Publications
Lipson D.A., Monson R.K., Schmidt S.K., Weintraub M.N. (2008) The trade-off between growth rate and yield in microbial communities and the consequences for under-snow soil respiration in a high elevation coniferous forest. Biogeochemistry (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10533-008-9252-1
Schmidt S.K., Wilson K.L., Monson R.K., Lipson D.A. (2008) Exponential growth of “snow molds” at sub-zero temperatures: an explanation for high beneath-snow respiration rates and Q10 values. Biogeochemistry (in press) DOI:10.1007/s10533-008-9247-y
Mathur J., Bizzoco R.W., Ellis D., Poole A., Levine R., Lipson D.A., Kelley S.T. (2007) Effects of Abiotic Factors on Phylogenetic Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Acidic Thermal Springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 2612-2623.
Lipson D.A. (2007) Relationships between Temperature Responses and Bacterial Community Structure along Seasonal and Altitudinal Gradients. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 59:418-427.
Lipson D.A. (2007) Introduction and Overview: Soil, Rhizosphere and Phyllosphere. In: Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3rd Edition, C. Hurst, editor.
Monson R.K., Burns S.P., Williams M.W., Delany A.C.,Weintraub M., Lipson D.A. (2006) The contribution of beneath-snow soil respiration to total ecosystem respiration in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 20, Art. No. GB3030.
Monson* R.K., Lipson* D.A., Burns S.P., Turnipseed A.A., Delany A., Williams M.W., Schmidt S.K. (2006) High sensitivity to climate in the early-spring carbon cycle of a forest ecosystem. Nature 439:711-714 (*-these two authors contributed equally)
Lipson D.A., Blair M., Grieve K., Barron-Gafford G., Murthy R. (2006)
Relationships between microbial community structure and soil processes under
elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Microbial Ecology 51:302-314.
Lipson D.A., Wilson R.A., Oechel W.C. (2005) Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil microbial biomass, activity and diversity in a chaparral ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:8573-8580.
Barron-Gafford G., Martens D., Grieve K., McLain J.E., Lipson D., Murthy R. (2005) Growth of Eastern Cottonwoods (Populus deltoides) in elevated CO2 stimulates stand-level respiration and rhizodeposition of carbohydrates, accelerates soil nutrient depletion, yet stimulates above and belowground biomass production. Global Change Biology 11:1220-1233
Lipson, D.A., and Schmidt, S.K. (2004) Seasonal Changes in an Alpine Soil Bacterial Community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70: 2867-2879
Meyer, A.F., Lipson, D.A., Martin, A.P., Schadt, C.W., and Schmidt, S.K. (2004) Molecular and Metabolic Characterization of Cold Tolerant, Alpine Soil Pseudomonas, sensu stricto. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:483-489
Schmidt, S.K. and Lipson, D.A. (2004) Microbial growth under the snow: Implications for nutrient and allelochemical availability in temperate soils Plant and Soil 259:1-7.
Schmidt, S.K., Lipson, D.A., Ley, R.E., Fisk, M.C. and West, A.E. (2004) Impacts of chronic nitrogen additions vary seasonally and by microbial functional group in tundra soils. Biogeochemistry 69:1-17.
Schadt, C.W., Martin, A.P., Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. (2003) Seasonal Dynamics of Previously Unknown Fungal Lineages in Tundra Soils. Science 301: 1359-1361
Lipson, D.A., Schadt, C.W., Schmidt, S.K. (2002) Changes in microbial community structure and function following snow melt in an alpine soil. Microbial Ecology 43:307-314
Lipson, D.A., and Schmidt, S.K. (2002) Kinetics of Microbial Processes and Population Growth in Soil. In: (Gabriel Bitton, Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, Wiley and Sons, NY
Lipson D.A., Schmidt S.K. (2002) Kinetics of Microbial Processes and Population Growth in Soil. In: (Gabriel Bitton, Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals, Wiley and Sons, NY
Ley, R.E., Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. (2001) Microbial biomass levels in barren and vegetated high altitude talus soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65:111-117
Lipson, D.A. and Näsholm, T. (2001) The unexpected versatility of plants: organic N use and availability in terrestrial ecosystems. Oecologia 128:305-316
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K., and Monson, R.K. (2001) An empirical model of amino acid transformations in an alpine soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33:189-198
Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (2000) Carbon availability and temperature control the post-snowmelt decline of microbial biomass in an alpine soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32(4):441-448
Schmidt, S.K., Lipson, D.A. and Raab, T.K. (2000) The effect of willows (Salix brachycarpa) on populations of salicylate-mineralizing microorganisms in alpine soils. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26:2049-2057
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Variation in competitive abilities of plants and microbes for specific amino acids. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29:257-261.
Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Links between microbial population dynamics and N availability in an alpine ecosystem. Ecology 80:1623-1631
Lipson, D.A., Schadt, C.W., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid N to the alpine sedge, Kobresia myosuroides. New Phytologist 142:163-167
Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Soil amino acid utilization among species of the Cyperaceae: plant and soil processes, Ecology 80:2408-2419
Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K (1998) Plant-microbe competition for soil amino acids in the alpine tundra: effects of freeze-thaw and dry-rewet events. Oecologia 113:406-414
Lipson, D.A., Bowman, W.D. and Monson, R.K. (1996) Luxury uptake and storage of N in the rhizomatous alpine herb, Bistorta bistortoides. Ecology 77:1277-1285
Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K. and Monson, R.K. (1996) d-Acetylornithine as a major nitrogen storgage compound in Bistorta bistortoides. Phytochemistry 41:29-30
Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K. (1996) Non-mycorrhizal uptake of amino acids by roots of the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides: implications for the alpine nitrogen cycle. Oecologia 108:488-494