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Kirchner group publications arranged by topic
Last
updated 20 January 2016
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Climatic and topographic controls on long-term rates of physical erosion and chemical weathering Riparian vegetation, river bank erosion, and woody debris Non-linear mechanisms of hillslope erosion Measuring the effectiveness of remediation of an abandoned mercury mine
Macroevolutionary dynamics inferred from the fossil record Evolutionary ecology and genetics of host-pathogen interactions A skeptical view of the Gaia Hypothesis
Many of these papers are available as PDF reprints.
(*=thesis or postdoc research supervised by Kirchner)
Watershed hydrology and geochemistry
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Watershed travel
times and hydrologic response inferred from chemical,
isotopic, and hydrometric time series
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Jasechko, S., J.W. Kirchner, J.M. Welker, and
J.J. McDonnell, Young and old water in global rivers, Nature
Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/NGEO2636, 2016. [PDF]
Kirchner,
J.W., Aggregation in environmental systems:
Catchment mean transit times and young water fractions
under hydrologic nonstationarity, Hydrology and Earth
System Sciences, 20, 299-328,
doi:10.5194/hess-20-299-2016, 2016. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Aggregation in environmental
systems: Seasonal tracer cycles quantify young water
fractions, but not mean transit times, in spatially
heterogeneous catchments, Hydrology and Earth System
Sciences, 20, 279-297,
doi:10.5194/hess-20-279-2016, . [PDF]
Kobierska, F., T. Jonas, J.W. Kirchner,
and S.M. Bernasconi, Linking baseflow separation and
groundwater storage dynamics in an alpine basin
(Dammagletscher, Switzerland), Hydrology and Earth System
Sciences, 19, 3681-3693,
doi:10.5194/hess-19-3681-2015, 2015. [PDF]
Adamovic, M., I. Braud, F. Branger, and J.W.
Kirchner, Assessing the simple dynamical systems
approach in a Mediterranean context: application to the
Ardèche catchment (France), Hydrology and Earth System
Sciences, 19, 2427-2449,
doi:10.5194/hess-19-2427-2015, 2015. [PDF]
Benettin, P., J.W. Kirchner, A. Rinaldo, and G.
Botter, Modeling chloride transport using travel-time
distributions at Plynlimon, Wales, Water Resources
Research, 51, 3259-3276, doi:10.1002/2014WR016600,
2015. [PDF]
Godsey, S.E.* and Kirchner, J.W., Dynamic,
discontinuous stream networks: hydrologically driven
variations in active drainage density, network magnitude, and
stream order, Hydrological Processes, 28,
5791–5803, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10310, 2014. (M.G. Anderson
Award for outstanding paper of the year in Hydrological
Processes) [PDF]
Aubert, A., J.W. Kirchner, C. Gascuel-Odoux, M. Faucheux, G. Gruau, and P. Mérot, Fractal water quality fluctuations spanning the periodic table in an intensively farmed watershed, Environmental Science and Technology, in press. [PDF]
Godsey, S.E.,* J.W. Kirchner and C.L. Tague,
Effects of changes in winter snowpacks on summer low
flows: case studies in the Sierra Nevada, California,
USA, Hydrological Processes, in press. [PDF]
Magnusson, J.,* F.
Kobierska,* S. Huxol, T. Jonas, and J.W. Kirchner,
Melt water driven stream and groundwater stage
fluctuations on a glacier forefield (Damma gletscher,
Switzerland), Hydrological Processes, 28, 832-836, doi:10.1002/hyp.9633, 2014.
[PDF]
Halliday, S.J., R.A. Skeffington, A.J. Wade, C.
Neal, B. Reynolds, D. Norris, and J.W. Kirchner,
Upland streamwater nitrate dynamics across decadal to
sub-daily timescales: a case study of Plynlimon, Wales, Biogeosciences,
10, 8013-8038, doi:10.5194/bg-10-8013-2013, 2013.
[PDF]
Kirchner, J.W. and C. Neal, Universal
fractal scaling in stream chemistry and its implications for
solute transport and water quality trend detection, Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (30),
12213-12218, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304328110, 2013. [PDF]
[Supporting
Information] [Algorithm
Archive 15 MB] [Plynlimon
weekly data and metadata 18 MB] [Plynlimon
7hour data and metadata 9 MB]
Neal, C., B. Reynolds, J.W.
Kirchner, P. Rowland, D. Norris, D. Sleep, A.
Lawlor, C. Woods, S. Thacker, H. Guyatt, C. Vincent, K.
Lehto, S. Grant, J. Williams, M. Neal, H. Wickham, S.
Harman, L. Armstrong, High-frequency precipitation and
stream water quality time series from Plynlimon, Wales: an
openly accessible data resource spanning the periodic
table, Hydrological Processes, 27,
2531-2539, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9814, 2013. [PDF]
Neal, C., B. Reynolds, P. Rowland, D. Norris, J.W.
Kirchner, M. Neal, D. Sleep, A. Lawlor, C. Woods, S.
Thacker, H. Guyatt, C. Vincent, K. Hockenhull, H. Wickham, S.
Harman, L. and L. Armstrong, High-frequency water quality time
series in precipitation and streamflow: from fragmentary
signals to scientific challenge, Science of the Total
Environment, 434, 3-12,
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.10.072, 2012. [PDF]
Magnusson, J.,* T. Jonas, and J.W. Kirchner,
Temperature dynamics of a proglacial stream: Identifying
dominant energy balance components and inferring spatially
integrated hydraulic geometry, Water Resources Research,
48, W06510, doi:10.1029/2011WR011378, 2012. [PDF]
Krier, R., P. Matgen, K. Goergen, L. Pfister, L. Hoffmann, J.W. Kirchner, S. Uhlenbrook, and H.H.G. Savenije, Inferring catchment precipitation by doing hydrology backward: A test in 24 small and mesoscale catchments in Luxembourg, Water Resources Research, 48, W10525, doi:10.1029/2011WR010657, 2012. [PDF]
Neal, C., B. Reynolds, D. Norris, J.W. Kirchner, M. Neal, P. Rowland, H. Wickham, S. Harman, L. Armstrong, D. Sleep, A. Lawlor, C. Woods, B. Williams, M. Fry, G. Newton, and D. Wright, Three decades of water quality measurements from the Upper Severn experimental catchments at Plynlimon, Wales: an openly accessible data resource for research, modelling, environmental management and education, Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.8191, 2011. [PDF]
Teuling, A.J., I. Lehner, J.W. Kirchner, and
S.I. Seneviratne, Catchments as simple dynamical systems:
Experience from a Swiss prealpine catchment, Water Resources Research,
46, W10502,
doi:10.1029/2009WR008777, 2010. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., D. Tetzlaff, and C. Soulsby,
Comparing chloride and water isotopes as hydrological
tracers in two Scottish catchments, Hydrological Processes,
24, 1631–1645,
2010. [PDF]
Godsey, S.E.*, W. Aas, T. Clair, I. Dennis, H. de Wit, I.
Fernandez, S. Kahl, I. Malcolm, C. Neal, M. Neal, S. Nelson,
S. Norton, M. Palucis*, D. Tetzlaff, B.L. Skjelkvaale, C.
Soulsby, and J.W. Kirchner,
Generality of fractal 1/f scaling in catchment tracer time
series, and its implications for catchment travel time
distributions, Hydrological
Processes, 24,
1660–1671, 2010. [PDF]
McDonnell, J.J., K. McGuire, P. Aggarwal, K. J. Beven, D.
Biondi, G. Destouni, S. Dunn, A. James, J. Kirchner, P. Kraft,
S. Lyon, P. Maloszewski, B. Newman, L. Pfister, A.
Rinaldo, A. Rodhe, T. Sayama, J. Seibert, K. Solomon, C.
Soulsby, M. Stewart, D. Tetzlaff,C. Tobin, P. Troch, M.
Weiler, A. Western, A. Wörman, and S. Wrede, How old is
streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time
conceptualization, modelling and analysis, Hydrological Processes,
24, 1745–1754,
2010. [PDF]
Godsey, S.E.*, J.W.
Kirchner and D.W. Clow, Concentration-discharge
relationships reflect chemostatic characteristics of US
catchments, Hydrological
Processes, 23,
1844-1864, 2009. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W.,
Catchments as simple dynamical systems: catchment
characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, and doing
hydrology backward, Water Resources Research, 45, W02429,
doi:10.1029/2008WR006912. [PDF]
McDonnell, J. J., M.
Sivapalan, K. Vaché, S. Dunn, G. Grant, R. Haggerty, C.
Hinz, R. Hooper, J.
Kirchner, M. L. Roderick, J. Selker and M.
Weiler, Moving beyond heterogeneity and process
complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology, Water Resources Research,
43, W07301,
doi:10.1029/2006WR005467, 2007. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Getting
the right answers for the right reasons: linking measurements,
analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology, Water Resources Research,
42, W03S04, doi:10.1029/2005WR004362,
2006.
[PDF]
Manga,
M. and J.W. Kirchner,
Interpreting the temperature of water at cold springs and
the importance of gravitational potential energy, Water
Resources Research, 40,
doi:10.1029/2003WR002905, 2004. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., X.
Feng, C. Neal, and A.J. Robson, The fine structure of
water-quality dynamics: the (high-frequency) wave of the
future, Hydrological Processes, 18, 1353-1359, 2004.
[PDF]
Feng, X., J.W.
Kirchner, and C. Neal, Measuring catchment-scale
chemical retardation using spectral analysis of reactive and
passive chemical tracer time series, Journal of Hydrology,
292, 296-307,
2004. [PDF]
Feng, X., J.W. Kirchner, and C. Neal, Spectral analysis of chemical time series from long-term catchment monitoring studies: hydrochemical insights and data requirements, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus, 4, 221-235, 2004. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., A double paradox in catchment hydrology
and geochemistry, Hydrological Processes, 17, 871-874, 2003 [PDF]
Kirchner,
J.W., X.H. Feng, and C. Neal, Catchment-scale advection
and dispersion as a mechanism for fractal scaling in stream
tracer concentrations, Journal of Hydrology, 254,
81-100, 2001. [PDF]
Kirchner,
J.W., X.H. Feng and C. Neal, Fractal stream chemistry and
its implications for contaminant transport in catchments, Nature,
403, 524-527, 2000. [PDF]
[Supplementary
information
PDF]
Neal, C. andJ.W. Kirchner, Sodium and chloride levels in rainfall, mist, streamwater and groundwater at the Plynlimon catchments, mid-Wales: inferences on hydrological and geochemical controls, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 4, 295-310, 2000. [PDF]
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Chemical transport and isotopic fractionation in snowmelt
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Lee, J., X. Feng, A. Faiia, E. Posmentier,
R. Osterhuber, and J.
Kirchner, Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: A new
model incorporating mobile and immobile water, Water Resources Research,
46, W11512,
doi:10.1029/2009WR008306, 2010. [PDF]
Lee,
J., X. Feng, A.M. Faiia, E.S. Posmentier, J.W. Kirchner, R.
Osterhuber, and S. Taylor, Isotopic evolution of a seasonal
snowcover and its melt by isotopic exchange between liquid
water and ice, Chemical
Geology, 270,
126-134, 2010. [PDF]
Lee, J., V.E. Nez, X. Feng, J.W. Kirchner, R. Osterhuber, and C.E.
Renshaw, A study of solute redistribution and transport in
seasonal snowpack using natural and artificial tracers, Journal of Hydrology, 357, 243-254,
2008. [PDF]
Lee, J., X. Feng, E.S. Posmentier, A.M. Faiia, R.
Osterhuber, and J.W.
Kirchner, Modeling of solute transport in snow
using conservative tracers and artificial rain-on-snow
experiments, Water
Resources Research, 44, W02411, doi:10.1029/2006WR005477, 2008.
[PDF]
Feng, X., S.
Taylor, C.E. Renshaw, and J.W. Kirchner, Isotopic
evolution of snowmelt: I. A physically based 1-D model, Water
Resources Research, 38,
1217, doi:10.1029/2001WR000814, 2002. [PDF]
Taylor, S., X. Feng, C.E. Renshaw, and J.W. Kirchner, Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: II. Verification and parameterization of a 1-D model using laboratory experiments, Water Resources Research, 38, 1218, doi:10.1029/2001WR000815, 2002. [PDF]
Feng, X.H., J.W. Kirchner, C. E. Renshaw, R. Osterhuber, B. Klaue and S. Taylor, A study of solute transport mechanisms using rare earth element tracers and artificial rain storms on snow, Water Resources Research, 37, 1425-1435, 2001. [PDF]
Taylor, S., X. Feng, J.W. Kirchner, C. Renshaw, B. Klaue and R. Osterhuber, Isotopic evolution of a seasonal snowpack and its melt, Water Resources Research, 37, 759-769, 2001. [PDF]
Taylor S., X. Feng, B. Klaue, M. Albert and J. Kirchner, Rare earth elements as chemical tracers in snow studies, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Eastern Snow Conference (S. Taylor and J. Hardy, eds.), 13-20, 1998. [PDF]
Langtjern, Norway |
Long-term dynamics of watershed recovery from acid deposition
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Kirchner, J.W., Acid rain revisited (Letter), Science, 273, 293-294, 1996. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., R.P. Hooper, C. Kendall, C. Neal, and G. Leavesley, Testing and validating environmental models, Science of the Total Environment , 183, 33-47, 1996. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W. and E. Lydersen, Base cation depletion and potential long-term acidification of Norwegian catchments, Environmental Science and Technology, 29, 1953-1960, 1995. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., P.J. Dillon and B.D. LaZerte, Predictability of geochemical buffering and runoff acidification in spatially heterogeneous catchments,Water Resources Research, 29, 3891-3901, 1993. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., P.J. Dillon and B.D. LaZerte, Separating hydrological and geochemical influences on runoff acidification in spatially heterogeneous catchments, Water Resources Research, 29, 3903-3916, 1993. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., P.J. Dillon and B.D. LaZerte, Predicted response of stream chemistry to acid loading tested in Canadian catchments, Nature, 358, 478-482, 1992. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Heterogeneous geochemistry of catchment acidification, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 56, 2311-2327, 1992. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., A strategy for predicting watershed acidification, Ph.D. Thesis, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA., 169 pp., 1990.
Sulfur isotope dynamics in highly polluted Czech catchments
Novak, M., J.W. Kirchner, D. Fottova, E. Prechova, I. Jackova, P. Kram, and J. Hruska, Isotopic evidence for processes of sulfur retention/release in 13 Central European catchments spanning a strong pollution gradient, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19 (4): Art. No. GB4012, 2005. [PDF]
Novak,
M., J.W. Kirchner, H. Groscheova, M. Havel, J. Cerny and
R. Krejci, Sulphur isotope dynamics in two Central European
watersheds affected by high atmospheric deposition of SOx, Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 367-383, 2000. [PDF]
Geomorphology and earth surface processes
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Climatic and topographic controls on long-term rates of physical erosion and chemical weathering
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Slater, L.J., M.S. Singer, and J.W. Kirchner,
Hydrologic and geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard, Geophysical
Research Letters, 42, 370-376,
doi:10.1002/2014GL062482, 2015.
[PDF 10 MB] [Supporting
information
S1 - methods] [Supporting information S2 - plots of field measurements 10 MB]
Kirchner, J.W. and K.L. Ferrier, Mainly in the plain
(News & Views), Nature, 495, 318-319,
2013. [PDF]
Ferrier, K.L.,* J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Weak
influences of climate and mineral supply rates on chemical
erosion rates: Measurements along two altitudinal transects in
the Idaho Batholith, Journal of Geophysical Research –
Earth Surface, 117, F02026,
doi:10.1029/2011JF002231, 2012. [PDF]
Ferrier, K.L.,* J.W.
Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Estimating
millennial-scale dust deposition rates on soil-mantled
hillslopes using cosmogenic nuclides and immobile weathering
tracers, Journal of
Geophysical Research -- Earth Surface, 116, F03022,
doi:10.1029/2011JF001991, 2011. [PDF]
Ferrier, K.L.*, J.W. Kirchner, C.S.
Riebe,* and R.C. Finkel, Mineral-specific chemical
weathering rates over millennial timescales: Measurements
at Rio Icacos, Puerto Rico, Chemical Geology, 277, 101-114,
2010. [PDF]
Ferrier, K.L.* and J.W. Kirchner,
Effects of physical erosion on chemical denudation
rates: A numerical modeling study of soil-mantled
hillslopes, Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, 272, 591–599, 2008.
[PDF]
Ferrier, K.L.,* J.W. Kirchner and
R.C. Finkel, Erosion rates over millennial and decadal
timescales at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, Northern
California Coast Ranges, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
30, 1025-1038,
2005. [PDF]
Riebe, C.S.,* J.W. Kirchner, and R.C.
Finkel, Erosional and climatic effects on long-term
chemical weathering rates in granitic landscapes spanning
diverse climatic regimes, Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 224, 547-562,
2004. [PDF]
Riebe, C.S.,* J.W. Kirchner,
and R.C. Finkel, Sharp decrease in long-term chemical weathering
rates along an altitudinal transect, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 421-434, 2004. [PDF]
Riebe, C.S.,* J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Long-term rates of chemical weathering and physical erosion from cosmogenic nuclides and geochemical mass balance, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 4411-4427, 2003. [PDF]
Riebe, C.S.*, J.W. Kirchner, and D.E. Granger*,
Quantifying quartz enrichment and its consequences for
cosmogenic measurements of erosion rates from alluvial sediment
and regolith, Geomorphology, 40, 15-19, 2001. [PDF]
Granger, D.E.*, C.S. Riebe*, J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Modulation of erosion on steep granitic slopes by boulder armoring, as revealed by cosmogenic26Al and 10Be, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,186, 269-281, 2001. [PDF]
Kirchner,
J.W., R.C. Finkel, C.S. Riebe*, D.E. Granger*, J.L.
Clayton, J.G. King and W.F. Megahan, Mountain erosion over
10-year, 10,000-year, and 10,000,000-year timescales, Geology,
29, 591-594, 2001.[PDF]
[Supplementary information PDF]
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Riebe,
C.S.,*
J.W. Kirchner, D.E. Granger*, and R.C. Finkel, Strong
tectonic and weak climatic control of long-term chemical
weathering rates, Geology, 29, 511-514, 2001. [PDF]
[Supplementary
information
PDF]
Riebe,
C.S.,*
J.W. Kirchner, D.E. Granger*, and R.C. Finkel, Minimal
climatic control on erosion rates in the Sierra Nevada,
California, Geology, 29, 447-450, 2001. [PDF]
[Supplementary
information
PDF]
Riebe,
C.S.*,
J.W. Kirchner, D.E. Granger* and R.C. Finkel, Erosional
equilibrium and disequilibrium in the Sierra Nevada, inferred
from cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in
alluvial sediment, Geology, 28, 803-806, 2000. [PDF]
[Supplementary
information PDF]
Granger, D.E.*, J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Quaternary downcutting rate of the New River, Virginia, measured from 26Al and 10Be in cave-deposited alluvium, Geology, 25, 107-110, 1997.[PDF]
Granger, D.E.*, J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel, Spatially averaged long-term erosion rates measured from in situ cosmogenic nuclides in alluvial sediment, Journal of Geology, 104, 249-257, 1996. [PDF]
Riparian vegetation, river bank erosion, and woody debris
Micheli, E.R.*, J.W. Kirchner, and E.W. Larsen, Quantifying the effect of riparian forest versus agricultural vegetation on river meander migration rates, Central Sacramento River, California, U.S.A., River Research and Applications, 20, 537-548, 2004. [PDF]
Micheli, E.R.* and J.W. Kirchner, Effects of wet meadow vegetation on streambank erosion. 1: Remote sensing measurements of stream bank migration and erodibility, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 27, 627-639, 2002. [PDF]
Micheli, E.R.* and J.W. Kirchner, Effects of wet meadow vegetation on streambank erosion. 2: Measurements of vegetated bank strength and consequences for failure mechanics, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 27, 687-697, 2002. [PDF]
Manga, M. and J.W. Kirchner, Stress partitioning in streams by large woody debris, Water Resources Research, 36, 2373-2379, 2000. [PDF]
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Hillslope erosion mechanisms and topographic pattern formation
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Perron, J.T.*, J.W. Kirchner, and
W.E. Dietrich, Formation of evenly spaced ridges and
valleys, Nature, 460, 502-505,
doi:10.1038/nature08174, 2009. [PDF]
[Supplementary
information PDF] [Supplementary movie]
Perron, J.T.,* W.E. Dietrich, and J.W. Kirchner,
Controls on the spacing of first-order valleys, Journal of Geophysical
Research -- Earth Surface, 113,
F04016, doi:10.1029/2007JF000977, 2008. [PDF]
Perron, J.T.,* J.W.
Kirchner, and W.E. Dietrich, Spectral signatures of
characteristic spatial scales and non-fractal structure in
landscapes, Journal of
Geophysical Research -- Earth Surface, 113, F04003,
doi:10.1029/2007JF000866, 2008. [PDF]
Roering, J.J.,* J.T. Perron,* and J.W. Kirchner, Functional relationships between denudation and
hillslope form and relief, Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, 264, 245-258, 2007. [PDF]
Roering,
J.J.,*
J.W. Kirchner and W.E.
Dietrich, Characterizing structural and lithologic controls on
deep-seated landsliding: implications for topographic relief and
landscape evolution in the Oregon Coast Range, USA, Geological Society of America
Bulletin, in press, 117, 654-668, 2005.
[PDF]
Roering, J.J.*, J.W. Kirchner, L.E. Sklar and W.E.
Dietrich, Hillslope evolution by nonlinear creep and
landsliding: an experimental study: Reply to Bons and van
Milligen, Geology, 30, 482, 2002. [PDF]
Roering, J.J.*, J.W. Kirchner, L.E. Sklar and W.E. Dietrich, Hillslope evolution by nonlinear creep and landsliding: an experimental study, Geology, 29, 143-146, 2001. [PDF]
Roering, J.J.*, J.W. Kirchner, and W.E. Dietrich, Hillslope evolution by nonlinear, slope-dependent transport: Steady-state morphology and equilibrium adjustment timescales, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 B8, 16499-16514, 2001. [PDF]
Roering, J.J.*, J.W. Kirchner and W.E. Dietrich, Evidence for non-linear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology,Water Resources Research, 35, 853-870, 1999.[PDF]
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Effectiveness of remediation efforts at an abandoned mercury mine
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Kirchner, J.W., C.M. Austin, A. Myers, and D.C. Whyte*, Quantifying remediation effectiveness under variable external forcing using contaminant rating curves, Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 7874-7881, doi: 10.1021/es2014874, 2011. [PDF]
Whyte, D.C.* and J.W. Kirchner, Assessing water quality
impacts and cleanup effectiveness in streams dominated by
episodic mercury discharges, Science of the Total
Environment, 260, 1-9, 2000. [PDF]
Mechanics of sediment transport
Schneider, J.M.*, D. Rickenmann, J.M. Turowski, and J.W.
Kirchner, Self-adjustment of stream bed roughness and
flow velocity in a steep mountain channel, Water Resources
Research, in press, doi: 10.1002/2015WR016934. [PDF]
Yager, E.M.,* W.E. Dietrich, J.W. Kirchner, and B.W.
McArdell, Prediction of sediment transport in step-pool
channels, Water Resources Research, 48,
W01541, doi:10.1029/2011WR010829, 2012. [PDF]
Nitsche, M.*, D. Rickenmann, J.M. Turowski, A. Badoux, and J.W. Kirchner, Evaluation
of bedload transport predictions using flow resistance
equations to account for macro-roughness in steep mountain
streams, Water Resources
Research, 47, W08513, doi:10.1029/2011WR010645,
2011. [PDF]
Nelson, P.A., J.G. Venditti, W.E. Dietrich, J.W. Kirchner, H. Ikeda,
F. Iseya, and L.S. Sklar, Response of bed surface
patchiness to reductions in sediment supply, Journal of Geophysical
Research -- Earth Surface, 114, F02005,
doi:10.1029/2008JF001144, 2009. [PDF]
Yager, E.M.,* J.W.
Kirchner, and W.E. Dietrich, Calculating bed load
transport in steep boulder-bed channels, Water Resources Research,
43, W07418,
doi:10.1029/2006WR005432, 2007. [PDF]
Buffington,
J.,
W.E.
Dietrich,
and
J.W. Kirchner, Friction angle measurements on a
naturally-formed gravel streambed: implications for critical
boundary shear stress, Water Resources Research, 28,
411-425, 1992. [PDF 9
MB]
Kirchner, J.W., W.E. Dietrich, F. Iseya, and H. Ikeda, The variability of critical shear stress, friction angle, and grain protrusion in water-worked sediments, Sedimentology, 37, 647-672, 1990. [PDF]
Dietrich, W.E., J.W. Kirchner, H. Ikeda, and F. Iseya, Sediment supply and the development of the coarse surface layer in gravel-bedded rivers, Nature, 340, 215-217, 1989. [PDF]
Seidl, M.A., W.E. Dietrich, and J.W. Kirchner, Longitudinal profile development into bedrock: an analysis of Hawaiian channels, Journal of Geology, 102, 457-474, 1994. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Statistical inevitability of Horton's laws and the apparent randomness of stream channel networks--Reply to Masek and Turcotte, Geology, 22, 380-381, 1994. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Statistical inevitability of Horton's laws and the apparent randomness of stream channel networks--Reply to Troutman and Karlinger,Geology, 22, 574-575, 1994. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Statistical inevitability of Horton's laws and the apparent randomness of stream channel networks, Geology, 21, 591-594, 1993. [PDF]
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Macroevolutionary dynamics inferred from the fossil record
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Kirchner, J.W. and A. Weil, Fossils make waves (News & Views), Nature, 434, 147-148, 2005. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Evolutionary speed limits inferred from
the fossil record, Nature, 415, 65-68, 2002.
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information PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Fractal power spectra plotted upside-down: Comment on 'Scaling of power spectrum of extinction events in the fossil record', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 192, 617-621, 2001. [PDF]
Kirchner,
J.W. and A. Weil, Delayed biological recovery from
extinctions throughout the fossil record, Nature, 404,
177-180, 2000. [PDF]
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information
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Kirchner, J.W. and A. Weil, Correlations in fossil extinctions and originations through geologic time, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B267, 1301-1309, 2000. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W. and A. Weil, No fractals in fossil extinction statistics, Nature, 395, 337-338, 1998. [PDF]
Evolutionary ecology and genetics of host-pathogen interactions
Kirchner, J.W. and B.A. Roy, Evolutionary implications of host-pathogen specificity: Fitness consequences of pathogen virulence traits, Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4, 27-48, 2002. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W. and B.A. Roy, Evolutionary implications of host-pathogen specificity: Fitness consequences of host life history traits, Evolutionary Ecology, 14, 665-692, 2001. [PDF]
Roy, B.A. and J.W. Kirchner, Evolutionary dynamics of pathogen resistance and tolerance, Evolution, 54, 51-63, 2000. [PDF]
Roy, B.A., J.W. Kirchner, C.S. Christian and L.E. Rose, High disease incidence and apparent disease tolerance in a North American Great Basin plant community, Evolutionary Ecology,14, 421-438, 2000. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W. and B.A. Roy, The evolutionary advantages of dying young:epidemiological implications of longevity in metapopulations, The American Naturalist , 154, 140-159, 1999. [PDF]
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A skeptical view of the Gaia Hypothesis
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Kirchner,
J.W., The Gaia Hypothesis: conjectures and refutations, Climatic
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Kirchner, J.W., The Gaia hypothesis: fact, theory, and wishful thinking, Climatic Change, 52, 391-408, 2002. [PDF]
Kirchner, J. W., The Gaia hypotheses: are they testable? Are they useful?, Scientists on Gaia (S.H. Schneider and P.J. Boston, eds.), pp. 38-46, M.I.T. Press, 1991. [PDF] Also reprinted in Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application (L.P. Pojman, ed.), pp. 146-154, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1994.
Kirchner, J.W., Gaia metaphor unfalsifiable (Letter), Nature, 345, 470, 1990. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., The Gaia hypothesis: can it be tested?, Reviews of Geophysics, 27, 223-235, 1989. [PDF]
Nabel, J.E.M.S., J.W. Kirchner, N. Zurbriggen,
F. Kienast, and H. Lieschke, Extrapolation methods for climate
time series revisited – spatial correlations in climatic
fluctuations influence simulated tree species’ abundance and
migration, Ecological Complexity, 20, 315-324,
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Busse, J.W. Kirchner, and A.C. Risch, Do changes in
soil properties after rooting by wild boars (Sus scrofa)
affect understory vegetation in Swiss hardwood forests?, Canadian
Journal of Forest Research, 42, 585–592,
2012. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Aliasing
in 1/f noise
spectra: Origins, consequences, and remedies, Physical Review E, 71, 066110, 2005.
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Balser,
T.C.,
J.W. Kirchner and M.K. Firestone, Methodological
variability in microbial community level physiological profiles,
Soil Science Society of America Journal, 66,
519-523, 2002. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., Diabolical speculations and divine artefacts (Letter), Nature, 337, 498, 1989. [PDF]
Kirchner, J.W., G. Ledec, R.J.A. Goodland, and J.M. Drake, Carrying capacity, population growth, and sustainable development, Rapid Population Growth and Human Carrying Capacity: Two Perspectives (D.J. Mahar, ed.), World Bank Staff Working Paper no. 690, The World Bank, Washington, pp. 41-89, 1985.
Singh, I., L. Squire, and J. Kirchner, Agricultural Pricing and Marketing Policies in an African Context: A Framework for Analysis, World Bank Staff Working Paper no. 743, The World Bank, Washington, 106 pp., 1985.
Kirchner, J.W., Alleviating fuelwood crises in developing countries, M.S. Thesis, Resource Policy Center, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 276 pp., 1982.
Kirchner, J.W., A conceptual framework for system dynamics model evaluation, in Proceedings of the 1981 System Dynamics Research Conference(D. Andersen and J. Morecroft, eds.), State University of New York at Albany, 1981.
Kirchner, H.P. and J.W. Kirchner, Fracture mechanics of fracture mirrors, Journal of the American Ceramics Society, 62, 198-202, 1979.