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Soil Related Publications

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.

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. ed. 1992. Biogeochemistry of a subalpine ecosystem: Loch Vale Watershed. Ecological Study Series #90. Springer-Verlag, New York.

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., 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.

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 Drever, J.I., 1996, Weathering rates as a function of flow through an alpine soil, Chemical Geology, v. 132, pp. 131-141.

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.

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., 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.

Meixner, T., 1999. Alpine biogeochemical modeling: case studies, improvements, and parameter estimation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universityof Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 246 pp.

Planert, Debra. 1997. Nitrogen fertilization influences on microbial activity. M.S. Thesis, Department of Forest Sciences, Colorado State University.

Rueth, H.M., J.S. Baron, and E.J. Allstott. 2003. Responses of old-growth Engelmann spruce forests to nitrogen fertilization. Ecological Applications 13:664-673.

Rueth, H.M., and J.S. Baron. 2002. Differences in Englemann spruce forest biogeochemistry east and west of the Continental Divide in Colorado, USA. Ecosystems 5:45-57.

Rueth, H.M., and J.S. Baron. 2001. Englemann spruce nitrogen dynamics across a nitrogen deposition gradient in Colorado, USA.. Ekológia (Bratislava) 20, Supplement 2:43-49.

Rueth, H.M. 2001. Englemann spruce forest responses to nitrogen deposition in northern Colorado. Ph.D. dissertation, Colorado State University Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. 105 pp.

Walthall, P.M. 1985. Acidic deposition and the soil environment of Loch Vale Watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ph.D. dissertation. Colorado State University. 148 pp.

Wang, Y., T.G. Huntington, L.J. Osher, L.I. Wassenaar, S.E. Trumbore, R.G. Amundson, J.W. Harden, D.M. McKnight, S.L. Schiff, G.R. Aiken, W.B. Lyons, R.O. Aravena, and J.S. Baron. 1998. Carbon cycling in terrestrial environments. Pp. 577-610 in: C. Kendall and J.J. McDonnell, eds. Isotopic Tracers in Catchment Hydrology. Elsevier, New York.

Wickland, K.P., R.G. Striegl, S.K. Schmidt, and M.A. Mast. 1999. Methane flux in subalpine wetland and unsaturated soils in the southern Rocky Mountains. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13:101-114.

Williams, M.W., J.S. Baron, N. Caine, R. Sommerfeld, and R.L. Sanford. 1996 Nitrogen saturation in the Rocky Mountains. Environmental Science and Technology 30:640-646.