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McDowell, N., W. T.
Pockman, C. Allen, D. D. Breshears, N. Cobb, T. Kolb, J. Sperry, A.
West, D. Williams, and E. A.Yepez. Tansley Review. 2008.
Mechanisms of plant
survival and mortality during drought: Why do some plants survive while
others succumb to drought?
New Phytologist.
178: 719-739.
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Wei, H. M. A. Nearing, J. J. Stone, and
D.
D.
Breshears.2008.
A Dual-Monte-Carlo approach to estimate
model uncertainty: application to the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion
Model.
Transactions of the American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
51: 515-520.
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Breshears, D. D.,
J. J. Whicker, J. P. Field, C. B. Zou, and C. D. Allen. 2008.
A conceptual
framework for dryland aeolian sediment transport along the
grassland-forest continuum: effects of woody plant canopy cover and
disturbance.
Special Issue on
Wind Erosion Measurements. Geomorphology. in
press.
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Rich, P.M.,
D.
D.
Breshears, and A. B. White. 2008.
Phenology of mixed
woody-herbaceous ecosystems following extreme events: net and differential
responses. Special section on Phenology.
Ecology. 89: 342-352.
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Whicker, J. J., J. E.
Pinder III, and
D.
D.
Breshears. 2008.
Thinning semiarid
forests amplifies wind erosion comparably to wildfire: restoration and
soil stability.
Journal of Arid
Environments. 72: 494-508.
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Villegas, J. C.,
C. Tobón, and
D.
D.
B
reshears. 2008.
Fog interception by
non-vascular epiphytes in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests:
dependencies on gauge type and meteorological conditions.
Hydrological
Processes. DOI:
10.1002/hyp.6844.
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Breshears, D. D.,
N. G. McDowell, K. L. Goddard, K. E. Dayem, S. N. Martens, and C. W. Meyer
and K. M. Brown. 2008.
Foliar absorption of
intercepted rainfall improves plant water status and enables drought
recovery.
Ecology.
89:41-47.
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Breshears, D.D.
2008.
Structure and
function of woodland mosaics: consequences of patch-scale
heterogeneity and connectivity along the grassland-forest continuum.
In: Western North American Juniperus Communities.
O. W. Van Auken, ed.
Ecological
Studies Series. Springer.
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Kempes, C. P.,O. B. Myers,D. D. Breshears,and J. J.
Ebersole. 2008
Comparing response of Pinus edulis tree-ring growth
to five alternate moisture indices using historic meteorological data.
Journal of
Arid Environments. 72: 350-357.
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Betancourt,
J. L. M.D. Schwartz, D. D.
Breshears, C. A. Brewer, G.
Frazer, J. E. Gross, S. J. Mazer, B. C. Reed, and B. E. Wilson. 2007.
Evolving
plans for the USA National Phenology Network.
Eos:
Vol. 88, No. 19.
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Zou, C. B., Greg A. Barron-Gafford, and
David D. Breshears. 2007.
Effects of topography and woody plant
canopy cover on near-ground solar radiation: relevant energy inputs for
ecohydrology and hydropedology.
Geophysical Research Letters.
L24S21, doi:10.1029/2007GL031484
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| Whicker,
J. J., J. E. Pinder III, Shawki A. Ibrahim, J. M. Stone, D. D.
Breshears, and K. N. Baker. 2007.
Uranium partition coefficients (Kd)
in whole and fine fraction of surface soil at two mountain forest
sites reveal long equilibrium times and site differences.
Health
Physics: in press. |
In
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| Newman,
B. D, B. P. Wilcox, S.R.Archer, D.D.Breshears, N.D. Clifford,
C.J.Duffy, N.G. McDowell, F.M. Philips, B.R.Scanlon and E.R. Vivoni.
2006.
Ecohydrology
of water-limited environments: a scientific vision.
Water Resources
Research: 42, W06302, doi:10.1029/2005WR004141 
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Whicker, J. J., J. E.
Pinder III, D. D. Breshears, and C. F. Eberhart. 2006.
From
dust to dose: effects of forest disturbance on increased
inhalation exposure.
Science of the
Total Environment: 368 (2-3): 519-530
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Breshears, D. D. 2006.
The
grassland-forest continuum: trends in ecosystem properties for
woody plant mosaics?
Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment. 4(2): 96 - 104
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| Whicker, J.
J., J. E. Pinder III, and D. D. Breshears. 2006.
Increased
wind erosion from forest wildfire: overlooked implications for
contaminant-related risks.
Journal of Environmental Quality.
35 (2):468 - 478
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| Betancourt,
J.L., M.D.Schwartz, D. D. Breshears, D.R. Cayan, M. D.
Dettinger, D. W. Inouye, E. Post, and B. C. Reed. 2005.
Implementing
a U.S. National Phenology Network.
EOS. 86
(51)
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| Breshears,
D. D., N. S. Cobb, P. M. Rich, K. P. Price, C. D. Allen, R. G.
Balice, W. H. Romme, J. H. Kastens, M. L. Floyd, J. Belnap, J. J.
Anderson, O. B. Myers, and C. W. Meyer. 2005.
Regional
vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought.
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 102:15144-15148
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Breshears, D. D. 2005.
An ecologist's perspective of
ecohydrology.
Commentary
(Not
peer-reviewed)
Bulletin
of the Ecological Society of America 86: 296-300
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| Stimson, H. C., D.
D. Breshears, S. L. Ustin, and S. C. Kefauver.
2005.
Spectral sensing of foliar water
conditions in two co-occurring conifer species: Pinus edulis and Juniperus
monosperma.
Remote Sensing of
Environment 96: 108-118.
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| Fair, J. M., and D.
D. Breshears. 2005.
Drought stress and fluctuating asymmetry
in Quercus undulata leaves: confounding
effects of absolute and relative amounts of stress?
Journal of Arid Environments 62:
235-249.
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| Huxman,
T. E., B. P. Wilcox, D. D. Breshears, R. Scott, K. Snyder, E. A.
Small, K. Hultine, W. Pockman, and R. B. Jackson. 2005.
Woody
plant encroachment and the water cycle: an ecohydrological framework.
Special
section: Ecohydrology of Semiarid
Landscapes
Ecology 86: 308-319.
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| Ludwig, J.A., B. P.
Wilcox, D. D. Breshears, D. J. Tongway, and A. C. Imeson.
2005.
Vegetation patches and runoff-erosion as
interacting ecohydrological processes in semiarid landscapes.
Special
section: Ecohydrology of Semiarid
Landscapes
Ecology 86: 288-297.
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| Field, J.P.,
K.W. Farrish, B.P. Oswald, M.T. Romig, E.A.Carter. 2005.
Forest site preparation effect on soil and
nutrient losses in East Texas.
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers 48 (2):861-869
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| Zou, C.B., P.W.
Barnes, S. Archer, and C. McMurtry. 2005.
Soil moisture redistribution as a
mechanism of facilitation in savanna tree-shrub clusters.
Oecologia. 145: 32 - 40
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| Breshears, D. D.,
J. W. Nyhan, and D. W. Davenport.
2005.
Ecohydrology monitoring and excavation
of semiarid landfill covers a decade post-installation.
Special section: Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Vadose Zone Journal 4:
798-810 (doi:10.2136/vzj2004.0038).
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| Hastings, B. K., D.
D. Breshears, and F. M. Smith. 2005.
Spatial variability of rainfall
erosivity and sediment yield within a semiarid woodland.
Special section: Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Vadose Zone Journal 4:
500-504.
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| Martens, S. N. and D.
D. Breshears. 2005.
Assessing contaminant transport
vulnerability in complex topography using a distributed hydrologic model.
Special section: Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Vadose Zone Journal
4: 811-818 (doi:10.2136/vzj2004-0037).
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| Johnston, C. A., P.
Groffman, D. D. Breshears, Z. G. Cardon, W. Currie, W. Emanuel, J.
Gaudinski, R. B. Jackson, K. Lajtha, K. Nadelhoffer, D. Nelson Jr., W. M.
Post, G. Retallack, R. Stallard, and L. Wielopolski.
2004.
Carbon
cycling in soil.
Frontiers
in Ecology and the Environment 2: 522-528.
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| Loik, M. E., D.
D. Breshears, W. K. Lauenroth, and J. Belnap.
2004.
A multi-scale perspective of water
pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western
USA.
Special section: Precipitation Pulses in
Arid Ecosystems
Oecologia: 141: 269-281.
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| Peters,
D. P., J. E. Herrick, D. L. Urban, R. H. Gardner, and D. D. Breshears.
2004.
Strategies
for ecological extrapolation.
Forum
Oikos
106: 627-636.
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| House, J., S.
Archer, D. D. Breshears, R. J. Scholes, and the NCEAS Tree-grass
Interactions Participants. 2003.
Conundrums in mixed woody-herbaceous
plant systems.
Journal of Biogeography 30:
1763-1777.
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| Johansen, M.P.,
T. E. Hakonson, F.W. Whicker, D. D. Breshears. 2003.
Pulsed redistribution of a contaminant following forest fire: Cesium-137 in runoff.
Journal of Environmental Quality 32:
2150.
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| Field, J.P.,
K. W. Farrish, E. A. Carter. 2003.
Soil and Nutrient Losses Following Site Preparation Burning in a Harvested Loblolly Pine
Site.
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers 46 (6):
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| Breshears, D. D.,
J. J. Whicker, M. P. Johansen, and J. E. Pinder III.
2003.
Wind and water erosion and transport in
semiarid shrubland, grassland, and forest ecosystems:
quantifying dominance of horizontal wind-driven transport.
Special
Issue: Wind Erosion Field Studies: Contributions to a Joint Meeting of
ICAR5 and GTCE-SEN.
Wiley
Award for Best Paper of 2003 in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
28:1189-1209.
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| Ebinger,
M. H., M. L. Norfleet, D. D. Breshears, D. A. Cremers, M. J.
Ferris, P. J. Unkefer, M. S. Lamb, K. L. Goddard, and C. W. Meyer.
2003.
Extending
the applicability of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for total soil
carbon measurement.
Special
symposium section: Approaches
and technologies for detecting changes in forest soil carbon pools
Soil
Science Society of America Journal 67: 1616-1619.
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| Wilcox,
B. P., D. D. Breshears, and H. J. Turin.
2003.
Hydraulic
conductivity in a piñon-juniper woodland: influence of vegetation.
Soil
Science Society of America Journal 67:1243-1249.
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| Wilcox,
B. P., D. D. Breshears, and C. D. Allen.
2003.
Ecohydrology
of a resource-conserving semiarid woodland: effects of scale and
disturbance.
Ecological
Monographs 73: 223-239.
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Whicker,
J.J, D.D. Breshears , P.T. Wasiolek , T.B. Kirchner, R.A.
Tavani , D.A. Schoep , J.C. Rodgers. 2002
Temporal
and spatial variation of episodic wind erosion in unburned and burned
semiarid shrubland.
Journal
of Environmental Quality 31: 599-612.
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| Breshears,
D. D., and C. D. Allen. 2002.
The
importance of rapid, disturbance-induced losses in carbon management and
sequestration.
Ecological
Sounding. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11: 1-5.
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| Johansen,
M. P., T. E. Hakonson, and D. D. Breshears.
2001.
Post-fire
runoff and erosion following rainfall simulation: contrasting forests with
shrublands and grasslands.
Special
issue: Wildfire and surficial processes
Hydrological
Processes 15: 2953-2965.
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| Beeson,
P. C., S. N. Martens, and D. D. Breshears.
2001.
Simulating
overland flow following wildfire: mapping vulnerability to landscape
disturbance.
Special
issue: Wildfire and surficial processes
Hydrological
Processes 15: 2917-2930.
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| Cremers,
D.A., M. H. Ebinger, D. D. Breshears, P. J. Unkefer, S. A.
Kammerdiener, M. J. Ferris, K. M. Catlett, and J. R. Brown.
2001.
Measuring
total soil carbon with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).
Journal
of Environmental Quality 30: 2202-2206.
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| Martens,
S. N., D. D. Breshears, and F. J. Barnes.
2001.
Development
of species dominance along an elevational gradient:
population dynamics of Pinus edulis and Juniperus
monosperma.
International
Journal of Plant Sciences 162: 777-783.
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| Zou, C.B.,
C. Penfold, R. Sands, R.K. Misra and I. Hudson. 2001.
Effects of soil air-filled porosity,
soil matric potential and soil strength on primary root growth of radiata
pine seedlings.
Plant and Soil 236:105-115
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| Zou, C.B.,
R. Sands, and O. J. Sun. 2000.
Physiological responses of radiata pine
roots to soil strength and soil water deficit.
Tree Physiology 20, 1205 - 1207
PDF only available at request
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Zou, C.B.,
R. Sands, G. Buchan, and I. Hudson. 2000
Least limiting water range: a potential
indicator of physical quality of forest soils.
Australia Journal of Soil Research, 38,
947 - 58
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| Martens,
S. N., D. D. Breshears, and C. W. Meyer.
2000.
Spatial
distributions of understory light along the grassland/forest continuum:
effects of cover, height, and spatial pattern of tree canopies.
Ecological
Modelling 126: 79-93.
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| Reid,
K. D., B. P. Wilcox, D. D. Breshears, and L. MacDonald.
1999.
Runoff
and erosion for vegetation patch types in a piñon-juniper woodland.
Soil
Science Society of America Journal 63:1869-1879.
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| Breshears,
D. D., and F. J. Barnes. 1999.
Interrelationships
between plant functional types and soil moisture heterogeneity for
semiarid landscapes within the grassland/forest continuum: a unified
conceptual model.
Landscape
Ecology 14: 465-478.
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| Allen,
C. D., and D. D. Breshears. 1998.
Drought-induced
shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: rapid landscape response to climate
variation.
Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
95:14839-14842.
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| Breshears,
D. D., J. W. Nyhan, C. E. Heil, and B. P. Wilcox.
1998.
Effects
of woody plants on microclimate in a semiarid woodland: soil temperature
and evaporation in canopy and intercanopy patches.
International
Journal of Plant Sciences 159: 1010-1017.
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| Davenport,
D. W., D. D. Breshears, B. P. Wilcox, and C. D. Allen.
1998.
Sustainability
of piñon-juniper woodlands—a unifying perspective of soil erosion
thresholds.
Viewpoint
Journal
of Range Management 51: 231-240.
Article
is available upon request
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| Wilcox,
B. P., and D. D. Breshears. 1997.
Interflow
in semiarid environments: an overlooked process in risk assessment.
Human
and Ecological Risk Assessment 3: 187-203.
Article is available upon request
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| Breshears,
D. D., P. M. Rich, F. J. Barnes, and K. Campbell.
1997.
Overstory-imposed
heterogeneity in solar radiation and soil moisture in a semiarid woodland.
Ecological
Applications 7: 1201-1215.
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| Martens,
S. N., D. D. Breshears, C. W. Meyer, and F. J. Barnes.
1997.
Scales
of above-ground and below-ground competition in a semiarid woodland as
detected from spatial pattern.
Journal
of Vegetation Science 8: 655-664.
Article is available upon request
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| Breshears,
D. D., O. B. Myers, S. R. Johnson, C. W. Meyer, and S. N. Martens.
1997.
Differential
use of spatially heterogeneous soil moisture by two semiarid woody
species: Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma.
Cover
Photo: Caption
Journal
of Ecology 85: 289-299.
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| Davenport,
D. W., B. P. Wilcox, and D. D. Breshears.
1996.
Soil
morphology of canopy and intercanopy sites in a piñon-juniper woodland.
Soil
Science Society of America Journal 60: 1881-1887.
Article is available upon request
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| Yeakley,
J. A., R. A. Moen, D. D. Breshears, and M. K. Nungesser.
1994.
Response
of North American ecosystem models to multi-annual periodicities in
temperature and precipitation.
Landscape
Ecology 9: 249-260.
Article is available upon request
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| Breshears,
D. D., F. W. Whicker, and T. E. Hakonson.
1993.
Orchestrating
environmental research and assessment for remediation.
Ecological
Applications 3: 590-594.
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| Breshears,
D. D., T. B. Kirchner, and F. W. Whicker.
1992.
Contaminant
transport through agroecosystems: assessing the relative importance of
environmental, physiological, and management factors.
Ecological
Applications 2: 285-297.
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| Whicker,
F. W., T. B. Kirchner, D. D. Breshears, and M. D. Otis.
1990.
Estimation
of radionuclide ingestion: the PATHWAY food-chain model.
Special
issue: Environmental radiation exposures from nuclear testing in Nevada
Health
Physics 59: 645-657.
Article is available upon request
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| Breshears,
D. D., T. B. Kirchner, M. D. Otis, and F. W. Whicker.
1989.
Uncertainty
in predictions of fallout radionuclides in foods and of subsequent
ingestion.
Health
Physics 57: 943-953.
Article is available upon request
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| Brisbin,
I. L., D. D. Breshears, K. L. Brown, M. Ladd, M. H. Smith, M. W.
Smith, and A. L. Towns. 1989.
Relationships
between radiocaesium components of terrestrial and aquatic food webs of a
contaminated streambed and floodplain community.
Journal
of Applied Ecology 26:
173-182.
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| Breshears,
D. D., M. H. Smith, E. G. Cothran, and P. E. Johns.
1988.
Genetic
variability in white-tailed deer.
Heredity
60: 139-146.
Article
is available upon request
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