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List of works by Michael E. Loik

A multi-scale perspective of water pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western USA.

scientific article published on 8 May 2004

Adjustments in physiological and morphological traits suggest drought-induced competitive release of some California plants

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding the Biology of Invasions: Local Adaptation and General-Purpose Genotypes in the Weed Verbascum thapsus

article published in 2003

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

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Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

scientific article published on June 2004

Differential daytime and night-time stomatal behavior in plants from North American deserts

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Differential responses of soil bacteria and fungi to altered precipitation in a meadow steppe

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Effects of a Heat Wave on Nocturnal Stomatal Conductance in Eucalyptus camaldulensis

Effects of an increase in summer precipitation on leaf, soil, and ecosystem fluxes of CO2 and H2O in a sotol grassland in Big Bend National Park, Texas

scientific article published on 20 December 2006

Effects of climate and snow depth on Bromus tectorum population dynamics at high elevation

scientific article published on August 26, 2010

Elevated nitrogen effects onBromus tectorumdominance and native plant diversity in an arid montane ecosystem

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Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Genetic variation in circadian regulation of nocturnal stomatal conductance enhances carbon assimilation and growth.

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

Global change effects on Bromus tectorum L. (Poaceae) at its high‐elevation range margin

scientific article published on October 29, 2012

High-temperature tolerance of Artemisia tridentata and Potentilla gracilis under a climate change manipulation

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Impact of intra- versus inter-annual snow depth variation on water relations and photosynthesis for two Great Basin Desert shrubs

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

Influence of summer marine fog and low cloud stratus on water relations of evergreen woody shrubs (Arctostaphylos: Ericaceae) in the chaparral of central California.

scientific article published on 15 April 2012

Leaf traits and phylogeny explain plant survival and community dynamics in response to extreme drought in a restored coastal grassland

scientific article published in 2021

Maritime climate influence on chaparral composition and diversity in the coast range of central California

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Nitrogen Addition Increases the Sensitivity of Photosynthesis to Drought and Re-watering Differentially in C3 Versus C4 Grass Species

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Photosynthesis and carbon allocation are both important predictors of genotype productivity responses to elevated CO2 in Eucalyptus camaldulensis

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Photosynthesis of seedlings of Otoba novogranatensis (Myristicaceae) and Ruagea glabra (Meliaceae) in abandoned pasture, secondary forest and plantation habitats in Costa Rica.

scientific article published on September 2013

Photosynthetic responses of tree seedlings in grass and under shrubs in early-successional tropical old fields, Costa Rica

scientific article published on March 2001

Photosynthetic sensitivity to historic meteorological variability for conifers in the eastern Sierra Nevada

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Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

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Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Relationships between climate of origin and photosynthetic responses to an episodic heatwave depend on growth CO2 concentration for Eucalyptus camaldulensis var. camaldulensis

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Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species

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Seeds of Yucca Whipplei Var. Whipplei Germinate in the Fruit

scientific article published in 1996

Soil microbial and nutrient responses to 7 years of seasonally altered precipitation in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

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The effect of cactus spines on light interception and Photosystem II for three sympatric species of Opuntia from the Mojave Desert

scientific article published on 11 April 2008

The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis

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Thresholds, memory, and seasonality: understanding pulse dynamics in arid/semi-arid ecosystems.

scientific article published on 5 August 2004

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures

Utilizing intraspecific variation in phenotypic plasticity to bolster agricultural and forest productivity under climate change.

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Water and Light‐Use Efficiency Are Enhanced Under Summer Coastal Fog in a California Agricultural System

Water relations and mucopolysaccharide increases for a winter hardy cactus during acclimation to subzero temperatures.

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Water relations and photosynthesis along an elevation gradient for Artemisia tridentata during an historic drought

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