Mary Heskel

Past NE CSC Fellow

Consortium Institution: 

Marine Biological Laboratory

Affiliations: 

Ecosystems Center

Education: 

Ph.D.: Ecology and Evolution, Columbia University, New York, NY 2013
M.A.: Science Education, City College of New York, NY, 2008
B. A.: Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MA, 2006

Website: 

http://www.maryheskel.com

Experience: 

Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, 2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University, 2013 to 2014
Postdoctoral Scholar, Marine Biological Laboratory, 2014 to present

Research Interests: 

I am a plant physiological ecologist and my research addresses how environmental change, including long-term warming, seasonal temperature variation, as well as altered nitrogen input and drought, affects leaf-level carbon exchange via photosynthesis and respiration. To do this, I’ve measured plants grown in ongoing global change experiments (B4Warmed in Minnesota and the Arctic LTER in Northern Alaska), as well in intact landscapes. My current research aims to integrate the temperature and light sensitivity of leaf respiration into estimates of net ecosystem exchange at Harvard Forest, in central Massachusetts. 

Recent Publications

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Convergence in the temperature response of leaf respiration across biomes and plant functional types, Heskel, Mary A., O'Sullivan Odhran S., Reich Peter B., Tjoelker Mark G., Weerasinghe Lasantha K., Penillard Aurore, Egerton John J., Creek Danielle, Bloomfield Keith J., Xiang Jen, et al. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 113, Issue 14, (2016)
Seasonality of foliar respiration in two dominant plant species from the Arctic tundra: response to long-term warming and short-term temperature variability, Heskel, Mary A., Bitterman Danielle, Atkin Owen K., Turnbull Matthew H., and Griffin Kevin L. , Functional Plant Biology, 2014, Volume 41, p.287, (2014)
Thermal acclimation of shoot respiration in an Arctic woody plant species subjected to 22 years of warming and altered nutrient supply, Heskel, Mary A., Greaves Heather E., Turnbull Matthew H., O’Sullivan Odhran S., Shaver Gaius R., Griffin Kevin L., and Atkin Owen K. , Global Change Biology, 08/2014, Volume 20, p.2618 - 2630, (2014)
Bringing the Kok effect to light: A review on the integration of daytime respiration and net ecosystem exchange, Heskel, Mary A., Atkin Owen K., Turnbull Matthew H., and Griffin Kevin L. , Ecosphere, 08/2013, Volume 4, p.art98, (2013)
Leaf- and cell-level carbon cycling responses to a nitrogen and phosphorus gradient in two Arctic tundra species, Heskel, Mary A., Anderson O. R., Atkin O. K., Turnbull M. H., and Griffin Kevin L. , American Journal of Botany, 10/2012, Volume 99, p.1702 - 1714, (2012)