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  • 2014 - Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship on Forest Soils, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Dan Binkley is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their research focuses on a range of topics related to forest ecosystems, with significant coverage in Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Tree-ring Climate Responses. Other thematic areas of their studies include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy, Environmental and Biological Studies, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Dan Binkley has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication platform is Forest Ecology and Management, with 17 papers contributed. Other venues include Trees Forests and People, Nature Communications, New Phytologist, and Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists.

Among their selected recent publications are:

  • Variation in whole-rotation yield among Eucalyptus genotypes in response to water and heat stresses: The TECHS project, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Acorn review: The persistent mystery of declining growth in older forests, 2023, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Variation in canopy structure, leaf area, light interception and light use efficiency among Eucalyptus clones, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • CO2, nitrogen deposition and a discontinuous climate response drive water use efficiency in global forests, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Climate and genotype influences on carbon fluxes and partitioning in Eucalyptus plantations, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

Frequently collaborating researchers include Clayton Alcarde Álvares, Otávio Camargo Campoe, José Luiz Stape, Michael G. Ryan, and Harri Mäkinen.

Dan Binkley received the Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship on Forest Soils from the American Society of Agronomy in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Ecology and Management of Forest Soils

    Richard F. Fisher;Dan Binkley

  • EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES INVADE HOT SPOTS OF NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY

    Thomas J. Stohlgren;Thomas J. Stohlgren;Dan Binkley;Geneva W. Chong;Mohammed A. Kalkhan

  • Impact of several common tree species of European temperate forests on soil fertility

    Laurent Augusto;Jacques Ranger;Dan Binkley;Andreas Rothe

  • Age-Related Decline in Forest Productivity: Pattern and Process

    M.G. Ryan;D. Binkley;J.H. Fownes

  • Why do tree species affect soils? The Warp and Woof of tree-soil interactions

    Dan Binkley;Christian Giardina

  • The Components of Nitrogen Availability Assessments in Forest Soils

    D. Binkley;S. C. Hart

  • Forest nutrition management

    Dan Binkley

  • Tree growth and soil acidification in response to 30 years of experimental nitrogen loading on boreal forest

    Peter Högberg;Houbao Fan;Houbao Fan;Maud Quist;Dan Binkley

  • The Brazil Eucalyptus Potential Productivity Project: Influence of water, nutrients and stand uniformity on wood production

    Jose Luiz Stape;Dan Binkley;Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;Sebastiao Fonseca

  • Ion Exchange Resin Bag Method for Assessing Forest Soil Nitrogen Availability

    Dan Binkley;Pamela Matson

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE CAUSES OF FOREST GROWTH DECLINE WITH STAND AGE

    Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;Dan Binkley;James H. Fownes;Christian P. Giardina

  • Foliage litter quality and annual net N mineralization: comparison across North American forest sites.

    Neal A. Scott;Dan Binkley

  • Nutritional interactions in mixed species forests: a synthesis

    Andreas Rothe;Dan Binkley

  • Greater Soil Carbon Sequestration under Nitrogen-fixing Trees Compared with Eucalyptus Species

    Sigrid C. Resh;Dan Binkley;John A. Parrotta

  • Eucalyptus production and the supply, use and efficiency of use of water, light and nitrogen across a geographic gradient in Brazil

    Jose Luiz Stape;Dan Binkley;Michael G. Ryan

  • Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

    Andrea Koch;Alex McBratney;Mark Adams;Damien Field

  • Forest Practices As Nonpoint Sources of Pollution in North America

    Dan Binkley;Thomas C. Brown

  • Biogeochemistry of adjacent conifer and alder-conifer stands

    Dan Binkley;Phillip Sollins;Randy Bell;Don Sachs

  • Nutrient Cycles and H+ Budgets of Forest Ecosystems

    D. Binkley;D. Richter

  • Age-related Decline in Forest Ecosystem Growth: An Individual-Tree, Stand-Structure Hypothesis

    Dan Binkley;José L. Stape;Michael G. Ryan;Holly R. Barnard

  • The earth as transformed by human action: Global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years

    Dan Binkley

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
José Luiz Stape
José Luiz Stape North Carolina State University
Thomas J. Stohlgren
Thomas J. Stohlgren Colorado State University
H. Lee Allen
H. Lee Allen North Carolina State University
Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University
Jean-Paul Laclau
Jean-Paul Laclau Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Charles C. Rhoades
Charles C. Rhoades US Forest Service
Christian P. Giardina
Christian P. Giardina US Forest Service
William L. Bauerle
William L. Bauerle Colorado State University
Phillip Sollins
Phillip Sollins Oregon State University

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