Manuel T. Lerdau

Selected Publications of Manuel T. Lerdau

Funk, J., C. Jones, D. Gray, H. Throop, L. Hyatt, and M. Lerdau. (In press) Variation in isoprene emission from Quercus rubra: sources, causes, and consequences for estimating fluxes. Journal Geophysical Research.
Ferrieri, R., D. Gray, B. Babst, M. Schueller, D. Schlyer, M. Thorpe, C. Orians, and M. Lerdau. (In press) Use of Carbon-11 shows that exogenous jasmonic acid influences carbon sources for isoprene biosynthesis in Populus. Plant, Cell and Environment.
Powers, J and M. Lerdau. (In press) Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four neotropical rain forests: Patterns across large geographic distances. New Phytologist.
Ashton, I.W., L.A. Hyatt, K.M. Howe, J. Gurevitch, and M. Lerdau. (In press) Invasive species accelerate decomposition and litter nitrogen loss in a mixed deciduous forest. Ecological Applications.
Howard, T., J. Gurevitch, L. Hyatt, M. Carreiro, M. Lerdau. (2004) Forest invasibility in communities in southeastern New York. Biological Invasions 6:393-410. Article in PDF format
Throop, H. and M. Lerdau. (2004) Nitrogen deposition and insect herbivory: implications for community and ecosystem processes. Ecosystems. 7:109-133. Article in PDF format
Funk, J. and M. Lerdau. (2004) Photosynthesis in forest canopies and the impacts of global environmental change. IN: Forest Canopies, Patterns and Processes, 2nd edition. pp.335-358. Lowman, M. and Rinker, B. (eds.). Academic Press. San Diego.
Lerdau, M. (2003) Keystone molecules and organic chemical flux from plants. IN: Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: SCOPE 61. pp.177-192. Melillo, J., Field, C., and Moldan B (eds.). Island Press. Washington, D.C.
Theis, N. and M. Lerdau. (2003) The ecology and evolution of plant secondary metabolites. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164 s:93-102. Article in PDF format
Powers, J. and M. Lerdau. (2003) Relaciones entre las caractersticas qumicas y fisicas de las hojas y la descomposicion de la hojarasca de especies de un bisque seco en el Parque nacional Santa Rosa, Costa Rica (in Spanish). pp.119-124. IN: Bosque Seco Tropica. Insituto de Investigacion y Servicios Forestales. San Jose, Costa Rica.
Lerdau, M. and D. Gray. (2003) Tansley Review: The ecology and evolution of light-dependent and light-independent volatile organic carbon emission by plants. New Phytologist. 157:199-211. Article in PDF format
Gray, D., A. Goldstein, and M. Lerdau. (2003) Regulation of methyl butenol emission from ponderosa pine. Ecology. 84:765-776. Article in PDF format
Funk, J., C. Jones, C. Baker, H. Throop, and M. Lerdau. (2003) Diurnal variation in the basal rate of isoprene emission. Ecological Applications 13:269-278. Article in PDF format