Nathan Phillips
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment and Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
PhD, 1997, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
Research interests: Physical ecology, ecological scaling, biophysical controls on ecosystem mass/energy
Office: Stone Science (STO) Rm. 441
Phone: 617-353-2841
Fax: 617-353-8399
E-mail: nathan@bu.edu
Address: Department of Geography
675 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Current Research
Whole-tree and eco-physiology with the following species: Oregon White Oak, Corvallis, OR Douglas-fir, Wind River Basin, WA Tropical angiosperms, Fort Sherman, Panama Hydro-ecology studies at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
Courses Taught
CC 106 Biodiversity (Core Curriculum)
GE 303 Biogeography
GE
510: Physical Principles of the Environment
GE 525 Plant Physiological Ecology
Selected Publications
- Phillips N, Bond BJ, Ryan MG
(2001) Interaction of hydraulic properties and gas exchange in tree
crowns in a Panamanian moist forest. (in press) Trees: Structure and Function.
- Phillips N, Bergh J, Oren R, Linder S. (2001) Effects of Nutrition
and Soil Water Availability on Water Use in a Norway Spruce Forest.
(in press) Tree Physiology
- Phillips N, Oren R (2001) Intra- and inter-annual variation in transpiration
of a pine forest in relation to environmental variability and canopy development.
(in press) Ecological Applications
Articles:
- Phillips N, Oren R, Zimmermann R, Wright SJ (1999) "Temporal patterns
of water flux in trees and lianas in a Panamanian moist forest." Trees:
Structure and Function, 14:116-123
- Phillips N, Bond BJ (1999) "A micro-power precision amplifier for converting
the output of light sensors to a voltage readable by miniature data loggers."
Tree Physiology. 19:547-549
- Phillips N, Oren R (1998) "A comparison of daily representations of
canopy conductance based on two conditional time averaging methods."
Annales des Sciences Forestires, 55:217-235
- Oren R, Ewers B, Phillips N, Todd P, Katul G (1998) "Water balance
delineates the soil layer in which moisture affects canopy conductance."
Ecological Applications, 8:990-1002.
