List of works - Seth M. Munson

Aeolian and fluvial processes in dryland regions: the need for integrated studies

An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Anticipatory natural resource science and management for a changing future

scientific article

Aridity increases below-ground niche breadth in grass communities

article by Bradley J. Butterfield et al published 6 January 2017 in Plant Ecology

Assessing plant production responses to climate across water-limited regions using Google Earth Engine

scientific article published in November 2019

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

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2018

Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2023

Biotic and abiotic treatments as a bet‐hedging approach to restoring plant communities and soil functions

scientific article published on 7 September 2021

Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Drive Irrigated Agriculture Dynamics in the Lower Colorado River Basin

scientific article published in 2021

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

scientific article

Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands.

scientific article

Climate drives shifts in grass reproductive phenology across the western USA.

scientific article

Climate legacy and lag effects on dryland plant communities in the southwestern U.S

scientific article

Climate sensitivity to decadal land cover and land use change across the conterminous United States

scientific article published in September 2020

Climate-induced abrupt shifts in structural states trigger delayed transitions in functional states

scientific article published in August 2020

Concentrations of mineral aerosol from desert to plains across the central Rocky Mountains, western United States

Controls of vegetation structure and net primary production in restored grasslands

article

Controls on sediment production in two U.S. deserts

article

Correction: Wells et al. Remotely Sensed Fine-Fuel Changes from Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in a Semi-Arid Grassland. Fire 2021, 4, 84

scientific article published in 2023

Cumulative drought and land-use impacts on perennial vegetation across a North American dryland region

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

DOMINANT SONORAN DESERT PLANT SPECIES HAVE DIVERGENT PHENOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

scientific article published in 2021

Decadal shifts in grass and woody plant cover are driven by prolonged drying and modified by topo-edaphic properties

scientific article

Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

scientific article

Directional selection shifts trait distributions of planted species in dryland restoration

scientific article published in 2021

Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems?

scientific article

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

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

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Dust Deposited on Snow Cover in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, 2011–2016: Compositional Variability Bearing on Snow‐Melt Effects

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Ecosystem thresholds, tipping points, and critical transitions

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Effectiveness of a decade of treatments to reduce invasive buffelgrass (<i>Pennisetum ciliare</i>)

scientific article published in 2023

Employing lidar to detail vegetation canopy architecture for prediction of aeolian transport

article by Joel B. Sankey et al published 12 May 2013 in Geophysical Research Letters

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Functional Group, Biomass, and Climate Change Effects on Ecological Drought in Semiarid Grasslands

scholarly article by S. D. Wilson et al published March 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

Functional composition of plant communities mediates biomass effects on ecosystem service recovery across an experimental dryland restoration network

scientific article published on 01 July 2022

Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al. 2022

scientific article published on 7 February 2023

Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Gaps and hotspots in the state of knowledge of pinyon-juniper communities

scientific article published in January 2020

Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns

scientific article published in 2021

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands

scientific article published in 2018

Influence of climate, post-treatment weather extremes, and soil factors on vegetation recovery after restoration treatments in the southwestern US

Invasive buffelgrass detection using high‐resolution satellite and UAV imagery on Google Earth Engine

scholarly article by Kaitlyn Elkind et al published 23 March 2019 in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Landscape pivot points and responses to water balance in national parks of the southwest US

article

Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains)

scientific article published on 06 November 2008

Long-term plant community trajectories suggest divergent responses of native and non-native perennials and annuals to vegetation removal and seeding treatments

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Long-term shifts in the phenology of rare and endemic Rocky Mountain plants

scientific article

Long-term trends in restoration and associated land treatments in the southwestern United States

scientific article published in 2017

Mapping and measuring aeolian sand dunes with photogrammetry and LiDAR from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and multispectral satellite imagery on the Paria Plateau, AZ, USA

Ontogenetic trait shifts: Seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development

scientific article

Plant Community Recovery Following Restoration in Semiarid Grasslands

article

Plant Population and Habitat Characteristics of the Endemic Sonoran Desert Cactus Peniocereus striatus in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

article

Plant Production Responses to Precipitation Differ Along an Elevation Gradient and Are Enhanced Under Extremes

article

Plant responses, climate pivot points, and trade-offs in water-limited ecosystems

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Prestoration: using species in restoration that will persist now and into the future

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

Rangeland Monitoring Reveals Long-term Plant Responses to Precipitation and Grazing at the Landscape Scale

article

Regional signatures of plant response to drought and elevated temperature across a desert ecosystem

scientific article

Remote Sensing of Sonoran Desert Vegetation Structure and Phenology with Ground-Based LiDAR

scientific article published in 2014

Remotely Sensed Fine-Fuel Changes from Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in a Semi-Arid Grassland

scientific article published in 2021

Repeated landscape-scale treatments following fire suppress a non-native annual grass and promote recovery of native perennial vegetation

Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau ⬇️

scientific article published on February 22, 2011

RestoreNet: An emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems

scientific article published on 9 August 2020

Soil carbon flux following pulse precipitation events in the shortgrass steppe

scientific article published in 2009

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

scientific article published in 2023

Spatiotemporal patterns of cheatgrass invasion in Colorado Plateau National Parks

scientific article published in 2019

Temperature is better than precipitation as a predictor of plant community assembly across a dryland region

scientific article published on 04 August 2016

Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity

scientific article published in 2023

The biggest bang for the buck: cost-effective vegetation treatment outcomes across drylands of the western USA

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

The right trait in the right place at the right time: Matching traits to environment improves restoration outcomes

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

The role of dust storms in total atmospheric particle concentrations at two sites in the western U.S

scholarly article

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2024

Water balance as an indicator of natural resource condition: Case studies from Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Wildfire Risk and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments Along the US-Mexico Border: A Review of the Science (1986-2019)

scholarly article by Katherine M Laushman et al published January 2020 in Air, Soil and Water Research

List of works by Seth M. Munson

Aeolian and fluvial processes in dryland regions: the need for integrated studies

An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation

Anticipatory natural resource science and management for a changing future

Aridity increases below-ground niche breadth in grass communities

Assessing plant production responses to climate across water-limited regions using Google Earth Engine

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

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert

Biotic and abiotic treatments as a bet‐hedging approach to restoring plant communities and soil functions

Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Drive Irrigated Agriculture Dynamics in the Lower Colorado River Basin

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands.

Climate drives shifts in grass reproductive phenology across the western USA.

Climate legacy and lag effects on dryland plant communities in the southwestern U.S

Climate sensitivity to decadal land cover and land use change across the conterminous United States

Climate-induced abrupt shifts in structural states trigger delayed transitions in functional states

Concentrations of mineral aerosol from desert to plains across the central Rocky Mountains, western United States

Controls of vegetation structure and net primary production in restored grasslands

Controls on sediment production in two U.S. deserts

Correction: Wells et al. Remotely Sensed Fine-Fuel Changes from Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in a Semi-Arid Grassland. Fire 2021, 4, 84

Cumulative drought and land-use impacts on perennial vegetation across a North American dryland region

DOMINANT SONORAN DESERT PLANT SPECIES HAVE DIVERGENT PHENOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Decadal shifts in grass and woody plant cover are driven by prolonged drying and modified by topo-edaphic properties

Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

Directional selection shifts trait distributions of planted species in dryland restoration

Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems?

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

Dust Deposited on Snow Cover in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, 2011–2016: Compositional Variability Bearing on Snow‐Melt Effects

Ecosystem thresholds, tipping points, and critical transitions

Effectiveness of a decade of treatments to reduce invasive buffelgrass (<i>Pennisetum ciliare</i>)

Employing lidar to detail vegetation canopy architecture for prediction of aeolian transport

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

Functional Group, Biomass, and Climate Change Effects on Ecological Drought in Semiarid Grasslands

Functional composition of plant communities mediates biomass effects on ecosystem service recovery across an experimental dryland restoration network

Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al. 2022

Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands.

Gaps and hotspots in the state of knowledge of pinyon-juniper communities

Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands

Influence of climate, post-treatment weather extremes, and soil factors on vegetation recovery after restoration treatments in the southwestern US

Invasive buffelgrass detection using high‐resolution satellite and UAV imagery on Google Earth Engine

Landscape pivot points and responses to water balance in national parks of the southwest US

Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains)

Long-term plant community trajectories suggest divergent responses of native and non-native perennials and annuals to vegetation removal and seeding treatments

Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert

Long-term shifts in the phenology of rare and endemic Rocky Mountain plants

Long-term trends in restoration and associated land treatments in the southwestern United States

Mapping and measuring aeolian sand dunes with photogrammetry and LiDAR from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and multispectral satellite imagery on the Paria Plateau, AZ, USA

Ontogenetic trait shifts: Seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development

Plant Community Recovery Following Restoration in Semiarid Grasslands

Plant Population and Habitat Characteristics of the Endemic Sonoran Desert Cactus Peniocereus striatus in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

Plant Production Responses to Precipitation Differ Along an Elevation Gradient and Are Enhanced Under Extremes

Plant responses, climate pivot points, and trade-offs in water-limited ecosystems

Prestoration: using species in restoration that will persist now and into the future

Rangeland Monitoring Reveals Long-term Plant Responses to Precipitation and Grazing at the Landscape Scale

Regional signatures of plant response to drought and elevated temperature across a desert ecosystem

Remote Sensing of Sonoran Desert Vegetation Structure and Phenology with Ground-Based LiDAR

Remotely Sensed Fine-Fuel Changes from Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in a Semi-Arid Grassland

Repeated landscape-scale treatments following fire suppress a non-native annual grass and promote recovery of native perennial vegetation

Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau ⬇️

RestoreNet: An emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems

Soil carbon flux following pulse precipitation events in the shortgrass steppe

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

Spatiotemporal patterns of cheatgrass invasion in Colorado Plateau National Parks

Temperature is better than precipitation as a predictor of plant community assembly across a dryland region

Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity

The biggest bang for the buck: cost-effective vegetation treatment outcomes across drylands of the western USA

The right trait in the right place at the right time: Matching traits to environment improves restoration outcomes

The role of dust storms in total atmospheric particle concentrations at two sites in the western U.S

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

Water balance as an indicator of natural resource condition: Case studies from Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Wildfire Risk and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments Along the US-Mexico Border: A Review of the Science (1986-2019)