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- Satellite precipitation bias estimation and correction using in situ observations and climatology isohyets for the MENA region, 2023, Journal of Arid Environments (215) -
- Foraging behavior of Raramuri Criollo vs. Angus cattle grazing California Chaparral and Colorado Plateau shrublands, 2023, Journal of Arid Environments (213) -
- Adapting to climate change on desert rangelands: A multi-site comparison of grazing behavior plasticity of heritage and improved beef cattle, 2023, Journal of Arid Environments (209) -
- Azorella compacta's long-term growth rate, longevity, and potential for dating geomorphological and archaeological features in the arid southern Peruvian Andes, 2021, Journal of Arid Environments (188) -
- Free-roaming horses disrupt greater sage-grouse lekking activity in the Great Basin, 2021, Journal of Arid Environments (184) -
- Seed bank community and soil texture relationships in a cold desert, 2019, Journal of Arid Environments (164) -
- Responses of biological soil crusts to rehabilitation strategies, 2019, Journal of Arid Environments (163) -
- Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen status of semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin, USA, 2018, Journal of Arid Environments (157) -
- Identifying optimal remotely-sensed variables for ecosystem monitoring in Colorado Plateau drylands, 2018, Journal of Arid Environments (153) -
- Landscape-scale processes influence riparian plant composition along a regulated river, 2018, Journal of Arid Environments (148) -
- Spatial variation in edaphic characteristics is a stronger control than nitrogen inputs in regulating soil microbial effects on a desert grass, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (142) -
- Trends and drivers of fire activity vary across California aridland ecosystems, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (144) -
- Monitoring water content dynamics of biological soil crusts, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (142) -
- Spatial and temporal variability in the effects of wildfire and drought on thermal habitat for a desert trout, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (145) -
- Controls on the chemical composition of saline surface crusts and emitted dust from a wet playa in the Mojave Desert (USA), 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (140) -
- Post-fire interactions between soil water repellency, soil fertility and plant growth in soil collected from a burned piñon-juniper woodland, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (144) -
- Soils mediate the impact of fine woody debris on invasive and native grasses as whole trees are mechanically shredded into firebreaks in piñon-juniper woodlands, 2017, Journal of Arid Environments (137) -
- Climate, streamflow, and legacy effects on growth of riparian Populus angustifolia in the arid San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2016, Journal of Arid Environments (134) -
- Using NDVI to measure precipitation in semi-arid landscapes, 2016, Journal of Arid Environments (131) -
- Identification and dating of indigenous water storage reservoirs along the Rio San José at Laguna Pueblo, western New Mexico, USA, 2016, Journal of Arid Environments (127) -
- Precipitation regime classification for the Mojave Desert: Implications for fire occurrence, 2016, Journal of Arid Environments (124) -
- A comparison of estimates of basin-scale soil-moisture evapotranspiration and estimates of riparian groundwater evapotranspiration with implications for water budgets in the Verde Valley, Central Arizona, USA, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (124) -
- Bidirectional recovery patterns of Mojave Desert vegetation in an aqueduct pipeline corridor after 36 years: II. Annual plants, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (122) -
- Sampling animal sign in heterogeneous environments: how much is enough?, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (119) -
- Wide-area ratios of evapotranspiration to precipitation in monsoon-dependent semiarid vegetation communities, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (117) -
- Bidirectional recovery patterns of Mojave Desert vegetation in an aqueduct pipeline corridor after 36 years: I. Perennial shrubs and grasses, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (124) -
- Hydroecological condition and potential for aquaculture in lakes of the arid region of Khorezm, Uzbekistan, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (117) - 1
- Ungulate exclusion, conifer thinning and mule deer forage in northeastern New Mexico, 2015, Journal of Arid Environments (113) -
- Pedological and geological relationships with soil lichen and moss distribution in the eastern Mojave Desert, CA, USA, 2014, Journal of Arid Environments (106) -
- Insights for empirically modeling evapotranspiration influenced by riparian and upland vegetation in semiarid regions, 2014, Journal of Arid Environments (111) -
- Common raven occurrence in relation to energy transmission line corridors transiting human-altered sagebrush steppe, 2014, Journal of Arid Environments (111) -
- Effects of natural flooding and manual trapping on the facilitation of invasive crayfish-native amphibian coexistence in a semi-arid perennial stream, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (98) -
- Regional demographic trends from long-term studies of saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) across the northern Sonoran Desert, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (88) -
- Disruption rates for one vulnerable soil in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, USA, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (95) -
- Plot- and landscape-level changes in climate and vegetation following defoliation of exotic saltcedar (Tamarix sp.) from the biocontrol agent Diorhabda carinulata along a stream in the Mojave Desert (USA), 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (89) -
- Nest site characteristics and nesting success of the Western Burrowing Owl in the eastern Mojave Desert, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (94) -
- Controls of biological soil crust cover and composition shift with succession in sagebrush shrub-steppe, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (94) -
- Floral ecology and insect visitation in riparian Tamarix sp. (saltcedar), 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (94) -
- Grazing effects on aboveground primary production and root biomass of early-seral, mid-seral, and undisturbed semiarid grassland, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (92) -
- Vegetation impoverishment despite greening: a case study from central Senegal, 2013, Journal of Arid Environments (90) -
- Constancy of local spread rates for buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare L.) in the Arizona Upland of the Sonoran Desert, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (87) -
- A simple method for estimating basin-scale groundwater discharge by vegetation in the basin and range province of Arizona using remote sensing information and geographic information systems, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (82) -
- Roles of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) and capillary rise in salinizing a non-flooding terrace on a flow-regulated desert river, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (79) -
- Evaluation of NDVI to assess avian abundance and richness along the upper San Pedro River, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (77) -
- Seed dispersal and seed fate in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (81) -
- Soil C and N patterns in a semiarid piñon-juniper woodland: Topography of slope and ephemeral channels add to canopy-intercanopy heterogeneity, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (79) -
- Roles of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) and capillary rise in salinizing a non-flooding terrace on a flow-regulated desert river, 2012, Journal of Arid Environments (79) -
- A comparison of methods to assess long-term changes in Sonoran Desert vegetation, 2011, Journal of Arid Environments (75) - 11
- Short-term effects of experimental fires on a Mojave Desert seed bank, 2010, Journal of Arid Environments (74) - 10
- Potential nitrogen fixation activity of different aged biological soil crusts from rehabilitated grasslands of the hilly Loess Plateau, China, 2010, Journal of Arid Environments (74) - 10
- On the irrigation requirements of cottonwood (Populus fremontii and Populus deltoides var. wislizenii) and willow (Salix gooddingii) grown in a desert environment, 2010, Journal of Arid Environments (74) - 6
- Potential environmental influences on variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism among Arizona populations of the western diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox), 2010, Journal of Arid Environments (74) - 11
- Compensating for diminishing natural water: Predicting the impacts of water development on summer habitat of desert bighorn sheep, 2009, Journal of Arid Environments (73) - 3
- Using packrat middens to assess grazing effects on vegetation change, 2009, Journal of Arid Environments (73) - 10
- Biological soil crusts exhibit a dynamic response to seasonal rain and release from grazing with implications for soil stability, 2009, Journal of Arid Environments (73) - 12
- Seed banks in a degraded desert shrubland: Influence of soil surface condition and harvester ant activity on seed abundance, 2009, Journal of Arid Environments (73) - 10
- Spatial and temporal patterns across an ecological boundary: Allochthonous effects of a young saltwater lake on a desert ecosystem, 2009, Journal of Arid Environments (73) - 9
- Late-Holocene fossil rodent middens from the Arica region of northernmost Chile, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (75) - 5
- Short-term monitoring of aridland lichen cover and biomass using photography and fatty acids, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 6
- Late-Holocene fossil rodent middens from the Arica region of northernmost Chile, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 5
- Sensitivity of summer climate to anthropogenic land-cover change over the Greater Phoenix, AZ, region, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 7
- Visually assessing the level of development and soil surface stability of cyanobacterially dominated biological soil crusts, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 7
- Multiyear riparian evapotranspiration and groundwater use for a semiarid watershed, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 7
- Temporal variation in the arthropod community of desert riparian habitats with varying amounts of saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima), 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 9
- Biogeochemical and ecological impacts of livestock grazing in semi-arid southeastern Utah, USA, 2008, Journal of Arid Environments (72) - 5
- Do soil characteristics or microhabitat determine field emergence and success of Bromus tectorum?, 2007, Journal of Arid Environments (70) - 3
- Diversity of terrestrial avifauna in response to distance from the shoreline of the Salton Sea, 2007, Journal of Arid Environments (68) - 4
- Relationship between evapotranspiration and precipitation pulses in a semiarid rangeland estimated by moisture flux towers and MODIS vegetation indices, 2007, Journal of Arid Environments (70) - 3
- Introduction to the special issue on the changing Mojave Desert, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) -
- Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires in the Mojave Desert, 1980-2004, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Flood pattern and weather determine Populus leaf litter breakdown and nitrogen dynamics on a cold desert floodplain, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (64) - 4
- A highway's road-effect zone for desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (65) - 1
- Ecology of a population of subsidized predators: Common ravens in the central Mojave Desert, California, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Attributes of desert tortoise populations at the National Training Center, Central Mojave Desert, California, USA, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Abundance and distribution of selected elements in soils, stream sediments, and selected forage plants from desert tortoise habitats in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, USA, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Dominance and environmental correlates of alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert, USA, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Precipitation history and ecosystem response to multidecadal precipitation variability in the Mojave Desert region, 1893-2001, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- Effects of livestock watering sites on alien and native plants in the Mojave Desert, USA, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - SUPPL.
- A 16-year record of eolian dust in Southern Nevada and California, USA: Controls on dust generation and accumulation, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) - 3
- Effects of feral horses in Great Basin landscapes on soils and ants: Direct and indirect mechanisms, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (66) - 1
- Carbon and nitrogen fixation differ between successional stages of biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan Desert, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (66) - 4
- Composition of aeolian dust in natural traps on isolated surfaces of the central Mojave Desert - Insights to mixing, sources, and nutrient inputs, 2006, Journal of Arid Environments (66) - 1
- Successional trends in Sonoran Desert abandoned agricultural fields in northern Mexico, 2005, Journal of Arid Environments (60) - 3
- Influence of climatic variability on local population dynamics of a Sonoran Desert platyopuntia, 2005, Journal of Arid Environments (61) - 2
- Changing land management practices and vegetation on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso (1968-2002), 2005, Journal of Arid Environments (63) - 3
- Sequestration of carbon in soil organic matter in Senegal: an overview, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- The social context of carbon sequestration: considerations from a multi-scale environmental history of the Old Peanut Basin of Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Understanding the drivers of agricultural land use change in south-central Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Impacts of land use and climate change on carbon dynamics in south-central Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Ecological impact of historical and future land-use patterns in Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Ecoregions and land cover trends in Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Community- and landscape-level responses of reptiles and small mammals to feral-horse grazing in the Great Basin, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 2
- Populations dynamics of red brome (Bromus madritensis subsp. Rubens): Times for concern, opportunities for management, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (57) - 3
- Evaluation of land performance in Senegal using multi-temporal NDVI and rainfall series, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Assessing land cover performance in Senegal, West Africa using 1-km integrated NDVI and local variance analysis, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Land use change and terrestrial carbon stocks in Senegal, 2004, Journal of Arid Environments (59) - 3
- Understanding arid environments using fossil rodent middens, 2002, Journal of Arid Environments (50) - 3
- Prioritizing conservation potential of arid-land montane natural springs and associated riparian areas, 2002, Journal of Arid Environments (50) - 4
- Impacts of off-road vehicles on nitrogen cycles in biological soil crusts: Resistance in different U.S. deserts, 2002, Journal of Arid Environments (52) - 2
- The influence of biological soil crusts on mineral uptake by associated vascular plants, 2001, Journal of Arid Environments (47) - 3
- Selenium, selected inorganic elements, and organochlorine pesticides in bottom material and biota from the Colorado River delta, 2001, Journal of Arid Environments (49) - 1
- Distribution and abundance of the Yuma clapper rail (Rallus longirostris yumanensis) in the Colorado River delta, México, 2001, Journal of Arid Environments (49) - 1
- Channel incision and patterns of cottonwood stress and mortality along the Mojave River, California, 2000, Journal of Arid Environments (44) - 4
- Does Ferocactus wislizeni (Cactaceae) have a between-year seed bank?, 2000, Journal of Arid Environments (45) - 3
- Hydrologic influences on soil properties along ephemeral rivers in the Namib Desert, 2000, Journal of Arid Environments (45) - 1
- Instability of development and fractal architecture in dryland plants as an index of grazing pressure, 1998, Journal of Arid Environments (38) - 1
- Vulnerability of desert biological soil crusts to wind erosion: The influences of crust development, soil texture, and disturbance, 1998, Journal of Arid Environments (39) - 2
- Succession of desert plants on debris flow terraces, Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A., 1997, Journal of Arid Environments (36) - 1
- Seedling emergence on Sonoran desert dunes, 1996, Journal of Arid Environments (33) - 1
- Assessment of interspecific interactions in plant communities: an illustration from the cold desert saltbush grasslands of North America, 1995, Journal of Arid Environments (31) - 2
- The potential response of eolian sands to greenhouse warming and precipitation reduction on the Great Plains of the U.S.A., 1993, Journal of Arid Environments (25) - 4
- Dedication: David Joseph Morafka, , Journal of Arid Environments (67) - Supplement