Dan Binkley
Director, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
and
Professor

Professional Interests:

Ecosystem productivity and biogeochemistry, with applications in forestry and soils. Current areas of research include controls on nutrient availability, and long-term changes in ecosystems.

Education:

B.S.F., Forest Management, Northern Arizona University, 1976
M.Sc., Forest Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1980
Ph.D., Forest Ecology with minors in Soil Science and Botany, Oregon State University, 1982

Selected Publications:

• Fisher, R.F., and D. Binkley. 2000. Ecology and Management of Forest Soils. Wiley, New York. 350 pp.
• Binkley, D., H. Burnham, and H.L. Allen. 1999. Water quality impacts of forest fertilization with nitrogen and phosphorus. Forest Ecology and Management 121:191-213.
• Binkley, D., and S. Resh. 1999. Rapid changes in soils following Eucalyptus afforestation in Hawaii. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63:222-225.
• Suzuki, K., H. Suzuki, D. Binkley, and T. Stohlgren. 1999. Aspen regeneration in the Colorado Front Range: differences at local and landscape scales. Landscape Ecology, 14:231-237.
• Stohlgren, T., D. Binkley, G. Chong, M.A. Kalkhan, L.D. Schell, K.A. Bull, Y. Otsuki, G. Newman, M. Bashkin, and Y. Son. 1999. Exotic plant species invade hotspots of native plant diversity. Ecological Monographs 69:25-46.
• Binkley, D., and M. Ryan. 1998. Net primary production and nutrient cycling in replicated stands of Eucalyptus saligna and Albizia facaltaria. Forest Ecology and Management 112:79-85.
• Binkley, D., and C. Giardina. 1998. Why trees affect soils in temperate and tropical forests: the warp and woof of tree/soil interactions. Biogeochemistry 42:89-106.
• Binkley, D., and P. Hogberg. 1997. Does atmospheric deposition of acidity and nitrogen threaten Swedish forests? Forest Ecology and Management 92:119-152.
• Binkley, D., C. Driscoll, H.L. Allen, P. Schoeneberger, and D. McAvoy. 1989. Acidic Deposition and Forest Soils: Context and Case Studies in the Southeastern U.S. Springer-Verlag, New York. 149 p.
• Binkley, D. 1986. Forest Nutrition Management. Wiley, New York. 290 p.; Spanish translation Nutricion Forestal, Editorial Limusa, Mexico City.

Recent Student Theses:

• Regan, C. 1997. Structure and landscape dynamics of old-growth forests of the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. PhD.
• Garcia-Montiel, D. 1996. Changes in nutrient cycling during tropical deforestation. PhD.
• Scott, N. 1996. Plant species effects on soil organic matter turnover and nutrient release in forests and grasslands. PhD
• Satti, K. 1996. Recovery of fuelwood and nutrients in abandoned mechanized farms in eastern Sudan. PhD.
• Bashkin, M. 1996. Changes in soil C associated with afforestation in Hawaii. MS.
• Loch Eley, D. 1996. Effects of recreation on bird communities in Rocky Mountain National Park. MS.
• Olsson, U. 1996. Nitrogen cost of production along a lodgepole pine chronosequence. MS.
• Suarez, F. 1995. Is white spruce in northwestern Alaska invading the tundra? MS.

• NR425 -- Sustainability of Renewable Resource

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