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Ecosystem respiration using Keeling plots.   (publications in chronological order)

213. Flanagan, L.B., J.R. Brooks, G.T. Varney, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Discrimination against C18O16O during photosynthesis and the oxygen isotope ratio of respired CO2 in boreal forest ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11:83-98. PDF
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224. Flanagan, L.B., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Ecosystem - atmosphere CO2 exchange: interpreting signals of change using stable isotope ratios. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:10-14. PDF

233. Ehleringer, J.R., and C.S. Cook. 1998. Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of ecosystem respiration along an Oregon conifer transect: preliminary observations based upon small-flask sampling. Tree Physiology 18:513-519. PDF

238. Lin, G., J.R. Ehleringer , P.T. Rygiewicz, M.G. Johnson, and D.T. Tingey. 1999. Elevated CO2 and temperature impacts on different components of soil CO2 efflux in Douglas-fir terracosms. Global Change Biology 5:157-168.PDF

242. Flanagan, L.B., D.S. Kubien, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1999. Spatial and temporal variation in the carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratio of respired CO2 in a boreal forest ecosystem. Tellus 51:367-384. PDF
 
250. Ehleringer, J.R., N. Buchmann, and L.B. Flanagan. 2000. Carbon isotope ratios in belowground carbon cycle processes. Ecological Applications 10:412-422. PDF
 
262. Lin, G., P.T. Rygiewicz, J.R. Ehleringer, M.G. Johnson, and D.T. Tingey. 2001. Time-dependent responses of soil CO2 efflux to elevated atmospheric [CO2] and temperature treatments in experimental forest mesocosms. Plant and Soil 229:259-270. PDF

274. Fessenden, J.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Age dependent variations in the d13C of ecosystem respiration across a coniferous forest chronosequence in the Pacific Northwest. Tree Physiology 22:159-167. PDF

287. Ometto, J.P.H.B., L.B. Flanagan, L.A. Martinelli, M.Z. Moreira, N. Higuchi, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Carbon isotope discrimination in forest and pasture ecosystems of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16: No. 4, doi:10.1029/2001GB001462. PDF

291. Pataki, D.E., J.R. Ehleringer, L.B. Flanagan, D. Yakir, D.R. Bowling, C.J. Still, N. Buchmann, J.O. Kaplan, and J.A. Berry. 2003. The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1022, doi:10.1029/2001GB001850. PDF

297. Fessenden, J.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Temporal variation in d13C of ecosystem respiration in the Pacific Northwest: links to moisture stress. Oecologia 136:129-136. PDF

298. Bowling, D.R., S.D. Sargent, B.D. Tanner, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy for ecosystem-atmosphere CO2 isotopic exchange studies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 118:1-19. PDF

299. Schauer, A., C.-T. Lai, D.R. Bowling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. An automated sampler for unattended collection of air samples for stable isotope analyses. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 118:113-124. PDF

301. Lai, C.-T., A.J. Schauer, C. Owensby, J. M. Ham, and J. R. Ehleringer. 2003. Isotopic air sampling in a tallgrass prairie to partition net ecosystem CO2 exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: NO. D18, 4566, doi:10.1029/2002JD003369. PDF
 
302. Pataki, D.E., D.S. Ellsworth, R.D. Evans, M. Gonzalez-Meler, J. King, S.W. Leavitt, G. Lin, R. Matamala, E. Pendall, R. Siegwolf, C. van Kessel, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Tracing changes in ecosystem function under elevated CO2. BioScience 53:805-818. PDF

304. Pataki, D.E., D.R. Bowling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and its isotopic composition in an urban atmosphere: anthropogenic and biogenic effects. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: NO. D23, 4735, doi:10.1029/2003JD003865. PDF

305. Bowling, D.R., N.G. McDowell, J.M. Welker, B.J. Bond, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Oxygen isotope content of CO2 in nocturnal ecosystem respiration 1. Observations in forests along a precipitation transect in Oregon, USA. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1120, doi:10.1029/2003GB002081.
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306. Bowling, D.R., N.G. McDowell, J.M. Welker, B.J. Bond, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Oxygen isotope content of CO2 in nocturnal ecosystem respiration 2. Short-term dynamics of foliar and soil component fluxes in an old-growth ponderosa pine forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1124, doi:10.1029/2003GB002082. PDF

308. McDowell, N.G., D.R. Bowling, B.J. Bond, J. Irvine, B.E. Law, P. Anthoni, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2004. Response of the carbon isotopic content of ecosystem, leaf and soil respiration to meteorological and physiological driving factors in a Pinus ponderosa ecosystem. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GBC 1011, doi:10.1029/2003GB002049. PDF

311. Lai, C.-T., J.R. Ehleringer, S.C. Wofsy, S.P. Urbanski and D.Y. Hollinger. 2004. Estimating photosynthetic 13C discrimination in terrestrial CO2 exchange from canopy to regional scales. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GB1041, doi:10.1029/2003GB002148. PDF

320. Buchmann, N., D. Bonal, T.S. Barigah, J.-M. Guehl, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2004. Insights into the carbon dynamics of tropical primary rainforests using stable carbon isotope analyses, p. 95-113. In: S. Gourlet-Fleury, J.-M. Guehl, and O. Laroussinie (eds.), Ecology and management of a neotropical rainforest. Elsevier Press, Paris. PDF

321. McDowell, N.G., D.R. Bowling, A. Schauer, J. Irvine, B.J. Bond, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2004. Associations between carbon isotope ratios of ecosystem respiration, water availability, and canopy conductance. Global Change Biology 10:1767–1784, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00837. PDF

325. Flanagan, L.B., D.E. Pataki, and J.R. Ehleringer (eds.). 2005. Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: processes and ecological controls. Elsevier Press, San Diego.

330. Schauer, A.J., M.J. Lott, C.S. Cook, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2005. An automated system for stable isotope and concentration analyses of CO2 from small atmospheric samples. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 19:359-362. PDF

333. Ometto, J.P.H., L.B. Flanagan, L.A. Martinelli, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2005. Oxygen isotope ratios of waters and respired CO2 in Amazonian forest and pasture ecosystems. Ecological Applications 15:58-70. PDF

334. Lai, C.-T., J.R. Ehleringer, A.J. Schauer, D.Y. Hollinger, K.T. Paw U, J.W. Munger, and S.C. Wofsy. 2005. Canopy-scale d13C of photosynthetic and respiratory CO2 fluxes: observations in forest biomes across the United States. Global Change Biology 11:1-11. doi: 10.111/j.1365-2486.2005.00931.x. PDF

347. Lai, C.-T., J.R. Ehleringer, B.J. Bond, and K.T. Paw U. 2006. Contributions of evaporation, isotopic non-steady state transpiration, and atmospheric mixing on the d18O enrichment of water vapor in Pacific Northwest coniferous forests. Plant Cell and Environment 29:77-94. 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01402.x. PDF

349. Pataki, D.E., D.R. Bowling, J.R. Ehleringer, and J.M. Zobitz. 2006. High resolution atmospheric monitoring of urban carbon dioxide sources. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L03813, doi:10.1029/2005GL024822. PDF

350. Lai, C.-T., W.J. Riley, C. Owensby, J. Ham, A.J. Schauer, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2006. Seasonal and interannual variations of carbon and oxygen isotopes of respired CO2 in a tallgrass prairie: Measurements and modeling results from 3 years with contrasting water availability. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 111, D08S06, doi:10.1029/2005JD006436. PDF

351. Aranibar, J.N., J.A. Berry, W.J. Riley, D.E. Pataki, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2006. Combining meteorology, eddy fluxes, isotope measurements, and modeling to understand environmental controls of carbon isotope discrimination at the canopy scale. Global Change Biology 12:710-730, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01121.x. PDF

362. Lai, C.-T., A.J. Schauer, C. Owensby, J.M. Ham, B. Helliker, P.P. Tans, J.R. Ehleringer. 2006. Regional CO2 fluxes inferred from mixing ratio measurements: estimates from flask air samples in central Kansas, USA. Tellus 58:523-536. PDF

367. Pataki, D.E, T. Xu, Y.Q. Luo, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Inferring ecosystem carbon cycling from the urban CO2 dome. Oecologia 152:307-322. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0656-0. PDF

371.  Alstad, K.P., C.-T. Lai, L.B. Flanagan, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Environmental controls on the carbon isotope composition of ecosystem respired CO2 in contrasting forest ecosystems in Canada and USA. Tree Physiology 27:1361-1374. PDF

376. Ehleringer, J.R., and T.E. Dawson. 2007. Stable isotopes record ecological change, but a sampling network may be essential. In Dawson, T.E., and R. Siegwolf (eds.), Stable isotopes as recorders of ecological change. Academic Press, San Diego. PDF

383. De Araujo, A.C., J.P.H. B. Ometto, A.J. Dolman, B. Kruijt, M.J. Waterloo, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Implications of CO2 pooling on d13C of ecosystem respiration and leaves in Amazonian forest. Biogeosciences Discussions 4:4459-4506. www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/4/4459/2007. PDF

427. Dang, X., C.-T. Lai, D.Y. Hollinger, A.J. Schauer, J. Xiao, J.W. Munger, C. Owensby, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2011. Combining tower mixing ratio and community model data to estimate regional-scale net ecosystem carbon exchange by boundary layer inversion over four flux towers in the United States. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 116:G03036, doi:10.1029/2010JG001554. PDF

460. Taylor, A.J., C.T. Lai, F. Hopkins, S. Wharton, K. Bible, X. Xu, C. Phillips, S. Bush, and J. R. Ehleringer. 2015. Radiocarbon-based partitioning of soil respiration in an old-growth coniferous forest. Ecosystems doi:10.1007/s10021-014-9839-4. PDF

487. Raczka, B., S.C. Biraud, J.R. Ehleringer, C.-T. Lai, J.B. Miller, D.E. Pataki, S.R. Saleska, M.S. Torn, B.H. Vaughn, R. Wehr, and D.R. Bowling. 2017. Does vapor pressure deficit drive the seasonality of 3C of the net land-atmosphere CO2 exchange across the United States? Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences 122: doi:10.1002/2017JG003795. PDF



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