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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.

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

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., 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., 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., 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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Reasoner, M.A. and Jodry, M.A. (2000). Rapid response of alpine timberline vegetation to the Younger Dryas climate oscillation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Geology, Vol. 27, p. 51-54.

Reiners, W.A., W.L. Baker, J.S. Baron, D.M. Debinski, S.A. Elias, D.B. Fagre, J.S. Findlay, L.O. Mearns, D.W. Roberts, T.R. Seastedt, T.J. Stohlgren, T.T. Veblen, F.H. Wagner. 2003. Natural Ecosystems I: the Rocky Mountains. Pp. 145-184 in: F.H. Wagner, editor, Preparing for Climate Change: Rocky Mountain/Great Basin Regional Climate Change Assessment, a report of the Rocky Mountain/Great Basin regional assessment team for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Utah State University, 240 pp.

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.

Stohlgren, T.J., J. Baron, T.G.F. Kittel, and D. Binkley. 1995. Ecosystem trends in the Colorado Rockies. Pages 310-312, in: Our Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. LaRoe, E.T., G.S. Farris, C.E. Puckett, P.D. Doran, and M.J. Mac, eds. Department of Interior, National Biological Service, Washington, DC.

Stohlgren, T.J., J. Baron, and T.G.F. Kittel. 1993. Understanding coupled climatic, hydrological, and ecosystem response to global climate change in the Colorado Rockies Biogeographical Area. Pages 184-200, in: Partners in Stewardship: Proceedings of 7th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands. W.E. Brown and S.D. Veirs, Jr. (eds.). The George Wright Society, Hancock, MI.

Stohlgren, T.J., T.N. Chase, R.A. Pielke, Sr., T.G.F. Kittel, and J.S. Baron. 1998. Evidence that local land use practices influence regional climate, vegetation, and stream flow patterns in adjacent natural areas. Glob. Change Biology 4: 495-504.

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.