List of works by Thomas E. Kolb

A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

A conditional trophic cascade: birds benefit faster growing trees with strong links between predators and plants

scientific article

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

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Application of tree-ring isotopic analyses to reconstruct historical water use of riparian trees

scientific article published on March 2008

Biophysical controls on carbon and water vapor fluxes across a grassland climatic gradient in the United States

scholarly article by Pradeep Wagle et al published December 2015 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Biotic and climatic controls on interannual variability in carbon fluxes across terrestrial ecosystems

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America.

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Changes in Community-Level Riparian Plant Traits over Inundation Gradients, Colorado River, Grand Canyon

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Changes in whole-tree water relations during ontogeny of Pinus flexilis and Pinus ponderosa in a high-elevation meadow

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

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Coupling of Tree Growth and Photosynthetic Carbon Uptake Across Six North American Forests

scientific article published in 2022

Covariations between plant functional traits emerge from constraining parameterization of a terrestrial biosphere model

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Differential responses of carbon and water vapor fluxes to climate among evergreen needleleaf forests in the USA

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Direct and indirect effects of climatic variations on the interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange across terrestrial ecosystems

Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Do riparian plant community characteristics differ between Tamarix (L.) invaded and non-invaded sites on the upper Verde River, Arizona?

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Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

Drought responses of conifers in ecotone forests of northern Arizona: tree ring growth and leaf delta13C.

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Drought-Mediated Changes in Tree Physiological Processes Weaken Tree Defenses to Bark Beetle Attack

scientific article published on 07 September 2019

Effects of artificial and western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) defoliation on growth and biomass allocation of Douglas-fir seedlings

scientific article published on June 2002

Forest Thinning in Ponderosa Pines Increases Carbon Use Efficiency and Energy Flow From Primary Producers to Primary Consumers

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Genetic variation in Pinus strobiformis growth and drought tolerance from southwestern US populations

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Homeostatic maintenance of ponderosa pine gas exchange in response to stand density changes

scientific article published on June 2006

Host physiological condition regulates parasitic plant performance: Arceuthobium vaginatum subsp. cryptopodum on Pinus ponderosa

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

How is water-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems distributed and changing on Earth?

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Importance of resin ducts in reducing ponderosa pine mortality from bark beetle attack

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Invasion resistance and persistence: established plants win, even with disturbance and high propagule pressure

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Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

article by Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al published 13 April 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Limited response of ponderosa pine bole defenses to wounding and fungi.

scientific article published in April 2011

Local-Scale Drought Adaptation of Ponderosa Pine Seedlings at Habitat Ecotones

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Long-term thinning alters ponderosa pine reproduction in northern Arizona

scientific article published in 2016

Managing climate change adaptation in forests: a case study from the U.S. Southwest

scholarly article by Lucy P. Kerhoulas et al published 7 August 2013 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Mechanisms of piñon pine mortality after severe drought: a retrospective study of mature trees

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

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Montane forest productivity across a semi-arid climatic gradient

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Native Riparian Tree Establishment Along the Regulated Dolores River, Colorado

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Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

scientific article published in Nature

Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO 2 Flux and its Inter‐Annual Variability

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Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO2 Flux and its Inter-Annual Variability

Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO2 Flux and its Inter-Annual Variability

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Optimizing Phenology Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Net CO2 Flux Inter-Annual Variability

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PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO GROUNDWATER DEPTH VARIES AMONG SPECIES AND WITH RIVER FLOW REGULATION

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Physiological and Growth Responses of Riparian Sedge Transplants to Groundwater Depth

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Plant water potential improves prediction of empirical stomatal models.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Prototype campaign assessment of disturbance-induced tree loss effects on surface properties for atmospheric modeling

scientific article published in 2017

Provenance Variation in Early Survival, Growth, and Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Growing in Three Common Gardens across an Elevational Gradient

scientific article published on 12 November 2021

Recovery of ponderosa pine ecosystem carbon and water fluxes from thinning and stand-replacing fire

scientific article published on 30 July 2012

Regulation of ponderosa pine foliar physiology and insect resistance mechanisms by basal area treatments

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Soil moisture response to seasonal drought conditions and post‐thinning forest structure

Stand density, drought, and herbivory constrain ponderosa pine regeneration pulse

Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

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Testing water fluxes and storage from two hydrology configurations within the ORCHIDEE land surface model across US semi-arid sites

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

The Fire and Tree Mortality database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire

journal article published in 2020

The Influence of Monsoon Climate on Latewood Growth of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine

The role of monoterpenes in resistance of Douglas fir to western spruce budworm defoliation

scientific article published on May 2002

Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

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Toward full economic valuation of forest fuels-reduction treatments

scientific article published in October 2013

UAV ‐derived estimates of forest structure to inform ponderosa pine forest restoration

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Unthinned slow-growing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) trees contain muted isotopic signals in tree rings as compared to thinned trees

Variation in budburst phenology of Douglas-fir related to western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) fitness

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Variation in species-level plant functional traits over wetland indicator status categories

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Variation in woody plant mortality and dieback from severe drought among soils, plant groups, and species within a northern Arizona ecotone

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Vegetation productivity responds to sub-annual climate conditions across semiarid biomes

article published in 2016

Wildfire reduces carbon dioxide efflux and increases methane uptake in ponderosa pine forest soils of the southwestern USA

scholarly article by Benjamin W. Sullivan et al published 2 July 2010 in Biogeochemistry

Woody plants optimise stomatal behaviour relative to hydraulic risk

article by William R. L. Anderegg et al published July 2018 in Ecology Letters