Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Dail, David Bryan, David Y. Hollinger, Eric A. Davidson, Ivan J. Fernandez, Herman C. Sievering, Neal A. Scott, and Elizabeth Gaige. 2009. Distribution of nitrogen-15 tracers applied to the canopy of a mature spruce-hemlock stand, Howland, Maine, USA. Oecologia 160:589-599.
Bethers, Suzanne, Michael E. Day, G. Bruce Wiersma, Ivan J. Fernandez and J. Alexander Elvir. 2009. Effects of chronically elevated nitrogen and sulfur deposition on sugar maple saplings: nutrition, growth and physiology. For. Ecol. Manag. 258:895-902.
Nelson, S.J., I.J. Fernandez, and J.S. Kahl. 2009. Mercury concentration and deposition I snow in eastern temperate North America. Hydrolog. Proc. (in review).
SanClements, Michael D., Ivan J. Fernandez, and Stephen A. Norton. 2009. Mechanisms defining spatial patterns in P fractions in a forest lake watershed at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. For. Ecol. Manag. 258:2318-2325.
Banaitis, Michael R., Ivan J. Fernandez, Cullen Wilson, Stephen A. Norton, and D. Bryan Dail. 2009. Biogeochemical response of a northern forest ecosystem to biosolids amendments. J. Environ. Qual. 38:792-803.
Evans, Chris D., Christine L. Goodale, Simon J.M. Caporn, Nancy B. Dise, Bridget A. Emmett, Ivan J. Fernandez, Chris D. Field, Stuart E.G. Findlay, Gary M. Lovett, Henning Meesenburg, Filip Moldan, and Lucy J. Sheppard. 2009. Does elevated nitrogen deposition or ecosystem recovery from acidification drive increased dissolved organic carbon loss from upland soil? A review of evidence from field nitrogen addition experiments. Biogeochem. 91:13–35.
Navratil, Tom, Jan Rohovec, Aria Amirbahman, Stephen A. Norton, and Ivan J. Fernandez. 2009. Amorphous aluminum hydroxide control on sulfate and phosphate in sediment-solution systems. Water Air Soil Pollut 210:87-98.
Campbell, John L., Lindsey E. Rustad, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Sheila F. Christopher, Charles T. Driscoll, Ivan J. Fernandez, Peter M. Groffman, Daniel Houle, Jana Kiekbusch, Alison H. Magill, Myron H. Mitchell, and Scott V. Ollinger. 2008. Consequences of climate change for biogeochemical cycling in forests of northeastern North America. Can J For Res 39:264-284.
Dale, Virginia H., Gregory R. Biddinger, Michael C. Newman, James T. Oris, Glenn W. Suter, Timothy Thompson, Thomas M. Armitage, Judith L. Meyer, Richelle M. Allen-King, G. Allen Burton, Peter M. Chapman, Loveday L. Conquest, Ivan J. Fernandez, Wayne G. Landis, Lawrence L. Master, William J. Mitsch, Thomas C. Mueller, Charles F. Rabeni, Amanda D. Rodewald, James G. Sanders, and Ivor L. van Heerden. 2008. Enhancing the ecological risk assessment process. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 4:306-313.
Hunt, James F., Tsutomu Ohno, and Ivan J. Fernandez. 2008. Influence of foliar phosphorus and nitrogen content on chemical properties of water extractable organic matter derived from fresh and decomposed sugar maple leaves. Soil Biol. Biochem. 40:1931–1939.
Nelson, Sarah J., Kenneth B. Johnson, Kathleen C. Weathers, Cynthia S. Loftin, Ivan J. Fernandez, Jeffrey S. Kahl, and David P. Krabbenhoft. 2008. A comparison of winter mercury accumulation at forested and no-canopy sites measured with different snow sampling techniques. Applied Geochemistry 23:384-398.
McNeil, Brenden, Jane Read, Tim Sullivan, Ivan Fernandez, and Charles Driscoll. 2008. The spatial pattern of nitrogen cycling in the Adirondack Park, New York. Ecol. Applic. 18:438-452.
Catherine H. Rosfjord, Katherine E. Webster, Jeffrey S. Kahl, Stephen A. Norton, Ivan J. Fernandez, and Alan T. Herlihy. 2007. Anthropogenically driven changes in chloride complicate interpretation of base cation trends in lakes recovering from acidic deposition. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41 (22), 7688 -7693.
Ohno, Tsutomu, Ivan J. Fernandez, Syuntaro Hiradate, and Jessica F. Sherman. 2007. Effects of soil acidification and forest type on water soluble soil organic matter properties. Geoderma 140:176-187.
Gaige, E., D. B. Dail, D.Y. Hollinger, E.A. Davidson, I.J. Fernandez, H. Sievering, A. White, and W. Halteman. 2007. Changes in canopy processes following whole-forest canopy nitrogen fertilization of a mature spruce-hemlock forest. Ecosystems 10:1133-11247.
McGee, Chandra J., Ivan J. Fernandez, Stephen A. Norton, and Constance S. Stubbs. 2007. Cd, Ni, Pb, and Zn concentrations in forest vegetation and soils in Maine. Water Air Soil Pollut. 180:141-153.
Kahl J. S., S. J. Nelson, I. Fernandez, T. Haines, S. Norton, G. B. Wiersma, G. Jacobson Jr., A. Amirbahman, K. Johnson, M. Schauffler, L. Rustad, K. Tonnessen, R. Lent, M. Bank, J. Elvir, J. Eckhoff, H. Caron, P. Ruck, J. Parker, J. Campbell, D. Manski, R. Breen, K. Sheehan and A. Grygo. 2007. Watershed nitrogen and mercury geochemical fluxes integrate landscape factors in long-term research watersheds at Acadia National Park, Maine, Environ. Monitor. Assess. 126:9-25.
Nelson, S. J., K. B. Johnson, J. S. Kahl, T. A. Haines, and I. J. Fernandez. 2007. Mass balances of mercury and nitrogen in burned and unburned forested watersheds at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 126:69-80.
Sherman, Jessica, Ivan J. Fernandez, Stephen A. Norton, Tsutomu Ohno, and Lindsey E. Rustad. 2006. Soil aluminum, iron, and phosphorus dynamics in response to long-term experimental nitrogen and sulfur additions at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, USA. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 121: 421-429.
Norton, S. A., Fernandez, I., Amirbahman, A., Coolidge, K., and Navratil, T., 2006, Aluminum, phosphorus, and oligotrophy – Assembling the pieces of the puzzle: Proc. Soc. Intern. Limnol. 29, 1877-1886.
Elvir, J.A., G.B. Wiersma, M.E. Day, M.S. Greenwood, and I.J. Fernandez. 2006. Effects of enhanced nitrogen deposition on foliar chemistry and physiological processes of forest trees at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. For. Ecol. Manag. 221:207-214.
Wallenstein, Matthew D., Steven McNulty, Ivan J. Fernandez, Johnny Boggs, and William H. Schlesinger. 2005. Nitrogen fertilization decreases forest soil fungal and bacterial biomass in three long-term experiments. For. Ecol. Manag. 222:459-468.
Sullivan, T.J., I.J. Fernandez, T.C. McDonnell, N.A. Nowicki, A.T. Herlihy, K.U. Snyder, and J.W. Sutherland. 2006. Acid-base characteristics of soils in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 70: 141-152.
Szillery, Johanna E., Ivan J. Fernandez, Stephen A. Norton, Lindsey E. Rustad, and Alan S. White. 2006. Using ion-exchange resins to study soil response to experimental watershed acidification. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 116: 383-398.
Sheehan, Katherine D., Ivan J. Fernandez, J. Stephen Kahl, and Aria Amirbahman. 2006. Litterfall mercury in two forested watersheds at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Water Air Soil Pollut. 170:249-265.
Elvir, J.A., L. Rustad, I. Fernandez, and G.B. Wiersma. 2005. Eleven year response of foliar chemistry to chronic nitrogen and sulfur additions at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. Canadian J. For. Res. 35:1402-1410.
Evans, Gordon C., Stephen A. Norton, Ivan J. Fernandez, Jeffrey s. Kahl, and Dennis Hanson. 2005. Changes in concentrations of major and trace metals in northeastern U.S.-Canadian sub-alpine forest floors. Water Air Soil Pollut. 163: 245-267.
Watmough, S.A. Aherne, J., Alewell, C., Arp, P., Bailey, S., Clair, T., Dillon, P., Duchesne, L., Eimers, C., Fernandez, I., Foster, N., Larssen, T., Miller, E., Mitchell, M. and S. Page. 2004. Sulphate, nitrogen and base cation budgets at 21 forested catchments in Canada, the United States and Europe. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 109:1-36.
Lawler, Joshua J., Jonathan Rubin, Bernard J. Cosby, Ivan J. Fernandez, Jeffrey S. Kahl, and Stephen A. Norton. 2005. Predicting recovery from acidic deposition: Applying a modified TAF (Tracking Analysis Framework) model to Maine (USA) High Elevation Lakes. Water Air Soil Pollut. 164: 383-399.