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Richard Norby

ORNL, USA and University of Birmingham, UK New Phytologist Editor Plants, People, Planet Strategic Advisor The New Phytologist Foundation Trustee

Research interests

  • Ecosystem responses to atmospheric and climatic change
  • CO2 enrichment on tree growth and forest metabolism
  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling in forest
  • Synthesis of experimental results to inform models

Biography

Richard Norby is an ecosystem ecologist interested in the effects of CO2 enrichment on tree growth and forest metabolism, ecosystem responses to atmospheric and climatic change, carbon and nitrogen cycling in diverse ecosystems, forest tree physiology and plant physiological ecology, and synthesis of experimental results to inform models

He is an Emeritus Research Fellow in the Environmental Sciences Division & Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Honorary Professor at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham; and Research Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee and an Editor of New Phytologist.

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Richard J. Norby
New Phytologist
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14460 First Published: August 3rd, 2017

Rich Norby presenting 'Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer: Sphagnum decline in an experimentally warmed bog' at the Plants, People, Planet Symposium in September 2019.