Nathan G. McDowell

Climate Research Lab Personnel

Contact Information

• (505) 665-2909 - Phone
• (505) 665-3285 - FAX
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Atmospheric and Environmental Dynamics Group
• MS-J495
• mcdowell@lanl.gov
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

Resume, Posters, Presentations, Publications, Etc.

• C.V. - PDF File

On-Line Publications

2009

Sophia Engel, Hilary M. Lease, Nate G. McDowell, Alyssa H. Corbett, and Blair O. Wolf, The use of tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy for rapid measurements of the δ13C of animal breath for physiological and ecological studies, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2009; 23: 1281-1286, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4004. (PDF File - 471 KB)

Nate McDowell, Craig D. Allen, Laura Marshall, Growth, carbon-isotope discrimination, and drought-associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect, Global Change Biology, March 4, 2009, in press. (PDF File - 1.1 MB)

David Breshears, O. B. Myers, W. M. Clifton, J. Fairley, J. Barnes, Chris B. Zou, Craig D. Allen, Nathan G. McDowell, and William T. Pockman, Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water-potential measurements, Front Ecol Environ, 2009; 7, doi:10.1890/080016.   (PDF File - 360 KB)

Christopher P. Bickford, Nate G. McDowell, Erik B. Erhardt and David T. Hanson, High-frequency field measurements of diurnal carbon isotope discrimination and internal conductance in a semi-arid species, Juniperus monosperma, Plant, Cell and Environment (2009) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01959.   (PDF File - 672 KB)

2008

Norbert Uehlein, Beate Otto, David T. Hanson, Matthias Fischer, Nate McDowell, and Ralf Kaldenhoffa, Function of Nicotiana tabacum Aquaporins as Chloroplast Gas Pores Challenges the Concept of Membrane CO₂ Permeability, The Plant Cell Preview, 2008 American Society of Plant Biologists.   (PDF File - 648 KB)

Nate McDowell, William T. Pockman, Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears, Neil Cobb, Thomas Kolb, Jennifer Plaut, John Sperry, Adam West, David G. Williams, and Enrico A. Yepez, Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?, New Phytologist (2008) 178: 719-739.   (PDF File - 740 KB)

Nate McDowell, Dennis Baldocci, Margareet Barbour, Chris Bickford, Matthias Cuntz, Dave Hanson, Alexander Knohl, Heath Powers, Thomas Rahn, Jim Randerson, William J. Riley, Chris Still, Kevin Tu, and Adrian Walcroft, Understanding the Stable Isotope Composition Rof Biosphere-Atmosphere CO₂ Exchange, EOS, Vol. 89, No. 10, 4 March 2008.   (PDF File - 208 KB)

Nate G. McDowell, Sandra White, and William T. Pockman, Transpiration and stomatal conductance across a steep climate gradient in the southern Rocky Mountains, Ecohydrology, 1, 193 - 204 (2008) DOI: 10.1002/eco.20.   (PDF File - 208 KB)

Thomas E. Kolb and Nate G. McDowell, Tree Ecophysiology Research at Taylor Woods, in Proceedings RMRS-P-53CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.   (PDF File - 484 KB)

J. C. Calvo-Alvarado, N. G. McDowell, and R. H. Waring, Allometric relationships predicting foliar biomass and leaf area: sapwood area ratio from tree height in five Costa Rican rain forest species, Tree Physiology 28, pp. 1601 - 1608.   (PDF File - 236 KB)

D. Wayne Cooke, Michael W. Blair, James F. Smith, Bryan L. Bennett, Luiz G. Jacobsohn, Edward A. McKigney, and Ross E. Muenchausen, EPR and Luminescence of F⁺ Centers in Bulk and Nanophosphor Oxyorthosilicates, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, VOL. 55, NO. 3, June 2008.   (PDF File - 1.2 KB)

2007

N. G. McDowell, H. D. Adams, J. D. Bailey, T. E. Kolb, The Role of Stand Density on Growth Efficiency, Leaf Area Index, and Resin Flow in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests, Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2007), Volume 37, pp. 343-355.   (PDF File - 92 KB)

T.E. Kolb, J.K. Agee, P.Z. Fule, N.G. McDowell, K. Pearsone, A. Salaf, R.H. Waring, Perpetuating Old Ponderosa Pine, Forest Ecology and Management 249 (2007) pp. 141-157.   (PDF File - 1.2 MB)

Margaret M. Barbour, Nate G. McDowell, Guillaume Tcherkez, Christopher P. Bickford, and David T. Hanson, A new measurement technique reveals rapid post-illumination changes in the carbon isotope composition of leaf-respired CO₂, Plant, Cell and Environment (2007) 30, 469-482 doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01634.   (PDF File - 392 KB)

2006

Nate G. McDowell, Henry D. Adams, John D. Bailey, Marcey Hess, and Thomas E. Kolb, Homeostatic Maintenance of Ponderosa Pine Gas Exchange in Response to Stand Density Changes, Ecological Applications, 16(3), 2006, pp. 1164-1182.   (PDF File - 280 KB)

Jaume Flexas, Miquel Ribas-Carbo, David T. Hanson, Josefina Bota, Beate Otto, Josep Cifre, Nate McDowell, Hipolito Medrano, and Ralf Kaldenhoff, Tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 is involved in mesophyll conductance to CO₂ in vivo, The Plant Journal (2006) 48, 427-439, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02879.   (PDF File - 440 KB)