Alain F. Plante
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Penn - University of Pennsylvania
Plante's Penn page
Ph.D., Soil Science, University of Alberta, 2001
My research interests lie in the field of terrestrial carbon biogeochemistry. I am interested in the mechanisms and process that act to stabilize and de-stabilize organic carbon in surface soils, and the links between the soil carbon balance and the broader global carbon cycle.
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2019
Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. Brewer, Tess E., Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O’Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer (2019): mBio Oct 2019, 10 (5) e01318-19 Cross-CZO National
2018
Contrasting Fe speciation in two humid forest soils: Insight into organomineral associations in redox-active environments. Elizabeth K.Coward, AaronThompson, Alain F.Plante (2018): Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2018
Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content. Rasmussen C., Heckman K., Wieder W.R., Keiluweit M., Lawrence C.R., Berhe A.A., Blankinship J.C., Crow S.E., Druhan J.L., Hicks Pries C.E., Marin-Spiotta E., Plante A.F., Schädel C., Schimel J.P., Sierra C.A., Thompson A., Wagai R. (2018): Biogeochemistry 137(3): 297–306 Cross-CZO
2017
Tropical river suspended sediment and solute dynamics in storms during an extreme drought. Clark, K.E., Shanley, J.B., Scholl, M.A., Perdrial, N., Perdrial, J.N., Plante, A.F., McDowell W.H. (2017): Water Resources Research
2017 (In Review)
Extreme storms drive riverine particulate organic matter export from tropical mountians of estern Puerto Rico. Kathryn E. Clark, Robert F. Stallard, Martha A. Scholl, Alain F. Plante, Sheila F. Murphy, Grizelle Gonzalez, and William H. McDowell (2017): ...
2015
Parent material and vegetation influence bacterial community structure and nitrogen functional genes along deep tropical soil profiles at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory. Stone, M.M., Kan, J.J., Plante A.F. (2015): Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2015
Relating the biological stability of soil organic matter to energy availability in deep tropical soil profiles. Stone, M.M., Plante, A.F. (2015): Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2014
Soil organic matter stability in organo-mineral complexes as a function of increasing carbon loading. Feng, W., A. Plante, A.K. Aufdenkampe, J. Six (2014): Soil Biology and Biochemistry 69, 398-405
2014
Changes in extracellular enzyme activity and microbial community structure with soil depth at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory. Stone, M.M., DeForest, J.L., Plante, A.F. (2014): Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2014
Changes in phosphatase kinetics with soil depth across a variable tropical landscape. Stone, M.M., Plante, A.F. (2014): Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2013
Plant and nutrient controls on microbial functional characteristics in a tropical Oxisol. Stone M.M., Plante A.F., Casper, B.B. (2013): Plant and Soil
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2019
Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory Annual Report 2019. McDowell, W.H., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W.L. (2019): University of New Hampshire
2019
Bioavailability of carbon in ferrihydrite-organic matter coprecipitates transformed by Fe (II)-catalyzed recrystalization. Noor, Nadia, Aaron Thompson, Zhe Zhou, Drew E. Latta, Michelle M. Scherer, Alain F. Plante, and Thomas Borch (2019): Soil Science Society of America International Soils Meeting, San Diego, CA, 6-9 January 2019
2019
Effect of Reaction Time of Fe (II) with Different C/Fe Ratio Containing Ferrihydrite-Natural Organic Matter Coprecipitate on the Bioavailability of Carbon. Noor, Nadia, Zhe Zhou, Drew E. Latta, Michelle M. Scherer, Alain F. Plante, Thomas Borch, and Aaron Thompson (2019): ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting, 10-13 Nov. 2019, San Antonio, Texas
2019
Controls of iron abundance and crystallinity on organomineral associations under contrasting long-term land use. Thompson, Aaron, Elizabeth K Coward, Daniel Markewitz, Daniel deB. Richter, Allan R Bacon, Alain F Plante (2019): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
2018
Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory Annual Report 2018. McDowell, W.H., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W.L. (2018): University of New Hampshire
2017
Soil organic matter stabilization by Fe-C interactions in temperate and tropical soils: A cross-CZO comparison. Coward, E.K., Thompson, A., and Plante, A.F. (2017): Critical Zone Science: Current Advances and Future Opportunities, Arlington, VA, 4-6 June, 2017 Cross-CZO
2017
Iron-Carbon Complexation at the Critical Zone: Impacts of Metal Speciation and Ligand Structure. Coward, Elizabeth (2017): University of Pennsylvania
2017
Annual Report 2017 Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone. McDowell, W.H., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W.L. (2017): University of New Hampshire
2016
Soil organic matter stabilization by Fe-C interactions in temperate and tropical soils: A cross-CZO comparison. Coward, E.K., Thompson, A., Markewitz, D., Richter, D. deB., and Plante, A.F. (2016): Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 6-9 November 2016 Cross-CZO
2016
Annual Report 2016 Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone. McDowell, W.H., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W.L. (2016): University of New Hampshire
2016
Representation of diffusion controlled carbon stabilization in reactive transport models. Thompson, A., Druhan, J.L., Keiluweit, M., Wagai, R., Plante, A.F., Lawrence, C.R., Berhe, A.A., Sierra, C.A., Rasmussen, C., Marin-Spiotta, E., Blankinship, J.C., Schimel, J., Heckman, K.A., Crow, S.E., and Wieder, W.R. (2016): American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA Cross-CZO
2015
Iron-mediated C stability in two tropical soils. Coward, E.K., Plante, A.F. (2015): Luquillo CZO Cyber Seminar
2015
Fe-C associations and soil organic matter stability in two tropical soils of contrasting parent materials . Coward, L., Thompson, A., and Plante, A.F. (2015): Soil interfaces for sustainable development (ISMOM 2015), a joint meeting of Commission 2.5 of the International Union of Soil Science, Canadian Society of Soil Science, Association québécoise des spécialistes en sciences du sol, Montréal, Canada.
2015
Annual Report 2015 Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone. McDowell, W.H., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W.L. (2015): University of New Hampshire
2015
Characterization of organo-mineral associations from tropical soil profiles using solid-state 13C NMR and thermal analysis. Plante, A.F., Stone, M.M. and Hockaday, W. (2015): Soil interfaces for sustainable development (ISMOM 2015), ), a joint meeting of Commission 2.5 of the International Union of Soil Science, Canadian Society of Soil Science, Association québécoise des spécialistes en sciences du sol, Montréal, Canada.
2015
Exploring relationships between microbial ecology and soil organic matter stability in deep tropical soil profiles. Stone M.M., Plante A.F. (2015): ESA Annual Meeting. Baltimore Maryland
2014
Fe-C associations and soil organic matter stability in tropical soils of two contrasting parent materials . Coward EK & AF Plante (2014): SOM6 workshop. Kiawah Island, SC
2014
Annual Report 2014 Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone. Frolking, S., González, G., Plante, A.F., Silver W. L. (2014): University of New Hampshire
2014
Patterns in carbon chemistry and stability with depth across contrasting soil and forest types . Stone M.M., Plante A.F. (2014): Luquillo CZO Cyber Seminar
2014
Soil microbial communities and soil organic matter: composition and ecological functions in the Luquillo Critical Zone. Stone M.M., Plante A.F. (2014): University of Pennsylvania
2013
Annual Report 2013 How Critical Zone Processes differ in Landscapes with Contrasting Lithology but similar Climatic and Environmental Histories. Plante A.F., Brantely S.L., White A.F. (2013): University of Pennsylvania
2013
Changes in extracellular enzyme activities and kinetics with depth across contrasting parent materials in the Luquillo Critical Zone. Stone M.M., Plante, A.F. (2013): Ecological Society of America Conference 2013.
2013
Soil Organic Matter and Microbial Activity in Critical Zone of Tropical Soils from Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Stone, M.M., Plante, A.F. (2013): Goldschmidt2013 Conference Abstracts. Florence Italy.
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ESA relationships between microbial ecology and SOM
Exploring relationships between microbial ecology and soil organic matter stability in deep tropical soil profiles
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