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Publications from the Executive Committee and Affiliates

Publications from the
Executive Committee and Affiliates

Publications from the
Executive Committee and Affiliates

Publications

Journal Articles

2022

Ankrom, K. E., A. L. Franco, S. J. Fonte, L. A. Gherardi, C. Milano de Tomasel, C. Wepking, P. Guan, S. Cui, S. H. Salama and D. H. Wall. 2022. Ecological maturity and stability of nematode communities in response to precipitation manipulations in grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology 170(Feb):104263.

Ball, B. A., L. M. Christenson and K. G. Wickings. 2022. A cross-system analysis of litter chemical dynamics throughout decomposition. Ecosystems (link )

Ball, B. A., P. Convey, K. L. Feeser, U. N. Nielsen and D. J. Van Horn. 2022. Environmental harshness mediates the relationship between aboveground and belowground communities in Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 164(Kan):108493. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108493. (link )

Chen, J., R. John, J. Yuan, E. A. Mack, P. Groisman, G. Allington, J. Wu, P. Fan, K. M. de Beurs and A. Karnieli. 2022. Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian Drylands Belt. Environmental Research Letters 17(2):023001.

Collins, S. L. 2022. Until we meet again. BioScience 72(2):111. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac002. (link )

Daniels, Q. F. and H. L. Throop. 2022. Ecophysiological responses of Terminalia sericea to fire history in a semi-arid woodland savanna, central Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 146(My):205-212. DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2021.10.023. (link )

Garcia-Pichel, F. and O. E. Sala. 2022. Expanding the pulse-reserve paradigm to microorganisms on the basis of differential reserve management strategies. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.24.481838.

Guo, X., G. Huang, X. Tu and J. Wu. 2022. Effects of urban greenspace and socioeconomic factors on air conditioner use: A multilevel analysis in Beijing, China. Building and Environmnet 211(Mar):108752. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.108752. (link )

Hudson, A. R., D. P. Peters, J. M. Blair, D. L. Childers, P. T. Doran, K. Geil, M. N. Gooseff, K. Gross, N. M. Haddad, M. A. Pastore, J. A. Rudgers, O. E. Sala, E. W. Seabloom and G. Shaver. 2022. Cross-site comparisons of dryland ecosystem responses to climate change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. BioScience 72(9):889-907. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab134. (link )

Kindler, M., E. R. Vivoni, E. R. Perez-Ruiz and Z. Wang. 2022. Water conservation potential of modified turf grass irrigation in urban parks of Phoenix, Arizona. Ecohydrology 14(3):e2399. DOI: 10.1002/eco.2399. (link )

Langley, J. A., E. Grman, K. R. Wilcox, M. L. Avolio, K. Komatsu, S. L. Collins, S. E. Koerner, M. D. Smith, A. H. Baldwin, W. D. Bowman, N. R. Chiariello, A. Eskelinen, H. Harmens, M. J. Hovenden, K. Klanderud, R. L. McCulley, V. G. Onipchenko, C. H. Robinson and K. N. Suding. 2022. Do trade-offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments?. Ecology e3626. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3626. (link )

Linghao, L., X. Xiaoping, T. Huajun and L. Hou. 2022. China’s meadow grasslands: challenges and opportunities. Plant and Soil 473:1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05403-7.

Liu, L., X. Fang and J. Wu. 2022. How does the local-scale relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing vary across broad regions?. Science of The Total Environment 816(Apr):151492. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151493. (link )

Sala, O. E. 2022. Open access is a misnomer. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 20(2):71-71. DOI: 10.1002/fee.2475. (link )

Salazar-Martinez, D., F. Holwerda, T. R. Holmes, E. A. Yepez, C. R. Hain, S. Alvarado-Barrientos, G. Ángeles-Pérez, T. Arredondo-Moreno, J. Delgado-Balbuena, B. Figueroa-Espinozaj, J. Garatuza-Payan, E. González del Castillo, J. C. Rodriguez, N. E. Rojas-Robles, J. M. Uuh-Sonda and E. R. Vivoni. 2022. Evaluation of remote sensing-based evapotranspiration products at low-latitude eddy covariance sites. Journal of Hydrology 610(Jul):127786. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127786. (link )

Shang, C. and J. Wu. 2022. A legendary landscape in peril: Land use and land cover change and environmental impacts in the Wulagai River Basin, Inner Mongolia. Journal of Environmental Management 301:113816. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113816. (link )

Song, L., W. Luo, R. J. Griffin-Nolan, W. Ma, J. Cai, X. Zuo, Q. Yu, H. Hartmann, M. Li, M. D. Smith, S. L. Collins, A. K. Knapp, Z. Wang and X. Han. 2022. Differential responses of grassland community nonstructural carbohydrate to experimental drought along a natural aridity gradient. Science of The Total Environment 822(May):153589. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153589. (link )

Sun, S., P. Shi, Q. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Wu and D. Chen. 2022. Evolution of future precipitation extremes: Viewpoint of climate change classification. International Journal of Climatology 42(2):1220-1230. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7298. (link )

Sun, X., J. Wu, H. Tang and P. Yang. 2022. An urban hierarchy-based approach integrating ecosystem services into multiscale sustainable land use planning: The case of China. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 178(Mar):106097. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106097. (link )

Throop, H. L., . , N. Hornslein and M. P. McClaran. 2022. Shrub influence on soil carbon and nitrogen in a semi-arid grassland is mediated by precipitation and largely insensitive to livestock grazing. Arid Land Research and Management 36(1):27-46. DOI: 10.1080/15324982.2021.1952660. (link )

Vivoni, E. R., E. R. Perez-Ruiz, R. L. Scott, A. T. Naito, S. R. Archer, J. A. Biederman and N. P. Templeton. 2022. A micrometeorological flux perspective on brush management in a shrub-encroached Sonoran Desert grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 313(Feb):108763. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108763. (link )

Wang, Z. and E. R. Vivoni. 2022. Individualized and combined effects of future urban growth and climate change on irrigation water use in central Arizona. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58(3):370-387. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13005. (link )

Weber-Grullon, L., L. A. Gherardi, W. A. Rutherford, S. R. Archer and O. E. Sala. 2022. Woody-plant encroachment: Precipitation, herbivory, and grass-competition interact to affect shrub recruitment. Ecological Applications 32(3):e2536. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2536. (link )

2021

Avolio, M. L., K. J. Komatsu, S. L. Collins, E. Grman, S. E. Koerner, A. T. Tredennick, K. R. Wilcox, S. Baer, E. H. Boughton, A. J. Britton, B. Foster, L. Gough, M. J. Hovenden, F. Isbell, A. Jentsch, D. S. Johnson, A. K. Knapp, J. Kreyling, J. A. Langley, C. Lortie, R. L. McCulley, J. R. McLaren, P. B. Reich, E. W. Seabloom, M. D. Smith, K. N. Suding, K. B. Suttle and P. M. Tognetti. 2021. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters 24(9):1892-1904. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13824. (link )

Baldarelli, L. M., S. L. Collins and D. Ward. 2021. How encroaching shrubs and nutrients affect N2-fixation in the Chihuahuan Desert. Plant and Soil 466:545-556. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-05072-y. (link )

Baldarelli, L. M., H. L. Throop, S. L. Collins and D. Ward. 2021. Nutrient additions have direct and indirect effects on biocrust biomass in a long-term Chihuahuan Desert grassland experiment. Journal of Arid Environments 184(Jan):104317. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104317. (link )

Bian, H., J. Gao, J. Wu and Y. Du. 2021. Hierarchical analysis of landscape urbanization and its impacts on regional sustainability: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China. Journal of Cleaner Production 279(Jan):123267. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123267. (link )

Bilderback, A. H., A. J. Torres, M. N. Vega and B. A. Ball. 2021. The structural and nutrient chemistry during early-stage decomposition and desiccation of cacti in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 195:104636. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104636. (link )

Carroll, C. J., I. J. Slette, R. J. Griffin-Nolan, L. E. Baur, A. M. Hoffman, E. M. Denton, J. E. Gray, A. K. Post, M. K. Johnston, Q. Yu, S. L. Collins, Y. Luo, M. D. Smith and A. K. Knapp. 2021. Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought. Oecologia 197:1017–1026. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04793-8. (link )

Collins, S. L. 2021. Managing for change. BioScience 72(1):3. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab141. (link )

Collins, S. L. 2021. Water security in dry times. BioScience 71(10):999. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab111. (link )

Collins, S. L. 2021. Will anyone listen this time?. BioScience 71(9):891. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab095. (link )

Collins, S. L., J. B. Nippert, J. M. Blair, J. M. Briggs, P. Blackmore and Z. Ratajczak. 2021. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters 24(4):636-647. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13676. (link )

Custodio Franco, A., P. Guan, S. Cui, C. Milano de Tomasel, L. A. Gherardi, O. E. Sala and D. H. Wall. 2021. Precipitation effects on nematode diversity and carbon footprint across grasslands. Global Change Biology 28(6):2124-2132. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16055. (link )

Díaz de León-Guerrero, S., R. Mendez-Alonzo, S. Bullock and E. R. Vivoni. 2021. Hydrological and topographic determinants of biomass and species richness in a Mediterranean-climate shrubland. PLOS One 16(5): e0252154. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252154. (link )

Fang, X., J. Wu and C. He. 2021. Assessing human-environment system sustainability based on Regional Safe and Just Operating Space: The case of the Inner Mongolia Grassland. environmental Science & Policy 116(Feb):276-286. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.12.007. (link )

Fernandes, V. M., A. Giraldo-Silva, D. Roush and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. Coleofasciculaceae, a monophyletic home for the Microcoleus steenstrupii complex and other desiccation-tolerant filamentous cyanobacteria. Journal of Phycology 57(5):1563-1579. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13199. (link )

Finn, D. R., J. Maldonado, F. de Martini, J. Yu, C. R. Penton, R. S. Fontenele, K. Schmidlin, S. Kraberger, A. Varsani, G. H. Gile, B. Barker, D. R. Kollath, R. L. Muenich, P. Herckes, M. Fraser and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. Agricultural practices drive biological loads, seasonal patterns and potential pathogens in the aerobiome of a mixed-land-use dryland. Scence of The Total Environment 798(Dec):149239. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149239. (link )

Gonzalez-de-Salceda, L. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. The allometry of cellular DNA and ribosomal gene content among microbes and its use for the assessment of microbiome community structure. Microbiome 9:Art. 173 . DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01111-z. (link )

Gonzalez-de-Salceda, L. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. The allometry of cellular DNA and ribosomal gene content among microbes and its use for the assessment of microbiome community structure. BMC Microbiome 9:Art. 173. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01111-z. (link )

Harms, T. K., P. M. Groffman, L. Aluwihare, C. Craft, W. R. Wieder, S. E. Hobbie, S. G. Baer, J. M. Blair, S. D. Frey, C. K. Remucal, J. A. Rudgers, S. L. Collins, J. S. Kominoski, B. A. Ball and . LTER OM Working Group. 2021. Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US long-term ecological research network. Climate Change Ecology 2(Dec):100025. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025. (link )

He, C., Z. Liu, J. Wu, X. Pan, Z. Feng, . and B. A. Bryan. 2021. Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions. nature communications 12:Art. 4667. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25026-3. (link )

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 )

Hu, G., M. C. Wilson, B. Zhou, C. Shang, M. Yu and J. Wu. 2021. Spatiotemporal patterns and ecological consequences of a fragmented landscape created by damming. PeerJ 9:e11416. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11416. (link )

Ivanov, V. Y., D. Xu, M. C. Dwelle, K. Sargsyan, . , N. Katopodes, J. Kim, V. Ngoc Tran, A. Warnock, S. Fatichi, P. Burlando, E. Caporali, P. Restrepo, B. F. Sanders, M. M. Chaney, A. M. Nunes, F. Nardi, E. R. Vivoni, E. Istanbulluoglu, G. Bisht and R. L. Bras. 2021. Breaking down the computational barriers to real-time urban flood forecasting. Geophysical Research Letters 48(20):e2021GL093585. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093585. (link )

Iwaniec, D. M., M. N. Gooseff, K. N. Suding, D. W. Johnson, D. C. Reed, D. P. Peters, B. J. Adams, J. Barrett, B. T. Bestelmeyer, M. Castorani, E. M. Cook, M. J. Davidson, P. M. Groffman, N. P. Hanan, L. F. Huenneke, P. Johnson, R. Miller, G. S. Okin, D. Preston, A. Rassweiler, C. Ray, O. E. Sala, R. L. Schooley, T. R. Seastedt, M. J. Spasojevic and E. R. Vivoni. 2021. Connectivity: Insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere 12(5):e03432. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3432. (link )

Ladwig, L. M., L. Bell-Dereske, K. C. Bell, S. L. Collins, D. O. Natvig and D. L. Taylor. 2021. Soil fungal composition changes with shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Fungal Ecology 53(Oct):101096. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101096. (link )

Lagueux, D., A. Jumpponen, A. Porras-Alfaro, J. Herrera, Y. A. Chung, L. E. Baur, M. D. Smith, A. K. Knapp, S. L. Collins and J. A. Rudgers. 2021. Experimental drought re-ordered assemblages of root-associated fungi across North American grasslands. Journal of Ecology 109(2):775-792. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13505. (link )

Lan, S., A. D. Thomas, J. B. Rakes, F. Garcia-Pichel, L. Wu and C. Hu. 2021. Cyanobacterial community composition and their functional shifts associated with biocrust succession in the Gurbantunggut Desert. Environmental Microbiology Reports 13(6):884-898. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13011. (link )

Liu, L. and J. Wu. 2021. Ecosystem services-human wellbeing relationships vary with spatial scales and indicators: The case of China. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 172(Sep):105662. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105662. (link )

Lobo, J., M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, L. M. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, L. A. Bojorquez, W. Chen, A. Dodge, Z. Neal, A. Perreira, D. Pfeiffer, A. Revi, E. Stokes, D. Roberts, C. Rozenblat, S. T. Shutters, M. E. Smith, D. Strumsky and J. Wu. 2021. A convergence research perspective on graduate education for sustainable urban systems science. npj Ubran Sustainability 1:Art. 39. DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00044-8. (link )

Loydi, A. and S. L. Collins. 2021. Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(5):e13089. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13089. (link )

Lundgren, E., D. Ramp, J. C. Stromberg, J. Wu, N. C. Nieto, M. Sluk, K. Moeller and A. D. Wallach. 2021. Equids engineer desert water availability. Science 372(6541):491 -495. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6775. (link )

Lundgren, E., D. Ramp, J. Wu, M. Sluk, K. Moeller, J. C. Stromberg and A. D. Wallach. 2021. Feral equids’ varied effects on ecosystems—Response. Science 373(6558):973 -974. DOI: 10.1126/science.abl7466. (link )

Luo, W., R. J. Griffin-Nolan, W. Ma, B. Liu, X. Zuo, C. Xu, Q. Yu, Y. Luo, P. Mariotte, M. D. Smith, S. L. Collins, A. K. Knapp, Z. Wang and X. Han. 2021. Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands. Ecology 102(10):e03465. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3465. (link )

Ma, M., S. L. Collins, Z. Ratajczak and G. Du. 2021. Soill seed banks, alternative stable state theory, and ecosystem resilience. BioScience 71(7):697-707. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab011. (link )

Ma, Q., J. Wu, C. He and X. Fang. 2021. The speed, scale, and environmental and economic impacts of surface coal mining in the Mongolian Plateau. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 173(Oct):105730. DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105730. (link )

Meili, N., G. Manoli, P. Burlando, J. Carmeliet, W. T. Chow, A. M. Coutts, M. Roth, E. Velasco, E. R. Vivoni and S. Fatichi. 2021. Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 58(Mar):126970. DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126970. (link )

Meng, B., J. Li, G. E. Maurer, S. Zhong, Y. Yao, X. Yang, S. L. Collins and W. Sun. 2021. Nitrogen addition amplifies the nonlinear drought response of grassland productivity to extended growing-season droughts. Ecology 102(11):e03483. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3483. (link )

Meng, B., R. Ochoa-Hueso, J. Li, S. Zhong, Y. Yao, X. Yang, S. L. Collins and W. Sun. 2021. Nonlinear decoupling of autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration in response to drought duration and N addition in a meadow steppe. Biology and Fertility of Soils 57:281-291. DOI: 10.1007/s00374-020-01524-2. (link )

Muraina, T. O., C. Xu, Q. Yu, Y. Yang, M. Jing, X. Jia, M. Shahariar Jaman, Q. Dam, A. K. Knapp, S. L. Collins, Y. Luo, W. Luo, X. Zuo, X. Xin, X. Han and M. D. Smith. 2021. Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands. Journal of Ecology 109(4):1665-1675. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13587. (link )

Nelson, C. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. Beneficial cyanosphere heterotrophs accelerate establishment of cyanobacterial biocrust. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87(20):e01236-21. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01236-21. (link )

Nelson, C., A. Giraldo-Silva and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. A symbiotic nutrient exchange within the cyanosphere microbiome of the biocrust cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus. The ISME Journal 15:282-292. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00781-1. (link )

Nghalipo, E. N. and H. L. Throop. 2021. Vegetation patch type has a greater influence on soil respiration than does fire history on soil respiration in an arid broadleaf savanna woodland, central Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 193(Oct):104577. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104577. (link )

Pamukcu-Albers, P., F. Ugolini, D. La Rosa, S. R. Gradinaru, J. C. Azevedo and J. Wu. 2021. Building green infrastructure to enhance urban resilience to climate change and pandemics. Landscape Ecology 36:665-673. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-021-01212-y. (link )

Pan, Q., A. J. Symstad, Y. Bai, J. Huang, J. Wu, S. Naeem, D. Chen, D. Tian, Q. Wang and X. Han. 2021. Biodiversity-productivity relationships in a natural grassland community vary under diversity loss scenarios. Journal of Ecology 110(1):210-220. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13797. (link )

Perez-Ruiz, E. R., E. R. Vivoni, E. A. Yepez, J. C. Rodriguez, D. J. Gochis, A. Robles-Morua, J. Delgado-Balbuena and D. K. Adams. 2021. Landscape controls on water-energy-carbon fluxes across different ecosystems during the North American monsoon. JGR Biogeosciences 126(5):e2020JG005809. DOI: 10.1029/2020JG005809. (link )

Peters, D. P., H. Savoy, S. Stillman, H. Huang, A. Hudson Weaver, O. E. Sala and E. R. Vivoni. 2021. Plant species richness in multiyear wet and dry periods in the Chihuahuan Desert. Climate 9(8):130. DOI: 10.3390/cli9080130. (link )

Roush, D., A. Giraldo-Silva and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. Cydrasil 3, a curated 16S rRNA gene reference package and web app for cyanobacterial phylogenetic placement. Scientific Data 8:Art. 230. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01015-5. (link )

Seabloom, E. W., P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, L. Biederman, Y. M. Buckley, M. W. Cadotte, S. L. Collins, L. Dee, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, S. E. Hobbie, F. Isbell, J. M. Knops, K. J. Komatsu, R. Laungani, A. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, T. Ohlert, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C. J. Stevens and E. T. Borer. 2021. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology 102(2):e03218. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3218. (link )

Sordo-Ward, A., I. Gabriel-Martin, P. Bianucci, G. Mascaro, E. R. Vivoni and L. Garrote. 2021. Stochastic hybrid event based and continuous approach to derive flood frequency curve. Water 13(14):1931. DOI: 10.3390/w13141931. (link )

Soule, T., D. Ferreira, J. Lothamer and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2021. The independent and shared transcriptomic response to UVA, UVB and oxidative stress in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. Photochemistry and Photobiology 97(5):1063-1071. DOI: 10.1111/php.13444. (link )

Stricker, E., G. Crain, J. Rudgers, R. Sinsabaugh, V. Fernandes, C. Nelson, A. Giraldo-Silva, F. Garcia-Pichel, J. Belnap and A. Darrouzet-Nardi. 2021. What could explain δ13C signatures in biocrust cyanobacteria of drylands?. Microbial Ecology 81:134-145. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01536-3. (link )

Van Goethem, M. W., A. R. Osborn, B. P. Bowen, P. F. Andeer, T. L. Swenson, A. Clum, R. Riley, G. He, M. Koriabine, L. Sandor, M. Yan, C. G. Daum, Y. Yoshinaga, T. P. Makhalanyane, F. Garcia-Pichel, A. Visel, L. A. Pennacchio, R. C. O'Malley and T. R. Northern. 2021. Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics. Communications Biology 4:Art. 1302. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02809-4. (link )

Vivoni, E. R., E. R. Perez-Ruiz, Z. T. Keller, E. A. Escoto, R. C. Templeton, N. P. Templeton, C. A. Anderson, A. P. Schreiner-McGraw, . , A. Robles-Morua, R. L. Scott, S. R. Archer and D. P. Peters. 2021. Long-term research catchments to investigate shrub encroachment in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts: Santa Rita and Jornada experimental ranges. Hydrological Processes 35(2):e14031. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14031. (link )

Wang, H., C. Xu, Y. Liu, E. Jeppersen, J. Svenning, J. Wu, W. Zhang, T. Zhou, P. Wang, S. Nangombe, J. Ma, H. Duan, J. Fang and P. Xie. 2021. Perspective: From unusual suspect to serial killer: Cyanotoxins boosted by climate change may jeopardize megafauna. The Innovation 2(2):10092. DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100092. (link )

Wang, Z., E. R. Vivoni, T. Bohn and Z. Wang. 2021. A multiyear assessment of irrigation cooling capacity in agricultural and urban settings of central Arizona. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 57(5):771-788. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12920. (link )

Weathers, K. C., D. Ojima, S. K. Collinge and O. E. Sala. 2021. Leveraging the anthropause. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19(6):315-315. DOI: 10.1002/fee.2382. (link )

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Miller, O., D. Helman, T. Svoray, E. Morin and D. J. Bonfil. 2019. Explicit wheat production model adjusted for semi-arid environments. Field Crops Research 2231(Feb):94-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2018.11.011. (link )

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Nghalipo, E. N., D. Joubert, H. L. Throop and A. Groengroeft. 2019. The effect of fire history on soil nutrients and soil organic carbon in a semi-arid savanna woodland, central Namibia. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 36(1): 9-16. DOI: 10.2989/10220119.2018.1526825. (link )

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Risch, A. C., S. Zimmermann, R. Ochoa-Hueso, M. Schütz, B. Frey, J. Firn, P. A. Fay, F. Hagedorn, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, W. S. Harpole, J. M. Knops, R. L. McCulley, A. A. Broadbent, C. J. Stevens, M. Silveira, P. B. Adler, S. Baez, L. A. Biederman, J. M. Blair, C. S. Brown, M. C. Caldeira, S. L. Collins, P. Daleo, A. di Virgilio, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, E. Esch, A. Eskelinen, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K. P. Kirkman, A. S. MacDougall, J. L. Moore, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, J. Siebert, K. L. Speziale, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, L. Yahdjian and B. Moser. 2019. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications 10:Art. 4981. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2. (link )

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Aanderud, Z. T., S. Saurey, B. A. Ball, D. H. Wall, J. E. Barrett, M. E. Muscarella, N. A. Griffin, R. A. Virginia and B. J. Adams. 2018. Stoichiometric shifts in soil C:N:P promote bacterial taxa dominance, maintain biodiversity, and deconstruct community assemblages. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:1401. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01401. (link )

Albuquerque, F., B. Benito, M. A. Macias Rodriquez and C. Gray. 2018. Potential changes in the distribution of Carnegiea gigantea under future scenarios. PeerJ 6:e5623. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5623. (link )

Alfaro, F. D., M. Manzano, S. Abades, N. Trefault, R. D. Iglesia, A. Gaxiola, P. Marquet, J. R. Gutierrez, P. L. Meserve, D. A. Kelt, J. Belnap and J. J. Armesto. 2018. Exclusion of small mammals and lagomorphs invasion interact with human-trampling to drive changes in topsoil microbial community structure and function in semiarid Chile. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 124(Sep):1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.05.019. (link )

Alvarez Guevara, J. N. and B. A. Ball. 2018. Urbanization alters small rodent community composition but not abundance. PeerJ 6:e4885. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4885. (link )

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Antoninka, A., R. W. Bowker, P. Chuckran, N. N. Barger, S. C. Reed and J. C. Belnap. 2018. Maximizing establishment and survivorship of field-collected and greenhouse-cultivated biocrusts in a semi-cold desert. Plant and Soil 429(1-2):213-225. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-017-3300-3. DOI: 1573-5036. (link )

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Asbjornsen, H., J. L. Campbell, K. A. Jennings, M. A. Vadeboncoeur, C. McIntire, P. H. Templer, R. P. Phillips, T. L. Bauerle, M. C. Cietze, S. D. Frey, P. M. Groffman, R. Guerrieri, P. J. Hanson, E. P. Kelsey, A. K. Knapp, N. G. McDowell, P. Meir, K. A. Novick, S. V. Ollinger, W. T. Pockman, P. G. Schaberg, S. D. Wullschleger, M. D. Smith and L. E. Rustad. 2018. Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(12):2310-2325. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13094. (link )

Axelsson, C. R. and N. P. Hanan. 2018. Rates of woody encroachment in African savannas reflect water constraints and fire disturbance. Journal of Biogeography 45(6):1209-1218. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13221. (link )

Ball, B. A., B. J. Adams, J. E. Barrett, D. H. Wall and R. A. Virginia. 2018. Soil biological responses to C, N and P fertilization in a polar desert of Antarctica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 122(Jul):7-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.03.025. (link )

Beckage, B., L. J. Gross, K. Lacasse, E. Carr, S. S. Metcalf, J. M. Winter, P. D. Howe, N. Fefferman, T. Franck, A. Zia, A. P. Kinzig and F. M. Hoffman. 2018. Linking models of human behaviour and climate alters projected climate change. Nature Climate Change 8:79-84. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-017-0031-7. (link )

Begum, K., M. Kuhnert, J. Yeluripati, S. Ogle, W. Parton, M. A. Kader and P. Smith. 2018. Model based regional estimates of soil organic carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation potentials from rice croplands in Bangladesh. Land 7(3):82. DOI: 10.3390/land7030082. (link )

Bennett, K. E., T. J. Bohn, K. Solander, N. G. McDowell, C. Xu, E. R. Vivoni and R. S. Middleton. 2018. Climate-driven disturbances in the San Juan River sub-basin of the Colorado River. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22(1):709-725. DOI: 10.5194/hess-2017-204. (link )

Bestelmeyer, B. T., D. P. Peters, S. R. Archer, D. M. Browning, G. S. Okin, R. L. Schooley and N. P. Webb. 2018. The grassland–shrubland regime shift in the southwestern United States: Misconceptions and their Implications for management. BioScience 68(9):678-690. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biy065. (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 )

Blaszczak, J. R., M. K. Steele, B. D. Badgley, J. B. Heffernan, S. E. Hobbie, J. L. Morse, E. N. Rivers, S. J. Hall, C. Neill, D. E. Pataki, P. M. Groffman and E. S. Bernhardt. 2018. Sediment chemistry of urban stormwater ponds and controls on denitrification. Ecosphere 9(6):e02318. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2318. (link )

Bohn, T. J. and E. R. Vivoni. 2018. Comments on "Regional Impacts of Irrigation in Mexico and the Southwestern United States on Hydrometeorological Fields in the North American Monsoon Region". Journal of Hydrometeorology (2):477-481. (link )

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Browning, D. M., T. M. Crimmins, D. K. James, S. Spiegal, M. R. Levi, J. P. Anderson and D. P. Peters. 2018. Synchronous species responses reveal phenological guilds: implications for management. Ecosphere 9(9):e02395. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2395. (link )

Bryan, B. A., L. Gao, Y. Ye, X. Sun, J. D. Connor, N. D. Crossman, M. Stafford-Smith, J. Wu, C. He, D. Yu, Z. Liu, A. Li, Q. Huang, H. Ren, X. Deng, H. Zheng, J. Niu, G. Han and X. Hou. 2018. China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency. Nature 559(193-204):. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2. (link )

Cao, Q., D. Yu, M. Georgescu and J. Wu. 2018. Substantial impacts of landscape changes on summer climate with major regional differences: The case of China. Science of The Total Environment 625(Jun):416-427. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.290. (link )

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Carlton, L., N. C. Duncritts, Y. A. Chung and J. A. Rudgers. 2018. Plant-microbe interactions as a cause of ring formation in Bouteloua gracilis. Journal of Arid Environments 152(May):1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.02.001. (link )

Cavazos, B. R., T. F. Bohner, M. L. Donald, M. E. Sneck, A. Shadow, M. Omacini, J. A. Rudgers and T. E. Miller. 2018. Testing the roles of vertical transmission and drought stress in the prevalence of heritable fungal endophytes in annual grass populations. New Phytologist 219(3):1075-1084. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15215. (link )

Chen, J., R. John, G. Sun, P. Fang, G. M. Henebry, M. Fernandez-Gimenez, Y. Zhang, H. Park, L. Tian, P. Groisman, Z. Ouyang, G. Allington, F. Huettmann, R. Lafortezza, C. Crank and J. Qi. 2018. Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian Plateau: Five critical issues. Environmental Research Letters 13(12):123004. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf27b. (link )

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Collins, S. L., M. L. Avolio, C. Gries, L. M. Hallett, S. E. Koerner, K. J. La Pierre, A. L. Rypel, E. R. Sokol, S. B. Fey, D. F. Flynn, S. K. Jones, L. M. Ladwig, J. Ripplinger and M. B. Jones. 2018. Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities. Ecology 99(4):858-865. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2154. (link )

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Creed, I. F., A. Bergstrom, C. G. Trick, N. B. Grimm, D. O. Hessen, J. Karlsson, K. A. Kidd, E. Kritzberg, D. M. McKnight, E. C. Freeman, O. E. Senar, A. Andersson, J. Ask, M. Berggren, M. Cherif, R. Giesier, E. R. Hotchkiss, P. Kortelainen, M. M. Palta, T. Vrede and G. A. Weyhenmeyer. 2018. Global change‐driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition: Implications for food webs of northern lakes. Global Change Biology 24(8):3692-3714. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14129 . (link )

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Smith, M. D., K. R. Wilcox, S. A. Power, D. T. Tissue and A. K. Knapp. 2017. Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change – toward a more comparative approach. Journal of Vegetation Science 28(2):235-237. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12524. (link )

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Wheeler, M. M., C. Neill, P. M. Groffman, M. Avolia, N. D. Bettez, J. Cavender-Bares, R. Roy Chowdhury, L. Darling, J. M. Grove, S. J. Hall, J. B. Heffernan, S. E. Hobbie, K. L. Larson, J. L. Morse, K. C. Nelson, L. A. Ogden, W. D. Pearse, J. O'Neil-Dunne, D. E. Pataki, C. Polsky, M. K. Steele and T. L. Trammell. 2017. Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities. Landscape and Urban Planning 165:54-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.05.004. (link )

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2016

Del Toro-Guerrero, F. J., E. R. Vivoni, T. Kretzschmar, S. H. Bullock Runquist and R. Vasquez-Gonzalez. 2016. Variations in soil water content, infiltration and potential recharge at three sites in a Mediterranean mounainous region of Baja California, Mexico. Water 10(12):1844. DOI: 10.3390/w10121844 . (link )

Book Chapters

2021

Collins, S. L. 2021. Network level science, social-ecological research and the LTER planning process. Pp. 403–421 In: Wade, R. B. and S. E. Kingsland eds., The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-030-66932-4.

2020

Ruddell, B. L., H. Gao, O. Pala, R. Rushforth and J. Sabo. 2020. Infrastructure. Pp. 259-295 In: Saundry, P. and B. L. Ruddell eds., The Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9_10. ISBN: 978-3-030-29914-9. (link )

2019

de Graaff, M., N. Hornslein, H. L. Throop, P. Kardol and L. T. van Diepen. 2019. Chapter One - Effects of agricultural intensification on soil biodiversity and implications for ecosystem functioning: A meta-analysis. Pp. 1-44 In: Sparks, D. L. ed., Advances in Agronomy. Vol 155. Elsevier.

Soule, T. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2019. Cyanobacteria. Pp. 799-817 In: Schmidt, T. M. ed., Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Fourth Edition). Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-811737-8.

2018

Bustamante, M., E. H. Helmer, S. Schill, J. C. Belnap, L. K. Brown, E. Brugnoili, J. E. Compton, R. H. Coupe, M. Hernandez-Blanco, F. Isbell, J. L. Lockwood, J. P. Lozoya-Ascarate, D. McGuire, A. Pauchard, R. Pichs-Madruga, R. Rodriguez, G. A. Sanchez-Azoeifa, A. Soutullo, A. Suarez, E. Troutt and L. Thompson. 2018. Chapter 4: Direct and indirect drivers of change in biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. Pp. 335-509 In: Rice, J., C. S. Seixas, M. E. Zaccagnini, M. Bedoya-Gaitan and N. Valderrama eds., Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Bonn, Germany. (link )

Eldridge, D. J. and G. Beecham. 2018. The impact of climate variability on land use and livelihoods in Australia’s rangelands. Pp. 293-315 In: Gaur, M. K. and V. R. Squires eds., Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56681-8_14. ISBN: 978-3-319-56680-1. (link )

Jeong, A., S. Y. Cheung, I. J. Walker and R. I. Dorn. 2018. Chapter 10 - Urban geomorphology of an arid city: Case study of Phoenix, Arizona. Pp. 177-204 In: Thornbush, M. J. and C. D. Allen eds., Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-811951-8.00010-2. ISBN: 978-0-12-811951-8. (link )

Perrings, C. K. and A. P. Kinzig. 2018. Chapter 2 - Ecology and economics in the science of anthropogenic biosphere change. Pp. 61-84 In: Dasgupta, P., S. K. Pattanayak and V. K. Smith eds., Handbook of Environmental Economics. Vol 4. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/bs.hesenv.2018.03.002. (link )

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Belnap, J. and O. L. Lange. 2017. Chapter 10. Lichen and microfungi in biological soil crusts: Structure and function now and in the future. Pp. 137-158 In: Dighton, J. and J. F. White eds., The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem. CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1498706650. (link )

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Sala, O. E., L. Vivanco and P. Flombaum. 2017. Grassland communities and ecosystems. Pp. 1-7 Reference Modules in Life Sciences. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.02201-9. (link )

Sala, O. E., L. Yahdjian, K. M. Havstad and M. R. Aguiar. 2017. Rangeland ecosystem services: Nature's supply and humans' demands. Pp. 467-489 In: Briske, D. D. ed., Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-46707-8. (link )

Steven, B., T. A. McHugh and S. C. Reed. 2017. 8. The response of arid soil communities to climate change. Pp. 139-158 In: Steven, B. ed., The Biology of Arid Soils. De Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-041904-7. (link )