Lagging behind: have we overlooked previous-year rainfall effects in annual grasslands?

Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands

(2016) Claudia Stein et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Evaluating Ecosystem Services Provided by Non-Native Species: An Experimental Test in California Grasslands

(2014) Claudia Stein et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Anticipating changes in variability of grassland production due to increases in interannual precipitation variability

(2014) Joanna S. Hsu et al.   Ecosphere

Exotic species display greater germination plasticity and higher germination rates than native species across multiple cues

(2013) Claire E. Wainwright et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation

(2013) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOLOGY

Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

(2013) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   ECOLOGY

Germination strategies of annual forbs from south-eastern Australian semiarid grasslands

(2012) Andrew J. Scott et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Using livestock to manage plant composition: A meta-analysis of grazing in California Mediterranean grasslands

(2012) Karen A. Stahlheber et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Temporal variability in California grasslands: Soil type and species functional traits mediate response to precipitation

(2012) B. M. Fernandez-Going et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Ecological effects of experimental drought and prescribed fire in a southern California coastal grassland

(2012) D.L. Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Community-level consequences of cattle grazing for an invaded grassland: variable responses of native and exotic vegetation

(2012) Meghan J. Skaer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000

(2012) P. J. Durack et al.   SCIENCE

Using the negative binomial distribution to model overdispersion in ecological count data

(2011) Andreas Lindén et al.   ECOLOGY

Carry over from previous year environmental conditions alters dominance hierarchy in a prairie plant community

(2011) Rebecca A. Sherry et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

(2011) Seung-Ki Min et al.   NATURE

Influences of climate change on California and Nevada regions revealed by a high-resolution dynamical downscaling study

(2010) Lin-Lin Pan et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

(2010) Brody Sandel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Precipitation magnitude and timing differentially affect species richness and plant density in the sotol grassland of the Chihuahuan Desert

(2009) Traesha R. Robertson et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Responses of a California annual grassland to litter manipulation

(2008) Kathryn L. Amatangelo et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Precipitation timing and magnitude differentially affect aboveground annual net primary productivity in three perennial species in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2008) Traesha R. Robertson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST