Vitae and publication list
Paul Dijkstra
(May 2012)
P.O. Box 5640
Department of Biology
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
tel: (928) 523-0432
fax: (928) 523-7500
email: paul.dijkstra@nau.edu
Professional experience:
2007-present: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern
Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2005-2007:
Associate Director, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, AZ
2001-2005:
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ
1999-2001:
Coordinator Immuno-Fluorescence Lab, Plant Protection Service, Wageningen, the
Netherlands
1995-1999:
Project Manager and Ecophysiologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center,
Kennedy Space Center, FL
1991-1995:
Ecophysiologist, Institute for Agrobiological and Soil Fertility Research (AB-DLO),
Wageningen, the Netherlands
1990-1991:
Plant Physiologist, Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research (CPRO-DLO),
Wageningen, the Netherlands
Education:
PhD
University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Plant Physiology, 1990. Physiological aspects of a
genotypic difference in relative growth rate within Plantago major.
MS
Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands, 1983. Plant Breeding, Entomology,
Phytopathology and Tropical Agronomy
BS
Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands, 1980 (with honors).
Professional review activities:
Australian Journal of Agriculture, Ecology Letters, European Agronomy, Forest Ecology and
Management, International Journal of Plant Ecology, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies,
Oecologia, Physiologia Plantarum, Plant and Soil, Soil Science Society of America Journal, Soil Biology
and Biochemistry (manuscripts). National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy (grant
proposals).
Research Grants:
National Science Foundation Ecosystem Program, 2004-2007 15N natural abundance of soil microbial
biomass as a tool for assessing controls on N-cycling processes in ecosystems, $450,000
(Schwartz, Dijkstra, Hart, and Hungate)
US Department of Agriculture, 2005-2008. Predicting N-mineralization from 15N natural abundance of
the soil microbial biomass. $350,000 (Dijkstra, Schwartz, Hart and Hungate)
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NAU Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) - Environmental Research, Development, and
Education for the New Economy (Erdene), 2006-2007. A New Facility to Determine
Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks of N2O in Northern Arizona. $70,384. (Dijkstra and
Hymus)
NAU Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) - Environmental Research, Development, and
Education for the New Economy (Erdene), 2007-2009. Linking ecosystem function and species
diversity using stable isotopes - a case study involving ponderosa pine forest restoration in
northern Arizona. $ 98,851. (Dijkstra, Hymus, Cobb, Schwartz, Hart and Hungate)
National Science Foundation Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry: Collaborative Research:
Biological and mineralogical controls over soil carbon cycling across multiple ecosystems: a focus
on the priming effect – Hungate, Dijkstra, Schwartz, and Rasmussen- $319,000.
Teaching experience: BIO426: Plant Physiology, BIO326, and BIO 479/599 (with Paul Selmants).
Graduate Advisor: Michael Allwright, Christina Bentrup, Jamie Brown, Jessica Collins, Jeffrey Coyle,
Corinne LaViolette, Becky Mau (master students), Ben Duval, and Zhouting Wu (PhD students)
Languages
Dutch: First language
English: Fluent
German: Fluent understanding and reading
Publications
1. Brown JR, Blankinship JC, Niboyet A, van Groenigen K-J, Dijkstra P, Le Roux X,
Leadley PW,. Field CB and Hungate BA. Effects of Multiple Global Change Treatments
on Soil N2O Fluxes. Biogeochemistry DOI 10.1007/s10533-011-9655-2.
2. Dijkstra P, Blankinship JC, Selmants PC, Hart SC, Koch GW, Schwartz E and Hungate
BA. 2011. Probing carbon flux patterns through soil microbial metabolic networks using
parallel position-specific tracer labeling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 126-132.
3. Dijkstra P, Dalder JJ, Selmants PC, Hart SC, Koch GW, Schwartz E and Hungate BA
2011. Modeling soil metabolic processes using isotopologue pairs of position-specific
13
C-labeled glucose and pyruvate. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 1848-1857.
4. Dijkstra P, Thomas SC, Heinrich PL, Koch GW, Schwartz E and Hungate BA 2011c.
Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: evidence for
altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and
reduced carbon use efficiency. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 2023-2031.
5. Duval BD, Dijkstra P, Natali SM, Megonigal JP, Ketterer ME, Drake BG, Lerdau MT,
Gordon G, Anbar AD and Hungate BA 2011. Plant-soil distribution of potentially toxic
elements in response to elevated atmospheric CO2. Environmental Science and
Technology 45, 2570-2574.
6. Duval, BD, Blankinship, JC, Dijkstra P, and Hungate, BA. CO2 effects on plant nutrient
concentration depend on plant functional group and available nitrogen: a meta-analysis.
Plant Ecology (in review).
7. Niboyet A, Brown JR, Dijkstra P, Blankinship JC, Leadley PW, Le Roux X, Barthes L,
Barnard RL, Field CB and Hungate BA 2011. Global Change could amplify fire effects
on
soil
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
PLoS
ONE
6(6):
e20105.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020105.
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8. Niboyet A, Le Roux X, Dijkstra P, Hungate BA, Barthes L, Blankinship JC, Brown JR,
Field CB and Leadley PW 2011. Testing interactive effects of global environmental
changes on soil nitrogen cycling. Ecosphere 2(5):art56. doi:10.1890/ES10-00148.1.
9. Schroeder RE, Day FP, Stover DB, Brown ALP, Butnor JR, Hungate BA, Dijkstra P,
Duval BD, Seiler TJ, Drake BG, and Hinkle CR. The cumulative effects of 11 years of
CO2 enrichment on root biomass in a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem. Plant and Soil
(submitted).
10. Wu Z, Dijkstra P, Koch GW, Peñuelas J and Hungate BA 2011. Responses of terrestrial
ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental
manipulation. Global Change Biology 17, 927-942.
11. Wu Z, Koch GW, Dijkstra P, Bowker M, and Hungate BA 2011. Responses of
Ecosystem Carbon Cycling to Climate Change Treatments Along an Elevation Gradient.
Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9464-4.
12. Wu, Z, Dijkstra P, Koch GW and Hungate BA. Progressively declining climate change
effects on plant productivity. Nature Climate Change (submitted).
13. Blankinship J, Brown J, Dijkstra P, Allwright M and Hungate BA 2010. Response of
terrestrial methane uptake to interactive changes in precipitation and temperature along a
climatic gradient. Ecosystems 13, 1157-1170.
14. Blankinship JC, Brown JR, Dijkstra P and Hungate BA 2010. Effects of interactive
global changes on methane uptake in an annual grassland. Journal of Geophysical
Research 115, G02008, doi:10.1029/2009JG001097.
15. Coyle, JS, Dijkstra, P., Doucett RR, Schwartz E, Hart SC and Hungate BA 2009.
Relationships between C and N availability, substrate age, and natural abundance
13C and 15N signatures of soil microbial biomass in a semiarid climate. Soil Biology
Biochem 41: 1605-1611.
16. Seiler TJ, Rasse DP, Li J, Dijkstra P, Anderson HP, Johnson DP, Powell TL, Hungate
BA, Hinkle CR and Drake BG (2009). Disturbance, rainfall and contrasting species
responses mediated aboveground biomass response over 11 years of CO2
enrichment in a Florida Scrub-Oak ecosystem. Global Change Biology 15, 356–367
17. Collins JG, Dijkstra P, Hart SC, Hungate BA, Flood NM and Schwartz E, 2008. Nitrogen source
influences natural abundance 15N of Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiology Letters 282: 246-250
18. Dijkstra, P, LaViolette CM, Coyle, JS, Doucett, RR, Schwartz, E, Hart, SC and Hungate, BA. 2008.
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N enrichment as an integrator of the effects of C and N on microbial metabolism and
ecosystem function. Ecology Letters 11: 389-397
19. Li J, Johnson DP, Dijkstra P, Hinkle CR and Drake BG, 2007. Elevated CO2 mitigates the adverse
effects of drought on daytime net ecosystem CO2 exchange and photosynthesis in a Florida
scrub-oak ecosystem. Photosynthetica 45: 51-58
20. Schwartz E, Blazewicz S, Doucett RR, Hungate BA, Hart SC and Dijkstra P, 2007. Natural
abundance δ15N and δ13C of DNA extracted from soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39: 31013107
21. Dijkstra P, Ishizu A, Doucett R, Hart SC, Schwartz E, Menyailo O and Hungate BA, 2006. 13C and
15
N natural abundance of the soil microbial biomass. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 32573266
22. Dijkstra P, Menyailo O, Doucett R, Hart SC, Schwartz E and Hungate BA 2006. C and Navailability affects the 15N-natural abundance of the soil microbial biomass across a cattle
manure gradient. European Journal of Soil Science 57: 468-475
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23. Hungate BA, Johnson DW, Dijkstra P, Hymus G, Stiling PD., Megonigal JP, Pagel AL, Moan JL, Day
F, Li J-H, Hinkle CR and Drake BG, 2006. Nitrogen cycling during seven years of atmospheric CO2
enrichment. Ecology 87: 26-40
24. Hungate BA, Stiling PD, Dijkstra P, Johnson DW, Ketterer ME, Hymus GJ, Hinkle CR, and Drake
BG, 2004. CO2 elicits long-term decline in nitrogen fixation. Science 304: 1291.
25. Dijkstra P, Williamson C, Menyailo O, Doucett R, Koch G and Hungate BA, 2003. Nitrogen stable
isotope composition of leaves and roots of plants growing in a forest and a meadow. Isotopes in
Environmental and Health Studies 39: 29-39.
26. Johnson DW, Hungate BA, Dijkstra P, Hymus G, Hinkle CR, Stiling P and Drake BG, 2003. Elevated
CO2 causes increased nutrient uptake but little soil change in a scrub-oak forest. Ecological
Applications 13: 1388-1399.
27. Langley JA, Dijkstra P, Drake BG and Hungate BA, 2003. Ectomycorrhizal colonization, biomass,
and production in a regenerating scrub-oak forest under elevated CO2. Ecosystems 6: 424-430.
28. Dijkstra P, Hymus G, Colavito D, Vieglais DA, Cundari CM, Johnson DP, Hungate, BA Hinkle CR
and Drake BG, 2002. Elevated atmospheric CO2 stimulates aboveground biomass in a fireregenerated scrub-oak ecosystem. Global Change Biology 8: 90-103
29. Hungate BA, Reichstein M, Dijkstra P, Johnson D, Hymus G, Tenhunen JD, Hinkle CR and Drake
BG, 2002. Evapotranspiration and soil water content in a scrub-oak woodland under carbon
dioxide enrichment. Global Change Biology 8: 289-298.
30. Hymus GJ, Dijkstra P, Baker NR, Drake BG and Long SP, 2001. Will rising CO2 protect plants from
the midday sun? A study of photoinhibition of Quercus myrtifolia in a scrub-oak community in
two seasons. Plant, Cell and Environment 12: 1361-1368.
31. Johnson DW, Hungate BA, Dijkstra P, Hymus G, and Drake BG, 2001. Effects of elevated CO2 on
soils in a Florida Scrub Oak ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Quality 30: 501-507.
32. Lodge RJ, Dijkstra P, Drake BG and Morison JIL, 2001. Stomatal acclimation to increased CO2
concentration in a Florida scrub oak species Quercus myrtifolia Willd. Plant, Cell and
Environment 24: 77-88.
33. Li J, Dijkstra P, Hymus GJ, Wheeler RM, Piastuch WC, Hinkle CR and Drake BG, 2000. Leaf
senescence of Quercus myrtifolia as affected by long-term CO2 enrichment in its native
environment. Global Change Biology 6: 727-733.
34. Schapendonk AHCM, Van Oijen M, Dijkstra P, Pot CS, Jordi WJRM and Stoopen GM, 2000.
Effects of elevated CO2 concentration on photosynthetic acclimation and productivity of two
potato cultivars grown in open-top chambers. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 27: 11191130.
35. Schortemeyer M, Dijkstra P and Drake BG, 2000. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2
concentration on C and N pools and rhizosphere processes in a Florida scrub oak community.
Global Change Biology 6: 383-391.
36. Dijkstra P, Schapendonk AHCM, Groenwold J, Jansen MJH and van de Geijn SC, 1999. Seasonal
changes in the response of winter wheat to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration grown in
Open Top Chambers and field tracking enclosures. Global Change Biology 5: 563-576.
37. Drake BG, Berry J, Bunce J, Dijkstra P, Farrar J, Gifford R, Koch G, Lambers H, Gonzalez-Mehler
M, Azcon-Bieto K, Siedow J and Wullschleger S, 1999. Does elevated atmospheric CO2
concentration inhibit mitochondrial respiration in green plants? Plant, Cell Environment 22: 649657.
38. Hungate BA, Dijkstra P, Johnson DW, Hinkle CR and Drake BG, 1999. Elevated CO2 increases
nitrogen fixation and decreases soil nitrogen mineralization in Florida scrub oak. Global Change
Biology 5: 781-789.
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39. Li J, Dijkstra P, Hinkle CR, Wheeler RM and Drake BG, 1999. Photosynthetic acclimation to
elevated CO2 concentration in the Florida scrub-oak species, Quercus geminata and Quercus
myrtifolia, growing in their native environment. Tree Physiology 19: 229-234.
40. Stiling P, Rossi AM, Hungate B, Dijkstra P, Hinkle CR, Knott WM and Drake BG, 1999. Decreased
leaf-miner abundance in elevated CO2 reduced leaf quality and increased parasitoid attack.
Ecological Applications 9: 240-244.
41. Van de Geijn, S.C., A.H.C.M. Schapendonk and P. Dijkstra, 1998. Experimental research facilities
for the assessment of climate change impact on managed and natural ecosystems. In: Climate
change impact on agriculture and forestry. D. Peter, G. Marachi, A. Ghazi, eds. 117 -136
42. Poorter H, van Berkel Y, Baxter R, den Hertog J, Dijkstra P, Gifford RM, Griffin KL, Roumet C, Roy
J., Wong SC 1997. The effect of elevated CO2 on the chemical composition and construction
costs of leaves of 27 C3 species. Plant, Cell and Environment 20: 472-482.
43. Schapendonk AHCM, Dijkstra P, Groenwold J, Pot CS and Van de Geijn SC, 1997. Carbon balance
and water use efficiency of frequently cut Lolium perenne L. swards at elevated carbon dioxide.
Global Change Biology 3: 207-216.
44. Dijkstra P, Nonhebel S, Grashoff C, Goudriaan J and Van de Geijn SC 1996. Response of growth
and CO2-uptake of spring wheat and faba bean to CO2 concentration under semi-field
conditions: comparing results of field experiments and simulations. In: Carbon Dioxide and
Terrestrial Ecosystems (eds. GW Koch and HA Mooney). pp 251-264.
45. Schapendonk AHCM, Dijkstra P, Groenwold J, Pot CS and Van de Geijn SC 1996. Implications of
elevated carbon dioxide concentration on Lolium perenne L. swards. Growth analyses and
carbon balance. Aspects of Applied Biology 45: 31-40.
46. Schapendonk AHCM, Dijkstra P, Van de Geijn SC and Groenwold J, 1996 Grasslands: a buffer for
increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide? Change 30: 5-8.
47. Schapendonk, A.H.C.M., P. Dijkstra , S.C. van de Geijn and J. Groenwold. Response of winter
wheat to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration in early spring under semi-field conditions,
1996. Keynotes of the fourth congress of the European Society for Agronomy. M.K. van
Ittersum, G.E.G.T. Venner, S.C. van de Geijn and T.H. Jetten, (eds.) pp 22-23.
48. Schapendonk, A.H.C.M., P. Dijkstra, S.C. van de Geijn and J. Groenwold. Two year growth and
carbon partitioning of Lolium perenne swards at ambient and doubled carbon dioxide
concentrations, 1996. Keynotes of the fourth congress of the European Society for Agronomy.
M.K. van Ittersum, G.E.G.T. Venner, S.C. van de Geijn and T.H. Jetten (eds.) pp 60-62.
49. Dijkstra P, Schapendonk AHCM., Van de Geijn SC, Visser A and Rozema J, 1995. Interactions
between atmospheric CO2-concentration, temperature and environmental factors with respect
to photosynthesis, assimilate distribution and development rhythm of three agricultural crops.
Nota-9 AB-DLO. DLO-Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility and the Free University
of Amsterdam. 167 p.
50. Grashoff C, Dijkstra P, Nonhebel S, Schapendonk AHCM and Van de Geijn SC, 1995. Effects of
climate change on productivity of cereals and legumes; model evaluation of observed year-toyear variability of the CO2 response. Global Change Biology 1: 417-428.
51. Maciorowski R, Stankowski S and Dijkstra P, 1995. Opis wzrostu roślin pszenicy jarej (Triticum
aestivum), przy róźnym stężeniu CO2 w powietrzu, za pomocą funkcji logistycznej (The
description of growth of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) plants, at different concentrations of
CO2 using logistic function). Hodowla Roślin aklimatyzacja I nasiennictwo 39: 123-131.
52. Raaimakers D, Boot RGA, Dijkstra P, Pot CS and Pons T, 1995. Photosynthetic rates in relation to
leaf phosphorous content in pioneer versus climax tropical rainforest trees. Oecologia 102: 120125.
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53. Schapendonk AHCM, Dijkstra P, Jansen MJH, Pot CS, Van de Geijn SC, Visser A and Rozema J,
1995. Climate change and agricultural productivity. In: Climate Change Research: Evaluation and
Policy Implications. (Eds. Zwerver S, Van Rompaey RSAR, Kok MTJ and Berk MM). Elsevier
Science BV, pp 709-713.
54. Stankowski S, Ulasik S, Dijkstra P and Jansen M, 1995. Wplyw zwiększonego stężenia CO2 na
jakość ziarna pszenicy jarej. (Effects of increased CO2 concentration on grain quality of spring
wheat). Biuletyn Instytutu Hodowli I Aklimatyzacji Roślin 194: 155-158.
55. Van de Geijn SC and Dijkstra P, 1995. Physiological effects of changes in carbon dioxide and
temperature on growth and water relations of crop plants. In: Potato Ecology and Modeling of
Crops under Conditions Limiting Growth. (ed. Haverkort AJ and MacKerron DKL). Kluwer
Academic Publishers pp 89-100.
56. Van de Geijn SC, Berendse F, Bouten W, Dijkstra P, Gorissen A, Jetten Th, de Kovel C, Kramer K,
Lankreijer H, Mohren GMJ, Schapendonk AHCM, Rozema J, Schaap M, Takken W, Veen AWL
and Visser A, 1995. Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems". In: Climate Change
Research: Evaluation and Policy Implications. (Eds. Zwerver S, Van Rompaey RSAR, Kok MTJ and
Berk MM) Elsevier Science BV, pp 677-706.
57. Dijkstra P, Schapendonk AHCM and Van de Geijn SC, 1994. Response of spring wheat canopy
photosynthesis to CO2 concentration throughout the growing season: effect of developmental
stage and light intensity. In: Vegetation, Modeling and Climatic Change Effects. (Eds
Veroustraete P, Ceulemans R, Impens IIP, and Van Rensbergen J). pp 53-62.
58. Dijkstra P, Schapendonk AHCM and Van de Geijn SC, 1993. Effects of CO2 enrichment on canopy
photosynthesis, carbon economy and productivity of wheat and faba bean under field
conditions. In: Climate Change: Crops and Terrestrial Ecosystems (Eds. S.C. Van de Geijn, J.
Goudriaan and F. Berendse) pp 23-41.
59. Van de Geijn SC, Dijkstra P, Van Kleef J, Groenwold K and Goudriaan J, 1993. An experimental
facility to study the effects of CO2 enrichment on the daily and long-term carbon exchange of a
crop/soil system. In: Design and Execution of Experiments on CO2 Enrichment. (Eds. Schulze ED
and Mooney HA). pp 167-174.
60. Dijkstra P and Schapendonk AHCM, 1993. Dutch agricultural production: Consequences of
increased CO2 and climate change. Change 17: 5-7.
61. Dijkstra P, Ter Reegen H and Kuiper PJC, 1990. Relation between relative growth rate,
endogenous gibberellins, and the response to applied gibberellic acid for Plantago major.
Physiologia Plantarum 79: 629-634.
62. Dijkstra P, 1990. Physiological aspects of a genotypic difference in relative growth rate within
Plantago major. PhD Thesis. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen. 104 pp.
63. Dijkstra P, 1990. Cause and effect of differences in specific leaf area. In: Causes and
Consequences of Variation in Growth Rate and Productivity of Higher Plants (eds. H. Lambers,
M.L. Cambridge, H. Konings and T.L. Pons). pp 125-140.
64. Dijkstra P and Lambers H, 1989. Analysis of specific leaf area and photosynthesis of two inbred
lines of Plantago major differing in relative growth rate. New Phytologist 113: 283-290.
65. Dijkstra P and Lambers H, 1989. A physiological analysis of genotypic variation in relative growth
rate within Plantago major L. Functional Ecology 3: 577-587.
66. Dijkstra P and Kuiper PJC, 1989. Effects of exogenously applied growth regulators on shoot
growth of inbred lines of Plantago major differing in relative growth rate: differential response
to gibberellic acid and 2-(chloro-ethyl)-trimethyl-ammonium chloride. Physiologia Plantarum 77:
512-518.
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67. Lambers H and Dijkstra P, 1987. A physiological analysis of genotypic variation in relative growth
rate: can growth rate confer ecological advantage? In: Disturbance in Grasslands. Causes, Effects
and Processes (eds. J. van Andel, J.P. Bakker and R.W. Snaydon). pp 237-252.
68. Dijkstra P and Lambers H, 1986. Photosynthesis and respiration of two inbred lines of Plantago
major L. differing in relative growth rate. In: Biological Control of Photosynthesis. (eds. Marcell,
R., Clijsters, H. and Van Poucke, M). ISBN 90-247-3287-5. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht.
pp 251-255.
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