Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

Sensitivity of the Colorado Plateau to Change: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society

(2016) Susan Schwinning et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The ecological role of small rainfall events in a desert grassland

(2015) M. D. Petrie et al.   Ecohydrology

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert

(2015) Seth M. Munson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shifts in plant functional types have time-dependent and regionally variable impacts on dryland ecosystem water balance

(2015) John B. Bradford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Temporal ecology in the Anthropocene

(2014) E. M. Wolkovich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecohydrology of Dry Regions: Storage versus Pulse Soil Water Dynamics

(2014) W. K. Lauenroth et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Differential sensitivities of grassland structural components to changes in precipitation mediate productivity response in a desert ecosystem

(2014) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

(2014) M. D. Petrie et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

(2014) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controls on sediment production in two U.S. deserts

(2014) Jayne Belnap et al.   Aeolian Research

Climate model genealogy: Generation CMIP5 and how we got there

(2013) Reto Knutti et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Can the past predict the future? Experimental tests of historically based population models

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modeling the effects of climate change projections on streamflow in the Nooksack River basin, Northwest Washington

(2013) Susan E. Dickerson-Lange et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Mechanisms of grass response in grasslands and shrublands during dry or wet periods

(2013) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant responses, climate pivot points, and trade-offs in water-limited ecosystems

(2013) Seth M. Munson   Ecosphere

Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous-year tiller density

(2012) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Long-term experimental loss of foundation species: consequences for dynamics at ecotones across heterogeneous landscapes

(2012) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   Ecosphere

Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems

(2011) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forecasting climate change impacts to plant community composition in the Sonoran Desert region

(2011) Seth M. Munson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A comparison of methods to assess long-term changes in Sonoran Desert vegetation

(2011) S.M. Munson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie

(2011) Joseph M. Craine et al.   OECOLOGIA

Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau

(2011) S. M. Munson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the brink of change: plant responses to climate on the Colorado Plateau

(2011) Seth M. Munson et al.   Ecosphere

Climate variability and projected change in the western United States: regional downscaling and drought statistics

(2010) David S. Gutzler et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Effects of growth temperature on photosynthetic gas exchange characteristics and hydraulic anatomy in leaves of two cold-climatePoaspecies

(2010) Danielle E. Medek et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2010) MICHELL L. THOMEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

Methods to quantify variable importance: implications for the analysis of noisy ecological data

(2009) Kim Murray et al.   ECOLOGY

Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil-vegetation-climate interactions in arid landscapes: Effects of the North American monsoon on grass recruitment

(2009) Debra P.C. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Soil Texture Drives Responses of Soil Respiration to Precipitation Pulses in the Sonoran Desert: Implications for Climate Change

(2008) Jessica M. Cable et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Climate change hotspots in the United States

(2008) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

(2008) Jana L. Heisler-White et al.   OECOLOGIA