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Alexander Gershenson

  
Alexander Gershenson
    Title:  Adjunct Professor, SJSU
    Type:  Alumni
    Email:  agersh@gmail.com
    Phone:  (831) 252-3514 Message
    Personal Page:  http://www.ecoshiftconsulting.com

Research Focus 
Climate Change Biology Plant Physiology Soil Biogeochemistry US and International Climate Policy Transportation and Climate Cnahge

Education History 
PhD (2007) University of California, Santa Cruz, Environmental Studies B.S. (2001) Rutgers University, Cook College Major: Natural Resource Management: Conservation and Applied Ecology

Selected Publications 
Gershenson, A., L. Misson, J. Tang, J. Curiel Yuste, A. Goldstein, W. Cheng (In revision) “Climate effects on above and belowground phenological development in a young Ponderosa pine forest” Ecology Gershenson, A., Bader, N., Cheng, W. (2009) “Effects of substrate availability on the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition” Global Change Biology 15, 176–183 Curiel Yuste J., Baldocchi D D, Misson L., Wong S., Gershenson A, Goldstein A. (2007) “Microbial Soil Respiration and its dependency on Carbon Inputs, Soil Temperature and Moisture” Global Change Biology 13(9)2018 - 2035 Cheng, W. and Gershenson, A. (2007). “Carbon Fluxes in the Rhizosphere”. In The Rhizosphere-An Ecological Perspective Cardon Z. and J. Whitbeck, Eds. Academic Press Misson L., Gershenson A., Tang J., Boniello R., McKay M., Cheng W., Goldstein A. (2006) “Influences of canopy photosynthesis and summer rain pulses on root dynamics and soil respiration in a young ponderosa pine forest”. Tree Physiology 26: 833-844. Tang, J., Misson, L., Gershenson, A., Cheng, W., Goldstein, A.H. (2005). “Continuous measurements of soil respiration with and without roots in a ponderosa pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 132: 212-227.