Timothy Seastedt

Professor

timothy.seastedt@colorado.edu
303-492-3302
INSTAAR C105
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Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1979

Research Interests

Terrestrial ecosystem studies, including factors influencing biodiversity, productivity, soil carbon dynamics, decomposition and mineralization processes, and how these processes affect short and long-term ecosystem-atmosphere interactions. Most recently my research has involved studies of invasive plant species and invasibility of ecosystems within the context of other components of global change.

Recent Publications

Seastedt , T.R., K.N. Suding, 2007. Biotic constraints on the the invasion of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in a Colorado grassland. Oecologia. In press

Seastedt , T.R. 2005. Soil biology and the emergence of adventive grassland ecosystems. Pages 15-24 in: S.C. Jarvis, P.J. Murray and J.A. Roker. Optimization of nutrient cycling and soil quality for sustainable grasslands. Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

Seastedt , T.R., K.N. Suding and K.D. LeJeune. 2005. Understanding Invasions: The rise and fall of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North America. Pages 129-139 In: Inderjit (Ed.) Invasive plants: ecological and agricultural aspects. Basal, Switzerland: Birkhauser-Verlag AG.

Heather E. Reed, Timothy R. Seastedt , and John M. Blair. 2005. Ecological consequences of C4 grass invasion of a C4 grassland: A dilemma for management. Ecological Applications 15: 1560-1569.

Suding, K.N., K.D. LeJeune, and T.R. Seastedt . 2004. Competitive impacts and responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability. Oecologia 141: 526-535.

Seastedt , T.R., W.D. Bowman, N. Caine, D. McKnight, A. Townsend, and M. Williams. 2004 The landscape continuum: A Conceptual Model for High Elevation Ecosystems. BioScience 54: 111-122.