Search Results - "Huxman, Travis E"
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Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes
Published in Ecology letters (01-03-2015)“…The role of time in ecology has a long history of investigation, but ecologists have largely restricted their attention to the influence of concurrent abiotic…”
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Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-07-2009)“…How biological diversity is generated and maintained is a fundamental question in ecology. Ecologists have delineated many mechanisms that can, in principle,…”
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Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-02-2016)“…In evergreen tropical forests, the extent, magnitude, and controls on photosynthetic seasonality are poorly resolved and inadequately represented in Earth…”
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Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic–aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics
Published in Geomorphology (Amsterdam) (01-04-2010)“…Land degradation in drylands is one of the major environmental issues of the 21st century particularly due to its impact on world food security and…”
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Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-04-2009)“…Large-scale biogeographical shifts in vegetation are predicted in response to the altered precipitation and temperature regimes associated with global climate…”
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Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought‐induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism
Published in The New phytologist (01-03-2013)“…Vegetation change is expected with global climate change, potentially altering ecosystem function and climate feedbacks. However, causes of plant mortality,…”
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Partitioning evapotranspiration across gradients of woody plant cover: Assessment of a stable isotope technique
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-05-2010)“…In water‐limited ecosystems, partitioning ecosystem‐scale evapotranspiration fluxes between plant transpiration and soil/canopy evaporation remains a…”
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Age-dependent leaf physiology and consequences for crown-scale carbon uptake during the dry season in an Amazon evergreen forest
Published in The New phytologist (01-08-2018)“…Satellite and tower-based metrics of forest-scale photosynthesis generally increase with dry season progression across central Amazônia, but the underlying…”
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Effects of Drought Manipulation on Soil Nitrogen Cycling: A Meta‐Analysis
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences (01-12-2017)“…Many regions on Earth are expected to become drier with climate change, which may impact nitrogen (N) cycling rates and availability. We used a meta‐analytical…”
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Temperature response surfaces for mortality risk of tree species with future drought
Published in Environmental research letters (01-11-2017)“…Widespread, high levels of tree mortality, termed forest die-off, associated with drought and rising temperatures, are disrupting forests worldwide. Drought…”
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AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-09-2011)“…Aeolian processes affect the biosphere in a wide variety of contexts, including landform evolution, biogeochemical cycles, regional climate, human health, and…”
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Soil Texture Drives Responses of Soil Respiration to Precipitation Pulses in the Sonoran Desert: Implications for Climate Change
Published in Ecosystems (New York) (01-09-2008)“…Climate change predictions for the desert southwestern U.S. are for shifts in precipitation patterns. The impacts of climate change may be significant, because…”
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When vegetation change alters ecosystem water availability
Published in Global change biology (01-07-2014)“…The combined effects of vegetation and climate change on biosphere–atmosphere water vapor (H₂O) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) exchanges are expected to vary…”
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Nocturnal stomatal conductance responses to rising [CO2], temperature and drought
Published in The New phytologist (01-03-2012)“…The response of nocturnal stomatal conductance (g s,n) to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) is currently unknown, and may differ from responses of…”
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Precipitation Pulses and Carbon Fluxes in Semiarid and Arid Ecosystems
Published in Oecologia (01-10-2004)“…In the arid and semiarid regions of North America, discrete precipitation pulses are important triggers for biological activity. The timing and magnitude of…”
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Climate controls over ecosystem metabolism: insights from a fifteen-year inductive artificial neural network synthesis for a subalpine forest
Published in Oecologia (01-05-2017)“…Eddy covariance (EC) datasets have provided insight into climate determinants of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and evapotranspiration (ET) in natural…”
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Differential daytime and night-time stomatal behavior in plants from North American deserts
Published in The New phytologist (01-04-2012)“…Night-time stomatal conductance (g night) occurs in many ecosystems, but the g night response to environmental drivers is relatively unknown, especially in…”
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Seasonal dry-down rates and high stress tolerance promote bamboo invasion above and below treeline
Published in Plant ecology (01-10-2016)“…How species invasions impact ecosystem structure and function at important ecotones or boundaries is unknown, but may provide insight into the impacts of…”
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Response of Net Ecosystem Gas Exchange to a Simulated Precipitation Pulse in a Semi-Arid Grassland: The Role of Native versus Non-Native Grasses and Soil Texture
Published in Oecologia (01-10-2004)“…Physiological activity and structural dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are driven by discrete inputs or "pulses" of growing season precipitation. Here…”
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Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency
Published in Nature (10-06-2004)“…Water availability limits plant growth and production in almost all terrestrial ecosystems. However, biomes differ substantially in sensitivity of aboveground…”
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