Jennifer Y. King
 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
and Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate
Ph.D., University of California - Irvine, 1999
Contact Information
Phone: 612-624-0786
Fax: 612-625-2208
E-mail: jyking@umn.edu
Graduate Faculty Memberships
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Soil Science; Water Resources Science
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry, Earth system science, global biogeochemical cycles, climate change, isotope geochemistry, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemical modeling.
Statement
My research focuses on interactions between soil, plants, and the atmosphere. I am interested in how ecosystem and biogeochemical processes respond to natural and anthropogenic environmental changes and how changes in these processes may, in turn, modify the environment. I use interdisciplinary approaches to address these questions over a wide range of scales. I am broadly interested in working on questions at the interface between terrestrial ecology, atmospheric science, and soil science.
Selected Publications
Pendall, E., J.Y. King, A.R. Mosier, J. Morgan, and D. Milchunas. 2005. Stable isotope constraints on net ecosystem production under elevated CO2. In L. Flanagan, J. Ehleringer, D. Pataki, and H. Mooney, (eds.) Stable Isotopes and Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: Processes and Biological Controls. Elsevier.
King, J.Y., A.R. Mosier, J.A. Morgan, D.R. LeCain, D.G. Milchunas, and W.J. Parton. 2004. Changes in aboveground plant nitrogen in shortgrass steppe following growth under elevated atmospheric CO2. Ecosystems 7: 147-160. DOI:10.1007/s10021-003-0201-5.
King, J.Y., D.G. Milchunas, A.R. Mosier, J.C. Moore, M.H. Quirk, J.A. Morgan, and J.R. Slusser. 2003. Initial impacts of altered UVB radiation on plant growth and decomposition in shortgrass steppe. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5156 Ultraviolet Ground- and Space-based Measurements, Models, and Effects III (Ed. J.R. Slusser, J.R. Herman, W. Gao) SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 384-395.
King, J. Y. and W. S. Reeburgh. 2002. A pulse-labeling experiment to determine the contribution of recent plant photosynthates to net methane emission in arctic wet sedge tundra. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34(2):173-180.
King, J. Y., W. S. Reeburgh, K. K. Thieler, G. W. Kling, W. M. Loya, L. C. Johnson, and K. J. Nadelhoffer. 2002. Pulse-labeling studies of carbon cycling in Arctic tundra ecosystems: The contribution of photosynthates to methane emission. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16(4): 1062, doi: 10.1029/2001GB001456.
Additional Links
The King Lab
IGERT Training Grant
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