Root production and turnover

Soil respiration

Soil carbon dynamics

Sanchez, F.G., M.D. Coleman, C.T. Garten Jr., R.J. Luxmoore, J.A. Stanturf, C. Trettin, and S.D. Wullschleger. 2007. Soil carbon, after 3 years, under short-rotation woody crops grown under varying nutrient and water availability. Biomass and Bioenergy. (in press)

Coleman, M.D. 2007. Spatial and temporal patters of root distribution in developing stands of four woody crop species grown with drip irrigation and fertilization. Plant Soil. 299:195-213.

Giardina, C.P., M.D. Coleman, D. Binkley, J.E. Hancock, J.S. King, E.A. Lilleskov, W.M. Loya, K.S. Pregitzer, M.G. Ryan and C.C. Trettin 2005. The response of belowground carbon allocation in forests to global change. In Tree species effects on soils: implications for global change Eds. D. Binkley and O. Menyailo. Series: NATO Science Series Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 119-154.

Coyle, D.R. and M.D. Coleman. 2005. Forest production responses to irrigation and fertilization are not explained by shifts in allocation. Forest Ecology and Management 208: 137-152.

Coleman, M.D., J.G. Isebrands, D.N. Tolsted, and V.R. Tolbert. 2004. Comparing soil carbon of short rotation poplar plantations with agricultural crops and woodlots in North Central United States. Environ Manag 33 (supplemtal 1): S299 - S308.

Kern, C.C., A.L. Friend, J.M.-F. Johnson and M.D. Coleman. 2004. Fine-root dynamics in a developing Populus deltoides plantation. Tree Physiol. 24:651-660.

Coleman, M.D., A.L. Friend and C.C. Kern. 2004. Carbon allocation and nitrogen acquisition in a developing Populus deltoides plantation. Tree Physiol. 24:1347-1357.

Coleman, M.D., R.E. Dickson and J.G. Isebrands. 2000. Contrasting fine-root production, survival and soil CO2 efflux in pine and poplar plantations. Plant Soil. 225:129-139.