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Joseph D Davis

davisEmeritus Professor – Deceased

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1960

Research Interests

Regulation and kinetics of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase. CO2 concentrating mechanisms in aquatic plants and algae. Regulation of inducible C4-like photosynthetic systems. Effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on photosynthesis and growth. Ecophysiology of aquatic plants, especially weed species.

Representative Publications

  • 1978 Fifth International Symposium on Salt. Biological Management in Solar Salt Works, Hamburg, Germany.
  • 1979 Artemia Symposium. Experiences with Artemia at Solar Salt Works., Corpus Cristi, Texas.
  • 1983 Salina biotechnology. Sixth International Symposium on Salt, Toronto.
  • 1984 A new cave alga from Missouri. Biomineralization Conference, Birmingham, England.
  • 1987 American Society of Plant Physiology. Marine macroalgal photosynthesis is carbon limited in seawater. St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 1988 Tenth Southeastern Phycological Colloquy. A new tropical lichen from Missouri.
  • 1990 American Society of Plant Physiologists. Inorganic carbon acquisition in tropical marine macroalgae.
  • 1991 American Society of Plant Physiology. Response of Dunaliella salina grown at high and low CO2 to different sources of nitrogen.
  • 1992 Biological management for a new generation of solar saltworks. Seventh International Symposium on Salt, Kyoto, Japan.
  • 1992 Biological management for existing solar saltworks. Seventh International Symposium on Salt.
  • 1993 A new tropical lichen from Missouri. Sixteenth Southeastern Phycological Colloquy.
  • 1994 Morphology of the lichen Caloplaca cinnabarina from South Africa. Sixteenth Southeastern Phycological Colloquy.
  • 1995 The effects of organic matter in saltworks. Seventeenth Southeastern Phycological Colloquy.
  • 1995 Temporal variations in biomass of the algal epiphytes associated with the dominant submersed macrophytes in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, (U.S.A.)
  • 1996 Algae on University of Florida campus buildings and structures. Eighteenth Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy, Cumana, Venezuela.
  • 1996 Biological Management For The Caribbean Solar Saltworks. Primer Taller Internacional De CultivoY Biotechnologia De Algas Marinas.
  • 1997 Some effects of fire on soil algae in a Florida pine forest. Nineteenth Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy.
  • 1998 Endolithic algae on beach coquina of North Central Florida. Twentieth Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy.
  • 1999 The brine biological system and its management in the seasonal solar saltworks. 6th Conference on Environmental Science and Technology.
  • 2000 Giordano, M ., Mobili, F., Pezzoni, V., Hein, M. K., Davis, J. S. Photosynthesis in the caves of Frassassi (Italy). Phycologia 39:384-389.
  • 2000 Campbell, E. E . and J. S. Davis. Diatoms as indicators of pond condition in solar saltworks. Proc. 8 th World Salt Symposium, Volume 2, R. M. Geertman (Ed.), Elsevier, pp. 855-860.
  • 2000  Davis, J. S. Ten commandments for biological management of solar saltworks. Proc. 8 th World Salt Symposium, volume 2, R. M. Geertman (Ed.), Elsevier, pp. 511-516.
  • 2002  Giordano, M ., Davis, J.S., Mobili, F., Pezzoni, V. Fiat Lux: fotosintesi nelle alghe di Frassassi. Le grotte d’Italia 2:1+4
  • 2002  Davis, J.S. Comments on Coenogonium missouriense, a unique microlichen from a cave in central Missouri. Trans. Missouri Academy of Science 36:63-65.
  • 2002 Davis, J. S. Salt production. In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, pp. 2802-2809, Gabriel Bitton, Editor-In-Chief, Wiley-Interscience, N.Y.
  • 2003  Myers , P. E. and Davis, J. S. Recolonization of soils by algae in a northcentral Florida pine forest after controlled fire and soil sterilization. Nova Hedwigia 76:1-13.
  • 2003 Comments on Coenogonium missouriense, a unique microlichen from a cave in central Missouri. Trans. Missouri Academy of Science 36:63-65.
  • 2005 Magana, Gimer Y.; Lopez, Julio Cesar; Ortiz, Sergio Manuel; Roche, Eduardo; and Joseph Steven Davis. . Recovery of a commercial solar saltworks damaged by a hurricane: role of biological management.  Proc. 9th Internat. Conf. on Environmental Science and Technology. A:903-912.
  • 2006 Cai, T.T., Montague, C.L., and J.S. Davis. The maximum power principle: an empirical investigation. Ecological Modelling 190:317-335.
  • 2006 Davis, J.S. Biological management of solar saltworks with special emphasis on Aphanothece halophytica and Dunaliella salina. Souvenir Volume, International Conference on Salt 2006, pp. 118-119. Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India.