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Patrick J. Bohlen

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​Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum​
2024 - curr

Director

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

Arboretum

2010-2024​

Professor

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Department of Biology

2010-2022

Director

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Arboretum

2010-2022

Director

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Landscape and Natural Resources

1998-2010

Research Biologist and Director

AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM

Archbold Biological Station

EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy

1989-1993

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Columbus, Ohio

Entomology

Master of Science
1987-1989

MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Oxford, Ohio

Zoology

Bachelor of Science
1979-1993

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Biology

PUBLICATIONS
Publications

Selected from among 120 total publications

​Guo, Y., E. H. Boughton, S. Bohlman, C. Bernacchi, P. J. Bohlen. R. Boughton, E. DeLucia, J. Fauth, N. Gomez-Casanovas, D. G. Jenkins, G. Lollis, R. S. Miller, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, G. Sonnier, J. Sparks, H. Swain, and J. Qui.  2023.  Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems.  Nature Communications 14 Article number: 8267.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44104-2.

 

Skovira, L. and P. J. Bohlen.  2023.  Nutrient status and management intensity of stormwater ponds in different urban land-uses.  Urban Ecosystems 26: 867-879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-023-01335-x.

 

McDonnell, MJ, STA Pickett, P Groffman, P Bohlen, RV Pouyat, WC Zipperer, RW Parmelee, MM Carreiro, J Medley.  1997.  Ecosystem Processes along urban-to-rural gradients.  Urban Ecosystems 1: 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014359024275.

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Lomeu, A., A. Shukla, S. Shukla, G. Kiker, C.-L. Wu, G. S. Hendricks, E. H. Boughton, R. Sishodia, A. C. Guzha, H. M. Swain, P. J. Bohlen, D. G. Jenkins and J. E. Fauth.  2022.  Using biodiversity response for prioritizing participants and service provisions in a payment-for-water-storage program in the Everglades basin. Journal of Hydrology 609: 127618 (15 pp.).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127618.

 

Huber, A. and P. J. Bohlen.  2021.  Hydro-ecological controls on soil carbon storage in subtropical freshwater depressional wetlands. Wetlands 41:66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01453-2.

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Bohlen, PJ, RW Parmelee, DA McCartney and CA Edwards.  1997.  Earthworm effects on the carbon and nitrogen dynamics of surface litter in corn agroecosystems.  Ecological Applications 7:1341-1349.

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Bohlen, PJ, PM Groffman, CT Driscoll, TJ Fahey and TG Siccama.   2001.  Plant-soil-microbial interactions in a northern hardwood forest.  Ecology 82: 965-978.

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Bohlen, PJ, S Scheu, CM Hale, MA McLean, S Migge, PM Groffman and D Parkinson.  2004.  Non-native earthworms as agents of change in northern hardwood forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 427-435. https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0427:NIEAAO]2.0.CO;2

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Bohlen, PJ, PM Groffman, TJ Fahey, MC fisk, E Suarez, DM Pelletier and RT Fahey.  2004.  Ecosystem consequences of exotic earthworm invasion in north temperate forests.  Ecosystems 7:1-12.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-003-0126-z.

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Bohlen, PJ and SM Gathumbi.  2007.  Nitrogen cycling in seasonal wetlands in subtropical cattle pastures.  Soil Science Society of America Journal 71: 1058-1065.  

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Bohlen, PJ, S Lynch, L. Shabman, M Clark, S Shukla and H Swain.  2009.  Paying for ecosystem services on agricultural lands: an example from the Northern Everglades.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 46-55. .  https://doi.org/10.1890/080107. 

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Bohlen, P. J. and G. J. House (eds.).  2009.  Sustainable agroecosystem management: integrating, ecology, economics and society.  CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Advances in Agroecology Series, Boca Raton, FL, 301 pp.

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Bohlen, PJ and R Villapando.  2011. Differential effects of water retention on nutrient runoff from subtropical pastures. Journal of Environmental Quality 40: 989-998 https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2010.0127.. 

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Boughton, E, PJ Bohlen and C Steele.  2013.  Season of fire and nutrient addition differentially affect functional group richness and species cover in subtropical grassland. Biological Conservation 158: 239-247.  

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Fahey, TF, JB Yavitt, RE Sherman, JC Maerz, PM Groffman, MC Fisk and PJ Bohlen.  2013.  Earthworm effects on the incorporation of litter C and N into soil organic matter in a sugar maple forest. Ecological Applications 23: 1185-1201.

 

Boughton, EH, PF Quintana-Ascencio, DG Jenkins, PJ Bohlen, JE Fauth, A Engel, S Shukla, G Kiker, G Hendicks and HM Swain.  2019.  Tradeoffs and synergies in a payment-for-ecosystem services program on ranchlands in the Everglades headwaters.  Ecosphere 10(5): e02728.

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CONTACT ME

Patrick J. Bohlen

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Phone:

407-221-2755

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Email:

patrick.bohlen@wisc.edu

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