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  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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Kate Lajtha is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on soil science, ecology, and environmental chemistry. Their work addresses various aspects of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Lajtha's recent publications highlight several topics within soil ecology and biogeochemistry. Notable papers include:

  • "Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter," 2021, Ecology
  • "Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners," 2021, Ecological Applications
  • "Mineral stabilization of soil carbon is suppressed by live roots, outweighing influences from litter quality or quantity," 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • "Divergent controls of soil organic carbon between observations and process-based models," 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • "How will a drier climate change carbon sequestration in soils of the deciduous forests of Central Europe?" 2020, Biogeochemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Derek Pierson, Myrna J. Simpson, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Richard D. Bowden, and Sharon Billings. These collaborations often result in contributions to journals specializing in biogeochemistry and soil science.

Kate Lajtha has published extensively in the journal Biogeochemistry, with thirteen publications there. Other frequent venues include the Soil Science Society of America Journal, AGU Advances, Goldschmidt Abstracts, and Ecology.

Their main fields of study and subfields are as follows:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport

Kate Lajtha was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental science

    Robert H. Michener;Kate Lajtha

  • Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences

    Robert Howarth;Gilles Billen;Dennis Swaney;Andrea Townsend

  • The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls

    Robert B. Jackson;Kate Lajtha;Susan E. Crow;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Couplings of watersheds and coastal waters: sources and consequences of nutrient enrichment in Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts

    Ivan Valiela;Kenneth Foreman;Michael LaMontagne;Douglas Hersh

  • Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern U.S.: Isotopic constraints

    Bernhard Mayer;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Christine Goodale;Norbert A. Jaworski

  • Sources of Variation in the Stable Isotopic Composition of Plants

    John D. Marshall;J. Renee Brooks;Kate Lajtha

  • NITROGEN LOADING FROM COASTAL WATERSHEDS TO RECEIVING ESTUARIES: NEW METHOD AND APPLICATION

    I. Valiela;G. Collins;J. Kremer;K. Lajtha

  • Organic C and N stabilization in a forest soil: Evidence from sequential density fractionation

    Phillip Sollins;Christopher Swanston;Markus Kleber;Timothy Filley

  • Where did all the nitrogen go? Fate of nitrogen inputs to large watersheds in the northeastern U.S.A.

    N. Van Breemen;E.W. Boyer;Christine Goodale;Norbert Jaworski

  • Chronic nitrogen additions suppress decomposition and sequester soil carbon in temperate forests

    Serita D. Frey;Scott V. Ollinger;K. Nadelhoffer;R. Bowden

  • Contribution of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and rhizosphere respiration to total soil CO2 efflux in an old growth coniferous forest

    Elizabeth W. Sulzman;Justin B. Brant;Richard D. Bowden;Kate Lajtha

  • Sequential density fractionation across soils of contrasting mineralogy: evidence for both microbial- and mineral-controlled soil organic matter stabilization

    Phillip Sollins;Marc G. Kramer;Christopher Swanston;Kate Lajtha

  • The Biogeochemistry of Phosphorus Cycling and Phosphorus Availability Along a Desert Soil Chronosequence

    Kate Lajtha;William H. Schlesinger

  • Sources of plant-derived carbon and stability of organic matter in soil: implications for global change

    Susan E. Crow;Susan E. Crow;Kate Lajtha;Timothy R. Filley;Christopher W. Swanston

  • Soil enzyme activity in response to long-term organic matter manipulation

    Zsolt Kotroczó;Zsuzsa Veres;István Fekete;Zsolt Krakomperger

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Density fractionation of forest soils: methodological questions and interpretation of incubation results and turnover time in an ecosystem context

    Susan E. Crow;Susan E. Crow;Christopher W. Swanston;Kate Lajtha;J. Renée Brooks

  • Exchangeable ions, pH, and cation exchange capacity.

    G P Robertson;P Sollins;B G Ellis;K Lajtha

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen. Pools and fractions.

    P Sollins;C Glassman;E A Paul;C Swanston

  • What do we know about soil carbon destabilization

    Vanessa L Bailey;Caitlin Hicks Pries;Kate Lajtha

  • The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics

    Kate Lajtha

  • Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern U.S.: Isotopic

    Bernhard Mayer;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Norbert A. Jaworski;Nico Van Breemen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Bowden
Richard D. Bowden Allegheny College
Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Knute J. Nadelhoffer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruce A. Caldwell
Bruce A. Caldwell Oregon State University
Phillip Sollins
Phillip Sollins Oregon State University
Myrna J. Simpson
Myrna J. Simpson University of Toronto
Christopher W. Swanston
Christopher W. Swanston US Forest Service
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Julia A. Jones
Julia A. Jones Oregon State University
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Timothy R. Filley
Timothy R. Filley University of Oklahoma

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