Alexandra Contosta
| Alexandra Contosta | |
| Occupation | Research Associate Professor |
|---|---|
Alexandra Contosta is a Research Associate Professor at the Earth Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.[1] Her research addresses soil biogeochemistry, winter climate change, and the effects of urban and suburban land management on ecosystems.
Career
Contosta has held the position of Research Associate Professor at the Earth Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire since 2017.[2]
Research
Contosta's published work includes studies on mineral mediation of soil nitrogen availability, the effects of lawn mowing frequency on bee abundance and diversity, and long-term soil respiration and nitrogen mineralization dynamics under chronic warming and fertilization.[3] She has also studied changes in northern forest winters, including the loss of cold and snowy conditions important to ecosystems and human communities, and the phenomenon termed "winter weather whiplash," in which meteorological events become misaligned with natural and human systems in seasonally snow-covered regions.[4]
According to Semantic Scholar, Contosta has authored 50 papers that have collectively received 1,458 citations, with an h-index of 18.[5]
Contosta received a National Science Foundation award for the project "RII Track-4: Winter Weather Whiplash and its Impacts on Socio-Ecological Systems," totaling $100,613, awarded to the University of New Hampshire on August 20, 2018.[6]
Selected publications
- "Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes" (2018), Biogeochemistry[7]
- "To mow or to mow less: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity in suburban yards" (2018)[8]
- "Seasonal dynamics of soil respiration and N mineralization in chronically warmed and fertilized soils" (2011)[9]
- "Soil microbial communities vary as much over time as with chronic warming and nitrogen additions" (2015)[10]
- "Northern forest winters have lost cold, snowy conditions that are important for ecosystems and human communities" (2019), Ecological Applications[11]
- "Winter Weather Whiplash: Impacts of Meteorological Events Misaligned With Natural and Human Systems in Seasonally Snow-Covered Regions" (2018), Earth's Future[12]
- "A longer vernal window: the role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving spring transitions and lags" (2017), Global Change Biology[13]
- "Lawn mowing frequency and its effects on biogenic and anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions" (2019), Landscape and Urban Planning[14]
- "Snowmelt control on spring hydrology declines as the vernal window lengthens" (2020), Environmental Research Letters[15]
- "Unexpected sustained soil carbon flux in response to simultaneous warming and nitrogen enrichment compared with single factors alone" (2024), Nature Ecology & Evolution[16]
External links
- ↑ ORCID iD 0000-0002-1201-1765
- ↑ ORCID iD 0000-0002-1201-1765
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ National Science Foundation award records
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta
- ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alexandra Contosta