Which way do you lean? Using slope aspect variations to understand Critical Zone processes and feedbacks

Soil development over mud-rich rocks produces landscape-scale erosional instabilities in the northern Gabilan Mesa, California

(2017) Samuel A. Johnstone et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Prototype campaign assessment of disturbance-induced tree loss effects on surface properties for atmospheric modeling

(2017) Juan Camilo Villegas et al.   Ecosphere

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Diverging sensitivity of soil water stress to changing snowmelt timing in the Western U.S.

(2016) Adrian A. Harpold   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Topographic correlations with soil and regolith thickness from shallow-seismic refraction constraints across upland hillslopes in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico

(2016) Jared Olyphant et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

On the observed hysteresis in field-scale soil moisture variability and its physical controls

(2016) G Mascaro et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The influence of vegetation on debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the northern Colorado Front Range

(2016) Francis K. Rengers et al.   GEOLOGY

Gophers as geomorphic agents in the Colorado Front Range subalpine zone

(2016) Eric W. Winchell et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Elucidating the role of vegetation in the initiation of rainfall-induced shallow landslides: Insights from an extreme rainfall event in the Colorado Front Range

(2016) Luke A. McGuire et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Relations between soil hydraulic properties and burn severity

(2016) John A. Moody et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years

(2016) Richard E. Zeebe et al.   Nature Geoscience

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The predominance of post-wildfire erosion in the long-term denudation of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico

(2016) Caitlin A. Orem et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Climatic and landscape influences on soil moisture are primary determinants of soil carbon fluxes in seasonally snow-covered forest ecosystems

(2015) Clare M. Stielstra et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Evidence for climatic and hillslope-aspect controls on vadose zone hydrology and implications for saprolite weathering

(2015) Abigail L. Langston et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Influence of terrain aspect on water partitioning, vegetation structure and vegetation greening in high-elevation catchments in northern New Mexico

(2015) Xavier Zapata-Rios et al.   Ecohydrology

Hillslope lowering rates and mobile-regolith residence times from in situ and meteoric10Be analysis, Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, Colorado

(2015) Melissa A. Foster et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Aspect-dependent soil saturation and insight into debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the Colorado Front Range

(2015) Brian A. Ebel et al.   GEOLOGY

Lithologic control on the form of soil-mantled hillslopes

(2015) Samuel A. Johnstone et al.   GEOLOGY

Exhumation by debris flows in the 2013 Colorado Front Range storm

(2015) Scott W. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

The relative contributions of alpine and subalpine ecosystems to the water balance of a mountainous, headwater catchment

(2015) John F. Knowles et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Geophysical imaging reveals topographic stress control of bedrock weathering

(2015) J. St. Clair et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying Topographic and Vegetation Effects on the Transfer of Energy and Mass to the Critical Zone

(2015) Craig Rasmussen et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Ecohydrologic role of solar radiation on landscape evolution

(2015) Omer Yetemen et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Sediment transport and shear stress partitioning in a vegetated flow

(2015) Caroline Le Bouteiller et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Solar radiation as a global driver of hillslope asymmetry: Insights from an ecogeomorphic landscape evolution model

(2015) Omer Yetemen et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for developing transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics

(2015) Paul D. Brooks et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Climatic and landscape controls on water transit times and silicate mineral weathering in the critical zone

(2015) Xavier Zapata-Rios et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Numerical simulations of hydraulic redistribution across climates: The role of the root hydraulic conductivities

(2015) Juan C. Quijano et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Effect of vegetation cover on millennial-scale landscape denudation rates in East Africa

(2015) Verónica Torres Acosta et al.   Lithosphere

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

(2015) N. G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Attribution of climate extreme events

(2015) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs

(2015) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   Earths Future

How do sediment yields from post-wildfire debris-laden flows depend on terrain slope, soil burn severity class, and drainage basin area? Insights from airborne-LiDAR change detection

(2014) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Aspect-dependent variations in regolith creep revealed by meteoric 10Be

(2014) Nicole West et al.   GEOLOGY

Assessing five evolving microbial enzyme models against field measurements from a semiarid savannah-What are the mechanisms of soil respiration pulses?

(2014) Xia Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Soil moisture response to snowmelt timing in mixed-conifer subalpine forests

(2014) Adrian A. Harpold et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Microclimate affects soil chemical and mineralogical properties of cold alpine soils of the Altai Mountains (Russia)

(2014) Markus Egli et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

A bottom-up control on fresh-bedrock topography under landscapes

(2014) D. M. Rempe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Subcanopy Solar Radiation model: Predicting solar radiation across a heavily vegetated landscape using LiDAR and GIS solar radiation models

(2014) Collin A. Bode et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model

(2014) Elizabeth J. Kendon et al.   Nature Climate Change

Development of topographic asymmetry: Insights from dated cinder cones in the western United States

(2014) Luke A. McGuire et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Nitrogen retention and transport differ by hillslope aspect at the rain-snow transition of the Colorado Front Range

(2014) Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Exploring geochemical controls on weathering and erosion of convex hillslopes: beyond the empirical regolith production function

(2013) Marina I. Lebedeva et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Geophysical constraints on deep weathering and water storage potential in the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

(2013) W. Steven Holbrook et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

An integrated modelling framework of catchment-scale ecohydrological processes: 1. Model description and tests over an energy-limited watershed

(2013) Guo-Yue Niu et al.   Ecohydrology

Hillslopes Record the Growth and Decay of Landscapes

(2013) M. D. Hurst et al.   SCIENCE

On the observed ecohydrologic dynamics of a semiarid basin with aspect-delimited ecosystems

(2013) Hugo A. Gutiérrez-Jurado et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

(2013) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

The sensitivity of forest water use to the timing of precipitation and snowmelt recharge in the California Sierra: Implications for a warming climate

(2013) Christina Tague et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Rock damage and regolith transport by frost: an example of climate modulation of the geomorphology of the critical zone

(2012) Robert S. Anderson et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Hillslope asymmetry maps reveal widespread, multi-scale organization

(2012) Michael J. Poulos et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Aspect control of water movement on hillslopes near the rain-snow transition of the Colorado Front Range

(2012) Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Flow and Transport in Regions with Aquatic Vegetation

(2011) Heidi M. Nepf   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

The effects of climate and landscape position on chemical denudation and mineral transformation in the Santa Catalina mountain critical zone observatory

(2011) Rebecca Lybrand et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

A simplified approach for estimating soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in semi-arid complex terrain

(2011) Melvin L. Kunkel et al.   GEODERMA

Aspect influences on soil water retention and storage

(2011) I.J. Geroy et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Small soil storage capacity limits benefit of winter snowpack to upland vegetation

(2011) T. J. Smith et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Firescape ecology: how topography determines the contrasting distribution of fire and rain forest in the south-west of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

(2011) Sam W. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Calibration and testing of upland hillslope evolution models in a dated landscape: Banco Bonito, New Mexico

(2011) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The relative controls of temperature, soil moisture, and plant functional group on soil CO2efflux at diel, seasonal, and annual scales

(2011) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements

(2011) Guo-Yue Niu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Seismic Constraints on Critical Zone Architecture, Boulder Creek Watershed, Front Range, Colorado

(2011) K.M. Befus et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Influence of slope aspect on soil physico-chemical and biological properties in the mid hills of central Nepal

(2010) Farida Begum et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY

A rain splash transport equation assimilating field and laboratory measurements

(2010) Thomas Dunne et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Estimating snow sublimation using natural chemical and isotopic tracers across a gradient of solar radiation

(2010) Joseph R. Gustafson et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Surface-subsurface flow modeling with path-based runoff routing, boundary condition-based coupling, and assimilation of multisource observation data

(2010) M. Camporese et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Sediment storage and transport in Pancho Rico Valley during and after the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, Coast Ranges of central California (Monterey County)

(2009) Antonio F. García et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Ecohydrological controls on snowmelt partitioning in mixed-conifer sub-alpine forests

(2009) Noah P. Molotch et al.   Ecohydrology

Increased sediment transport via bioturbation at the last glacial-interglacial transition

(2009) Matthew W. Hughes et al.   GEOLOGY

The implications of geology, soils, and vegetation on landscape morphology: Inferences from semi-arid basins with complex vegetation patterns in Central New Mexico, USA

(2009) Omer Yetemen et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Tectonic and structural control of fluvial channel morphology in metamorphic core complexes: The example of the Catalina-Rincon core complex, Arizona

(2009) J. D. Pelletier et al.   Geosphere

Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest

(2009) JIA HU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of weather, fuel and terrain on fire severity in topographically diverse landscapes of south-eastern Australia

(2009) R. A. Bradstock et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

On the role of aspect to quantify water transit times in small mountainous catchments

(2009) Patrick D. Broxton et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Quantifying the climatic and tectonic controls on hillslope steepness and erosion rate

(2009) Jon D. Pelletier et al.   Lithosphere

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Soils and their relationship to aspect and vegetation history in the eastern Southern Alps, Canterbury High Country, South Island, New Zealand

(2008) André Eger et al.   CATENA

How well can hillslope evolution models "explain" topography? Simulating soil transport and production with high-resolution topographic data

(2008) J. J. Roering   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Eco-geomorphic implications of hillslope aspect: Inferences from analysis of landscape morphology in central New Mexico

(2008) Erkan Istanbulluoglu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Aspect-related microclimatic influences on slope forms and processes, northeastern Arizona

(2008) Benjamin N. Burnett et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Controls on the spacing of first-order valleys

(2008) J. Taylor Perron et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

(2008) D. D. Breshears et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

(2008) A. E. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Post-fire geomorphic response in steep, forested landscapes: Oregon Coast Range, USA

(2008) Molly Jackson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS