Jason Kaye

Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology; Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry

Jason Kaye

Research Summary

Ecosystem ecology; global change biology; biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon cycling in managed and unmanaged ecosystems.

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Publication Tags

Soil Nitrogen Carbon Cover Crops Biomass Soils Enzyme Activity Temperature Ecosystem Seed Mixtures Cover Crop Shale Climate Enzymes Ecosystem Services Soil Water Spatial Distribution Minerals Spatial Variation Community Structure Bedrock Regolith Weathering Water Zea Mays

Most Recent Papers

Fungal community shifts in soils with varied cover crop treatments and edaphic properties

Mara L. Cloutier, Ebony Murrell, Mary Barbercheck, Jason Kaye, Denise Finney, Irene García-González, Mary Ann Bruns, 2020, Scientific Reports

COSORE

Ben Bond-Lamberty, Danielle S. Christianson, Avni Malhotra, Stephanie C. Pennington, Debjani Sihi, Amir AghaKouchak, Hassan Anjileli, M. Altaf Arain, Juan J. Armesto, Samaneh Ashraf, Mioko Ataka, Dennis Baldocchi, Thomas Andrew Black, Nina Buchmann, Mariah S. Carbone, Shih Chieh Chang, Patrick Crill, Peter S. Curtis, Eric A. Davidson, Ankur R. Desai, John E. Drake, Tarek S. El-Madany, Michael Gavazzi, Carolyn Monika Görres, Christopher M. Gough, Michael Goulden, Jillian Gregg, Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Jin Sheng He, Takashi Hirano, Anya Hopple, Holly Hughes, Järvi Järveoja, Rachhpal Jassal, Jinshi Jian, Haiming Kan, Jason Kaye, Yuji Kominami, Naishen Liang, David Lipson, Catriona A. Macdonald, Kadmiel Maseyk, Kayla Mathes, Marguerite Mauritz, Melanie A. Mayes, Steve McNulty, Guofang Miao, Mirco Migliavacca, Scott Miller, Chelcy F. Miniat, Jennifer G. Nietz, Mats B. Nilsson, Asko Noormets, Hamidreza Norouzi, Christine S. O’Connell, Bruce Osborne, Cecilio Oyonarte, Zhuo Pang, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Jorge F. Perez-Quezada, Claire L. Phillips, Richard P. Phillips, James W. Raich, Alexandre A. Renchon, Nadine K. Ruehr, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, Matthew Saunders, Kathleen E. Savage, Marion Schrumpf, Russell L. Scott, Ulli Seibt, Whendee L. Silver, Wu Sun, Daphne Szutu, Kentaro Takagi, Masahiro Takagi, Munemasa Teramoto, Mark G. Tjoelker, Susan Trumbore, Masahito Ueyama, Rodrigo Vargas, Ruth K. Varner, Joseph Verfaillie, Christoph Vogel, Jinsong Wang, Greg Winston, Tana E. Wood, Juying Wu, Thomas Wutzler, Jiye Zeng, Tianshan Zha, Quan Zhang, Junliang Zou, 2020, Global Change Biology on p. 7268-7283

Continental-scale patterns of extracellular enzyme activity in the subsoil

Nicholas C. Dove, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Chelsea J. Carey, Caitlin Cisco, Jared L. Deforest, Dawson Fairbanks, Noah Fierer, Rachel E. Gallery, Jason P. Kaye, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Wendy H. Yang, Stephen C. Hart, Emma L. Aronson, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Cover crop mixture expression is influenced by nitrogen availability and growing degree days

Barbara Baraibar, Ebony G. Murrell, Brosi A. Bradley, Mary E. Barbercheck, David A. Mortensen, Jason P. Kaye, Charles M. White, 2020, PLoS One

Root traits of cover crops and carbon inputs in an organic grain rotation

Joseph P. Amsili, Jason P. Kaye, 2020, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Observing and Simulating Spatial Variations of Forest Carbon Stocks in Complex Terrain

Yuting H. Smeglin, Kenneth J. Davis, Yuning Shi, David M. Eissenstat, Jason P. Kaye, Margot W. Kaye, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Drill and broadcast establishment methods influence interseeded cover crop performance in organic corn

John M. Wallace, Sarah Isbell, Ron Hoover, Mary Barbercheck, Jason Kaye, William Curran, 2020, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Ideas and perspectives

Jason Philip Kaye, Susan L. Brantley, Jennifer Zan Williams, 2019, Biogeosciences on p. 4661-4669

Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons

Tess E. Brewer, Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O'Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer, 2019, mBio

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

Wei Zhi, Li Li, Wenming Dong, Wendy Brown, Jason Kaye, Carl Steefel, Kenneth H. Williams, 2019, Water Resources Research on p. 4233-4251

Most-Cited Papers

An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research

Scott L. Collins, Stephen R. Carpenter, Scott M. Swinton, Daniel E. Orenstein, Daniel L. Childers, Ted L. Gragson, Nancy B. Grimm, Grove J. Morgan, Sharon L. Harlan, Jason P. Kaye, Alan K. Knapp, Gary P. Kofinas, John J. Magnuson, William H. McDowell, John M. Melack, Laura A. Ogden, Robertson G. Philip, Melinda D. Smith, Ali C. Whitmer, 2011, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on p. 351-357

A framework for evaluating ecosystem services provided by cover crops in agroecosystems

Meagan E. Schipanski, Mary Barbercheck, Margaret R. Douglas, Denise M. Finney, Kristin Haider, Jason P. Kaye, Armen R. Kemanian, David A. Mortensen, Matthew R. Ryan, John Tooker, Charlie White, 2014, Agricultural Systems on p. 12-22

Biomass production and carbon/nitrogen ratio influence ecosystem services from cover crop mixtures

Denise M. Finney, Charles Macaulay White, Jason Philip Kaye, 2016, Agronomy Journal on p. 39-52

Managing the trade off between nitrogen supply and retention with cover crop mixtures

Charles M. White, S. Tianna DuPont, Mena Hautau, Dave Hartman, Denise M. Finney, Brosi Bradley, James C. LaChance, Jason P. Kaye, 2017, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment on p. 121-133

Functional diversity in cover crop polycultures increases multifunctionality of an agricultural system

Denise M. Finney, Jason P. Kaye, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology on p. 509-517

Increased temperature and precipitation had limited effects on soil extracellular enzyme activities in a post-harvest forest

M. D. McDaniel, Jason Philip Kaye, Margot Wilkinson Kaye, 2013, Soil Biology and Biochemistry on p. 90-98

Linking carbon saturation concepts to nitrogen saturation and retention

Michael J. Castellano, Jason P. Kaye, Henry Lin, John P. Schmidt, 2012, Ecosystems on p. 175-187

Living cover crops have immediate impacts on soil microbial community structure and function

D. M. Finney, J. S. Buyer, J. P. Kaye, 2017, Journal of Soils and Water Conservation on p. 361-373

Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert

Sharon J. Hall, Ryan A. Sponseller, Nancy B. Grimm, David Huber, Jason P. Kaye, Christopher Clark, Scott L. Collins, 2011, Ecological Applications on p. 640-660

Weathering of rock to regolith: the activity of deep roots in bedrock fractures

Elizabeth A. Hasenmueller, Xin Gu, Julie N. Weitzman, Thomas S. Adams, Gary E. Stinchcomb, David M. Eissenstat, Patrick J. Drohan, Susan L. Brantley, Jason P. Kaye, 2017, Geoderma on p. 11-31

News Articles Featuring Jason Kaye

Sep 24, 2020

Team wins grant to develop nitrogen fertilizer decision tool for organic farmers

Penn State researchers have received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to perfect a tool they developed to help organic corn producers decide how much nitrogen — as fertilizer or manure — to apply to their crop fields.

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Aug 12, 2020

Cover crop roots are key to understanding ecosystem services

To judge the overall effectiveness of cover crops and choose those offering the most ecosystem services, agricultural scientists must consider the plants’ roots as well as above-ground biomass, according to Penn State researchers who tested the characteristics of cover crop roots in three monocultures and one mixture.

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Jun 22, 2020

Victoria Braithwaite to be memorialized with new ecology research award

Penn State's ecology community will memorialize beloved faculty member Victoria Braithwaite with new research excellence award named in her honor

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Jun 05, 2020

The Penn State Ecology Community is Committed to Combatting Racism and Injustice

The leadership of the Penn State Ecology community wishes to express solidarity with marginalized members of our society, and has prepared the following statement of support to all those who struggle against systemic injustices. We can and must do better.

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Jul 16, 2019

Microbiome Center graduate students awarded NIFA fellowships

Sarah Isbell and Mara Cloutier, both Penn State graduate students and Microbiome Center researchers, will be supported in their studies by fellowships paid for by the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Apr 29, 2019

'Right' Cover-Crop Mix Good for Both Chesapeake and Bottom Lines

Planting and growing a strategic mix of cover crops not only reduces the loss of nitrogen from farm fields, protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, but the practice also contributes nitrogen to subsequent cash crops, improving yields, according to researchers.

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