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Seed Menus: An integrated decision‐support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert by Shryock, Daniel F., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…The combination of ecosystem stressors, rapid climate change, and increasing landscape‐scale development has necessitated active restoration across large…”
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Landscape genetic approaches to guide native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert by Shryock, Daniel F., Havrilla, Caroline A., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C., Custer, Nathan A., Wood, Troy E.

“…Restoring dryland ecosystems is a global challenge due to synergistic drivers of disturbance coupled with unpredictable environmental conditions. Dryland plant…”
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Desert tortoise use of burned habitat in the Eastern Mojave desert by Drake, K. Kristina, Esque, Todd C., Nussear, Kenneth E., Defalco, Lesley A., Scoles-Sciulla, Sara J., Modlin, Andrew T., Medica, Philip A.

“…Wildfires burned 24,254 ha of critical habitat designated for the recovery of the threatened Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in southern Nevada…”
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What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants by Schwinning, Susanne, Lortie, Christopher J., Esque, Todd C., DeFalco, Lesley A.

“…Common garden experiments are indoor or outdoor plantings of species or populations collected from multiple distinct geographic locations, grown together under…”
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Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata by Custer, Nathan A., Schwinning, Susanne, DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…Widely distributed species are often locally adapted to climate gradients across their ranges. But little is known about the patterns of intraspecific…”
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Harnessing landscape genomics to identify future climate resilient genotypes in a desert annual by Shryock, Daniel F., Washburn, Loraine K., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…Local adaptation features critically in shaping species responses to changing environments, complicating efforts to revegetate degraded areas. Rapid climate…”
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Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering by Yoder, Jeremy B., Andrade, Ana Karina, DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C., Carlson, Colin J., Shryock, Daniel F., Yeager, Ray, Smith, Christopher I.

“…Quantifying how global change impacts wild populations remains challenging, especially for species poorly represented by systematic datasets. Here, we infer…”
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Yucca brevifolia fruit production, predispersal seed predation, and fruit removal by rodents during two years of contrasting reproduction by Borchert, Mark I., DeFalco, Lesley A.

“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The distribution of Yucca brevifolia, a keystone species of the Mojave Desert, may contract with climate change, yet reproduction and…”
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Spatial decision‐support tools to guide restoration and seed‐sourcing in the Desert Southwest by Shryock, Daniel F., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…Altered disturbance regimes and shifting climates have increased the need for large‐scale restoration treatments across the western United States…”
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Drawing a line in the sand: Effectiveness of off-highway vehicle management in California's Sonoran desert by Custer, Nathan A., DeFalco, Lesley A., Nussear, Kenneth E., Esque, Todd C.

“…Public land policies manage multiple uses while striving to protect vulnerable plant and wildlife habitats from degradation; yet the effectiveness of such…”
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The role of salinity tolerance and competition in the distribution of an endangered desert salt marsh endemic by DeFalco, Lesley A., Scoles-Sciulla, Sara J., Beamguard, Emily R.

“…Rare plants are often associated with distinctive soil types, and understanding why endemic species occur in unique environments is fundamental for their…”
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Landscape genomics of Sphaeralcea ambigua in the Mojave Desert: a multivariate, spatially-explicit approach to guide ecological restoration by Shryock, Daniel F, Havrilla, Caroline A, DeFalco, Lesley A, Esque, Todd C, Custer, Nathan A, Wood, Troy E

“…Local adaptation influences plant species’ responses to climate change and their performance in ecological restoration. Fine-scale physiological or…”
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Short-term soil inorganic N pulse after experimental fire alters invasive and native annual plant production in a Mojave Desert shrubland by Esque, Todd C, Kaye, Jason P, Eckert, Sara E, DeFalco, Lesley A, Tracy, C. Richard

“…Post-fire changes in desert vegetation patterns are known, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. Theory suggests that pulse dynamics of resource…”
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Life‐history traits predict perennial species response to fire in a desert ecosystem by Shryock, Daniel F., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…The Mojave Desert of North America has become fire‐prone in recent decades due to invasive annual grasses that fuel wildfires following years of high rainfall…”
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Direct and indirect effects of environmental variability on growth and survivorship of pre-reproductive Joshua trees, Yucca brevifolia Engelm. (Agavaceae) by Esque, Todd C., Medica, Philip A., Shryock, Daniel F., DeFalco, Lesley A., Webb, Robert H., Hunter, Richard B.

“…• Premise of study: Accurate demographic information about long-lived plant species is important for understanding responses to large-scale disturbances,…”
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Short seed longevity, variable germination conditions, and infrequent establishment events provide a narrow window for Yucca brevifolia (Agavaceae) recruitment by Reynolds, M. Bryant J, DeFalco, Lesley A, Esque, Todd C

“…• Premise of the Study: The future of long-lived stand-forming desert plants such as Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree) has come into question in light of climate…”
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Supplementing Seed Banks to Rehabilitate Disturbed Mojave Desert Shrublands: Where Do All the Seeds Go? by DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C., Nicklas, Melissa B., Kane, Jeffrey M.

“…Revegetation of degraded arid lands often involves supplementing impoverished seed banks and improving the seedbed, yet these approaches frequently fail. To…”
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Unprecedented distribution data for Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) reveal contemporary climate associations of a Mojave Desert icon by Esque, Todd C., Shryock, Daniel F., Berry, Gabrielle A., Chen, Felicia C., DeFalco, Lesley A., Lewicki, Sabrina M., Cunningham, Brent L., Gaylord, Eddie J., Poage, Caitlan S., Gantz, Gretchen E., Van Gaalen, Ross A., Gottsacker, Ben O., McDonald, Amanda M., Yoder, Jeremy B., Smith, Christopher I., Nussear, Kenneth E.

“…IntroductionForecasting range shifts in response to climate change requires accurate species distribution models (SDMs), particularly at the margins of…”
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Desert wildfire and severe drought diminish survivorship of the long-lived Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae) by DeFalco, Lesley A, Esque, Todd C, Scoles-Sciulla, Sara J, Rodgers, Jane

“…Extreme climate events are transforming plant communities in the desert Southwest of the United States. Abundant precipitation in 1998 associated with El Niño…”
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Contrasting Long-Term Survival of Two Outplanted Mojave Desert Perennials for Post-Fire Revegetation by Scoles-Sciulla, Sara J., DeFalco, Lesley A., Esque, Todd C.

“…Post-fire recovery of arid shrublands is typically slow, and planting greenhouse-raised seedlings may be a means of jump-starting this process. Recovery can be…”
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