John King

Bio

Education

B.S. Environmental Science, Stockton State College (1985)
M.S. Forest Ecology, Duke University (1991)
Ph.D. Forest Ecophysiology, Duke University (1997)

Research Interests

Assessing how the cycling and storage of carbon and water in forested ecosystems are influenced by climate variability, management, genetics, and the interaction of biotic and abiotic stresses; effects of climate warming, drought stress and sea-level rise on forest productivity and resilience to insects and other pests; potential productivity and sustainability of short-rotation woody cropping systems for bioenergy.

Visit the NCSU Tree Physiology Laboratory Website

Courses

FOR 303 – Silvics and Forest Tree Physiology
FOR 503 – Tree Physiology
FOR 575 – Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

Area(s) of Expertise

Tree Physiology

Publications

• Network of networks: Time series clustering of AmeriFlux sites , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2025)
• Temperature and Water Levels Collectively Regulate Methane Emissions From Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands , GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES (2025)
• Elevated CO₂ concentration alleviates the negative effect of vapour pressure deficit and soil drought on juvenile poplar growth , CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORESTRY JOURNAL (2024)
• Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern U.S (vol 349, 109960, 2024) , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2024)
• Hydrologic Perturbation Is a Key Driver of Tree Mortality in Bottomland Hardwood Wetland Forests of North Carolina, USA , FORESTS (2024)
• Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf-Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities , GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (2024)
• Toward spectrally truthful models for gap-filling soil respiration and methane fluxes. A case study in coastal forested wetlands in North Carolina , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2024)
• Attributing interannual variability of net ecosystem exchange to modeled ecological processes in forested wetlands of contrasting stand age , LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY (2023)
• Attributing interannual variability of net ecosystem exchange to modeled ecological processes in forested wetlands of contrasting stand age , Landscape Ecology (2023)
• Merging flux-variance with surface renewal methods in the roughness sublayer and the atmospheric surface layer , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY (2023)