Press-pulse interactions: effects of warming, N deposition, altered winter precipitation, and fire on desert grassland community structure and dynamics

The influence of seasonal precipitation and grass competition on 20 years of forb dynamics in northern Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2016) John M. Mulhouse et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Nighttime warming enhances drought resistance of plant communities in a temperate steppe

(2016) Zhongling Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Long-Term Dynamics and Hotspots of Change in a Desert Grassland Plant Community

(2015) Scott L. Collins et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The ecological role of small rainfall events in a desert grassland

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

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   OECOLOGIA

Increased sensitivity to climate change in disturbed ecosystems

(2015) György Kröel-Dulay et al.   Nature Communications

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

(2015) B. I. Cook et al.   Science Advances

Responses of Plant Community Composition and Biomass Production to Warming and Nitrogen Deposition in a Temperate Meadow Ecosystem

(2015) Tao Zhang et al.   PLoS One

A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems

(2014) S.L. Collins et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Regional trends and local variability in monsoon precipitation in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA

(2014) M.D. Petrie et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

(2014) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Chihuahuan Desert Grassland Responds Similarly to Fall, Spring, and Summer Fires During Prolonged Drought

(2014) Laura M. Ladwig et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Net primary productivity and rain-use efficiency as affected by warming, altered precipitation, and clipping in a mixed-grass prairie

(2013) Xia Xu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Pierre Mariotte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Late-twentieth-century emergence of the El Niño propagation asymmetry and future projections

(2013) Agus Santoso et al.   NATURE

Robust twenty-first-century projections of El Niño and related precipitation variability

(2013) Scott Power et al.   NATURE

Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

(2013) Shushi Peng et al.   NATURE

Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

(2013) F. Isbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regional climatic considerations for borderlands sustainability

(2013) David S. Gutzler   Ecosphere

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community stability does not preclude ecosystem sensitivity to chronic resource alteration

(2012) Alan K. Knapp et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation

(2012) Scott L. Collins et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of experimental rainfall manipulations on Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

(2012) Selene Báez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability

(2012) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   OECOLOGIA

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

The Effects of Warming-Shifted Plant Phenology on Ecosystem Carbon Exchange Are Regulated by Precipitation in a Semi-Arid Grassland

(2012) Jianyang Xia et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Biogeochemical and ecological feedbacks in grassland responses to warming

(2012) Zhuoting Wu et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

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

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert

(2011) Sharon J. Hall et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

(2011) Seung-Ki Min et al.   NATURE

C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

(2011) Jack A. Morgan et al.   NATURE

Variation in seedling freezing response is associated with climate in Larrea

(2011) Juliana S. Medeiros et al.   OECOLOGIA

Above- and belowground responses to nitrogen addition in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2011) Laura M. Ladwig et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

The Influence of Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture on the Grass and Shrub Responses to a Summer Rainstorm in a Chihuahuan Desert Ecotone

(2010) William T. Pockman 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

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Complex seasonal cycle of ecohydrology in the Southwest United States

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

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Rapid plant community responses during the summer monsoon to nighttime warming in a northern Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2009) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Aboveground production and species richness of annuals in Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

(2009) Y. Xia et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change hotspots in the United States

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

Lagged effects of experimental warming and doubled precipitation on annual and seasonal aboveground biomass production in a tallgrass prairie

(2008) REBECCA A. SHERRY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

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

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

Long-Term Effects of a Summer Fire on Desert Grassland Plant Demographics in New Mexico

(2008) Robert R. Parmenter   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE