Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Environmental science, Ecology, Biology, Ecosystem, Climate change, and Geology.
Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass–precipitation relationship
Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation
Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world
Seasonal and drought‐related changes in leaf area profiles depend on height and light environment in an Amazon forest
Cryptic phenology in plants: Case studies, implications, and recommendations
Analyzing High‐Frequency Soil Respiration Using a Probabilistic Model in a Semiarid, Mediterranean Climate
Age‐dependent leaf physiology and consequences for crown‐scale carbon uptake during the dry season in an Amazon evergreen forest
Trace element mobilization during incipient bioweathering of four rock types
Bioclimatic Envelopes for Individual Demographic Events Driven by Extremes: Plant Mortality from Drought and Warming
A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality
Temperature response surfaces for mortality risk of tree species with future drought
Ecosystem Composition Controls the Fate of Rare Earth Elements during Incipient Soil Genesis
Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests
Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for ‘Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics’ (Washington, DC, May 2015)
The contribution of germination functional traits to population dynamics of a desert plant community
Mineral nutrient mobilization by plants from rock: influence of rock type and arbuscular mycorrhiza
The Landscape Evolution Observatory: A large-scale controllable infrastructure to study coupled Earth-surface processes
Sensitivity of regional evapotranspiration partitioning to variation in woody plant cover: insights from experimental dryland tree mosaics
Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes
Quantifying the timescales over which exogenous and endogenous conditions affect soil respiration
Hillslope-scale experiment demonstrates the role of convergence during two-step saturation
Incipient subsurface heterogeneity and its effect on overland flow generation – insight from a modeling study of the first experiment at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory
Phenotypic constraints and community structure: Linking trade‐offs within and among species
Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions
Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of <i><scp>P</scp>inus edulis</i> during drought‐induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism
Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona
When vegetation change alters ecosystem water availability
An integrated modelling framework of catchment‐scale ecohydrological processes: 1. Model description and tests over an energy‐limited watershed
Understanding past, contemporary, and future dynamics of plants, populations, and communities using Sonoran Desert winter annuals
Phenotypic Selection Favors Missing Trait Combinations in Coexisting Annual Plants