Effects of species mixtures on soil water storage in the semiarid hilly gully region

D Cheng, L Jiao, G Gao, J Liu, W Chen, Z Li… - Science of THE Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixed-species plantations are promoted to restore degraded ecosystems and improve soil
quality worldwide. However, differences of soil water conditions between pure and mixed …

Widespread regeneration failure in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States

MD Petrie, RM Hubbard, JB Bradford, TE Kolb… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As climate changes in coming decades, ponderosa pine forest persistence may be
increasingly dictated by their regeneration. Sustained regeneration failure has been …

Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs

ARD Payne, PD Mannion, GT Lloyd… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Whereas living representatives of Pseudosuchia, crocodylians, number fewer than 30
species, more than 700 pseudosuchian species are known from their 250-million-year fossil …

Temperature‐driven convergence and divergence of ecohydrological dynamics in the ecosystems of a sky island mountain range

MD Petrie, JB Bradford, DR Schlaepfer - Ecohydrology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Forest and woodland decline is predicted to be increasingly influenced by meteorological
variation and climate change in the future. By determining how meteorological variation …

Snowtography quantifies effects of forest cover on net water input to soil at sites with ephemeral or stable seasonal snowpack in Arizona, USA

R Dwivedi, JA Biederman, PD Broxton, K Lee… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forested, snow‐dominated watersheds provide a range of ecosystem services including
water supply, carbon sequestration, habitat and recreation. While hydrologic partitioning has …

[HTML][HTML] Elasticity curves describe streamflow sensitivity to precipitation across the entire flow distribution

BJ Anderson, MI Brunner, LJ Slater… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2024 - hess.copernicus.org
Streamflow elasticity is the ratio of the expected percentage change in streamflow to a 1%
change in precipitation–a simple approximation of how responsive a river is to precipitation …

[HTML][HTML] Forest ecological security in China: A quantitative analysis of twenty five years

X Gao, G Wang, JL Innes, Y Zhao, X Zhang… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Forest Ecological Security (FES) is an essential component of ecological security
and plays an important role in national security. In this study, the Delphi method was used to …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal precipitation variability controls shallow soil water drought events across the southwestern United States

TT McKellar, MA Crimmins - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2025 - Elsevier
The semi-arid climate of the Southwestern United States ('Southwest') presents unique
challenges for quantifying drought conditions due to annual potential evapotranspiration …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrometeorological Factors Affecting the Carbon Exchange of the Himalayan Pine-dominated Ecosystem

L Khadke, S Mukherjee, K Kumar, S Ghosh - Ecological Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
The net carbon uptake of the natural and dense Himalayan ecosystems is not well explored
at a sub-daily scale due to limited data availability. Here, we present the first-ever analysis of …

Not only severe events: moderate dry periods impact the hydraulic functioning and survival of planted ponderosa pine seedlings

CR Koehn, MD Petrie, RM Hubbard - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Juvenile tree survival will increasingly shape the persistence of ponderosa pine forests in
the western United States. In contrast to severe pulse disturbances that induce widespread …