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List of works by Julio Betancourt

87Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

article

A 16,000 14C yr B.P. packrat midden series from the USA–Mexico Borderlands

A 36,000-yr vegetation history from the Peloncillo Mountains, southeastern Arizona, USA

scholarly article

A 40,000-year woodrat-midden record of vegetational and biogeographical dynamics in north-eastern Utah, USA

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A Test of “Annual Resolution” in Stalagmites Using Tree Rings

A dynamic leaf gas-exchange strategy is conserved in woody plants under changing ambient CO2 : evidence from carbon isotope discrimination in paleo and CO2 enrichment studies.

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

A long-term vegetation history of the Mojave-Colorado desert ecotone at Joshua Tree National Park

A tree-ring based reconstruction of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since 1567 A.D

scientific article

APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE

scientific article (publication date: November 1999)

Accumulation of impact markers in desert wetlands and implications for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

scholarly article

Annual precipitation in the yellowstone National Park region since AD 1173

article published in 2007

Anticipatory natural resource science and management for a changing future

scientific article

Associations of Decadal to Multidecadal Sea-Surface Temperature Variability with Upper Colorado River Flow1

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Associations of multi-decadal sea-surface temperature variability with US drought

scholarly article

Bacterial community structure in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

scientific article (publication date: December 2006)

Classification tree and minimum-volume ellipsoid analyses of the distribution of ponderosa pine in the western USA

article by Jodi R. Norris et al published February 2006 in Journal of Biogeography

Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Climate change. Stationarity is dead: whither water management?

scientific article

Climatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Climatic limits on foliar growth during major droughts in the southwestern USA

scholarly article

Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

Ecology and the ratchet of events: climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Energy flow and the "grassification" of desert shrublands

scientific article

Extinction debt and delayed colonization have had comparable but unique effects on plant community–climate lags since the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published on 6 June 2019

Facilitation drives 65 years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert

scientific article published on April 2010

From Caprio's lilacs to the USA National Phenology Network

scientific article published on 06 November 2012

Global patterns and environmental controls of perchlorate and nitrate co-occurrence in arid and semi-arid environments

scholarly article

Grand challenges for integrated USGS science—A workshop report

article by Karen E. Jenni et al published 2017 in Open-File Report

Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States

scientific article published on 26 October 2021

Holocene Lake-Level Fluctuations of Lake Aricota, Southern Peru

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Holocene Vegetation History from Fossil Rodent Middens near Arequipa, Peru

Holocene Vegetation and Climate History of the Northern Bighorn Basin, Southern Montana

Holocene fire occurrence and alluvial responses at the leading edge of pinyon–juniper migration in the Northern Great Basin, USA

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INFLUENCE OF LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON A LATE HOLOCENE PLANT MIGRATION

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Influence of source and scale of gridded temperature data on modelled spring onset patterns in the conterminous United States

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the timing of the North American spring

scholarly article

Introduced and Invasive Species in Novel Rangeland Ecosystems: Friends or Foes?

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Isotopes as Indicators of Environmental Change

scientific article published in 1998

Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

LATE QUATERNARY PLANT ZONATION AND CLIMATE IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH

scholarly article published in 1984

Late Holocene expansion of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa ) in the Central Rocky Mountains, USA

Late Pleistocene C4Plant Dominance and Summer Rainfall in the Southwestern United States from Isotopic Study of Herbivore Teeth

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Late Quaternary paleohydrology of the central Atacama Desert (lat 22°–24°S), Chile

scholarly article

Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history of a perennial river canyon in the Río Salado basin (22°S) of Northern Chile

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Leaf δ13C variability with elevation, slope aspect, and precipitation in the southwest United States

scientific article published on August 2002

Life at the hyperarid margin: novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

scientific article

Life history traits predict colonization and extinction lags of desert plant species since the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Local extinction and unintentional rewilding of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) on a desert island

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest

Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest

article by Thomas W. Swetnam & Julio L. Betancourt published December 1998 in Journal of Climate

Middle- and late-Wisconsin paleobotanic and paleoclimatic records from the southern Colorado Plateau, USA

scientific article published in 2000

Molecular analysis of an 11,700-year-old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile

scientific article (publication date: May 2002)

Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Position Indices as Diagnostic Tools for Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics

On Critiques of “Stationarity is Dead: Whither Water Management?”

Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States

scientific article

Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change

scientific article published in 1991

Paleo-metagenomics of North American fossil packrat middens: Past biodiversity revealed by ancient DNA

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Paleoclimatic significance of δD and δ13C values in piñon pine needles from packrat middens spanning the last 40,000 years

scientific article published in 1999

Paleowetlands and regional climate change in the central Atacama Desert, northern chile

scholarly article

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

scientific article published in Science

Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

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Phylogeny, diet, and habitat of an extinct ground sloth from Cuchillo Curá, Neuquén Province, southwest Argentina

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Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

Predicting woodrat (Neotoma) responses to anthropogenic warming from studies of the palaeomidden record

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Prehistoric Long-Distance Transport of Construction Beams, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

article published in 1986

Re-evaluation of mid-Holocene deposits at Quebrada Puripica, northern Chile

scholarly article

Recovery and analysis of ancient beetle DNA from subfossil packrat middens using high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Reduced Population Variance in Strontium Isotope Ratios Informs Domesticated Turkey Use at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA

Regional patterns and proximal causes of the recent snowpack decline in the Rocky Mountains, U.S

scholarly article

Reply to Baker and Genty’s comments on “A test of annual resolution in stalagmite using tree rings”

Response of Bushy-Tailed Woodrats (Neotoma cinerea) to Late Quaternary Climatic Change in the Colorado Plateau

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Role of multidecadal climate variability in a range extension of pinyon pine

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Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change

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Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

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Sonoran Desert Ecosystem transformation by a C4 grass without the grass/fire cycle

scholarly article by Aaryn D. Olsson published in August 2011

Teleconnected ocean forcing of Western North American droughts and pluvials during the last millennium

scientific article

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

scholarly article

The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera

scientific article published on June 9, 2011

The effect of Holocene temperature fluctuations on the evolution and ecology of Neotoma (woodrats) in Idaho and northwestern Utah

Toward a U.S. National Phenological Assessment: Third USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) and Research Coordination Network (RCN) Annual Meeting; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5–9 October 2009

Unfamiliar Territory: Emerging Themes for Ecological Drought Research and Management

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Using State-and-Transition Modeling to Account for Imperfect Detection in Invasive Species Management

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Vegetation history along the eastern, desert escarpment of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico

Woodland dynamics at the northern range periphery: a challenge for protected area management in a changing world

scientific article (publication date: 2013)