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Mike Ryan
Career Biography | Research Interests | Significant Publications | Professional Organizations | Contact Information
Career Biography
Professional Experience
| 1990 - present | Research Forest Ecologist. USDA Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Research Station, RWU4352, Fort Collins, CO. |
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Affiliate Faculty. Department of Forest Sciences
and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO. |
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| 1988 - 1990 | Postdoctoral Research Associate.
The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
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1976 - 1986 |
Biometrician and Statistician.
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station,
Fort Collins, CO. |
Education
| 1988 | Ph.D. in Forestry from Oregon State University | |
| 1978 | M.S. in Forestry from Northern Arizona University | |
| 1975 | B.S. in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh |
Research Interests
My primary research interest is understanding what controls ecosystem metabolism-the exchange of carbon and water between forests and the atmosphere. I'm interested in understanding how changes in climate, land use, and disturbance will affect forest productivity and the role of forests in the gobal carbon cycle. Within this area, I've focused on understanding what controls changes in productivity and carbon cycling with stand development, the role of plant respiration in controlling productivity, ecosystem respiration, carbon and nitrogen interactions, and decomposition of soil carbon.
Significant Publications
Giardina, CP and MG Ryan. 2000. Evidence that temperature does not influence the decomposition of organic carbon in forest mineral soils. Nature 404: 858-861.
Ryan, MG, D Binkley, and JH Fownes. 1997. Age-related decline in forest productivity: pattern and process. Advances in Ecological Research 27: 213-262.
Ryan, MG, MB Lavigne, and ST Gower. 1997. Annual carbon cost of autotrophic respiration in boreal forest ecosystems in relation to species and climate. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(D24): 28871-28884.
Ryan, MG, and RH Waring. 1992. Stem maintenance and stand development in a subalpine lodgepole pine forest. Ecology 73: 2100-2108.
Ryan, MG. 1991. The effects of climate change on plant respiration. Ecological Applications 1: 157-167.
Professional Organizations
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Chair Canopy Processes Group
Ecological Society of America
American Geophysical Union, Atmospheres Section
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Sigma Xi
Contact Information
Michael G. Ryan
Research Ecologist
USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 West Prospect Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Phone: (970) 498-1012
Fax: (970) 498-1010
Email: mgryan@fs.fed.us OR mryan@lamar.colostate.edu
USDA Forest Service - RMRS - RWU4352
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