Alternative pathways to landscape transformation: invasive grasses, burn severity and fire frequency in arid ecosystems

Biotic resistance and disturbance: rodent consumers regulate post-fire plant invasions and increase plant community diversity

(2016) Samuel B. St. Clair et al.   ECOLOGY

Precipitation regime classification for the Mojave Desert: Implications for fire occurrence

(2016) Jerry Tagestad et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Spatio-temporal impacts of fire on soil nutrient availability in Larrea tridentata shrublands of the Mojave Desert, USA

(2015) Andres Fuentes-Ramirez et al.   GEODERMA

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Creating Hotter Fires in the Sonoran Desert: Buffelgrass Produces Copious Fuels and High Fire Temperatures

(2015) Christopher J. McDonald et al.   Fire Ecology

Modelling and mapping dynamic variability in large fire probability in the lower Sonoran Desert of south-western Arizona

(2014) Miranda E. Gray et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Water-use efficiency and relative growth rate mediate competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annual plants

(2013) Jennifer R. Gremer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Soil Seed Banks of the Exotic Annual Grass Bromus rubens on a Burned Desert Landscape

(2013) Benjamin S. Jurand et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

(2012) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do desert rodents form metacommunities?

(2012) Richard D. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Seed harvesting by a generalist consumer is context-dependent: Interactive effects across multiple spatial scales

(2012) Steven M. Ostoja et al.   OIKOS

Effects of high fire frequency in creosote bush scrub vegetation of the Mojave Desert

(2011) Matthew L. Brooks   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Vegetation recovery in a desert landscape after wildfires: influences of community type, time since fire and contingency effects

(2011) E. Cayenne Engel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Expansive fire in Mojave Desert shrubland reduces abundance and species diversity of small mammals

(2011) K.J. Horn et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Resistance to Invasion and Resilience to Fire in Desert Shrublands of North America

(2011) Matthew L. Brooks et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Relationships of Native Desert Plants with Red Brome (Bromus rubens): Toward Identifying Invasion-Reducing Species

(2011) Scott R. Abella et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Fire Effects on Perennial Vegetation in the Western Colorado Desert, USA

(2011) Robert J. Steers et al.   Fire Ecology

Short-term effects of experimental fires on a Mojave Desert seed bank

(2010) Todd C. Esque et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effects of fire on vegetation and small mammal communities in a Mojave Desert Joshua tree woodland

(2010) M.S. Vamstad et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Invasive plant species and soil microbial response to wildfire burn severity in the Cascade Range of Oregon

(2009) Cassie L. Hebel et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Post-fire plant recovery in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of western North America

(2009) S.R. Abella   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS