NSF Biographical Sketch - Mohan, Jacqueline E.
 

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Name:  Mohan, Jacqueline E.
Telephone:
706.542.6365; Fax: 706.542.4819
Email: jmohan@uga.edu
Organization:
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602


Position at Coweeta LTER:
Principal Investigator
Specialty: Global Change Ecology/Forest Dynamics
Habitat: Temperate and Tropical Ecosystems
Organism: Plants, microbes, herbivores
Core Area(s):  Primary Production, Population Studies, Movement of Organic Matter, Movement of Inorganic Matter, Disturbance patterns

Education:

S.B. Biochemistry and A.B. Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1991
M.S. Environmental Management, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993
Ph.D. Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2002

Appointments:
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 2007-Present
The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 2004-2007 (Jerry Melillo)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2002-2004 (Fahkri Bazzaz)
The Nature Conservancy, Southeast Regional Office, Chapel Hill, NC 1992-1995

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Mohan, J.E. L.H. Ziska, W.H. Schlesinger, R.B.Thomas, R.C. Sicher, K.George, J.S. Clark. 2008. Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2: Reply. Ecology, in press.

Mohan, J.E., J.S. Clark, W.H. Schlesinger. 2007. Long-term CO2 enrichment of a forest ecosystem: implications for forest regeneration and succession. Ecological Applications 17(4): 1198-1212.

Mohan, J.E., L.H. Ziska, W.H. Schlesinger, R.B.Thomas, R.C. Sicher, K.George, J.S. Clark. 2006. Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(24): 9086-9089. (covered in >130,000 news entries on Google News.com)

Ellison, A.M., M.S. Bank, B.D. Clinton, E.A. Colburn, K. Elliott, C. Ford, D.R. Foster, B.D. Kloeppel, J.D. Knoepp, G.M. Lovett, J.E. Mohan, D.A. Orwig, N.L. Rodenhouse, W.V. Sobczak, K.A. Stinson, P. Snow, J.K. Stone, C.M. Swan, J. Thompson, B. Von Holle, and J.R. Webster. 2005. Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9(3): 479-486.


Clark
, J.S., J.E. Mohan, M. Dietze, and I. Ibanez. 2003. Coexistence: How to discriminate trophic tradeoffs from slow dynamics. Ecology 84 (1): 17-31.

Synergistic Activities:
1. CO-CHAIR: Forest Composition and Productivity subgroup of Northeastern Forests 2100, Northeastern Ecosystems Research Cooperative (NERC), a climate change and variability synthesis group for the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada (2005-ongoing).

2. REU Mentor, Harvard Forest, 2004-2007 (5 undergraduate students, including 2 Mellon Under-Represented Minority Fellows)

3. Journal Reviewer: Ecology, Global Change Biology, Oecologia, American Journal of Botany, New Phytologist, Phytologia