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Roger W. Ruess is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing on ecological and atmospheric processes, as well as the impacts of climate change at ecosystem levels.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields:

  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Insect Science

The topics central to their research include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Roger W. Ruess has published multiple papers in a range of journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites," 2021, BioScience
  • "Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network," 2021, Ecosphere
  • "Widespread mortality of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) throughout interior Alaskan boreal forests resulting from a novel canker disease," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: Role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry," 2022, Ecological Applications
  • "Divergent responses to permafrost and precipitation reveal mechanisms for the spatial variation of two sympatric spruce," 2021, Ecosphere

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Gerard C. Adams
  • Jonathan R. Thompson
  • Loretta M. Winton
  • Peter M. Groffman
  • Hélène Genet

Research by Roger W. Ruess appears frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Ecosphere
  • PLoS ONE
  • BioScience
  • Ecological Applications
  • Ecoscience

Best Publications

  • FINE ROOT ARCHITECTURE OF NINE NORTH AMERICAN TREES

    Kurt S. Pregitzer;Jared L. DeForest;Andrew J. Burton;Michael F. Allen

  • Large Mammals and Process Dynamics in African EcosystemsHerbivorous mammals affect primary productivity and regulate recycling balances

    S. J. McNaughton;R. W. Ruess;S. W. Seagle

  • A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine-scale niche partitioning

    D. Lee Taylor;Teresa N. Hollingsworth;Jack W. McFarland;Niall J. Lennon

  • The changing global carbon cycle: Linking plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences

    F. Stuart Chapin;Jack McFarland;A. David McGuire;Eugenie S. Euskirchen

  • Soil stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a tropical rain forest landscape

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Sara F. Wright;Sara F. Wright;Deborah A. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Roger W. Ruess;Roger W. Ruess

  • Root respiration in North American forests: effects of nitrogen concentration and temperature across biomes

    A.J. Burton;K.S. Pregitzer;R.W. Ruess;R.L. Hendrick

  • Contributions of fine root production and turnover to the carbon and nitrogen cycling in taiga forests of the Alaskan interior

    R.W. Ruess;K. Van Cleve;J. Yarie;L.A. Viereck

  • Coupling fine root dynamics with ecosystem carbon cycling in black spruce forests of interior Alaska

    Roger W. Ruess;Ronald L. Hendrick;Andrew J. Burton;Kurt S. Pregitzer

  • Grazing and the dynamics of nutrient and energy regulated microbial processes in the Serengeti grasslands

    R. W. Ruess;S. J. McNaughton

  • Landscape Heterogeneity of Shrub Expansion in Arctic Alaska

    Ken D. Tape;Martin Hallinger;Jeffrey M. Welker;Roger W. Ruess

  • The role of balsam poplar secondary chemicals in controlling soil nutrient dynamics through succession in the Alaskan taiga

    Joshua P. Schimel;Rex G. Cates;Roger Ruess

  • CO2 efflux from cleared mangrove peat.

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Roger W. Ruess;Ilka C. Feller

  • Ecological conditions that determine when grazing stimulates grass production

    Nicholas J. Georgiadis;Roger W. Ruess;Samuel J. McNaughton;David Western

  • Resilience of Alaska's Boreal Forest to Climatic Change

    F. S. Chapin;A. D. McGuire;R. W. Ruess;T. N. Hollingsworth

  • REGULATION OF FINE ROOT DYNAMICS BY MAMMALIAN BROWSERS IN EARLY SUCCESSIONAL ALASKAN TAIGA FORESTS

    Roger W. Ruess;Ronald L. Hendrick;John P. Bryant

  • Rapid Cycling of Organic Nitrogen in Taiga Forest Ecosystems

    K. Kielland;J. W. McFarland;R. W. Ruess;K. Olson

  • LIMITATIONS TO SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN PRIMARY SUCCESSION ON THE TANANA RIVER FLOODPLAIN

    Daniel D. Uliassi;Roger W. Ruess

  • Interactive effects of wildfire and climate on permafrost degradation in Alaskan lowland forests

    Dana R. N. Brown;M. Torre Jorgenson;Thomas A. Douglas;Vladimir E. Romanovsky;Vladimir E. Romanovsky

  • Climate change and caribou: effects of summer weather on forage

    Elizabeth A Lenart;R Terry Bowyer;Jay Ver Hoef;Roger W Ruess

  • Landscape Patterns in Soil Microbial Processes in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

    R. W. Ruess;S. W. Seagle

  • Simulated Effects of Grazing on Soil Nitrogen and Mineralization in Contrasting Serengeti Grasslands

    Steven W. Seagle;S. J. McNaughton;Roger W. Ruess

Frequent Co-Authors

Knut Kielland
Knut Kielland University of Alaska Fairbanks
Kurt S. Pregitzer
Kurt S. Pregitzer University of Idaho
Samuel J. McNaughton
Samuel J. McNaughton Syracuse University
Teresa N. Hollingsworth
Teresa N. Hollingsworth German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Michael F. Allen
Michael F. Allen University of California, Riverside
Christa P. H. Mulder
Christa P. H. Mulder University of Alaska Fairbanks
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
D. Lee Taylor
D. Lee Taylor University of New Mexico
F. Stuart Chapin
F. Stuart Chapin University of Alaska Fairbanks

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