List of works by Jayne Belnap

A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems

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A Simple Graphical Approach to Quantitative Monitoring of Rangelands

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

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

scientific article published on 8 May 2004

Addressing barriers to improve biocrust colonization and establishment in dryland restoration

scientific article published in 2019

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

scientific article

Amendments fail to hasten biocrust recovery or soil stability at a disturbed dryland sandy site

scientific article published in 2018

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Assemblages in Native Plant Roots Change in the Presence of Invasive Exotic Grasses

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Are fungal networks key to dryland primary production?

scientific article published in 2018

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2018

Biocrusts do not differentially influence emergence and early establishment of native and non‐native grasses

scientific article published in 2021

Biocrusts in the Context of Global Change

scientific article published in 2016

Biological Phosphorus Cycling in Dryland Regions

scientific article published on 16 October 2010

Biological Soil Crusts as Soil Stabilizers

scientific article published in 2016

Biological Soil Crusts as an Organizing Principle in Drylands

scientific article published in 2016

Biological Soil Crusts: Characteristics and Distribution

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

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Biological soil crusts across disturbance–recovery scenarios: effect of grazing regime on community dynamics.

scientific article published in January 2014

Biological soil crusts as an integral component of desert environments

scientific article published in 2013

Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic response to seasonal rain and release from grazing with implications for soil stability

Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale

CRUSTS | Biological

scientific article published in 2013

Carbon Budgets of Biological Soil Crusts at Micro-, Meso-, and Global Scales

scientific article published in 2016

Carbon and nitrogen fixation differ between successional stages of biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan Desert

Carbon, water, and energy fluxes in a semiarid cold desert grassland during and following multiyear drought

scholarly article

Case Studies of Capacity Building for Biodiversity Monitoring

Chapter 10 Lichens and Microfungi in Biological Soil Crusts

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Chronic Physical Disturbance Substantially Alters the Response of Biological Soil Crusts to a Wetting Pulse, as Characterized by Metatranscriptomic Sequencing

scientific article published in 2018

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

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Climate change and physical disturbance manipulations result in distinct biological soil crust communities

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Combined impacts of current and future dust deposition and regional warming on Colorado River Basin snow dynamics and hydrology

scholarly article by J. S. Deems et al published 17 May 2013 in Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions

Combined impacts of current and future dust deposition and regional warming on Colorado River Basin snow dynamics and hydrology

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Comment on ‘Kidron, G. J. (2018). Biocrust research: A critical view on eight common hydrological-related paradigms and dubious theses. Ecohydrology , e2061’

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Common and distinguishing features of the bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts and shrub root zone soils

scientific article published in February 2014

Comparative diversity and composition of cyanobacteria in three predominant soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau

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Comparison of soil bacterial communities in rhizospheres of three plant species and the interspaces in an arid grassland

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Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

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Controls on Distribution Patterns of Biological Soil Crusts at Micro- to Global Scales

Controls on sediment production in two U.S. deserts

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C₃ and C₄ plant responses to increased temperatures and altered monsoonal precipitation in a cool desert on the Colorado Plateau, USA.

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Diazotrophic community structure and function in two successional stages of biological soil crusts from the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan Desert

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Differences in native soil ecology associated with invasion of the exotic annual chenopod, Halogeton glomeratus

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Differential Responses of Dinitrogen Fixation, Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria and Ammonia Oxidation Reveal a Potential Warming-Induced Imbalance of the N-Cycle in Biological Soil Crusts

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Dryland Ecosystems

scholarly article

Dryland biological soil crust cyanobacteria show unexpected decreases in abundance under long-term elevated CO2.

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Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

article by Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero et al published 26 February 2018 in Nature Geoscience

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

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Dust up. Interview by Brendan Borrell.

scientific article published in January 2012

Dust: Small-scale processes with global consequences

article published in 2011

Dynamics of cover, UV-protective pigments, and quantum yield in biological soil crust communities of an undisturbed Mojave Desert shrubland

scientific article published in November 2007

Eco-evolutionary responses of Bromus tectorum to climate change: implications for biological invasions ⬇️

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Ecohydrological controls on soil moisture and hydraulic conductivity within a pinyon-juniper woodland

article published in 2007

Ecohydrological role of biological soil crusts across a gradient in levels of development

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Editors Are Editors, Not Oracles

scientific article published in 2014

Effects of Bromus tectorum invasion on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in two adjacent undisturbed arid grassland communities

article by Sean M. Schaeffer et al published 25 October 2011 in Biogeochemistry

Effects of altered temperature and precipitation on desert protozoa associated with biological soil crusts

scientific article published on November 2006

Elevated aeolian sediment transport on the Colorado Plateau, USA: The role of grazing, vehicle disturbance, and increasing aridity

scientific article published in 2018

Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution

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Evaluation of a new model of aeolian transport in the presence of vegetation

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Exclusion of small mammals and lagomorphs invasion interact with human-trampling to drive changes in topsoil microbial community structure and function in semiarid Chile

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Exotic Annual Bromus Invasions: Comparisons Among Species and Ecoregions in the Western United States

scientific article published in 2016

Exotic Plant Invasion Alters Nitrogen Dynamics in an Arid Grassland

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Factors controlling threshold friction velocity in semiarid and arid areas of the United States

scientific article published in 1997

Fine gravel controls hydrologic and erodibility responses to trampling disturbance for coarse-textured soils with weak cyanobacterial crusts

scientific article published on 21 September 2010

Fungal loop transfer of nitrogen depends on biocrust constituents and nitrogen form

scientific article published in 2018

Geology for a changing world 2010-2020-Implementing the U.S. Geological Survey science strategy

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Global biodiversity monitoring

scientific article published in 2010

Global biodiversity monitoring: From data sources to Essential Biodiversity Variables

Global change effects on Bromus tectorum L. (Poaceae) at its high-elevation range margin

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Grazing-Induced Changes to Biological Soil Crust Cover Mediate Hillslope Erosion in Long-Term Exclosure Experiment

scientific article published in January 2020

Growth responses of five desert plants as influenced by biological soil crusts from a temperate desert, China

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How Biological Soil Crusts Became Recognized as a Functional Unit: A Selective History

scientific article published in 2016

Impacts of off-road vehicles on nitrogen cycles in biological soil crusts: resistance in different U.S. deserts

scientific article published in October 2002

Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture

scholarly article

Insights from Long-Term Ungrazed and Grazed Watersheds in a Salt Desert Colorado Plateau Ecosystem

scientific article published in 2018

Linkages between microbial and hydrologic processes in arid and semiarid watersheds

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Manufacturing Simple and Inexpensive Soil Surface Temperature and Gravimetric Water Content Sensors

scientific article published on 21 December 2019

Maximizing establishment and survivorship of field-collected and greenhouse-cultivated biocrusts in a semi-cold desert

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

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Microbiology. Some like it hot, some not.

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Monitoring Essential Biodiversity Variables at the Species Level

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Monitoring ecosystem quality and function in arid settings of the Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2008

Monitoring the status of forests and rangelands in the Western United States using ecosystem performance anomalies

scholarly article by Matthew Rigge published in June 2013

Monitoring water content dynamics of biological soil crusts

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Natural Ecosystems

Natural Recovery of Biological Soil Crusts After Disturbance

scientific article published in 2016

Niche Filtering of Bacteria in Soil and Rock Habitats of the Colorado Plateau Desert, Utah, USA

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

Nitrogen fixation in biological soil crusts from southeast Utah, USA

On the prediction of threshold friction velocity of wind erosion using soil reflectance spectroscopy

Patterns and Controls on Nitrogen Cycling of Biological Soil Crusts

scientific article published in 2016

Patterns of longer-term climate change effects on CO<sub>2</sub> efflux from biocrusted soils differ from those observed in the short term

scientific article published in 2018

Patton's Tracks in the Mojave Desert, USA: An Ecological Legacy

Pedological and geological relationships with soil lichen and moss distribution in the eastern Mojave Desert, CA, USA

scientific article published in July 2014

Performance of Bromus tectorum L. in relation to soil properties, water additions, and chemical amendments in calcareous soils of southeastern Utah, USA

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Physical, Chemical, Ecological, and Age Data and Trench Logs from Surficial Deposits at Hatch Point, Southeastern Utah

scientific article published in 2009

Physiological ecology of desert biocrust moss following 10 years exposure to elevated CO₂: evidence for enhanced photosynthetic thermotolerance

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Plant and microbial biomarkers suggest mechanisms of soil organic carbon accumulation in a Mojave Desert ecosystem under elevated CO2

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Potential vulnerability of 348 herbaceous species to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur in the United States

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Practices of biological soil crust rehabilitation in China: experiences and challenges

scholarly article

Precipitation-driven carbon balance controls survivorship of desert biocrust mosses

scientific article published on July 2012

Prioritizing conservation effort through the use of biological soil crusts as ecosystem function indicators in an arid region

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Pulse-drought atop press-drought: unexpected plant responses and implications for dryland ecosystems

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RECOVERY RATES OF CRYPTOBIOTIC CRUSTS: INOCULANT USE AND ASSESSMENT METHODS

scholarly article published in 1993

Rain pulse response of soil CO2exchange by biological soil crusts and grasslands of the semiarid Colorado Plateau, United States

scholarly article

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

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Regional variability in dust-on-snow processes and impacts in the Upper Colorado River Basin

article published in 2015

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

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Relevance of ammonium oxidation within biological soil crust communities

scientific article published on January 2005

Response and resilience of soil biocrust bacterial communities to chronic physical disturbance in arid shrublands

scientific article published on 24 November 2011

Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in snow

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Response of biological soil crust diazotrophs to season, altered summer precipitation, and year-round increased temperature in an arid grassland of the colorado plateau, USA.

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Response of desert biological soil crusts to alterations in precipitation frequency

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

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Revisiting classic water erosion models in drylands: The strong impact of biological soil crusts

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Roads as Conduits for Exotic Plant Invasions in a Semiarid Landscape

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SOIL MICROSTRUCTURE IN SOILS OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU: THE ROLE OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS

scholarly article published in 1993

Seasonal and individual event-responsiveness are key determinants of carbon exchange across plant functional types

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Sediment losses and gains across a gradient of livestock grazing and plant invasion in a cool, semi-arid grassland, Colorado Plateau, USA

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Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change

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Shrub persistence and increased grass mortality in response to drought in dryland systems

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Small-scale vertical distribution of bacterial biomass and diversity in biological soil crusts from arid lands in the Colorado plateau

scientific article published on 17 September 2003

Soil Fertility in Deserts

scholarly article published January 2003

Soil Respiration in the Cold Desert Environment of the Colorado Plateau (USA): Abiotic Regulators and Thresholds

Soil bacterial and fungal community responses to nitrogen addition across soil depth and microhabitat in an arid shrubland

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Soil characteristics and plant exotic species invasions in the Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA

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Soil lichen and moss cover and species richness can be highly dynamic: The effects of invasion by the annual exotic grass Bromus tectorum, precipitation, and temperature on biological soil crusts in SE Utah

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Soil microbial responses to nitrogen addition in arid ecosystems

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Spatial and temporal patterns of dust emissions (2004–2012) in semi-arid landscapes, southeastern Utah, USA

article published in 2014

Spatial gradients in ecohydrologic properties within a pinyon-juniper ecosystem

Spatiotemporal patterns of cheatgrass invasion in Colorado Plateau National Parks

scientific article published in 2019

Surface disturbance of cryptobiotic soil crusts: Nitrogenase activity, chlorophyll content, and chlorophyll degradation

Surface disturbances: Their role in accelerating desertification

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Synthesis on Biological Soil Crust Research

scientific article published in 2016

Tamarisk biocontrol in the western United States: ecological and societal implications

article published in 2010

Temporal and abiotic fluctuations may be preventing successful rehabilitation of soil‐stabilizing biocrust communities

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Testing the apparent resistance of three dominant plants to chronic drought on the Colorado Plateau

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The Role of Biocrusts in Arid Land Hydrology

scientific article published in 2016

The concurrent use of novel soil surface microclimate measurements to evaluate CO2 pulses in biocrusted interspaces in a cool desert ecosystem

article by Colin L. Tucker et al published September 2017 in Biogeochemistry

The ecology of dust

scientific article published in 2010

The influence of stream channels on distributions of Larrea tridentata and Ambrosia dumosa in the Mojave Desert, CA, USA: patterns, mechanisms and effects of stream redistribution

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

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

The potential roles of biological soil crusts in dryland hydrologic cycles

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

scholarly article

Three distinct clades of cultured heterocystous cyanobacteria constitute the dominant N2-fixing members of biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau, USA.

scientific article published in April 2007

Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

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

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U.S. Geological Survey climate and land use change science strategy: a framework for understanding and responding to global change

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USGS global change science strategy: A framework for understanding and responding to climate and land-use change

scientific article published in 2011

Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands

article by L. Turnbull et al published 25 November 2011 in Ecohydrology

Using information from global climate models to inform policymaking—The role of the U.S. Geological Survey

scientific article published in 2020

Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems

scientific article published on 24 February 2004

What Could Explain δ13C Signatures in Biocrust Cyanobacteria of Drylands?

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Wind erodibility of soils at Fort Irwin, California (Mojave Desert), USA, before and after trampling disturbance: implications for land management

scientific article published in 2006

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

scientific article published in 2019

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