Publications
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McFarlane*, K.J., S.H. Schoenholtz, R.F. Powers and S.S. Perakis. Soil organic matter stability in intensively managed ponderosa pine stands in California. Soil Science Society of America Journal, accepted.

Brunson*, J.L., D.A. Pyke and S.S. Perakis. Yield responses of ruderal plants to sucrose in invasive-dominated sagebrush steppe of the northern Great Basin. Restoration Ecology, accepted.

Beldin, S.I. and S.S. Perakis. 2009. Unearthing the Secrets of the Forest: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet Fact Sheet 2009-3078, 4 pages. PDF

Sierra* C.A., H.W. Loescher, M.E. Harmon, A.W. Richardson, D.W. Hollinger and S.S. Perakis. 2009. Interannual variation of carbon fluxes from a tropical, a temperate, and a boreal evergreen forest: the role of forest dynamics and climate. Ecology 90:2711–2723.

Scott*, E.E., D.E. Hibbs and S.S. Perakis. 2009. The potential utility of stable isotopes for food web analysis in Douglas-fir and red alder riparian forests of western Oregon. Northwest Science 83:315-324.

Thiel*, A.L. and S.S. Perakis. 2009. Nitrogen dynamics across silvicultural canopy gaps in young forests of western Oregon. Forest Ecology and Management 258:273-287. PDF

Giesen*, T.W., S.S. Perakis and K. Cromack. 2008. Four centuries of soil carbon and nitrogen change after stand-replacing fire in a forest landscape in the western Cascade Range of Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2455-2464. PDF

Scott*, E.E., S.S. Perakis and D.E. Hibbs. 2008. d¹⁵N patterns of Douglas-fir and red alder riparian forests in the Oregon Coast Range. Forest Science 54:140-147. PDF

Perakis, S.S. and C.H. Kellogg. 2007. Imprint of oaks on nitrogen availability and d¹⁵N in California grassland-savanna: a case of enhanced N inputs? Plant Ecology 191:209-220. PDF

Compton, J.E., T.D. Hooker and S.S. Perakis. 2007. Ecosystem N distribution and d¹⁵N during a century of forest regrowth after agricultural abandonment. Ecosystems 10:1197-1208. PDF

Perakis, S.S. and L.O. Hedin. 2007. State factor relationships of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen losses from unpolluted temperate forest watersheds. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, VOL. 112, doi:10.1029/2006JG000276 PDF

Jacobs, S., J.S. Bechtold, H. Biggs, N. Grimm, S. Lorentz, M. McClain, R. Naiman, S. Perakis, G. Pinay and M. Scholes. 2007. Nutrient vectors and riparian processing: A review with special reference to African semiarid savanna ecosystems. Ecosystems 10: 1231–1249. PDF

Perakis, S.S., D.A. Maguire, T.D. Bullen, K. Cromack, R.H. Waring and J.R. Boyle. 2006. Coupled nitrogen and calcium cycles in forests of the Oregon Coast Range. Ecosystems 9:63-74. PDF

Perakis, S.S., J.E. Compton and L.O. Hedin. 2005. Nitrogen retention across a gradient of ¹⁵N additions to an unpolluted temperate forest soil in Chile. Ecology 86:96-105. PDF

Rastetter, E.B., S.S. Perakis, G.R. Shaver and G.I. Agren. 2005. Terrestrial C sequestration at elevated CO₂ and temperature: The role of dissolved organic N loss. Ecological Applications 15:71-86. PDF

Perakis, S.S. and L.O. Hedin. 2002. Nitrogen loss from unpolluted South American forests mainly via dissolved organic compounds. Nature 415:416-419. PDF

Perakis, S.S. and L.O. Hedin. 2002. Response to commentary on “Nitrogen loss from unpolluted South American forests mainly via dissolved organic compounds.” Nature 418:665-665. PDF

Perakis, S.S. 2002. Nutrient limitation, hydrology, and watershed nitrogen loss. Hydrological Processes 16:3507-3511. PDF

Perakis, S.S. and L.O. Hedin. 2001. Fluxes and fates of nitrogen in soil of an unpolluted old-growth temperate forest, southern Chile. Ecology 82:2245-2260. PDF

Cleveland, C.R., A.R. Townsend, D.S. Schimel, H. Fisher, R.W. Howarth, L.O. Hedin, S.S. Perakis, E.F. Latty, J.C. von Fischer, A.R. Elseroad and M.F. Wasson. 1999. Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N₂) fixation in natural ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13:623-645. PDF

Perakis, S.S., E.B. Welch and J.M. Jacoby. 1996. Sediment-to-water blue-green algal recruitment in response to alum and environmental factors. Hydrobiologia 318:165-177.

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