E.B. Allen, H. M. Rueth, K.R. Nydick, L.
Geiser, W.D. Bowman, J. O. Sickman, T.Meixner, and D. W. Johnson.
2003, Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United
States. BioScience 53:404-420.
>Gibson, J.H. and J. Baron. 1984. Acidic deposition in the Rocky
Mountain region. pp. 29-42 in: T.A.Colbert and R.L. Cuany, eds.
Proceedings: High-Altitude Revegetation Workshop No. 6. Information
Series No. 53. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. Colorado
State University.
Groffman, P.M., J.S. Baron, T. Blett, A.J. Gold, I. Goodman,
L.H. Gunderson, B.M. Levinson, M.A. Palmer, H.W. Paerl, G.D. Peterson,
N.L. Poff, D.W. Rajeski, J.F. Reynolds, M.G. Turner, K.C. Weathers,
J. Wiens, 2006. Ecological thresholds: the key to successful environmental
management, or an important concept with no practical application?
Ecosystems, in press.
Hartman, M.D., J. Baron, R.B. Lammers, D. Cline, L.E. Band, G.L.
Liston, and C. Tague. 1999. Simulations of snow distribution and
hydrology in a mountain basin. Water Resources Research 35:1587-1603.
Hartman, M.D., J.S. Baron, and D.S. Ojima. 1995. Simulations of
snow distribution and hydrology in a mountain basin. GPAC workshop
proceedings in computer applications in water management.
Hartman, M.D., J.S. Baron, D.S. Ojima. 2005. Application of a
coupled ecosystem-chemical equilibrium model, DayCent-Chem, to
stream and soil chemistry in an alpine watershed. Ecol.
Modeling, in revision.
Hauer, R., J.S. Baron, D.H. Campbell, K.D. Fausch, S.W. Hostettler,
G.H. Leavesley, P.R. Leavitt, D.M. McKnight, and J.A. Stanford.
1997. Assessment of climate change and freshwater ecosystems of
the Rocky Mountains, U.S. and Canada. Hydrol. Proc. 11:903-924.
Heit, M., R. Klusek and J. Baron. 1984. Evidence of deposition
of anthropogenic pollutants in remote Rocky Mountain lakes. Water,
Air, Soil Poll. 22:403-416.
Huang Jian-hui, Jill Baron, and Dan Binkley. 1996. The contribution
of wetlands to stream nitrogen load in the Loch Vale Watershed,
Colorado, USA. Acta Phytoecologia Sinica 20:289-302.
Ingersoll, G.P., D.H. Campbell, and N.E. Spahr. 1996. Snow depth
variability in a small alpine watershed. Proceedings of the Western
Snow Conference, 64th Annual Meeting, Bend, Oregon, April 15-18.
Colorado State University. pp 159-162.
Ingersoll, G.P. 1995. Estimating snowmelt contribution to the seasonal
water balance in a small alpine watershed. M.S. Thesis, University
of Colorado Department of Geography.
Johnson, C.A., M.A. Mast, C.L. Kester. 2001. Use of 17O/16O to
trace atmospherically-deposited sulfate in surface waters: a case
study in alpine watersheds in the Rocky Mountains. Geophys. Resear.
Let. 28:4483-4486.
Kendall, C., D.H. Campbell, D.A. Burns, J.B. Shanley, S.R. Silva,
and C.C.Y.Chang. 1995. Tracing sources of nitrate in snowmelt runoff
using the oxygen and nitrogen isotopic compositions of nitrate.
pp. 339-348 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M. Tranter, eds.
Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments. IASH Publication
No 228: International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Press,
Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.
Kendall, C., Silva, S.R., Chang, C.C.Y, Burns, D.A., Campbell,
D.H. and Shanley, J.B. 1995, Use of the d18O and d15N of nitrate
to determine sources of nitrate in early spring runoff in forested
catchments, in Isotopes in water resources management, proceedings
of International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium, Vienna, Austria,
March 20-24, 1995, IAEA-SM-336/29, pp.167-176.
Kester, C.L., J.S. Baron, and J.T. Turk. 2003. Isotopic study of
sulfate sources and residence times in a subalpine watershed. Environmental
Geology 43:606-613.
Klein, E.J. 1988. The variations in wet precipitation chemistry
with elevation in Colorado. M.S. Thesis. Colorado State University.
112 pp.
Körner, C., M. Ohsawa, E. Spehn, E. Berge, H. Bugmann, B. Groombridge,
L. Hamilton, T. Hofer, J. Ives, N. Jodha, B. Messerli, J. Pratt, M. Price,
M. Reasoner, A. Rodgers, J. Thonell, M. Yoshino, J. Baron, R. Barry, J. Blais,
R. Bradley, R. Hofstede, V. Kapos, P. Leavitt, R. Monson, L. Nagy, D. Schindler,
R. Vinebrooke, T. Watanabe. 2006. Mountain Systems. Chapter 24 in:
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Current State and Trends: Findings of
the Condition and Trends Working Group. Ecosystems and Human Well-being,
vol.1., Island Press, Washington DC.
Lammers, R.B., L.E. Band, and C.L. Tague. 1997. Scaling behaviour
of watershed processes. in: P. van Gardingen, G. Foody, and P. Curran,
eds. Scaling Up, from Cell to Landscape. Cambridge University Press,
pp. 296-317.
Lammers, R.B. 1998. Extending hydro-ecological simulation models
from local to regional scales: Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Toronto, Toronto Ontario.
Martin, Michael. 1994. Late summer, inorganic nitrogen dynamics
of an alpine watershed. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins.
Mast, M.A. 1989. A laboratory and field study of chemical weathering
with special reference to acid deposition. Ph.D. Dissertation, University
of Wyoming, Laramie.
Mast, M.A., J.I. Drever, and J. Baron. 1990. Chemical weathering
in The Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Wat. Res. Resear. 26:2871-2978.
Mast, M.A., C. Kendall, D.H. Campbell, D.W. Clow, and J. Back.
1995. Determination of hydrologic pathways in an alpine-subalpine
basin using isotopic and chemical tracers, Loch Vale Watershed,
Colorado. pp. 263-270 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M.
Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments.
IASH Publication No 228: International Association of Hydrologic
Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire,
OX10 8BB, UK.
Mast, M.A., K.P. Wickland, R.T. Striegl, and D.W. Clow. 1998. Winter
fluxes of CO2 and CH4 from subalpine soils in Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colorado. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12:607-621.
Mast, M.A., J.T. Turk, G.P. Ingersoll, D.W. Clow, and C.L. Kester.
2001. Use of stable sulfur isotopes to identify sources of sulfate
in Rocky Mountain snowpacks. Atmospheric Environment 35:3303-3313.
Mast, M.A., D.H. Campbell, D.P. Krabbenhoft, and H.E. Taylor. 2005.
Mercury transport in a high-elevation watershed in Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colorado. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 161:21-42.
McKnight, D., C. Miller, R. Smith, J. Baron and S. Spaulding. 1988.
Phytoplankton populations in lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain
National Park, Colorado: sensitivity to acidic conditions and nitrate
enrichment. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations
Report 88-4115, Denver, CO. 102 pp.
McKnight, D., M.V. Brenner, R. Smith and J. Baron. 1986. Seasonal
changes in phytoplankton in lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain National
Park. USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 86-4101. Denver,
CO. 64 pp.
McKnight, D.M., R.L. Smith, J.P. Bradbury, J. Baron, and S.A. Spaulding.
1990. Phytoplankton dynamics in three Rocky Mountain lakes, Colorado,
USA. Arc. Alp. Resear. 22:264-274.
McKnight, D.M., R. Harnish, R.L. Wershaw, J.S. Baron, and S. Schiff.
1997. Chemical characteristics of particulate, colloidal, and dissolved
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