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893

Overview

Colleen M. Iversen is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in atmospheric science, ecology, plant science, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work addresses topics such as peatlands and wetlands ecology, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Iversen are:

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants, 2020, Science Advances
  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements, 2021, New Phytologist
  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective, 2021, New Phytologist

Iversen frequently collaborates with Verity Salmon, Joanne Childs, Michael McCormack, Paul J. Hanson, and Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes.

Key venues where Iversen has published extensively include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

    M. Luke McCormack;Ian A. Dickie;David M. Eissenstat;Timothy J. Fahey

  • CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability

    Richard J Norby;Jeffrey M Warren;Colleen M Iversen;Belinda E Medlyn

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants.

    Joana Bergmann;Alexandra Weigelt;Fons van der Plas;Daniel C. Laughlin

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

    Grégoire T Freschet;Grégoire T Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Louise H Comas;Monique Weemstra

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

    Grégoire T Freschet;Loïc Pagès;Colleen M Iversen;Louise H Comas

  • Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2

    Adrien C. Finzi;Richard J. Norby;Carlo Calfapietra;Anne Gallet-Budynek

  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Soenke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective

    Alexandra Weigelt;Liesje Mommer;Karl Andraczek;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils

    Christina Schädel;Martin K.-F. Bader;Edward A.G. Schuur;Christina Biasi

  • A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology.

    Colleen M. Iversen;M. Luke McCormack;A. Shafer Powell;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Belinda E Medlyn;Belinda E Medlyn;Sonke Zaehle;Martin G De Kauwe;Anthony P Walker

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • The unseen iceberg: plant roots in arctic tundra

    Colleen M. Iversen;Victoria L. Sloan;Patrick F. Sullivan;Eugenie S. Euskirchen

  • Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

    Stan D. Wullschleger;Howard E. Epstein;Elgene O. Box;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Digging deeper: fine‐root responses to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration in forested ecosystems

    Colleen M. Iversen

  • Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models – evaluation and recommendations

    Jeffrey M. Warren;Paul J. Hanson;Colleen M. Iversen;Jitendra Kumar

  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites.

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Sönke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Building a better foundation: improving root-trait measurements to understand and model plant and ecosystem processes

    M. Luke McCormack;Dali Guo;Colleen M. Iversen;Weile Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jeffrey M. Warren
Jeffrey M. Warren Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stan D. Wullschleger
Stan D. Wullschleger Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Anthony P. Walker
Anthony P. Walker Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
M. Luke McCormack
M. Luke McCormack Morton Arboretum

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