Precipitation Pattern Determines the Inter-annual Variation of Herbaceous Layer and Carbon Fluxes in a Phreatophyte-Dominated Desert Ecosystem

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

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

Trends of precipitation intensity and frequency in hydrological regions of China from 1956 to 2005

(2014) Xiaoying Zhang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Phenological transition dictates the seasonal dynamics of ecosystem carbon exchange in a desert steppe

(2014) Gang Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Stable oxygen isotopes reveal distinct water use patterns of two Haloxylon species in the Gurbantonggut Desert

(2014) Yue Dai et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Precipitation amount, seasonality and frequency regulate carbon cycling of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia, China: A modeling analysis

(2013) Shushi Peng et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

From desert to Mediterranean rangelands: will increasing drought and inter-annual rainfall variability affect herbaceous annual primary productivity?

(2013) Carly Golodets et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Consequences of Cool-Season Drought-Induced Plant Mortality to Chihuahuan Desert Grassland Ecosystem and Soil Respiration Dynamics

(2013) Erik P. Hamerlynck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

When vegetation change alters ecosystem water availability

(2013) Russell L. Scott et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonal changes in the water use strategies of three co-occurring desert shrubs

(2013) Yu Wu et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Landscape and environmental controls over leaf and ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes under woody plant expansion

(2013) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The limited role of snow water in the growth and development of ephemeral plants in a cold desert

(2013) Lian-Lian Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Woody plant encroachment facilitated by increased precipitation intensity

(2013) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   Nature Climate Change

High efficiency in water use and carbon gain in a wet year for a desert halophyte community

(2012) Ran Liu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Carbon dioxide exchange over multiple temporal scales in an arid shrub ecosystem near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

(2012) Tom W. Bell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The response of CO2flux to rain pulses at a saline desert

(2012) Jie Ma et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Cool-season whole-plant gas exchange of exotic and native semiarid bunchgrasses

(2012) Erik P. Hamerlynck et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Net ecosystem exchange, evapotranspiration and canopy conductance in a riparian forest

(2011) John Kochendorfer et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Organization of complexity in water limited ecohydrology

(2011) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   Ecohydrology

Changes in snow cover over China in the 21st century as simulated by a high resolution regional climate model

(2011) Ying Shi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Temperature and precipitation controls over leaf- and ecosystem-level CO2 flux along a woody plant encroachment gradient

(2011) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sublimation over seasonal snowpack at the southeastern edge of a desert in central Eurasia

(2011) Hong-Fei Zhou et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

On North American Decadal Climate for 2011–20

(2011) Martin Hoerling et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Identification and correction of spectral contamination in 2H/1H and 18O/16O measured in leaf, stem, and soil water

(2011) Natalie M. Schultz et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Large annual net ecosystem CO2uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem

(2008) GEORG WOHLFAHRT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

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

Precipitation variability and primary productivity in water-limited ecosystems: how plants ‘leverage’ precipitation to ‘finance’ growth

(2008) Philip A. Fay   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon Fluxes on North American Rangelands

(2008) Tony Svejcar et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management