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William Bowman
Fellow
and Director of the Mountain Research Station of INSTAAR; Professor
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder.
PhD, Duke University, 1987.
William.Bowman@colorado.edu
(303) 492-2557, 492-8842
Specialty: Plant ecology.
Research interests: Major areas of research include examining the environmental and biotic constraints on primary production, species composition, and fluxes of nutrients in alpine ecosystems. Current projects include the role of plant controls on spatial variation in nutrient cycling, particularly the role of plant secondary compounds and their potential to influence competitive outcomes between plants, the use of different forms of N (inorganic and organic) among plants as a potential mechanism of coexistence, and the potential impacts of N deposition on alpine ecosystem structure and function.
Selected Publications:
- Bowman, W.D., J.L. Gartner, K. Holland, and M. Wiedermann. 2006. Nitrogen critical loads for alpine vegetation and terrestrial ecosystem response – Are we there yet? Ecological Applications 16: 1183-1193.
- Suding, K.N., A.E. Miller, H. Bechtold, and W.D. Bowman. 2006. The consequence of species loss on ecosystem nitrogen cycling depends on community composition. Oecologia 149: 141-149.
- Steltzer, H. and W.D. Bowman. 2005. Litter N retention over winter for a low and a high phenolic species in the alpine tundra. Plant and Soil 275: 361-370.
- Bardgett, R.D., W.D. Bowman, R. Kaufmann, and S.K. Schmidt. 2005. Linking aboveground and belowground ecology: a temporal approach. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 634-641.
- Bowman, W.D., H. Steltzer, T.N. Rosenstiel, C.C. Cleveland, and C.L. Meier. 2004. Litter effects of two co-occurring alpine species on plant growth, microbial activity and immobilization of nitrogen. Oikos 104: 336-344.
- Suding, K.N., J. R. Larson, E. Thorsos, H. Steltzer, and W. D. Bowman. 2004. Species effects on resource supply rates: do they influence competitive interactions? Plant Ecology 175: 47-58
- Seastedt, T.R., W.D. Bowman, N. Caine, D. McKnight, A. R. Townsend, and M. Williams. 2004. The Ecology of high elevation ecosystems: The landscape continuum model. BioScience 54: 111-121.
- Fenn, M.E., J.S. Baron, E. B. Allen, H. M. Rueth, K. R. Nydick, L. Geiser, W. D. Bowman, J. O. Sickman, T. Meixner, D. W. Johnson, and Neitlich, P. 2003. Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States. BioScience 53: 404-420.
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