CURRICULUM VITAE

F. Stuart Chapin, III

Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks AK 99775

 

Education

            B.A. in Biology, Swarthmore College, l966

            Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University, l973

Honors Received

Guggenheim Fellowship, l979-l980; Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologist, 1996 (Univ. of Umea); Hill Professor, 1995 (Univ. of Minnesota); Member-Ecology Institute (Germany) 1986-; Usabelli Award (top researcher in all fields; Univ. of Alaska) 2000; AAAS Fellow 2000; Member Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry 2000; Outstanding faculty member, Univ. of Alaska (selected by students) 2002; Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2002; Member National Academy of Sciences 2004; Oosting lecture, Duke Univ. 2004. US Forest Service Wilderness Research Award on behalf of the Resilience and Adaptation Program.

Positions Held

Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1984-1989 and 1996-; Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-98; Assistant Director, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1981-1983; Assistant/Assoc. Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1973-1984; Visiting Instructor in Biology (Peace Corps) Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia, 1966-1968;

Professional Activities

National Academy of Sciences

            Global change working group on terrestrial ecosystems, (Chair 1990-93); Global change working group on nutrient and trace gas fluxes (1988-91); Polar Research Board (1989-93); Senior Science Advisor: Young Investigator Exchange with Russia (1993-94)

International Committees

            Global Change in Terres. Ecosys. (GCTE), Science Steering Comm (1993-99)

            Global Atmos. Chem. Project (IGAC), High-latitude coord. comm. (1992-95)

            International Science Foundation Review Panel: Biospheric Sciences (1993)

National Committees

            Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Steering Committee (1998-2002)

            ARCSS Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interact. Steering Comm. (1990- 2002); chair (1998-2002)

            NSF Panel:  Population biology and physiological ecology (1986-1988)

Editorial Boards 

Ecology and Ecological Monographs (1982-1985); Tree Physiology (1986-88); Oecologia (1985-96); American Naturalist (1990-93); Ecology Series, Academic Press (1988-05); Conservation Ecology (1995-00); Ecosystems (1996-99); Ecology and Society (2003-)

Ecological Society of America

Mercer Awards Committee (1988-1991; Chair 1989-1991); Eminent Ecologist Awards Committee (1993-96); Council Member at Large (1992-1994); Sustainability Science Award (Chair 2003- 6)

Advisory Boards

Inst. of Arctic and Alpine Research (1989-96); Glacier Bay Science Board 1988-94); National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (1995-98); H.J. Andrews LTER (2001-); LTER Network, National Advisory Board (2006-); International Arctic Research Center Advisory Board (2005- ); Board member, Resilience Alliance (2006-)

Director,

Resilience and Adaptation Program (IGERT, Univ. of Alaska) (2001-  )

Principal Investigator, Bonanza Creek LTER site (1996- )


BOOKS

 

1. Van Cleve, K., F.S. Chapin, III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Vierick, and C.T. Dyrness (eds.).  1986.  Forest ecosystems in the Alaskan taiga.  A synthesis of structure and function.  Springer-Verlag, New York.

2. Caron, D.C. F.S. Chapin, III, J. Donoghue, M. Firestone, J. Harte, L.E. Wells, and R. Stewardson. 1994. Ecological and Social Dimensions of Global Change. Institute of International Studies, Berkeley.

3. Chapin, F.S., III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver, and J. Svoboda (eds.).  1992.  Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate.  Academic Press.  San Diego.

4. Chapin, F.S., III, and Ch. Körner, eds. 1995. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

5. Lambers, H., F.S. Chapin, III, and J.L. Pons. 1998. Plant Physiological Ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York. [Published in Chinese 2005]

6. Chapin, F.S., III, O. Sala, and E. Huber-Sannwald (eds). 2001.  Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Springer-Verlag, New York.

7. Chapin, F.S., III, P.A. Matson, and H.A. Mooney. 2002. Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York ISBN 0-387-95439-2. [Published in Chinese 2005]

8. Chapin, F.S., III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L Verbyla (editors). 2006. AlaskaŐs Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-515431-2.

 

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

 

l. Chapin, F.S., III.  l973.  Morphological and physiological mechanisms of temperature compensation in phosphate absorption along a latitudinal gradient.  Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford Univ., l34 pp.

2. Chapin, F.S., III.  l974.  Phosphate absorption capacity and acclimation potential in plants along a latitudinal gradient.  Science l83:52l-523. 

3. Chapin, F.S., III.  l974.  Morphological and physiological mechanisms of temperature compensation in phosphate absorption along a latitudinal gradient.  Ecology 55:ll80-ll98. 

4. Chapin, F.S., III.  l974.  Effect of low phosphate pretreatment of plant species with different relative growth rates on subsequent phosphate uptake.  Science l86:847. 

5. Chapin, F.S., III, and D.F. Holleman.  l974.  Radioassay of 32P in intact plant roots using Cerenkov radiation detection.  Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isotopes 25:568-570. 

6. Chapin, F.S., III, K. Van Cleve, and L.L. Tieszen.  l975.  Seasonal nutrient dynamics of tundra vegetation at Barrow, Alaska.  Arct. Alp. Res. 7:209-226. 

7. Chapin, F.S., III, and A. Bloom.  l976. Phosphate absorption: adaptation of tundra graminoids to a low temperature, low phosphorus environment.  Oikos 27:lll-l2l. 

8. Chapin, F.S., III.  l977.  Temperature compensation in phosphate absorption occurring over diverse time scales.  Arct. Alp. Res. 9:l39-l48.

9. Chapin, F.S., III.  l977.  Thermal adaptations of the phosphate absorption process in plants along a latitudinal gradient.  Pages 99-l09 In The Belowground Ecosystem:  A Synthesis of Plant - Associated Processes (J. K. Marshall, ed.).  Range Science Dept. Sciences Series No. 26.  Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins. 

10. Chapin, F.S., III.  l978.  Phosphate uptake and nutrient utilization by Barrow tundra vegetation.  Pp. 483-507 In Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaska Arctic Tundra (L. L. Tieszen, ed.).  Springer-Verlag, New York.

11. Chapin, F.S., III, R.J. Barsdate, and D. Barel.  l978.  Phosphorus cycling in Alaskan coastal tundra:  a hypothesis for the regulation of nutrient cycling.  Oikos 3l:l89-l99.

12. Chapin, F.S., III, and K. Van Cleve.  l978.  Nitrogen and phosphorus distribution in an Alaskan tussock tundra ecosystem:  natural patterns and implications for development.  Pp. 738-753 In Environmental Chemistry and Cycling Processes (D. C. Adriano and I. L. Brisbin, eds.).

13. Kedrowski, R.A., and F.S. Chapin, III.  l978.  Comparison of lipid composition of Carex aquatilis from hot spring and permafrost-dominated sites in Alaska: Implications for nutrient requirements.  Physiol. Plant. 44:23l-237.

14. Miller, P.C., W.A. Stoner, L.L. Tieszen, M.L. Allessio, B.H. McCown, F.S. Chapin, III, and G. Shaver.  l978.  A model of carbohydrate, nitrogen and phosphorus allocation and growth in tundra production.  Pp. 577-598 In Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra (L. L. Tiezen, ed.). Springer-Verlag, New York.

15. Chapin, F.S., III.  l979.  Nutrient uptake and utilization by tundra plants.  Pp. 2l5-234 In Comparative Mechanisms of Cold Adaptation (L.S. Underwood, L.L. Tieszen, A.B. Callahan, G.E. Folk, eds.).  Academic Press, New York.

16. Chapin, F.S., III, and M. Slack.  l979.  Effect of defoliation upon root growth, phosphate absorption and respiration in nutrient-limited tundra graminoids.  Oecologia (Berl.) 42:67-79.

17. Chapin, F.S., III., K. Van Cleve, and M.C. Chapin.  l979.  Soil temperature and nutrient cycling in the tussock growth form of Eriophorum vaginatum.  J. Ecol. 67:l69-l89.

18. Shaver, G.A., F.S. Chapin, III, and W.D. Billings.  l979.  Ecotypic differentiation in Carex aquatilis on ice-wedge polygons in the Alaskan coastal tundra.  J. Ecol. 67:l025-l046.

19. Chapin, F.S., III.  l980.  The mineral nutrition of wild plants.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. ll:233-260. 

20. Chapin, F.S., III.  l980.  Nutrient allocation and responses to defoliation in tundra plants.  Arct. Alp. Res.  l2:553-563.

21. Chapin, F.S., III, and M.C. Chapin.  l980.  Revegetation of an arctic disturbed site by native tundra species:  Implications for community restoration.  J. Appl. Ecol.  l7:449-456.

22. Chapin, F.S., III, D.A. Johnson, and J.D. McKendrick.  l980.  Seasonal movement of nutrients in plants of differing growth form in an Alaskan tundra ecosystem:  Implications for herbivory.  J. Ecol. 68:l89-209.

23. Chapin, F.S, III, P.C. Miller, W.D. Billings, and P. Coyne. l980.  Carbon and nutrient budgets and their control in coastal tundra.  Pp. 458-482 In An Arctic Ecosystem:  The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska (J. Brown, P. Miller, L. Tieszen, and F. Bunnell eds.).  Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg.

24. Chapin, F.S., III, L.L. Tieszen, M. Lewis, P.C. Miller, and B.H. McCown.  l980.  Control of tundra plant allocation patterns and growth.  Pp. l40-l85 In An Arctic Ecosystem:  The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska  (J. Brown, P. Miller, L. Tieszen, and F. Bunnell eds.).  Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg.

25. Shaver, G.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  l980.  Response to fertilization by various plant growth forms in an Alaskan tundra:  Nutrient accumulation and growth.  Ecology 6l:662-675.

26. Webber, P.J., P.C. Miller, F.S. Chapin, III, and B.H. McCown. l980.  The vegetation:  Pattern and succession.  Pp. l86-2l8 In An Arctic Tundra Ecosystem:  The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska (J. Brown, P. C. Miller, L. L. Tieszen, and F. Bunnell eds.).  Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg.

27. Bloom, A.J., and F.S. Chapin, III.  l98l.  Differences in steady-state net ammonium and nitrate influx by cold and warm-adapted barley varieties.  Plant Physiol.  68:l064-l067.

28. Chapin, F.S., III.  l98l.  Field measurements of growth and phosphate absorption in Carex aquatilis along a latitudinal gradient.  Arct. Alp. Res. l3:83-94

29. Chapin, F.S., III, and M.C. Chapin.  l98l.  Ecotypic differentiation of growth processes in Carex aquatilis along latitudinal and local gradients.  Ecology 62:l000-l009.

30. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  l98l.  Changes in soil properties and vegetation following disturbance in Alaskan arctic tundra.  J. Appl. Ecol.  l8:605-6l7. 

31. Chapin, F.S. III, and K. Van Cleve.  l98l.  Plant nutrient absorption and retention under differing fire regimes.  Pp. 30l-32l In Fire Regimes and Ecosystem Processes (H. A. Mooney, T. M. Bonnickson, N. L. Christensen, J. E. Lotan, and W. A. Reiners, eds.).  USDA Forest Service, General Technical Rept. WO-26, Washington, DC.

32. Dowding, P., F.S. Chapin, III, F.E. Wielgolaski, and P. Kilfeather.  l98l.  Nutrients in tundra ecosystems.  Pp. 647-683 In Tundra Ecosystems:  A Comparative Analysis (L.C. Bliss, O.W. Heal, J.J. Moore, eds.).  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

33. Tieszen, L.L., P.C. Miller, M.C. Lewis, J. Mayo, F.S. Chapin, III, and W.C. Oechel.  l98l.  An analysis  of processes of primary production in tundra growth forms.  Pp.  285-356 In Tundra Ecosystems:  A Comparative Analysis.  (L.C. Bliss, O. W. Heal, J. J. Moore eds.).  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

34. Chapin, F.S., III, and R.L. Bieleski.  l982.  Mild phosphorus stress in barley and a related low-phosphorus-adapted barley grass:  Phosphorus fractions and phosphate absorption relation to growth. Physiol. Plant. 54:309-3l7.

35. Chapin, F.S., III, J. Follett, and K.F. O'Connor.  l982.  Growth, phosphate absorption, and phosphorus chemical fractions in two Chionochloa species.  J. Ecol. 70:305-32l.

36. Chapin, F.S., III, and P.R. Tryon.  l982.  Phosphate absorption and root respiration of different plant growth forms from northern Alaska.  Holarct. Ecol. 5:l64-l7l.

37. Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin, III, and D.R. Klein.  1983.  Carbon/nutrient balance of boreal plants in relation to herbivory.  Oikos 40:357-368. 

38. Chapin, F.S., III.  1983.  Adaptation of selected trees and grasses to low availability of phosphorus.  Plant  Soil 72:283-287.

39. Chapin, F.S., III.  1983.  Direct and indirect effects of temperature on arctic plants.  Polar Biol. 2:47-52.

40. Chapin, F.S., III.  1983.  Nitrogen and phosphorus nutrition and nutrient cycling by evergreen and deciduous understory shrubs in an Alaskan black spruce forest.  Can. J. For. Res. 13:773-781. 

41. Chapin, F.S., III.  1983.  Patterns of nutrient absorption and use by plants from natural and man-modified environments.  Pp. 175-187.  In Disturbance and ecosystems.  Components of response.  (H.A. Mooney and M. Godron, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 

42. Chapin, F.S., III, and R.A. Kedrowski.  1983.  Seasonal changes in nitrogen and phosphorus fractions and autumn retranslocation in evergreen and deciduous taiga trees.  Ecology 64:376-391. 

43. Chapin, F.S., III, and Oechel, W.  1983.  Photosynthesis, respiration, and phosphate uptake by Carex aquatilis ecotypes along latitudinal and local environmental gradients.  Ecology 64:743-751. 

44. Chapin, F.S., III, and P.R. Tryon.  1983.  Habitat and leaf habit as determinants of growth, nutrient absorption, and nutrient use by Alaskan taiga forest species.  Can. J. For. Res. 13:818-826. 

45. Chapin, F.S., K. Van Cleve, and P.R. Tryon.  1983.  Influence of phosphorus on the growth and biomass allocation of Alaskan taiga tree seedlings.  Can. J. For. Res. 13:1092-1098. 

46. Gartner, B.L., F.S. Chapin, III, and G.R. Shaver.  1983.  Demographic patterns of seedling establishment and growth of native graminoids in an Alaskan tundra disturbance.  J. Appl. Ecol. 20:965-980. 

47. Kummerow, J., B.A. Ellis, S. Kummerow, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1983.  Spring growth of shoots and roots in shrubs of an Alaskan muskeg.  Amer. J. Bot. 70:1509-1515.  

48. Shaver, G.R., B.L. Gartner, F.S. Chapin, III, and A.E. Linkins.  1983.  Revegetation of arctic disturbed sites by native tundra plants.  Pp. 1133-1138.  In Permafrost:  Fourth International Conference, Proceedings.  National Academy Press, Washington. 

49. Tryon, P.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1983.  Temperature control over root growth and root biomass in taiga forest trees.  Can. J. For. Res. 13:827-833. 

50. Van Cleve, K., C.T. Dyrness, L.A. Viereck, J. Fox, F.S. Chapin, III, and W. Oechel.  1983.  Taiga ecosystems in interior Alaska.  BioScience 33:39-44. 

51. Chapin, F.S., III.  1984.  The impact of increased air temperature on tundra plant communities.  Pp. 143-148.  In The potential effects of carbon dioxide-induced climatic changes in Alaska.  (J.H. McBeath, ed.).  School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management.  University of Alaska, Fairbanks. 

52. Miller, P.C., P.M. Miller, M. Blake-Jacobson, F.S. Chapin, III, K.R. Everett, D.W. Hilbert, J. Kummerow, A.E. Linkins, G.M. Marion, W.C. Oechel, S.W. Roberts, and L. Stuart.  1984.  Plant-soil processes in Eriophorum vaginatum tussock tundra in Alaska:  a systems modeling approach.  Ecol. Monogr. 54:361-405.

53. Shaver, G.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1984.  Limiting factors for plant growth in northern ecosystems.  Pp. 53-60.  In Future directions for ecological research in Nouveau-Quebec (T.R. Moore, ed.).  McGill Subarctic Research Paper No. 39.  McGill University, Montreal.

54. Bloom, A.J., F.S. Chapin, III, and H.A. Mooney.  1985.  Resource limitation in plants - an economic analogy.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 16:363-392.

55. Bryant, J.P., F. S. Chapin, III, P. Reichardt, and T. Clausen.  1985.  Adaptation to resource availability as a determinant of chemical defense strategies in woody plants.  Pp. 219-237 In Chemically mediated interactions between plants and other organisms (G.A. Cooper-Driver, T. Swain and E.E. Conn, eds.)  Plenum Press.

56. Chapin, F.S., III, J.P. Bryant, and J.F. Fox.  1985.  Lack of induced chemical defense in juvenile Alaskan woody plants in response to simulated browsing.  Oecologia (Berl.) 67:457-459.

57. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  1985.  Individualistic growth response of tundra plant species to manipulation of light, temperature, and nutrients in a field experiment.  Ecology 66:564-576.

58. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  1985.  Arctic.  Pages 16-40 In Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities (B.F. Chabot and H.A. Mooney, eds.).  Chapman and Hall, New York.

59. Coley, P.D., J.P. Bryant, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1985.  Resource availability and plant anti-herbivore defense.  Science. 230:895-899.

60. Jonasson, S., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1985.  Significance of sequential leaf development for nutrient balance of the cotton sedge, Eriophorum vaginatum  L.  Oecologia (Berl.) 67:511-518. 

61. Mark, A.F., N. Fetcher, G.R. Shaver, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1985.  Estimated ages of mature tussocks of cotton sedge, Eriophorum vaginatum along a latitudinal gradient in central Alaska.  Arct. Alp. Res. 17:1-5.

62. McNaughton, S.J., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1985.  Effects of phosphorus nutrition and defoliation on C4 graminoids from the Serengeti Plains.  Ecology 66:1617-1629.

63. Bryant, J.P., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1986.  Browsing-woody plant interactions during boreal forest plant succession.  Pp. 213-225 In Forest ecosystems in the Alaskan taiga.  A synthesis of structure and function (K. Van Cleve, F.S. Chapin, III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck and C.T. Dyrness, eds.).  Springer-Verlag,  New York.

64. Chapin, F.S., III.  1986.  Controls over growth and nutrient use by taiga forest trees.  Pp. 96-111 In Forest ecosystems in the Alaskan taiga.  A synthesis of structure and function (K. Van Cleve, F.S. Chapin, III, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck and C.T. Dyrness, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, New York.

65. Chapin, F.S., III, J.D. McKendrick, and D.A. Johnson.  1986.  Seasonal changes in carbon fractions in Alaskan tundra plants of differing growth form:  Implications for herbivores.  J. Ecol. 74:707-731.

66. Chapin, F.S., III, G.R. Shaver, and R.A. Kedrowski.  1986.  Environmental controls over carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus chemical fractions in Eriophorum vaginatum L. in Alaskan tussock tundra.  J. Ecol.  74:167-195. 

67. Chapin, F.S., III, K. Van Cleve, and P.R. Tryon.  1986.  Relationship of ion absorption to growth rate in taiga trees.  Oecologia 69:238-242.

68. Chapin, F.S., III, P.M. Vitousek, and K. Van Cleve.  1986.  The nature of nutrient limitation in plant communities.  Am. Nat.  127:48-58. 

69. Gartner, B.L., F.S. Chapin, III, and G.R. Shaver.  1986.  Reproduction of Eriophorum vaginatum by seed in Alaskan tussock tundra.  J. Ecol. 74:1-18.

70. Jonasson, S., J.P. Bryant, F.S. Chapin, III, and M. Andersson.  1986.  Plant phenols and nutrients in relation to variations in climate and rodent grazing.  Am. Nat. 128:394-408.

71. Shaver, G.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1986.  Effect of fertilizer on production and biomass of tussock tundra, Alaska, U.S.A.  Arct. Alp. Res. 18:261-268.

72. Shaver, G.R., F.S. Chapin, III, and B.L. Gartner.  1986.  Factors limiting seasonal growth and peak biomass accumulation in Eriophorum vaginatum in Alaskan tussock tundra.  J. Ecol. 74:257-278. 

73. Shaver, G.R., N. Fetcher, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1986.  Growth and flowering in Eriophorum vaginatum:  Annual and latitudinal variation.  Ecology 67:1524-1535.

74. Walker, L.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1986.  Physiological controls over seedling growth in primary succession on an Alaskan flood plain.  Ecology 67:1508-1523.

75. Walker, L.R., J.C. Zasada, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1986.  The role of life history processes in primary succession on an Alaskan floodplain.  Ecology 67:1243-1253.

76. Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin, III, P.B. Reichardt, and T.P. Clausen.  1987.  Response of winter chemical defenese in Alaska paper birch and green alder to manipulation of plant carbon/nutrient balance.  Oecologia (Berl.) 72:510-514.

77. Bryant, J.P., F.S. Chapin, III, P.B. Reichardt, and T.P. Clausen.  1987.  Effect of resource availability upon the woody plant-mammal interaction.  Pp. 3-8 In Proceedings-Symposium on Plant-Herbivore Interactions (F.D. Provenza, J.T. Flinder and E.D. McArthur, eds.).  U.S. Forest Service, Ogden, Utah.

78. Cargill, S. and F.S. Chapin, III.  1987.  Application of successional theory to problems of ecosystem restoration in arctic tundra.  Arct. Alp. Res. 19:366-372.

79. Chapin, F.S., III.  1987.  Environmental controls over growth of tundra plants.  Ecol. Bull. 38:69-76.

80. Chapin, F.S., III.  1987.  Adaptations and physiological responses of wild plants to nutrient stress.  Pp. 15-25 In Genetic aspects of plant mineral nutrition (H.W. Gabelman and B.C. Loughman, eds.). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

81. Chapin, F.S., III, A.J. Bloom, C. Field, and R.H. Waring.  1987.  Interaction of environmental factors in the control of plant growth.  BioScience 37:49-57.

82. Chapin, F.S., III, W.C. Oechel, K. Van Cleve, and W. Lawrence.  1987.  The role of mosses in the phosphorus cycling of an Alaskan black spruce forest.  Oecologia (Berl.) 74:310-315.

83. Schulze, E.-D. and F.S. Chapin, III.  1987. Plant specialization to environments of different resource availability.  Pp. 120-148.  In Potentials and limitations in ecosystem analysis (E.-D. Schulze and H. Zwolfer, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

84. Tuomi, J., P. Niemala, F.S. Chapin, III, J.P. Bryant, and S. Siren. 1987.  Defensive responses of trees in relation to their carbon/nutrient balance.  Pp. 55-70. In Mechanisms of woody plant defenses against insects:  search for pattern.  (W.J. Mattson, J. Levieux and C. Bernard-Dagan, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, New York.    

85. Walker, L.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1987.  Interactions among processes controlling successional change.  Oikos 50:131-135.

86. Chapin, F.S., III.  1988.  Ecological aspects of plant mineral nutrition.  Adv. Mineral Nutrition 3:161-191.

87. Chapin, F.S., III, D.T. Clarkson, J.R. Lenton, and C.H.S. Walter.  1988.  Effect of nitrogren stress and abscisic acid on nitrate absorption and transport in barley and tomato.  Planta 173:340-351.

88. Chapin, F.S., III, N. Fetcher, K. Kielland, K.R. Everett, and A.E. Linkins.  1988.  Productivity and nutrient cycling of Alaskan tundra:  enchancement by flowing soil water.  Ecology 69:693-702.

89. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  1988.  Differences in carbon and nutrient fractions among arctic growth forms.  Oecologia (Berl.) 77:506-514

90. Chapin, F.S., III, C.H.S. Walter, and D.T. Clarkson.  1988.  Growth response of barley and tomato to nitrogen stress and its control by abscisic acid, water relations and photosynthesis.  Planta 173:352-366.

91. Chapin, F.S., III, and I.F. Wardlaw.  1988.  Effect of phosphorus deficiency on source-sink interactions between the flag leaf and developing grain in barley.  J. Exp. Bot. 39:165-177.

92. DeFoliart, L.S., M. Griffith, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1988.  Seasonal patterns of photosynthesis and nutrient storage in Eriophorum vaginatum L., an arctic sedge.  Functional Ecology 2:185-194.

93. Bishop, S.C., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1989.  Establishment of Salix alaxensis on a gravel pad in arctic Alaska. J. Appl. Ecol. 26:575-583.

94. Bishop, S.C., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1989.  Patterns of natural revegetation on abandoned gravel pads in arctic Alaska.  J. Appl. Ecol. 26:1073-1081.

95. Chapin, F.S., III.  1989.  The cost of tundra plant structures: evaluation of concepts and currencies.  Am. Nat. 133:1-19.

96. Chapin, F.S., III, R.H. Groves, and L.T. Evans.  1989.  Response of growth, photosynthesis, and phosphate absorption to phosphorus stress in wild, weedy, and cultivated Hordeum species.  Oecologia (Berl.).  79:96-105.

97. Chapin, F.S., III, J.B. McGraw, and G.R. Shaver.  1989.  Competition causes regular spacing of alder in Alaskan shrub tundra.  Oecolgia (Berl.) 79:412-416.

98. Chapin, F.S., III, and S.J. McNaughton.  1989.  Lack of compensatory growth under phosphorus stress in grazing-adapted grasses from the Serengeti Plains.  Oecologia (Berl.). 79:551-557.

99. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  1989.  Lack of latitudinal variations in graminoid storage reserves.  Ecology 70:269-272.

100. Chapin, F.S., III, and G.R. Shaver.  1989.  Differences in growth and nutrient use among arctic plant growth forms.  Funct. Ecol. 3:73-80.

101. Chapin, F.S., III, and K. Van Cleve.  1989.  Approaches to studying nutrient uptake, use and loss in plants. Pages 185-207.  In Plant physiological ecology.  Field methods and instrumentation. (R.W. Pearcy, J. Ehleringer, H.A. Mooney, and P.W. Rundel, eds.).  Chapman and Hall, London.

102. Mark, A.F., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1989.  Seasonal control over allocation to reproduction in a tussock-forming and a rhizomatous species of Eriophorum in central Alaska.  Oecologia 78:27-34.

103. McGraw, J.B., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1989.  Competitive ability and adaptation to fertile and infertile soils in two Eriophorum species.  Ecology 70:736-749.

104. Chapin, F.S., III.  1990.  Effects of nutrient deficiency on plant growth:  evidence for a centralized stress-response system.  British Plant Growth Regulator Group, Monograph 21:135-148.

105. Chapin, F.S., III, E.-D. Schulze, and H.A. Mooney.  1990. The ecology and economics of storage in plants.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 21:423-447.

106. Chapin, F.S., III, and L.R. Walker.  1990.  The importance of Glacier Bay to tests of current theories of plant succession.  Pages 136-139.  In Proceedings of Second Glacier Bay Science Symposium (A.M. Milner and J.D. Wood, Jr., eds).  National Park Service, Anchorage.

107. Chapin, F.S., III.  1991.  Effects of multiple environmental stresses on nutrient availability and use by plants.  Pages 67-88.  In Response of plants to multiple stresses.  (H.A. Mooney, W.E. Winner and E.J. Pell, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.

108. Chapin, F.S., III.  1991.  Integrated responses of plants to stress: A centralized system of physiological responses.  BioScience 41:29-36.

109. Chapin, F.S., III, and L. Moilanen.  1991.  Nutritional controls over nitrogen and phosphorus resorption from Alaskan birch leaves.  Ecology 72:709-715.

110. Jonasson, S. and F.S. Chapin, III.  1991.  Seasonal uptake and allocation of phosphorus in Eriophorum vaginatum L., measured by labelling with 32P.  New Phytologist 118:349-357.

111. Koch, G.W., A.J. Bloom, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1991.  Ammonium and nitrate as nitrogen sources in two Eriophorum species.  Oecologia 88:570-573.

112. Reichardt, P.B., J.P. Bryant, B.R. Mattes, T.P. Clausen, F.S. Chapin, III, and M. Meyer.  1991.  The winter chemical defense of Alaskan poplar against snowshoe hares.  J. Chem. Ecol. 16:1941.

113. Reichardt, P.B., F.S. Chapin, III, J.P. Bryant, B.R. Mattes, and T.P. Clausen.  1991.  Carbon/nutrient balance as a predictor of plant defense in Alaskan balsam poplar: potential importance of metabolite turnover.  Oecologia 88:401-406.

114. Shaver, G.R., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1991.  Production: biomass relationships and element cycling in contrasting arctic vegetation types.  Ecol. Monogr. 61:1-31.

115. Van Cleve, K., F.S. Chapin, III, C.T. Dyrness, and L.A. Viereck.  1991.  State factor control of element cycling in Alaskan taiga forests.  BioScience 41:78-88.

116. Chapin, F.S., III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver, and J. Svoboda.  1992.  Arctic plant physiological ecology in an ecosystem context.  Pages 441-451.  In Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate (F.S. Chapin, III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver and J. Svoboda, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.

117. Chapin, F.S., III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver and J. Svoboda.  1992.  Arctic plant physiological ecology: a challenge for the future.  Pages 3-8.  In Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate (F.S. Chapin, III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver and J. Svoboda, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.  

118. Field, C.B., F.S. Chapin, III, P.A. Matson, and H.A. Mooney.  1992.  Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the changing atmosphere: a resource-based approach.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 23:201-235.

119. Kielland, K., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1992.  Nutrient absorption and accumulation in arctic plants: implications for climate change.  Pages 321-335.  In Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate (F.S. Chapin, III, R.L. Jefferies, J.F. Reynolds, G.R. Shaver and J. Svoboda, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.

120. Pugnaire, F.I., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1992.  Environmental and physiological factors governing nutrient resorption efficiency in barley.  Oecologia 90:120-126.  

121. Shaver, G.R., W.D. Billings, F.S. Chapin, III, A.E. Giblin, K.J. Nadelhoffer, W.C. Oechel, and E.B. Rastetter.  1992.  Global change and the carbon balance of arctic ecosystems.  BioScience 42:433-441.

122. Chapin, F.S., III.  1993.  Physiological controls over plant establishment in primary succession.  Pages 161-178 In Primary succession.  (J. Miles and D.W.H. Walton, eds.)  Blackwells, Oxford.

123. Chapin, F.S., III.  1993.  Functional role of growth forms in ecosystem and global processes.  Pages 287-312.  In Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe. (J.R. Ehleringer and C.B. Field, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.

124. Chapin, F.S., III.  1993.  The evolutionary basis of biogeochemical soil development.  Geoderma 57:223-227.

125. Chapin, F.S., III, K. Autumn, and F. Pugnaire. 1993. Evolution of suites of traits in response to environmental stress. Am Nat. 142:S78-S92

126. Chapin, F.S., III, and E. Matthews.  1993.  Boreal carbon pools: Approaches and constraints in global extrapolations.  Pages 9-20 In Global change and carbon cycling in northern ecosystems (T. Vinson and T. Kolchugina, eds.). EPA, Corvallis.

127. Chapin, F.S., III, L. Moilanen and K. Kielland.  1993.  Preferential use of organic nitrogen for growth by a non-mycorrhizal arctic sedge.  Nature 361:150-153.

128. Chapin, F.S., E. Rincon, and P. Huante. 1993. Environmental responses of plants and ecosystems as predictors of the impact of global change.  J. Biosci. 18:515-524.

129. Chapin, F.S. III, and L.R. Walker.  1993.  Direct and indirect effects of calcium sulfate and nitrogen on growth and succession of taiga floodplain trees.  Can. J. For. Res. 23;995-1000.

130. Dawson, T.E., and F.S. Chapin, III.  1993.  Grouping plants by their form-function characteristics as an avenue for simplification in scaling between leaves and landscapes.  Pages 313-319 In Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe. (J.R. Ehleringer and C.B. Field, eds.).  Academic Press, San Diego.

131. Hobbie, S.E., D.B. Jensen, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1993.  Resource supply and disturbance as controls over present and future plant diversity.  Pages 385-407 In Ecosystem function of biodiversity (E.-D. Schulze and H.A. Mooney, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

132. Pugnaire, F.I. and F.S. Chapin, III.  1993.  Controls over nutrient resorption from senescing leaves of evergreen Mediterranean species.  Ecology 74:124-129.

133. Torn, M.S. and F.S. Chapin, III.  1993.  Environmental and biotic controls over methane flux from arctic tundra.  Chemosphere 26:357-368.

134. Berg, E.E., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1994.  Needle loss as a mechanism of winter drought avoidance in boreal conifers. Can J. For. Res. 24:1144-1148.

135. Chapin, F.S., III, Walker, L.R., Fastie, C.L., and L.C. Sharman. 1994. Mechanisms of primary succession following deglaciation at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecol. Monogr.64:149-175.

136. Kielland, K., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1994. Phosphate uptake in arctic plants in relation to phosphate supply: the role of spatial and temporal variability.  Oikos 70:443-448

137. Momen, B., J.W. Menke, J.M. Welker, K.J. Rice, and F.S. Chapin, III. 1994. Blue oak regeneration and seedling water relations in four sites within a California blue oak savanna.  Int. J. Plant Sci. 155:744-749.

138. National Research Council. 1994. The role of terrestrial ecosystems in global change: a plan for action.  National Academy Press, Washington (Chapin primary author).

139. Schulze, E.-D., F.S. Chapin, III, and G. Gebauer. 1994. Nitrogen nutrition and isotope differences among life forms at the northern treeline of Alaska.  Oecologia 100:406-412.

140. Bonan, G.B., F.S. Chapin, III, and S.L. Thompson. 1995. Boreal forest and tundra ecosystems as components of the climate system. Climatic Change 29:145-167.

141. Chapin, F.S., III. 1995. New cog in the nitrogen cycle. Nature 377: 199-200.

142. Chapin, F.S., III, C.L. Fastie, L.R. Walker, and L.C. Sharman. 1995. Mechanisms of primary succession at Glacier Bay: Implications for present and future vegetation patterns. Pages 96-100 In D.R. Engstrom, ed.  Proc. Third Glacier Bay Science Symp., 1993. National Park Service, Anchorage.

143. Chapin, F.S., S.E. Hobbie, M.S. Bret-Harte, and G. Bonan. 1995. Causes and consequences of functional diversity in arctic ecosystems. Pages 225-237 In: F.S. Chapin, III, and Ch. Körner, eds. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

144. Chapin, F.S., III, and Ch. Körner. 1995. Patterns, causes, changes and consequences of biodiversity in arctic and alpine ecosystems.  Pages 313-320 In: F.S. Chapin, III, and Ch. Körner, eds. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

145. Chapin, F.S., III, and Ch. Körner.  1995.  Arctic and alpine ecosystems.  Pages 335-339 In: Global Biodiversity Assessment.  UNEP. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

146. Chapin, F.S., III, J. Lubchenco, and H.L. Reynolds. 1995. Biodiversity effects on patterns and processes of communities and ecosystems.  Pages 289-301 In: Global Biodiversity Assessment. UNEP. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

147. Chapin, F.S., III, G.R.Shaver, A.E. Giblin, K.G. Nadelhoffer, and J.A. Laundre. 1995. Responses of arctic tundra to experimental and observed changes in climate.  Ecology 76:694-711.

148. Field, C.B. F.S. Chapin, III, N.R. Chiariello, E.A. Holland, and H.A. Mooney. 1996. The Jasper Ridge CO2 experiment: Design and motivation. Pages 121-145 In G.W. Koch and H.A. Mooney, eds. Carbon dioxide and terrestrial ecosystems. Academic Press, San Diego.

149. Hobbie, J.E., L.A. Deegan, B.J. Peterson, E.B. Rastetter, G.R. Shaver, G.W.Kling, W.J. O'Brien, F.S. Chapin, III, M.C. Miller, G.W. Kipphut, W.B. Bowden, A.E. Hershey, and M.E. McDonald. 1995. Long-term measurements at the arctic LTER site. Pages 391-409 In T. M. Powell and J. H. Steele and , eds. Ecological time series. Chapman and Hall, New York.

150. Huante, P., E. Rincon, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1995. Responses to phosphorus of contrasting successional tree-seedling species from the tropical deciduous forest of Mexico.  Functional Ecology 9:760-766.

151. Robles, M., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1995. Comparison of the influence of two exotic species on ecosystem processes in the Berkeley hills. Madrońo 42:349-357.

152. Sharman, L.C., A.M. Milner, F. S. Chapin, III, and D.R. Engstrum. 1995. Qualitative successional models in Glacier Bay: A comparison of terrestrial, marine, stream, and lake systems. Pages 190-195 In D.R. Engstrom, ed.  Proc. Third Glacier Bay Science Symp., 1993. National Park Service, Anchorage.

153. Shaver, G.R., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1995. Long-term responses to factorial, NPK fertilizer treatment by Alaskan wet and moist tundra sedge species. Ecography 18:259-275.

154. Weller, G., F.S. Chapin, III, K.R. Everett, J.E. Hobbie, D. Kane, W.C. Oechel, C.L. Ping, W.S. Reeburgh, D. Walker, and J. Walsh. 1995. The arctic flux study: a regional view of trace gas release. Journal of Biogeography 22:365-374

155. Young, O.R., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1995. Anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity in the Arctic. Pages 183-196 In: F. S. Chapin, III, and Ch. Körner, eds. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

156. Zimov, S.A., V.I. Chuprynin, A.P. Oreshko, F.S. Chapin, III, M.C. Chapin, and J.F. Reynolds.  1995. Effects of mammals on ecosystem change at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary.  Pages 127-135 In: F. S. Chapin, III, and Ch. Körner, eds. Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

157. Zimov, S.A., V.I. Chuprynin, A.P. Oreshko, F.S. Chapin, III, J.F. Reynolds, M.C. Chapin.  1995.  Steppe-tundra transition: an herbivore-driven biome shift at the end of the Pleistocene.  Am. Nat. 146:765-794.

158. Bassirirad, H., D.T. Tissue, J.F. Reynolds, and F.S. Chapin, III. 1996. Response of Eriophorum vaginatum to CO2 enrichment at different soil temperatures: effects on growth, root respiration and PO43- uptake kinetics. New Phyol. 133:423-430.

159. Chapin, F. S., III, M.S. Bret-Harte, S.E. Hobbie, and H. Zhong. 1996. Plant functional types as predictors of the transient response of arctic vegetation to global change.  J. Veg. Sci. 7:347-358.

160. Chapin, F.S., III, S. Diaz, M. Howden, J. Puigdefabregas, M. Stafford Smith, T. Benning, F. Bryant, B. Campbell, J. duToit, K. Galvin, E. Holland, L. Joyce, A.K. Knapp, P. Matson, R. Miller, D. Ojima, W. Polley, T. Seastedt, A. Suarez, T. Svejcar, and C. Wessman. 1996. Rangelands in a changing climate: impacts, adaptations and mitigation. In: R.T. Watson, M.C. Zinyowera, and R.G. Moss (eds.) Climatic Change 1995. Impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change: Scientific-Technical analyses. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

161. Chapin, F.S., III, and Ch. Körner. 1996. Arctic and alpine biodiversity: Its patterns, causes, and ecosystem consequences. Pages 7-32 In H.A. Mooney, J.H. Cushman, E. Medina, O.E. Sala, and E.-D. Schulze, eds. Functional roles of biodiversity: a global perspective. Wiley, New York.

162. Chapin, F.S., III, H. L. Reynolds, C. M. D'Antonio, and V. M. Eckhart.  1996. The functional role of species in terrestrial ecosystems.  Pages 403-428 In B. Walker and W. Steffen, eds. Global change and terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

163. Chapin, F.S., III and G.R. Shaver. 1996. Physiological and growth responses of arctic plants to a field experiment simulating climatic change.  Ecology 77:822-840.

164. Chapin, F.S., III, M.S. Torn, and M. Tateno. 1996. Principles of ecosystem sustainability.  Am. Nat. 148:1016-1037.

165. Chapin, III, S.A. Zimov, G.R. Shaver, and S.E. Hobbie. 1996. CO2 fluctuation at high latitudes.  Nature 383: 585-586.

166. Hobbie, S.E., and F. S. Chapin, III.  1996. Winter regulation of tundra litter carbon and nitrogen dynamics. Biogeochemistry 35:327-338.

167. Hungate, B.A., J. Canadell, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1996.  Plant species mediate changes in soil microbial N in response to elevated CO2.  Ecology 77:2505-2516.

168. Hungate, B.A., R.B. Jackson, C.B. Field, and F.S. Chapin III.  1996.  Detecting changes in soil carbon in CO2 enrichment experiments. Plant Soil 187:135-145.

169. Reynolds, J.F., J.D. Tenhunen, P.W. Leadley, H. Li, D.L. Moorhead, B.Ostendorf, and F.S. Chapin, III. 1996. Patch and landscape models of arctic tundra: Potentials and limitations.  Pages 295-324 In Landscape function and disturbance in arctic tundra (J.F. Reynolds and J.D. Tenhunen, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

170. Ruohomaki, K., F.S. Chapin, III, E. Haukioja, S. Neuvonen, and J. Suomela. 1996. Delayed inducible resistance in mountain birch in response to fertilization and shade.  Ecology 77:2302-.

171. Schimel, J.P. and F.S. Chapin, III. 1996. Tundra plants compete effectively with soil microbes for amino-acid nitrogen. Ecology 77:2142-2147.

172. Schimel, J.P., K. Kielland, and F.S. Chapin, III.  1996.  Nutrient availability and uptake by tundra plants.  Pages 203-221 In Landscape function and disturbance in arctic tundra (J.F. Reynolds and J. Tenhunen, eds.).  Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

173. Starfield, A.M., and F.S. Chapin, III. 1996. A dynamic model of arctic and boreal vegetation change in response to global changes in climate and land-use.  Ecol. Applica. 6:842-864.

174. Zimov, S.A.