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Research Interests
  • Global climate change, community ecology, biogeochemistry of limiting resources, structure and function of ecosystems, N deposition
Education
  • Ph. D. 2001-07. Ecology. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (advisor: David Tilman)
  • B.S. 1999. Physics. University of California, Davis (Highest Honors).
  • B.S. 1999. Environmental and Resource Sciences. University of California, Davis (Highest Honors)
Publications
  • Clark, C. M., D. Tilman. Ecological impacts of chronic low-level nitrogen addition to grassland ecosystems. (accepted, Nature).
  • Chalcraft, D. R., C. M. Clark, E. E. Cleland, S. B. Cox, E. Weiher, K. N. Suding and D. Pennington. Nitrogen enrichment alters the biodiversity of plants at multiple spatial scales. (accepted, Ecology).
  • Cleland, E. E., C. M. Clark, S. L. Collins, J. Fargione, L. Gough, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, S. C. Pennings, W. B. Bowman, I. C. Burke, W. K. Lauenroth, G. P. Robertson, J. C. Simpson, D. Tilman, and K. N. Suding. Species responses to nitrogen fertilization in herbaceous plant communities, and associated species traits. (accepted, Ecology).
  • Collins, S. L, K. N. Suding, E. E. Cleland, M. Batty, S. C. Pennings, K. Gross, J. B. Grace, L. Gough, J. E. Fargione, and C. M. Clark. Rank clocks and plant community dynamics (in review, Ecology)
  • Clark, C. M., Katherine N. Suding, S. L. Collins, J. Fargione, L. Gough, J. Grace, E. E. Cleland, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, S. C. Pennings, J. Fargione. 2007. Biodiversity loss following N enrichment depends on environmental context. Ecology Letters 10: 596-607.
  • Fargione, J., D. Tilman, R. Dybzinski, J. Hille Ris Lambers, C. M. Clark, S, Harpole, J. Knops, P. B. Reich, M. Loreau. From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long term biodiversity experiment. 2007. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:871-876.
  • Suding, Katherine N., S. L. Collins, L. Gough, C. M. Clark, E. E. Cleland, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, S. C. Pennings. 2005. Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization. PNAS 102:4387-4392.
  • Pennings, Steven C., C. M. Clark, E. E. Cleland, S. L. Collins, L. Gough, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, K. L. Suding. 2005. Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments? Oikos 110:547-555.
  • Tilman D., J. HilleRisLambers, S. Harpole, R. Dybzinski, J. Fargione, C. Clark, C. Lehman. 2004. Does metabolic theory apply to community ecology? It’s a matter of scale. Ecology 85: 1797-1799.