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Steven K. Rice

Department of Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308

Publications:

Malcolm, G.M., D.S. Bush and S.K. RICE 2008. Soil nitrogen conditions approach pre-invasion levels following restoration of nitrogen-fixing black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) stands in a pine-oak. Restoration Ecology, in press--published online September 10, 2007, due in print form March 2008.
RICE, STEVEN K. 2006. Towards an integrated understanding of bryophyte performance: the dimensions of space and time. Lindbergia 31: 42-53.
RICE, STEVEN K., C. Gutman and N. Krouglicof 2005. Laser scanning reveals bryophyte canopy structure. New Phytologist 166: 695-704.
RICE, STEVEN K. and N. Schneider 2004. Cushion size, surface roughness and the control of water balance and carbon flux in the cushion moss Leucobryum glaucum (Leucobryaceae). American Journal of Botany 91: 1164-1172.
RICE, STEVEN K., R. Federici and B. Westerman 2004. Impacts of exotic, nitrogen-fixing black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) on nitrogen cycling in a pine-oak ecosystem. Plant Ecology 174: 97-107.
RICE, STEVEN K., D. Collins and A.M. Anderson 2001. Functional significance of variation in bryophyte canopy structure. American Journal of Botany 88: 1568-1576.
RICE, STEVEN K. 2000. Variation in carbon isotope discrimination among and within Sphagnum species in a temperate wetland. Oecologia 123: 1-8.
RICE, STEVEN K. and L. Giles 1996. The effects of leaf anatomy and water content on carbon isotope discrimination and photosynthesis in Sphagnum. Plant, Cell and Environment 19: 118-124.
RICE, STEVEN K. 1995. Patterns of allocation and growth in aquatic Sphagnum species. Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 349-359.
RICE, STEVEN K. and P.H. Schuepp 1995. On the ecological and evolutionary significance of branch and leaf morphology in aquatic Sphagnum (Sphagnaceae). American Journal of Botany 82: 833-846.
RICE, STEVEN K. and L.J. Giles 1994. Climate in the Pleistocene. Nature 371: 111.
RICE, STEVEN K. 1993. Vegetation establishment in post-fire Adenostoma chaparral in relation to fine-scale pattern in fire intensity and soil nutrients. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 115-124.
Proctor, M.C.F., J.A. Raven and S.K. RICE 1992. Stable carbon isotope discrimination in Sphagnum and other bryophytes: physiological and ecological implications. Journal of Bryology 17: 193-202.

Technical Reports:

RICE, STEVEN K. and N. Schneider 2003. Size dependence of boundary layer conditions and its ecological significance in the white cushion moss, Leucobryum glaucum. Proceedings of the Plant Biomechanics 2003 Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
RICE, STEVEN K. and R.K. Peet 1997. Vegetation of the lower Roanoke River floodplain. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, 154 pp.