Recent Publications:

(my own PhD Students underlined)

Selected Recent Papers:

  1. Munson, S. M., W. K. Lauenroth, and I. C. Burke.  2012.  Soil carbon and nitrogen recovery on semiarid Conservation Reserve Program Lands.  Journal of Arid Environments 79:25-31.
  2. Evans, S. E., Byrne, K. M., W. K. Lauenroth, and I. C. Burke.  2011. Long-term drought reduces the dominant species and increases ruderals in a semiarid steppe. Journal of Ecology 99(6):1500-1507.
  3. Evans, S. E., I. C. Burke, and W. K. Lauenroth. 2011.  Controls on soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Inner Mongolia, China: A cross-continental comparison of temperate grasslands, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 25, GB3006, doi:10.1029/2010GB003945.
  4. Gathany, M. and I. C. Burke.  2011.  Post-fire soil fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O along the Colorado Front Range.  International Journal of Wildland Fire 20(7): 838-846.
  5. Bontti, E. E., I. C. Burke, and W. K. Lauenroth.  2011.  Nitrogen partitioning between microbes and plants in the shortgrass steppe. Plant and Soil 342(1-2):445-457.
  6. Adair, E. A. and I. C. Burke. 2010. Plant phenology and life span influence soil pool dynamics: Bromus tectorum invasion of perennial C3-C4 grass communities. Plant and Soil 335:255-269 
  7. Currie, W. S., M. E. Harmon, I. C. Burke, S. C. Hart, W. J. Parton, and W. Silver. 2010.  Cross-biome transplants of plant litter show decomposition models extend to a broader climatic range but low predictability at the decadal time scale. Global Change Biology 16: 1744-1761.
  8. Munson, S. M., T. J. Benton, W. K. Lauenroth, and I. C. Burke. 2010. Soil carbon flux following pulse precipitation events in the shortgrass steppe.  Ecological Research, 25: 205-211. 
  9. Bontti, E. E., J. P. DeCant, S. M. Munson, M. Gathany, A. Przeszlowska, M. L. Haddix, S. M. Owens, I. C. Burke, W. J. Parton, and M. E. Harmon. 2009. Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains). Global Change Biology 15(5):1356-1363.
  10. 10.  McCulley, R. L., I. C. Burke, and W. K. Lauenroth. 2009. Conservation of nitrogen increases with precipitation across a major grassland gradient in the central Great Plains of North America. Oecologia 159(3):571-581.
  11. McHale, M. R., I. C. Burke, M. A. Lefsky, P. J. Peper, and E. G. McPherson. 2009. Urban forest biomass estimates: is it important to use allometric relationship developed specifically for urban trees? Urban Ecosystems 12:95-113.
  12. 12.  Harmon, M. E., W. L. Silver, B. Fasth, H. Chen, I. C. Burke, W. J. Parton, S. C. Hart, W. S. Currie, and LIDET. 2009. Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison. Global Change Biology 15(5):1320-1338.
  13.  Adair. E. A., W. J. Parton, S. J. Del Grosso, W. L. Silver, M. E. Harmon, S. A. Hall, I. C. Burke, and S. C. Hart. 2008. A simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates. Global Change Biology 14:2636-2660.
  14.  Hamman, S. T., I. C. Burke, and E. E. Knapp. 2008. Soil nutrients and microbial activity after early and late season prescribed burns in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 256:367-374.
  15.   Adair, E. C., I. C. Burke, and W. K. Lauenroth. 2008. Contrasting effects of resource availability and plant mortality on plant community invasion by Bromus tectorum. Plant and Soil 304:103-115. 
  16.   Otgonsuren, A., C. E. Goulden, I. C. Burke, and B. Bulgan. 2008. Soil CO2 flux in Hovsgol National Park, Northern Mongolia. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences 6:31-38.
  17.   Cleland, E. E., C. M. Clark, S. L. Collins, J. E. Fargione, L. Gough, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, S. C. Pennings, W. D. Bowman, I. C. Burke, W. K. Lauenroth, G. P. Robertson, J. C. Simpson, D. Tilman, and K. N. Suding. 2008. Species responses to nitrogen fertilization in herbaceous plant communities, and associated species traits. Ecology 89:1175-1175 (data paper).
  18.  McHale, M. R., E. G. McPherson, I. C. Burke. 2007. The potential of urban tree plantings to be cost effective in carbon credit markets. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 6:49-60.
  19.  Hamman, S. T., I. C. Burke, and M.  E. Stromberger. 2007. Relationships between microbial community structure and soil environmental conditions in a recently burned system. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:1703-1711.  
  20.  Parton, W. J., W. L. Silver, I. C. Burke, L. Grassens, M. E. Harmon, W. S. Currie, J. Y. King, E. Carol Adair, L. A. Brandt, S. C. Hart, and B. Fasth. 2007. Global-scale similarities in nitrogen release patterns during long-term decomposition. Science 315: 361-364. 

Recent Book and Chapters:

Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press

Chapters within:

Lauenroth, W. K., I.C. Burke, and J. A. Morgan. The Shortgrass Steppe: The Region and Research Sites. Chapter 1 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press. 

Peters, D. P. C.,  W. K. Lauenroth, and I. C. Burke.  2008.  The role of disturbances in shortgrass steppe community and ecosystem dynamics Chapter 6 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press. 

Burke, I. C., A.R. Mosier, P. B. Hook, D.G. Milchunas, J.E. Barrett, M.A. Vinton,  R. L. McCulley, J. P. Kaye, R. A. Gill, H.E. Epstein, R. H. Kelly, W. J. Parton, C.M. Yonker, P. Lowe, and W.K. Lauenroth.  2008.  Soil Organic Matter and Nutrient Dynamics of Shortgrass Steppe Ecosystems. Chapter 13 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press. I

Mosier, A. R., W. J. Parton, R. E. Martin, D. W. Valentine, D. S. Ojima, D. S. Schimel, I. C. Burke, E. C. Adair, and S. J. Del Grosso. 2008. Soil-Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Gases in the Colorado Shortgrass Steppe. Chapter 14 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press.

Parton, W. J.,  S. J. Del Grosso, I. C. Burke, and D. S. Ojima. 2008. The Shortgrass Steppe and Ecosystem Modeling. Chapter 15 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press. I

Milchunas, D. G., W. K. Lauenroth, I. C. Burke, and J. K. Detling.  2008. Effects of Grazing on Vegetation. Chapter 16 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press.

Burke, I. C., W. K. Lauenroth,  M.F. Antolin, J.D. Derner, D.G. Milchunas, J. A. Morgan, and P. Stapp . The Future of the Shortgrass Steppe.  Chapter 19 In Lauenroth, W. K., and I. C. Burke, eds. 2008. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: a Long Term Perspective. Oxford Press.