Cristina Castanha's Publications

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Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Castanha C, S Trumbore, R Amundson. 2008. Methods of separating soil carbon pools affect the chemistry and turnover time of isolated fractions. Radiocarbon 50(1): 83-97.
  2. Castanha C, S Trumbore, R Amundson. In Press. Mineral and organic matter characterization of density fractions of basalt- and granite-derived soils in montane California. In: An Introduction to the Study of Mineralogy. Aydinalp C, ed. InTech.
  3. St. Clair, S, SM Bernard, EA Sudderth, C Castanha, MS Torn, D. Ackerly. 2009. Plant responsiveness to soil moisture and nitrogen is consistent across the functional diversity of a California annual grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science, 20(5): 860–870.
  4. Torn MS, CW Swanston, C Castanha, SE Trumbore. 2009. Storage and turnover of organic matter in soil. LBNL-810E. In: Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems, Senesi N, Xing B, and Huang PM, eds., International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), New York, NY.
  5. Swarbreck SM, EA Sudderth, SB St.Clair, R Salve, C Castanha, MS Torn, DD Ackerly, GL Andersen. 2011. Linking leaf transcripts levels to whole plant analyses provides mechanistic insights to the impact of warming and altered water availability in an annual grass. Global Change Biology, 17(4): 1577–1594.
  6. Reinhardt K, C Castanha, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2011. Ecophysiological variation in two provenances of Pinus flexilis seedlings across an elevation gradient from forest to alpine. Tree Physiology, 31(6): 615-625.
  7. Moyes AB, C Castanha, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. In revision. Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range. Oecologia.

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Submitted Manuscripts

  1. Castanha C, MS Torn, MJ Germino, B Weibel, LM Kueppers. Submitted. Conifer seedling recruitment across a forest-to-alpine tundra gradient and effects of provenance. Diversity and Distributions.
  2. Sudderth EA, SB St.Clair, S Placella, SM Swarbreck, C Castanha, DJ Herman, ML Fischer, M Kleber, EB Sudderth, MS Torn, MK Firestone, GL Andersen, DD Ackerly. Submitted. Timing of dry periods relative to plant phenological stage has larger impacts on grassland systems than annual rainfall. Ecosphere.
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Published Abstracts

  1. Castanha C, AB Moyes, MS Torn, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2011. Responses of subalpine conifer seedling germination and survival to soil microclimate in the Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment. AGU, General Meeting.
  2. Kueppers LM, AB Moyes, SM Ferrenberg, DS Christianson, C Castanha, MJ Germino. 2011. Manipulation of subalpine and alpine climate in the Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment. AGU, General Meeting.
  3. Reinhardt K, C Castanha, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2011. Leapfrogging of tree species provenances? Interaction of microclimate and genetics on upward tree shifts in tree species range limits. AGU, General Meeting.
  4. Billesbach DP, ML Fischer, DR Cook, MS Torn, C Castanha. 2011. Establishment of a new, cooperative ARM and AmeriFlux site on the Alaskan North Slope. AGU, General Meeting.
  5. Castanha C, MJ Germino, MS Torn, SM Ferrenberg, J Harte, LM Kueppers. 2010. Subalpine conifer seedling demographics: Species responses to climate manipulations across an elevational gradient at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. AGU, General Meeting.
  6. Moyes AB, C Castanha, SM Ferrenberg, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2010. Sensitivity of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) seedling physiology to elevation, warming, and water availability across a timberline ecotone. AGU, General Meeting.
  7. Reinhardt K, C Castanha, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2010. Provenance-level variation in mobile carbon pools corresponds to variation in ecophysiology, growth, and survival in Pinus flexilis seedlings from forest to alpine. ESA, Annual Meeting.
  8. Castanha C, B Weibel, MS Torn, MJ Germino, LM Kueppers. 2009. Subalpine conifer seedling demographics across an eevational gradient at Niwot Ridge, Colorado: Comparison of site, species, and provenance. AGU, General Meeting.
  9. Kueppers LM, A Faist, C Castanha. 2009. Population and species differences in treeline tree species germination in response to climate change. AGU, General Meeting.
  10. St.Clair SB, SM Bernard, C Castanha, EA Suddereth, MS Torn, MK Firestone, DD Ackerly. 2007. The influence of cumulative and temporal variation in soil moisture on California grassland plant processes. ESA, Annual Meeting.
  11. Torn MS, SM Bernard, SB St.Clair, ML Fischer, FM Hopkins, SA Placella, C Castanha, EA Sudderth, DJ Herman, R Salve, DD Ackerly, MK Firestone. 2007. Linking the response of annual grasslands to warming and altered rainfall across scales of gene expression, species, and ecosystem. AGU, General Meeting.
  12. Torn MS, SB St.Clair, DD Ackerly, GL Andersen, SM Bernard, EL Brodie, C Castanha, MK Firestone, ML Fischer, DJ Herman, FM Hopkins, SA Placella, R Salve. 2007. Annual grassland response to altered precipitation and temperature: Genes, species, and ecosystem. ESA, Annual Meeting.
  13. Castanha C, AB Smith, S Carey. 2007. Soil properties influence plant species abundance and diversity in a California serpentine grassland. ESA, Annual Meeting.
  14. Castanha C, SE Trumbore, RG Amundson. 2004. The integrated effects of climate and parent material on soil C cycling in California. ESA, Annual Meeting.
  15. Castanha C, RG Amundson. 2002. The role of mineralogy on the turnover time of organic carbon in a volcanic soil in the southern Cascades, California. AGU, General Meeting.

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Scientific Presentations

  1. Castanha C. 2010. The Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment: A test of species range shifts with climate change. Mills College (Invited).
  2. Castanha C, RG Amundson, and SE Trumbore. 2005. The integrated effects of climate and parent material on soil carbon cycling in California uplands. 2nd International Conference on Mechanisms of Organic Matter Stabilization and Destabilization.
  3. Castanha C. 2003. Does rock matter matter? Geological constraints on ecosystem responses to climate. Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, UC Berkeley.
  4. Castanha C. 2001. Soils as parameters in long-term reserve design. UC Conservation Biology Symposium, White Mountain Research Station.

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