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Richard A. Gill Biology Email: rgill@byu.edu 151 WIDB Associate Professor
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My research interests lie at the intersection between basic ecological research and global change biology. By bringing together skills in both ecosystem and plant physiological ecology, I am focused on accomplishing three central goals: 1) Understand how belowground plant and microbial dynamics mediate ecosystem processes in herbaceous ecosystems; 2) Identify possible feedback mechanisms between plant and soil processes that may be sensitive to global change including changes in climate, nitrogen availability, and atmospheric composition; 3) Bridge basic and applied ecological research to influence natural resource management, specifically with applications to climate change and land-use change. These goals arise from the need to understand and predict how vegetation and ecosystems will respond to both natural and anthropogenic environmental changes in the coming decades and century. |
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Articles Balogh-Brunstad Z , Keller CK , Gill RA , Bormann BT , Li CY. "The effect of bacteria and fungi on chemical weathering and chemical denudation fluxes in pine growth experiments." Biogeochemistry. 88.2 (2008): 153-167. Gill, Richard A. "Influence of 90 years of protection from grazing on plant and soil." Rangeland Ecology and Management. 60 (2007): 88-98. Gill, R.A., H. W. Polley, H.B. Johnson, R.B. Jackson. "Progressive nitrogenlimitation limits carbon sequestration in a grassland exposed to past and future atmospheric CO2." Ecology. 87.1 (2006): 41-52. Gill, R.A., J.A. Boie, J.G. Bishop, L. Larsen, J.L. Apple, R.D. Evans. "Linking community and ecosystem development on Mount Saint Helens." Oecologia. 148 (2006): 312-324. White, Ethan P., Peter B. Adler, William K. Lauenroth, Richard A. Gill, DavidGreenberg, Dawn M. Kaufmann, Andrew Rossweiler, James A. Rusak, Melinda A. Smith,John Steinbeck, Robert B. Waide, Jin Yao. "A comparison of species-time relationships across ecosystems and taxa." Oikos. 112 (2006): 185-195. Hopfensperger KN, Wu JQ , Gill RA. "Plant composition and erosion potential of a grazed wetland in the Salmon River Subbasin, Idaho." Western North American Naturalist. 66.3 (2006): 354-364. Epstein HE, Gill RA, Paruelo JM, Lauenroth WK, Jia GJ, Burke IC. "The relative abundance of three plant functional types in temperate grasslands and shrublands of North and South America: effects of projected climate change." Journal of Biogeography. 29 (2002): 875-888. Gill RA, Polley HW, Johnson HB, Anderson LJ, Maherali H, Jackson RB. "Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO2." Nature. 417 (2002): 279-282. Gill RA, Jackson RB. "Global patterns of root turnover for terrestrial ecosystems." New Phytologist. 147.1 (2000): 13-31. |
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BIO 100
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Principles of Biology
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