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Thomas DeLuca

Faculty/Staff Image Adjunct Professor of Forest Soils

Department of Forest Management
College of Forestry and Conservation
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

Office: Ecology and Economics Research Department 503 West Mendenhall Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone: 406-586-1600
Email: tom_deluca@tws.org

Personal Website: View Website

Education:

Ph.D. Iowa State University, May 1993. Soil Science (Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry).
M.S. Montana State University, March 1987. Soils (Soil Fertility).
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1984. Soil Science (Natural Science).


Research Interests:

Fire Effects on Soils and Ecosystem Processes
Soil Biochemistry
Forest Restoration
Sustainability


Selected Publications:

DeLuca, T.H. and G.H. Aplet. 2008. Charcoal and carbon storage in forest soils of the Rocky Mountain West. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: In Press.

Gundale, M.J., S. Sutherland, and T.H. DeLuca. 2008. Fire, native species, and soil resource interactions regulate the spatio-temporal  invasion pattern of Bromus tectorum.  Ecography: In Press.

Nilsson, M-C., D.A. Wardle and T.H. DeLuca. 2008. Belowground and aboveground consequences of interactions involving live plant species mixtures and dead organic substrate mixtures. Oikos: In Press.

Walters, D.K. and T.H. DeLuca. 2007. Salt-lick induced soil disturbance in the Teton Wilderness, USA. Range Ecology and Management 60:675-679.

Liedgren, L.G., I.M. Bergman, G. Hörnberg, O. Zackrisson, E. Hellberg, L. Östlund, T. DeLuca. 2007. Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric hearths in alpine northern Sweden: problems and possibilities. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:1276-1288.

DeLuca, T.H. and O. Zackrisson. 2007. Juniperus communis enhances soil fertility in arctic ecosystems. Plant and Soil 294:147-155.

DeLuca, T.H., O. Zackrisson, F. Gentili, A. Sellstedt, M-C. Nilsson. 2007. Ecosystem controls on nitrogen fixation in boreal feather moss communities. Oecologia 152:121-130.

Gundale, M.J. and T.H. DeLuca. 2007. Charcoal and litter extracts alter soil solution chemistry and growth of Koeleria macrantha in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir ecosystem. Biology and Fertility of Soils 43:303-311.

DeLuca, T.H. 2006. Looking at biofuels and bioenergy: Letters.  Science 312:1743-1744.

Kurth, V.J. M.D. MacKenzie, and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Estimating the charcoal content of mineral soils. Geoderma 137:135-139.

Keeling, E.G., A. Sala, and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Effects of fire exclusion on forest structure and composition in unlogged ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests. Forest Ecology and Management 237:418-428.

DeLuca, T.H. and A. Sala. 2006.  Frequent fire alters nitrogen transformations in ponderosa pine stands of the Inland Northwest. Ecology 87:2511-2522.

MacKenzie, M.D. and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Resin adsorption of carbon and nitrogen as influenced by season and time since fire. Soil Science Society America Journal 70:2122-2129.

MacKenzie, M.D. and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Charcoal and shrubs modify soil processes in ponderosa pine forests of western Montana. Plant and Soil 287:257-266.

Gundale, M.J. and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Temperature and Substrate influence the chemical properties of charcoal in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 231:86-93.

MacKenzie, D.M., T.H. DeLuca, and A. Sala. 2006. Nitrogen mineralization and biodiversity in low elevation forests of western Montana.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:952-961.

Gundale, M.J., K.L. Metlen, C.E. Feidler, and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. Spatial nitrogen heterogeneity increases diversity following restoration in a ponderosa pine forest, Montana. Ecological Applications 16:479-489.

DeLuca, T. H., M.D. MacKenzie, M.J. Gundale, and W.E. Holben. 2006. Wildfire-produced charcoal directly influences nitrogen cycling in forest ecosystems. Soil Science Society America Journal 70:448-453.

Thorpe, A., V. Archer, and T.H. DeLuca. 2006. The invasive forb, Centaurea maculosa, increases phosphorus availability in Montana grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology 32:118-122.

Gentili F., M-C. Nilsson, O. Zackrisson, T.H. DeLuca and A. Sellstedt. 2005. Feather moss-N2 fixing cyanobacteria association: physiological and molecular diversity of the associative cyanobacteria genera. Journal of Experimental Botany 56:3121-3127.

Hart, S.C., T.H. DeLuca, G.S. Newman, M.D. MacKenzie, and S.I. Boyle. 2005. Post-fire vegetative dynamics as drivers of microbial community structure and function in forest soils. Forest Ecology and Management 220:166-184.

Gundale, M.J. W.M. Jolly, and T.H. DeLuca. 2005. Susceptibility of a northern hardwood forest to exotic earthworm invasion. Conservation Biology 19:1075-1083.

Gundale, M.J., T.H. DeLuca, C.E. Fiedler, P.W. Ramsey, M.G. Harrington, J.E. Gannon.  2005.  Restoration Management in a Montana Ponderosa Pine Forest:  Effects on Soil Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties. Forest Ecology and Management: 213:25-38.

Zackrisson, O, T.H. DeLuca, M-C. Nilsson, A. Sellstedt, and Berglund. 2004. Nitrogen fixation increases with successional age in boreal forests. Ecology 85:3327–3334.

Berglund, L., O. Zackrisson, and T.H. DeLuca. 2004. Charcoal amendment of soils alters n mineralization patterns in scots pine forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36:2067-2073.

·        Lesica, P. and T.H. DeLuca. 2004. Is tamarisk allelopathic? Plant and Soil 267:357-365.

·        MacKenzie, D.M., T.H. DeLuca, and A. Sala. 2004. Forest structure and organic matter analysis along a fire chronosequence in the low elevation forests of western Montana. Forest Ecology and Management 203:331-343

Switalski, T A., J.A. Bissonette, T.H. DeLuca, C.H. Luce, and Mary Ann Madej. 2003. Watershed Benefits and Impacts from Road Removal: A Review. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:21-28.

Knudson, J.A., T. Meikle and T.H. DeLuca. 2003. Role of mycorrizal fungi and phosphorus in the arsenic tolerance of Basin wildrye. Journal Environmental Quality 32:2001-2006.

DeLuca, T.H., O. Zackrisson, M-C. Nilsson, A. Sellstedt. 2002. Quantifying nitrogen-fixation in feather moss carpets of boreal forests. Nature 419:917-920.

DeLuca, T.H., M-C. Nilsson, and O. Zackrisson. 2002. Nitrogen mineralization and phenol accumulation along a fire chronosequence in northern Sweden. Oecologia 133:206-214.

Zabinski, C.A., DeLuca, T.H., D.C. Cole, and O. Seastone-Moynahan. 2002. Impact and restoration of subalpine campsites in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Restoration Ecology 10:275-281.