CTCD: Prof. John Grace

Prof. John Grace

Research interests

* Uptake of carbon dioxide by rain forests and savannas
* The impact of vegetation on the atmosphere, and climate change
* Upland microclimates, and their impacts upon plants
* Effects drought on plants, and plant water relations
* Carbon sequestration by vegetation
* Long term effects of environmental change upon forests

Selected publications
Grace J (2004) "Understanding and managing the carbon cycle." Journal of Ecology 92, 189-202.

Nichol CJ, Huemmrich KF, Black TA and Grace J (2000): "Remote sensing of photosynthetic-light-use efficiency of boreal forest." Agricultural & Forest Meteorology 101: 131-142.

Malhi Y and Grace J (2000):"Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide." Trends in Ecology and Evolution15: 332-337.

Grace J and Rayment M (2000): "Respiration in the balance." Nature 404: 819-820. Read D, Beerling D, Cannell M, Cox P, Curran P, Grace J, Ineson P, Jarvis PG, Malhi Y, Powlson D,

Shepherd J and Woodward I (2001): The Role of Land Carbon Sinks in Mitigating Global Climate Change. Royal Society, London.

Meir P and Grace J (2002): "Scaling relationships for woody tissue respiration in two tropical rain forests." Plant, Cell & Environment 25: 963-973.

Grace J (1997): "Toward Models of Resource Allocation by Plants." In: Plant Resource Allocation Bazzaz and Grace (Eds.), Academic Press, New York. pp 279-291.

Grace J (1997): "Plant Water Relations". In: Plant Ecology, 2nd Edition. Crawley (Ed.), Blackwell Science, Oxford. pp 28-50.

Irvine J and Grace J (1997): "Continuous measurements of water tensions in the xylem of trees based on the elastic properties of wood." Planta 202: 445-461.

Grace J, Malhi Y, Lloyd J, McIntyre J, Miranda AC, Meir P and Miranda HS (1996): "The use of eddy covariance to infer the net carbon dioxide uptake of Brazilian rain forest." Global Change Biology 2: 209-218.

Grace J, Lloyd J, McIntyre J, Miranda AC, Meir P, Miranda H, Nobre C, Moncrieff JM, Massheder J, Malhi Y, Wright IR and Gash J (1995): "Carbon dioxide uptake by an undisturbed tropical rain forest in South-West Amazonia 1992-1993." Science 270: 778-780.

Grace J, Lloyd J, McIntyre J, Miranda AC, Meir P, Miranda H, Moncrieff JM, Massheder J, Wright IR and Gash J (1995): "Fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapour over an undisturbed tropical rainforest in south-west Amazonia." Global Change Biology 1: 1-12.

For full details see my departmental web page.

Links
http://www.miombo.org.uk.htm
http://www.ierm.ed.ac.uk/CARBO-AGE/HOME.htm
http://www.ierm.ed.ac.uk/CARBO-AGE/CLUSTER.htm
http://www.ierm.ed.ac.uk/CARBO-AGE/LINKS.htm
http://co2anal.lbl.gov/worldview/daily_picture.html

Contact details
Head of Institute
Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science,
School of Geoscience
University of Edinburgh
Darwin Building
Kings Buildings
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JN

Telephone: 0131 650 5400
Fax: 0131 662 0478
email: jgrace@ed.ac.uk

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