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PAMELA MATSON
Chester Naramore Dean, School of Earth Sciences
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies
Stanford University
Mitchell Building 101
397 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2210
Telephone: (650) 723-2750
Fax: (650) 725-6566
Email: matson@stanford.edu, sesdean@stanford.edu
B.S. magna cum laude in Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 1975
M.S. in Environmental Science, Indiana University, 1980
Ph.D. in Forest Ecology, Oregon State University, 1983
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, 1983
Research Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1983 - 1993
Professor, University of California, 1993-1997
Professor, Stanford University, 1997-present
Ames Associate Fellow (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1993)
National Academy of Sciences (1994)
MacArthur Fellowship (1995-2000)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Distinguished Alumni Award (1996)
AAAS Fellow (1997)
Oregon State University Distinguished Alumni Award (1998)
McMurtrey Fellow for Undergraduate Education (2002)
National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2002)
Matson P.A. and P.M. Vitousek. 1981. Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification potentials
following clearcutting in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana. Forest Science 27:781-791.
Binkley, D. and P.A. Matson. 1983. An evaluation of an ion exchange resin bag method for
assessing forest soil nitrogen availability. Soil Science Society of America Journal 47:1050-1052.
Vitousek, P.M., H.L. Allen, and P.A. Matson. 1983. Impacts of management practices on soil
nitrogen status. In Maintaining Site Productivity in Pine Plantation Management. Proceedings
Appalachian Society of American Foresters. Myrtle Beach, S.C. pp. 25-39.
Matson, P.A. and R.D. Boone. 1984. Nitrogen mineralization and natural disturbance: Wave-form
dieback of mountain hemlock in the Oregon Cascades. Ecology 65:1511-1516.
Matson, P.A., and R.H. Waring. 1984. Effects of nutrient and light limitation on mountain hemlock:
Susceptibility to laminated root rot. Ecology 65:1517-1524.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1984. Mechanisms of nitrogen retention in forest ecosystems: A
field experiment. Science 225: 51-52.
Hain, F.P., S.P. Cook, P.A. Matson and K.G. Wilson. 1985. Factors contributing to southern pine
beetle host resistance. In S.J. Branham and R.C. Thatcher (Eds.) Integrated Pest Management Research
Symposium. USDA-Forest Service General Technical Report SO-56.
Matson, P.A. and F.P. Hain. 1985. Host conifer defense strategies: A hypothesis. In Proceedings
First IUFRO Conference on the Role of Host-Pest Interaction in the Population Dynamics of Forest
Insects. September 1983. Banff, Alberta.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1985. Nitrate losses from disturbed forests: Causes of delayed
nitrate production in two Indiana forests. Forest
Science 31:122-131.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1985. Intensive harvesting and site preparation decrease nitrogen
availability in young plantations. The Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 9:120-125.
Spanner, M.A., D.L. Peterson, W. Acevedo, and P.A. Matson. 1985. High resolution spectrometry of
leaf and canopy chemistry for biogeochemical cycling. Proceedings of the Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
Data Analysis Symposium. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1985. Disturbance, nitrogen availability, and nitrogen losses:
An experimental study in an intensively managed loblolly pine plantation. Ecology 66:1360-1376.
Matson, P.A. 1986. Biogeochemical Processes in Sagebrush Ecosystems. 1986 Thematic Mapper Research
in Earth Sciences Workshop, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, Sep 3-5. Goddard Space Flight
Center Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics Publications. pp. 279-293.
Vitousek, P.M., P.R. Ehrlich, A.H. Ehrlich, and P.A. Matson. 1986. Human appropriation of the
products of photosynthesis. Bioscience 36:368-373.
Birk, E. M. and P.A. Matson. 1986. Site fertility affects seasonal carbon reserves in loblolly
pine. Tree Physiology 2:17-27.
Matson, P.A., L.L. Strong, W.A. Reiners. 1987. Biogeochemical Cycling in Sagebrush Ecosystems. 1987
Thematic Mapper Research in the Earth Sciences Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, Sep. pp. 85-90.
Robertson, G.P., P.M. Vitousek, P.A. Matson, and J.M. Tiedje. 1987. Denitrification in a clearcut
loblolly pine plantation in the Southeastern U.S.: Differences related to harvest intensity, site
preparation, and silvicultural practice. Plant and Soil 97:119-129.
Matson, P.A., P.M. Vitousek, J.J. Ewel, M.J. Mazzarino, and G.P. Robertson. 1987. Nitrogen
transformations following tropical forest felling and burning on a volcanic soil. Ecology 68:491-502.
Waring, R.H., K. Cromack, Jr., P.A. Matson, R.D. Boone, and S.G. Stafford. 1987. Ecosystem
responses to forest dieback: Decomposition, nutrient availability, and tree vigor. Forestry 60:219-227.
Burke, I.C., W.A. Reiners, D.L. Sturges, and P.A. Matson. 1987. Herbicide treatment effects
on properties of mountain big sagebrush soils after 14 years. Soil Science Society of America
Journal 51:1337-1343.
Mooney, H.A., P.M. Vitousek, and P.A. Matson. 1987. Exchange of materials between the biosphere
and atmosphere. Science 238:926-932.
Matson, P.A. and P.M. Vitousek. 1987 Cross-system comparisons of soil nitrogen transformations and
nitrous oxide flux in tropical forest ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1:163-170.
Vitousek, P.M., L.R. Walker, L.D. Whitaker, D. Mueller-Dombois, and P.A. Matson. 1987. Biological
invasion by Myrica faya alters ecosystem development in Hawaii. Science 238:802-804.
Matson, P.A., F.P. Hain and W. Mawby. 1987. Susceptibility indices in loblolly pine vary with
silvicultural treatment. Forest Ecology and Management -22:107-118.
Swanberg, N.A. and P.A. Matson. 1987. The use of Airborne Imaging Spectrometer data to determine
experimentally-induced variation in coniferous canopy chemistry. Proceedings Third Airborne Imaging
Spectrometer Data Analysis Workshop, JPL Publication 87-30, pp 70-74.
Livingston, G.P., P.M. Vitousek, and P.A. Matson. 1988. Nitrous oxide flux and nitrogen transformations
across a landscape gradient in Amazonia. Journal of Geophysical Research 93(02):1593-1599.
Peterson, D. L., J.D. Aber, P.A. Matson, D.H. Card, N. Swanberg, C. Wessman, M.A. Spanner and C.A. Hlavka.
1988. Remote sensing of forest canopy and leaf biochemical content. Remote Sensing of the Environment 24:85-108.
Matson, P.A. and R.C. Harriss. 1988. Aircraft-based measurements of biosphere-atmosphere gas exchange.
Ecology 69(5):1318-1325.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1988. Nitrogen transformation in tropical forest soils. Soil Biology
and Biochemistry 20:361-367.
Card, D.H., D.L. Peterson, P.A. Matson, and J.D. Aber. 1988. Prediction of leaf chemistry by the use
of visible and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment 26:123-147.
Vitousek, P.M., P.A. Matson and D.R. Turner. 1988. Elevational and age gradients in Hawaiian montane
rainforest: foliar and soil nutrients. Oecologia 77:565-570.
Matson, P.A., P.M. Vitousek, and D.S. Schimel. 1989. Regional extrapolation of trace gas flux based
on soils and ecosystems. p. 97-108 In Andreae M.D. and D.S. Schimel (Eds). Exchange of Trace Gases
between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere. Springer-Verlag.
Vitousek, P.M., P.A. Matson, and K. Van Cleve. 1989. Nitrogen availability and nitrification during
succession: primary, secondary, and old-field seres. Plant and Soil 115:229-239.
Myrold, D.D., P.A. Matson, and D.L. Peterson. 1989. Relationships among soil microbial properties and
above ground stand characteristics of conifer forests in Oregon. Biogeochemistry 8:265-281.
Reiners, W.A., L.L. Strong, P.A. Matson, I.C. Burke, and D.S. Ojima. 1989. Estimating biogeochemical
fluxes across sagebrush-steppe landscape with thematic mapper imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 28:121-129.
Luizao, F., P. Matson, G. Livingston, R. Luizao, and P. Vitousek. 1989. Nitrous oxide flux following
tropical land clearing. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3:281-285.
Vitousek, P.M., P.A. Matson, C. Volkmann, M. Maass, and G. Garcia. 1989. Nitrous oxide fluxes from
seasonally dry tropical forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3(4):375-382.
Woodward, S., P.M. Vitousek, Benvenuto, P. Matson. 1990. Use of the exotic tree Myrica faya by
native and exotic birds in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Pacific Science 44:88-93.
Matson, P.A. and D.S. Ojima (Eds.). 1990. Terrestrial Biosphere Exchange with Global Atmospheric
Chemistry. IGBP Report No. 13. Stockholm. 103 pp.
Matson, P.A. and P.M. Vitousek. 1990. Remote sensing and trace gas fluxes. p. 157-167 In Hobbs, R.
and H.A. Mooney (Ed). Remote Sensing of Biosphere Functioning. Springer-Verlag.
Matson, P.A. 1990. The use of urban gradients in ecological studies. (Special feature introduction)
Ecology 71(4): 1231.
Matson, P.A. 1990. Plant-soil interactions during primary succession at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Oecologia 85:241-246.
Matson, P.A., P.M. Vitousek, G.P. Livingston and N.A. Swanberg. 1990. Sources of variation in nitrous
oxide flux from Amazonian ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research 95(D10):16789-16798.
Vitousek, P.M., C.B. Field and P.A. Matson. 1990. Variation in foliar del 13C in Hawaiian Metrosideros
polymorpha: A case of internal resistance? Oecologia 84:362-370.
Harriss, R.C., M. Garstang, S.C. Wofsy, S.M. Beck, R.J. Bendura, J.R.B. Coelho, J.W. Drewry, J.M. Hoell,
P.A. Matson, R.J. McNeal, L.C.B. Molion, R.L. Navarro, V. Rabine, and R.L. Snell. 1990. The Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment: Wet Season 1987. Journal of Geophysical Research 95 (D10) : 16721-16736.
Matson, P.A. and S. Carpenter. 1990. Statistical analysis of ecological response to large-scale
perturbation. (Special feature introduction) Ecology 71(6):2037.
Matson, P.A. and P.M. Vitousek. 1990. Ecosystem approach for the development of a global nitrous
oxide budget. Bioscience 40 (9): 667-672.
Lubchenco, J., A. Olson, L. Brubaker, S. Carpenter, M. Holland, S. Hubbell, S. Levin, J. MacMahon,
P. Matson, J. Melillo, H. Mooney, C. Peterson, H. Pulliam, L. Real, P. Regal, P. Risser. 1991. The
sustainable biosphere initiative: An ecological research agenda. Ecology 72(2): 371-412.
Gordon, D.M. and P.A. Matson. 1991. Interactions of behavioral and evolutionary ecology in changing
environments. (Special feature introduction) Ecology 72(4):1179.
Davidson, E.A., P.M. Vitousek, P.A. Matson, R. Riley, G. Garcia and J. M. Maass. 1991. Soil emissions
of nitric oxide in a seasonally dry tropical forest of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical
Research 96(D8):15,439-15,445.
Matson, P.A., C.Volkmann, K. Coppinger and W.A. Reiners. 1991. Annual nitrous oxide flux and
soil nitrogen characteristics in sagebrush steppe ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 14:1-12.
Matson, P.A. 1991. Trace gas emissions by plants: A summary. pp 341-343. In T. Sharkey, E.
Holland, H.A. Mooney and (Eds.). Trace Gas Emission by Plants. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1991. Gradient analysis of ecosystems. pp. 287-298. In Cole,
J.J., G. Lovett, and S. Findley. (Eds.). Comparative Analyses of Ecosystems. Springer Verlag, NY.
Roughgarden, J., S. W. Running and P.A. Matson. 1991. What does remote sensing do for Ecology?
Ecology 72(6):1918-1922.
Matson, P.A. and S.L. Ustin. 1991. The future of remote sensing in ecological studies. (Special
feature introduction). Ecology 72(6):1917.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1991. A commentary on effects of tropical deforestation on global
and regional atmospheric chemistry. Climate change 19:159-162.
Garcia, G., J.M. Maass, P.A. Matson, P.M. Vitousek. 1991. Nitrogen transformations and nitrous oxide
flux in a drought-deciduous forest in Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico. Oecologia 88:362-366.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1992. Tropical forests and trace gases: potential interactions
between tropical biology and the atmospheric sciences. Biotropica 24:233-239.
Vitousek, P.M., S.W. Andariese, P.A. Matson, L. Morris, and R.L. Sanford. 1992. Management effects
on soil nitrogen transformations in a young loblolly pine plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 49:277-292.
Matson, P.A. and M.D. Hunter. 1992. The relative contributions of top-down and bottom-up forces in
population and community ecology. (Special feature introduction). Ecology 73(3):723.
Matson, P.A. 1992. Biogeochemistry and perspectives on change (Book review). Ecology 73(2):712-713.
Matson, P.A. and A. Berryman. 1992. Ratio dependent predator-prey theory. (Special feature introduction).
Ecology 73(5):1529.
Field, C.B., F.S. Chapin III, P.A. Matson and H.A. Mooney. 1992. Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the
changing atmosphere: A resource-based approach. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 23:201-35.
Matson, P.A., S.T. Gower, C. Volkmann, C. Billow, and C.C. Grier. 1992. Soil nitrogen cycling and
nitrous oxide fluxes in fertilized Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir forests. Biogeochemistry 18:101-117.
Caldwell, M. , P.A. Matson, C.A. Wessman and J.A. Gamon. 1993. Prospects for Scaling. pp.223-229.
In C. Fields and J. Ehlringer (Eds.). Scaling Physiological Processes. Academic Press, New York.
Davidson, E.A., P.A. Matson, P.M. Vitousek, R. Riley, K. Dunkin, G. Garcia-Mendez, and J.M. Maass.
1993. Process regulation of soil emissions of NO and N2O in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Ecology 74(1):130-139.
Vitousek, P.M. and P.A. Matson. 1993. Agriculture, the global nitrogen cycle, and trace gas flux.
p. 193-208. In: Oremland, R (Ed) Biogeochemistry of Global Change: Radiatively Active Trace Gases. Chapman and Hall, NY.
Naylor, R and P.A. Matson. 1993. Food, conservation, and global environmental change: Is compromise
possible? Eos 74(15) 178-179.
Matson, P.A. C. Potvin and J. Travis. 1993. Statistical methods: An upgrade for ecologists. (Special
feature introduction) Ecology 74(6): 1615-1617.
Potter, C.S., J.T. Randerson, C.B. Field, P.A. Matson, P.M. Vitousek, H.A. Mooney and S.A. Klooster.
1993. Terrestrial ecosystem production: a process model based on global satellite and surface data.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 7(4):811-842.
Vitousek, P.M., L.R. Walker, L.D. Whiteaker and P.A. Matson. 1993. Nutrient limitation to plant growth
during primary succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Biogeochemistry 23:197-215.
Potter, C.S., P.A. Matson and P.M. Vitousek. 1994. Evaluation of soil database attributes in a terrestrial
carbon cycle model: Implications for global change research. In: Michener, W.K. (ed) Environmental
Information Systems Analysis. Taylor and Francis, UK.
Matson, P.A., L. Johnson. C. Billow, J. Miller, and Ruiliang Pu. 1994. Seasonal changes in canopy chemistry
across the Oregon Transect: Patterns and spectral measurement with remote sensing. Ecological Applications
4(2):280-298.
Billow, C., P. Matson and B. Yoder. 1994. Seasonal biochemical changes in coniferous forest canopies and
their response to fertilization. Tree Physiology 14:564-574.
Keller, M. and P.A.Matson. 1994. Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases in the tropics: Evaluating
the effects of land use change. In R. Prinn (Ed.) Global Atmospheric-Biospheric Chemistry. Plenum Press, NY.
Matson, P.A. and R.C. Harriss. Eds. 1995. Biogenic Trace Gases: Measuring Emissions from Soil
and Water. Blackwell Scientific Publishing, Cambridge. 394 p.
DeFries, S.R., C.B. Potter, I. Fung, C.O. Justice, S. Los, P.A. Matson, E. Matthews, H.A. Mooney, C.S.
Potter, K. Prentice, P.J. Sellers, J.R.G. Townshend, C.J. Tucker, S.L. Ustin, and P.M. Vitousek. 1995.
Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of
vegetation's functional properties. Journal of Geophysical Research 100 (D10):20,867-20,882.
Lerdau, M., P. Matson, R. Fall and R. Monson. 1995. Ecological controls over monoterpene emissions
from Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Ecology 76(8):2640-2647.
Matson, P.A. and P.M. Vitousek. 1996. Trace gas emissions in a tropical deciduous forest ecosystem.
In. H. Mooney, C. Medina, and R. Bullock (Eds.). Tropical Deciduous Forest Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag.
Potter, C.S., P.A. Matson, P.M. Vitousek and E.A. Davidson. 1996. Process modeling of controls on
nitrogen trace gas emissions from soils world-wide. Journal of Geophysical Research 11 (D1):1335-22148.
Dungan, J.L., L.F. Johnson, C.R. Billow, P.A. Matson, J. Mazzurco, J. Moen, and V.C. Vanderbilt.
1996. High spectral resolution reflectance of Douglas-fir grown under different fertilization
treatments: Experiment design and and treatment effects. Remote Sensing of Environment 55:217-228.
Hall, S.J., P.A. Matson, and P. Roth. 1996. NOx emission from soil: Implications for Air Quality
Modeling in Agricultural Regions. Annual Review of Energy and Environment 21:311-46.
Matson, P.A., C. Billow, S. Hall and J. Zachariesson.1996. Nitrogen trace gas responses to
fertilization in sugar cane ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101(D13):18533-18546.
Matson, P.A., W.J. Parton, A.G. Power and M. Swift. 1997. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem
properties. Science, 277:504-509.
Matson, P. 1997. NOx emissions from soils and its consequences for the atmosphere and biosphere.
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 48:1-6.
Vitousek, P.M., J. Aber, R. Howarth, G.E. Likens, P. Matson, D. Schindler, W. Schlesinger and G.D.
Tilman. 1997. Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: causes and consequences. Ecological
Applications 7(3): 737-750.
Matson, P.A., R.L. Naylor and I. Ortiz-Monasterio. 1998. Integration of Environmental, Agronomic,
and Economic Aspects of Fertilizer Management. Science 280:112-115.
Vitousek, P.M., L.O. Hedin, P.A. Matson, J.H. Fownes, and J. Neff. 1998. Within-system element
cycles , input-output budgets, and nutrient limitation. In M. Pace and P. Groffman (eds) Successes,
Limitations, and the Future of Ecosystem Ecology, Springer, New York.
Field, C.B., J.G. Osborn, L.L. Hoffman et al. 1998. Mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters. 7:3-14.
Matson, P.A., W.D. McDowell, A.Townsend, and P. Vitousek. 1999. The globalization of nitrogen
deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments. Biogeochemistry. 46:67-83.
Hall, S.J. and P.A. Matson. 1999. Nitrogen oxide emissions following nitrogen additions in tropical
forests. Nature. 8 July 99, 400:152-155.
National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development. 1999. Our Common Journey: A transition
toward sustainability. National Academy Press, Washington DC. 363pp.
Field, C.B., G.C. Daily, F.W. Davis, S. Gaines, P.A. Matson, J. Melack, and N.L. Miller. 1999.
Confronting Climate Change in California: Ecological Impacts on the Golden State. Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA and Ecological Society of America, Washington, D.C.
Matson, P.A. and A. Goldstein. Biogenic trace gas exchanges. 2000. In: Sala, O., R. Jackson, H.
Mooney, R. Howarth (eds) Methods in Ecosystem Science. Springer.
Panek, J. , P.A. Matson, I. Ortiz-Monasterio, and P. Brooks. 2000. Distinguishing nitrification and
denitrification sources of N2O in a Mexican wheat system using 15N as a tracer. Ecological
Applications, 10(2): 506-514
Riley, W.J. and P.A. Matson. 2000. NLOSS: A mechanistic model of denitrified N2O and N2 evolution
from soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, Soil Science 165(3): 237-249.
Schuur, E.A.G. and P.A. Matson. 2000. Land Use Change: Global Effects of Local Changes. In Earth
System Science: Patterns and Processes. Gary Ernst, ed. Cambridge University Press.
Harrison, J.A., and P.A. Matson. 2000. The Atmosphere as Global Commons, chapter in
Protecting the Commons, Burger, J., R. Norgaard, E. Ostrom, D. Policansky, and B.D. Goldstein (Eds.),
Island Press, Washington D.C.
Asner G.P., A,R, Townsend, W.J. Riley, J.C. Neff, P.A. Matson, and C.C. Cleveland. 2001. Modeling physical
and biogeochemical controls of terrestrial ecosystem responses to nitrogen deposition. Biogeochemistry 54: 1-39.
Mosier, A.R., M. A. Bleken, P Chaiwanakupt, EC.Ellis, J.R. Freney. R.B. Howarth, P.A. Matson, K.
Minami, R. Naulor, K Weeks, Ahao-Liang Zhu. 2001. Policy implications of human accelerated nitrogen
cycling. Biogeochemistry 52(3):281-320.
Matson, P.A. Environmental Challenges for the 21st Century: Interacting Challenges and Integrative
Solutions. 2001. Environmental Law Quarterly, University of California, Berkeley. Vol 27(4):1179-1190.
Kates, R.W. et al . 2001. Environment and development: Sustainabiltiy science. Science 292(5517):641-642.
Perez, T., S.E. Trumbore, S.C. Tyler, P.A. Matson, I. Ortiz-Monasterio, T. Rahn, D.W.T. Griffith. 2001.
Identifying the agricultural imprint on the global N2O budget using stable isotopes. Journal
of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 106(#D9): 9869-9878.
Riley, W.J., I. Ortiz-Monasterio, and P.A. Matson. 2001. Nitrogen leaching and soil nitrate, nitrite,
and ammonium levels under differing fertilizer management in an irrigated wheat system in northern Mexico.
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 61:223-236.
Schuur, E.A.G., O.A. Chadwick, and P.A. Matson. 2001. Carbon cycling and soil carbon storage in mesic
to wet Hawaiian montane forests. Ecology. 82(1):3182-3196
Schuur, E.A.G., and P.A. Matson. 2001. Net primary productivity and nutrient cycling across a mesic to
wet precipitation gradient in Hawaiian montane forest. Oecologia, 128(3): 431-442
Steffen, W., P Tyson, J. Jager, P.Matson, B. Moore, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson,
J. Schellnhuber, B. Turner and R. Wasson. 2001. Earth system science: An integrated approach. Environment.
Matson, P.A., K Lohse and S. Hall. The globalization if nitrogen deposition and consequences for
terrestrial ecosystems. Ambio, 31(2): 113-119.
Prather, M, D. Ehhalt, F. Dentener, R. Derwent, E. Dlugokencky, E. Holland, I. Isaksen, J. Katima,
V. Kirchoff, P. Matson, P. Midgley and M. Want. 2001 Atmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases. In Climate
Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Houghton eyt al (editors) IPCC, Cambridge University Press.
Matson, P.A., K. Lohse and S. Hall. 2002. The globalization of
nitrogen deposition: Consequences for terrestrial ecosystems.
Ambio, 31(2): 113-119.
Chapin, F.S., P.A. Matson and H.A. Mooney. 2002. Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology.
Springer-Verlag.
Tilman, D., C.G. Cassman, P.A. Matson, R. Naylor, S. Polasky. 2002.
Agricultural
sustainability and intensive production practices. Nature. 8 August 2002, 418:671-677.
Hall, S.J. and P.A. Matson. 2002. Environmental variables controlling trace gas emissions from forests: Acid Precipitation and Nitrogen Deposition. Pages 279-306 in Trace Gas Exchange in Forest Ecosystems, H. Papen, R. Gasche, and H. Rennenberg, eds. Fundamental and Applied Tree Physiology, Book Series, Volume 3. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
Hall, S.J. and P.A. Matson. 2003. Nutrient status of tropical rain forests influences soil
N dynamics after N additions. Ecological Monographs, 73(1), 107-129.
Turner, B.L., P.A. Matson, J.J. McCarthy, R.W. Corell, L. Christensen, N. Eckley, G.K. Hovelsrud-Broda, J.X. Kasperson, R.E. Kasperson, A. Luers, M.L. Martello, S. Mathiesen, R. Naylor, C. Polsky, A. Pulsipher, A. Schiller, H. Selin and N. Tyler. 2003. Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: Three case studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(14), 8080-8085.
Turner, B.L., R.E. Kasperson, P.A. Matson, J.J. McCarthy, R.W. Corell, L. Christensen, N. Eckley, J.X. Kasperson, A. Luers, M.L. Martello, C. Polsky, A. Pulsipher and A. Schiller. 2003. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(14), 8074-8079.
Harrison, J., and P. Matson. 2003. Patterns and controls of nitrous oxide emissions from waters draining a subtropical agricultural valley. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(3), 1080.
Hedin, L.O., P.M. Vitousek and P.A. Matson. 2003. Nutrient losses over four million years of tropical forest development. Ecology 84 (9): 2231-2255.
Osher, L.J., P.A. Matson and R. Amundson. 2003. Effect of land use change on soil carbon in Hawaii. Biogeochemistry 65(2): 213-232.
Luers, A.L., D.B. Lobell, L.S. Sklar, C.L. Addams and P.A. Matson. 2003. A method for quantifying vulnerability, applied to the agricultural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Global Environmental Change 13: 255-267.
Vitousek, P., O. Chadwick, P. Matson, S. Allison, L. Derry, L. Kettley, A. Luers, E. Mecking, V. Monastra and S. Porder. 2003. Erosion and the rejuvenation of weathering-derived nutrient supply in an old tropical landscape. Ecosystems 6(8): 762-772.
Carney, K.M., P.A. Matson and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. Diversity, composition, and function of tropical soil nitrifiers across a plant diversity gradient and among land use types. Ecology Letters 7: 684-694.
Beman, J.M., K.R. Arrigo, and P.A. Matson. 2005. Agricultural
runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean.
Nature. 10 March 2005, 434:211-214.
Harrison, J.A., P.A. Matson, and S.E. Fendorf. 2005. Effects of a diel oxygen
cycle on nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas emissions in a eutrophied
subtropical stream. Aquatic Sciences 67: 308-315.
Lobell, D.B., J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio, G.P.Asner, P.A. Matson, R.L. Naylor, and W.P.
Falcon. 2005. Analysis of Wheat Yield and Climatic Trends in Mexico. Field Crops
Research 94: 250-256.
Lohse, K.A. and P.A. Matson. 2005. Consequences of nitrogen additions for soil
processes and solution losses from wet tropical forests. Ecological Applications
15(5): 1629-1648.
Matson, P., A. Luers, K. Seto, R. Naylor, and I. Ortiz-Monasterio.
2005. People, Land Use and Environment in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora,
Mexico. Pages 238-264 in Population, Land Use, and Environment, B. Entwisle
and P. Stern, eds. National Research Council, Washington, DC.
Carney, K.M., and P.A. Matson. 2005. Plant communities, soil microorganisms, and
soil carbon cycling: does altering the world belowground matter to ecosystem
functioning? Ecosystems 8(8): 928-940.
Luers, A.L., Naylor, R. and P. Matson. 2006. A Case Study of Land Reform and
Coastal Land Transformation in Southern Sonora, Mexico. Land Use Policy 23(4): 436-447.
Holtgrieve, G.W., P.K. Jewett, P.A. Matson. 2006. Variations in soil N cycling
and trace gas emissions in wet tropical forests. Oecologia 146(4): 585-594.
Goldstein, J.H., G.C. Daily, J.B. Friday, P.A. Matson, R.A. Naylor, and P. Vitousek. 2006.
Business strategies for conservation on private
lands: Koa forestry as a case study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
103(26), 10140-10145.
Matson, P.A., and P.M. Vitousek. 2006. Agricultural
intensification: Will land spared from farming be land spared for nature?
Conservation Biology 20(3): 709-710.
Carney, K.M., and P.A. Matson. 2006. The influence of tropical plant
diversity and composition on soil microbial communities. Microbial Ecology 52: 226-238.
Chapin, F.S., G.M. Woodwell, J.T. Randerson, G.M.Lovett, E.B. Rastetter, D.D.
Baldocchi, D.A. Clark, M.E. Harmon, D.S. Schimel, R. Valentini, C. Wirth, J.D.
Aber, J.J. Cole, M.L. Goulden, J.W. Harden, M. Heimann, R.W. Howarth, P.A. Matson,
A.D. McGuire, J.M. Melillo, H.A. Mooney, J.C. Neff, R.A. Houghton, M.L. Pace, M.G.
Ryan, S.W. Running, O.E. Sala, W.H. Schlesinger, and E.D. Schulze. 2006.
Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods. Ecosystems 9(7): 1041-1050.
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