Institute of Arctic Biology
311 Irving I
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000

Education:

• 1990: Ph.D., University of Alaska Fairbanks
• 1982: B.S., University of Alaska Fairbanks

Primary Research Interests:

Professional Experience:

• 2001 - present:  Associate Research Professor, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• 1999 - 2001:  Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• 1990 -1999:  Research Associate, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Peer Reviewer:

• American Naturalist,
• Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research,
• Biogeochemistry
• Canadian Journal of Botany
• Canadian Journal of Forest Research
• Canadian Journal of Zoology,
• Ecography
• Ecological Applications
• Ecology,
• Ecology Letters,
• Écoscience
• Ecosystems,
• Environmental and Experimental Botany,
• Functional Ecology
• Geophysical Research Letters,
• Global Change Biology
• Journal of Animal Ecology
• Journal of Ecology,
• Journal of Environmental Quality
• Journal of Wildlife Management,
• Nature
• New Phytologist
• Oecologia
• Physiologia Plantarum,
• Plant and Soil,
• Polar Biology
• Quarterly Review of Biology
• Wildlife Biology
• Wildlife Society Bulletin

Publications

Rattenbury, K., K. Kielland, G. Finstad, and W. Schneider. (in press). Reindeer herding, weather, and environmental change on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.  Polar Record

Lisuzzo N.J, K. Kielland, and J. Jones. (In press).  Hydrologic controls over nitrogen availability in a high-latitude, semi-arid floodplain.  Ecoscience

Clilverd, H., J. Jones, and K. Kielland. 2008. Nitrogen retention in the hyporheic zone of a glacial river in interior Alaska. Biogeochemistry

Borner, A.P, K. Kielland and M. Walker. 2008. Effects of simulated climate change on plant phenology and nitrogen mineralization in arctic tundra.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 40:27-38.

Cebrian, MR, K. Kielland, and G. Finstad. 2008.  Forage quality and reindeer productivity: multiplier effects amplified by climate change. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 40:48-54.

Butler, L.G., K. Kielland. 2008. Acceleration of vegetation turnover and element cycling by mammalian herbivory in riparian ecosystems.  Journal of Ecology 96:136-144.

Butler, L.G., K. Kielland, T.S. Rupp, and T.A. Hanley. 2007.  Interactive controls of herbivory and fluvial dynamics over vegetation patterns along the Tanana River, interior Alaska.  J. Biogeography 34:1622-1631.

Kielland, K., J.W. McFarland, R.W. Ruess, and K. Olson. 2007.  Rapid organic nitrogen cycling in taiga forest ecosystems.  Ecosystems 10:360-368.

Loomis, T., R. Ruess, B. Sveinbjörnsson, and K. Kielland.  2006.  Nitrogen cycling at treeline:  latitudinal and elevational patterns across the boreal landscape.  Ecoscience 13:544-556.

Kielland, K., J.W. McFarland, and K. Olson. 2006.  Amino acid uptake in deciduous and coniferous taiga ecosystems.  Plant and Soil 288:297-307

Kielland. K., R.W. Ruess, K. Olson, and R.D. Boone. 2006.  Contribution of winter processes to soil nitrogen flux in taiga forest ecosystems.  Biogeochemistry 81:340-360.

Belant, G., K. Kielland, E.H. Follmann, and L. Adams. 2006.  Resource partitioning between sympatric populations of ursids in interior Alaska.  Ecological Applications 16:2333-2343.

Finstad, G.L., K. Kielland, and W.S. Schneider.  2006.  Reindeer herding in transition: historical and modern day challenges in reindeer herding in Alaska. Pages 31-48, In: Humans and Reindeer on the Move. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Special Issue,10 (2), Beach, H and Stammler, F. (eds.) Berghahn Journals, UK.

Kielland, K., J.P. Bryant, and R.W. Ruess. 2006.  Mammalian herbivory, ecosystem engineering, and ecological cascades in taiga forests. Pages 211-226,  In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla  (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Valentine, D., K. Kielland, F.S. Chapin, III, A,D. McGuire, and K. Van Cleve. 2006.  Biogeochemical processes in taiga forests. In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla  (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Rexstad, E. and K. Kielland. 2006.  Population dynamics of small mammals in interior Alaskan forests.  In: F.S. Chapin, III, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. Viereck, and D. Verbyla  (editors), Alaska’s changing boreal forest, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Schneider, W.S., K. Kielland, and G.L. Finstad. 2005.  Factors in the adaptation of reindeer herders to caribou on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 42:36-49

Kielland, K. 2004.  Fluxes of organic nitrogen across soil thermal gradients in taiga forest ecosystems.  Proc. 5th International Workshop on Global Change: Connections to the Arctic, pp. 56-59.

Huntington, H. M. Berman, L. Cooper, L. Hamilton, L. Hinzman, K. Kielland et al. 2003.  Human dimensions of the Arctic system. Arctic Research of the United States 17:59-69

McFarland, J.W., R.W. Ruess, K. Kielland, and A.P. Doyle. 2002.  Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid N in a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem.  Ecosystems 5:775-788.

Jones, D.L. and K. Kielland.  2002.  Soil amino acid turnover dominates the nitrogen flux in permafrost-dominated taiga forest soils.  Soil Biol. Biochem. 34: 209-219. 

McKane, R. B., L. C. Johnson, G. R. Shaver, K. J. Nadelhoffer, E. B. Rastetter, B. Fry, E. Giblin, K. Kielland, B. L. Kwiatkowski, J. A. Laundre, and G. Murray.  2002. Resource-based niches provide a basis for species diversity and dominance in an arctic plant community.  Nature 415:68-71.

Kielland, K. 2001.  Stable isotope signatures of moose in relation to seasonal forage composition: a hypothesis.  Alces 37:329-338.

Kielland, K. 2001. Short-circuiting the nitrogen cycle:  Strategies of nitrogen uptake in plants from marginal ecosystems.  Pages 376-398, In: Plant Nutrient Acquisition: New Persectives, Ae,N., J.Arihara,  K.Okada, and A. Srinivasan (eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Kielland, K. and J.P. Bryant. 1998.  Moose herbivory in taiga: effects on biogeochemistry and vegetation dynamics in primary succession. Oikos 82:377-383.

Kielland, K. and Osborne, T. 1998.  Moose browsing on feltleaf willow: optimal foraging in relation to plant morphology and chemistry.  Alces 34:149-155.

Kielland, K.  1998.  Review of Antarctic Communities: Species, Structure and  Survival.  Battaglia, B., Valencia, J., and Walton, D.W.H., (editors). Quarterly Review of Biology 73:533-534.

Kielland, K., Barnett, B., and Schell, D. 1998.  Intraseasonal variation in the d15N signatures of taiga trees and shrubs.  Can. J. For. Res. 28:485-488.

Kielland, K. 1997. Role of free amino acids in the nitrogen economy of arctic cryptogams. Écoscience 4:75-79.

Kielland, K., J.P. Bryant, and R. Ruess. 1997. Mammalian herbivory and carbon turnover in early successional stands in interior Alaska. Oikos 80:25-30.

Kielland, K. 1997.  Review of Ecology of Arctic Environments.  S. Woodin and M. Marquiss (Eds). J. Animal Ecology 66:918-919.

Rossow, L.J., J.P. Bryant, and K. Kielland. 1997.  Effects of above-ground browsing by mammals on mycorrhizal colonization in an early successional taiga ecosystem. Oecologia 110:94-98.

Schimel, J.P., K. Kielland, and F.S. Chapin, III. 1996.  Nutrient availability and uptake by tundra plants.  Pages 203-221, In: Landscape function: implications for ecosystem response to disturbance; a case study in arctic tundra, Reynolds, J.F. and J.D. Tenhunen (eds.).  Ecological Studies 120, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Kielland, K. 1995.  Landscape patterns of free amino acids in arctic tundra soils. Biogeochemistry 31:85-98.

Kielland, K. 1995.  Review of Tropical Alpine Environments:  Plant form and function, Rundel, P.W., A.P. Smith, and F.C. Meinzer (Eds.). Quarterly Review of Biology, 70:532.

Kielland, K. 1994.  Amino acid absorption by arctic plants: implications for plant nutrition and nitrogen cycling. Ecology 75:2373-2383.

Kielland, K. and F.S. Chapin, III. 1994.  Phosphate uptake in arctic plants in relation to phosphate supply: the role of spatial and temporal variability.  Oikos 70:443-448.

Chapin, III, F.S., L. Moilanen, and K. Kielland. 1993.  Preferential use of organic nitrogen for growth by a non-mycorrhizal arctic sedge. Nature 361:150-153.

Kielland, K. and F.S. Chapin, III. 1992.  Nutrient absorption and accumulation in arctic plants. Pages 321-335, In: Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: An ecophysiological perspective, Chapin, F.S., III,   Jefferies, R.L., Reynolds, J.F., Shaver, G.R., and            Svoboda, J. (eds.). Academic Press, San Diego.

Chapin, F.S, III, N. Fetcher, K. Kielland, K.R. Everett, and K.E. Linkins. 1988.  Productivity and nutrient cycling of Alaskan tundra: enhancement by flowing soil water.  Ecology 69:693-702.

Graduate Students

Current

Chair:

Delia Vargas-                Population structure of  early successional shrub
Kretsinger (M.S.):         communities in the Yukon Flats in relation to moose    
                                     herbivory

Aditi Shenoy (Ph.D.):   Interactions of vegetation and biogeochemistry in post-fire
                                    succession

Cameron Carroll           A model of climate change and its consequences for   
(M.S.)                           ecosystem services in interior Alaska

Past:

Greg Finstad 2008.    Range ecology of reindeer on the Seward Peninsula (Ph.D.)

Rachel Lord 2008       Foraging ecology of moose following fire in interior Alaska (M.S.)

Amy Angell 2007         Interactions of moose herbivory and white spruce regeneration on the Tanana River floodplain (M.S.)

Andrew Borner 2006       Effects of snow pack on plant phenology and soil nitrogen dynamics in arctic tundra (M.S.)  

Nancy Werdin 2006         Distribution and abundance of soil amino acids in taiga  
                                         forests. (M.S.)

Kumi Rattenbury 2006   Interactions of climate and caribou incursion on management  of reindeer in Western Alaska. (M.S.)

Merben Cebrian 2005     Effects of simulated climate change on phenology and
                                        chemistry of reindeer forage plants in western Alaska. (M.S.)

Nicholas Lisuzzo 2005   Biochemical interactions between early successional plant
                                        communities and hydrology of the Tanana River. (M.S.)

Lem Butler 2003            The role of mammalian herbivores in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain, interior Alaska. (M.S.)

Committee member:

Jack McFarland (Ph.D.), Jessica Coltrane (Ph.D.), Michelle Szepanski (Ph.D.), Betsy Young (Ph.D.), Ian Herriot (M.S.), Dana Nossow (M.S.), Joe Hickman (M.S.), Karen Hibbard-Rode (Ph.D.), Amanda Reinehart (Ph.D.)

Past

Loni Rossow (M.S.),                    
Karin Lehmkuhl (M.S.)
Ed Mallek (M.S.).)                                                          
Heather Peat (Ph.D.)
Kate Doran (Ph.D.)                                  
Brian Person (Ph.D.)
Tom Seaton (M.S.)
Bjorn Flora (M.S.)
Jennifer Rohrs (M.S.)
Trish Loomis (M.S.)
Jonathan O’Donnell (M.S.) 
Todd Nicols (M.S.)
Heather Oleson (M.S.)
Mathias Erikson (M.S.)
Fleur Nicklen (M.S.)
Jerrold Belant (Ph.D.)
Hannah Clilverd (M.S.)

Research Projects

PI - Reindeer herding in transition: feedback between climate, caribou and local communities in Northwestern Alaska , NSF, 11/99-6/04, $1,257,636

P I – Arctic hunters as reindeer herders, NSF, supplement to Reindeer herding in transition, 10/01-6/04, $23,119

P I – Controls over white spruce establishments in floodplain plant communities, US Forest Service, 10/01-10/06, $55,000

PI - Effects of moose on dynamics of floodplain communities , US Forest Service, 9/99-8/04, $56,533

Senior Investigator - Bonanza Creek LTER 2007, (Chapin - PI), NSF, 2/07-2/10, $211,960

Co-PI – Lake Clark moose habitat/calf survival study ( Griffith – PI) , National Park Service, 7/03 – 8/08, $405,999

Co-PI - Moose herbivory and browse quality along latitudinal gradients in Alaska and Scandinavia , (Edenius – PI), STINT, 7/00-12/03, $15,000

Collaborator – Regional Resilience and Adaptation: planning for change, NSF, 7/01-7/05, $2,620,100

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Ecological Society of America

Tanana Dogmushers Association