Kate Lajtha

Professor, Biogeochemistry
lajthak [at] science.oregonstate.edu

Agricultural & Life Sciences

Agricultural & Life Sciences 3059

2750 SW Campus Way

2750 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

Nutrient cycling in natural and human-disturbed ecosystems, including the attenuation of increased nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems by soils and vegetation, detrital controls on soil organic matter formation

Curriculum Vitae: 
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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Crop and Soil Science
Career Links: 
Department of Crop and Soil Science
Director, Sustainability Double-Degree Program
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for the Crop and Soil Science Department
Courses Taught: 
  • BI 306H, Environmental Ecology.  WIC Honors College course.
  • SUS 102, Introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability
My Publications
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2015

Journal Article

M. L. Mobley, Lajtha, K., Kramer, M. G., Bacon, A. R., Heine, P. R., and Richter, D. Deb, “Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development”, Global Change Biology, vol. 21, pp. 986–996, 2015.

2013

Journal Article

S. Yarwood, Brewer, E., Yarwood, R., Lajtha, K., and Myrold, D. D., “Soil Microbe Active Community Composition and Capability of Responding to Litter Addition after 12 Years of No Inputs”, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 1385 - 1392, 2013.

2012

Journal Article

P. - J. Hatton, Kleber, M., Zeller, B., Moni, C., Plante, A. F., Townsend, K., Gelhaye, L., Lajtha, K., and Derrien, D., “Transfer of litter-derived N to soil mineral–organic associations: Evidence from decadal 15N tracer experiments”, Organic Geochemistry, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1489 - 1501, 2012.

2009

Journal Article

M. G. Kramer, Lajtha, K., Thomas, G., and SOLLINS, P. H. I. L. L. I. P., “Contamination effects on soil density fractions from high N or C content sodium polytungstate”, Biogeochemistry, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 177 - 181, 2009.
M. A. Cairns, Lajtha, K., and Beedlow, P. A., “Dissolved carbon and nitrogen losses from forests of the Oregon Cascades over a successional gradient”, Plant and Soil, vol. 3, no. 1-2, pp. 185 - 196, 2009.
S. U. S. A. N. E. CROW, Lajtha, K., Bowden, R. D., Yano, Y., Brant, J. B., Caldwell, B. A., and Sulzman, E. W., “Increased coniferous needle inputs accelerate decomposition of soil carbon in an old-growth forest”, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 258, no. 10, pp. 2224 - 2232, 2009.
P. H. I. L. L. I. P. SOLLINS, Kramer, M. G., SWANSTON, C. H. R. I. S. T. O. P. H. E. R., Lajtha, K., FILLEY, T. I. M. O. T. H. Y. R., Aufdenkampe, A. K., Wagai, R., and Bowden, R. D., “Sequential density fractionation across soils of contrasting mineralogy: evidence for both microbial- and mineral-controlled soil organic matter stabilization”, Biogeochemistry, vol. 9, no. 1-3, pp. 209 - 231, 2009.
S. U. S. A. N. E. CROW, Lajtha, K., FILLEY, T. I. M. O. T. H. Y. R., SWANSTON, C. H. R. I. S. T. O. P. H. E. R. W., Bowden, R. D., and Caldwell, B. A., “Sources of plant-derived carbon and stability of organic matter in soil: implications for global change”, Global Change Biology, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2003 - 2019, 2009.

2006

Journal Article

P. H. I. L. L. I. P. SOLLINS, SWANSTON, C. H. R. I. S. T. O. P. H. E. R., Kleber, M., FILLEY, T. I. M. O. T. H. Y. R., KRAMER, M. A. R. C., Crow, S., Caldwell, B. A., Lajtha, K., and Bowden, R., “Organic C and N stabilization in a forest soil: Evidence from sequential density fractionation”, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 3313 - 3324, 2006.