John King
Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Biltmore Hall (Robertson Wing) 1019A
Area(s) of Expertise
Tree Physiology
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
Publications
- Productivity of low-input short-rotation coppice American sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis L.) grown at different planting densities as a bioenergy feedstock over two rotation cycles (2021)
- An improved method for quantifying total fine root decomposition in plantation forests combining measurements of soil coring and minirhizotrons with a mass balance model (2020)
- Long-term carbon flux and balance in managed and natural coastal forested wetlands of the Southeastern USA (2020)
- Spatial heterogeneity in CO2, CH4, and energy fluxes: insights from airborne eddy covariance measurements over the Mid-Atlantic region (2020)
- Spectral evidence for substrate availability rather than environmental control of methane emissions from a coastal forested wetland (2020)
- Tidal Wetland Gross Primary Production Across the Continental United States, 2000-2019 (2020)
- Coastal wetland resilience to climate variability: A hydrologic perspective (2019)
- Disentangling the Effects of Temperature, Moisture, and Substrate Availability on Soil CO2 Efflux (2019)
- Effects of Microtopography on Absorptive and Transport Fine Root Biomass, Necromass, Production, Mortality and Decomposition in a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland, Southeastern USA (2019)
- Microtopography Alters Hydrology, Phenol Oxidase Activity and Nutrient Availability in Organic Soils of a Coastal Freshwater Forested Wetland (2019)