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Environmental Science Faculty

J.C. Randolph
Professor

Ph.D., Carleton University (Canada), 1972

Dr. Randolph is a forest ecologist. He teaches courses in forest ecology, global environmental change, and applications of geographic information systems and remote sensing in natural resources management. His research interests focus upon ecological aspects of global environmental change with particular interests in forestry and agriculture. Other research interests include carbon dynamics of temperate and tropical forests and physiological ecology of woody plants and small mammals. He has had fieldwork experience in Indiana, Tennessee, eastern Canada, eastern Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras.

From 1990-2006 Dr. Randolph served as Director of the Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), sponsored by the Department of Energy. He also is a co-principal investigator of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Randolph has published in a variety of journals including Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Global Change Biology, Climatic Change, Physiological Zoology, Forest Ecology and Management, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal of Forestry and the Journal of Mammalogy. He is a co-editor of a recent book on climate change impacts.

Recent Publications

Castellanos, E.J. and J.C. Randolph. Soil carbon stocks of temperate deciduous forests: influence of microclimatic, edaphic, and biotic factors. Journal of the Soil Science Society of America. (Under review).

Castellanos, E.J. and J.C. Randolph. Carbon, organic matter, and primary nutrients concentrations of the components of secondary temperate deciduous forests. Journal of the Soil Science Society of America. (Under review).

Randolph, J.C., J.L. Ehman, J.J. Johnston, E.J. Castellanos, and C.A. Wayson. Carbon storage and accumulation in above- and below-ground compartments of a secondary temperate deciduous forest. Forest Ecology and Management. (Under review).

Curtis, P.S., P.J. Hanson, P. Bolstad, C. Barford, J.C. Randolph, H.P. Schmid, and K.B. Wilson. 2002. Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of ecosystem carbon storage in five eastern North American deciduous forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113: 3-19.

Davidson, E.A., K. Savage, P. Bolstad, D.A. Clark, P.S. Curtis, D.S. Ellsworth, P.J. Hanson, B.E. Law, Y. Luo, K.S. Pregitzer, J.C. Randolph, and D. Zak. 2002. Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113: 39-51.

Doering, O.C., J.C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and R.A. Pfeifer (eds.). 2002. Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Boston. 267 pp.

Ehman, J.L., H.P. Schmid, J.C. Randolph, C.S.B. Grimmond, P.J. Hanson, C.A. Wayson and F.D. Cropley. 2002. An initial intercomparison of micrometerological and ecological inventory estimates of carbon sequestration in a mid-latitude deciduous forest. Global Change Biology 8: 575-589.

Ehman, J.L., W. Fan, J.C. Randolph, J. Southworth, and N.T. Welch. 2002. An integrated GIS and modeling approach to assess the transient response of forests of the southern Great Lakes region to a doubled CO2 climate. Forest Ecology and Management 155: 237-255.

Southworth, J., R.A. Pfeifer, M. Habeck, J.C. Randolph, O.C. Doering, and D.G. Rao. 2002. The sensitivity of winter wheat yields in the Midwestern United States to future changes in climate, climate variability, and CO2 fertilization. Climate Research 22: 73-86.

Southworth, J., R.A. Pfeifer, M. Habeck, J.C. Randolph, O.C. Doering, J.J. Johnston, and D.G. Rao. 2002. Changes in soybean yields in the Midwestern United States as a result of future changes in climate, climate variability, and CO2 fertilization. Climatic Change 53: 447-475.

Randolph, J.C. and G.N. Cameron. 2001. Consequences of diet choices by a small generalist herbivore. Ecological Monographs 71: 117-136.

Ehman, J.L., H.P. Schmid, C.S.B. Grimmond, J.C. Randolph, P.J. Hanson, and F.D. Cropley. 2000. A preliminary intercomparison of micrometeorological and ecological estimates of carbon sequestration in a mid-latitude deciduous forest. Pp. 235-240 in R.J. deDear, J.D. Kalma, T.R. Oke, and A. Auliciems (eds.). Biometeorology and Urban Climatology at the Turn of the Millennium. World Meteorological Organization.

Moran, E.F., E. Ostrom, and J.C. Randolph. 2000. Ecological Systems and Multi-tier Human Organization. In UNESCO-Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK.

Southworth, J., J.C. Randolph, M.A. Habeck, O.C. Doering, R.A. Pfeifer, D.G. Rao, and J.J. Johnston. 2000. Consequences of future climate change and changing climate variability on maize yields in the Midwestern United States. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 82: 139-158.

Fan, W., J.C. Randolph, and J.L. Ehman. 1998. Regional estimation of nitrogen mineralization in forest ecosystems using geographic information systems. Ecological Applications 8: 734-747.

Randolph, J.C., M.A. McKinney, C. Allen, and J.D. Peine. 1998. The Southern Appalachians: The Setting for the Case Study. Ch. 4 in Ecosystem Management for Sustainability (J.D. Peine, ed.). Lewis Publishing.

Doering, O.C., J.C. Randolph, M.A. Mazzocco, and others. 1997. Mitigation strategies and unforeseen consequences: a systematic assessment of the adaptation of upper Midwest agriculture to future climate change. World Resource Review 9: 447-459.

Johnston, J.J., D.R. Weigel, and J.C. Randolph. 1997. Satellite imagery as a tool for pine plantation management in the Central Hardwoods region. Journal of Forestry 95: 16-20.

Randolph, J. C. and N. Dolsak. 1997. Will strategies for reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions from electric utilities increase carbon dioxide emissions? World Resource Review 9: 337-358.

Peine, J.D., J.C. Randolph, and J.J. Presswood, Jr. 1995. Evaluating the effectiveness of air quality management within the class I area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Environmental Management 19: 515-526.

Randolph, J.C. and J.K. Lee. 1994. Effects of climate change on forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. Geocarto International 9: 15-30.

Van Kley, J.E., G.R. Parker, D.P. Franzmeier, and J.C. Randolph. 1994. Field guide: Ecological classification of the Hoosier National Forest and surrounding areas of Indiana. U.S.D.A. Forest Service. 89 pp.