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Edward (Ted) Schuur

Associate Professor
Ph.D.  University of California at Berkeley, 1999

418 Carr
(352) 392-7913

tschuur@ufl.edu 
Personal Website

Research Interests

  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Isotopes in Ecology and the Environment
  • Plant-Soil Interactions
  • Biosphere-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange
  • Global Carbon Cycle
  • Global Change

Representative Publications

Schuur, E.A.G ., and S. E. Trumbore. 2006. Heterotrophic contribution to soil respiration from boreal black spruce forest: using isotopes to partition sources to soil carbon dioxide flux. Global Change Biology 12:165-176.

Zarin, D. J., E. A. Davidson, E. Brondizio, I. C. G. Viera, T. Sa, T. Feldpausch, E.A.G. Schuur , R. Mesquita, E. Moran, P. Delamonica, M. J. Ducey, G. C. Hurtt, C. Salimon, and M. Denich. 2005. Legacy of fires slows carbon accumulation in Amazonian forest regrowth. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 365-369.

Gaudinski, J.B., T.E. Dawson, S.Quideau, E.A.G. Schuur , J.S. Roden, S.E. Trumbore, D.R. Sandquist, S.W. Oh, and R.E. Wasylishen. 2005. A comparative analysis of cellulose preparation techniques for use with 13 C, 14 C, and 18 O isotopic measurements. Analytical Chemistry 77:7212-7224.

Kane, E. S., D. W. Valentine, E.A.G. Schuur , and K. Dutta. 2005. Soil carbon stabilization along climate and stand productivity gradients in black spruce forests of Interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2118-2129.

Santiago, L. S., E.A.G. Schuur , and K. Silvera. 2005. Nutrient cycling and plant-soil feedbacks across a precipitation gradient in lowland Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:461-470.

Mack, M.C.*, E.A.G. Schuur*, M.S. Bret-Harte, G.R. Shaver, and F.S. Chapin III. 2004. Ecosystem carbon storage in arctic tundra reduced by long-term nutrient fertilization. Nature, 431: 440-443. *These authors contributed equally to this work.

Dioumaeva, I, S. Trumbore, E.A.G. Schuur, M.L. Goulden, M. Litvak, A.Hirsch. 2003. Temperature dependence of decomposition of peat from upland boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere 108(3):8222.

Schuur, E.A.G. 2003. Net primary productivity and global climate revisited: the sensitivity of tropical forest growth to precipitation. Ecology 84:1165-1170.

Amundson, R., A.T. Austin, E.A.G. Schuur, et. al. 2003. Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and plant nitrogen. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 17(1):1031.

Randerson, J.T., I. Enting, E.A.G. Schuur, K. Caldeira, and I.Y. Fung. 2002. Temporal and spatial variability of troposphere D14CO2: Post bomb contributions from fossil fuels, oceans, the stratosphere, and the terrestrial biosphere. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 16(4): 1112.

Schuur, E.A.G., M.C. Mack, J.W. Harden, and S.E. Trumbore. 2002. The isotopic composition of carbon dioxide from a boreal forest fire: inferring carbon loss from measurements and modeling. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 17(1):1001.

Schuur, E.A.G., O.A. Chadwick, and P.A. Matson. 2001. Carbon cycling and soil carbon storage in mesic to wet Hawaiian montane forests. Ecology 82:3182-3196.

Schuur, E.A.G., and P.A. Matson. 2001. Aboveground net primary productivity and nutrient cycling across a mesic to wet precipitation gradient in Hawaiian montane forest. Oecologia 128:431-442.

Schuur, E.A.G. 2001. The effect of water on decomposition dynamics in mesic to wet Hawaiian montane forests. Ecosystems 4:259-273.

Miller A.J., E.A.G. Schuur, and O.A. Chadwick. 2001. Redox control of phosphorus pools in montane forest soils in Hawaii. Geoderma 102:219-237.

Schuur, E.A.G. and P.A. Matson. 2000. Land Use Change: Global Effects of Local Changes. In Earth System Science: Patterns and Processes. Gary Ernst, ed. Cambridge University Press.

Kitayama, K., H. Raitio, D. Mueller-Dombois and E.A.G. Schuur. 1998. Wood volume, foliar chemical composition, and soil nitrogen turnover of Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae) stands on a slope of Mount Haleakala, Hawaii. Biotropica v.30, n.3.

Kitayama, K., E.A.G. Schuur, D.R. Drake, and D. Mueller-Dombois. 1997. Fate of a wet montane forest during soil ageing in Hawaii. Journal of Ecology, v.85, n.5: 669-679.

Schuur, E.A.G. and T.R. Haigh. 1992. Seed yields in monocultures and mixtures of three perennial grains. The Land Institute Research Report, n.9: 31-34.

Current Graduate Students

NameEmailResearch Interest
Andres Baron afbaronl@ufl.edu 
Fay Belshe fayray@ufl.edu 
Caitlin Hicks chicks@ufl.eduCarbon cycling, climate change, carbon isotopes, permafrost
Hanna Lee hannalee@ufl.edu 
Jordan Mayor jmayor@ufl.edu 
Christian Trucco ctrucco@ufl.edu 

Current Postdocs and Visitors

NameEmailResearch Interest
Susan Natali natali@ufl.edu 
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