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List of works by Scott M. Ferrenberg

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

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Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts

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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

Biocrust ecology: unifying micro- and macro-scales to confront global change

scientific article published in November 2017

Biocrust science and global change

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

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

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Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

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Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

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Climatic Sensitivity of Dryland Soil CO2 Fluxes Differs Dramatically with Biological Soil Crust Successional State

Competition as a factor underlying the abundance of an uncommon phytophagous insect, the salt-marsh planthopper Delphacodes penedetecta

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Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

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Differential drivers of chemical defenses in three widespread pine species along a 1500-m elevational gradient: a test of the elevational gradient in plant defense hypothesis

Differential drivers of chemical defenses in three widespread pine species along a 1500-m elevational gradient: a test of the elevational gradient in plant defense hypothesis

Field studies demonstrate bivoltinism in the mountain pine beetle

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Fire Decreases Arthropod Abundance But Increases Diversity: Early and Late Season Prescribed Fire Effects in a Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Forest

article published in 2006

From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome

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Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Community Responses to Recent and Repeated Wildfires in Conifer Forests of Northern New Mexico, USA

scientific article published in 2019

Incorporating Biogeochemistry into Dryland Restoration

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

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

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Landscape Features and Processes Influencing Forest Pest Dynamics

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Modest Residual Effects of Short-Term Warming, Altered Hydration, and Biocrust Successional State on Dryland Soil Heterotrophic Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling

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Mountain pine beetle develops an unprecedented summer generation in response to climate warming

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Ontogenetic consistency in oak defence syndromes

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Patterns and processes of microbial community assembly

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Resin duct characteristics associated with tree resistance to bark beetles across lodgepole and limber pines

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Resin ducts as resistance traits in conifers: Linking dendrochronology and resin-based defenses

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Safety Teams: An Approach To Engage Students in Laboratory Safety

Smooth bark surfaces can defend trees against insect attack: resurrecting a ‘slippery’ hypothesis

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Soil bacterial community structure remains stable over a 5-year chronosequence of insect-induced tree mortality

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

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

To grow or defend? Pine seedlings grow less but induce more defences when a key resource is limited

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

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

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Traversing the Wasteland: A Framework for Assessing Ecological Threats to Drylands

scholarly article

Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest

scientific article published in 2006

Vertical movement of soluble carbon and nutrients from biocrusts to subsurface mineral soils

scientific article published in January 2022

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

scientific article published on 18 May 2022