Presentations at Professional Meetings

1. Gordon, E.P., N. van Gestel, T.R. Robertson, L.D. Patrick, P. Payton and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Effects of elevated CO₂ on Allium plants grown under controlled environmental conditions. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

2. Patrick, L.D., P. Payton, S. Lambrecht, J. Zak, M. Loik and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Photosynthetic response of desert plants to a large, single precipitation event at Big Bend National Park. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

3. Lewis, J.D., M. Avolio, A. Martin, K.L. Griffin and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Phosphorus and nitrogen supply interactively affect growth and photosynthesis in Xanthium strumarium. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

4. Robertson, T.R., N. van Gestel, E.Walker, J.C. Zak, M. Loik and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Plant growth responses to simulated rainfall events for three perennial Chihuahuan Desert species of Big Bend National Park. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

5. Zak, J.C., A. Nagy, D.T. Tissue and M. Loik. 2004. Impacts of precipitation changes on microbial dynamics and processes in a desert grassland. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

6. van Gestel, N.C., A.D. Nesbit, E.P. Gordon, J. Nagel, L.D. Haley, E.B. Peffley and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Effect of continuous light on the physiology and biochemistry of Allium fistulosum and A. cepa. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

7. Barbour, M.M., D. Whitehead, K.L. Griffin, M.H. Turnbull, D.T. Tissue and G.D. Farquhar. 2004. Nocturnal stomatal conductance and effects on the d¹⁸O of leaf-respired CO2. BASIN, International Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

8. Bell, C., H. Grizzle, J. Zak and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Microbial responses to increased precipitation in the sotol grasslands of Big Bend National Park. 6^th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, Texas.

9. Tissue, D.T., T. Huxman, J. Weltzin, M. Loik, L. Patrick, T. Robertson, S. Smith and J. Zak. 2004. Assessing the response of desert ecosystems to changes in precipitation – Is there a common rain-use efficiency? 6^th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, Texas.

10. Robertson, T.R., N. van Gestel, L. Patrick, E. Gordon, E. Walker, J. Zak, M. Loik and D. Tissue. 2004. Photosynthetic responses of desert plants to a 25% increase in seasonal precipitation in Big Bend National Park. 6^th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, Texas.

11. Patrick, L., T. Robertson, P. Payton, J. Zak and D.T. Tissue. 2004. Photosynthetic responses of desert plants to a 25% increases in seasonal precipitation in Big Bend National Park. 6^th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, Texas.

12. Zak, J., D. Tissue, M. Loik and J. Sirotnak. 2004. Precipitation patterns, soil microbes, and desert grasslands: impacts on climate change. 6^th Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine, Texas.

13. Kornyeyev, D., B. Logan, R. Allen, D. Tissue and A.S. Holaday. 2004. Protecting photosynthesis at sub- and supra-optimal temperature: Does PSII or PSI constrain electron transport during recovery? USDA Southwest Consortium Symposium, Albuquerque, NM.

14. Rubino, L., J.D. Lewis, K.L. Griffin and D.T. Tissue. 2005. Nitrogen supply and leaf position, but not phosphorus supply, affect net photosynthetic rates in Xanthium strumarium. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

15. Patrick, L., T. Robertson, N. van Gestel and D. Tissue. 2005. Response of net ecosystem carbon and water exchange to a large winter precipitation pulse in a sotol-grassland at Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (BEST POSTER – PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY SECTION).

16. Robertson, T., N. van Gestel, L. Patrick, J. Zak, M. Loik and D. Tissue. 2005. Aboveground annual net primary productivity and species composition response to variation in timing and magnitude of precipitation in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

17. Lewis, J.D., L. Rubino, K.L. Giffin and D.T. Tissue. 2005. Phosphorus and nitrogen supply affect growth but not development rates in Xanthium strumarium. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

18. Tissue, D.T., L. Patrick, A. Griffith, H. Alpert, D. Ignace and J. Cable. 2005. The effects of changes in timing and magnitude of precipitation on carbon and water fluxes: scaling C3, C4 and CAM plants to the ecosystem. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

19. Reblin, J.S., B.A. Logan and D.T. Tissue. 2005. Impact of eastern dwarf mistletoe infection (Arceuthobium pusillum) on the needles of red (Picea rubens) and white spruce (P. glauca): photosynthesis, biochemistry and morphology. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

20. Barbour, M.M., D. Whitehead, K.L. Griffin, M.H. Turnbull and D.T. Tissue. 2005. Errors associated with the measurement of nocturnal stomatal conductance. Ecological Society of America and International Congress of Ecology, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

21. Tissue, D.T. 2006. Global climate change – impacts on plant physiological and ecosystem processes. ComBio Plenary Address, Brisbane, Australia.

22. Logan, B.A., J.S. Reblin, R. Butschek, C.R. Hricko, A.W. Hall, K.L. Duran, N.P. Phillips, D.T. Tissue. 2006. Physiological impacts of eastern dwarf mistletoe infection and developmental responses of host white spruce. International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Canopy Processes Meeting, New England.

23. Tissue, D.T., M. Barbour, J. Hunt, M. Turnbull, K. Griffin, A. Walcroft and D. Whitehead. 2006. Spatial and temporal scaling of intercellular CO₂ concentration in a temperate rainforest dominated by Dacrydium cupressinum in New Zealand. International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Canopy Processes Meeting, New England.

24. Whitehead, D., A. Walcroft, D. Tissue, J. Hunt, W. Bowman, M. Barbour, M. Turnbull, E. DeLucia, and K. Griffin. 2006. Environmental regulation of ecosystem carbon exchange and water balance in a mature rainforest in New Zealand. International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Canopy Processes Meeting, New England.

25. Patrick, L. and D. Tissue. 2006. How does summer precipitation affect daily CO₂ and H₂O fluxes of North American desert plants? Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

26. Tissue, D.T., K. Griffin, M. Turnbull, A. Walcroft, and D. Whitehead. 2006. Impact of leaf and tree age on stomatal and transfer conductance limitations to photosynthesis in mountain beech (Nothofagus solandrii) in New Zealand. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

27. Ebbets, A., D. Barker, V. Ebbert, T. Rosenstiel, W. Adams, D. Tissue, and S. Smith. 2006. Potential changes in photosynthetic performance of two Mojave Desert shrubs in response to elevated CO₂. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

28. Bell, C., J. Zak, H. Grizzle, S. Cox, D. Tissue and J. Sirotnak. 2006. Microbial carbon and nitrogen mineralization dynamics in desert grassland soils of Big Bend National Park as influenced by global climate change. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

29. Grizzle, H., J. Zak, T. Robertson and D. Tissue. 2006. Microbial functional diversity profiles in response to simulated nitrogen deposition and variable precipitation in the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

30. Logan, B., A. Combs, K. Myers, R. Kent, L. Stanley, and D. Tissue. 2006. Photosynthetic electron transport and photoprotection in loblolly pine exposed to Free-Air CO₂ enrichment (FACE). American Society of Plant Biology, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.