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Peer-reviewed science publications
(For more general science writings that have not been peer-reviewed, and other science outreach media recordings, please go to the bottom of this page)

  1. Grogan, P, Eviner, V., and Hobbie, S.E. The Qualities and Impacts of a Great Mentor – and How to Improve your own Mentoring.  2013. Bulletin of Ecological Society of America  94:170–176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-94.2.170 (PDF)

  2. Zamin, T, and Grogan, P.  2013. Caribou exclusion during a population low increases deciduous and evergreen shrub species biomass and nitrogen pools in low Arctic tundra. Journal of Ecology 101(3): 671–683. (PDF)

  3. Kumar, N., Grogan, P., Chu, H., Christiansen, C.T., and Walker, V.K.  The Effect of Freeze-Thaw Conditions on Arctic Soil Bacterial Communities. Biology 2(1): 356-377 (Special Issue - Polar Microbiology: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives), doi:10.3390/biology2010356. (PDF)

  4. Grogan, P. 2012. Cold season respiration across a low arctic landscape:  The influence of vegetation-type and interannual climatic variation. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 44(4):446-456. (PDF)

  5. Zamin, T. J. and Grogan, P. 2012. Birch shrub growth in the low Arctic: the relative importance of experimental warming, enhanced nutrient availability,snow depth and caribou exclusion. Environmental  Research Letters 7:034027 (9pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027. (PDF)

  6. Larsen, K.S., Michelsen, A., Jonasson, S., Beier, C. and Grogan, P. 2012. Nitrogen Uptake During Fall, Winter and Spring Differs Among Plant Functional Groups in a Subarctic Heath Ecosystem. Ecosystems 15(6):927-939. (PDF)

  7. Wilson, S, Grogan, P., and Walker, V.K.  2012. Prospecting for Ice-Association: Characterization of Freeze-Thaw Selected Enrichment Cultures from Latitudinally-Distant Soils. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 58: 402-412. (PDF)

  8. Grogan, P., Lalnunmawia, F., and Tripathi, S. K.  2012. Shifting cultivation in steeply sloped regions: A review of management options and research priorities for Mizoram state, Northeast India. Agroforestry Systems 84: 163-177. (PDF)

  9. Myers-Smith, I. H., B. C. Forbes, M. Wilmking, M. Hallinger, T. Lantz, D. Blok, K. D. Tape, M. Macias-Fauria, U. Sass-Klaassen, E. Lévesque, S. Boudreau, P. Ropars, L. Hermanutz, A. Trant, L. S. Collier, S. Weijers, J. Rozema, S. A. Rayback, N. M. Schmidt, G. Schaepman-Strub, S. Wipf, C. Rixen, C. B. Ménard, S. Venn, S. Goetz, L. Andreu-Hayles, S. Elmendorf, V. Ravolainen, J. Welker, P. Grogan, H. E. Epstein, and D. S. Hik. 2011. Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities. Environmental Research Letters 6:045509 (15pp) doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509. (PDF)

  10. Brooks, P.D., Grogan, P., Templer, P.H., Groffman, P., Oquist, M., and Schimel, J. 2011. Carbon and nitrogen cycling in snow-covered environments Geography Compass 5(9): 682-699. (PDF)

  11. Chu, H., Neufeld, J.D., Walker, V.K., and Grogan, P.  2011.  The influence of vegetation type on the dominant soil bacteria, archaea and fungi in a low arctic tundra landscape.  Soils Science Society of America Journal 75: 1756-1765. (PDF)

  12. Stewart, K.J., Coxson, D., and Grogan, P.  2011. Nitrogen inputs by associative cyanobacteria across a low arctic tundra landscape.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research  43(2): 267-278. (PDF)

  13. Grogan, P. 2011. Carpe diem and slow down. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 92(3): 281-281. (PDF, weblink)

  14. Chu, H., Fierer, N., Lauber, C.L., Caporaso,  J.G., Knight, R. and Grogan, P. 2010. Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes. Environmental Microbiology 12(11): 2998–3006. (PDF, Corrigendum)

  15. Buckeridge, K.M. and Grogan, P.  2010. Deepened snow increases late thaw soil biogeochemical pulses in mesic low arctic tundra. Biogeochemistry 101(1): 105-121. (PDF)

  16. Foote, R. and Grogan, P. 2010. Soil Carbon Accumulation During Temperate Forest Succession on Abandoned Low Productivity Agricultural Lands. Ecosystems 13:795-812. (PDF)

  17. Churchland, C., Mayo-Bruinsma, L., Ronson, A., and Grogan, P. 2010. Soil microbial and plant community responses to single large carbon and nitrogen additions in low arctic tundra. Plant and Soil 334(1):409-421. (PDF)

  18. Buckeridge, K. M., Cen, Y-P., Layzell, D. B. and Grogan, P. 2010. Soil biogeochemistry during the early spring in low arctic mesic tundra and the impacts of deepened snow and enhanced nitrogen availability. Biogeochemistry 99:127-141. (PDF)

  19. Buckeridge, K. M., Zufelt, E., Chu, H. and Grogan, P. 2010. Soil nitrogen cycling rates in low arctic shrub tundra are enhanced by litter feedbacks. Plant and Soil 330:407-421. (PDF)

  20. Chu, H. and Grogan, P.  2010. Soil microbial biomass, nutrient availability and nitrogen mineralization potential among vegetation types in a low arctic tundra landscape. Plant and Soil 329: 411-420. (PDF)

  21. Barto, D., Cziraky, J., Geerts, S., Hack, J., Langford, S., Nesbitt, R., Park, S., Willie, N., Xu, J., and Grogan, P.  2009. An integrated analysis of the use of woodstoves to supplement fossil fuel-fired domestic heating. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 38: 87-92. (PDF)

  22. Nobrega, S. and Grogan, P.  2008. Landscape and ecosystem-level controls on net carbon dioxide exchange along a natural moisture gradient in Canadian low arctic tundra. Ecosystems 11: 377-396. (PDF)

  23. Buckeridge, K. and Grogan, P.  2008. Deepened snow alters soil microbial nutrient limitations in arctic birch hummock tundra. Applied Soil Ecology 39(2): 210-222. (PDF)

  24. Nobrega, S. and Grogan, P.  2007. Deeper snow enhances winter respiration from both plant-associated and bulk soil carbon pools in birch hummock tundra. Ecosystems 10(3): 419-431. (PDF)

  25. Larsen, K., Grogan, P., Jonasson, S. and Michelsen, A. 2007. Respiration and microbial dynamics in two sub-arctic ecosystems during winter and spring-thaw: Effects of increased snow depth. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 39(2): 268-276. (PDF)

  26. Grogan, P. and Jonasson, S. 2006. Ecosystem CO2 production during winter in a Swedish subarctic region: The relative importance of climate and vegetation type. Global Change Biology 12:1479-1495. (PDF)

  27. Grogan, P. and Jonasson, S. 2005. Temperature and substrate controls on intra-annual variation in ecosystem respiration in two subarctic vegetation types. Global Change Biology 11:465-475. (PDF)

  28. Grogan, P. 2005. The Use of Hypotheses in Ecology. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 36(1):43-47. (PDF)

  29. Harris, J.A., Grogan, P. and Hobbs, R.J. 2005. Restoration Ecology and the Role of Soil Biodiversity. In Biological Diversity and Function in Soils (eds. Bardgett, R.D., Hopkins, D.W. and Usher, M.B.). Cambridge University Press.

  30. Bruns, T.D., Baar, J., Grogan, P., Horton, T.R., Kretzer, A., Redecker, D., Tan, J. and Taylor, D. L. 2005. Natural History and Community Dynamics of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi following the Mt. Vision Fire. pp33-40, In Lessons Learned from the October 1995 Mt. Vision Fire; CD ROM published by Points Reyes National Seashore. (PDF)

  31. Illeris, L., Grogan, P., Jonasson, S., Michelsen, A. and Ro-Poulsen, H. 2004. Carbon Dioxide Flux in a Dry Subarctic Heath at Mid Summer: Responses to Long-term Manipulations. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 36(4):456-463. (PDF)

  32. Loya, W.M. and Grogan, P. 2004. Carbon conundrum on the tundra. News and Views. Nature 431:406-408. (PDF)

  33. Lilleskov, E.A., Bruns, T.D., Horton, T.R., Taylor, D.L., and Grogan, P. 2004. Detection of forest stand-level spatial structure in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49 (2): 319-332. (PDF)

  34. Grogan, P., Michelsen, A., Ambus, P. and Jonasson, S. 2004. Effects of differing freeze-thaw regimes on nutrient cycling and respiration in sub-arctic heath tundra. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36(4): 641-654. (PDF)

  35. Grogan, P. and Jonasson, S. 2003. Controls on annual nitrogen cycling in the understorey of a sub-arctic birch forest. Ecology 84(1): 202-218. (PDF)

  36. Grogan, P. and Matthews, R.B. 2002. A modelling analysis of the potential for soil carbon sequestration under short rotation coppice willow bioenergy plantations. Soil Use and Management 18:175-183. (PDF)

  37. Matthews, R., and Grogan, P. 2001. Potential carbon sequestration rates under short-rotation coppiced willow and Miscanthus crops: a modelling study. Aspects of Applied Biology 65: 301-310.

  38. Grogan, P., Illeris L., Michelsen, A. and Jonasson, S. 2001. Respiration of recently-fixed plant carbon dominates mid-winter ecosystem CO2 production in sub-arctic heath tundra. Climatic Change 50(1/2): 129-142. (PDF)

  39. Grogan, P. and Matthews, R. 2001. Review of the potential for soil carbon sequestration under bioenergy crops in the U.K.  Report for U.K. Dept. of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. Contract NF 0418.

  40. Grogan, P., Baar, J. and Bruns, T.D. 2000. Below-ground ectomycorrhizal community structure in a recently burned bishop pine forest. Journal of Ecology 88(6):1051-1063. (PDF)

  41. Grogan, P. and Chapin, F.S. III. 2000. Initial effects of experimental warming on above- and belowground components of net ecosystem CO2 exchange in arctic tundra. Oecologia 125(4): 512-520. (PDF)

  42. Grogan, P., Bruns, T.D. and Chapin, F.S. III. 2000. Fire effects on ecosystem nitrogen cycling in a Californian bishop pine forest. Oecologia 122(4): 537-544. (PDF)

  43. Grogan, P. and Chapin, F.S. III. 2000. Nitrogen limitation in Californian annual grasslands: the contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizae. Biogeochemistry 49(1): 37-51. (PDF)

  44. Grogan, P. and Chapin, F.S. III. 1999. Arctic soil respiration: effects of climate and vegetation depend on season. Ecosystems 2(5):451-459. (PDF)

  45. Grogan, P. 1998. CO2 flux measurement using soda lime: The appropriate correction for water 2adsorption. Ecology 79(4):1467-1468. (PDF)

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More general science writings that have not been peer-reviewed

Grogan, P. 2013. Our Anthropocene Future - What can biology tell us? Free Inquiry. February/March issue. Vol. 32 (2):16-19. Council for Secular Humanism. New York. (PDF) http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=index_33

Grogan, P. 2012. What can biology tell us about our future, and why do we seem to be having such difficulty acknowledging and addressing the implications of our unsustainable living? (PDF)

Grogan, P. 2011. What can biology tell us about our future? Address at the Queen's Ban Righ centre. (PDF)

Grogan, P. 2011. Carpe diem and slow down. Address at the Biology Department annual dinner. (PDF)

Grogan, P. 2011. Think about the ecological consequences of the decisions you make. Kingston Whig-Standard Newspaper Opinion Column (June 1st). (http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3148673)

Grogan, P. 2010. India: Economic growth contrasts with political unrest in a forgotten enclave. Letter from India. Guardian Weekly newspaper, London, August 31 (PDF). Weblink http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/31/letter-from-india-mizoram-politics

Reeve, A. and Grogan, P. 2009. Conservation of forest plant communities: A potential solution to the threat from Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) (PDF). Submitted to Cataraqui Regional Conservation Authority's Lemoine Point Invasive Species Control Group (Chris Hargreaves).

Grogan, P. 2009. Soils and vegetation in the region around Queen's University Biological Station north of Kingston. (PDF)

 

Radio interviews

Internet Radio. Rewiring your Brain hosted by Dr. Robert Rose (March 7th, 2013): http://www.blogtalkradio.com/icdrrose/2013/03/07/paul-grogan--plant-and-ecosystem-ecology-1

CBC Radio North. 10 minute interview (January 9th ,2012): http://www.cbc.ca/thetrailbreaker/northernresearch/2012/01/09/change-in-the-barrens---on-our-northern-research-series/