Roser Matamala

Address Argonne National Laboratory Environmental Research Division Building 203, E-145 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Tel: (630) 252-9270 Fax: (630) 252-8895 e-mail: matamala@anl.gov

Professional Preparation

Appointments

The function of roots and rhizosphere communities on soil development, carbon dynamics and storage and nutrient cycling. The contribution of roots and rhizosphere communities in the global carbon cycle. Effects of environmental changes, particularly atmospheric CO2 enrichment, on plant-soil interactions. Use of stable isotopes for underlying physiological and ecosystem processes related to plant-soil interactions, carbon and nitrogen cycling and soil development.

Matamala R, MA Gonzalez-Meler, JD Jastrow, R Norby, WH Schlesinger, 2004 Response to Comment on: Impacts of Fine Root Turnover on Forest NPP and Soil C Sequestration Potential. Science, 304:1745-1745.

Matamala R, MA Gonzalez-Meler, JD Jastrow, R Norby, WH Schlesinger, 2003. Impacts of fine root turnover on forest NPP and soil C sequestration potential. Science, 302: 1385-1387.

Pataki, DE, DS Ellsworth, RD Evans, MA Gonzalez-Meler, J King, SW Leavitt, G Lin, R Matamala, E Pendall, R Siegwolf, C Van Kessel, J Ehleringer. 2003. Tracing changes in ecosystem function under elevated carbon dioxide conditions. BioScience, 53: 805-818.

Matamala R. and Schlesinger W.H. 2000. Effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on fine root production and activity in an intact temperate forest ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 6: 967-980.

Allen A.S., Andrews J.A., Finzi A.C., Matamala R., Richter D.R. and Schlesinger W.H. 2000. Effects of Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) on below-ground processes in a loblolly pine forest. Ecological Applications, 10: 437-448.

Luo Y. L., J.A. Andrews, L. White, R. Matamala, K.V.R. Schafer, and W. H. Schlesinger 2000. Elevated CO2 differentiates ecosystem carbon processes: A deconvolution analysis of Duke Forest FACE data. Ecological Monographs 71:357-376.

DeLucia, E.H., Hamilton J.G., Shawna L.N., Thomas R.B., Andrews J.A., Finzi A., Lavine M., Matamala R., Mohan J.E., Hendrey G.R. and W.H. Schlesinger 1999. Net primary production of a forest ecosystem with experimental CO2 enrichment. Science, 284: 1177-1179.

Andrews J.A., Matamala R., Westover K.M. and Schlesinger W.H. 2000. Temperature effect on the diversity of soil heterotrophs and the d13C of soil-respired CO2. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 32: 699-706.

Andrews J. A., Matamala R., Harrison K. and Schlesinger W.H. 1999. Separation of root from total soil respiration using 13C labeling during free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE). Soil Science Society of America Journal, 63: 1429-1435.

Matamala R. and Drake B.G. 1998. The influence of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on plant-soil nitrogen interactions in a wetland plant community on the Chesapeake Bay. Plant and Soil, 210: 93-101.

Drake B.G., Peresta G., Beugeling E. and Matamala R. 1996. Long-term elevated CO2 exposure in a Chesapeake Bay wetland: Ecosystem gas exchange, Primary production and tissue nitrogen. Carbon Dioxide and Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ed. Koch G. W. and Mooney H. A. pp. 197-214.

Drake B.G., Muehe M., Peresta G., González-Meler M.A., and Matamala R. 1996 Acclimation of photosynthesis, respiration and ecosystem carbon flux of a wetland on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration. Plant and Soil, 187: 111-118.

Peñuelas J. and R. Matamala 1990 Changes in N and S leaf content, stomatal density and specific leaf area of 14 plant species during the last three centuries of CO2 increase. Journal of Experimental Botany, 41: 1119-1124.