Publications
Neubauer, SC, D Emerson and JP Megonigal (2008). Microbial oxidation and reduction of iron in the root zone and influences on metal mobility. Pages 339-371 in A Violante, PM Huang, and GM Gadd (editors). Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soil Environments. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, USA.
Megonigal, JP and AKT Guenther (2008). Methane emissions from upland forest soils and vegetation. Tree Physiology 28:491-498.
Tzortziou, M, PJ Neale, CL Osburn, JP Megonigal, N Maie, and R Jaffé (2008). Tidal marshes as a source of optically and chemically distinctive colored dissolved organic matter in the Chesapeake Bay. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(1):148–159.
Cheng, W, K Yagi, H Akiyama, S Nishimura, S Sudo, T Fumoto, T Hasegawa, AE Hartley, JP Megonigal (2007). An empirical model of soil chemical properties that regulate methane production in Japanese rice paddy soils. Journal of Environmental Quality, 36: 1920-1925.
Weiss, JV, JA Rentz, T Plaia, SC Neubauer, M Merrill-Floyd, T Lilburn, C Bradburne, JP Megonigal, and D Emerson (2007). Characterization of neutrophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of wetland plants and description of Ferritrophicum radicicola gen. nov. sp. nov., and Sideroxydans paludicola sp. nov. Geomicrobiology Journal, 24:559–570. doi: 10.1080/01490450701670152
Wolf, AA, BG Drake, JE Erickson, and JP Megonigal (2007). An oxygen-mediated positive feedback between elevated CO2 and SOM decomposition in a simulated anaerobic wetland. Global Change Biology 13:1-9 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01407.x
Carney, KM, BA Hungate, BG Drake, and JP Megonigal (2007). Altered soil microbial community at elevated CO2 leads to loss of soil carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12:4990-4995.
Cornell, JA, CC Craft and JP Megonigal (2007). Ecosystem gas exchange across a created salt marsh chronosequence. Wetlands. 27(2):240-250.
Neubauer, SC, GE Toledo-Durán, D Emerson and JP Megonigal (2007). Returning to their roots: Iron-oxidizing bacteria enhance short-term plaque formation in the wetland-plant rhizosphere. Geomicrobiology 24:65-73. doi:10.1080/01490450601134309
Erickson, JE, JP Megonigal, G Peresta, BG Drake (2007). Salinity and sea level mediate elevated CO2 effects on C3-C4 plant interactions and tissue nitrogen in a Chesapeake Bay tidal wetland. Global Change Biology 13:202-215. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01285.x
Bodelier, PLE, P Frenzel, HL Drake, T Hurek, K Küsel, C Lovell, P Megonigal, B Reinhold-Hurek and B Sorrell. (2006). Ecological Aspects of Microbes and Microbial Communities Inhabiting the Rhizosphere of Wetland Plants. Pages 205-238 in Verhoeven, JTA, B Beltman, R Bobbink, and DF Whigham (Eds). Wetlands and Natural Resource Management. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Bridgham, SD, JP Megonigal, JK Keller, NB Bliss, and C Trettin (2006). The carbon storage of North American wetlands. Wetlands 26:889-916.
Hines, J, JP Megonigal and RF Denno (2006). Nutrient subsidies to belowground microbes impact aboveground food web interactions. Ecology 87(6):1542-1555.
Burdt, AC, JM Galbraith and JP Megonigal. (2006). Using CO2 efflux rates to indicate below-ground growing seasons by land-use treatment. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 14:133-145.
Hungate, B.A., D.W. Johnson, P. Dijkstra, G. Hymus, P. Stiling, J.P. Megonigal, A.L. Pagel, J.L. Moan, F. Day, H. Li, C.R. Hinkle, and B.G. Drake (2006). Nitrogen cycling during seven years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment in a scrub oak woodland. Ecology 87:26-40.
Saunders, CJ, JP Megonigal and JF Reynolds (2006). Comparison of belowground biomass in C3- and C4-dominated mixed communities in a Chesapeake Bay brackish marsh. Plant and Soil 280:305-322.
Neubauer, S.C., K. Givler, S. Valentine, and J.P. Megonigal (2005). Seasonal patterns and plant-mediated controls of subsurface wetland biogeochemistry. Ecology 86:3334-3344. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P., C.D. Vann, and A.A. Wolf (2005). Flooding constraints on tree (Taxodium distichum) and herb growth responses to elevated CO2. Wetlands 25:230-238. [PDF Eprint]
Weiss, J.V., D. Emerson, and J.P. Megonigal. 2005. Rhizosphere Iron(III) Deposition and Reduction in a Juncus effusus L.-Dominated Wetland. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1861-1870. [PDF Eprint]
Marsh, A.S., D.P. Rasse, B.G. Drake, and J.P. Megonigal. 2005. Effect of elevated CO2 on carbon pools and fluxes in a brackish marsh. Estuaries 28:694-704. [PDF Eprint]
Garnet, K.N., J.P. Megonigal, C. Litchfield, and G.E. Taylor. 2005. Physiological control of leaf methane emission from wetland plants. Aquatic Botany 81:141-155. [PDF Eprint]
Weiss, J.V., D. Emerson, and J.P. Megonigal. 2004. Geochemical control of microbial Fe(III) reduction potential in wetlands: comparison of the rhizosphere to non-rhizosphere soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 48:89-100. [PDF Eprint]
Pendall, E., S. Bridgham, P.J. Hanson, B. Hungate, D.W. Kicklighter, D.W. Johnson, B.E. Law, Y. Luo, J.P. Megonigal, M. Olsrud, M.G. Ryan, and S. Wan. 2004. Below-ground process responses to elevated CO2 and temperature: A discussion of observations, measurement methods, and models. New Phytologist 162:311–322. [PDF Eprint]
Morse, J.L., J.P. Megonigal, and M.R. Walbridge. 2004. Sediment nutrient accumulation and nutrient availability in two tidal freshwater marshes along the Mattaponi River, Virginia, USA. Biogeochemistry 69:165-206. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P., M.E. Hines, and P.T. Visscher. 2004. Anaerobic Metabolism: Linkages to Trace Gases and Aerobic Processes. Pages 317-424 in Schlesinger, W.H. (Editor). Biogeochemistry. Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford, UK. [PDF Eprint]
Lim, C., M. Kafatos, and P. Megonigal. 2004. Correlation between atmospheric CO2 concentration and vegetation greenness in North America: CO2 fertilization effect. Climate Research 28:11-22. [PDF Eprint]
Weiss, J.V., D. Emerson, S.M. Backer, and J.P. Megonigal. 2003. Enumeration of Fe(II)-oxidizing and Fe(III)-reducing bacteria in the root zone of wetland plants: Implications for a rhizosphere iron cycle. Biogeochemistry 64:77-96. [PDF Eprint]
Vann, C.D. and J.P. Megonigal. 2003. Elevated CO2 and water depth regulation of methane emissions: Comparison of woody and non-woody wetland plant species . Biogeochemistry 63:117-134. [PDF Eprint]
Darke, A.K. and J.P. Megonigal. 2003. Control of sediment deposition rates in two mid-Atlantic coast tidal freshwater wetlands. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 57:255-268. [PDF Eprint]
Craft, C., P. Megonigal, S. Broome, J. Stevenson, R. Freese, J. Cornell, L. Zheng, and J. Sacco. 2003. The pace of ecosystem development of constructed Spartina alterniflora marshes. Ecological Applications 13:1417-1432. [PDF Eprint]
Vann, C.D. and J.P. Megonigal. 2002. Productivity responses of Acer rubrum and Taxodium distichum seedlings to elevated CO2 and flooding. Environmental Pollution 116:S31-S36. [PDF Eprint]
Neubauer, S.C., D. Emerson, and J.P. Megonigal. 2002. Life at the energetic edge: Kinetics of circumneutral iron oxidation by lithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria isolated from the wetland-plant rhizophere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68:3988-3995. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P. and W.H. Schlesinger. 2002. Methane-limited methanotrophy in tidal freshwater swamps. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16:1062, doi: 10.1029/2001GB001594. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P. 2002. Global Natural Cycles in Earth's System. Pages [http://www.eolss.net] in Vaclav Cilek (Editor). Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK. [HTML Eprint]
Oren, R., J.S. Sperry, B.E. Ewers, D.E. Pataki, N. Phillips, and J.P. Megonigal. 2001. Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. Oecologia 126:21-29. [PDF Eprint]
Schlesinger, W.H., J.P. Winkler, and J.P. Megonigal. 2000. Soils and the global carbon cycle. Pages 93-101 in Wigley, T.M.L. and D.S. Schimel (eds.). The Carbon Cycle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Najjar, R.G.W.H.A., P.J. Anderson, E.J. Barron, R.J. Bord, J.R. Gibson, V.S. Kennedy, C.G. Knight, J.P. Megonigal, R.E. O’Conner, C.D. Polsky, N.P. Psuty, B.A. Richards, L.G. Sorenson, E.M. Steele, and R.S. Swanson. 2000. The potential impacts of climate change on the mid-Atlantic coastal region. Climate Research 14:219-233. [PDF Eprint]
Day, F.P. and J.P. Megonigal. 2000. Plant organic matter dynamics in the Dismal Swamp. Pages 51-57 in Rose, R.K. (ed.). The Natural History of the Great Dismal Swamp. Old Dominion University Press, Norfolk, VA.
Oren, R., N. Phillips, B.E. Ewers, D.E. Pataki, and J.P. Megonigal. 1999. Sap-flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest. Tree Physiology 19:337-347. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P., S.C. Whalen, D.T. Tissue, B.D. Bovard, D.B. Albert, and A.S. Allen. 1999. A plant–soil–atmosphere microcosm for tracing radiocarbon from photosynthesis through methanogenesis. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63:665-671. [PDF Eprint]
Emerson, D., J.V. Weiss, and J.P. Megonigal. 1999. Iron-oxidizing bacteria are associated with ferric hydroxide precipitates (Fe-plaque) on the roots of wetland plants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65:2758-2761. [PDF Eprint]
Tissue, D.T., J.P. Megonigal, and R.B. Thomas. 1997. Nitrogenase activity and N2 fixation are stimulated by elevated CO2 in a tropical N2-fixing tree. Oecologia 109:28-33. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P. and W.H. Schlesinger. 1997. Enhanced CH4 emissions from a wetland soil exposed to elevated CO2. Biogeochemistry 37:77-88. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P., W.H. Conner, S. Kroeger, and R.R. Sharitz. 1997. Aboveground production in southeastern floodplain forests: A test of the subsidy-stress hypothesis. Ecology 78:370-384. [PDF Eprint]
Schlesinger, W.H. and J.P. Megonigal. 1996. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 41:40.
Megonigal, J.P., S.P. Faulkner, and W.H. Patrick. 1996. The microbial activity season in southeastern hydric soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60:1263-1266. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P. 1996. Methane production and oxidation in a future climate. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Megonigal, J.P. and W.H. Schlesinger. 1995. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 41:40
Megonigal, J.P. and W.H. Schlesinger. 1994. Biogeochemistry. Geotimes 39:19-20.
Young, P.J., J.P. Megonigal, R.R. Sharitz, and F.P. Day. 1993. False ring formation in baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) saplings under two flooding regimes. Wetlands 13:293-298.
Megonigal, J.P., W.H.Jr. Patrick, and S.P. Faulkner. 1993. Wetland identification in seasonally flooded forest soils: soil morphology and redox dynamics. Soil Science Society of America Journal Journal 57:140-149. [PDF Eprint]
Day, F.P. and J.P. Megonigal. 1993. The relationship between variable hydroperiod, production allocation, and belowground organic turnover in forested wetlands. Wetlands 13:115-121.
Megonigal, J.P. and F.P. Day. 1992. Effects of flooding on root and shoot production of bald cypress in large experimental enclosures. Ecology 73:1182-1193.[PDF Eprint]
Day, F.P., J.P. Megonigal, and L.C. Lee. 1989. Cypress root decomposition in experimental wetland mesocosms. Wetlands 9:263-282.
Megonigal, J.P. and F.P. Day. 1988. Organic matter dynamics in four seasonally flooded forest communities of the Great Dismal Swamp. American Journal of Botany 75:1334-1343. [PDF Eprint]
Megonigal, J.P. 1985. Field Notes: Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen (Northern Copperhead) and Lampropeltis getulus getulus (Eastern Kingsnake). Catesbeiana 5:16.
