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Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous-year tiller density by Reichmann, Lara G, Sala, Osvaldo E, Peters, Debra P. C

“…In arid ecosystems, current-year precipitation often explains only a small proportion of annual aboveground net primary production (ANPP). We hypothesized that…”
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Mechanisms of grass response in grasslands and shrublands during dry or wet periods by Peters, Debra P. C., Yao, Jin, Browning, Dawn, Rango, Albert

“…Multi-year climatic periods are expected to increase with global change, yet long-term data are often insufficient to document factors leading to ecological…”
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Interrogating Genomes and Geography to Unravel Multiyear Vesicular Stomatitis Epizootics by Humphreys, John M, Shults, Phillip T, Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro, Bertram, Miranda R, Pelzel-McCluskey, Angela M, Pauszek, Steven J, Peters, Debra P C, Rodriguez, Luis L

“…We conducted an integrative analysis to elucidate the spatial epidemiological patterns of the Vesicular Stomatitis New Jersey virus (VSNJV) during the 2014-15…”
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Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study by Sylvain, Zachary A, Wall, Diana H, Cherwin, Karie L, Peters, Debra P. C, Reichmann, Lara G, Sala, Osvaldo E

“…Climate change will result in reduced soil water availability in much of the world either due to changes in precipitation or increased temperature and…”
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Community composition of black flies during and after the 2020 vesicular stomatitis virus outbreak in Southern New Mexico, USA by Whelpley, Madelin J, Zhou, Lawrence H, Rascon, Jeremy, Payne, Bailey, Moehn, Brett, Young, Katherine I, Mire, Chad E, Peters, Debra P C, Rodriguez, Luis L, Hanley, Kathryn A

“…Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a vector-borne pathogen of livestock, emerges periodically in the western US. In New Mexico (NM), US, most cases occur close…”
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Cross-Scale Interactions and Changing Pattern-Process Relationships: Consequences for System Dynamics by Peters, Debra P. C, Bestelmeyer, Brandon T, Turner, Monica G

“…Cross-scale interactions refer to processes at one spatial or temporal scale interacting with processes at another scale to result in nonlinear dynamics with…”
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Modeling the 2014-2015 Vesicular Stomatitis Outbreak in the United States Using an SEIR-SEI Approach by Humphreys, John M, Pelzel-McCluskey, Angela M, Shults, Phillip T, Velazquez-Salinas, Lauro, Bertram, Miranda R, McGregor, Bethany L, Cohnstaedt, Lee W, Swanson, Dustin A, Scroggs, Stacey L P, Fautt, Chad, Mooney, Amber, Peters, Debra P C, Rodriguez, Luis L

“…Vesicular stomatitis (VS) is a vector-borne livestock disease caused by the vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus (VSNJV). This study presents the first…”
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Taking the pulse of a continent: expanding site-based research infrastructure for regional- to continental-scale ecology by Peters, Debra P. C, Loescher, Henry W, SanClements, Michael D, Havstad, Kris M

“…Many of the most dramatic and surprising effects of global change on ecological systems will occur across large spatial extents, from regions to continents…”
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Cross-Scale Interactions, Nonlinearities, and Forecasting Catastrophic Events by Debra P. C. Peters, Pielke, Roger A., Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., Allen, Craig D., Munson-McGee, Stuart, Havstad, Kris M., Mooney, Harold A.

“…Catastrophic events share characteristic nonlinear behaviors that are often generated by cross-scale interactions and feedbacks among system elements. These…”
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Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences by Carpenter, Stephen R, Armbrust, E. Virginia, Arzberger, Peter W, Stuart Chapin, F, Elser, James J, Hackett, Edward J, Ives, Anthony R, Kareiva, Peter M, Leibold, Mathew A, Lundberg, Per, Mangel, Marc, Merchant, Nirav, Murdoch, William W, Palmer, Margaret A, Peters, Debra P. C, Pickett, Steward T. A, Smith, Kathleen K, Wall, Diana H, Zimmerman, Ann S

“…Ecology is a leading discipline in the synthesis of diverse knowledge. Ecologists have had considerable experience in bringing together diverse, multinational…”
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Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions by Ponce-Campos, Guillermo E., Moran, M. Susan, Huete, Alfredo, Zhang, Yongguang, Bresloff, Cynthia, Huxman, Travis E., Eamus, Derek, Bosch, David D., Buda, Anthony R., Gunter, Stacey A., Scalley, Tamara Heartsill, Kitchen, Stanley G., McClaran, Mitchel P., McNab, W. Henry, Montoya, Diane S., Morgan, Jack A., Peters, Debra P. C., Sadler, E. John, Seyfried, Mark S., Starks, Patrick J.

“…The resilience of a global sample of ecosystems to an increase in drought conditions is assessed, comparing data from the early twenty-first with the late…”
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Enhanced precipitation variability effects on water losses and ecosystem functioning: differential response of arid and mesic regions by Sala, Osvaldo E., Gherardi, Laureano A., Peters, Debra P. C.

“…Climate change will result in increased precipitation variability with more extreme events reflected in more frequent droughts as well as more frequent…”
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Spatiotemporal Patterns of Production Can Be Used to Detect State Change Across an Arid Landscape by Williamson, Jeb C., Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., Peters, Debra P. C.

“…Methods to detect and quantify shifts in the state of ecosystems are increasingly important as global change drivers push more systems toward thresholds of…”
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The resistance and resilience of Great Plains ecoregion boundaries to the 1930s drought as a lens to future dynamics by Burruss, N. Dylan, Peters, Debra P. C., Huang, Haitao

“…Potential natural vegetation (PNV) remains an important concept in ecology by providing the basis for comparing current or future conditions and trends in…”
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Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems by Peters, Debra P. C., Yao, Jin, Sala, Osvaldo E., Anderson, John P.

“…Our objective was to determine if long‐term increases in precipitation can maintain grasslands susceptible to desertification, and initiate a reversal of…”
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Harnessing the power of big data: infusing the scientific method with machine learning to transform ecology by Peters, Debra P. C, Havstad, Kris M, Cushing, Judy, Tweedie, Craig, Fuentes, Olac, Villanueva-Rosales, Natalia

“…Most efforts to harness the power of big data for ecology and environmental sciences focus on data and metadata sharing, standardization, and accuracy…”
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Accessible ecology: synthesis of the long, deep, and broad by Peters, Debra P.C.

“…Large volumes of data have been collected to document the many ways that ecological systems are responding to changing environmental drivers. A general buy-in…”
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Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems by Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., Ellison, Aaron M., Fraser, William R., Gorman, Kristen B., Holbrook, Sally J., Laney, Christine M., Ohman, Mark D., Peters, Debra P. C., Pillsbury, Finn C., Rassweiler, Andrew, Schmitt, Russell J., Sharma, Sapna

“…The occurrence and causes of abrupt transitions, thresholds, or regime shifts between ecosystem states are of great concern and the likelihood of such…”
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Mechanisms and drivers of alternative shrubland states by Archer, Steven R., Peters, Debra P. C., Burruss, N. Dylan, Yao, Jin

“…Grassland‐to‐shrubland state change has been widespread in arid lands globally. Long‐term records at the Jornada Basin USDA‐LTER site in the North American…”
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Beyond desertification: new paradigms for dryland landscapes by Peters, Debra PC, Havstad, Kris M, Archer, Steven R, Sala, Osvaldo E

“…The traditional desertification paradigm focuses on the losses of ecosystem services that typically occur when grasslands transition to systems dominated by…”
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