Bernard T. Bormann

Professor (Courtesy)
Long-Term Ecosystem Productivity

321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: 321 Richardson Hall
• Phone: 541-750-7323
• Fax: 541-750-7329

• B.S., 1976, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
• M.S., 1978, Universityof Washington, Seattle
• Ph.D., 1981, Oregon State University, Corvallis

Effects of biota on soils; nitrogen budgets and N2 fixation; effects of soil development and disturbance (windthrow) on forest productivity; modeling long-term site productivity; ecosystem management, adaptive management.

The PNW Long-Term Ecosystem Productivity Program (Program Leader). Sustainable Ecosystem Productivity Team, and Pilot Adaptive Management Project.

NSF Ecological Studies, “Effect of Windthrow Disturbance on Decomposition- weathering Feedback and Watershed Nutrient Dynamics,” 1996-1999, $390,000.

1. Bormann, B.T., J.R. Martin, F.H. Wagner, G. Wood, J. Alegria, P.G. Cunningham, M.H. Brookes, P. Friesema, J. Berg, and J. Henshaw. 1999. Adaptive management. Pp. 505-533 In: Johnson, N.C., A.J. Malk, W. Sexton, and R. Szaro (eds.). Ecological Stewardship: A common reference for ecosystem management. Amsterdam. Elsevier.
2. Bormann, B.T. D. Wang, F.H. Bormann, G. Benoit, R. April, and M.C. Snyder. 1998. Rapid, plant-induced weathering in an aggrading experimental ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 43:129-155.
3. Bormann, B.T., H. Spaltenstein, M. McClellan, F.C. Ugolini, K. Cromack, Jr. and S.M. Nay. 1995. Rapid soil development after windthrow in pristine forests. Journal of Ecology 83:747-757.
4. Bormann, B.T., F.H. Bormann, W.B. Bowden, R.S. Pierce, S.P. Hamburg, D. Wang, M.C. Snyder, C.Y. Li, and R.C. Ingersoll. 1993. Rapid N2 fixation in pines, alder, and locust: evidence from the sandbox ecosystem study. Ecology 74:583-59
5. Bormann, B.T. and R.S. Sidle. 1990. Changes in productivity and distribution of nutrients in a chronosequence at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Journal of Ecology 78:561-578.
6. Bormann, B.T. and J.C. Gordon. 1984. Stand density effects in young red alder plantations: productivity, photosynthate partitioning, and nitrogen fixation. Ecology 65:394-402.