Terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, shrublands, croplands and tundra play an important role in mitigating the effects of greenhouse gases by efficiently removing atmospheric carbon. However, climate change mitigation benefits have to be achieved through maintenance, conservation and restoration. This research aims to discover the patterns and scaling laws of ecosystems and formulate models to predict the exchange of carbon.
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Recent Publications
- Lee, J., Yousaf, A., Jenkins, S., *Zaki, M.T., Napier, C., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., and Zinn, Z. (2021). “The positive environmental impact of virtual isotretinoin management.” Pediatric Dermatology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/pde.14600.
- *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2020). “Ecological parameter reductions, environmental regimes, and characteristic process diagram of carbon dioxide fluxes in coastal salt marshes.” Scientific Reports (a NATURE journal), 10:15732, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72066-8.
- Heltzel, R.S., *Zaki, M.T., *Gebreslase, A.K., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., and Johnson, D.R. (2020). “Continuous OTM 33A analysis of controlled releases of methane with various time periods, data rates, and wind filters.” Environments, 7, 65; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments7090065.
- Abdul-Aziz, O.I., *Ishtiaq, K.S., Tang, J., Moseman-Valtierra, S., Kroeger, K.D., Gonneea, M.E., Mora, J., and Morkeski, K. (2018). “Environmental controls, emergent scaling, and predictions of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in coastal salt marshes.” Journal of Geophysical Research : Biogeosciences, 123, 2234–2256. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004556.
- *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2017). “A generalized model of hourly net ecosystem exchange (NEE) for Florida Everglades freshwater wetlands.” Wetlands, doi:10.1007/s13157-017-0928-y.
- Moseman-Valtierra, S., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Tang, J., *Ishtiaq, K.S., Morkeski, K., Mora, J., Quinn, R.K., Martin, R.M., Egan, K., Brannon, E., Carey, J., Kroeger, K.D. (2016). “Carbon dioxide fluxes reflect plant zonation and belowground biomass in a coastal marsh.” Ecosphere, 7(11):e01560. 10.1002/ecs2.1560.
- *Ishtiaq, K.S. and Abdul-Aziz, O.I. (2015). “Relative linkages of canopy-level CO2 fluxes with the climatic and environmental variables for U.S. deciduous forests.” Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-014-0437-1.