Meet the Forestry Faculty

Shibu Jose, Ph.D.

H.E. Garrett Endowed Professor and
Director of The Center for Agroforestry
Center for Agroforestry
Editor-In-Chief, Agroforestry Systems

Phone: 573-882-0240
Fax: 573-882-1977
E-mail: joses@missouri.edu
Address: 203 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building
Website: Agroforestry Faculty Page

Education

Ph.D. 1997, Purdue University

Research

Ecological sustainability, agroforestry

Research Summary

Jose's research has the overarching goal of identifying and quantifying key ecological processes and interactions that define ecological sustainability. He examines how resource availability (light, water, nutrients, carbon) and disturbances (e.g. management interventions, fire, exotic invasions) influence ecosystem structure and function in agroforests, natural forests and plantation forests. He uses the ecological information in designing agroforestry systems and restoring degraded and damaged ecosystems. Over the past 20 years, Jose and his research team have conducted studies in the U.S., Australia, Costa Rica, Belize, Bangladesh and India.

Selected Publications

Jose, S. 2011. Managing native and non-native plant species in agroforestry. Agroforestry Systems 83: 101-105
Tamang, B., Andreu, M.G., Staudhammer, C.L., Rockwood, D.L., and Jose, S. 2011. Towards an empirical relationship between root length density and root number in windbreak-grown cadaghi (Corymbia torelliana) trees. Plant Root 5:40-45
Celis, G.* and Jose, S. 2011. Restoring abandoned pastures with native trees in Costa Rica: Interactive effects of light and competition from exotic grasses. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1598-1604
Stehn, S., Webster, C., Jenkins, M.A., and Jose, S. 2011. High-elevation ground-layer plant community composition across environmental gradients in spruce-fir forests. Ecological Research 26:1089-1101
Hall, J.S., Garen, E. Ashton, M. and Jose, S. 2011. The ecology and ecosystem services of native trees: Implications for reforestation and land restoration in Mesoamerica. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1553-1557
Holzmueller, E.J.*, and Jose, S. 2011. Invasion success of cogongrass, an alien C4 perennial grass, in the southeastern United States: Exploration of the ecological basis. Biological Invasions 13: 435-442
Shields, J.*, Jose, S., Bunyan, M.*, Freeman, J.E.*, Celis, G., Hagan, D.*, Morgan, M.*, Zak, J.* 2011. Impact of laurel wilt on redbay (Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.) in a mixed evergreen-deciduous forest in northern Florida. Journal of Forestry 109: 82-88
Hagan D.*, and Jose, S. 2011. Interspecific competition enhances nitrogen fixation in an actinorhizal shrub. Plant Ecology 212:63–68
Holzmueller, E.J.*, and Jose, S. 2010. Response of Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica) to imazapyr herbicides on a reclaimed phosphate-mine site in central Florida, USA. Ecological Restoration 28:300-303
Holzmueller, E.J.*, Jose, S. , and Jenkins, M.A. 2010. Ecological consequences of an exotic fungal disease in eastern U.S. hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 1347-1353
Henderson D.E.* and Jose, S. 2010. Biomass production potential of three short rotation woody crop species under varying nitrogen and water availability. Agroforestry Systems 80:259-273
Hagan D.*, Jose S. , Thetford, M., and Bohn, K. 2010. Partitioning of applied 15N fertilizer in a longleaf pine and native woody ornamental intercropping system. Agroforestry Systems 79: 47-57
Jose, S., Ranasinghe, S.*, and Ramsey C.L.* 2010. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris P. Mill.) restoration using herbicides: Overstory and understory vegetation responses on a Coastal Plain flatwoods site in Florida, USA. Restoration Ecology 18:244-251
Daneshgar, P.* and Jose, S. 2009. Broomsedge communities are resistant to invasion by cogongrass. Ecological Restoration 27:383-385
Jose, S., and Holzmueller, E.* 2009. Alien plant invasions: A critical review of underlying mechanisms and processes. Journal of Tropical Agriculture 47:18-29 (invited review article)
Holzmueller, E.J.*, Jose, S. , and Jenkins, M.A. 2009. The response of understory species composition, diversity, and seedling regeneration to repeated burning in southern Appalachian oak-hickory forests. Natural Areas Journal 29:255-262.
Daneshgar, P.* and Jose, S. 2009. Imperata cylindrica, an alien invasive grass maintains control over N availability in an establishing pine forest. Plant and Soil 320:209-218
Hagan D.*, Jose S. , Thetford, M., and Bohn, K. 2009. Production physiology of three native shrubs interplanted in a young longleaf pine plantation. Agroforestry Systems 76: 283-294
Zamora, D.*, Jose, S., Jones, J.W., and Cropper, W.P. 2009. Modeling cotton production in a pecan alleycropping system using CROPGRO. Agroforestry Systems 76:423-435
Daneshgar, P.* and Jose, S. 2009. Role of species identity in plant invasions. Experimental test using Imperata cylindrica. Biological Invasions 11:1431-1440
Kelly, J.*, Jose, S., Nichols, J.D., and Bristow, M. 2009. Growth and physiological response of six Australian rainforest tree species to a light gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 257:287-293
Freeman, J.* and Jose, S. 2009. From Pinus elliottii plantation to Pinus palustris ecosystem: the role of herbicides in longleaf pine flatwoods restoration. Forest Ecology and Management 257:978-986
Jose, S. 2009. Agroforestry for ecosystem services and environmental benefits: An overview. Agroforestry Systems 76:1-10
Zamora, D.*, Jose, S., and Napolitano, K.* 2009. Competition for 15N labeled nitrogen in a loblolly pine-cotton alleycropping system in the southern United States. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 131:40-50
Jose, S. (ed.). 2009. Agroforestry for Ecosystem Services and Environmental Benefits. Springer Science, The Netherlands. 266p.
Jose, S. (ed.). 2009. Agroforestry for Commodity Production: Ecological and Social Dimensions. Springer Science, The Netherlands. 250p.
Jose, S., and Gordon, A.M. (eds.). 2008. Toward Agroforestry Design: An Ecological Approach. Springer Science, The Netherlands. 312p.
Batish, D., Kohli, R., Jose, S., and Singh. H. (eds.) 2007. Ecological Basis of Agroforestry. CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL . 382p.
Daneshgar, P.* and Jose, S. 2009. Imperata cylindrica, an alien invasive grass maintains control over N availability in an establishing pine forest. Plant and Soil 320:209-218
Hagan D.*, Jose S. , Thetford, M., and Bohn, K. 2009. Production physiology of three native shrubs interplanted in a young longleaf pine plantation. Agroforestry Systems 76: 283-294
Zamora, D.*, Jose, S., Jones, J.W., and Cropper, W.P. 2009. Modeling cotton production in a pecan alleycropping system using CROPGRO. Agroforestry Systems 76:423-435
Kelly, J.*, Jose, S., Nichols, J.D., and Bristow, M. 2009. Growth and physiological response of six Australian rainforest tree species to a light gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 257:287-293
Jose, S. 2009. Agroforestry for ecosystem services and environmental benefits: An overview. Agroforestry Systems 76:1-10
Zamora, D.*, Jose, S., and Napolitano, K.* 2009. Competition for 15N labeled nitrogen in a loblolly pine-cotton alleycropping system in the southern United States. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 131:40-50

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