Publications

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  • Yang PF, Spanier N, Aldredge P, Shahid N, Coleman A, Lyons J, & Langley JA 2023. Will free-living microbial community composition drive biogeochemical responses to global change?. Biogeochemistry, 1-23.
  • Van Sundert, K., Leuzinger, S., Bader, M.K.F., Chang, S.X., De Kauwe, M.G., Dukes, J.S., Langley, J.A., Ma, Z., Mariën, B., Reynaert, S. and Ru, J., 2023. When things get MESI: the Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative–a coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology.
  • Feller IC, JA Langley, SK Chapman. 2023. Nitrogen addition increases freeze resistance in black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) shrubs in a temperate-tropical ecotone. Ecosystems.
  • Morris JT, Langley JA, Vervaeke WC, Dix N, Feller IC, Marcum P, Chapman SK. 2023 Mangrove trees outperform saltmarsh grasses in building elevation but collapse rapidly under high rates of sea-level rise. Earth’s Future.
  • Langley JA*, C Zhu*, L Ziska, DR Cahoon and JP Megonigal. 2022. Accelerated sea level rise suppresses CO2 stimulation of tidal marsh productivity: a 33-year study. Science Advances, 2022. *co-first authors
  • Evans ME, Langley JA, Shapiro FR, Jones, GF. A validated model, scalability, and plant growth results for an agrivoltaic greenhouse. Sustainability 2022, 14, 6154. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106154
  • Gabriel J, Reid J, Wang L, Mozdzer TJ, Whigham DF, Megonigal JP, Langley JA. 2022. Interspecific competition is prevalent and stabilizes production in a brackish marsh facing sea level rise. Estuaries & Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-01043-9
  • Langley JA, E Grman, ML Avolio, KJ Komatsu, KR Wilcox, SL Collins, SE Koerner, MA Smith, AH Baldwin, W Bowman, N Chiariello, A Eskelinen, H Harmens, M Hovenden, K Klanderud, RL McCulley, VG Onipchenko, CH Robinson, KN Suding. 2022. Do tradeoffs govern plant species responses to different global change treatments?  Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3626
  • Avolio M, Komatsu K, Collins S, Grman E, Koerner S,… Langley, JA, et al. 2021. Determinants of plant community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters 1892-904. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13824.
  • Geoghegan, E.K., Langley, J.A. and Chapman, S.K., 2021. A comparison of mangrove and marsh influences on soil respiration rates: A mesocosm study. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 248, p.106877.
  • Chapman, S.K., Feller, I.C., Canas, G., Hayes, M.A., Dix, N., Hester, M., Morris, J. and Langley, J.A., 2021. Mangrove growth response to experimental warming is greatest near the range limit in northeast Florida. Ecology, p.e03320.
  • Mueller, P., Mozdzer, T.J., Langley, J.A. et al. Plant species determine tidal wetland methane response to sea level rise. 2020. Nature Communications 11, 5154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18763-4
  • Hayes MA, Chapman S, Jesse A, O’Brien E, Langley JA, Bardou R, Devaney J, Parker JD, Cavanaugh KC. Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: a novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves. 2020. Journal of Ecology.
  • Ward ND, Megonigal JP, Bond-Lamberty B, Bailey VL, Butman D, Canuel EA, Diefenderfer, H. Ganju NK, Goñi MA, Graham EB, Hopkinson CS, Khangaonkar T., Langley JA, McDowell N, Meyers-Pigg AN, Neumann RB, Osburn CL, Price RM, Rowland J, Sengupta A, Simard M, Thornton PE, Tzortziou M, Vargas R, Weisenhorn PB, Windham-Meyers L. 2020. Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models. Nature Communications, 11: 1-14.
  • Yang X, Szlavecz K, Pitz SL, Langley JA, Chang CH. 2020. The partitioning of litter carbon fates during decomposition under different rainfall patterns: a laboratory study. Biogeochemistry 11: 1-6.
  • Lu M, Herbert E, Langley JA, Kirwan M, Megonigal JP. 2019. Nitrogen status regulates morphological adaptation of marsh plants to elevated CO2. Nature Climate Change 9: 764–768.
  • Song J, Wan S, Piao S, Knapp AK, Classen AT, Vicca S, Ciais P, Hovenden MJ, Leuzinger S, Beier C, Langley JA, Kardol P. 2019. A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 19:1-2.
  • Hovenden MJ, Leuzinger S, Newton PCD, Fletcher A, Fatichi S, Luscher A, Reich PB, Andresen LC, Beier C, Blumenthal DM, Chiariello NR, Dukes JS, Kellner J, Hofmockel K, Niklaus PA, Song J, Wan J, Classen AT, and Langley JA. 2019. Globally consistent influences of seasonal precipitation limit grassland biomass response to CO2 Nature Plants 5, 167–173.
  • Chapman SK, Hayes MA, Kelly B, & Langley JA. 2019. Exploring the oxygen sensitivity of wetland soil carbon mineralization. Biology Letters, 15(1), 20180407.
  • GA Coldren, JA Langley, IC Feller, SK Chapman. (2019) Warming accelerates mangrove expansion and surface elevation gain in a subtropical wetland. Journal of Ecology.
  • Langley JA, Chapman SK, La Pierre KJ, Avolio M, Bowman WD, Johnson DS, Isbell F, Wilcox KR, Foster BL, Hovenden MJ, Knapp AK, Koerner SE, Lortie CJ, Megonigal JP, Newton PCD, Reich PB, Smith MD, Suttle KB,  Tilman D. 2018. Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments Global Change Biology 24(12):5668-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14442
  • Megonigal, J. P., Chapman, S., Langley, A., Crooks, S., Dijkstra, P., & Kirwan, M. 2018. Coastal Wetland Responses to Warming. In A Blue Carbon Primer (pp. 133-144). CRC Press.
  • Kang H, S Lee, JP Megonigal, JA Langley. 2017. Elevated CO2 and nitrogen addition affect the microbial abundance but not the community structure in salt marsh ecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology 117, 129-136.
  • Pastore MA, Megonigal JP, Langley JA. 2017. Elevated CO2 and nitrogen addition accelerate net carbon gain in a brackish wetland. Biogeochemistry  133, 73-87.
  • Charbonneau B, Wootton L, Wnek J, Langley JA, Posner, M. 2017.Invasive sedge stabilized dunes more than native grass during Superstorm Sandy. Journal of Applied Ecology 54 (5), 1385-1394.
  • Fatichi, S, Leuzinger S, Paschalis A, Langley JA, Barraclough AD, Hovenden M. 2016. Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water limited ecosystems to elevated CO2. PNAS 113 (45), 12757-12762.
  • Coldren G, Langley JA, Feller IC, Wykoff D, Morrisey E, Barreto C, Chapman SK. In Press. Chronic warming stimulates growth of marsh grasses more than mangroves in a coastal wetland ecotone. Ecology 97 (11), 3167-3175.
  • Meng L, Caplan J, Bakker J, Langley JA, Mozdzer TM, Drake BG, Megonigal JP. Allometry data and equations for coastal marsh plants”. 2016. Ecology 97 (12), 3554-3554.
  • Pastore MA, Megonigal JP, Langley JA. 2016. Elevated CO2 promotes long-term nitrogen accumulation only in combination with nitrogen addition. Global Change Biology 22, 391-403.
  • Charbonneau BR, Wnek JP, Langley JA, Lee G, Balsamo RA. 2016. Above vs. belowground plant biomass along a barrier island: Implications for dune stabilization. Journal of Environmental Management 183, 126-133.
  • Fernandez, C. W., Langley, J. A., Chapman, S., McCormack, M. L., & Koide, R. T. 2016. The decomposition of ectomycorrhizal fungal necromass. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 93, 38-49.
  • Mueller P, Hager RN, Meschter JE, Mozdzer TJ, Langley JA, Jensen K, Megonigal JP. 2016. Complex invader-ecosystem interactions and seasonality mediate the impact of non-native Phragmites on methane emissions. Biological Invasions 1-13.
  • Mozdzer TJ, Langley JA, Mueller P, Megonigal JP. 2016. Deep rooting and global change facilitate spread of invasive grass. Biological Invasions 1-13.
  • Langley JA, White HK, Palanivel RA, Shannon T, Chapman SK. 2015. Marsh plants mediate the influence of nitrogen fertilization on degradation of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Ecosphere 6:art126.
  • Doughty CL, Langley JA, Walker WS, Shaub R, Feller IC, Chapman SK. 2015. Mangrove range expansion rapidly increases coastal wetland carbon storage. Estuaries & Coasts 1-12.
  • Wooliver R, Senior JK, Schweitzer, JA, O’Reilly-Wapstra JM, Langley JA, Chapman SK, Bailey, JK. 2014. Evolutionary history and novel biotic interactions determine plant responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization. PloS one, 9(12), e114596.
  • Kirwan ML, Guntenspergen GR, Langley JA. 2014. The temperature sensitivity of organic matter decay in tidal marshes. Biogeosciences 11 (17), 4801-4808.
  • Langley JA, Hungate BA. 2014. Plant community feedback and long-term ecosystem responses to multi-factored global change. AoB Plants 6, plu035, doi:10.1093/aobpla/plu035.
  • Dukes JS, Langley JA, Wan S, Classen AT. 2014. Using results from global change experiments to inform land model development and calibration. New Phytologist 204: 744-746.
  • Genung MA, JK Senior, J O’Reilly-Wapstra, SK Chapman, A Langley, JA Schweitzer, JK Bailey. 2014. When ranges collide: Evolutionary history, phylogenetic community interactions, global change factors and range size differentially affect plant productivity. Eco-evolutionary Dynamics (eds. J Moya-Laraño, J Rowntree, G Woodward) Vol. 50, AECR, UK: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801374-8.00009-8
  • Langley JA, Mozdzer TJ, *Shepard KA, *Hagerty SB, Megonigal JP. 2013. Elevated CO2, nitrogen pollution and tidal marsh plant response to sea level rise.  Global Change Biology 19: 14-95-1503.
  • Senior JK, Schweitzer JA, O’Reilly-Wapstra J, Chapman SK, Steane D, Langley JAet al. (2013) Phylogenetic Responses of Forest Trees to Global Change. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60088.
  • Chapman SK, *Palanivel RU, Langley JA. 2012. Soil carbon stability responds to land-use and groundcover management is southern Appalachian agroecosystems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 76: 2221-2229.
  • Kirwan ML, Langley JA, Guntenspergen GR, Megonigal JP. 2012. The impact of sea-level rise on organic matter decay rates in Chesapeake Bay brackish tidal marshes. Biogeosciences 10, 1869-1876.
  • Langley JA, Megonigal JP. 2012. Field-based radiometry to estimate tidal marsh plant growth in response to elevated CO2 and nitrogen addition. Wetlands 32: 571-578.
  • *White KP, Langley JA, Cahoon DR, Megonigal JP, 2012. Contrasting C3 and C4 root-shoot allocation responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen: implications for tidal marsh elevation. Estuaries and Coasts 35: 1028- 1035.
  • Langley JA, Megonigal JP. 2010. Ecosystem response to elevated CO2 levels limited by nitrogen-fuelled species shift. Nature 466: 96-99.
  • Langley JA, McKee KL, Cahoon DR, Cherry JA, Megonigal JP. 2009. Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 6182-6186.
  • Langley JA, Sigrist MV, Duls J, Cahoon DR, Lynch JC, Megonigal JP. 2009. Global change and marsh elevation dynamics: experimenting where land meets sea and biology meets geology. In: Lang, M. A. (ed.) Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38.
  • Langley JA, McKinley D, Wolf AA, Hungate BA, Drake BG, Megonigal JP. 2009. Priming depletes soil carbon and releases nitrogen in a scrub-oak ecosystem exposed to elevated CO2. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41: 54-60.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Langley JA, Jackson LE, Smukler S, Koch GW. 2008. Growth, nutrition, and soil respiration of a mycorrhiza-defective tomato mutant and its mycorrhizal wild-type progenitor. Functional Plant Biology 35: 228-235.
  • Langley JA, Chapman SK, Hungate BA. 2006. Ectomycorrhizal colonization slows root decomposition: the post mortem fungal legacy. Ecology Letters 9: 955-959.
    Chapman SK, Langley JA, Koch GW, Hart SC. 2006. Plants actively control nitrogen cycling: uncorking the microbial bottleneck. New Phytologist 169: 27-34.
  • Langley JA, Johnson NC, Koch GW, 2005. Mycorrhizal status influences the rate but not the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration. Plant and Soil 277: 335-344.
  • Classen AT, Langley JA, 2005. Data-model integration is not magic: modeling ecosystem responses to global change. New Phytologist 166: 367-379.
  • Langley JA, Hungate BA, 2003. Mycorrhizal controls on belowground litter quality. Ecology 84: 2302-2312.
  • Langley JA, Drake BG, Dijkstra P, Hungate BA, 2003. Ectomycorrhizal colonization, biomass and production in a regenerating scrub oak forest in response to elevated CO2. Ecosystems 5: 424-430.
  • Langley JA, Drake BG, Hungate BA, 2002. Extensive belowground carbon storage supports roots and mycorrhizae in regenerating Florida scrub oak. Oecologia 131: 542.