Professor; Faculty Member

lajthak@science.oregonstate.edu

   
   
 
Recent Publications

 

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Yano, Y., P. Sollins, K. Lajtha, M. Kleber, J. Baham, and B.A. Caldwell.  Decoupling of dissolved organic C and N sorption  in relation to soil mineral surface properties and pH.  Biogeochemistry, in review.

Crow, S. E., C. Swanston, K. Lajtha, J. R. Brooks, and H. Kierstead. 2007. Interpreting density fractions: searching for meaningful soil organic matter pools.  Biogeochemistry, in press.

Marshall, J.D., J.R. Brooks, and K. Lajtha.  2007.  Sources of variation in the stable isotopic composition of plants.  In Stable Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Science 2nd Edition Eds. R. Mitchener and K. Lajtha. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.  In press.

Vanderbilt, K.L., K. Lajtha and F. Swanson. 2003. Biogeochemistry of
unpolluted forested watersheds in the Oregon Cascades: temporal patterns
of precipitation and stream nitrogen fluxes.  Biogeochemistry 62:87-117.

Beldin, S. I., E. W. Sulzman, B. A. Caldwell, P. Sollins, K. Lajtha, and S. E. Crow. 2007.  Cation exchange capacity of density fractions from paired conifer/grassland soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils, in press.

Crow, S. E., E. W. Sulzman, W.D. Rugh, R.D. Bowden, and K. Lajtha.  2006.  Isotopic analysis of respired CO2 during decomposition of separated soil organic matter pools. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 3279-3291.

Sollins, P., C. Swanston, M. Kleber, T. Filley, M. Kramer, S. Crow, B. Caldwell, K. Lajtha, and R. Bowden.  2006.  Organic C and N stabilization in a forest soil: evidence from sequential density fractionation  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:3313-3324.\

Brenner, R. E., R. D. Boone, J. B. Jones, K. Lajtha, and R. W. Ruess. 2006. Successional and physical controls on the retention of nitrogen in an undisturbed boreal forest ecosystem. Oecologia 148:602-611.

Carreira, J.A., B. Viñegla, and K. Lajtha. 2006.  Secondary CaCO3 and precipitation of P-Ca compounds control the retention of soil P in arid ecosystems. Journal of Arid Environments 64:460-473.

Sulzman, E.W., J.B. Brant, R.D. Bowden, and K. Lajtha.  2005.  Contribution of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and rhizosphere respiration to total soil CO2 efflux in an old growth coniferous forest. Biogeochemistry 73:231 - 256

Lajtha, K., S. Crow, Y. Yano, S.S. Kaushal, E.W. Sulzman, P. Sollins, and J.D.H. Spears. 2005.  Detrital controls on soil solution N and dissolved organic matter in soils: a field experiment.  Biogeochemistry, 76:261-281.

Cairns, M. A., and K. Lajtha. 2005. Effects of succession on nitrogen export in the west-central Cascades, Oregon. Ecosystems 8:583-601.

Yano, Y., K. Lajtha, P. Sollins, and B.A. Caldwell. 2005. Chemistry and dynamics of dissolved organic matter in a temperate coniferous forest on Andic soils: Effects of litter quality.  Ecosystems 8: 286 - 300

Yano, Y., K. Lajtha, P. Sollins, and B.A. Caldwell. 2004. Chemical and seasonal controls on the dynamics of dissolved organic matter in a coniferous old-growth stand in the Pacific Northwest, USA.  Biogeochemistry 71:197-223.

Holub, S.M., J.D.H. Spears, K. Lajtha. 2001. A reanalysis of nutrient
dynamics in coniferous coarse woody debris. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 31: 1894-1902.

Holub, S.M. and K. Lajtha. 2003. Mass loss and nitrogen dynamics during
the decomposition of a ^15 N-labeled N_2 -fixing epiphytic lichen,
/Lobaria oregana/ . Canadian Journal of Botany 81:698-705.

Holub, S.M., K. Lajtha, J.D.H. Spears, J.A. Tóth, S.E. Crow, B.A.Caldwell, M. Papp, and P.T. Nagy. 2005. Organic matter manipulations have little effect on gross and net nitrogen transformations in two temperate forest mineral soils in the U.S.A and central Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 214:320-330.

Holub, S.M. and K. Lajtha. 2004. The fate and retention of organic and inorganic 15N-nitrogen in an old-growth forest soil in Western Oregon. Ecosystems 7:368-380.

Horváth, L., E. Führer and K. Lajtha. 2006. Nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emission from Hungarian forests: link with atmospheric N deposition.  Atmospheric Environment 40: 7786–7795

Spears, J.D.H. and K. Lajtha. 2004. The imprint of coarse woody debris on soil chemistry in the western Oregon Cascades, Biogeochemistry 71:163-175.