Todd Z. Osborne

Assistant Research Professor
Biogeochemistry

Wetland Biogeochemistry Laboratory

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH AREAS
Soil Quality/Ecosystem Services
Soil/Landscape Analysis
Wetlands and Aquatic Systems

RESEARCH FOCUS
Biogeochemical cycling of organic carbon and other nutrients in wetland soils and aquatic ecosystems; role of organic matter as driver and modulator of wetland ecosystem functions; role of aquatic vegetation in DOM/POM/nutrient dynamics, soil accretion; fire ecology of wetlands and impacts to biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem responses, soil subsidence; coastal processes with respect to seagrass and mangrove productivity and organic matter cycling, sub-aqueous soil pedogenisis; soil biogeochemical processes associated with coastal forest retreat and development of salt marsh ecosystems; wetland soils as natural water quality treatment systems.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Osborne,T.Z., Chapman,L., Chapman,C., Crisman,T., Prenger,J. (2001) Invertebrate Community Structure and Oxygen Availability in an Intermittent Stream / Wetland System of the Ugandan Highlands. Arch. Fur Hydrobiologia Stutgart.

Corstanje, R., S. Grunwald, K.R. Reddy, T.Z. Osborne and S. Newman (2006). Assessment of the spatial distribution of soil properties in a northern Everglades marsh. Journal of Environmental Quality 35(3) 938-949.

Bruland, G.L., S. Grunwald, Todd Z. Osborne, K. R. Reddy, and S. Newman (2006). Spatial Distribution of Soil Properties in Water Conservation Area 3 of the Everglades. Soil Science Society of America Journal 70(5) 1662-1676.

Bruland, G.L., T.Z. Osborne, K.R. Reddy, S. Grunwald, S. Newman, and W.F. DeBusk. Recent changes in soil total phosphorus in the Everglades: Water Conservation Area 3. Journal of Environmental Quality. In press.

Osborne, T,Z., P.W. Inglett, and K.R. Reddy. Linkages between Dissolved Organic Matter and Vegetation in the Everglades, Florida. Aquatic Botany. In press.

Crisman, T.L., L.J. Chapman, T.Z. Osborne. The role of the fingernail clam Spaerium stahlmanni in organic carbon cycling in a tropical African wetland. Wetlands. In press.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Soil and Water Science Department, 106 Newell Hall, PO Box 110510, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
(352) 392.1803 x 344, (352) 392.3399 fax
email: osbornet@ufl.edu
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