Impacts of altered precipitation regimes on soil communities and biogeochemistry in arid and semi-arid ecosystems

A Synthesis of Climate and Vegetation Cover Effects on Biogeochemical Cycling in Shrub-Dominated Drylands

(2014) Marie-Anne de Graaff et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The impact of precipitation change on nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem

(2014) Melissa A. Cregger et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross-site study

(2014) Zachary A. Sylvain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of increased nitrogen deposition and altered precipitation regimes on soil fertility and functioning in semiarid Mediterranean shrublands

(2014) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Minor Changes in Soil Bacterial and Fungal Community Composition Occur in Response to Monsoon Precipitation in a Semiarid Grassland

(2014) Theresa A. McHugh et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Coupled response of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities to nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia

(2014) Ruzhen Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil

(2013) Steven J. Blazewicz et al.   ECOLOGY

Antecedent Conditions Influence Soil Respiration Differences in Shrub and Grass Patches

(2013) Jessica M. Cable et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Soil extractable carbon and nitrogen, microbial biomass and microbial metabolic activity in response to warming and increased precipitation in a semiarid Inner Mongolian grassland

(2013) Xiaoqi Zhou et al.   GEODERMA

Soil microbial and nutrient responses to 7 years of seasonally altered precipitation in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2013) Colin W. Bell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

(2013) Romain L Barnard et al.   ISME Journal

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Soil microbial responses to warming and increased precipitation and their implications for ecosystem C cycling

(2013) Naili Zhang et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of environmental warming and drought on size-structured soil food webs

(2013) Birgit Lang et al.   OIKOS

Effects of Added Organic Matter and Water on Soil Carbon Sequestration in an Arid Region

(2013) Liming Lai et al.   PLoS One

Microbial community responses to 17 years of altered precipitation are seasonally dependent and coupled to co-varying effects of water content on vegetation and soil C

(2013) Patrick O. Sorensen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon flux in deserts depends on soil cover type: A case study in the Gurbantunggute desert, North China

(2013) Y.G. Su et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Response of the Soil Microbial Community to Changes in Precipitation in a Semiarid Ecosystem

(2012) Melissa A. Cregger et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characteristics of carbon flux in two biologically crusted soils in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China

(2012) Yan-gui Su et al.   CATENA

Soil metabolic pulses: water, substrate, and biological regulation

(2012) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   ECOLOGY

Precipitation-driven carbon balance controls survivorship of desert biocrust mosses

(2012) Kirsten K. Coe et al.   ECOLOGY

Carbon and Nitrogen Decoupling Under an 11-Year Drought in the Shortgrass Steppe

(2012) Sarah E. Evans et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of climate change on soil respiration and carbon processing in Mediterranean and semi-arid regions: An experimental approach

(2012) C. Sherman et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Effects of increasing precipitation and nitrogen deposition on CH4 and N2O fluxes and ecosystem respiration in a degraded steppe in Inner Mongolia, China

(2012) Weiwei Chen et al.   GEODERMA

Impacts of elevated temperature on the growth and functioning of decomposer fungi are influenced by grazing collembola

(2012) A. Donald A'Bear et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High arctic heath soil respiration and biogeochemical dynamics during summer and autumn freeze-in - effects of long-term enhanced water and nutrient supply

(2012) Casper T. Christiansen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increased temperature and altered summer precipitation have differential effects on biological soil crusts in a dryland ecosystem

(2012) Shannon L. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The response of CO2flux to rain pulses at a saline desert

(2012) Jie Ma et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Nitrogen cycling and water pulses in semiarid grasslands: are microbial and plant processes temporally asynchronous?

(2012) Feike A. Dijkstra et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of simulated drought and nitrogen fertilizer on plant productivity and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions of two pastures

(2012) Adrian A. Hartmann et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes

(2012) Tamara J. Zelikova et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Vegetation cover and rain timing co-regulate the responses of soil CO2 efflux to rain increase in an arid desert ecosystem

(2012) Weimin Song et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The ecology of pulse events: insights from an extreme climatic event in a polar desert ecosystem

(2012) U. N. Nielsen et al.   Ecosphere

Soil microbial community response to drying and rewetting stress: does historical precipitation regime matter?

(2011) Sarah E. Evans et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis

(2011) Stefano Manzoni et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil respiration at five sites along the Kalahari Transect: Effects of temperature, precipitation pulses and biological soil crust cover

(2011) Andrew David Thomas et al.   GEODERMA

Changes in soil respiration Q10 during drying–rewetting along a semi-arid elevation gradient

(2011) A. Chatterjee et al.   GEODERMA

Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland

(2011) Rodrigo Vargas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

(2011) Anke Jentsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rain pulse response of soil CO2exchange by biological soil crusts and grasslands of the semiarid Colorado Plateau, United States

(2011) D. R. Bowling 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

Interactive effects of water and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in a semiarid steppe

(2011) J. Bi et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Seasonal and episodic moisture controls on plant and microbial contributions to soil respiration

(2011) Mariah S. Carbone et al.   OECOLOGIA

Few apparent short-term effects of elevated soil temperature and increased frequency of summer precipitation on the abundance and taxonomic diversity of desert soil micro- and meso-fauna

(2011) Brian J. Darby et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Estimation of nitrous oxide emission from Hungarian semi-arid sandy and loess grasslands; effect of soil parameters, grazing, irrigation and use of fertilizer

(2010) L. Horváth et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Size of Precipitation Pulses Controls Nitrogen Transformation and Losses in an Arid Patagonian Ecosystem

(2010) Laura Yahdjian et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Water regulated effects of photosynthetic substrate supply on soil respiration in a semiarid steppe

(2010) LIMING YAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impact of rainfall manipulations and biotic controls on soil respiration in Mediterranean and desert ecosystems along an aridity gradient

(2010) YIFTACH TALMON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Significance of temperature and soil water content on soil respiration in three desert ecosystems in Northwest China

(2010) L.H. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Complex seasonal cycle of ecohydrology in the Southwest United States

(2010) Michael Notaro et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Experimentally increased snow accumulation alters soil moisture and animal community structure in a polar desert

(2010) Edward Ayres et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Soil carbon flux following pulse precipitation events in the shortgrass steppe

(2009) Seth M. Munson et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Differential responses of auto- and heterotrophic soil respiration to water and nitrogen addition in a semiarid temperate steppe

(2009) LIMING YAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dependence of carbon sequestration on the differential responses of ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration to rain pulses in a semiarid steppe

(2009) SHIPING CHEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Despite strong seasonal responses, soil microbial consortia are more resilient to long-term changes in rainfall than overlying grassland

(2009) Karelyn Cruz-Martínez et al.   ISME Journal

Water limitation to soil CO2efflux in a pine forest at the semiarid “timberline”

(2009) José M. Grünzweig et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Precipitation Pulses and Soil CO2 Emission in Desert Shrubland of Artemisia ordosica on the Ordos Plateau of Inner Mongolia, China

(2009) Zhao JIN et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Long-term experimental warming reduces soil nematode populations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2009) B.L. Simmons et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil CO2 efflux and extractable organic carbon fractions under simulated precipitation events in a Mediterranean Dehesa

(2009) Pere Casals et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of irrigation on nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide fluxes in an Inner Mongolian steppe

(2008) Chunyan Liu et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Responses of soil microorganisms to resource availability in urban, desert soils

(2008) Michelle L. McCrackin et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

Whole ecosystem metabolic pulses following precipitation events

(2008) G. D. Jenerette et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reappraisal of drying and wetting effects on C and N mineralization and fluxes in soils

(2008) WERNER BORKEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland

(2008) WEIXING LIU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Precipitation pulses enhance respiration of Mediterranean ecosystems: the balance between organic and inorganic components of increased soil CO2efflux

(2008) I. INGLIMA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Prolonged Dry Episodes over the Conterminous United States: New Tendencies Emerging during the Last 40 Years

(2008) Pavel Ya Groisman et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

(2008) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Responses of soil respiration to simulated precipitation pulses in semiarid steppe under different grazing regimes

(2008) S. Chen et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Soil Microbial Community Response to Drought and Precipitation Variability in the Chihuahuan Desert

(2008) Jeb S. Clark et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Conservation of nitrogen increases with precipitation across a major grassland gradient in the Central Great Plains of North America

(2008) Rebecca L. McCulley et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Soil biotic processes remain remarkably stable after 100-year extreme weather events in experimental grassland and heath

(2008) Juergen Kreyling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL