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Jeffrey Klopatek

Jeffrey Klopatek

Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

klopatek@asu.edu

480-965-4685

School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501

Titles

  • Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Jeffrey Klopatek is Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science in the School of Life Sciences. He was previously a Research Ecologist in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he also taught at the University of Tennessee. He is a certified Senior Ecologist by the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and a past two-time Chair of ESA's Board of Professional Certification. Among his honors was his award as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Both his teaching and research activities focus on ecosystem and landscape ecology and the methods needed to address ecological topics at theses scales. He has conducted research world-wide ranging from the deserts of Namibia to the glaciers of Antarctica. He and his students have worked on a wide scale of projects, ranging from microbial controls on decomposition to ecosystem carbon flux to the analysis of satellite images for determining landscape changes. Research has taken place in a myriad of ecosystems: wetlands, extreme deserts, old-growth temperate rain forests, deciduous forests, shrublands, urban and agricultural systems. His research emphasis is currently divided in two primary areas: 1) the prediction of potential global change effects on ecosystems and their below- and aboveground structures and processes, and 2) the biogeochemistry of ecosystems. He has been a visiting scientist at EPA working on the development of ecological indicators. He has extensive consulting experience, most in wetland ecology and ecosystems but also including a myriad of topics from siting of energy facilities to food sustainability. His past experiences include being elected chairman of a planning and zoning commission to a nuclear missile battery commander.

Education

  • PhD, University of Oklahoma

Expertise

Journal Articles

2010

Koerner, B. A. and J. M. Klopatek. 2010. Carbon fluxes and nitrogen availability along an urban-rural gradient in a desert landscape. Urban Ecosystems 13:1-21. (link )

2002

Koerner, B. A. and J. M. Klopatek. 2002. Anthropogenic and natural CO2 emission sources in an arid urban environment. Environmental Pollution 116:S45-S51. DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00246-9. (link )

1997

Klopatek, C. C. and J. M. Klopatek. 1997. Nitrifiers, mineralization and microbes in pristine and disturbed pinyon-juniper ecosystems.. Journal of Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation

Murphy, K., R. Conant, B. Malin, J. King, C. C. Klopatek and J. M. Klopatek. 1997. Implications of patterns of C pools and fluxes across a semi-arid environmental gradient. Landscape and Urban Planning

Murphy, K., R. Conant, J. Obst, W. E. Davis, C. C. Klopatek and J. M. Klopatek. 1997. Influences of potential climate change on carbon flux and cycling in semiarid systems:effects on belowground sustainability.. Journal of the Society of American Forestry

1993

Jeffries, D. L., S. O. Link and J. M. Klopatek. 1993. CO2 fluxes of cryptogamic crusts. I. Response to resaturation.. New Phytologist 163-173.

1992

Oneill, E. G., D. W. Freckman, C. S. Bledsoe, D. C. Coleman, D. A. Crossley Jr, E. . Ingham, D. Parkinson, C. C. Klopatek and J. M. Klopatek. 1992. The sustainable biosphere initiative: a commentary from the US Soil Ecology Society.. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 223-228.

1990

Klopatek, C. C., J. M. Klopatek and L. F. DeBano. 1990. Potential landscape variation of nitrogen transformations in pinyon-juniper ecosystems subjected to burning.. Biology and Fertility of Soils 35-44.

Book Chapters

1992

Klopatek, J. M. 1992. Cryptogamic crusts as indicators of disturbance in semi-arid landscapes.. In: McKenzie, D. and J. E. McDonald eds., Elsevier Science. Brisbane, UK.

1991

Klopatek, C. C., J. M. Klopatek and L. F. DeBano. 1991. Fire effects on carbon and nitrogen pools of woodland floor materials in a pinyon-juniper ecosystem. Pp. 154-159 USDA Forest Service. SE Exper. Sta., Ashville, SC.

Posters

2002

Koerner, B. A. and J. M. Klopatek. 2002. Seasonal responses of soils to water and nitrogen along an urban to rural gradient. Poster presented at the 4-9 August 2002, 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society, Tucson, AZ.

2001

Grimm, N. B., L. A. Baker, D. Hope, W. Zhu, J. R. Anderson, A. Coppola, J. W. Edmonds, S. Grossman-Clarke, D. Jenerette, A. P. Kinzig, J. M. Klopatek, D. B. Lewis, M. A. Luck, M. R. Sommerfeld, P. K. Westerhoff, J. Wu and Y. Xu. 2001. Biogeochemical processes in an urban ecosystem, metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at the January 19, 2001, CAP LTER Third Annual Poster Symposium, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. (link )

Presentations

2000

Baker, L. A., D. Hope, N. B. Grimm, C. A. Martin, J. M. Briggs and J. M. Klopatek. 2000. Carbon cycling in the central Arizona-Phoenix ecosystem: Advances in ecosystem carbon inventory, measurement, and monitoring. Presented October 2000 to USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC.