Menge, Duncan
E3B Associate Professor
Affiliation/Department
Associate Professor
Education
2008 PhD Princeton University, 2003 BS Stanford University
Telephone
212-854-6889
dm2972@columbia.edu
Website
http://www.columbia.edu/~dm2972/
Research Description
Research in the Menge lab addresses fundamental questions in ecosystem ecology and?biogeochemistry using theory, observations, experiments, and data synthesis. Although much of the focus is basic science, our work is highly relevant to pressing societal concerns such as global climate change and eutrophication because of the intimate connections between nutrients, plants, and greenhouse gases.
Research Keywords:?Ecosystem, Ecosystem ecology, Biogeochemistry, Theoretical ecology, Global change, Evolutionary ecology, Complex systems, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Nitrogen fixation, Nutrient cycles, Nutrient limitation, Nutrient loss, Ecosystem development, Succession, Stable isotopes, Adaptive dynamic
Representative Publications
Taylor, BN, B Bachelot, RL Chazdon, &?DNL Menge. 2017. Nitrogen-fixing trees inhibit growth of regenerating Costa Rican rainforests.?PNAS?114: 8817-8822.
Menge, DNL, SA Batterman, W Liao, BN Taylor, JW Lichstein, & G ángeles-Pérez. 2017. Nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in higher-latitude North America is not constrained by diversity.?Ecology Letters?20: 842-851.
Menge, DNL?& SA Levin. 2017.??Spatial heterogeneity can resolve the nitrogen paradox of tropical forests.?Ecology?98: 1049-1061.
Menge, DNL, AA Wolf, & JL Funk. 2015. Diversity of nitrogen fixation strategies in Mediterranean legumes.?Nature Plants?1: 15064.