Dr. Vogel studies how ecosystem management, the physical environment, plant and microbial communities interact to affect the cycling of carbon, nitrogen and other nutrients through terrestrial ecosystems.  For management, he has focused on how forest productivity responds to silvicultural treatments and how this response affects other ecosystem processes (e.g. soil carbon and nutrient cycling) through changes in tree biomass allocation.  His research in boreal and arctic ecosystems is focused on how element cycling is affected by climate change. He teaches silviculture FRSC 305 during the spring semester.


Five most recent publications:

Jokela, E.J., Martin, T.A. and Vogel, J.G. in press. Twenty-five Years of Intensive Forest Management with Southern Pines: Important Lessons Learned. Journal of Forestry.

Lee H., Schuur E.A.G., Vogel J.G. 2010 Soil CO2 production in upland tundra where permafrost is thawing. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. doi:10.1029/2008JG000906.

Vogel, J.G., Schuur E.A.G, Trucco C. and Lee, H. 2009. The response of CO2 exchange in tussock tundra to permafrost thaw and thermokarst development. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 114, G4, doi:10.1029/2008JG000901

Schuur, E.A., Vogel J.G., K.G. Crummer, H. Lee, J. O. Sickman, and T.E. Osterkamp. 2009. Permafrost thaw stimulates old carbon loss and alters net carbon exchange in upland tundra. Nature 459, 556-559.

Kane E.S. and Vogel J.G. 2009.  Patterns of total ecosystem carbon storage with changes in soil temperature in boreal black spruce forests.  Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9225-1.