John Stark

Publications | Book Chapters

• Germino, M.J, Belnap, J., Stark, J.M, Allen, E.B, Rau, B.M, (2015). Ecosystem impacts of exotic annual invaders in the genus Bromus: Exotic brome-grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the Wester US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. Springer
• Belnap, J., Stark, J.M, Rau, B.J, Allen, E.B, Phillips, S.L, (2015). Soil moisture and biogeochemical factors influence the distribution of annual Bromus species: Exotic brome-grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the Wester US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. Springer
• Norton, J.M, Stark, J.M, (2011). Regulation and measurement of nitrification in terrestrial systems: Methods in Enzymology. Elsevier, Methods in Enzymology
• Stark, J.M, (2000). Nutrient Transformations. In: O.E. Sala, R.B. Jackson, H.A. Mooney, and R. Howarth (eds.), Methods in Ecosystem Science
• Stark, J.M, (1999). Effects of disturbance on microbial activity and N-cycling in forest and shrubland ecosystems. In: Meurisse, R.T., et al (eds.). Soil Organisms in Pacific Northwest Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems *
• Stark, J.M, (1994). Causes of soil nutrient heterogeneity at different scales. In: M.M Caldwell and R. Pearcy (eds.): Exploitation of Environmental Heterogeneity by Plants: Ecophysiological Processes Above and Below Ground

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Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Kulmatiski, A., Adler, P., Stark, J.M, Tredennik, A.T, (2017). Water and nitrogen uptake are better associated with resource availability than root biomass. Ecosphere, 8, e01738.
• Ouyang, Y., Norton, J.M, Stark, J.M, (2017). Ammonium availability and temperature control contributions of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea to nitrification in an agricultural soil . Soil Biology and Biochemistry /Elsevier, 113:October, 161-172. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.06.010
• Hall, S.J, Baker, M.A, Jones, S.B, Stark, J.M, Bowling, D.R, (2016). Contrasting soil nitrogen dynamics across a montane meadow and urban lawn in a semi-arid watershed. Urban Ecosystems, doi: 10.1007/s11252-016-0538-0
• Ouyang, Y., Norton, J.M, Stark, J.M, Reeve, J., Habteselassie, M.Y, (2016). Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are more responsive than archaea to nitrogen source in an agricultural soil.. Soil Biology and Biochemistry/Elsevier, 96, 4-15. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.01.012
• Morris, K.A, Stark, J.M, Bugbee, B.G, Norton, J.M, (2016). The invasive annual cheatgrass releases more nitrogen than crested wheatgrass through root exudation and senescence. Oecologia, doi: DOI 10.1007/s00442-015-3544-7
• Cardon, Z.G, Stark, J.M, Herron, P.M, Rasmussen, J., (2013). Sagebrush carrying out hydraulic lift enhances surface soil nitrogen cycling and nitrogen uptake into inflorescences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 110:47, 18988-18993.
• Hooker, T.D, Stark, J.M, (2012). Carbon flow from plant detritus and soil organic matter to microbes—Linking carbon and nitrogen cycling in semiarid soils. Soil Science Society America Journal, 76, 903-914.
• Norton, U., Saetre, P., Hooker, T., Stark, J.M, (2012). Vegetation and moisture controls on soil C mineralization in semi-arid environments. Soil Science Society America Journal, 76, 1038-1047.
• Huang, T., Sun, L., Stark, J.M, Wang, Y., Cheng, Z., Yang, Q., Sun, S., (2011). Relative changes in krill abundance inferred from Antarctic fur seal. PLoS ONE , 6:11
• Koper, T.E, Stark, J.M, Habteselassie, M.Y, Norton, J.M, (2010). Nitrification exhibits Haldane kinetics in an agricultural soil treated with ammonium sulfate or dairy waste compost. . FEMS Microbial Ecology, Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 74, 316-322. doi: DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00960.x
• Herron, P.M, Stark, J.M, Holt, C.T, Hooker, T.D, Cardon, Z.G, (2009). Microbial growth efficiencies across a soil moisture gradient assessed using 13C-acetic acid vapor and 15N-ammonia gas. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 1262-1269.
• Hooker, T.D, Stark, J.M, (2008). Soil C and N cycling in three semiarid vegetation types: Response to an in situ pulse of plant detritus. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 40, 2678-2685.
• Hooker, T.D, Stark, J.M, Norton, U., Leffler, A.J, Peek, M., Ryel, R.J, (2008). Distribution of ecosystem C and N within contrasting vegetation types in a semiarid rangeland in the Great Basin, USA. Biogeochemistry, 90, 291-308.
• Leonard, E.D, Monaco, T.A, Stark, J.M, Ryel, R.J, (2008). Invasive forb, annual grass, and exotic shrub competition with three sagebrush-steppe growth forms: Acquisition of a spring 15N tracer. Invasive Plant Science & Management, 1, 168-177.
• Habteselassie, M.Y, Miller, B., Thacker, S.G, Stark, J.M, Norton, J.M, (2006). Soil Nitrogen and Nutrient Dynamics after Repeated Application of Treated Dairy-waste. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 70, 1328-1337.
• Stark, J.M, (2006). Gross nitrogen transformations in an agricultural soil after repeated dairy-waste application. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 70, 1338-1348.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stark, J.M, (2006). Exotic plant communities shift water-use timing in a shrub-steppe ecosystem. Plant & Soil, 288, 271-284.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stark, J.M, (2006). Soil history as a primary control on plant invasion in abandoned agricultural fields. J Applied Ecology, 43, 868-876.
• Booth, M.S, Stark, J.M, Hart, S.C, (2006). Soil mixing effects on inorganic nitrogen production and consumption in forest and shrubland soils. Plant & Soil, 289, 15-May.
• Habteselassie, M.Y, Stark, J.M, Miller, B., Thacker, S., Norton, J.M, (2006). Soil nitrogen and nutrient dynamics after repeated application of treated dairy-waste. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 70, 1328-1337.
• Selmants, P.C, Hart, S.C, Boyle, S.I, Stark, J.M, (2005). Red alder (Alnus rubra) alters community-level soil microbial function in conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 37, 1860-1868.
• Booth, M.S, Stark, J.M, Rastetter, E., (2005). Controls on nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: A synthetic analysis of literature data. Ecological Monographs, 75, 139-157.
• Morris, A.E, Stark, J.M, Gilbert, B.K, (2005). Evaluation of isotopic fractionation error on calculations of marine-derived nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. Canadian J. Forest Research, 35, 1604-1616.
• Saetre, P., Stark, J.M, (2005). Microbial dynamics and carbon and nitrogen cycling following rewetting of two dry semiarid soils. Oecologia, 142, 247-260.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stark, J.M, (2004). Finding endemic soil-based controls on weed growth. Weed Technology, 18, 115-120.
• Austin, A., Yahdjian, M.L, Stark, J.M, Belnap, J., Porporato, A., Burke, I.C, Choromanska, U., Ravetta, D., Schaeffer, S.M, (2004). Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Oecologia, 141, 221-235.
• Booth, M.S, Stark, J.M, Caldwell, M.M, (2003). Inorganic N turnover and availability in annual- and perennial-dominated soils in a northern Utah shrub-steppe ecosystem. Biogeochemistry, 66, 311-330.
• Booth, M.S, Caldwell, M.M, Stark, J.M, (2003). Overlapping resource use in three Great Basin species: Implications for community invasibility and vegetation dynamics. Journal of Ecology, 91, 36-48.
• Ivans, C.Y, Leffler, A.J, Spaulding, U., Stark, J.M, Ryel, R.J, Caldwell, M.M, (2003). Root responses and nitrogen acquisition by Artemisia tridentata and Agropyron desertorum following small summer rainfall events. Oecologia, 134, 317-324.
• Stark, J.M, Hart, S.C, (2003). UV-B radiation and soil microbial communities. Nature, 423, 137-138.
• Haubensak, K.A, Hart, S.C, Stark, J.M, (2002). Influences of chloroform exposure time and soil water content on C and N release in forest soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 34, 1549-1562.
• Stark, J.M, Smart, D.R, Hart, S.C, Haubensak, K.A, (2002). Regulation of nitric oxide emissions from forest and rangeland soils of western North America. Ecology, 83, 2278-2292.
• Stark, J.M, Schimel, J., (2001). Errors in "Overestimation of gross N transformation rates in grassland soils...". Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 33, 1433-1435.
• Chen, J., Stark, J.M, (2000). Plant species effects and carbon and nitrogen cycling in a sagebrush-crested wheatgrass soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 32, 47-57.
• Stark, J.M, (1999). Resource limitations to nitric oxide emissions from a sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. Biogeochemistry, 47, 63-86.
• Stark, J.M, Smart, D., Ritchie, K., Bugbee, B.G, (1997). Evidence that Elevated C02 Levels and Indirectly Increase Rhizosphere Denitrifier Activity. 63, 4621.
• Smart, D.R, Ritchie, K., Stark, J.M, Bugbee, B.G, (1997). Evidence that elevated CO2 levels can indirectly increase rhizosphere denitrifier activity.. Applied and environmental microbiology, 63:11, 4621–4624.
• Smart, D.R, Ritchie, K., Stark, J.M, Bugbee, B.G, (1997). Evidence that elevated CO2 levels can indirectly increase rhizosphere denitrifier activity.. Applied and environmental microbiology, 63:11, 4621-4.
• Low, A., Stark, J.M, Dudley, L., (1997). Effects of soil osmotic potential on nitrification, ammonification, N-assimilation, and nitrous oxide production.. Soil Science, 162, 16-27.
• Stark, J.M, (1997). Nitrogen limitation of the microbial biomass in an old-growth forest soil. Ecoscience, 4, 91-98.
• Stark, J.M, Hart, S.C, (1997). High rates of nitrification and nitrate turnover in undisturbed coniferous forests. Nature, 385, 61-64.
• Stark, J.M, (1996). Diffusion technique for preparing salt solutions, Kjeldahl digests, and persulfate digests for nitrogen-15 analysis. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 60(6):1846-1855
• Stark, J.M, (1996). Kinetic characteristics of ammonium-oxidizer communities in a California oak woodland-annual grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 28:1307-1317
• Stark, J.M, (1996). Modeling the temperature response of nitrification. Biogeochemistry 35:433-445
• Stark, J.M, (1996). Shaker speeds for aerobic soil slurry incubations. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 27:2625-2631
• Stark, J.M, (1995). Isotopic labeling of soil nitrate pools using 15N-nitric oxide gas. Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. J. 59:844-84
• Stark, J.M, (1995). Mechanisms for soil moisture effects on activity of nitrifying bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:218-221

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Publications | Other

Other

• Stark, J.M, (1995). The effect of osmotic potential on ammonification, immobilization, nitrification and nitrous oxide production rates in soil. M.S. Thesis, Utah State University, Logan *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.