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Research and Bio :
Beverly E. Law is Professor of
Global Change Forest Science in the College of Forestry,
and
she has an adjunct appointment with the College of Oceanic
and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.
Law is the Science Chair of the AmeriFlux
network of over 100 research sites in the Americas. Completing
her B.S. at the University of Florida (1980), and Ph.D. at
Oregon State University (1993), she joined the faculty at
Oregon State University in 1995. She is the author or coauthor
of over 80 scientific papers and book chapters.
Currently, Law focuses her research on the
role of forests, woodlands and shrublands in the global carbon
cycle. She is the principal investigator of the Metolius ponderosa
pine AmeriFlux sites that are in different developmental stages
following disturbance. The purpose of the research is to understand
how different successional stages of the entire forest ecosystems
(plants and soils) respond to disturbances such as land management
and wildfire, and to interannual variation in climate. Her
past work has taken her to diverse habitats, from evergreen
forests in the Southeast and upper Mid-West U.S., and deciduous
forests in the Northeast U.S., to Oregon's semi-arid woodlands
and shrublands, as well as montane and coastal evergreen forests.
Law has testified before the U.S. Senate and
House Committees on the value of long-term ecological research,
and co-authored a Senate report on the role of forests in
global climate change. She is a member of the Science Steering
Group of the US Carbon Cycle Science Program, and the Science
Steering Committee of the North American Carbon Program. She
also serves as the U.S. point of contact on scientific exchanges
in carbon cycle science for U.S. bilateral agreements with
Italy, Canada, and the European Union.
Selected Publications:
- Donato, D. C., Fontaine, J. B., Campbell, J. L., Robinson,
W. D., Kauffman, J. B., Law, B. E. 2006. Post-Wildfire
Logging Hinders Regeneration and Increases Fire Risk. Science
311: 352
- Hibbard, K.A., B.E. Law, M. Reichstien, J. Sulzman, et al.
2005. An analysis of
soil respiration across northern hemisphere temperate ecosystems. Biogeochemistry
73:29-70.
- Campbell, J.L., and B.E. Law. 2005. Forest
soil respiration across three climatically-distinct chronoseqeunces. Biogeochemistry 73:109-125.
- National Research Council. 2004. Air Quality Management
in the United States. National Academies Press, Washington
DC.
- Law, B.E., D. Turner, J. Campbell, O.J. Sun, S.
Van Tuyl, W.D. Ritts, W.B. Cohen. 2004. Disturbance and
climate effects
on carbon stocks and fluxes across western Oregon USA.
Global Change Biology.
- Irvine, J., B.E. Law, M. Kurpius. 2004. Coupling
of canopy gas exchange with root and rhizosphere respiration
in ponderosa
pine. Biogeochemistry.
- Law, B.E., D. Turner, M. Lefsky, J. Campbell,
M. Guzy, O. Sun, S. Van Tuyl, W. Cohen. 2006 (in press).
Carbon fluxes across
regions: Observational constraints at multiple scales.
In Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods
and
Applications (J. Wu, B. Jones, H. Li, O. Loucks, eds.).
Columbia University Press, New York, USA.
- Treuhaft, R.N., B.E. Law, G.P. Asner. 2004. Forest attributes
from radar interferometric structure and its fusion with
optical remote sensing. BioScience 54:561-572.
- Irvine, J., B.E. Law, M. Kurpius, P.M. Anthoni, D. Moore,
P. Schwarz. 2004. Age related changes in ecosystem structure
and function and the effects on carbon and water exchange
in ponderosa pine. Tree Physiology 24:753-763.
- Law, B.E., O. Sun, J. Campbell, S. Van Tuyl, P. Thornton.
2003. Changes in carbon storage and fluxes in a chronosequence
of ponderosa pine. Global Change Biology 9:510-524.
- Thornton, P., B.E. Law, H. Gholz, K.L. Clark, E. Falge,
D.H. Ellsworth, A.H. Goldstein, R.K. Monson, D. Hollinger,
M. Falk, J. Chen, J.P. Sparks. 2002. Modeling and measuring
the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon
and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology 113:185-222.
- Law, B.E., E. Falge, D.D. Baldocchi, P. Bakwin, P. Berbigier,
K. Davis, A.J. Dolman, M. Falk, J.D. Fuentes, A. Goldstein,
A. Granier, A. Grelle, D. Hollinger, I.A. Janssens, P. Jarvis,
N.O. Jensen, G. Katul, Y. Mahli, G. Matteucci, R. Monson,
W. Munger, W. Oechel, R. Olson, K. Pilegaard, K.T. Paw U,
H. Thorgeirsson, R. Valentini, S. Verma, T. Vesala, K. Wilson,
S. Wofsy. 2002. Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange
of terrestrial vegetation in response to environment. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology 113:97-120.
- Law, B.E., R.H. Waring, P.M. Anthoni, and J.D. Aber. 2000.
Measurements of gross and net ecosystem productivity and
water vapor exchange of a Pinus ponderosa ecosystem, and
an evaluation of two generalized models. Global Change Biology
6:155-168.
Teaching:
Global Change and Carbon Dynamics
Graduate Students:
Tara Hudiburg, MS Candidate:
Combined effects of land-use, climate, nitrogen deposition,
and enhanced CO2 on the net ecosysterm
production of terrestrial ecosystems in different ecoregions.
Garret Meigs, MS Candidate:
Carbon dynamics following landscape fire: Influence of burn
severity and stand history in the Central Cascades of Oregon.
Dan Donato, PhD Candidate:
Post-fire fuels
and vegetation succession in the Siskiyou Mountains: influence
of salvage logging and reburn.
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Faculty
Beverly E. Law
Larry Mahrt
