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· Monson, R.K., Trahan, N., Rosenstiel, T.N., Veres, P., Moore, D., Wilkinson, M., Norby, R.J.,
     Volder, A., Tjoelker, M.G., Briske, D.D., Karnofsky, D.F. and Fall, R. (2007) Isoprene emission from
     terrestrial ecosystems in response to global change: minding the gap between models and observations.
     Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 365: 1677-1695.

· Sun, J., Burns, S.P., Delany, A.C., Oncley, S.P., Turnipseed, A.A., Stephens, B.B., Lenschow, D.H.,
LeMone, M.A., Monson, R.K. and Anderson, D.E. (2007) CO2 transport over complex terrain.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 145: 1-21.

· Loreto, F., Centritto, M., Barta, C., Calfapietra, C., Fares, S., Monson, R.K. (2007) The
relationship between isoprene and respiration in white poplar (Populus alba) leaves.
Plant, Cell & Environment 30: 662-669.

· Sacks, W.J., Schimel, D.S. and Monson, R.K. (2007) Coupling between carbon cycling and climate in a
high-elevation, subalpine forest: a model-data fusion analysis. Oecologia 151: 54-68.

· Fuentes, J.D., Wang, D., Bowling, D.R., Potosnak, M., Monson, R.K., Goloff, W.S. and
Stockwell, W.R.(2006) Biogenic hydrocarbon chemistry within and above a mixed deciduous forest.
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 56:: 165-185.

· Monson, R.K., Burns, S.P., Williams, M.W., Delany, A.C., Weintraub, M. and Lipson, D.A. (2006)
The contribution of beneath-snow soil respiration to total ecosystem respiration in a
high-elevation, subalpine forest.Global Biogeochemical Cycles 20: GB3030.

· Monson, R.K., Lipson, D.A., Turnipseed, A.A., Burns, S.P., Delany, A., Williams, M.W.,
and Schmidt, S.K. (2006) Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and
community composition. Nature 439: 711-714.

· Monson, R.K., Rosenstiel, T.N., Forbis, T.A., Lipson, D.A. and Jaeger, C.H., III (2006)
Nitrogen and carbon storage in alpine plants. Integrative and Comparative
Biology 46: 35-48.

· Sacks, W.J., Schimel, D.S., Monson, R.K. and Braswell, R. (2006) Model-data fusion
analysis of ecosystem respiration at the Niwot Ridge Ameriflux site. Global Change
Biology 12: 240-259.

· Scott, L.E., Rosenstiel, T.N. and Monson, R.K. (2006) Differential controls by climate and
substrate over the heterotrophic and rhizospheric components of soil respiration. Global
Change Biology 12: 205-216.

· Yi, C., Monson, R.K., Anderson, D.E., Zhai, Z., Lamb, B., Turnipseed, A.A. and Burns, S.P.
(2005) Modeling and measuring the nighttime drainage flow in a high-elevation, subalpine
forest ecosystem with complex terrain. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: D22303

· Monson, R.K., Sparks, J.P., Rosenstiel, T.N., Scott-Denton, L.E., Huxman, T.E., Harley, P.C.,
     Turnipseed, A.A., Burns, S.P., Backlund, B. and Hu, J. (2005) Climatic influences
      on net ecosystem CO2 exchange during the transition from wintertime carbon source
      to springtime carbon sink in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Oecologia  146: 130-147.

· Bowling, D.R., Burns, S.P., Conway, T.J., Monson, R.K. and White, J.W.C. (2005)
Extensive observations of CO2 carbon isotope content in and above a high-elevation,
subalpine forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19: GB 3023.

· Pegoraro, E., Rey, A., Barron-Gafford, G., Monson, R., Malhi Y. and Murthy, R. (2005)
The interacting effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration, drought and leaf-to-air
vapour pressure deficit on ecosystem isoprene fluxes. Oecologia 146: 120-129.

· Hui, D., Wan, S., Su, B., Katul, G., Monson, R., and Luo, Y. (2004) Gap-filling missing data in
eddy covariance measurements using multiple imputation (MI) for annual estimations.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 121: 93-111.

· Rosenstiel, T.N., Ebbets, A.L., Khatri, W.C., Fall, R. and Monson, R.K. (2004) Induction of poplar
leaf nitrate reductase: a test of extrachloroplastic control of isoprene emission rate.
Plant Biology 6: 12-21.

· Huxman, T.E. and Monson, R.K. (2003) Stomatal responses of C3, C4 and C3-C4 Flaveria
species to light and intercellular CO2 concentration: implications for the evolution of
stomatal behavior. Plant, Cell and Environment 26: 313-322.

· Ackerly, D.D. and Monson, R.K. (2003) Waking the sleeping giant: the evolutionary
foundations of plant flunction. International Journal of Plant Science 164: S1-S6..

· Turnipseed, A.A., Anderson, D.E., Blanken, P.D., Baugh, W.M., and Monson, R.K. (2003)
Airflows and turbulent flux measurements in mountainous terrain. Part 1. Canopy and
local effects Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 119: 1-21.

· Huxman, T.E., Turnipseed, A.A., Sparks, J.P., Harley, P.C., and Monson, R.K. (2003)
Temperature as a control over ecosystem CO2 fluxes in a high-elevation, subalpine
ecosystem. Oecologia 134: 536-546.

· Sparks, J.P., Roberts, J.M., and Monson, R.K. (2003) The uptake of gaseous organic nitrogen
by leaves: a significant global nitrogen transfer process. Geophysical Research Letters
30: ASC4-1/ASC4-4

· Monson, R.K. (2003) Gene duplication, neofunctionalization, and the evolution of C4
photosynthesis. International Journal of Plant Science 164: S43-S54.

· Scott-Denton, L.E., Sparks, K.L., and Monson, R.K. (2003) Spatial and temporal controls of
soil respiration rate in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
35: 525-534.

· Monson, R.K. (2003) The many faces of plant carbon relations: forging an ecophysiological
identity in the age of human influence (Commentary). New Phytologist 157: 167-170.

· Rosenstiel, T.N., Potosnak, M.J., Griffin, K.L., Fall, R., and Monson, R.K. (2003) Increased
CO2 uncouples growth and isoprene emission in a model agriforest ecosystem. Nature
421: 256-259.

· Monson, R.K. (2002) Volatile organic compound emissions from terrestrial ecosystems: a
primary biological control over atmospheric chemistry. Israel Journal of Chemistry
42: 29-42.

· Karl, T., Curtis, A.J., Rosenstiel, T.N., Monson, R.K., and Fall, R. (2002) Transient releases
of acetaldehyde from tree leaves - product of a pyruvate overflow mechanism?
Plant, Cell & Environment 25: 1121-1131.

· Schimel, D.S., Kittel, T.G.F., Running, S., Monson, R.K., Turnipseed, A.A., Anderson, D.
(2002) Carbon sequestration studied in Western US Mountains. EOS Transactions
AGU83: 445,449.

· Thornton, P.E., Law, B.E., Gholz, H.L., Clark, K.L., Falge, E., Ellsworth, D.S., Goldstein,
     A.H., Monson, R.K., Hollinger, D., Falk, M., Chen, J., Sparks, J.S. (2002) Modeling and
     measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and
    water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests   Agricultural and Forest
    Meteorology 113: 185-222.

· Rosenstiel, T.N., Fisher, A.J., Fall, R., and Monson, R.K. (2002) Differential accumulation
of dimethylallyl diphsophate in leaves and needles of isoprene- and methylbutenol-
emitting and nonemitting species. Plant Physiology 129: 1276-1284.

· Monson, R.K., Turnipseed, A.A., Sparks, J.P., Harley, P.C., Scott-Denton, L.E., Sparks,
K.L., and Huxman, T.E. (2002) Carbon sequestration in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.
Global Change Biology 8: 459-478.

· Turnipseed, A.A., Anderson, D., Blanken, P. and Monson, R.K. (2002) Energy balance
above a high-elevation subalpine forest in complex topography. Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology110: 177-201.

· Litvak, M.E., Constable, J.V.H. and Monson, R.K. (2002) Supply and demand processes
in resource allocation models and their control over needle monoterpene synthesis
and concentration in Douglas fir. Oecologia 132: 382-391.

· Monson, R.K. and Holland E.A. (2001) Biospheric trace gas fluxes and their control over
tropospheric chemistry. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32: 547-576.

· McCutchan, C.L. and Monson, R.K. (2001) Night-time respiration and leaf carbohydrate are
not coupled in two alpine perennial species. New Phytologist 149: 419-430.

· McCutchan, C.L. and Monson, R.K. (2001) Effects of tissue type and development on dark
respiration in two herbaceous perenials. Annals of Botany 87: 355-364.

· Bowling, D.R., Tans, P.P., Monson, R.K. (2001) Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange
with isotopic fluxes of CO2. Global Change Biology 7: 127-145.

· Sparks, J.P., Monson, R.K., Sparks, K.L. and Lerdau, M. (2001) Leaf uptake of nitrogen
dioxide (NO2) in a tropical wet forest: implications for tropospheric chemistry. Oecologia
127: 214-221.

· Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (2001) An empirical model of
amino acid transformations in an alpine soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 33: 189-198.

· Hereid, D.P. and Monson, R.K. (2001) Nitrogen oxide fluxes between corn (Zea mays L.)
leaves and the atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment 35: 975-983.

· Logan, B.A., Monson, R.K. and Potosnak M.J. (2000) Biochemistry and physiology of foliar
isoprene production. Trends in Plant Science 5: 477-481.

· Anderson, L.J., Harley, P.C., Monson, R.K. and Jackson, R.B. (2000) Reduction of
isoprene emissions from live oak (Quercus fusiformis) with oak wilt. Tree Physiology
20: 1199-1203.

· Lipson, D.A, Schmidt, S.K., and Monson, R.K. (2000) Carbon availability and
temperature control the post-snowmelt decline in alpine soil microbial biomass. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry 32: 441-447.

· Monson, R.K. and Rawsthorne, S. (2000) Carbon dioxide assimilation in C3-C4 intermediate
       plants. In: Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism. Advances in Photosynthesis,
      (Leegood, R., Sharkey, T. and vonCaemmerer, S., eds.) Kluwer Academic Press,
       New York, pp. 533-550.

· Baldocchi, D.D., Fuentes, J.D., Bowling, D.R., Turnipseed, A. and Monson, R.K. (1999)
Scaling isoprene fluxes from leaves to canopies: test cases over a boreal aspen and mixed-
species temperate forest. Journal of Applied Meteorology 38: 885-898.

· Bowling, D.R., Baldocchi, D.D. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Dynamics of isotopic exchange of
carbon dioxide in a Tennessee deciduous forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
13: 903-922.

· Logan, B.A., Anchordoquy, T.J., Monson, R.K. and Pan, R.S. (1999) The effect
of isoprene on the properties of spinach thylakoids and phosphatidylcholine liposomes.
Plant Biology 1: 602-606.

· Logan, B.A. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Thermotolerance of leaf discs from four
isoprene-emitting species is not enhanced by exposure to exogenous isoprene.
Plant Physiology 120: 821-825.

· Litvak, M.E., Madronich, S. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Herbivore-induced monoterpene
emissions from coniferous forests: potential impact on local tropospheric chemistry.
Ecological Applications 9: 1147-1159.

· Constable, J.V.H., Guenther, A.B., Schimel, D.S. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Modelling
changes in VOC emission in response to climate change in the continental United States.
Global Change Biology 5: 791-806.

· Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.K., Schmidt, S.K. and Monson, R.K. (1999) Variation in competitive
abilities of plants and microbes for specific amino acids. Biology of Fertile Soils
29: 257-261.

· Harley, P.C., Monson, R.K., and Lerdau, M.T. (1999) Ecological and evolutionary aspects of
isoprene emission from plants. Oecologia 118: 109-123.

· Lipson, D.A., Schadt, C.W., Schmidt, S.K., Monson, R.K. (1999) Ectomycorrhizal transfer
of amino acid-nitrogen to the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides. New Phytologist
142: 163-167.

· Lipson, D.A., Schmidt, S.K., Monson, R.K. (1999) Seasonal dynamics in the utilization
of organic nitrogen by soil microorganisms in the alpine ecosystem. Ecology 80: 1623-1631.

· Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A., Monson, R.K. (1999) Soil amino acid utilization among
species of the Cyperceae: plant and soil processes. Ecology 80: 2408-2419.

· Bowling, D.R., Delany, A.C., Turnipseed, A.A., Baldocchi, D.D. and Monson, R.K.
      (1999) Modification of the relaxed eddy accumulation technique to maximize measured
      scalar mixing ratio differences in updrafts and downdrafts. Journal of Geophysical
      Research 104: 9121-9133.

· Constable, J.V.H., Litvak, M.E., Greenberg, J.P., and Monson, R.K. (1999)
Monoterpene emission from coniferous trees in response to elevated CO2
concentration and climate warming. Global Change Biology 5: 255-267.

· Jaeger, C.H., Monson, R.K. Fisk, M., and Schmidt, S. (1999) Seasonal partitioning
of nitrogen by plants and soil microorganisms in an alpine ecosystem. Ecology
80: 1883-1891.

· Sage, R.F., Li, M., and Monson, R.K. (1999) The taxonomic distribution of C4 photosynthesis.
In: C4 Plant Biology (R. Sage and R.K. Monson, eds.), Academic Press, New York,
pp.551-584.

· Monson, R.K. (1999) The origins of C4 genes and evolutionary pattern in the C4
metabolic phenotype. In: C4 Plant Biology (R. Sage and R.K. Monson, eds.),
Academic Press, New York, pp.377-410.

· Bowling, D.R., Turnipseed, A.A., Delany, A.C., Baldocchi, D.D., Greenberg, J.P., and
     Monson, R.K. (1998) The use of relaxed eddy accumulation to measure
     biosphere-atmosphere exchange of isoprene and other biological trace gases. Oecologia
     116: 306-315.

· Litvak, M.T. and Monson, R.K. (1998) Patterns of constitutive and induced monoterpene
production in coniferous needles in relation to herbivory. Oecologia 114: 531-540.

· Lipson, D.A. and Monson, R.K. (1998) Plant-microbe competition for soil amino acids in
the alpine tundra: effects of freeze-thaw and dry-rewet events. Oecologia 113: 406-414.

· Lerdau, M.T., Litvak, M.E., Palmer, P., and Monson, R.K. (1997) Controls over
monoterpene concentration and emissions from boreal forest conifers. Tree Physiology
17: 563-569

· Lerdau, M.T., Guenther, A.B., and Monson, R.K. (1997) Plant production and emission
of volatile organic compounds. BioScience 47: 373-383

· Raab, T.K., Lipson, D.A., and Monson, R.K. (1996) Non-mycorrhizal uptake of amino
acids by roots of the alpine sedge, Kobresia myosuroides: implications for the alpine
nitrogen cycle. Oecologia 108:488-494

· Fang, C.W., Monson, R.K., and Cowling, E.B. (1996) Isoprene emission,
photosynthesis, and growth in sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) seedlings
exposed to repeated cycles of water stress. Tree Physiology 16: 441-446

· Litvak, M.E., Loreto, F., Harley, P.C., Sharkey, T.D. and Monson, R.K. (1996) The
      response of isoprene emission rate and photosynthesis rate to growth photon flux density
      and nitrogen supply in aspen and white oak trees. Plant, Cell & Environment 19:
      549-559

· Lipson, D., Bowman, W.D. and Monson, R.K. (1996) Luxury consumption and
storage of nitrogen in the alpine herb, Bistorta bistortoides. Ecology 77:
1277-1285

· Lipson, D.A., Raab, T.R., and Monson, R.K. (1996) d -acetylornithine as a major
nitrogen storage compound in Bistorta bistortoides. Phytochemistry 41:29-30

· Monson, R.K. (1996) The use of phylogenetic perspective in comparative plant
physiology and developmental biology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
83: 3-16

· Lerdau, M., Matson, P., Fall, R. and Monson, R.K. (1995) Ecological controls over
monoterpene emissions from Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii Fran). Ecology 76:
2640-2647

· Lauder, G., Huey, R., Monson, R., Jensen, R. (1995) Systematics and the study of
organismal function. Bioscience 45: 696-704

· Monson, R.K., Lerdau, M.T., Sharkey, T.D., Schimel, D.S. and Fall R. (1995)
Biological aspects of constructing biogenic hydrocarbon emission inventories.
Atmospheric Environment 29: 2989-3002.

· Heilmeier, H. and Monson, R.K. (1994) Carbon and nitrogen storage in herbaceous
plants. In: A Whole Plant Perspective on Carbon-Nitrogen Interactions (J. Roy and
E. Garnier, eds.), SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, pp. 149-171

· Monson, R.K., Harley, P.C., Litvak, M., Wildermuth, M., Guenther, A., Zimmerman, P.
and Fall, R. (1994) Environmental and developmental controls over the seasonal
pattern of isoprene emission from aspen leaves. Oecologia 99: 260-270

· Harley, P.C., Litvak, M., Sharkey, T. and Monson, R.K. (1994) Isoprene emission
from velvet bean leaves. The influences of growth light intensity, nitrogen availability,
and leaf development. Plant Physiology 105: 279-285

· Monson, R.K., Schulze, E.-D., Freund, M. and Heilmeier, H. (1994) Carbon and
      nitrogen storage in the biennial Cirsium vulgare L. as influenced by nitrogen
      availability. II. The cost of nitrogen storage. Plant, Cell and Environment 17:
     1133-1142

· Heilmeier, H., Freund, M., Steinlein, T., Schulze, E.-D. and Monson, R.K. (1994)
      Carbon and nitrogen storage in the biennial Cirsium vulgare L. as influenced by
      nitrogen availability. I. Storage capacity in relation to resource acquisition, allocation
     and recycling. Plant, Cell and Environment 17: 1125-1132

· Lerdau, M.T., Litvak, M. and Monson, R.K. (1994) Supply and demand in plant
chemical defense: monoterpenes and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 58-61

· Gehring, J.L. and Monson, R.K. (1994) Sexual differences in gas exchange and
response to environmental stress in dioecious Silene latifolia (Carophyllaceae).
American Journal of Botany 81: 166-174.

· Ehleringer, J.R. and Monson, R.K. (1993) Ecology and evolution of photosynthetic
pathway variation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24: 411-439