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Overview

Jack A. Morgan is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research spans several key fields, including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, and Pollution. Their work extends over significant topics like plant responses to elevated CO₂, fire effects on ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Their frequent coauthors include Elise Pendall, E. Roberts, Lexie Cepeda, Timothy M. Davidson, and Emily Le Sage. The collaboration with these researchers reflects a multidisciplinary approach across environmental and ecological studies.

Jack A. Morgan has published in various academic venues, including:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Representative recent publications by Morgan include:

  • "Climate warming alters photosynthetic responses to elevated CO₂ in prairie plants" (2020) in American Journal of Botany
  • "Soil disturbance and invasion magnify CO₂ effects on grassland productivity, reducing diversity" (2022) in Global Change Biology
  • "Spatial Distribution and Location of Natural Organic Matter on Sediment Particles by Scanning Electron Microscopic Analysis and the Development of a New Persistent Organic Pollutant-Sediment Kinetic Desorption Model" (2020) in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • "Artificial Isopod Burrows Provide a Refuge from Desiccation for Intertidal Crustaceans" (2025) in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Artificial isopod burrows provide a refuge from desiccation for intertidal crustaceans" (2025) in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Best Publications

  • Rhizosphere priming: a nutrient perspective.

    Feike Auke Dijkstra;Yolima Carrillo;Elise Pendall;Jack A Morgan

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland.

    Jack A. Morgan;Daniel R. LeCain;Elise Pendall;Dana M. Blumenthal

  • Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystems exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2

    J. A. Morgan;D. E. Pataki;Christian Körner;H. Clark

  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature.

    Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Sara Vicca;Feike A. Dijkstra;Frank Hagedorn

  • Climate Change and North American Rangelands: Trends, Projections, and Implications

    H. Wayne Polley;David D. Briske;Jack A. Morgan;Klaus Wolter

  • Infrared heater arrays for warming ecosystem field plots

    Bruce A. Kimball;Matthew M. Conley;Shiping Wang;Xingwu Lin

  • Carbon dioxide enrichment alters plant community structure and accelerates shrub growth in the shortgrass steppe

    Jack A. Morgan;Daniel G. Milchunas;Daniel R. LeCain;Mark West

  • Greenhouse gas contributions and mitigation potential of agricultural practices in northwestern USA and western Canada

    M. A. Liebig;J. A. Morgan;J. D. Reeder;B. H. Ellert

  • Climate change alters stoichiometry of phosphorus and nitrogen in a semiarid grassland

    Feike A. Dijkstra;Elise Pendall;Jack A. Morgan;Dana M. Blumenthal

  • Elevated CO2 enhances water relations and productivity and affects gas exchange in C3 and C4 grasses of the Colorado shortgrass steppe.

    Jack A. Morgan;Daniel R. Lecain;Arvin R. Mosier;Daniel G. Milchunas

  • CO2 ENHANCES PRODUCTIVITY, ALTERS SPECIES COMPOSITION, AND REDUCES DIGESTIBILITY OF SHORTGRASS STEPPE VEGETATION

    Jack A. Morgan;Arvin R. Mosier;Daniel G. Milchunas;Daniel R. LeCain

  • Climate Impacts on Agriculture: Implications for Forage and Rangeland Production

    R. C. Izaurralde;A. M. Thomson;J. A. Morgan;P. A. Fay

  • Response of organic and inorganic carbon and nitrogen to long-term grazing of the shortgrass steppe.

    Jean D. Reeder;Gerald E. Schuman;Jack A. Morgan;Daniel R. LeCain

  • Elevated CO2 further lengthens growing season under warming conditions.

    Melissa Reyes-Fox;Heidi Steltzer;M. J. Trlica;Gregory S. McMaster

  • Impact of precipitation dynamics on net ecosystem productivity

    William Parton;Jack Morgan;David Smith;Stephen Del Grosso

  • Integration of CO 2 flux and remotely- sensed data for primary production and ecosystem respiration analyses in the Northern Great Plains: potential for quantitative spatial extrapolation

    Tagir G. Gilmanov;Larry L. Tieszen;Bruce K. Wylie;Lawrence B. Flanagan

  • Using simple environmental variables to estimate below-ground productivity in grasslands

    R. A. Gill;R. H. Kelly;W. J. Parton;K. A. Day

  • Next generation of elevated [CO2] experiments with crops: a critical investment for feeding the future world

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Claus Beier;Carlo Calfapietra;Reinhart Ceulemans

  • Contrasting effects of elevated CO2 and warming on nitrogen cycling in a semiarid grassland

    Feike A. Dijkstra;Dana Blumenthal;Jack A. Morgan;Elise Pendall

  • Carbon sequestration in agricultural lands of the United States

    J. A. Morgan;R. F. Follett;L. H. Allen;S. del Grosso

  • Carbon exchange and species composition of grazed pastures and exclosures in the shortgrass steppe of Colorado

    Daniel R LeCain;Jack A Morgan;Gerald E Schuman;Jean D Reeder

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration fluxes from a Colorado grassland using stable isotopes: Seasonal variations and ecosystem implications of elevated atmospheric CO2

    D. F. Ferretti;E. Pendall;J. A. Morgan;J. A. Nelson

  • Response of soil microbial biomass and enzyme activities to the transient elevation of carbon dioxide in a semi-arid grassland

    Ellen Kandeler;Arvin R. Mosier;Jack A. Morgan;Daniel G. Milchunas

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. LeCain
Daniel R. LeCain Agricultural Research Service
Elise Pendall
Elise Pendall Western Sydney University
Feike A. Dijkstra
Feike A. Dijkstra University of Sydney
Arvin R. Mosier
Arvin R. Mosier University of Melbourne
Daniel G. Milchunas
Daniel G. Milchunas Colorado State University
Dana M. Blumenthal
Dana M. Blumenthal Agricultural Research Service
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
William J. Parton
William J. Parton Colorado State University
Jennifer Y. King
Jennifer Y. King University of California, Santa Barbara
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service

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