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AMY T. AUSTIN
austin@ifeva.edu.ar
www.agro.uba.ar/users/austin/
Education
- Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Environmental Sciences,
Willamette University, United States 1988.
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biological Sciences Department of
Biological Sciences, Stanford University, United States, 1997.
Positions / fellowships
- 2008-Adjunct Research Scientist, CONICET
- 2008-Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agronomy
- 2004-2008 Lecturer, Faculty of Agronomy.
- 2003-2007 Assistant Research Scientist, CONICET.
- 1999-2005 Research Scientist, Inter-American Institute for Global
Change Research.
- 1997-1999 Research Scientist, United States National Science
Foundation.
- 1994-1997 Graduate fellowship, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Global Change Fellowship.
- 1992-1994 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of
Biological Sciences, Stanford University.
Professional interests
- Ecosystem ecology.
- Biogeochemistry and global change.
- Stable isotopes.
- Controls on decomposition in arid zones and temperate
forests.
Students and Post-doctoral fellows
- Director, Carla Giordano, Postdoctoral Fellow, CONICET
2004-2006.
- Director, Patricia Araujo, Doctoral Student, Escuela para
Graduados Alberto Soriano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2006-.
- Director, Marina Gonzalez Polo, Doctoral Student, Escuela para
Graduados Alberto Soriano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2004-.
- Director, Lucía Vivanco, Doctoral Student, Escuela para
Graduados Alberto Soriano, Facultad de Agronomía,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2002-2008.
- Director, Adriana Fernández Souto, Master's Student,
Escuela para Graduados Alberto Soriano, Facultad de
Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2006-.
- Co-Director, Laura Yahdjian, Doctoral Student, Escuela para
Graduados Alberto Soriano, Facultad de Agronomía,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999-2004.
- Director, Patricia Araujo, Senior Thesis, Facultad de Ciencias
Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2004-2006.
- Director, Adelia González Arzac, Senior Thesis, Facultad
de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires,
2005-.
- Director, Andrés Grasso, Senior Thesis, Facultad de
Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2006-.
- Co-Director, Laura Martínez, Senior Thesis, Facultad de
Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires,
2006-2008.
- Co-director, Cecilia de Li Puma, Senior Thesis, Facultad de
Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires,
2002-2005.
- Director, Lucía Vivanco, Senior Thesis, Facultad de
Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires.
1998-2000.
Publications (last 5 years)
- Giordano, C. V., A. T. Austin, and R. A.
Sánchez. (2008). Gregarious bamboo flowering opens a window of
opportunity for regeneration in a temperate forest of Patagonia.
New Phytologist in press.
- Marchesini, V. M., O. E. Sala, and A. T. Austin.
2008. Ecological consequences of a massive flowering event of
bamboo (Chusquea culeou) in a temperate forest of
Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vegetation Science in press.
- Vivanco, L., and A. T. Austin. (2008). Tree
species identity alters litter decomposition through long-term
plant and soil interactions in a natural forest ecosystem in
Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Ecology 96:727-736.
- Austin AT; Vivanco L. (2006). Plant litter
decomposition in a semiarid ecosystem controlled by
photodegradation. Nature 442:555-558.
- Austin AT; Piñeiro G; Gonzalez-Polo M.
(2006). More is less: agricultural impacts on the N cycle in
Argentina. Biogeochemistry 79:45-60.
- Austin AT; Sala OE; Jackson RB. (2006).
Inhibition of nitrification alters carbon turnover in the
Patagonian steppe. Ecosystems 9:1257-1265.
- Martinelli LA; Howarth RW; Cuevas E; Filoso S; Austin
AT; Donoso L; Huzsar V; Keeney D; Lara LL; Llerena C;
McIssac G; Medina E; Ortiz-Zayas J; Scavia D; Schindler DW; Soto D;
Townsend A. (2006). Sources of reactive nitrogen affecting
ecosystems in in Latin America and the Caribbean: current trends
and future perspectives. Biogeochemistry 79:3-24.
- Phoenix GK; Hicks WK; Ineson P; Cinderby S; Kuylenstierna JCI;
Stock WD; Dentener FJ; Giller KE; Austin AT;
Lefroy R; Gimeno BS. (2006). World biodiversity hotspots threatened
by atmospheric nitrogen deposition: highlighting the need for a
greater global perspective. Global Change Biology 12:470-476.
- Vivanco L; Austin AT. (2006). Intrinsic effects
of species on leaf litter and root decomposition: a comparison of
temperate grass species from North and South America. Oecologia
150:97-107.
- Yahdjian L; Sala OE; Austin AT. (2006).
Differential controls of water input on litter decomposition and
nitrogen dynamics in the Patagonian steppe. Ecosystems
9:128-141.
- Austin, A.T. (2004). The human footprint in
Ecology - past, present and future (Meeting Report). New
Phytologist. 164:419-422.
- Austin, A. T., M. L. Yahdjian, J. M. Stark, J.
Belnap, U. Norton, A. Porporato, D. Ravetta, S. M. Schaeffer and I.
C. Burke. (2004). Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid
and semiarid ecosystems. Oecologia. 141:221-235.
- Austin, A. T., R. W. Howarth, J. S. Baron, F. S.
Chapin III, T. R. Christensen, E. A. Holland, M. V. Ivanov, A. Y.
Lien, L. A. Martinelli, J. M. Melillo, and C. Shang. (2003). "Human
disruption of element interactions: drivers, consequences and
trends for the 21st century." pp. 15-46 in J. M. Melillo, C. B.
Field, and B. Moldan, editors. Interactions of major biogeochemical
cycles: global change and human impacts. Island Press, Washington
D.
- Amundson, R., Austin, A.T., Schuur, E.A., Yoo,
G.K., Matzek, V., Kendall, Uebersax, C.A Brenner, D., Baisden, W.T.
(2003). Global patterns of the isotopic composition of soil and
plant nitrogen. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17:31-1-31-10.
- López, N. I., A. T. Austin, O. E. Sala,
and B. Méndez. (2003). Controls on nitrification in a
water-limited ecosystem: experimental inhibition of
ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Patagonian steppe. Soil Biology
and Biochemistry. 35:1609-1613.
Complete publication list
Current research areas at the IFEVA
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