Ph.D., University of Maine, Plant Science, 1988
M.F.S., Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Forest Science, 1983
B.A., Cornell University, Philosophy, 1980

Forest Ecologist, 1997 – Present, US Forest Service, Durham, New Hampshire

Research Associate Professor, 1997 – Present, Dept. of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine

Forest ecology, forest soils, nutrient cycling, acidic deposition, global climate change

Ecological Society of America; Soil Science Society of America

Rustad, L.E. From Transient to Steady State Response of Ecosystems to Atmospheric CO2-Enrichment and Global Climate Change. Plant Ecology 182: 43-62.

McNulty, S.. J. Boggs, J.Aber, L.Rustad, and A. Magill. Red spruce ecosystem changes after 14 years of chronic N fertilization. 2006. Forest Ecology and Management 219: 279-291.

Norby, R.J., L.E. Rustad, J.S. Dukes, D.S. Ojima, W.P. Parton, S. J. Del Grosso, E.E. McMurtrie, and D.A. Pepper. 2006. Ecosystem Responses to Warming and Interacting Global Change Factors. Terrestrial Ecosystems in A Changing World. Springer-Verlag.

Jefts, S, I.J. Fernandez, L.E. Rustad, and D.B. Dail. 2004. Decadal responses in soil N dynamics at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 189: 189-205.

Fernandez, Ivan J., Lindsey E. Rustad, Stephen A. Norton, J. Stephen Kahl and Bernard J. Cosby. 2003. Experimental acidification causes soil base cation depletion in a New England forested watershed. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:1909-1919.

Rustad, L.E. and R.J. Norby. 2002. Effects of Increased Temperature on Terrestrial cosystems. In: (eds) Mooney, H.A. and J. Canadell, Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Volume Two: Biological and Ecological Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Pp. 575-581. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, 2002.

Rustad, L.E. 2001. A Matter of Time on the Prairie. News and Views, Nature 413: 578-579

Rustad, L.E., J. Campbell, G.M. Marion, R.J. Norby, M.J. Mitchell, A.E. Hartley, J. H.C. Cornelissen, J. Gurevitch, GCTE-NEWS. 2001. A Meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net N mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming. Oecologia 126: 543-562.

Rustad, L.E., J.M.Melillo, M.J. Mitchell, I. J. Fernandez, P. A. Steudler, and P. J. McHale. 2000. Effects of soil warming on C and N cycling in Northern U.S. forest soils. In: Mickler, R., R. Birdsey, and J. Hom (eds.).pp.357-381. Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Rustad, L.E., T.G. Huntington, and R.D. Boone. 2000. Controls on soil respiration: implications for climate change. Biogeochemistry 48: 1-6

Aber, J., W. McDowell, K. Nadelhoffer, A. Magill, G. Berntson, M. Kamekea, S. McNulty, W. Currie, L. Rustad, I. Fernandez. 1998. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: hypotheses revisited.

Rustad, L.E. and I.J. Fernandez. 1998. Soil warming: consequences for litter decay in a spruce-fir forest ecosystem in Maine. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62: 1072-1081.

Rustad, L.E. and I.J. Fernandez. 1998. Experimental soil warming effects on CO2 and CH4 flux from a low elevation spruce fir forest soil in Maine, USA. Global Change Biology 4: 597-607.

Rustad, L.E., I.J. Fernandez, M.B. David, M.J. Mitchell, K.J. Nadelhoffer, and R.D. Fuller. 1996. Experimental soil acidification and recovery at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM), USA. Soil Sci.Soc. Am. J. 60: 1926-1933.

Rustad, L.E. and Cronan, C.S. 1995. Biogeochemical cycling of aluminum in a red spruce stand in central Maine, USA. Biogeochem. 29: 107-129.

Rustad, L.E. 1994. Element dynamics along a decay continuum in a red spruce ecosystem in Maine, USA. Ecology 75: 867-879.

Rustad, L.E., J.S. Kahl, S.A. Norton, and I.J. Fernandez. 1994. Underestimation of dry deposition by throughfall in mixed northern hardwood forests. J. of Hydrology 16: 319-336

Rustad, L.E., I.J. Fernandez, R.D. Fuller, M.B. David, and W.A. Halteman. 1993. Soil solution response to acidic deposition in a northern hardwood forest. Agric., Ecosystems, and Environ. 47: 117-134.

Rustad, L. E. and C.S. Cronan. 1989. Cycling of aluminum and nutrients in litterfall of a red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) stand in Maine. Can. J. For. Res. 19: 18-23.

Rustad, L.E. and C.S. Cronan. 1988. Element loss and retention during litter decay in a red spruce stand in Maine. Can. J. For. Res. 18: 947-953.

J. Aber (UNH) R.D. Fuller (SUNY Plattsburg) S. McNulty (USFS) M.B. Adams (USFS) J. Gurevitch (SUNY Stonybrook) J.M.Melillo (MBL) S. Arnold (Umaine) John Harte (Stanford) M.J. Mitchell (SUNY Syracuse) R. Boone (U. Alaska) T. Haines (U.Maine) K.J. Nadelhoffer (U. Michigan) J. Campbell (USFS) M. Handley (U. Maine) R. Norby (TVA) J.Canadell (CSIRO) T. Huntington (USGS) S.A. Norton (U. Maine) J.H.C. Cornelissen (RISO, DK) J.S. Kahl (U.Maine) L. Pitelka (Appalacian Lab.) W. Currie (U. Michigan) A. Magill (UNH) J. Scofield (U. Maine( M.David (U. Ill.) G. Marion (DRI) P. A. Steudler (MBL) H. Erickson (EPA) W. McDowell (UNH) L.M. Zibilske (U. Maine) I.J. Fernandez (U. Maine) P. J. McHale (SUNY Syracuse)

Garth Vogt, Chris Cronan

Forest Service

Principal Investigator