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2004 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award. Presented to F. Ward Whicker at the 49th annual meeting of the Health Physics Society, Washington, DC 11-15 July 2004.

scientific article published in December 2004

A Dirty Dozen Ways to Die: Metrics and Modifiers of Mortality Driven by Drought and Warming for a Tree Species

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

A conceptual framework for dryland aeolian sediment transport along the grassland–forest continuum: Effects of woody plant canopy cover and disturbance

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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

scholarly article by Craig D. Allen et al published February 2010 in Forest Ecology and Management

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

scientific article published on 8 May 2004

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

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A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

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An Ecologist's Perspective of Ecohydrology

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Beyond greenness: Detecting temporal changes in photosynthetic capacity with hyperspectral reflectance data.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

CO2diffusion into pore spaces limits weathering rate of an experimental basalt landscape

scholarly article

Carbon Cycling in Soil

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Chapter 25 : Southwest. Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II

scholarly article published 2018

Chronic historical drought legacy exacerbates tree mortality and crown dieback during acute heatwave-compounded drought

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Climate Change Effects on North American Fish and Fisheries to Inform Adaptation Strategies

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Climate-Induced Tree Mortality: Earth System Consequences

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Climate‐driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona

article by Jon D. Pelletier et al published 22 May 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Contaminant Transport through Agroecosystems: Assessing Relative Importance of Environmental, Physiological, and Management Factors

scientific article published on August 1992

Continental-scale consequences of tree die-offs in North America: identifying where forest loss matters most

article by Abigail L S Swann et al published 1 May 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Controlled Experiments of Hillslope Coevolution at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory: Toward Prediction of Coupled Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Ecological Change

Conundrums in mixed woody-herbaceous plant systems

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Density-Dependent Ecohydrological Effects of Piñon–Juniper Woody Canopy Cover on Soil Microclimate and Potential Soil Evaporation

scientific article published in 2012

Drought-induced forest decline: causes, scope and implications

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

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ECOHYDROLOGY OF A RESOURCE-CONSERVING SEMIARID WOODLAND: EFFECTS OF SCALE AND DISTURBANCE

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Ecohydrologic connections and complexities in drylands: new perspectives for understanding transformative landscape change

Ecohydrological Source-Sink Interrelationships between Vegetation Patches and Soil Hydrological Properties along a Disturbance Gradient Reveal a Restoration Threshold

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Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses

Ecohydrological controls of soil evaporation in deciduous drylands: How the hierarchical effects of litter, patch and vegetation mosaic cover interact with phenology and season

Ecohydrological energy inputs in semiarid coniferous gradients: Responses to management- and drought-induced tree reductions

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Ecohydrology Bearings: Invited Commentary to challenge paradigms, question assumptions, prioritize needs and enhance interdisciplinary dialogue

Ecohydrology Monitoring and Excavation of Semiarid Landfill Covers a Decade after Installation

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Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

Ecosystem dynamics and management after forest die-off: a global synthesis with conceptual state-and-transition models

scientific article published in 2017

Effects of topography and woody plant canopy cover on near-ground solar radiation: Relevant energy inputs for ecohydrology and hydropedology

scientific article published in 2007

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

Evaluation of vegetation indices and imaging spectroscopy to estimate foliar nitrogen across disparate biomes

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

Extreme climatic event-triggered overstorey vegetation loss increases understorey solar input regionally: primary and secondary ecological implications

scientific article published in 2011

Fog interception by non‐vascular epiphytes in tropical montane cloud forests: dependencies on gauge type and meteorological conditions

scientific article published on 04 October 2007

Foliar absorption of intercepted rainfall improves woody plant water status most during drought

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Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs

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Forest Management Under Megadrought: Urgent Needs at Finer Scale and Higher Intensity

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From dust to dose: Effects of forest disturbance on increased inhalation exposure

scientific article published on 17 April 2006

Global change-type drought-induced tree mortality: vapor pressure deficit is more important than temperature per se in causing decline in tree health

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Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

Horizontal heterogeneity in the frequency of plant-available water with woodland intercanopyâ canopy vegetation patch type rivals that occuring vertically by soil depth

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

scholarly article

How drought-induced forest die-off alters microclimate and increases fuel loadings and fire potentials

scientific article published on 02 February 2016

Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling

scholarly article

Increased wind erosion from forest wildfire: implications for contaminant-related risks

scientific article published on 2 February 2006

Interactive effects of grazing and burning on wind- and water-driven sediment fluxes: rangeland management implications

scientific article published in January 2011

Introduction to a Special Issue of Aeolian Research Airborne mineral dust contaminants: Impacts on human health and the environment

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Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic–aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics

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Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems

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

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Modeling aeolian transport in response to succession, disturbance and future climate: Dynamic long-term risk assessment for contaminant redistribution

Modeling aeolian transport of soil-bound plutonium: considering infrequent but normal environmental disturbances is critical in estimating future dose ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism

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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 07 August 2015

Orchestrating Environmental Research and Assessment for Remediation

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Partitioning evapotranspiration across gradients of woody plant cover: Assessment of a stable isotope technique

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Phenology of mixed woody-herbaceous ecosystems following extreme events: net and differential responses

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Precipitation thresholds and drought‐induced tree die‐off: insights from patterns ofPinus edulismortality along an environmental stress gradient ⬇️

scientific article published on June 17, 2013

Predicting Drivers of Collective Soil Function With Woody Plant Encroachment in Complex Landscapes

scientific article published in 2020

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

scientific article published in 2017

Pulsed redistribution of a contaminant following forest fire: cesium-137 in runoff.

scientific article published in November 2003

Rainfall intensity switches ecohydrological runoff/runon redistribution patterns in dryland vegetation patches.

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Rangeland Responses to Predicted Increases in Drought Extremity

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Recent tree die-off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected increases from historical studies

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Redistribution of Runoff Among Vegetation Patch Types: On Ecohydrological Optimality of Herbaceous Capture of Run-On

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Reframing tropical savannization: linking changes in canopy structure to energy balance alterations that impact climate

scientific article published in 2020

Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought

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Remotely sensed vegetation phenology and productivity along a climatic gradient: on the value of incorporating the dimension of woody plant cover

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Reply to Leuzinger et al.: Drought-induced tree mortality temperature sensitivity requires pressing forward with best available science.

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2018

Seasonally Pulsed Heterogeneity in Microclimate: Phenology and Cover Effects along Deciduous Grassland–Forest Continuum

scientific article published in 2010

Sensitivity of regional evapotranspiration partitioning to variation in woody plant cover: insights from experimental dryland tree mosaics

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Soil water dynamics under low- versus high-ponderosa pine tree density: ecohydrological functioning and restoration implications

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Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses

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Sunlight and Soil–Litter Mixing: Drivers of Litter Decomposition in Drylands

Synergistic Ecoclimate Teleconnections from Forest Loss in Different Regions Structure Global Ecological Responses.

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Targeting Extreme Events: Complementing Near-Term Ecological Forecasting With Rapid Experiments and Regional Surveys

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Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

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Temporal and spatial variation of episodic wind erosion in unburned and burned semiarid shrubland

scientific article published on March 2002

The Hills Are Alive: Earth Science in a Controlled Environment

The Landscape Evolution Observatory: A large-scale controllable infrastructure to study coupled Earth-surface processes

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The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

scientific article published on 02 August 2013

The ecology of dust

scientific article published in 2010

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change

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Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century

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Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements

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Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Uranium partition coefficients (Kd) in forest surface soil reveal long equilibrium times and vary by site and soil size fraction

scientific article published in July 2007

VEGETATION PATCHES AND RUNOFF–EROSION AS INTERACTING ECOHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPES

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Vegetation responses to extreme hydrological events: sequence matters

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Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

scholarly article

Viewpoint: Sustainability of Pinon-Juniper Ecosystems: A Unifying Perspective of Soil Erosion Thresholds

article published in 1998

What controls species' distributions? A demographic analysis and a new hypothesis

When Ecosystem Services Crash: Preparing for Big, Fast, Patchy Climate Change ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

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