CHRISTOPHER NEILL
Associate Scientist
Tel: 508-289-7481 | Fax: 508-457-1548 | E-mail: cneill@mbl.edu
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst 1992
M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst 1988
B.S. Cornell University 1980
Recent Publications:
In press. Neill, C., L. A. Deegan, C. L. Haupert, M. V. R. Ballester, A. V. Krusche, R. L. Victoria, S. M. Thomas and E. de Moor. Amazon deforestation alters small stream structure, nitrogen biogeochemistry and connectivity to larger rivers. Biogeochemistry.
In press. Ballester, M. V. R., R. L. Victoria, A. V. Krusche, M. Bernardes, C. Neill, L. A. Deegan and J. E. Richey. Physical and human controls on the carbon composition of organic matter in tropical rivers: An integrated analysis of landscape properties and river isotopic composition. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
In press. Deegan, L. A., C. Neill, R. L. Victoria, A. V. Krusche, M. V. R. Ballester, S. Thomas, and C. Haupert. Using whole stream 15N additions to streams understand the effects of land use change on stream function. Application of isotope techniques for water quality assessment and management, focusing on nutrient management, in rivers. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
2010. Cleveland, C. C., B. Z. Houlton, C. Neill, S. C. Reed, A. R. Townsend and Y. Wang. Using indirect methods to constrain symbiotic nitrogen fixation rates: A case study from an Amazonian rain forest. Biogeochemistry 99:1–13.
2010. Germer, S, C. Neill, A. V. Krusche and H. Elsenbeer. Influence of land-use change on near-surface hydrological processes: Undisturbed forest to pasture. Journal of Hydrology 380:473-480.
2009. Neill, C., M. O. Bezerra, R. McHorney and C. B. O’Dea. Distribution, species composition and management implications of seed banks in southern New England coastal plain ponds. Biological Conservation 142:1350-1361.
2009. Chaves, J., C. Neill, S. Germer, S. Gouveia Neto, A. V. Krusche, A. Castellanos Bonilla and H. Elsenbeer. Nitrogen transformations in flowpaths leading from soils to streams in Amazon forest and pasture. Ecosystems 12: 961-972.
2009. Kniffin, M., C. Neill, R. M. McHorney and G. Gregory. Nutrient limitation of periphyton and phytoplankton in Cape Cod coastal plain ponds. Northeastern Naturalist 16:395-408.
2009. Germer, S., C. Neill. T. Vetter, J. Chaves, A. V. Krusche and H. Elsenbeer. Implications of long-term land-use change on the hydrology and solute budgets of small catchments in Rondônia (Brazil). Journal of Hydrology 364: 349-363. doi:10.1016/jhuydrol.2008.11.013.
2009. Tomasella, J., C. Neill, R. Figueiredo and A. D. Nobre. Water and chemical budgets at the catchment scale including nutrient exports from intact forests and disturbed landscapes in M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash and P. S. Dia, eds. Amazonia and Global Change, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 186, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. 576 pp.
2008. Zimmermann, A., S. Germer, C. Neill., A. V. Krusche, J. Chaves and H. Elsenbeer. Spatio–temporal patterns of throughfall water and solute deposition in an open tropical rain forest, south–western Amazonia, Brazil. Journal of Hydrology 360: 87-102, doi: 10.1016/j.hydrol.2008.07.028.
2008. Davidson, E. A., G. P. Asner, T. Stone, C. Neill and R. O. Figueiredo. Objective indicators of pasture degradation from spectral mixture analysis of Landsat imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: G00B03, doi:10.1029/2007JG000622.
2008. Chaves, J., C. Neill, H. Elsenbeer, A. Krusche, S. Germer and S. Gouveia Neto. Land management impacts on runoff sources in small Amazon watersheds. Hydrological Processes 22: 1766-1775.
2007. Germer, S., C. Neill, A. V. Krusche, S. Gouveia Neto and H. Elsenbeer. Seasonal and within-event dynamics of rainfall and throughfall chemistry in an open tropical rainforest in Rondônia, Brazil. Biogeochemistry 86: 155-174.
2007. Neill, C., W. A. Patterson, III and David W. Crary, Jr. Responses of soil carbon, nitrogen and cations to the frequency and seasonality of prescribed burning in a Cape Cod oak-pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 250: 234-243.
2007. McHorney, R. M. and C. Neill. Alteration of water levels in a Massachusetts coastal plain pond subject to municipal ground water withdrawals. Wetlands 27:366-380.
2007. Neill, C. The challenge of managing disturbance regimes, terrestrial communities and rare species in a suburbanizing region: the Northeastern U.S. coastal sandplain. Biological Conservation 136: 1-3.
2007. Neill, C., B. Von Holle, K. Kleese, K. R. Ivy, A. R. Collins, C. Treat and M. Dean. Historical influences on the vegetation and soils of the Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts coastal sandplain: Implications for conservation and restoration. Biological Conservation 136: 17-32.
2007. Piccolo, M. C. and C. Neill. Mineralização e nitrificação do nitrogênio do solo sob floresta e pastagem na amazônia brasileira. Pages 581-634 in T Yamada, S. R. Stipp and A. G. C. Vitte (eds), Nitrogênio e enxofre na agricultura Brasileira. International Plant Nutrition Institute, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
