Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Department of Biological Sciences
• Box 870206
• University of Alabama
• Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206
• Email: gstarr@ua.edu

Troxler, T., G. Starr, J.N. Boyer, J.D. Fuentes, R. Jaffe, S.L. Malone, J.G. Barr, S.E. Davis, L. Collado-Vides, J.L. Breithaupt, A.K. Saha, R.M. Chambers, C.J. Madden, J.M. Smoak, J.W. Fourqurean, G. Koch, J. Kominoski, L.J. Scinto, S. Oberbauer, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, N.O. Schulte, S.P. Charles, J.H. Richards, D.T. Rudnick, and K.R.T. Whelan. 2019. Chapter 6: Carbon Cycles in the Florida Coastal Everglades Social-Ecological System across Scales, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York.

Yannick, D., S. Oberbauer, C.L. Staudhammer, J.A. Cherry, and G. Starr. 2024. Carbon dynamics of a coastal wetland transitioning to mangrove forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129: e2023JG007991.

Malone, S.L., J. Zhao, J. Kominoski, G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, P.C. Olivas, J.A. Cummings, and S. Oberbauer. 2022. Integrating aquatic metabolism and net ecosystem CO2 balance in short- and long-hydroperiod subtropical freshwater wetlands. Ecosystems 25: 567-585.

Malone, S.L., Y. Oh, K.A. Arndt, G. Burba, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, J.P. Goodrich, H. Loescher, G. Starr, and R. Varner. 2022. Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions for the United States. Biogeosciences 19: 2507-2522.

Patrick, C. et al. 2022. A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones. Science Advances 8: eabl9155.

Staudhammer, C.L., S.L. Malone, J. Zhao, Z. Yu, G. Starr, and S. Oberbauer. 2022. Methane emissions from subtropical wetlands: An evaluation of the role of data filtering on annual methane budgets. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 321: 108972.

Yu, Z., C.L. Staudhammer, S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, J. Zhao, J.A. Cherry, and G. Starr. 2022. Biophysical factors influence methane fluxes in subtropical freshwater wetlands using eddy covariance methods. Ecosystems 26: 706–723.

Zhao, J., S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, G. Starr, H. Hartmann, and S. Oberbauer. 2021. Freshwater wetland plants respond nonlinearly to inundation over a sustained period. American Journal of Botany 108: 1917-1931.

Hogan, J.A. et al. 2020. A research framework to investigate ecosystem responses to tropical cyclones. BioScience 70: 477-489.

Zhao, J., S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, J. Schedlbauer, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2019. Intensified inundation shifts a freshwater wetland from a CO2 sink to a source. Global Change Biology 25: 3319-3333.

Zhao, J., P.C. Olivas, S. Kunwor, S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, G. Starr, and S. Oberbauer. 2018. Comparison of sensible heat flux measured by large aperture scintillometer and eddy covariance in a seasonally-inundated wetland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 259: 345-354.

Zhao, J., S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, J. Schedlbauer, J.L. May, J. Moser, S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2018. Contrasting photosynthetic responses of two dominant macrophyte species to seasonal inundation in an Everglades freshwater prairie. Wetlands 38: 893-903.

Malone, S.L., J.G. Barr, J.D. Fuentes, S. Oberbauer, E.E. Gaiser, and G. Starr. 2016. Sensitivity to low-temperature events: Implications for CO2 dynamics in subtropical coastal ecosystems. Wetlands 36: 957-967.

Zhou, Y. et al. 2016. Global parameterization and validation of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for predicting gross primary production across FLUXNET sites. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 121: 1045-1072.

Malone, S.L., C. Keough, C.L. Staudhammer, M.G. Ryan, W.J. Parton, P.C. Olivas, S. Oberbauer, J. Schedlbauer, and G. Starr. 2015. Ecosystem resistance in the face of climate change: A case study from the freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades. Ecosphere 6: Article 57.

Malone, S.L., C.L. Staudhammer, H. Loescher, P.C. Olivas, S. Oberbauer, M.G. Ryan, J. Schedlbauer, and G. Starr. 2014. Seasonal patterns in energy partitioning of two freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119: 1487-1505.

Malone, S.L., C.L. Staudhammer, S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, M.G. Ryan, J. Schedlbauer, H. Loescher, and G. Starr. 2014. El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) enhances CO2 exchange rates in freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades . PLoS ONE 9: e115058.

Malone, S.L., G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, and M.G. Ryan. 2013. Effects of simulated drought on the carbon balance of Everglades short-hydroperiod marsh. Global Change Biology 19: 2511-2523.

Troxler, T. et al. 2013. Integrated carbon budget models for the Everglades terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient: current status and needs for inter-site comparisons. Oceanography 26: 98-107.

Jimenez, K.L., G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, J. Schedlbauer, H. Loescher, S.L. Malone, and S. Oberbauer. 2012. Carbon dioxide exchange rates from short- and long-hydroperiod Everglades freshwater marsh. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 117: G04009.

Schedlbauer, J., J. Munyon, S. Oberbauer, E.E. Gaiser, and G. Starr. 2012. Controls on ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange in short- and long-hydroperiod Florida Everglades freshwater marshes. Wetlands 32: 801-812.

Schedlbauer, J., S. Oberbauer, G. Starr, and K.L. Jimenez. 2011. Controls on sensible heat and latent energy fluxes from a short-hydroperiod Florida Everglades marsh. Journal of Hydrology 411: 331-341.

Amiro, B.D., A.G. Barr, J.G. Barr, T.A. Black, R. Bracho, M. Brown, J. Chen, K.L. Clark, K.J. Davis, A.R. Desai, S. Dore, V. Engel, J.D. Fuentes, A.H. Goldstein, M. Goulden, T.E. Kolb, M.B. Lavigne, B.E. Law, H.A. Margolis, T. Martin, J.H. McCaughey, L. Misson, M. Montes-Helu, A. Noormets, J.T. Randerson, G. Starr, and J. Xiao. 2010. Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 115: G00J02, 13 pp..

Schedlbauer, J., S. Oberbauer, G. Starr, and K.L. Jimenez. 2010. Seasonal differences in the CO2 exchange of a short-hydroperiod Florida Everglades marsh. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150: 994-1006.

Yannick, D., S. Oberbauer, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2024. Carbon and energy fluxes of a transitional ecosystem in the Southeast Saline Everglades. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.

Malone, S.L., R. Varner, Y. Oh, K.A. Arndt, G. Burba, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, H. Loescher, G. Starr, and L. Bruhwiler. 2023. Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions across the United States. Blux Flux Team Meeting, Washington DC, September 1, 2023.

Malone, S.L., R. Varner, Y. Oh, K.A. Arndt, G. Burba, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, H. Loescher, G. Starr, and L. Bruhwiler. 2023. Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions across the United States. ESIIL 2023 Innovation Summit, Boulder, Colorado, May 23, 2023 - May 25, 2023.

Malone, S.L., R. Varner, Y. Oh, K.A. Arndt, G. Burba, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, H. Loescher, G. Starr, and L. Bruhwiler. 2023. Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions across the United States. European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, April 25, 2023.