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List of works by Akasha M. Faist

Aboveground and belowground arthropods experience different relative influences of stochastic versus deterministic community assembly processes following disturbance

scientific article

Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories

scientific article published on 13 May 2022

Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

correction of a scholarly article

Banking on the past: seed banks as a reservoir for rare and native species in restored vernal pools.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2018

Biocrust and the soil surface: Influence of climate, disturbance, and biocrust recovery on soil surface roughness

scientific article

Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination

article

Biological soil crust and disturbance controls on surface hydrology in a semi-arid ecosystem

scientific article published in 2017

Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: emerging research and perspectives

scientific article published in 2020

Broader Impacts for Ecologists: Biological Soil Crust as a Model System for Education

scientific article

Consequences of above-ground invasion by non-native plants into restored vernal pools do not prompt same changes in below-ground processes

scientific article published on 05 July 2021

Diagnosing restoration trajectories using demographic modeling and modern coexistence theory

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

article by Nancy Shackelford et al published 22 July 2021 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Germination of One-Seed Juniper Seeds Distributed by Different Frugivore Groups

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Impacts of Mastication: Soil Seed Bank Responses to a Forest Thinning Treatment in Three Colorado (USA) Conifer Forest Types

article

Incorporating Biogeochemistry into Dryland Restoration

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture

scholarly article

Invasive plant feedbacks promote alternative states in California vernal pools

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Lab and Field Warming Similarly Advance Germination Date and Limit Germination Rate for High and Low Elevation Provenances of Two Widespread Subalpine Conifers

article

Long‐term relationships between seed bank communities and wildfire across four North American desert sites

scientific article published in 2023

Managing flood flow connectivity to landscapes to build buffering capacity to disturbances: An ecohydrologic modeling framework for drylands

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Plant growth and biocrust-fire interactions across five North American deserts

scientific article published in 2021

Risk of Facilitated Invasion Depends Upon Invader Identity, Not Environmental Severity, Along an Aridity Gradient

scientific article published on 09 May 2022

Seed bank community and soil texture relationships in a cold desert

Seed bank composition varies along invasion and inundation gradients in vernal pool wetlands

article

Short-term understory plant community responses to salvage logging in beetle-affected lodgepole pine forests

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Soil surface treatments and precipitation timing determine seedling development across southwestern US restoration sites

scientific article published in 2023

The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis

scientific article

Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders

scientific article published in October 2018

Understory Plant Community Responses to Fuel-Reduction Treatments and Seeding in an Upland Piñon-Juniper Woodland

article

What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community

scientific article published on 18 May 2022