Jesse B. Nippert

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 2006, Colorado State University
Ecology

209 Bushnell Hall
(785) 532-0114
nippert@ksu.edu

Plant Eco-physiology Laboratory

Research Focus

Specialty Areas of Interest

1. Prairie plant eco-physiology
2. Eco-hydrology
3. Stabe isotope ratios
4. Plant responses to climate change

Current Research

1. Water-source partitioning among tallgrass prairie species
2. The role of environmental variability as a driver of prairie plant physiology (specifically, dominant C4 grasses)
3. Ecohydrologic responses of invasive species (i.e., Tamarix) to climate variability

1. Using modern and paleo wood samples to identify climate variaiblity
2. Scaling relationships between leaf and canopy carbon/water exchange
   

Selected Research Publications

Nippert, J.B.and A.K. Knapp.  2007.  Soil water partitioning as a mechanism for species coexistence in tallgrass prairie. Oikos 116: 1017-1029.

Nippert, J.B.and A.K. Knapp.  2007.  Linking water uptake with rooting patterns in grassland species. Oecologia (in press).

Nippert, J.B., P.A. Fay, and A.K. Knapp.  2007.  Photosynthetic traits in C3 and C4 grassland species in mesocosm and field environments. Environmental and Experimental Botany 60: 412-420.

Nippert, J.B., A.K. Knapp, and J.M. Briggs.  2006.  Intra-annual rainfall variability and grassland productivity: can the past predict the future? Plant Ecology 184: 65-74.

Duursma R.A., J.D. Marshall, J.B. Nippert, C.C. Chambers, and A.P. Robinson.  2005.  Estimating leaf-level parameters for ecosystem process models: a study in mixed conifer canopies on complex terrain. Tree Physiology 25: 1347-1359.

Nippert, Jesse and John Blair.  March 2005, posting date.  Comparing the Influence of Precipitation, Fire, and Topography on Plant Productivity in the Tallgrass Prairie, Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology , Vol. 3: Issues: Data Set #1 [online]. http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v3/issues/data_sets/konza/abstract.html

Nippert, J.B., R.A. Duursma, and J.D. Marshall.  2004.  Seasonal variation in the photosynthetic potential of montane conifers. Functional Ecology 18: 876-886.

Morgan, J. et al .  2004.  Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystem exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2. Oecologia 140: 11-25.

Nippert, J.B. and J.D. Marshall.  2003.  Sources of variation in ecophysiological parameters in Douglas- fir and grand fir canopies. Tree Physiology 23: 591-601.