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432 Birge Hall Office: (608) 262-2592 Lab: (608) 265-8001 |
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My research emphasizes ecological dynamics at broad scales and the influence of spatial heterogeneity on ecological processes; much of my work focuses on understanding the causes and ecological consequences of landscape heterogeneity. My long-term research in Yellowstone National Park emphasizes the role of natural wildfires in the landscape and its importance for vegetation and ecosystem processes. Our current research seeks to understand variation in carbon and nitrogen cycling across a range of spatial scales, and we are beginning to address the interactive effects of two disturbances—fire and mountain pine beetles. Another current research focus in my lab is to understand the effects of land-use history on vegetation and ecosystem processes. We are determining how historical land use and contemporary landscape patterns influence the presence and abundance of invasive plants in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This research is part of the Coweeta Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) site. Our third major focus is on the connections between terrestrial and aquatic systems in Wisconsin, and this work is in collaboration with a number of other UW-Madison faculty and students. We emphasize the causes and consequences of land-use change around lakes, long-term dynamics of the riparian forests, and hydrologic and biogeochemical interactions in the overall land-water mosaic. The research projects in my lab reflect diverse questions, approaches, and locations, yet they share a common theme of examining the causes and consequences of spatial heterogeneity in ecological systems.
Highlights from this past year include publication of a new edited volume of foundation papers in landscape ecology (Wiens et al. 2007) and the translation of the Turner et al. (2001) landscape ecology text and the Gergel and Turner (2002) companion volume into Korean. In March 2006, I participated in a science briefing for House and Senate staffers on Capitol Hill, acting as the Ecological Society of America’s representative and giving a presentation on forest fires. In November 2006, I participated in a workshop sponsored by the General Accounting Office and the National Research Council that brought scientists and federal land managers together to address the consequences of global climate change for federal lands.
Courses:
Zoology 152: Introductory Biology
Zoology 879: Advanced Landscape Ecology
Zoology 956: Seminar-Ecology
Note to prospective graduate students:
I look for bright, enthusiastic, hard-working students who are interested in ecology, specifically in some aspect of landscape ecology (defined very broadly) and who are interested in both field and modeling studies. Opportunities vary with current projects and funding levels, and prospective students should check my lab web page to see what research is underway.
Graduate students currently supervised:
Tim Kuhman (kuhman @ wisc.edu)
Zoology PhD candidate - Invasive plant distributions in Southern Appalachian landscapesMartin Simard (simard @ wisc.edu)
Zoology PhD candidate - Reciprocal interactions between fire and mountain pine beetles in the Yellowstone landscapeJake Griffin (jgriffin2 @ wisc.edu)
Zoology PhD candidate - Nitrogen cycling in disturbed forests of the Yellowstone landscape
Postdoctoral associates currently mentored:
Ishi Buffam - (buffam @ wisc.edu)
Hydrologic and biogeochemical fluxes in regional land-water mosaics; research focused on the Northern Highlands Lake District of northern Wisconsin
Students supervised who recently earned graduate degrees:
Thomas P Albright, PhD Zoology, 2007. Abstract
Anna E. Marburg, PhD Zoology, 2006. Abstract
Kathryn I. Predick, PhD Zoology, Spring 2006. Abstract
Elizabeth A. Levitt, MS Zoology, 2006. Abstract
Alysa J. Remsburg, PhD Zoology 2007, MS Zoology, Spring 2005 Abstract
Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, PhD Zoology, Spring 2005 Abstract
James D. Forester, PhD Zoology, Summer 2005, MS 2002 Abstract
Anna Sugden-Newbery, MS Zoology 2003 Abstract
Katie Predick, MS Zoology 2002 Abstract
Tania Schoennagel, PhD Zoology and Botany 2002 Abstract
Daniel M Kashian, PhD Zoology and Forest Ecology & Management 2002 Abstract
Mark A Smith, PhD Zoology and Wildlife Ecology 2002
Mark D. Dixon, Ph.D. Zoology 2001 Abstract
Mark Wegener, MS IES 2001; co-advised with Tom Lillesand
Christopher Mitchell, MS Zoology 2000 Abstract
Jill Schnaiberg, MS IES, 2000; co-advised with Nancy Langston
Sarah E Gergel, MS and PhD Zoology 2000 Abstract
Books/Monographs published:
Gergel, S. E. and M. G. Turner, editors. 2002. Learning landscape ecology: a practical guide to concepts and techniques. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Lovett, G. M., C. G. Jones, M. G. Turner and K. C. Weathers, editors. 2005. Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Wiens, J. A., M. R. Moss, M. G. Turner and D. J. Mladenoff, editors. 2007. Foundation papers in landscape ecology. Columbia University Press, New York.
Papers in refereed national/international journals:
(* indicates papers led by a student or postdoc in my lab)
Turner, M. G., E. A. H. Smithwick, K. L. Metzger, D. B. Tinker and W. H. Romme. 2007. Inorganic nitrogen availability following severe stand-replacing fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (In press).
Turner, M. G., D. M. Turner, W. H. Romme and D. B. Tinker. 2007. Cone production in young post-fire Pinus contorta stands in Greater Yellowstone (USA). Forest Ecology and Management (In press).
Agrawal, A. A., D. D. Ackerly, F. Adler, B. Arnold, C. Caceres, D. F. Doak, E. Post, P. Hudson, J. Maron, K. A. Mooney, M. Power, D. Schemske, J. Stachowica, S. Strauss, M. G. Turner, E. Werner. 2007. Filling key gaps in population and community ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (In press).
*Cardille, J. A., Carpenter, S. R., Coe, M. T., Hanson, P. R., Foley, J. A., Turner, M. G., and J. A. Vano. 2007. Carbon and water cycling in lake-rich landscapes: landscape connections, lake hydrology and biogeochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. (In press).
Carpenter, S.R., B.J. Benson, R. Biggs, J.W. Chipman, J.A. Foley, S.A. Golding, R.B. Hammer, P.C. Hanson, P.T.J. Johnson, A.M. Kamarainen, T.K. Kratz, R.C. Lathrop, K.D. McMahon, B. Provencher, J.A. Rusak, C.T. Solomon, E.H. Stanley, M.G. Turner, M.J. Vander Zanden, C.-H. Wu and H. Yuan. 2007. Understanding regional change: comparison of two lake districts. BioScience (In press).
*Dixon, M. D. and M. G. Turner. 2007. Simulated recruitment of riparian trees under natural and regulated flow regimes on the Wisconsin River, USA. River Research and Applications (In press).
*Forester, J. D., A. R. Ives, M. G. Turner, D. P. Anderson, D. Fortin, H. Beyer, D. W. Smith and M. S. Boyce. 2007. Using state-space models to link patterns of elk (Cervus elaphus) movement to landscape characteristics in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology (In press).
Roth, B. M., I. C. Kaplan, G. G. Sass, P. T. Johnson, A. E. Marburg, A. C. Yannarell, T. D. Havlicek, T. V. Willis, M. G. Turner and S. R. Carpenter. 2007. Linking terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: the role of coarse wood in lake food webs. Ecological Modelling (In press).
*Fraterrigo, J. M., T. C. Balser and M. G. Turner. 2006. Microbial community variation and its relationship with nitrogen mineralization in historically altered forests. Ecology 87:570-579.
*Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner and S. M. Pearson. 2006. Plant allocation and growth in the herb layer of historically altered forests. Journal of Ecology 94:548-557.
*Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner and S. M. Pearson. 2006. Interactions between past land use, life-history traits and understory spatial heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology 21:777-790.
Groffman, P.M., J. S. Baron, T. Blett, A. J. Gold, I. Goodman, L. H. Gunderson, B. M. Levinson, M. A. Palmer, H. W. Paerl, G. D. Peterson, N. L. Poff, D. W. Rejeski, J. F. Reynolds, M. G. Turner, K. C. Weathers, and J.A. Wiens. 2006. Ecological thresholds: The key to successful environmental management or an important concept with no practical application? Ecosystems 9:1-13.
Kashian, D. M., W. H. Romme, D. B. Tinker, M. G. Turner and M. G. Ryan. 2006. Carbon cycling and storage across coniferous landscapes: linking fire frequency, post-fire recovery, and ecosystem processes. BioScience 56:598-606.
*Marburg, A. E., M. G. Turner and T. K. Kratz. 2006. Natural and anthropogenic variation in coarse wood among and within lakes. Journal of Ecology 94:558-568.
*Metzger, K. L., W. H. Romme and M. G. Turner. 2006. Foliar nitrogen in early postfire vegetation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Wyoming, USA). Forest Ecology and Management 227:22-30.
*Remsburg, A. J. and M. G. Turner. 2006. Amount, position and age of coarse wood influence litter decomposition within and among young post-fire Pinus contorta stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:2112-2123.
Sass, G. G., J. F. Kitchell, S. R. Carpenter, T. R. Hrabik, A. Marburg, and M. G. Turner. 2006. Fish community and food web responses to a whole-lake removal of coarse woody habitat. Fisheries 31:321-330.
*Schoennagel, T., M.G. Turner, A. Fall and D. M. Kashian. 2006. Influence of fire regimes on lodgepole pine stand age and density across the Yellowstone National Park (USA) landscape. Landscape Ecology 21:1281-1296.
Turner, M. G. 2005. Landscape ecology in North America: past, present and future. Ecology 86:1967-1974.
Turner, M. G. 2005. Landscape ecology: what is the state of the science? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 36:319-344.
*Anderson, D. P., M. G. Turner, J. D. Forester, J. Zhu, M. S. Boyce, H. Beyer and L. Stowell. 2005. Scale-dependent summer habitat use by elk (Cervus elaphus) in Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:298-310.
*Anderson, D.P., J. D. Forester, M. G. Turner, J. L. Frair, E. H. Merrill, D. Haydon, D. Fortin, J. S. Mao, M. S. Boyce, J. Fryxell, and H. Beyer. 2005. Factors influencing seasonal home-range sizes in elk (Cervus canadensis) in North American landscapes. Landscape Ecology 20:257-271.
*Cardille, J. A., M. G. Turner, M. Clayton, S. Price, and S. E. Gergel. 2005. METALAND: Characterizing spatial patterns and statistical context of landscape metrics. BioScience 55:983-988.
*Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner, S. M. Pearson, and P. Dixon. 2005. Effects of past land use on spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in Southern Appalachian forests. Ecological Monographs 75:215-230.
*Kashian, D. M., M.G.Turner, and W.H. Romme. 2005. Changes in leaf area and stemwood increment with stand development in Yellowstone National Park: Relationships between forest stand structure and function. Ecosystems 8:48-61.
*Kashian, D. M., M. G. Turner, W. H. Romme and C. J. Lorimer. 2005. Variability and convergence in stand structure with forest development on a fire-dominated landscape. Ecology 86:643-654.
Palmer, M.A., E. Bernhardt, E. Chornesky, S.L. Collins, A. Dobson, C. Duke, B. Gold, R. Jacobson, S. Kingsland, R. Kranz, M. Mappin, F. Micheli, J. Morse, M. Pace, M. Pascual, S. Palumbi, J. Reichman, W.H. Schlesinger, A. Townsend, M. G. Turner, and M. Vasquez. 2005. Ecology for a Crowded Planet: a Science Action Plan for the 21st Century. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:4-11.
Romme, W. H., M. G. Turner, G. A. Tuskan and R. A. Reed. 2005. Establishment, persistence and growth of aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology 86:404-418.
*Smithwick, E. A. H., M. C. Mack, M. G. Turner, F. S. Chapin III, J. Zhu and T. C. Balser. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity and soil nitrogen dynamics in a burned black spruce forest stand: distinct controls at different scales. Biogeochemistry 76:517-537.
*Smithwick, E. A. H., M. G. Turner, M. C. Mack, and F. S. Chapin, III. 2005. Post-fire soil N cycling in northern conifer forests affected by severe, stand-replacing wildfires. Ecosystems 8:163-181.
*Smithwick, E.A.H., M. G. Turner, K. L. Metzger, and T. C. Balser. 2005. Variation in NH4+ mineralization and microbial communities with stand age in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests, Yellowstone National Park (USA). Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry 37:1546-1559
Turner, M. G., S. E. Gergel, M. D. Dixon and J. R. Miller. 2004. Distribution and abundance of trees in floodplain forests of the Wisconsin River: environmental influences at different scales. Journal of Vegetation Science 15:729-738.
Turner, M. G., D. B. Tinker, W. H. Romme, D. M. Kashian and C. M. Litton. 2004. Landscape patterns of sapling density, leaf area, and aboveground net primary production in postfire lodgepole pine forests, Yellowstone National Park (USA). Ecosystems 7:751-775.
*Kashian, D. M., D. B. Tinker, M. G. Turner and F. L. Scarpace. 2004. Spatial heterogeneity of lodgepole pine sapling densities following the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34 2263-2276.
*Miller, J. R., M. D. Dixon, and M. G. Turner. 2004. Response of avian communities in large-river floodplains to environmental variation at multiple scales. Ecological Applications 14:1394-1410.
*Miller, J. R., M. G. Turner, E. A. H. Smithwick, C. L. Dent and E.H. Stanley. 2004. Spatial extrapolation: the science of predicting ecological patterns and processes. BioScience 54:310-320.
Palmer, M. A., E. S. Berhnhardt, E. A. Chornesky, S. L. Collins, A. P. Dobson, C. S. Duke, B. D. Gold, R. Jacobson, S. Kingsland, R. Kranz, M. J. Mappin, M. L. Martinez, F. Micheli, J. L. Morse, M. L. Pace, M. Pascual, S. Palumbi, O. J. Reichman, A. L. Simons, A. Townsend and M. G. Turner. 2004. Ecology for a crowded planet. Science 304:1251-1252.
*Schoennagel, T., D. M. Waller, M. G. Turner and W. H. Romme. 2004. The effect of fire interval on understory communities in Yellowstone National Park (USA). Journal of Vegetation Science 15:797-806.
Turner, M. G., S. Collins, A. Lugo, J. Magnuson, S. Rupp and F. Swanson. 2003. Long-term ecological research on disturbance and ecological response. BioScience 53:46-56.
Turner, M. G., W. H. Romme, R. A. Reed and G. A. Tuskan. 2003. Postfire aspen seedling recruitment across the Yellowstone (USA) landscape. Landscape Ecology 18: 127-140.
Turner, M. G., S. M. Pearson, P. Bolstad and D. N. Wear. 2003. Effects of land-cover change on spatial pattern of forest communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains (USA). Landscape Ecology 18:449-464.
Turner, M. G., W. H. Romme and D. B. Tinker. 2003. Surprises and lessons from the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(7):351-358.
Boyce, M. S., J. S. Mao, E. H. Merrill, D. Fortin, M. G. Turner, J. Fryxell, and P. Turchin. 2003. Scale and heterogeneity in habitat selection by elk in Yellowstone National Park. EcoScience 10:421-431.
Freeman, R. E., E. H. Stanley and M. G. Turner. 2003. Analysis and conservation implications of landscape change in the Wisconsin River floodplain, USA. Ecological Applications 13:416-431.
*Schoennagel, T., M. G. Turner and W. H. Romme. 2003. The influence of fire interval and serotiny on postfire lodgepole pine density in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology 84:1967-1978.
*Burgi, M. and M. G. Turner. 2002. Factors and processes shaping land cover and land cover changes along the Wisconsin River, USA. Ecosystems 5:184-201.
*Dixon, M. D., M. G. Turner and C. Jin. 2002. Distribution of riparian tree seedlings on Wisconsin River sandbars: controls at different spatial scales. Ecological Monographs 72:465-485.
*Gergel, S. E., M. D. Dixon and M. G. Turner. 2002. Consequences of human-altered floods: levees, floods and floodplain forests along the Wisconsin River. Ecological Applications 12:1755-1770.
*Gergel, S. E., M. G. Turner, J. R. Miller, J. M. Melack and E. H. Stanley. 2002. Landscape indicators of human impacts to river-floodplain systems. Aquatic Sciences 64:118-128.
*Mitchell, C. E., M. G. Turner and S. M. Pearson. 2002. Effects of historical land use and forest patch size on myrmecochores and ant communities. Ecological Applications 12:1364-1377.
*Schnaiberg, J., J. Riera, M. G. Turner and P. R.Voss. 2002. Explaining human settlement patterns in a recreational lake district: Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA. Environmental Management 30:24-34.
*Smith, M. A., M. G. Turner and D. H. Rusch. 2002. The effect of military training activity on eastern lupine and the Karner blue butterfly on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Environmental Management 29: 102-115.
