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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eugene F. Kelly is a researcher affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to environmental processes and ecosystem dynamics. Key topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Kelly has published recent papers in prominent venues. These include:

  • "Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally" (2024) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity" (2025) published in Science
  • "Determination of Soil Contamination at the Wildland-Urban Interface after the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, USA" (2024) published in Environmental Science & Technology

Their frequent co-authors are Melinda D. Smith, Kate Wilkins, Martin C. Holdrege, Peter A. Wilfahrt, and Scott L. Collins, each collaborating on multiple publications.

Kelly has contributed to research published in venues such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Environmental Science & Technology.

In recognition of their work, Eugene F. Kelly was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

    Jana L. Heisler-White;Jana L. Heisler-White;Alan K. Knapp;Eugene F. Kelly

  • The impact of climate on the biogeochemical functioning of volcanic soils

    Oliver A Chadwick;Robert T Gavenda;Eugene F Kelly;Karen Ziegler

  • Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome.

    Jana L. Heisler-White;John M. Blair;Eugene F. Kelly;Keith Harmoney

  • Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

    Kelly S. Ramirez;Jonathan W. Leff;Albert Barberán;Scott Thomas Bates

  • The effect of plants on mineral weathering

    Eugene F. Kelly;Oliver A. Chadwick;Thomas E. Hilinski

  • Biologic cycling of silica across a grassland bioclimosequence

    S. W. Blecker;S. W. Blecker;Rebecca L. McCulley;O. A. Chadwick;E. F. Kelly

  • Natural variations of δ30Si ratios during progressive basalt weathering, Hawaiian Islands

    Karen Ziegler;Oliver A. Chadwick;Mark A. Brzezinski;Eugene F. Kelly

  • Soil Organic Carbon and Water Retention after Conversion of Grasslands to Pine Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Kathleen A. Farley;Eugene F. Kelly;Robert G. M. Hofstede

  • Oxygen isotopic composition of soil water: Quantifying evaporation and transpiration

    Jean C.C Hsieh;Oliver A Chadwick;Eugene F Kelly;Samuel M Savin

  • Carbon isotope systematics of monoaromatic hydrocarbons: vaporization and adsorption experiments

    Rebecca R Harrington;Simon R Poulson;James I Drever;Patricia J.S Colberg

  • Soil structural and other physical properties.

    E. T. Elliott;J. W. Heil;E. F. Kelly;H. C. Monger

  • Effects of cultivation on soils in Northern Great Plains rangeland

    R. Aguilar;E. F. Kelly;R. D. Heil

  • Stable isotope ratios of carbon in phytoliths as a quantitative method of monitoring vegetation and climate change

    Eugene F. Kelly;Ronald G. Amundson;Bruno D. Marino;Michael J. Deniro

  • Assessing the extraction and quantification of amorphous silica in soils of forest and grassland ecosystems

    L. Saccone;D. J. Conley;E. Koning;D. Sauer

  • The stable carbon isotope composition of soil organic carbon and pedogenic carbonates along a bioclimatic gradient in the Palouse region, Washington State, USA

    B.A. Stevenson;E.F. Kelly;E.V. McDonald;A.J. Busacca

  • Effects of afforestation of a páramo grassland on soil nutrient status

    Kathleen A. Farley;Eugene F. Kelly

  • Biodiversity in the dark

    Diana H. Wall;Richard D. Bardgett;Eugene Kelly

  • Effects of slash-and-burn management on soil aggregate organic C and N in a tropical deciduous forest

    Felipe Garcı́a-Oliva;Robert L Sanford;Eugene Kelly

  • Carbon dioxide consumption during soil development

    Oliver A. Chadwick;Eugene F. Kelly;Dorothy M. Merritts;Ronald G. Amundson

  • Regional Patterns in Carbon Cycling Across the Great Plains of North America

    Rebecca L. McCulley;Ingrid C. Burke;Jim A. Nelson;William K. Lauenroth

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Charles C. Rhoades
Charles C. Rhoades US Forest Service
Ronald Amundson
Ronald Amundson University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Samuel M. Savin
Samuel M. Savin Case Western Reserve University
Henry W. Loescher
Henry W. Loescher National Ecological Observatory Network
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service
John M. Blair
John M. Blair Kansas State University
David C. Coleman
David C. Coleman University of Georgia

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