Publications

Anderson, M.D., D.L. Taylor, R.W. Ruess, and K. Olson. 2024. Composition of soil Frankia assemblages across ecological drivers parallels that of nodule assemblages in Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia in Interior Alaska. Ecology and Evolution 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11458

Campbell, J.L., C.T. Driscoll, J.A. Jones, E. R. Boose, H.A. Dugan, P.M. Groffman, C.R. Jackson, J.B. Jones, G.P. Juday, N.R. Lottig, B.E. Penaluna, R.W. Ruess, K. Suding, J.R. Thompson, J.K. Zimmerman.  2022. Forest and freshwater ecosystem responses to climate change and variability at U.S. LTER sites. BioScience 72 (9) 851-870, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab124 

Grzesik, E., T. Hollingsworth, R.W. Ruess, M. Turetsky. 2022. Fuel loads and plant traits as community-level predictors of emergent properties of vulnerability and resilience to a changing fire regime in black spruce forests of boreal Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006696. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006696

Rastetter, E., B. Kwiatkowski, D. Kicklighter, A. Barker Plotkin, H. Genet, J. Nippert, K. O’Keefe, S. Perakis, S. Porder, S. Roley, R. Ruess, J. Thompson, W. Wieder, K. Wilcox, R. Yanai. 2022. N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation and stoichiometry. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2684

Bahlai, C. A., C. Hart, M. T. Kavanaugh, J. D. White, R. W. Ruess, T. J. Brinkman, H. W. Ducklow, D. R. Foster, W. R. Fraser, H. Genet, P. M. Groffman, S. K. Hamilton, J. F. Johnstone, K. Kielland, D. A. Landis, M. C. Mack, O. Sarnelle, and J. R. Thompson. 2021. Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere 12 (5) https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3430. 

Heslop, C. B., R. W. Ruess, K. Kielland, and M. S. Bret-Harte. 2021. Soil enzymes illustrate the effects of alder nitrogen fixation on soil carbon processes in arctic and boreal ecosystems. Ecosphere 12:e03818. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.3818

Nicklen, E. F., C. A. Roland, R. W. Ruess, T. Scharnweber, and M. Wilmking. 2021. Divergent responses to permafrost and precipitation reveal mechanisms for the spatial variation of two sympatric spruce. Ecosphere 12 (7): e03622. http://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3622

Ruess, R. W., L. M. Winton, and G. S. Adams. 2021. Widespread mortality of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) throughout interior Alaskan boreal forests resulting from a novel canker disease. PLoS ONE 16:e0250078. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250078 

Winton, L.M., G.S. Adams, and R.W. Ruess. 2021. Determining the novel pathogen Neodothiora populina as the causal agent of the aspen running canker disease in Alaska. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology,  https://doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2021.1952487

Andrews, R. N., and R.W. Ruess. 2020. Microarthropod abundance and community structure along a boreal forest chronosequence within the Tanana River floodplain, Alaska. Ecoscience 27(4),  https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2020.1772613.

Houseman, B., R.W. Ruess, T.K. Hollingsworth, and D. Verbyla. 2020. Can Siberian alder N-fixation offset N-loss after severe fire?  Quantifying post-fire Siberian alder distribution, growth, and N-fixation in boreal Alaska. PLOS ONE 15(9). 22 p. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238004

Olnes, J., K. Kielland, H. Genet, and R. W. Ruess. 2019. Postfire deciduous canopies drive patterns in snowshoe hare herbivory of regenerating black spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 49: 1392-1399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0150

Ruess, R.W., J.W. McFarland, B. Person, and J.S. Sedinger. 2019. Geese mediate vegetation state changes with parallel effects on biogeochemical cycling that leave nutritional legacies for offspring. Ecosphere 10(8): 1-16. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2850 

Ruess, R.W., M. Swanson, K. Kielland, J. McFarland, K.A. Olson, and D.L. Taylor. 2019. Phosphorus mobilizing enzymes of Alnus-associated ectomycorrhizal fungi in an Alaskan boreal floodplain. Forests 2019, 10, 554 (1-21). https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/7/554 

Nicklen, E. F., C. A. Roland, A. Z. Csank, M. Wilmking, R. W. Ruess, and L. A. Muldoon. 2019. Stand basal area and solar radiation amplify white spruce climate sensitivity in interior Alaska: Evidence from carbon isotopes and tree rings. Global Change Biology 25:911-926. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14511 

Brown, C., K. Kielland, E. S. Euskirchen, T.J. Brinkman, R. Ruess, and K. Kellie. 2018. Fire-mediated patterns of habitat use by male moose (Alces alces) in boreal Alaska. Canadian Journal of Zoology 96: 183-192. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjz-2017-0069 

Ludwig, S., H. Alexander, K. Kielland, P. Mann, S. Natali, and R. Ruess. 2018. Fire severity effects on soil carbon and nutrients and microbial processes in a Siberian larch forest. Global Change Biology 1-12. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14455 

Olnes, J., K. Kielland, H. Genet, G. P. Juday, and R. W. Ruess. 2018. Functional responses of white spruce to snowshoe hare herbivory at the treeline. PLoS ONE 13. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198453 

Olnes, J., K. Kielland, G.P. Juday, D.H. Mann, H. Genet, and R.W. Ruess. 2017. Can snowshoe hares control treeline expansion? Ecology 98: 2499-2505. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.1968 

Finger, R.A., M.R. Turetsky, E.E. Euskirchen, K. Kielland, R.W. Ruess, and M.C. Mack.  2016. Effects of permafrost thaw on nitrogen availability and plant-soil interactions in a boreal Alaskan lowland. Journal of Ecology 104: 1542-1554. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12639 

Nicklen, E., C. Roland, R. Ruess, J. Schmidt, and A. Lloyd. 2016. Local site conditions drive climate-growth responses of Picea mariana and Picea glauca in interior Alaska. Ecosphere 7:1-17. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.1507 

Tape, K.D., D.D. Gustine, R.W. Ruess, L.G. Adams, and J.A. Clark. 2016. Range expansion of moose in Arctic Alaska linked to warming and increased shrub habitat. PloS ONE 11 (14): e0152636. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152636 

Brown, D.R.N, M.T. Jorgenson, T.A. Douglas, V.E. Romanovsky, K. Kielland, C. Hiemstra, E.S. Euskirchen, and R.W. Ruess. 2015. Interactive effects of wildfire and climate on permafrost permafrost degradation in Alaskan lowland forests. Journal of Geographical Research Biogeosciences 120: 1619-1637. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7469 

Christie, K.S., J.P. Bryant, L. Gough, V.T. Ravolainen, R.W. Ruess, and K.D. Tape. 2015. The role of vertebrate herbivores in regulating shrub expansion in the Arctic: A synthesis.  BioScience 65: 1134-1140. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/65/12/1123/223558 

Christie, K.S. and R.W. Ruess. 2015. Experimental evidence that ptarmigan regulate willow bud production to their own advantage. Oecologia 178:773-781.

Christie, K.S., M.S. Lindberg, R.W. Ruess, and J.A. Schmutz.  2014. Spatio-temporal patterns of ptarmigan occupancy relative to shrub cover in the Arctic. Polar Biology 37:1111-1120. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1504-z.

Christie, K.S., R.W. Ruess, M.S. Lindberg, and C.P. Mulder. 2014. Herbivores influence the growth, reproduction, and morphology of a widespread Arctic willow. PLoS ONE  9(7): 1-9.

Glass, D.J., A.D. Taylor, I.C. Herriott, R.W. Ruess, and D.L. Taylor. 2014. Habitat preferences, distribution, and temporal persistence of a novel fungal taxon in Alaskan boreal forest soils. Fungal Ecology DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.03.001.

Lovelock, C.E., I.C. Feller, R. Reef, and R.W. Ruess. 2014. Variable effects of nutrient enrichment on soil respiration in mangrove forests. Plant and Soil 379:135-148.

Lovelock, C. E., R. W. Ruess, and I. C. Feller. 2014. CO2 efflux from cleared mangrove peat. Pages 268-276 in A. Bandyopadhyay, editor. Carbon Capture and Storage: CO2 Management Technologies. Apple Academic Press, New York.

Taylor, D.L., T.N. Hollingsworth, J.W. McFarland, N. Lennon, C. Nusbaum, and R.W. Ruess. 2014. A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine-scale niche partitioning. Ecological Monographs 84: 3-20.

Anderson, M. D., D. E. Taylor, and R. W. Ruess. 2013. Phylogeny and assemblage composition of Frankia in Alnus tenuifolia nodules across a primary successional sere in interior Alaska. Molecular Ecology 22: 3864-3877.

Ruess, R.W., M.D. Anderson, J.M. McFarland, K. Kielland, K. Olson, and D.L. Taylor. 2013. Ecosystem-level consequences of symbiont partnerships in a N2-fixing shrub from interior Alaskan floodplains. Ecological Monographs 83: 177-194.

Taylor, L., T. Hollingsworth, J. McFarland, R. Ruess, I. Timling, and D. Walker. 2013. Aboveground-belowground linkages: Extrapolating local to global fungal biodiversity. Phytopathology 103:182-182.

Tape, D.K., M. Hallinger, J.M. Welker, and R.W. Ruess. 2012. Landscape heterogeneity of shrub expansion in arctic Alaska. Ecosystems 15: 711-724.

Lovelock, C.E., R.W. Ruess, and I.C. Feller. 2011. CO2 efflux from cleared mangrove peat. PLoS ONE 6(6):  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021279.

Nossov, D.R., T.N. Hollingsworth, R.W. Ruess, and K. Kielland. 2011. Development of Alnus tenuifolia stands on an Alaskan floodplain: patterns of recruitment, disease and succession. Journal of Ecology 99: 621-633.

Allen, M. F., E. B. Allen, J. L. Lansing, K. S. Pregitzer, R. L. Hendrick, R. W. Ruess, and S. L. Collins. 2010. Responses to chronic N fertilization of ectomycorrhizal pinon but not arbuscular mycorrhizal juniper in a pinon-juniper woodland. Journal of Arid Environments 74:1170-1176.

Chapin, F. S., III, A. D. McGuire, R. W. Ruess, T. N. Hollingsworth, M. C. Mack, J. F. Johnstone, E. S. Kasischke, E. S. Euskirchen, J. B. Jones, M. T. Jorgenson, K. Kielland, G. P. Kofinas, M. R. Turetsky, J. Yarie, A. H. Lloyd, and D. L. Taylor. 2010. Resilience of Alaska's boreal forest to climatic change. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1360-1370.

Hollingsworth, T. N., A. H. Lloyd, D. Nossov, R. W. Ruess, B. A. Charlton, and K. Kielland. 2010. Twenty-five years of vegetation change along a putative successional chronosequence on the Tanana River, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1273-1287.

McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, K.S. Pregitzer, R. Hendrick and M. Allen. 2010. Cross-ecosystem comparisons of in situ plant uptake of amino acid-N and NH4+. Ecosystems 11: 177-193.

McFarland, J. W., R. W. Ruess, K. Kielland, R. L. Hendrick, and K. S. Pregitzer. 2010. In situ glycine mineralization closely correlates soil carbon availability across six North American forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 99:175-191.

McGuire, A. D., F. S. Chapin, III, and R. W. Ruess. 2010. Foreword to the special issue: The dynamics of change in Alaska's boreal forests: resilience and vulnerability in response to climate warming. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1195-1196.

McGuire, A. D., R. W. Ruess, J. S. Clein, A. H. Lloyd, J. Yarie, and G. P. Juday. 2010. Vulnerability of white spruce tree growth in interior Alaska in response to climate variability: dendrochronological, demographic, and experimental perspectives. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1197-1209.

Nossov, D. R., R. W. Ruess, and T. N. Hollingsworth. 2010. Climate sensitivity of thinleaf alder growth on an interior Alaska floodplain. Ecoscience 17:312-320.

Schloss, P.D., H.K. Allen, A.K. Klimowicz, C. Mlot, J.A. Gross, S. Savengsuksa, J. McEllin, J. Clardy, R.W. Ruess, and J. Handelsman. 2010. Psychrotrophic strain of Janthinobacterium lividum from a cold Alaskan soil produces prodigiosin. DNA and Cell Biology 29: 533-541.

Sveinbjornsson, B., M. Smith, T. Traustason, R.W. Ruess, and P.F. Sullivan. 2010. Variation in sink-strength control of white spruce growth at forest and treeline sites along a gradient from south- to north-central Alaska. Oecologia 163: 833-843.

Tape, K. D., R. Lord, H. P. Marshall, and R. W. Ruess. 2010. Snow-mediated ptarmigan browsing and shrub expansion in arctic Alaska. Ecoscience 17:186-193.

Anderson, M.D., R.W. Ruess, D.D. Myrold, and D. L. Taylor.  2009. Host species and habitat affect nodulation by specific Frankia genotypes in two species of Alnus in interior Alaska. Oecologia 160: 619-630.

Chapin, F.S., III., J.W. McFarland, A.D. McGuire, E.S. Euskirchen, R.W. Ruess, and K. Kielland. 2009. The changing global carbon cycle: linking local plant-soil processes to global consequences. Journal of Ecology 97: 840-850.

Mitchell, J.S., and R.W. Ruess. N2 fixing alder (Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa) effects on soil properties across a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska. 2009. Biogeochemistry 95: 215-229.

Mitchell, J.S., and R.W. Ruess. 2009. Seasonal patterns of climate controls over nitrogen fixation by Alnus viridis spp. fruticosa in a secondary successional chronosequence in interior Alaska. Ecoscience 16: 341-351.

Ruess, R.W., J.M. McFarland, L.M. Trummer, and J.K. Rohrs-Richey. 2009. Disease-mediated declines in N-fixation inputs by Alnus tenuifolia to early-successional floodplains in interior and south-central Alaska. Ecosystems 12: 489-502.

Stewart, K.M., R.T. Bowyer, J.G. Kie, B.L. Dick, and R.W. Ruess.  2009. Population density of North American Elk: effects on plant diversity. Oecologia 161: 303-312.

Ely, C.R., J.M. Pearce, and R.W. Ruess. 2008. Nesting biology of lesser Canada geese, Branta canadensis parvipes, along the Tanana River, Alaska. The Canadian Field Naturalist 122: 29-33.

Vogel, J.G., B.P. Bond-Lamberty, E.A.G. Schuur, S.T. Gower, M.C. Mack, K.E.B. O’Connell, D.W. Valentine, and R.W. Ruess. 2008. Carbon allocation in boreal black spruce across regions varying in soil temperature and precipitation. Global Change Biology 14: 1503-1516.

Kielland, K, J.W. McFarland, R.W. Ruess, and K. Olson. 2007. Rapid cycling of organic nitrogen in taiga forest soils. Ecosystems 10:360-368.

Brenner, R.E., J.B. Jones, R.D. Boone, K. Lajtha, and R.W. Ruess. 2006. Successional and physical controls on the retention of nitrogen in an undisturbed boreal forest ecosystem. Oecologia 148: 602-611.

Chapin, F.S., III., M. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D. Natcher, G. Kofinas. 2006. Predicting directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems. American Naturalist 168: S36-S49.

Kielland, K, R.W. Ruess, K. Olson, and R.D. Boone. 2006. Contribution of winter processes to nitrogen dynamics in taiga forest soils. Biogeochemistry 81: 349-360.

Kielland, K., J.P. Bryant, and R.W. Ruess.  2006. The role of large herbivores in the functioning of the boreal forest.  Pages 211-226, In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla  (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Loomis, P.F, R.W. Ruess, B. Sveinbjornsson, and K. Kielland. 2006. Mineral and organic nitrogen cycling along a latitudinal treeline transect in Alaska. Ecoscience 13: 544-556.

Lovelock, C.E., R.W. Ruess, and I.C. Feller. 2006. Root respiration in Rhizophora mangle over variation in forest stature and nutrient availability. Tree Physiology 26: 1601-1606.

Ruess, R.W., M.D. Anderson, J.S. Mitchell, and J.W. McFarland. 2006. Effects of defoliation on growth and N2-fixation in Alnus tenuifolia: consequences for changing disturbance regimes at high latitudes. Ecoscience 13: 404-412.

Stewart, K.M., R.T. Bowyer, R.W. Ruess, B.L. Dick, and J.G. Kie. 2006. Testing the herbivore optimization hypothesis: experimental manipulation of elk population density. Wildlife Monographs 167: 1-24.

Chapin, F.S., III., D. McGuire, R.W. Ruess, M.W. Walker, R.D. Boone, M.E. Edwards, B.P. Finney, L.D. Hinzman, J.B. Jones, G.P. Juday, E.S. Kasischke, K. Kielland, A.H. Lloyd, M.W. Oswood, C.-L. Ping, E. Rexstad, V.E. Romanovsky, J.P. Schimel, E.B. Sparrow, B. Sveinbjornsson, D.W. Valentine, K. Van Cleve, D.L. Verbyla, L.A. Viereck, R.A. Werner, T.L. Wurtz, and J. Yarie. 2006. Summary and synthesis: past and future changes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 332-338, In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla  (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Ruess, R.W., R.L. Hendrick, J.G. Vogel, B. Sveinbjornsson. 2006. The role of fine roots in the functioning of boreal forests.  Pages 189-210, In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Zhang, X., A.D. McGuire, and R.W. Ruess. 2006. Scaling uncertainties in estimating canopy foliar maintenance respiration for black spruce ecosystems in Alaska. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11: 147-171.

Brenner, R.E., R.D. Boone, and R.W. Ruess. 2005. Nitrogen additions to a pristine high-latitude ecosystem: consequences for soil nitrogen transformations in mid and late succession.  Biogeochemistry 72: 257-282.

Treseder, K.K., M.F. Allen, R.W. Ruess, K.S. Pregitzer, and R.L. Hendrick. 2005. Lifespans of fungal rhizomorphs under nitrogen fertilization in a Pinyon-Juniper woodland. Plant and Soil 270: 249-255.

Vogel, J.G., D.W. Valentine, and R.W. Ruess. 2005. Soil and root respiration in mature Alaskan black spruce forests that vary in soil organic matter decomposition rates.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 161-174.

Anderson, M. D., R.W. Ruess, D.D. Uliassi, and J.S. Mitchell. 2004. Estimating N2 fixation in two species of Alnus in interior Alaska using acetylene reduction and 15N2 uptake. Ecoscience 11: 102-112.

Lovelock, C. E., S. Wright, D. Clark, and R.W. Ruess.  2004. Carbon stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizae across a tropical rainforest landscape. Journal of Ecology 92: 278-287.

Crocker, T.L., R.L. Hendrick, R.W. Ruess, K.S. Pregitzer, A.J. Burton, M.F. Allen, J. Shan, and L.A. Morris. 2003. Substituting root numbers for length: Improving the use of minirhizotrons to study fine root dynamics. Applied Soil Ecology 23: 127-135.

Person, B.B., M.P. Herzog, R.W. Ruess, J.S. Sedinger, R.M. Anthony, and C.A. Babcock.  2003. Feedback dynamics of grazing lawns: coupling vegetation change with animal growth. Oecologia 135: 583-592.

Person, B.T., and R.W. Ruess. 2003. Stability of a near Arctic saltmarsh: community resistance to tidal inundation. Ecoscience 10: 351-360.

Ruess, R.W., R.L. Hendrick, A.J. Burton, K.S. Pregitzer, B. Sveinbjornsson, M.F. Allen, and G. Maurer. 2003.  Coupling fine root dynamics with ecosystem carbon cycling in black spruce forests of interior Alaska. Ecological Monographs 74: 643-662.

Burton, A.J., K.S. Pregitzer, R.W. Ruess, R.L. Hendrick, and M.F. Allen. 2002. Fine root respiration rates in North American forests: effects of nitrogen concentration and temperature across biomes. Oecologia 131: 559-568.

Lenart, E.A., R. T. Bowyer, J. Ver Hoef, and R.W. Ruess. 2002. Climate change and caribou: effects of weather on forage. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 664-678.

McFarland. J.M., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland , and A. Doyle. 2002. Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid N in soils of a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem. Ecosystems 5: 775-788.

Pregitzer, K.S., J.L. DeForest, A.J. Burton, M.F. Allen, R.W. Ruess, and R.L. Hendrick.  2002. Fine root architecture of nine North American trees. Ecological Monographs 72: 293-309.

Uliassi, D.D. and R.W. Ruess. 2002. Limitations to symbiotic nitrogen fixation in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain, Alaska. Ecology 83: 88-103.

Zacheis, A., R.W. Ruess, and J.W. Hupp. 2002. Nitrogen dynamics in an Alaskan salt marsh following spring use by geese. Oecologia 130: 600-608.

Zacheis, A.B., Hupp, J.W. and Ruess, R.W.  2002. Response of a subarctic salt marsh plant community to foraging by captive lesser snow geese. Ecoscience 9: 320-331.

Chapin, F.S., III., and R.W. Ruess. 2001. The roots of the matter. Nature 411: 749-752.

Doran, K., R.W. Ruess, F.G. Plumley, and T. Wurtz. 2001. Photosynthetic acclimation of juvenile white spruce (Picea glauca) to controlled density microenvironments. Ecoscience 8: 76-88.

Mulder, C.P.H., and R.W. Ruess. 2001. Long-term effects of changes in goose grazing intensity on arrowgrass populations: a spatially explicit model. Journal of Ecology 89: 406-417.

Zacheis, A., J.W. Hupp, and R.W. Ruess. 2001. Effects of migratory geese on the plant communities of an Alaskan salt marsh. Journal of Ecology 89: 57-71.

Uliassi, D.D., K. Huss-Danell, R.W. Ruess, and K. Doran. 2000. Biomass allocation and nitrogenase activity in Alnus tenuifolia: responses to successional soil type and phosphorus availability.  Ecoscience 7: 73 - 79.

Bledsoe, C.S., T.J. Fahey, F. P. Day, and R.W. Ruess. 1999. Measurement of static root parameters - biomass, length, distribution. Pages 413-436, in: Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoi, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins (eds). Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research.  Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.

Fahey, T., C. Bledsoe, F. Day, R.W. Ruess, and A. Smucker. 1999. Root production and demography. Pages 378-412, in: Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins (eds). Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research.  Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.

Myrold, D. D., R.W. Ruess, and M. Klug. 1999. Dinitrogen fixation. Pages 241-257, in: Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoi, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins (eds). Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research.  Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.

Paul, E.A., D. Harris, M. Klug, and R.W. Ruess. 1999. The determination of microbial biomass. Pages 291-317, in: Robertson, G.P., C.S. Bledsoi, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins (eds). Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research.  Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.

Mulder, C.P.H, and R.W. Ruess. 1998. Effects of herbivory on arrowgrass: interactions between geese, neighboring plants, and abiotic factors. Ecological Monographs 68: 275-293.

Mulder, C.P.H., and R.W. Ruess. 1998. Relationships between size, biomass allocation, reproduction and survival in Triglochin palustris:  implications for the effects of goose herbivory.  Canadian Journal of Botany 76: 2164-2176.

Person, B.T., C.A. Babcock, and R.W. Ruess. 1998. Spatial variation in forage abundance and quality in brood rearing areas used by Pacific Brant Geese on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.  Journal of Ecology 86: 243-259.

Ruess, R.W., R.L. Hendrick, and J.P. Bryant. 1998. Regulation of fine root dynamics by mammalian browsers in early successional Alaskan taiga forests. Ecology 79:2706-2720.

Schimel, J.P., R.G. Cates, and R.W. Ruess. 1998. The role of balsam poplar secondary chemicals in controlling nutrient dynamics through succession in the Alaskan taiga. Biogeochemistry 42: 221-234.

Kielland, K., J.P. Bryant, and R.W. Ruess. 1997. Moose herbivory and carbon turnover of early successional stands in interior Alaska. Oikos 80: 25-30.

Ruess, R.W, D.D. Uliassi, C.P.H. Mulder, and B.T. Person. 1997. Growth responses of Carex ramenskii to defoliation, salinity, and nitrogen availability: implications for geese-ecosystem dynamics in western Alaska. Ecoscience 4: 170-178.

Mulder, C.P.H,  R.W. Ruess, and J.S. Sedinger. 1996. Effects of environmental manipulations on Triglochin palustris: implications for the role of goose herbivory on controlling its distribution. Journal of Ecology 84: 267-278.

Ruess, R.W., K. Van Cleve, J. Yarie, L.A. Viereck. 1996. Contributions of fine root production and turnover to the carbon and nitrogen cycling in taiga forests of the Alaskan interior.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26: 1326-1336.

Ruess, R.W., and S.W. Seagle. 1994. Landscape patterns in soil microbial processes in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.  Ecology 75: 892-904.

Jefferies, R.L., J. Svoboda, G. Henry, M. Raillard, and R. Ruess. 1992. Tundra grazing systems and climatic change. pages 391-412, In: Chapin, F.S.,III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver, and J. Svoboda. (eds.) Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate: an ecophysiological perspective. Academic Press, New York.

Seagle, S.W., S.J. McNaughton, and R.W. Ruess. 1992. Simulated effects of grazing on soil nitrogen and mineralization in contrasting Serengeti grasslands. Ecology 73: 1105-1123.

Ruess, R.W. and F.E. Halter. 1990. The impact of large herbivores on the Seronera Woodlands, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 28: 259-275.

Ruess, R.W., D.H. Hik, and R.L. Jefferies. 1989. The role of Lesser Snow Geese as nitrogen processors in a sub-arctic salt marsh. Oecologia 79: 23-29.

Georgiadis, N.J., R.W. Ruess, S.J. McNaughton, and D. Western. 1989. Ecological conditions that determine when grazing stimulates grass production. Oecologia 81: 316-322.

Lodhi, M.A.K., and R.W. Ruess 1988. Variation in soil nitrifiers and leaf nitrate reductase activity in selected tree species in a forest community. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

McNaughton, S. J., R. W. Ruess, and S. W. Seagle. 1988. Large mammals and process dynamics in African ecosystems. BioScience 38: 794-800.

Ruess, R.W. 1988. The interaction of defoliation and nutrient uptake in Sporobolus kentrophyllus, a short-grass species from the Serengeti Plains. Oecologia 77: 550-556.

Ruess, R.W. and S.J. McNaughton. 1988. Ammonia volatilization and the effects of large grazing mammals on nutrient loss from East African grasslands. Oecologia 77: 382-386.

Ruess, R.W. and S.J. McNaughton. 1987. Grazing and the dynamics of nutrient and energy regulated microbial processes in the Serengeti grasslands. Oikos 49: 101-110.

Ruess, R.W. 1987. The role of large herbivores in nutrient cycling of tropical savannas. In: Walker B.H. (ed) Determinants of tropical savannas. IUBS Monograph Series No. 3. IRL Press Ltd., Oxford, pp 67-91.

McNaughton, S.J., R.W. Ruess, and M.B. Coughenour. 1985. Ecological consequences of nuclear war. Nature 321: 483-487.

Ruess, R.W. 1984. Nutrient movement and grazing: experimental effects of clipping and nitrogen source on nutrient uptake in Kyllinga nervosa. Oikos 43: 183-188.

Ruess, R.W. and S.J. McNaughton. 1984. Urea as a promotive coupler of plant-herbivore interactions. Oecologia 63: 331-337.

Ruess, R.W., S.J. McNaughton, and M.B. Coughenour. 1983. The effects of clipping, nitrogen source and nitrogen concentration on the growth responses and nitrogen uptake of an East African sedge. Oecologia 59: 253-261.

Ruess, R.W., and M.K. Wali. 1980. Diel fluctuations in water potential and associated ionic changes in Atriplex canescens. Oecologia 47: 200-203.