Publications
Powers, J.S., R.A. Montgomery, E.C. Adair, F.Q.
Brearley, S.J. DeWalt, C.T. Castanho, J. Chave, E. Deinert, J.U. Ganzhorn, M.E.
Gilbert, J. Antonio-Gonzalez, S. Bunyavejchewin, H.R.
Grau, K.E. Harms, A. Hiremath, S. Iriarte-Vivar, E. Manzane, A.A. de Oliveira, L.
Poorter, J.B. Ramanamanjato, C. Salk, A.Varela, G.D. Weiblen and M.T.
Lerdau. Decomposition in tropical
forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement
and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient. In press. Journal of Ecology.
Powers, J.S., J.M.
Becknell, J. Irving, and D. Perez-Aviles. Diversity and structure of
regenerating tropical dry forests in
Sinsabaugh, R.L, C.L. Lauber, M.N. Weintraub, B. Ahmed, S.D. Allison, C. Crenshaw, A.R. Contosta, D. Cusack, S. Frey, M.E. Gallo, T.B. Gartner, S.E. Hobbie, K. Holland, B.L. Keeler, J.S. Powers, M. Stursova, C. Vesbach, M. Waldrop, M. Wallenstein, D. Zak, and L. Zeglin. Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale. Ecology Letters 11: 1252–1264. DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01245.x pdf
Powers, J.S.
2006. Spatial variation of soil carbon concentrations and stable isotopic
composition in 1-ha plots of forest and pasture in
Powers, J.S., and
E. Veldkamp. 2005. Regional variation in soil carbon and d13C in paired forests and pasture of
Powers, J.S., K.K. Treseder and M.T. Lerdau. 2005. Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four Neotropical rain forests: patterns across large geographic distances. New Phytologist 165: 913-921. pdf
Powers, J.S., M.H. Kalicin, and M.E. Newman. 2004. Tree species do not influence local soil chemistry in a species-rich Costa Rican rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 587-90. pdf
Powers, J.S. 2004.
Soil carbon and nitrogen storage following contrasting land-use transitions in
Powers, J.S.,
J.M. Read, J.S. Denslow, and S.M. Guzman. 2004. Estimating soil carbon fluxes
following land-cover change: a test of some critical assumptions for a region
in
Harms, K.E., J.S. Powers, and R.A. Montgomery. 2004. Small sapling densities relative to resources and understory vegetation in four Neotropical forests. Biotropica 36: 40-51. pdf
Powers, J.S.
2004. New perspectives in comparative ecology of Neotropical rain forests:
Reflections on past, present and future. Biotropica 36: 2-6. pdf
Powers, J.S., and M. Lerdau. 2002. Las relaciones entre
características químicas y físicas de hojas y la decomposición de hojarasca de
las especies de un bosque seco en el Parque Naciónal Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. In
Ecosistemas forestales de bosque seco tropical: investigaciones y resultados en
Mesoamérica, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica, pp. 119-124.
Powers, J.S., and
W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. Relationships between soil carbon distributions and
biophysical factors at nested spatial scales in rain forests of
Powers, J.S., and
W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. Geographic and vertical patterns of stable carbon
isotopes in tropical rainforest soils of
Loescher, H.W., J.S. Powers, S.F. Oberbauer. 2002.
Spatial variation of throughfall in an old growth tropical wet forest,
Powers, J.S., P. Sollins, M.E. Harmon, and J.A. Jones. 1999. Plant-pest interactions in time and space: a Douglas-fir bark beetle outbreak as a case study. Landscape Ecology 14: 105-120. pdf
Powers, J.S.,
J.P. Haggar, and R.F. Fisher. 1997. The effect of overstory composition on
understory woody regeneration and species richness in 7-year-old plantations in