Diane E. Pataki
Dept. of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3100
Tel. (949) 824-9411
Education
1998
Ph.D. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
1995
M.S. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
1993
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Employment History
2004-
Assistant Professor. Dept. of Earth System Science and Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
2004-
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Biology, University of Utah
2000-2004
Research Assistant Professor. Department of Biology, University of Utah
1999-2003
IGBP-GCTE Focus 1 Scientific Officer. University of Utah
1998-1999
Post-doctoral Research Associate. Desert Research Institute
Professional Service/Activities
Board of Advisors to the Editor, New Phytologist journal
Steering Committee, Biosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network (BASIN)
Steering Committee, Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Atmospheric and Climatic Change (TERACC) Network
NSF Ecosystems panelist, spring 2005
Ecological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
International Association for Urban Climate
Publications
Pataki DE, Bush SE, Ehleringer JR. 2005. Stable isotopes as a tool in urban ecology. In Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Processes and biological controls. Flanagan LB, Ehleringer JR, Pataki DE, Eds. Elsevier Press, San Diego, pp 199-214.
Flanagan LB, Ehleringer JR, Pataki DE, Eds. 2005. Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Processes and biological controls. Elsevier Press, San Diego.
Luo Y, Su B, Currie WS, Dukes JS, Finzi A, Hartwig U, Hungate B, McMurtrie R, Oren R, Parton WJ, Pataki DE, Shaw R, Zak DR, Field C. 2004. Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric CO2. Bioscience 54(8): 731-739.
Morgan JA, Pataki DE, Gruenzweig J, Körner C, Newton P, Niklaus PA, Nippert J, Nowak RS, Parton W, Clark H, Del Grosso SJ, Knapp AK, Mosier AR, Polley W, Shaw R. 2004. Grassland responses to rising atmospheric CO2 are driven primarily by water relations. Oecologia 140: 11-25.
Pataki DE, Bowling DR, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and its isotopic composition in an urban atmosphere: anthropogenic and biogenic effects. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 108(D23), 4735
Pataki DE, Ellsworth DW, King JS, Leavitt SW, Lin G, Pendall E, Siegwolf R, van Kessel C, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Tracing changes in ecosystem function under elevated CO2. Bioscience 53(9): 805-818.
Bowling DR, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Critical evaluation of micrometeorological methods for measuring ecosystem-atmosphere isotopic exchange of CO2. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 116: 159-179.
Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR, Flanagan LB, Yakir D, Bowling DR, Still C, Buchmann N, Kaplan JO, Berry JA. 2003. The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(1), 1022
Canadell J, Pataki DE. 2002. New advances in carbon cycle research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(4): 156-158.
Pataki DE. 2002. Atmospheric CO2, climate and evolution – lessons from the past. New Phytologist 154:10-14.
Pataki DE, Huxman TE, Jordan DN, Zitzer SF, Coleman JS, Smith SD, Nowak RS, Seemann JR. 2000. Water use of two Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 6(8): 889-898.
Pataki, D.E., R. Oren, and D.T. Tissue. 1998. Elevated carbon dioxide does not affect stomatal conductance of Pinus taedaL. Oecologia 117: 47-52.
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