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Marcy Litvak

Marcy Litvak

Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

mlitvak@unm.edu

505-277-5580

Department of Biology
University of New Mexico
MSC03 2020
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Titles

  • Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Biography

Marcy is a Professor in the Biology Department of University of New Mexico.  She received her B.A. with honors in 1989 from Colorado College, and her Ph.D. in Plant Physiological Ecology in 1998 from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Her research focus is on understanding how ecosystem processes vary across ecological gradients in semi-arid biomes.  She is particularly interested in quantifying how climate and disturbance alter carbon, water and energy dynamics in the Southwestern U.S.    

Education

  • PhD, Plant Physiological Ecology, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1998
  • BA (with honors), Biology, Colorado College, 1989

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Journal Articles

2021

Hou, E., M. E. Litvak, J. A. Rudgers, L. Jiang, S. L. Collins, W. T. Pockman, D. Hui, S. Niu and Y. Luo. 2021. Divergent responses of primary production to increasing precipitation variability in global drylands. Global Change Biology 27(20):5225-5237. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15801. (link )

Hou, E., J. A. Rudgers, S. L. Collins, M. E. Litvak, C. S. White, D. I. Moore and Y. Luo. 2021. Sensitivity of soil organic matter to climate and fire in a desert grassland. Biogeochemistry 156:59-74. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-020-00713-3. (link )

Zinnert, J. C., J. B. Nippert, J. A. Rudgers, S. C. Pennings, G. Gonzalez, M. Alber, S. G. Baer, J. M. Blair, A. Burd, S. L. Collins, C. Craft, D. Di Iorio, W. K. Dodds, P. M. Groffman, E. Herbert, C. Hladik, F. Li, M. E. Litvak, S. Newsome, J. O'Donnell, W. T. Pockman, J. Schalles and D. R. Young. 2021. State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere 12(5):e03433. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3433. (link )

2019

Remy, C. C., D. J. Krofcheck, A. R. Keyser, M. E. Litvak, S. L. Collins and M. D. Hurteau. 2019. Integrating species-specific informatin in models improves regional projections under climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 48(12):6554-6562. DOI: 10.1029/2019GL082762. (link )

2018

Biederman, J. E., R. L. Scott, J. A. Arnone III, R. L. Jasoni, M. E. Litvak, M. T. Moreo, S. A. Papuga, G. Ponce-Campos, A. P. Schreiner-McGraw and E. R. Vivoni. 2018. Shrubland carbon sink depends upon winter water availability in the warm deserts of North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 249(Feb):407-419. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.005. (link )

Biederman, J. E., R. L. Scott, J. A. Arnone III, R. L. Jasoni, M. E. Litvak, M. T. Moreo, S. A. Papuga, G. Ponce-Campos, A. P. Schreiner-McGraw and E. R. Vivoni. 2018. Shrubland carbon sink depends upon winter water availability in the warm deserts of North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 249:407-419. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.005. (link )

Dettweiler-Robinson, E., M. Nuanez and M. E. Litvak. 2018. Biocrust contribution to ecosystem carbon fluxes varies along an elevational gradient. Ecosphere 9(8):e02315. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2315. (link )

Huang, C., J. Domec, S. Palmroth, W. T. Pockman, M. E. Litvak and G. G. Katul. 2018. Transport in a coordinated soil-root-xylem-phloem leaf system. Advances in Water Resources 119:1-16. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.06.002. (link )

Knowles, J. F., N. P. Molotch, E. Trujilo and M. E. Litvak. 2018. Snowmelt‐driven trade‐offs between early and late season productivity negatively impact forest carbon uptake during drought. Geophysical Research Letters 45(7):3087-3096. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076504. (link )

Rudgers, J. A., Y. A. Chung, G. E. Maurer, D. I. Moore, E. H. Muldavin, M. E. Litvak and S. L. Collins. 2018. Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology 99(3):576-582. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2136. (link )

Smith, W. K., J. A. Biederman, R. L. Scott, D. P. Moore, M. He, J. S. Kimball, D. Yan, A. Hudson, M. L. Barnes, N. MacBean, A. M. Fox and M. E. Litvak. 2018. Chlorophyll fluorescence better captures seasonal and interannual gross primary productivity dynamics across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. Geophysical Research Letters 45(2):748-757. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075922. (link )

Truettner, C., W. R. Anderegg, F. Biondi, G. W. Koch, K. Ogle, C. Schwalm, M. E. Litvak, J. D. Shaw and E. Ziaco. 2018. Conifer radial growth response to recent seasonal warming and drought from the southwestern USA. Forest Ecology and Management 418:55-62. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044. (link )

2017

Biederman, J. A., R. L. Scott, T. W. Bell, D. R. Bowling, S. Dore, J. Garatuza-Payan, T. E. Kolb, P. Krishnan, D. J. Krofcheck, M. E. Litvak, G. E. Maurer, T. P. Meyers, W. C. Oechel, S. A. Papuga, G. E. Ponce-Campos, J. C. Rodriguez, W. K. Smith, R. Vargas, C. J. Watts, E. A. Yepez and M. L. Goulden. 2017. CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. Global Change Biology 23(10):4204-4221. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13686 . (link )

Brewer, W. L., C. L. Lippitt, C. D. Lippitt and M. E. Litvak. 2017. Assessing drought-induced change in a piñon-juniper woodland with Landsat: A multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing 38(14):4156-4176. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1317940. (link )

Morillas, L., R. E. Pangle, G. E. Maurer, W. T. Pockman, N. McDowell, C. Huang, D. J. Krofcheck, A. M. Fox, R. L. Sinsabaugh, T. Rahn and M. E. Litvak. 2017. Tree mortality decreases water availability and ecosystem resilience to drought in piñon-juniper woodlands in the southwestern U.S. Journal of Geophysical Research: Geosciences 122(12):3343–3361. DOI: 10.1002/2017JG004095. (link )

Schwalm, C. R., W. R. Anderegg, A. M. Michalak, J. B. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. W. Koch, M. E. Litvak, K. Ogle, J. D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D. N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain and H. Tian. 2017. Global patterns of drought recovery. Nature 548:202-205. DOI: 10.1038/nature23021. (link )

Sinsabaugh, R. L., R. L. Sinsabaugh, D. L. Moorhead, D. L. Moorhead, X. Xu, X. Xu, M. E. Litvak and M. E. Litvak. 2017. Plant, microbial and ecosystem carbon use efficiencies interact to stabilize microbial growth as a fraction of gross primary production. New Phytologist 214(4):1518-1526. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14485. (link )

2014

Collins, S. L., J. Belnap, N. B. Grimm, J. A. Rudgers, C. N. Dahm, P. D'Odorico, M. E. Litvak, D. O. Natvig, D. C. Peters, W. T. Pockman, R. L. Sinsabaugh and B. O. Wolf. 2014. A multiscale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in arid-land ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 45:397-419. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091650. (link )