Education

PhD Ecology, Duke University, 2012

BS Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 2004

Areas of Expertise

River and Floodplain Ecology

Carbon and Nutrient Cycling

Biogeochemistry

Current Work

Patterns and drivers of river metabolism across the continental United States

Publications

2015

Appling, Alison P., Miguel C. Leon, and William H. McDowell. Reducing Bias and Quantifying Uncertainty in Watershed Flux Estimates: The R Package Loadflex. Ecosphere 6(12):269. doi:10.1890/ES14-00517.1.

Read JS, JI Walker, AP Appling, DL Blodgett, EK Read, LA Winslow. 2015. geoknife: Reproducible web-processing of large gridded datasets. Ecography. 38: 1-7. doi:10.1111/ecog.01880

Sistla, Seeta A., Alison P. Appling, Aleksandra M. Lewandowska, Benton N. Taylor, and Amelia A. Wolf. Stoichiometric Flexibility in Response to Fertilization along Gradients of Environmental and Organismal Nutrient Richness. Oikos 124, no. 7 (July 1, 2015): 949–59. doi:10.1111/oik.02385.

2014

Appling, Alison P., and James B. Heffernan. Nutrient Limitation and Physiology Mediate the Fine-Scale (De)coupling of Biogeochemical Cycles. The American Naturalist 184, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 384–406. doi:10.1086/677282.

Appling, Alison P., Emily S. Bernhardt, and Jack A. Stanford. Floodplain Biogeochemical Mosaics: A Multidimensional View of Alluvial Soils. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119, no. 8 (August 1, 2014): 2013JG002543. doi:10.1002/2013JG002543.