email: psnobel@biology.ucla.edu
phone: 310-206-3903
fax: 310-825-9433
office: Warren Hall 2-3/116
lab: Warren Hall 2-3/115
homepage: http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Nobel
research interests: Plant physiological ecology, especially agaves and cacti
Recent Courses
EE BIOL 128 - Plant Physiological EcologyEE BIOL 146 - Physicochemical Biology
OBEE 265 - Seminar: Biophysical Plant Ecology
Research Interests
Plant physiological ecology and biophysics, with emphasis on desert plants such as agaves and cacti
Selected Publications
Nobel, P.S.. 2009. Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology, 4th edition Academic Press/ElsevierSan Diego, CA 1-582 .
Nobel, P.S. and Zutta, B.R.. 2008. Temperature tolerances for stems and roots of two cultivated cacti, Nopalea cochenillfera and Opuntia robusta: Acclimation, light, and drought Journal of Arid Environments 72: 633-642 .
Nobel, P.S. and B.R. Zutta. 2007. Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations, and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ‘rock live-forever’, growing in small soil samples Journal of Arid Environments 69: 15-28 .
Pimienta-Barrios, E., Castillo-Cruz, I., Zañudo-Hernandez, J., Méndez-Morán, L., and Nobel, P.S.. 2007. Effects of shade, drought, and daughter cladodes on the CO2 uptake by cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica Journal of Arid Environments Annals of Applied Biology 151: 137-144 .
Nobel, P.S. and Zutta, B.R.. 2007. Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations, and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ‘rock live-forever’, growing in small soil samples Functional Ecology 21: 698-704 .
Ben-Asher, J., Nobel, P.S., Yossov, E., Mizrahi, Y.. 2006. Net CO2 uptake rates for Hylocereus undatus and Selenicereus megalanthus under field conditions: Drought influence and a novel method for analyzing temperature dependence Photosynthetica 44: 181-186 .
Nobel, P.S.. 2006. Parenchyma–chlorenchyma water movement during drought for the hemiepiphytic cactus Hylocereus undatus Annals of Botany 97: 469-474 .
Nobel, P.S. and E.G. Bobich. 2002. Environmental Biology Cacti:Biology and Uses, University of California Press Pp. 57-74 .
P. S. Nobel. 1994. Remarkable Agaves and Cacti Cacti:Biology and Uses, University of California Press Oxford University PressNew York 1-166 .
P.S. Nobel. 1988. Environmental Biology of Agaves and Cacti Cacti:Biology and Uses, University of California Press Cambridge University PressNew York 1-270 .