Anthony W. King
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335
Tel: (865) 576-3436; Fax: (865) 574-2232
Education
1978
B.S. Zoology, Arkansas State University
1981
M.S. Biology, Arkansas State University
1986
Ph.D. Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Research interests
Terrestrial ecosystems as part of the global Earth system, ecosystem and land-surface processes at landscape, regional, and global scales, climate-ecosystem feedbacks, carbon and water cycle modeling, land-use change, spatially structured population dynamics and modeling, theory of scale and system organization in ecology, model sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, model evaluation.
Employment History
1992-present
Research Staff Member, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1987-1992
Research Associate, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Selected Publications
Amthor, J.S., J. M. Chen, J.S. Clein, S.E. Frolking, M.L. Goulden, R.F. Grant, J.S.Kimball, A.W. King, A.D. McGuire, N.T. Nikolov, C.S. Potter, S. Wang and S.C. Wofsy. 2001. Boreal forest CO2 and evapotranspiration predicted by nine ecosystem process models: inter-model comparisons and relationships to field measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research 106:33,623-33,648.
Potter, C.S., S. Wang, N.T. Nikolov, A.D. McGuire, J. Liu, A.W. King, J.S. Kimball, R.F. Grant, S.E. Frolking, J. Clein, J.M.Chen and J.S. Amthor. 2001. Comparison of boreal ecosystem model sensitivity to variability in climate and forest site parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research 106:33,671-33,688.
King, A.W., W.M. Post and S.D. Wullschleger. 1997. The potential response of terrestrial carbon storage to changes in climate and atmospheric CO2. Climatic Change 35:199-227.
King, A.W., W.R. Emanuel, S.D. Wullschleger and W.M. Post. 1995. In search of the missing carbon sink: a model of terrestrial biospheric response to land-use change and atmospheric CO2. Tellus 47B:501-519.
King, A.W., R.V. O'Neill and D.L. DeAngelis. 1989. Using ecosystem models to predict regional CO2 exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3:337-361.
Jager, H.I., T.L. Ashwood, B.L. Jackson and A.W. King. 2000. Spatial uncertainty analysis of ecological models. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4): Problems, Prospects, and Research Needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2-8, 2000.
Jager, H.I., W.W. Hargrove, C.C. Brandt, A.W. King, R.J. Olson, J.M.O. Scurlock and K.A. Rose. 2000. Constructive contrasts between modeled and measured climate responses over a regional scale. Ecosystems 3:396-411.
Post, W.M., A. King and S.D. Wullschleger. 1997. Historical variations in terrestrial biospheric carbon storage. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11:99-109.
King, A.W., W.R. Emanuel and W.M. Post. 1992. Projecting future concentrations of atmospheric CO2 with global carbon cycle models: simulating historical changes in atmospheric CO2. Environmental Management 16:91-108.
Post, W.M., T.-H. Peng, W.R. Emanuel, A.W. King, V.H. Dale and D.L. DeAngelis. 1990. The global carbon cycle. American Scientist 78:310-326.
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