List of works - Matthew J. Germino

A carbohydrate quandary

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

A chemical and bio‐herbicide mixture increased exotic invaders, both targeted and non‐targeted, across a diversely invaded landscape after fire

scientific article

A conservation paradox in the Great Basin—Altering sagebrush landscapes with fuel breaks to reduce habitat loss from wildfire

scholarly article by Douglas J. Shinneman et al published 2018 in Open-File Report

A haploid pseudo-chromosome genome assembly for a keystone sagebrush species of western North American rangelands

scientific article published in 2022

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

article

A nontarget, disturbance‐resilient native species influences post‐fire recovery and multiphasic herbicide‐seeding outcomes in drylands threatened by exotic annual grasses

scientific article published in 2023

Abiotic factors limiting photosynthesis in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii seedlings below and above the alpine timberline

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Adapting management to a changing world: Warm temperatures, dry soil, and interannual variability limit restoration success of a dominant woody shrub in temperate drylands

scholarly article

Adaptive responses reveal contemporary and future ecotypes in a desert shrub

scientific article

Adaptive variation, including local adaptation, requires decades to become evident in common gardens

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

An experimental test of weed-suppressive bacteria effectiveness in rangelands in southwestern Idaho, 2016–18

scientific article published in 2019

Another perspective on altitudinal limits of alpine timberlines ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Bayesian modeling can facilitate adaptive management in restoration

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

Bunchgrass Root Abundances and Their Relationship to Resistance and Resilience of Burned Shrub-Steppe Landscape

scientific article published in 2019

Cannot see the random forest for the decision trees: selecting predictive models for restoration ecology

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Carbon-use efficiency in green sinks is increased when a blend of apoplastic fructose and glucose is available for uptake ⬇️

scientific article published on February 24, 2011

Climate drives adaptive genetic responses associated with survival in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata).

scientific article published on 03 March 2017

Colonisation of the alpine tundra by trees: alpine neighbours assist late-seral but not early-seral conifer seedlings

scientific article published in 2020

Comment on: Grazing disturbance promotes exotic annual grasses by degrading soil biocrust communities

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Declines in low-elevation subalpine tree populations outpace growth in high-elevation populations with warming

article

Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires

scientific article

Dust supply varies with sagebrush microsites and time since burning in experimental erosion events

scholarly article

Ecophysiological variation in two provenances of Pinus flexilis seedlings across an elevation gradient from forest to alpine

scientific article

Exotic plants increase and native plants decrease with loss of foundation species in sagebrush steppe

article

Freezing resistance, safety margins, and survival vary among big sagebrush populations across the western United States

scientific article published in July 2019

Greater sage-grouse respond positively to intensive post-fire restoration treatments

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Growth strategies and threshold responses to water deficit modulate effects of warming on tree seedlings from forest to alpine

article

Interactive effects of tree and herb cover on survivorship, physiology, and microclimate of conifer seedlings at the alpine tree-line ecotone

Interannual variation in climate contributes to contingency in post‐fire restoration outcomes in seeded sagebrush steppe

scientific article published on 07 June 2022

Intraspecific variation in surface water uptake in a perennial desert shrub

scientific article published in 2020

Intraspecific variation mediates density dependence in a genetically diverse plant species

scientific article

Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts

article

Landscape and organismal factors affecting sagebrush‐seedling transplant survival after megafire restoration

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Linking carbon and water relations to drought-induced mortality in Pinus flexilis seedlings

scientific article

Linking carbon balance to establishment patterns: comparison of whitebark pine and Engelmann spruce seedlings along an herb cover exposure gradient at treeline

scientific article published in 2010

Loss of foundation species increases population growth of exotic forbs in sagebrush steppe

scientific article

Methodological considerations regarding online extraction of water from soils for stable isotope determination

scientific article published in August 2017

Moisture rivals temperature in limiting photosynthesis by trees establishing beyond their cold-edge range limit under ambient and warmed conditions

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Montane meadow change during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group

scientific article

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

scientific article

Online induction heating for determination of isotope composition of woody stem water with laser spectrometry: a methods assessment

scientific article

Photosynthesis during an Episodic Drought in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii across an Alpine Treeline

article

Plant community trajectories following livestock exclusion for conservation vary and hinge on initial invasion and soil‐biocrust conditions in shrub steppe

scientific article published in 2022

Plants in Alpine Environments

scientific article published in 2014

Post-Fire Management-Scale Trials of Bacterial Soil Amendment MB906 Show Inconsistent Control of Invasive Annual Grasses

scientific article published in 2020

Post-fire management targeting invasive annual grasses may have inadvertently released the exotic perennial forb Chondrilla juncea and suppressed its biocontrol agent

Postfire growth of seeded and planted big sagebrush—strategic designs for restoring greater sage‐grouse nesting habitat

Scientific article published in September 2020

Quantifying relationships of burning, roughness, and potential dust emission with laser altimetry of soil surfaces at submeter scales

article published in 2011

Reestablishing a foundational species: Limitations on post‐wildfire sagebrush seedling establishment

scientific article published in 2022

Relationship of greater sage‐grouse to natural and assisted recovery of key vegetation types following wildfire: insights from scat

scientific article published on 07 July 2022

Relationships of aeolian erosion and deposition with LiDAR-derived landscape surface roughness following wildfire

scholarly article by Joel B. Sankey et al published June 2010 in Geomorphology

Relationships of post-fire aeolian transport to soil and atmospheric conditions

Remote sensing of sagebrush canopy nitrogen

scientific article published in 2012

Response of aboveground carbon balance to long-term, experimental enhancements in precipitation seasonality is contingent on plant community type in cold-desert rangelands.

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Satellite‐derived prefire vegetation predicts variation in field‐based invasive annual grass cover after fire

scientific article published in 2023

Seed origin and warming constrain lodgepole pine recruitment, slowing the pace of population range shifts

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

scientific article

Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants

article

Spatial grain of adaptation is much finer than ecoregional-scale common gardens reveal

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Subalpine and alpine species range shifts with climate change: temperature and soil moisture manipulations to test species and population responses (Final Report)

article

Successes and challenges from formation to implementation of eleven broad-extent conservation programs

scientific article

Synthesis of Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Studies in Rangelands of the Western United States: Special Section of Articles in Rangeland Ecology & Management Provides Little Evidence of Effectiveness

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Temporal variation of nonstructural carbohydrates in montane conifers: similarities and differences among developmental stages, species and environmental conditions

scientific article published on 28 January 2009

The Altitude of Alpine Treeline: A Bellwether of Climate Change Effects

article

The ecological uncertainty of wildfire fuel breaks: examples from the sagebrush steppe

scholarly article by Douglas J Shinneman et al published 6 May 2019 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage depend on interactions between plant community composition, precipitation seasonality, and soil climate regime

scientific article published in 2022

Thresholds and hotspots for shrub restoration following a heterogeneous megafire

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

Transient population dynamics impede restoration and may promote ecosystem transformation after disturbance

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Transport of biologically important nutrients by wind in an eroding cold desert

Unique responses of respiration, growth, and non-structural carbohydrate storage in sink tissue of conifer seedlings to an elevation gradient at timberline

article

Variability of Cenococcum colonization and its ecophysiological significance for young conifers at alpine-treeline

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Variation in ecophysiological properties among conifers at an ecotonal boundary: comparison of establishing seedlings and established adults at timberline

Vegetation and precipitation shifts interact to alter organic and inorganic carbon storage in cold desert soils

scientific article published in 2019

Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?

scientific article published in 2024

Vegetative Community Response to Landscape-Scale Post-fire Herbicide (Imazapic) Application

Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest

scientific article

Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Warming of alpine tundra enhances belowground production and shifts community towards resource acquisition traits

scientific article

Weather and distance to fire refugia limit landscape‐level occurrence of fungal disease in an exotic annual grass

scientific article published on 03 March 2021

Wind erosion from a sagebrush steppe burned by wildfire: Measurements of PM10 and total horizontal sediment flux

scholarly article by Natalie S. Wagenbrenner et al published September 2013 in Aeolian Research

List of works by Matthew J. Germino

A carbohydrate quandary

A chemical and bio‐herbicide mixture increased exotic invaders, both targeted and non‐targeted, across a diversely invaded landscape after fire

A conservation paradox in the Great Basin—Altering sagebrush landscapes with fuel breaks to reduce habitat loss from wildfire

A haploid pseudo-chromosome genome assembly for a keystone sagebrush species of western North American rangelands

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

A nontarget, disturbance‐resilient native species influences post‐fire recovery and multiphasic herbicide‐seeding outcomes in drylands threatened by exotic annual grasses

Abiotic factors limiting photosynthesis in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii seedlings below and above the alpine timberline

Adapting management to a changing world: Warm temperatures, dry soil, and interannual variability limit restoration success of a dominant woody shrub in temperate drylands

Adaptive responses reveal contemporary and future ecotypes in a desert shrub

Adaptive variation, including local adaptation, requires decades to become evident in common gardens

An experimental test of weed-suppressive bacteria effectiveness in rangelands in southwestern Idaho, 2016–18

Another perspective on altitudinal limits of alpine timberlines ⬇️

Bayesian modeling can facilitate adaptive management in restoration

Bunchgrass Root Abundances and Their Relationship to Resistance and Resilience of Burned Shrub-Steppe Landscape

Cannot see the random forest for the decision trees: selecting predictive models for restoration ecology

Carbon-use efficiency in green sinks is increased when a blend of apoplastic fructose and glucose is available for uptake ⬇️

Climate drives adaptive genetic responses associated with survival in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata).

Colonisation of the alpine tundra by trees: alpine neighbours assist late-seral but not early-seral conifer seedlings

Comment on: Grazing disturbance promotes exotic annual grasses by degrading soil biocrust communities

Declines in low-elevation subalpine tree populations outpace growth in high-elevation populations with warming

Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires

Dust supply varies with sagebrush microsites and time since burning in experimental erosion events

Ecophysiological variation in two provenances of Pinus flexilis seedlings across an elevation gradient from forest to alpine

Exotic plants increase and native plants decrease with loss of foundation species in sagebrush steppe

Freezing resistance, safety margins, and survival vary among big sagebrush populations across the western United States

Greater sage-grouse respond positively to intensive post-fire restoration treatments

Growth strategies and threshold responses to water deficit modulate effects of warming on tree seedlings from forest to alpine

Interactive effects of tree and herb cover on survivorship, physiology, and microclimate of conifer seedlings at the alpine tree-line ecotone

Interannual variation in climate contributes to contingency in post‐fire restoration outcomes in seeded sagebrush steppe

Intraspecific variation in surface water uptake in a perennial desert shrub

Intraspecific variation mediates density dependence in a genetically diverse plant species

Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts

Landscape and organismal factors affecting sagebrush‐seedling transplant survival after megafire restoration

Linking carbon and water relations to drought-induced mortality in Pinus flexilis seedlings

Linking carbon balance to establishment patterns: comparison of whitebark pine and Engelmann spruce seedlings along an herb cover exposure gradient at treeline

Loss of foundation species increases population growth of exotic forbs in sagebrush steppe

Methodological considerations regarding online extraction of water from soils for stable isotope determination

Moisture rivals temperature in limiting photosynthesis by trees establishing beyond their cold-edge range limit under ambient and warmed conditions

Montane meadow change during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group

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

Online induction heating for determination of isotope composition of woody stem water with laser spectrometry: a methods assessment

Photosynthesis during an Episodic Drought in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii across an Alpine Treeline

Plant community trajectories following livestock exclusion for conservation vary and hinge on initial invasion and soil‐biocrust conditions in shrub steppe

Plants in Alpine Environments

Post-Fire Management-Scale Trials of Bacterial Soil Amendment MB906 Show Inconsistent Control of Invasive Annual Grasses

Post-fire management targeting invasive annual grasses may have inadvertently released the exotic perennial forb Chondrilla juncea and suppressed its biocontrol agent

Postfire growth of seeded and planted big sagebrush—strategic designs for restoring greater sage‐grouse nesting habitat

Quantifying relationships of burning, roughness, and potential dust emission with laser altimetry of soil surfaces at submeter scales

Reestablishing a foundational species: Limitations on post‐wildfire sagebrush seedling establishment

Relationship of greater sage‐grouse to natural and assisted recovery of key vegetation types following wildfire: insights from scat

Relationships of aeolian erosion and deposition with LiDAR-derived landscape surface roughness following wildfire

Relationships of post-fire aeolian transport to soil and atmospheric conditions

Remote sensing of sagebrush canopy nitrogen

Response of aboveground carbon balance to long-term, experimental enhancements in precipitation seasonality is contingent on plant community type in cold-desert rangelands.

Satellite‐derived prefire vegetation predicts variation in field‐based invasive annual grass cover after fire

Seed origin and warming constrain lodgepole pine recruitment, slowing the pace of population range shifts

Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants

Spatial grain of adaptation is much finer than ecoregional-scale common gardens reveal

Subalpine and alpine species range shifts with climate change: temperature and soil moisture manipulations to test species and population responses (Final Report)

Successes and challenges from formation to implementation of eleven broad-extent conservation programs

Synthesis of Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Studies in Rangelands of the Western United States: Special Section of Articles in Rangeland Ecology & Management Provides Little Evidence of Effectiveness

Temporal variation of nonstructural carbohydrates in montane conifers: similarities and differences among developmental stages, species and environmental conditions

The Altitude of Alpine Treeline: A Bellwether of Climate Change Effects

The ecological uncertainty of wildfire fuel breaks: examples from the sagebrush steppe

The effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage depend on interactions between plant community composition, precipitation seasonality, and soil climate regime

Thresholds and hotspots for shrub restoration following a heterogeneous megafire

Transient population dynamics impede restoration and may promote ecosystem transformation after disturbance

Transport of biologically important nutrients by wind in an eroding cold desert

Unique responses of respiration, growth, and non-structural carbohydrate storage in sink tissue of conifer seedlings to an elevation gradient at timberline

Variability of Cenococcum colonization and its ecophysiological significance for young conifers at alpine-treeline

Variation in ecophysiological properties among conifers at an ecotonal boundary: comparison of establishing seedlings and established adults at timberline

Vegetation and precipitation shifts interact to alter organic and inorganic carbon storage in cold desert soils

Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?

Vegetative Community Response to Landscape-Scale Post-fire Herbicide (Imazapic) Application

Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest

Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range

Warming of alpine tundra enhances belowground production and shifts community towards resource acquisition traits

Weather and distance to fire refugia limit landscape‐level occurrence of fungal disease in an exotic annual grass