Articles in refereed journals
2022
Wen, J., J. Fisher, N. Parazoo, L. Hu, M.E. Litvak, Y. Sun. Resolve the continuous diurnal cycle of high-resolution ECOSTRESS Evapotranspiration and Land Surface Temperature Water Resources Research, accepted, in press.
Cunliffe, A. M., Boschetti, F., Clement, R., Sitch, S., Anderson, K., Duman, T., et al. (2022). Strong correspondence in evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide fluxes between different eddy covariance systems enables quantification of landscape heterogeneity in dryland fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006240. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006240
Marsh, C., J. L. Crockett, D. Krofcheck, A. Keyser, C.D. Allen, M.E. Litvak, M.D. Hurteau, 2022. Planted seedling survival in a post-wildfire landscape: From
experimental planting to predictive probabilistic surfaces. Forest Ecology andManagement, 525 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120524.
Novick, KA, S/ Metzger, WRL Anderegg, M Barnes, DS Cala, K Guan, KS Hemes, DYHollinger, J Kumar, M Litvak, D Lombardozzi, CP Normile, P Oikawa, BRK Runkle, M Torn, S Wiesner. 2022. Informing nature-based climate solutions for the United States with the best-available science. Global Change Biology 28(12), 3778-3794. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16156
Dannenberg, M.P, D.Yan, M.L. Barnes, W.K. Smith, M.R. Johnston, R.L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, J.F. Knowles, X. Wang, T. Duman, M.E. Litvak, J.S. Kimball, A.P.Williams, Y. Zhang. 2022. Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 US Southwest hot drought. Global Change Biology 28(16), 479404806. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16214
McIntire, CD, AM Cunliffe, F. Boschetti, M.E. Litvak 2022. Allometric relationships for predicting aboveground biomass, sapwood, and leaf area of two-needle Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) amid open-grown conditions in Central New Mexico. Forest Science 68(2), 152-161.
Wang, X., J. Biederman, J. Knowles, R.L. Scott, , A. Turner, P. Köehler, C. Frankenberg, M.E. Litvak, G. Flerchinger, B. Law, H. Kwon, S.Reed, W. Parton, W. Smith. 2022. Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance observations capture complimentary aspects of seasonal dryland vegetation productivity dynamics. Remote Sensing Environment 270, 112858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112858.
Peltier, D.M.P, Jessica Guo, Phiyen Nguyen, Michael Bangs, Michelle Wilson, Kimberly Samuels-Crow, Larissa L Yocom, Yao Liu, Michael K Fell, John D Shaw, David Auty, Christopher Schwalm, William R L Anderegg, George W Koch, Marcy E Litvak, Kiona Ogle. 2022. Temperature memory and non-structural carbohydrates mediate legacies of a hot drought in trees across the southwestern US, Tree Physiology, 2022; tpab091, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab091
2021
Barnes, M.L., M. M. Farella, R.L. Scott, D.J.P. Moore, G.E. Ponce-Campos, J.A. Bierderman, N. MacBean, M.E. Litvak and D.D. Bresheaers. 2021 Ecohydrological water-carbon coupling improves dryland carbon flux prediction of average uptake, interannual variability, and drought. In review, Nature Communications: Earth and Environment 2(1), 1-9.
Hallmark, A., G.E. Mauer, R.E. Pangle, M.E. Litvak. 2021. Watching plants’ dance: movements of live and dead branches linked to atmospheric water demand. Ecosphere, 2021/8, e03705
Pirtel, N.L., R.M. Hubbard, J.B. Bradford, T.E. Kolb, M.E. Litvak, S.R. Abella, S.M. Porter, and M.D. Petrie. The aboveground and belowground growth characteristics of juvenile conifers in the southwestern United States. Ecosphere, 12(11),e03839
Peltier, D.M.P, Jessica Guo, Phiyen Nguyen, Michael Bangs, Michelle Wilson, Kimberly Samuels-Crow,
Larissa L Yocom, Yao Liu, Michael K Fell, John D Shaw, David Auty, Christopher Schwalm, William R L Anderegg, George W Koch, Marcy E Litvak, Kiona Ogle, Temperature memory and non-structural carbohydrates mediate legacies of a hot drought in trees across the southwestern US, Tree Physiology, 2021;, tpab091, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab091
Mahmud, K., R.L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, M.E. Litvak, T. Kolb, T.P. Meyers, P. Krishnan, V. Bastrikov, N. MacBean. Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO2 Flux and its Inter-Annual Variability. 2021. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr DOI:10.1002/essoar.10506679.2
MacBean, N., R.L. Scott, J. Biederman, P. Peylin, T. Kolb, M. Litvak, P. Krishnan, T.P. Meyers, V.K. Arora, V. Bastrikov, D. Goll, D.L. Lombardozzi, J.E.M.S. Nabel, J. Pongratz, S.Stich, A.P. Walker, S. Zaehle, D.J. Moore. 2021. Dynamic global vegetation models underestimate net CO2 flux mean and inter-annual variability in dryland ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a38.
Hou, E., M.E. Litvak, J.A. Rudgers, L. Jiang, S.L. Collins, W.T. Pockman, D.Hui, S. Niu, Y. Luo. 2021. Divergent responses of primary production to increasing precipitation variability in global drylands, Global Change Biology https://doi-org.libproxy.unm.edu/10.1111/gcb.15801
Remy, C.C., A.R. Keyer, D.J. Krofcheck, M.E. Litvak and M.D. Hurteau. Future fire-driven landscape changes along a southwestern US elevation gradient. 2021. Climatic Change 166, 46 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03140-x
Koehn, C.R., M.D. Petrie, J.B. Bradford, M.E. Litvak, S. Strachan. 2021 Seasonal precipitation and soil moisture relationships across forests and woodlands in the southwestern U.S. JGR-Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005986.
Chu, H., X. Luo., Z. Ouyang, W.S. Chan, S. Dengel, S. Biraud, M.C Torn, S. Metzger, J. Kumar, A. M. Altaf, T.J.Arkebauer, D. Baldocchi, C. Bernacchi, D. Billesbach, A.T. Black, P. Blanken, G. Bohrer, R. R. Bracho, S.. Brown, N. Brunsell, J. Chen, X. Chen, , K. Clark, A. Desai, T. Duman, D. Durden, S. Fares, R. Silvano, I. Forbrich, J.A. Gamon, C.M. Gough, T. Griffis, M. Helbig, D. Hollinger, E.Humphreys, H. Ikawa, J. Hiroki, Y. Ju, J.F. Knowles, S.H. Knox, H. Kobayashi, T. Kolb, B. Law, X. Lee, M. Litvak, H. Liu, W.J. Munger, A. Noormets, K. Novick, S.F. Oberbauer, W.F. Oechel, P. Oikawa, S.A. Papuga, E.A., Pendall, P. Prajapati, J. Prueger, W.L. Quinton, A.D. Richardson, E.S. Russell, R.L. Scott, G.L. Starr, R. Staebler, Ralf, P.C. Stoy, E. Stuart-Haëntjens, O. Sonnentag, Oliver, R.C. Sullivan, A.C. Suyker, M. Ueyama, R. Vargas, J.D. Wood, and D. Zona, Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10217219. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 301-302.C Web. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108350.
Zinnert, J. Jesse B. Nippert, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Steven C. Pennings, Grizelle González, Merryl Alber, Sara G. Baer, John M. Blair, Adrian Burd, Scott L. Collins, Christopher Craft, Daniela Di Iorio, Walter K. Dodds, Peter M. Groffman, Ellen Herbert, Christine Hladik, Fan Li, Marcy E. Litvak, Seth Newsome, John O’Donnell, William T. Pockman, John Schalles, ere R. Young. 2021. Future trajectories for ecosystems of the U.S. Long term ecological Research Network: The importance of state changes. Ecosphere https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3433.
Peltier, D.P., J. Guo, P. Nguyen, M. Bangs, L. Gear , M.Wilson, S. Jefferys , K. Samuels-Crow, L. L. Yocom, Y. Liu, M.K. Fell, D.Auty, C.Schwalm, W.R.L. Anderegg , G.W. Koch, M.E. Litvak, K.Ogle 2021. Temporal controls on crown non-structural carbohydrates and links to sapwood storage in southwestern US tree species, Tree Physiology,41 (3), 388-402.
Duman, T.D., C.W. Huang, and M.E. Litvak. 2021 Recent land cover changes in the Southwest U.S. increase surface temperature. Ag For Met, 297, 108246, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108246
Wieder, W.R., D. Pierson, S. Earl, K. Lajtha, S. Baer, A.A. Berhe, S. Billings, L.M. Brigham, S.S. Chacon, J. Fraterrigo, K. Georgiou, M-A. Graaff, A.S. Grandy, M.D. Hartman, S.Hobbie, C.Johnson, J.Kaye, E. Kyker-Snowman, M.E. Litvak, A.Malhotra, J.A.M. Moore, K. Nadelhoffer, C. Rasmussen, W.L. Silver, B. Sulman, X. Walker, S. Weintraub 2021. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data 13 (5), 1843-1854
2020
Hou, E., J. A. Rudgers, S.L. Collins, M.E. Litvak, C.S. White, D.I. Moore, and Y. Luo. 2020. Sensitivity of soil organic matter to climate and fire in a desert grassland. Biogeochemistry. DOI 10.1007/s10533-020-00713-3.
Li, X., Xiao, J., Kimball, J. S., Reichle, R. H., Scott, R. L., Litvak, M. E., … Frankenberg, C. (2020). Synergistic use of SMAP and OCO-2 data in assessing the responses of ecosystem productivity to the 2018 U.S. drought. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112062
Huang, C-W., D.J. Krofcheck, T. Duman, A.M. Fox, W.T. Pockman, C.D. Lippit, C.D. McIntire, M.E. Litvak. Ecosystem-level energy and water budgets are resilient to canopy mortality in semi-arid biomes. JGR-Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005858
Knowles, J.F., R. L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, P.D. Blanken, S.P. Burns, S.Dore, T.E. Kolb, M.E. Litvak, G.A. Barron-Gafford. 2020. Montane forest productivity across a semi-arid climatic gradient. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15335
Schwinning, S, M.E. Litvak, W.T. Pockman, R.E. Pangle, A.M. Fox, C.W. Huang, and C.D. McIntire. 2020. A 3-dimensional model of Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma root distributions in New Mexico: Implications for soil water dynamics. Plant and Soil 450:337–355
Samuels‐Crow, K. E., Ogle, K., & Litvak, M. E. (2020). Atmosphere‐Soil interactions govern ecosystem flux sensitivity to environmental conditions in semiarid woody ecosystems over varying timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005554. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005554
MacBean, N., Scott, R. L., Biederman, J. A., Ottlé, C., Vuichard, N., Ducharne, A., Kolb, T., Dore, S., Litvak, M., and Moore, D. J. P. 2020 Multi-variable, multi-configuration testing of ORCHIDEE land surface model water flux and storage estimates across semi-arid sites in the southwestern US, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-598.
Cunliffe, A.M., C. McIntire, F. Boschetti, K.J. Sauer, M.E. Litvak, R.E. Brazier, and K. Anderson. 2020 Allometric relationships for predicting aboveground biomass and sapwood area of Oneseed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma) trees. Frontiers in Plant Science. | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00094
2019
Krofcheck, D.J. M.E. Litvak, and M.D. Hurteau. 2019. Allometric relationships for Quercus gambelii and Robinia neomexicana for biomass estimation following disturbance Ecosphere. 10: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2905
Remy, Cecile, C., D.J. Krofcheck, A.R. Keyser, M.E. Litvak, S.L. Collins, M.D. Hurteau. 2019. Integrating Species-Specific Information in Models Improves Regional Projections Under Climate Change, GRL. 46: 6554-6562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082762
Rudgers, J., A. Hallmark, S.R. Baker, L. Baur, K.M. Hall, M.E. Litvak, E.H. Muldavin, W.T. Pockman, and K.D. Whitney. Sensitivity of dryland plant allometry to climate. Functional Ecology 33: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13463
Senay, G., Schauer, M.P., Velpuri, N.M., Singh, R., Kagone, S., Friedrichs, M.O., Litvak, M., and Douglas-Mankin, K.R., 2019. Long-term (1986 -2015) Crop Water Use Characterization over the Upper Rio Grande Basin using Landsat-based Evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing. 11,1587-1622. doi:10.3390/rs11131587.
2018
Barnard, D., J. Knowles, H. Barnard, M. Goulden, J. Hu, M. Litvak, and N. Molotch, Reevaluating growing season length controls on net ecosystem production. 2018. Nature Scientific Reports 8:17973
Fox, A.M., T.J. Hoar, J.L. Anderson, A.F. Arellano, W.K. Smith, M.E. Litvak, N. MacBean, D.S. Schimel and D.J.P. Moore. 2018 Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models using CLM4.5. J of Adv Modeling Earth Systems. 10.1029/2018MS001362.
Rudgers, JA, YA Chung, GE Maurer, DI Moore, EH Muldavin, ME Litvak and SL Collins. 2018 Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology 99:576-582.
Huang, C-W, J-C Domec, S. Palmroth, WT Pockman, ME Litvak, G Katul. Transport in a coordinated soil-root-xylem-phloem leaf system. Advances Water Resources. 119:1-16
Robinson, E., M. Nuanez, and M.E Litvak. 2018 Biocrust contribution to ecosystem respiration exceeds contribution to gross primary production and varies by biome. Ecosphere 9(6), e02315.
Perdrial, J. PD Brooks, T Swetnam, KA Lohse, C Rasmussen, ME.Litvak, A A Harpold, X. Zapata-Rios, P. Broxton, B. Mitra, R. Meixner, K. Condon, D. Huckle, C. Stielstra, A. Vazquez-Ortega, R. Lybrand, M. Holleran, C Orem, J Pelletier, J. Chorover. 2018. A net ecosystem carbon budget for snow dominated forested headwater catchments: linking water and carbon fluxes to critical zone carbon storage. Biogeochemistry 138, 225-243.
J.F. Knowles, E. Trujillo, M.E. Litvak, N.P. Molotch. 2018. Snowmelt-Driven Trade-offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest CarbonUptake During Drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 3087–3096. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076504
Smith, W.K., J.A. Biederman, R.L. Scott, D.J.P. Moore, M. He, J.S. Kimball, d. Yan, A. Hudson, M.L. Barnes, N. MacBean, A. Fox, M.E. Litvak. 2018. Chlorophyll fluorescence better captures seasonal and interannual gross primary productivity dynamics across dryland ecosystems of Southwestern North America. Geophys. Res. Letters. 45:748-757. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075922
Truettner, C., W.R.L. Anderegg, F. Biondi, G.W. Koch, K. Ogle, C. Schwalm, M.E. Litvak, J.D. Shaw and E. Ziaco. 2018. Conifer Radial Growth Response to Recent Seasonal Warming and Drought from the Southwestern USA. Forest Ecology and Management 418:55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044
Biederman, J., Scott, R.L., Arnone, J.A. III, Jasoni, R.L., Litvak, ME; Moreo, MM, Papuga, SA, Ponce-Campos, G., Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., Vivoni, E. Shrubland exchanges of carbon dioxide across water availability gradients in the warm deserts of North America. 2018. Ag For Met 249:407-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.005
Novick, J.A. Biederman, A.R. Desai, M.E. Litvak, D.J.P. Moore, R.L. Scott. M.S. Torn. The Ameriflux Network: A coalition of the willing. Ag For Met. 249: 444-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.009
2017
Morillas, L., R.E. Pangle, G.E. Maurer, W.T. Pockman, N. McDowell, C-W. Huang, D.J. Krofcheck, A.M. Fox, R.L. Sinsabaugh, T.A. Rahn, M.E. Litvak. Tree mortality decreases water availability and ecosystem resilience to drought in pinon-juniper woodlands in the southwestern USA. JGR-Biogeosciences. 122, 3343–3361. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/2017JG004095JGR-Biogeosciences
Schwalm, CR, R. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, ME Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D.N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain, H. Tian. 2017. Global patterns of drought recovery. Nature 548:202-205 Montane, F., A.M. Fox, A.F. Arellano, N. MacBean, M. Ross Alexander, A. Dye, D.A. Bishop, V. Trouet, F. Babst, A.E. Hessl, N. Pederson, P.D. Blanken, G.Boher, C. M. gough, M.E. Litvak, K.A.Novick, R.P. Phillips, J.D. Wood, and D.J.P. Moore. 2017. Geoscientific Model Development. doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-74.
Biederman JA, Scott RL, Bell TW, Bowling, DR, Dore, S. Garatuza-Payan, J, Kolb, TE, Krishnan P, Krofcheck, DJ, Litvak, ME, Maurer, GE, Meyers, TP, Oechel, WC, Papuga SA, Ponce-Campos GE, Rodriguez JC,Smith WK,Vargas R, Watts CJ, Yepez EA, Goulden ML. CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. Glob Change Biol. 00:1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13686.
Brewer, W., C. Lippit, M.E. Litvak, C. Lippit. Assessing drought-induced change in a pinon-juniper woodland with Landsat: a multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38:14, 41-56-4176, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1317940.
Villegas, J. C., D. J. Law, S. C. Stark, D. M. Minor, D. D. Breshears, S. R. Saleska, A. L. S. Swann, E. S. Garcia, E. M. Bella, J. M. Morton, N. S. Cobb, G. A. Barron-Gafford, M. E. Litvak, and T. E. Kolb. 2017. Prototype campaign assessment of disturbance-induced tree loss effects on surface properties for atmospheric modeling. Ecosphere 8(3):e01698. 10.1002/ecs2.1698.
Sinsabaugh, R. L., Moorhead, D. L., Xu, X. and Litvak, M. E. (2017), Plant, microbial and ecosystem carbon use efficiencies interact to stabilize microbial growth as a fraction of gross primary production. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14485.
2016
Krofcheck, D.J., M.E. Litvak, C.D. Lippitt, and A. Neuenschwander. 2016. Woody biomass estimation in a Southwestern US juniper savanna using clumped tree segmentation and existing allometries. Remote Sens. 2016, 8(6), 453; doi:10.3390/rs8060453.
Wolf, S., T.F. Keenan, J.B. Fisher, D.D. Baldocchi, A.R. Desai, A.D. Richardson, R.L.Scott, B.E. Law, M.E. Litvak, N.A. Brunsell, W. Peters, I.T. van der Laan-Lujikx. 2016 Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. PNAS 113(21), 5880–5885, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1519620113.
Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Goulden, M. L., Vargas, R., Litvak, M. E., Kolb, T. E., Yepez, E. A., Oechel, W. C., Blanken, P. D., Bell, T. W., Garatuza-Payan, J., Maurer, G. E., Dore, S. and S. P. Burns. 2016. Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.13222.
Stark, S.C., D.D. Breshears, E.S. Garcia, D.J. Law, D.M. Minor, S.R. Saleska, A.L.S. Swann, J. C. Villegas, L. E.O. C. Arago, E. M. Bella, L.S. Borma, N.S. Cobb, M. E. Litvak, W. E. Magnusson, J.M. Morton, M.D. Redmond. 2016. Toward accounting for ecoclimate telconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change. Landscape Ecol. 31:181-194. DOI 10.1007/s10980-015-0282-5.
Warnock, D.D., M.E. Litvak, L. Morillas, R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2016. Drought-induced pinon mortality alters the seasonal dynamics of microbial activity in pinon-juniper woodland. Soil Biol Biochem, 92: 91-101.
Petrie, M. D., N. A. Brunsell, R. Vargas, S. L. Collins, L. B. Flanagan, N. P. Hanan, M. E. Litvak, and A. E. Suyker (2016), The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.
2015
Krofcheck, D. J., J.U.H. Eitel, C.D. Lippitt, L. A. Vierling, U. Schulthess, and M. E.Litvak. 2015 Remote sensing based simple models of GPP in both disturbed and undisturbed pinon-juniper woodlands in the Southwest U.S. Remote Sens. 2015, 8(1), 20; doi:10.3390/rs8010020.
Parazoo, N.C., E. Barnes, J. Worden, A. B. Harper, K.B. Bowman, C. Frankenberg, S. Wolf, M.Litvak, and T.F. Keenan. 2015. Influence of ENSO and the NAO on Terrestrial Carbon Uptake in the Texas-northern Mexico Region" Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(8):1247-1265; doi:10.1002/2015GB005125.
Anderegg, W.R.L., C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J.J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A.P. Williams, A. Wolf, E. Ziaco, S. Pacala. 2015. Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models. Science 349:528-532.
Dean, S., D. Warnock, A.P.-Alfaro, M. Litvak, and R. Sinsabaugh. 2015. Root Associated Fungal Community Response to Drought-Associated Changes in Vegetation Community. Mycology, 107(6): 1089-1104; doi: 10.3852/14-240
Cueva, A. M. Bahn, M. Litvak, J. Pumpanen, R. Vargars. 2015. A multisite analysis of temporal random errors in soil CO2 efflux. JGR Biogeosciences DOI 10.1002/2014/JG002690.
Petrie, M.D., S.L. Collins and M.E. Litvak 2015. The ecological role of small rainfall events in a desert grassland. Ecohydrology 8:1614-1622.
Harpold, A.A., N.P. Molotch, K.N. Musselman, R.C. Bales, P.B. Kirchner, M. Litvak, and P.D. Brooks. 2015. Soil moisture response to snowmelt timing in mixed-conifer subalpine forests. Hydrological Processes doi 10.1002/hyp.10400.
Field, J.P, David D. Breshears, Darin J. Law, Juan C. Villegas, Laura López-Hoffman, Paul D. Brooks, Jon Chorover, Greg A. Barron-Gafford, Rachel E. Gallery, Marcy E. Litvak, Rebecca A. Lybrand, Jennifer C. McIntosh, Thomas Meixner, Guo-Yue Niu, Shirley A. Papuga, Jon D. Pelletier, Craig R. Rasmussen, and Peter A. Troch. 2015. Critical Zone Services: Expanding context, constraints, and currency beyond ecosystem services. Vadose Zone Journal. doi:10.2136/vzj2014.10.0142.
Stielstra, C.M, K.A. Lohse, J. Chorover, J.C. McIntosh,G.A. Barron-Gafford, J.N. Perdrial, M. Litvak, H.R. Barnard, P.D. Brooks. 2015. Climatic and landscape influences on soil moisture are primary determinants of soil carbon fluxes in seasonally snow-covered forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 123:447-465.
2014
Collins, S.L., J. Belnap, N.B. Grimm, J.A. Rudgers, C.N. Dahm, P. D’Odorico, M. Litvak, D.O. Natvig, D.C. Peters, W.T. Pockman, R.L. Sinsabaugh, and B.O. Wolf. 2014. A multi-scale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in aridland ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 45:397-419.
Sinsabaugh, R.L., J. Belnap, S.G. Findlay, J.J. Follstad Shah, B.H. Hill, K.A. Kuehn, C.Kuske, M.E. Litvak, N.G. Martinez, D.L. Moorhead, D.D. Warnock. 2014. Extracellular enzyme kinetics scale with resource availability. Biogeochemistry DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-0030-y.
Petrie, M.D., S.L. Collins, A.M. Swann, P.L. Ford, and M.E. Litvak. 2014. Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan desert. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.1273.
Tokumoto, I., J. L. Heilman, S. Schwinning, K.J. McInnes, M.E. Litvak, C.L. S. Morgan, R.H. Kamps. 2014. Small-scale variability in water storage and plant available water in shallow, rocky soils. Plant and Soil. DOI 10.1007/s11104-014-2224-4.
McDowell, N.G., N.C. Coops, P. Bieck, J. Chambers, C. Gangodagmage, J.A. Hicke,C. Huange, R. Kennedy, D. Krofcheck, M. Litvak, A. Meddens, J. Muss, R. Negron-Juarez, C. Peng, A. Schwantes, J. J. Swenson, L. Vernon, A. P. Williams, C. Xu, M. Zhao, S. Running and C. Allen. 2014. Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. Trends in Plant Science. 20 (2), 114-123.
Heilman, J.L., M.E. Litvak, KJ McInnes, JF Kjelgaard, RH Kamps, S Schwinning 2014. Water-storage capacity controls energy partitioning and water use in karst ecosystems on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Ecohydrology 7(1):127-138.
Krofcheck, D.J., J. U.H. Eitel, L.A. Vierling, U. Schulthess, E. Dettweiler-Robinson, R. Pendleton, and M.E. Litvak. 2014. Linking structural with functional changes in a piñon-juniper woodland using a time series of high spatial resolution satellite data and eddy covariance. Remote Sensing of the Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment 151, 102-113; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.009.
Meyer, N.A., D.O. Breecker, M.H. Young, M.E. Litvak. 2014. Simulating the role of
vegetation in formation of pedogenic carbonate. Soil Science Society of America Journal 78 (3), 914-924, doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.08.0326.
Thomey, M.L.; P.L. Ford, M.C. Reeves.; D.M. Finch, M.E. Litvak, S.L. Collins, 2014. Climate change impacts on future carbon stores and management of warm deserts of the United States. Rangelands. 36:16-24.
Perdrial, J.N, J. McIntosh, A. Harpold, P.D. Brooks, X. Zapta-Rios, J. Ray, T. Meixer, T. Kanduc, M. Litvak, P. A. Troch, J. Chorover. 2014. Stream water carbon controls in seasonally snow-covered mountain catchment: impact of inter-annual variability of water fluxes, catchment aspect and seasonal processes. Biogeochemistry 118 (1-3), 273-290 DOI 10.1007/s10533-013-9929-y.
Elkington, R.J., K.T. Rebel, J.L. Heilman, M.E. Litvak, S.C. Dekker, G.W. Moore. 2014. Species –specific water use by woody plants on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Ecohydrology 7 (2), 278-290.
Shi, Z. M.L. Thomey, W. Mowll, M. Litvak, N.A. Brunsell, S.L. Collins, W.T. Pockman, M.D. Smith, A.K. Knapp, Y. Luo. 2014. Differential Effects of Extreme Drought on Production and Respiration: Synthesis and Modeling Analysis. Biogeosciences, 11:621-633,
2013
Berryman, E., J.D. Marshall, T. Rahn, M.E. Litvak and J. Butnor. 2013. Decreased carbon limitation of litter respiration in a mortality-affected piñon-juniper woodland. Biogeosciences, 10: 1625-1634.
2012
Breecker, D.O., L.D. McFadden, Z.D. Sharp, M. Litvak. 2012. Seasonal variations in the d13C value of soil respired CO2 in mixed C3-C4 ecosystems from central New Mexico. Ecosystems 15:83-96.
Niu, S., Luo, Y., Fei, S., Yuan, W., Schimel, D., Law, B.E., Ammann, C., Altaf Arain, M.,Arneth, A., Aubinet, M., Barr, A., Beringer, J., Bernhofer, C., Andrew Black, T., Buchmann, N., Cescatti, A., Chen, J., Davis, K.J., Dellwik, E., Desai, A.R., Etzold, S., Francois, L., Gianelle, D., Gielen, B., Goldstein, A., Groenendijk, M., Gu, L., Hanan, N., Helfter, C., Hirano, T., Hollinger, D.Y., Jones, M.B., Kiely, G., Kolb, T.E., Kutsch, W.L., Lafleur, P., Lawrence, D.M., Li, L., Lindroth, A., Litvak, M., Loustau, D., Lund, M., Marek, M., Martin, T.A., Matteucci, G., Migliavacca, M., Montagnani, L., Moors, E., William Munger, J., Noormets, A., Oechel, W., Olejnik, J., U, K.T.P., Pilegaard, K., Rambal, S., Raschi, A., Scott, R.L., Seufert, G., Spano, D., Stoy, P., Sutton, M.A., Varlagin, A., Vesala, T., Weng, E., Wohlfahrt, G., Yang, B., Zhang, Z. and Zhou, X. 2012. Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms. New Phytologist 194, 775-783.
2011
Eitel, J.U.H., L. A. Vierling, M.E. Litvak, D. Krofcheck, D.S. Long, A.A. Ager, A. Hudak and L. Stoscheck. 2011. Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in conifer forests. Remote Sensing doi:10.1016/ j.rse.2011.09.002.
Chorover, J., P.A. Troch, C. Rasmussen, P.D. Brooks, J.D. Pelletier, D.D. Breshears,T.E. Huxman, S.A. Kurc, K.A. Lohse, J.C. McIntosh, T. Meixer, M.G. Schaap, M.E. Litvak, J. perdrial, A. Harpold, M. Durcik. 2011. How water, carbon, and energy drive landscape evolution: The Jemez– Santa Catalina Mountains Critical Zone Observatory. (Vadose Zone Journal, Special Issue on the Critical Zone 10: 884-899.
Berryman, E.M, Marshall, J.D., Rahn, T., Cook, S.P. and Litvak, M. 2011. Adaptation of continuous-flow cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) for batch analysis of δ13C of CO2. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 16:2355-60.
Eitel, J.U.H., L.A. Vierling, D.S. Long, M. Litvak, K.B. Eitel. 2011. Simple assessment of needleleaf and broadleaf chlorophyll content using a flatbed color scanner. Can J For Res 41:1445-1451.
Anderson-Teixera, K. J., DeLong J. P., Fox, A. M., Brese, D. and Litvak, M. E., 2011. Climate change will reduce the capacity of Southwest ecosystems to sequester and store carbon. Global Change Biology 17, 410-424.
Xiao, J., Zhuang, Q., Law, B.E., Baldocchi, D.D., Chen, J., Richardson, A.D., Melillo, J.M.,Davis, K.J., Hollinger, D.Y., Wharton, S., Oren, R., Noormets, A., Fischer, M.L., Verma, S.B., Cook, D.R., Sun, G., McNulty, S., Wofsy, S.C., Bolstad, P.V., Burns, S.P., Curtis, P.S., Drake, B.G., Falk, M., Foster, D.R., Gu, L., Hadley, J.L., Katul, G.G., Litvak, M., Ma, S., Martin, T.A., Matamala, R., Meyers, T.P., Monson, R.K., Munger, J.W., Oechel, W.C., Paw, U.K.T., Schmid, H.P., Scott, R.L., Starr, G., Suyker, A.E. and Torn, M.S. 2011. Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations. Agric. For. Meteorol. 151, 60-69.
2010
He, Y., P. D’Odorico, S.F.J. de Wekker, J. D. Fuentes, M.E. Litvak. 2010. On the impact of shrub encroachment on microclimate conditions in the Northern Chihuahuan desert JGR-Atmospheres doi:10.1029/2009JD013529. D’Odorico, P. Y. He, J.D. Fuentes, S. Collins, S. de Wekker, W. Pockman and M.E.
Litvak. 2010. Postive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the Chihuahuan desert. Ecosphere 1, 1-11.
Xiao, J., Zhuang, Q., Law, B.E., Chen, J., Baldocchi, D.D., Cook, D.R., Oren, R., Richardson,
A.D., Wharton, S., Ma, S., Martin, T.A., Verma, S.B., Suyker, A.E., Scott, R.L., Monson, R.K., Litvak, M., Hollinger, D.Y., Sun, G., Davis, K.J., Bolstad, P.V., Burns, S.P., Curtis, P.S., Drake, B.G., Falk, M., Fischer, M.L., Foster, D.R., Gu, L., Hadley, J.L., Katul, G.G., Matamala, R., McNulty, S., Meyers, T.P., Munger, J.W., Noormets, A., Oechel, W.C., Paw U, K.T., Schmid, H.P., Starr, G., Torn, M.S. and Wofsy, S.C. 2010. A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Remote Sens. Environ. 114, 576-591.
2009
Molotch, N.P., J.R. McConnell, M. Litvak, S.P. Burns, R.K. Monson, K. Musselman and P.D. Brooks. 2009. Ecohydrological controls on snow accumulation and snowmelt partitioning in mixed-conifer sub-alpine forests. Ecohydrology, Vol. 2, doi: 10.1002/eco.48.
2008
Xiao J., Zhuang Q., Baldocchi D.D., Law B.E., Richardson A.D., Chen J., Oren R., Starr G.,Noormets A., Ma S., Verma S.B., Wharton S., Wofsy S.C., Bolstad P.V., Burns S.P., Cook D.R., Curtis P.S., Drake B.G., Falk M., Fischer M.L., Foster D.R., Gu L., Hadley J.L., Hollinger D.Y., Katul G.G., Litvak M., Martin T.A., Matamala R., McNulty S., Meyers T.P., Monson R.K., Munger J.W., Oechel W.C., Paw U K.T., Schmid H.P., Scott R.L., Sun G., Suyker A.E., and Torn M.S. 2008. Estimation of net ecosystem carbon exchange for the conterminous United States by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Agric. For. Meteorol. 148, 1827-1847.
2007
Goulden, M.L. M.E. Litvak, S.D. Miller. 2007. Controls on Typha marsh evapotranspiration. AQUATIC BOTANY; FEB 2007; v.86, no.2, p.97-106
2006
Goulden, M.L., G.C. Winston, A.M.S. McMillan, M.E. Litvak, E.L. Read, A.V. Rocha, J.R. Elliot. 2006. An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land-atmosphere exchange. Global Change Biology 12:2146-2162.
Amiro, B.D., A.L. Orchansky, A.G. Barr, T.A. Black, S.D. Chambers, F.S. Chapin III, M.L. Goulden, M. Litvak, H.P. Liu, J.H. McCaughey, A. McMillan, J.T. Randerson. 2006. The effect of post-fire stand age on the boreal forest energy balance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140:41-50.
2004
Barth, M., J.P. McFadden, J. Sun, C. Wiedinmyer, P. Chuang, D. Collins, R. Griffin, M. Hannigan, T. Karl, S-W. Kim, S. Lasher-Trapp, S. Levis, M. Litvak, N. Mahowald, K. Moore, S. Nandi, E. Nemitz, A. Nenes, M. Potosnak, T.Raymond, J. Smith, C. Still, S. Stroud. 2004. Future Scientific Directions: Coupling between land ecosystems and the atmospheric hydrologic cycle through biogenic aerosol pathways. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 86(12), 1738-1742.
2003
Litvak, M.E., Miller, S, Wofsy, S.C., and Goulden, M. (2003). Effect of stand age on whole ecosystem CO2 exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D3), 8225, doi:10.1029/2001JD000854, 2003. Special Section: Comparison of Carbon Exchange between Boreal Black Spruce Forests and the Atmosphere for a Wildfire Age Sequence (FIRE-EXB).
Dioumaeva, I., Trumbore, S., Schuur, E, Goulden, M., Litvak, M.E. and Hirsch, A. (2003). Decomposition of peat from upland boreal forest. Temperature dependence and sources of respired carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D3), 8222, doi:10.1029/2001JD000848, 2003. Special Section: Comparison of Carbon Exchange between Boreal Black Spruce Forests and the Atmosphere for a Wildfire Age Sequence (FIRE-EXB).
1999
Litvak, M.E., Constable, J.V.H., and R.K. Monson (2002). Supply and demand processes as controls over needle monoterpene synthesis in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga mensiesii (Mirb.). Oecologia 132:382-391.Litvak, M.E., S. Madronich and R.K. Monson (1999) Herbivore-induced monoterpene emissions from coniferous forests: potential impact on local tropospheric chemistry dynamics. Ecological Applications 9:1147-1159.
Constable, J.V.H., M.E. Litvak, J.P. Greenberg, and R.K. Monson (1999) Monoterpene emission from coniferous trees in response to elevated CO2 concentration and climate warming. Global Change Biology 5:255-267.
1998
Litvak, M.E. and R.K. Monson (1998) Patterns of induced and constitutive monoterpene defenses in conifer needles in relation to insect herbivory. Oecologia 114:531-40
1997
Lerdau, M.T., M.E. Litvak, P. Palmer, and R.K. Monson (1997) Controls over monoterpene emission from boreal forest conifers. Tree Physiology 17:563-569.
1996
Litvak M.E., F. Loreto, P.C. Harley, T.D. Sharkey, and R.K. Monson (1996) The response of isoprene emission rate and photosynthetic rate to growth photon flux and nitrogen supply in aspen and white oak trees. Plant, Cell and Environment 19:560-568.
1994
Lerdau, M.T., M.E. Litvak and R.K. Monson (1994). Supply and demand in plant chemical defense: monoterpenes and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:58-61.
Monson, R.K., P.C. Harley, M.E. Litvak, M. Wildermuth, A.B. Guenther, P.R. Zimmerman and R. Fall (1994). Environmental and developmental controls over the seasonal pattern of isoprene emission from aspen leaves. Oecologia. 99:260-270.
Harley, P.C., M.E. Litvak, T.D. Sharkey, and R.K. Monson (1994). Isoprene emission from velvet bean leaves. Interactions among nitrogen availability, growth photon flux density, and leaf development. Plant Physiology 105:279-285.
1993
Miller, J., M. Litvak, S. Kelso, and A. Vargo (1993). Comparative reproductive biology of two alpine species of primrose. Arctic Alpine Res. 26:297-303.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Litvak, M.E., S. Schwinning, and J. Heilman. 2011. The role of ecosystem structure in regulating fluxes in Oak/Juniper Savannas in Central Texas, USA. Published in “Ecosystem Function in Global Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales", edited by Michael J. Hill and Niall P. Hanan and published by CRC/Taylor and Francis.
Hauwert, N. M., Litvak, M. E., & Sharp, J. M. (2005, August). Characterization and water balance of internal drainage sinkholes. In Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst (pp. 188-200). ASCE.
Litvak, M.E. (2003). Biogenic non-methane hydrocarbons. In: “McGraw-Hill Handbook of Weather, Climate and Oceans” (eds. T.D. Potter, and B. Coleman). John Wiley & Sons.
Litvak, M. and T. Perez. Global tropospheric chemistry. In: Notes from 1996 Colloquium on Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere, Boulder, CO, 14-27 July 1996 (eds. D. Schimel and R. Monson). Advanced Study Program, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
2022
Wen, J., J. Fisher, N. Parazoo, L. Hu, M.E. Litvak, Y. Sun. Resolve the continuous diurnal cycle of high-resolution ECOSTRESS Evapotranspiration and Land Surface Temperature Water Resources Research, accepted, in press.
Cunliffe, A. M., Boschetti, F., Clement, R., Sitch, S., Anderson, K., Duman, T., et al. (2022). Strong correspondence in evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide fluxes between different eddy covariance systems enables quantification of landscape heterogeneity in dryland fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006240. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006240
Marsh, C., J. L. Crockett, D. Krofcheck, A. Keyser, C.D. Allen, M.E. Litvak, M.D. Hurteau, 2022. Planted seedling survival in a post-wildfire landscape: From
experimental planting to predictive probabilistic surfaces. Forest Ecology andManagement, 525 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120524.
Novick, KA, S/ Metzger, WRL Anderegg, M Barnes, DS Cala, K Guan, KS Hemes, DYHollinger, J Kumar, M Litvak, D Lombardozzi, CP Normile, P Oikawa, BRK Runkle, M Torn, S Wiesner. 2022. Informing nature-based climate solutions for the United States with the best-available science. Global Change Biology 28(12), 3778-3794. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16156
Dannenberg, M.P, D.Yan, M.L. Barnes, W.K. Smith, M.R. Johnston, R.L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, J.F. Knowles, X. Wang, T. Duman, M.E. Litvak, J.S. Kimball, A.P.Williams, Y. Zhang. 2022. Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 US Southwest hot drought. Global Change Biology 28(16), 479404806. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16214
McIntire, CD, AM Cunliffe, F. Boschetti, M.E. Litvak 2022. Allometric relationships for predicting aboveground biomass, sapwood, and leaf area of two-needle Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) amid open-grown conditions in Central New Mexico. Forest Science 68(2), 152-161.
Wang, X., J. Biederman, J. Knowles, R.L. Scott, , A. Turner, P. Köehler, C. Frankenberg, M.E. Litvak, G. Flerchinger, B. Law, H. Kwon, S.Reed, W. Parton, W. Smith. 2022. Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance observations capture complimentary aspects of seasonal dryland vegetation productivity dynamics. Remote Sensing Environment 270, 112858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112858.
Peltier, D.M.P, Jessica Guo, Phiyen Nguyen, Michael Bangs, Michelle Wilson, Kimberly Samuels-Crow, Larissa L Yocom, Yao Liu, Michael K Fell, John D Shaw, David Auty, Christopher Schwalm, William R L Anderegg, George W Koch, Marcy E Litvak, Kiona Ogle. 2022. Temperature memory and non-structural carbohydrates mediate legacies of a hot drought in trees across the southwestern US, Tree Physiology, 2022; tpab091, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab091
2021
Barnes, M.L., M. M. Farella, R.L. Scott, D.J.P. Moore, G.E. Ponce-Campos, J.A. Bierderman, N. MacBean, M.E. Litvak and D.D. Bresheaers. 2021 Ecohydrological water-carbon coupling improves dryland carbon flux prediction of average uptake, interannual variability, and drought. In review, Nature Communications: Earth and Environment 2(1), 1-9.
Hallmark, A., G.E. Mauer, R.E. Pangle, M.E. Litvak. 2021. Watching plants’ dance: movements of live and dead branches linked to atmospheric water demand. Ecosphere, 2021/8, e03705
Pirtel, N.L., R.M. Hubbard, J.B. Bradford, T.E. Kolb, M.E. Litvak, S.R. Abella, S.M. Porter, and M.D. Petrie. The aboveground and belowground growth characteristics of juvenile conifers in the southwestern United States. Ecosphere, 12(11),e03839
Peltier, D.M.P, Jessica Guo, Phiyen Nguyen, Michael Bangs, Michelle Wilson, Kimberly Samuels-Crow,
Larissa L Yocom, Yao Liu, Michael K Fell, John D Shaw, David Auty, Christopher Schwalm, William R L Anderegg, George W Koch, Marcy E Litvak, Kiona Ogle, Temperature memory and non-structural carbohydrates mediate legacies of a hot drought in trees across the southwestern US, Tree Physiology, 2021;, tpab091, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab091
Mahmud, K., R.L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, M.E. Litvak, T. Kolb, T.P. Meyers, P. Krishnan, V. Bastrikov, N. MacBean. Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO2 Flux and its Inter-Annual Variability. 2021. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr DOI:10.1002/essoar.10506679.2
MacBean, N., R.L. Scott, J. Biederman, P. Peylin, T. Kolb, M. Litvak, P. Krishnan, T.P. Meyers, V.K. Arora, V. Bastrikov, D. Goll, D.L. Lombardozzi, J.E.M.S. Nabel, J. Pongratz, S.Stich, A.P. Walker, S. Zaehle, D.J. Moore. 2021. Dynamic global vegetation models underestimate net CO2 flux mean and inter-annual variability in dryland ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a38.
Hou, E., M.E. Litvak, J.A. Rudgers, L. Jiang, S.L. Collins, W.T. Pockman, D.Hui, S. Niu, Y. Luo. 2021. Divergent responses of primary production to increasing precipitation variability in global drylands, Global Change Biology https://doi-org.libproxy.unm.edu/10.1111/gcb.15801
Remy, C.C., A.R. Keyer, D.J. Krofcheck, M.E. Litvak and M.D. Hurteau. Future fire-driven landscape changes along a southwestern US elevation gradient. 2021. Climatic Change 166, 46 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03140-x
Koehn, C.R., M.D. Petrie, J.B. Bradford, M.E. Litvak, S. Strachan. 2021 Seasonal precipitation and soil moisture relationships across forests and woodlands in the southwestern U.S. JGR-Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005986.
Chu, H., X. Luo., Z. Ouyang, W.S. Chan, S. Dengel, S. Biraud, M.C Torn, S. Metzger, J. Kumar, A. M. Altaf, T.J.Arkebauer, D. Baldocchi, C. Bernacchi, D. Billesbach, A.T. Black, P. Blanken, G. Bohrer, R. R. Bracho, S.. Brown, N. Brunsell, J. Chen, X. Chen, , K. Clark, A. Desai, T. Duman, D. Durden, S. Fares, R. Silvano, I. Forbrich, J.A. Gamon, C.M. Gough, T. Griffis, M. Helbig, D. Hollinger, E.Humphreys, H. Ikawa, J. Hiroki, Y. Ju, J.F. Knowles, S.H. Knox, H. Kobayashi, T. Kolb, B. Law, X. Lee, M. Litvak, H. Liu, W.J. Munger, A. Noormets, K. Novick, S.F. Oberbauer, W.F. Oechel, P. Oikawa, S.A. Papuga, E.A., Pendall, P. Prajapati, J. Prueger, W.L. Quinton, A.D. Richardson, E.S. Russell, R.L. Scott, G.L. Starr, R. Staebler, Ralf, P.C. Stoy, E. Stuart-Haëntjens, O. Sonnentag, Oliver, R.C. Sullivan, A.C. Suyker, M. Ueyama, R. Vargas, J.D. Wood, and D. Zona, Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites. Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10217219. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 301-302.C Web. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108350.
Zinnert, J. Jesse B. Nippert, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Steven C. Pennings, Grizelle González, Merryl Alber, Sara G. Baer, John M. Blair, Adrian Burd, Scott L. Collins, Christopher Craft, Daniela Di Iorio, Walter K. Dodds, Peter M. Groffman, Ellen Herbert, Christine Hladik, Fan Li, Marcy E. Litvak, Seth Newsome, John O’Donnell, William T. Pockman, John Schalles, ere R. Young. 2021. Future trajectories for ecosystems of the U.S. Long term ecological Research Network: The importance of state changes. Ecosphere https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3433.
Peltier, D.P., J. Guo, P. Nguyen, M. Bangs, L. Gear , M.Wilson, S. Jefferys , K. Samuels-Crow, L. L. Yocom, Y. Liu, M.K. Fell, D.Auty, C.Schwalm, W.R.L. Anderegg , G.W. Koch, M.E. Litvak, K.Ogle 2021. Temporal controls on crown non-structural carbohydrates and links to sapwood storage in southwestern US tree species, Tree Physiology,41 (3), 388-402.
Duman, T.D., C.W. Huang, and M.E. Litvak. 2021 Recent land cover changes in the Southwest U.S. increase surface temperature. Ag For Met, 297, 108246, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108246
Wieder, W.R., D. Pierson, S. Earl, K. Lajtha, S. Baer, A.A. Berhe, S. Billings, L.M. Brigham, S.S. Chacon, J. Fraterrigo, K. Georgiou, M-A. Graaff, A.S. Grandy, M.D. Hartman, S.Hobbie, C.Johnson, J.Kaye, E. Kyker-Snowman, M.E. Litvak, A.Malhotra, J.A.M. Moore, K. Nadelhoffer, C. Rasmussen, W.L. Silver, B. Sulman, X. Walker, S. Weintraub 2021. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data 13 (5), 1843-1854
2020
Hou, E., J. A. Rudgers, S.L. Collins, M.E. Litvak, C.S. White, D.I. Moore, and Y. Luo. 2020. Sensitivity of soil organic matter to climate and fire in a desert grassland. Biogeochemistry. DOI 10.1007/s10533-020-00713-3.
Li, X., Xiao, J., Kimball, J. S., Reichle, R. H., Scott, R. L., Litvak, M. E., … Frankenberg, C. (2020). Synergistic use of SMAP and OCO-2 data in assessing the responses of ecosystem productivity to the 2018 U.S. drought. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112062
Huang, C-W., D.J. Krofcheck, T. Duman, A.M. Fox, W.T. Pockman, C.D. Lippit, C.D. McIntire, M.E. Litvak. Ecosystem-level energy and water budgets are resilient to canopy mortality in semi-arid biomes. JGR-Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005858
Knowles, J.F., R. L. Scott, J.A. Biederman, P.D. Blanken, S.P. Burns, S.Dore, T.E. Kolb, M.E. Litvak, G.A. Barron-Gafford. 2020. Montane forest productivity across a semi-arid climatic gradient. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15335
Schwinning, S, M.E. Litvak, W.T. Pockman, R.E. Pangle, A.M. Fox, C.W. Huang, and C.D. McIntire. 2020. A 3-dimensional model of Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma root distributions in New Mexico: Implications for soil water dynamics. Plant and Soil 450:337–355
Samuels‐Crow, K. E., Ogle, K., & Litvak, M. E. (2020). Atmosphere‐Soil interactions govern ecosystem flux sensitivity to environmental conditions in semiarid woody ecosystems over varying timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005554. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005554
MacBean, N., Scott, R. L., Biederman, J. A., Ottlé, C., Vuichard, N., Ducharne, A., Kolb, T., Dore, S., Litvak, M., and Moore, D. J. P. 2020 Multi-variable, multi-configuration testing of ORCHIDEE land surface model water flux and storage estimates across semi-arid sites in the southwestern US, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-598.
Cunliffe, A.M., C. McIntire, F. Boschetti, K.J. Sauer, M.E. Litvak, R.E. Brazier, and K. Anderson. 2020 Allometric relationships for predicting aboveground biomass and sapwood area of Oneseed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma) trees. Frontiers in Plant Science. | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00094
2019
Krofcheck, D.J. M.E. Litvak, and M.D. Hurteau. 2019. Allometric relationships for Quercus gambelii and Robinia neomexicana for biomass estimation following disturbance Ecosphere. 10: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2905
Remy, Cecile, C., D.J. Krofcheck, A.R. Keyser, M.E. Litvak, S.L. Collins, M.D. Hurteau. 2019. Integrating Species-Specific Information in Models Improves Regional Projections Under Climate Change, GRL. 46: 6554-6562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082762
Rudgers, J., A. Hallmark, S.R. Baker, L. Baur, K.M. Hall, M.E. Litvak, E.H. Muldavin, W.T. Pockman, and K.D. Whitney. Sensitivity of dryland plant allometry to climate. Functional Ecology 33: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13463
Senay, G., Schauer, M.P., Velpuri, N.M., Singh, R., Kagone, S., Friedrichs, M.O., Litvak, M., and Douglas-Mankin, K.R., 2019. Long-term (1986 -2015) Crop Water Use Characterization over the Upper Rio Grande Basin using Landsat-based Evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing. 11,1587-1622. doi:10.3390/rs11131587.
2018
Barnard, D., J. Knowles, H. Barnard, M. Goulden, J. Hu, M. Litvak, and N. Molotch, Reevaluating growing season length controls on net ecosystem production. 2018. Nature Scientific Reports 8:17973
Fox, A.M., T.J. Hoar, J.L. Anderson, A.F. Arellano, W.K. Smith, M.E. Litvak, N. MacBean, D.S. Schimel and D.J.P. Moore. 2018 Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models using CLM4.5. J of Adv Modeling Earth Systems. 10.1029/2018MS001362.
Rudgers, JA, YA Chung, GE Maurer, DI Moore, EH Muldavin, ME Litvak and SL Collins. 2018 Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology 99:576-582.
Huang, C-W, J-C Domec, S. Palmroth, WT Pockman, ME Litvak, G Katul. Transport in a coordinated soil-root-xylem-phloem leaf system. Advances Water Resources. 119:1-16
Robinson, E., M. Nuanez, and M.E Litvak. 2018 Biocrust contribution to ecosystem respiration exceeds contribution to gross primary production and varies by biome. Ecosphere 9(6), e02315.
Perdrial, J. PD Brooks, T Swetnam, KA Lohse, C Rasmussen, ME.Litvak, A A Harpold, X. Zapata-Rios, P. Broxton, B. Mitra, R. Meixner, K. Condon, D. Huckle, C. Stielstra, A. Vazquez-Ortega, R. Lybrand, M. Holleran, C Orem, J Pelletier, J. Chorover. 2018. A net ecosystem carbon budget for snow dominated forested headwater catchments: linking water and carbon fluxes to critical zone carbon storage. Biogeochemistry 138, 225-243.
J.F. Knowles, E. Trujillo, M.E. Litvak, N.P. Molotch. 2018. Snowmelt-Driven Trade-offs Between Early and Late Season Productivity Negatively Impact Forest CarbonUptake During Drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 3087–3096. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076504
Smith, W.K., J.A. Biederman, R.L. Scott, D.J.P. Moore, M. He, J.S. Kimball, d. Yan, A. Hudson, M.L. Barnes, N. MacBean, A. Fox, M.E. Litvak. 2018. Chlorophyll fluorescence better captures seasonal and interannual gross primary productivity dynamics across dryland ecosystems of Southwestern North America. Geophys. Res. Letters. 45:748-757. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075922
Truettner, C., W.R.L. Anderegg, F. Biondi, G.W. Koch, K. Ogle, C. Schwalm, M.E. Litvak, J.D. Shaw and E. Ziaco. 2018. Conifer Radial Growth Response to Recent Seasonal Warming and Drought from the Southwestern USA. Forest Ecology and Management 418:55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044
Biederman, J., Scott, R.L., Arnone, J.A. III, Jasoni, R.L., Litvak, ME; Moreo, MM, Papuga, SA, Ponce-Campos, G., Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., Vivoni, E. Shrubland exchanges of carbon dioxide across water availability gradients in the warm deserts of North America. 2018. Ag For Met 249:407-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.005
Novick, J.A. Biederman, A.R. Desai, M.E. Litvak, D.J.P. Moore, R.L. Scott. M.S. Torn. The Ameriflux Network: A coalition of the willing. Ag For Met. 249: 444-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.009
2017
Morillas, L., R.E. Pangle, G.E. Maurer, W.T. Pockman, N. McDowell, C-W. Huang, D.J. Krofcheck, A.M. Fox, R.L. Sinsabaugh, T.A. Rahn, M.E. Litvak. Tree mortality decreases water availability and ecosystem resilience to drought in pinon-juniper woodlands in the southwestern USA. JGR-Biogeosciences. 122, 3343–3361. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/2017JG004095JGR-Biogeosciences
Schwalm, CR, R. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, ME Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D.N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain, H. Tian. 2017. Global patterns of drought recovery. Nature 548:202-205 Montane, F., A.M. Fox, A.F. Arellano, N. MacBean, M. Ross Alexander, A. Dye, D.A. Bishop, V. Trouet, F. Babst, A.E. Hessl, N. Pederson, P.D. Blanken, G.Boher, C. M. gough, M.E. Litvak, K.A.Novick, R.P. Phillips, J.D. Wood, and D.J.P. Moore. 2017. Geoscientific Model Development. doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-74.
Biederman JA, Scott RL, Bell TW, Bowling, DR, Dore, S. Garatuza-Payan, J, Kolb, TE, Krishnan P, Krofcheck, DJ, Litvak, ME, Maurer, GE, Meyers, TP, Oechel, WC, Papuga SA, Ponce-Campos GE, Rodriguez JC,Smith WK,Vargas R, Watts CJ, Yepez EA, Goulden ML. CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. Glob Change Biol. 00:1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13686.
Brewer, W., C. Lippit, M.E. Litvak, C. Lippit. Assessing drought-induced change in a pinon-juniper woodland with Landsat: a multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38:14, 41-56-4176, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1317940.
Villegas, J. C., D. J. Law, S. C. Stark, D. M. Minor, D. D. Breshears, S. R. Saleska, A. L. S. Swann, E. S. Garcia, E. M. Bella, J. M. Morton, N. S. Cobb, G. A. Barron-Gafford, M. E. Litvak, and T. E. Kolb. 2017. Prototype campaign assessment of disturbance-induced tree loss effects on surface properties for atmospheric modeling. Ecosphere 8(3):e01698. 10.1002/ecs2.1698.
Sinsabaugh, R. L., Moorhead, D. L., Xu, X. and Litvak, M. E. (2017), Plant, microbial and ecosystem carbon use efficiencies interact to stabilize microbial growth as a fraction of gross primary production. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14485.
2016
Krofcheck, D.J., M.E. Litvak, C.D. Lippitt, and A. Neuenschwander. 2016. Woody biomass estimation in a Southwestern US juniper savanna using clumped tree segmentation and existing allometries. Remote Sens. 2016, 8(6), 453; doi:10.3390/rs8060453.
Wolf, S., T.F. Keenan, J.B. Fisher, D.D. Baldocchi, A.R. Desai, A.D. Richardson, R.L.Scott, B.E. Law, M.E. Litvak, N.A. Brunsell, W. Peters, I.T. van der Laan-Lujikx. 2016 Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. PNAS 113(21), 5880–5885, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1519620113.
Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Goulden, M. L., Vargas, R., Litvak, M. E., Kolb, T. E., Yepez, E. A., Oechel, W. C., Blanken, P. D., Bell, T. W., Garatuza-Payan, J., Maurer, G. E., Dore, S. and S. P. Burns. 2016. Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.13222.
Stark, S.C., D.D. Breshears, E.S. Garcia, D.J. Law, D.M. Minor, S.R. Saleska, A.L.S. Swann, J. C. Villegas, L. E.O. C. Arago, E. M. Bella, L.S. Borma, N.S. Cobb, M. E. Litvak, W. E. Magnusson, J.M. Morton, M.D. Redmond. 2016. Toward accounting for ecoclimate telconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change. Landscape Ecol. 31:181-194. DOI 10.1007/s10980-015-0282-5.
Warnock, D.D., M.E. Litvak, L. Morillas, R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2016. Drought-induced pinon mortality alters the seasonal dynamics of microbial activity in pinon-juniper woodland. Soil Biol Biochem, 92: 91-101.
Petrie, M. D., N. A. Brunsell, R. Vargas, S. L. Collins, L. B. Flanagan, N. P. Hanan, M. E. Litvak, and A. E. Suyker (2016), The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.
2015
Krofcheck, D. J., J.U.H. Eitel, C.D. Lippitt, L. A. Vierling, U. Schulthess, and M. E.Litvak. 2015 Remote sensing based simple models of GPP in both disturbed and undisturbed pinon-juniper woodlands in the Southwest U.S. Remote Sens. 2015, 8(1), 20; doi:10.3390/rs8010020.
Parazoo, N.C., E. Barnes, J. Worden, A. B. Harper, K.B. Bowman, C. Frankenberg, S. Wolf, M.Litvak, and T.F. Keenan. 2015. Influence of ENSO and the NAO on Terrestrial Carbon Uptake in the Texas-northern Mexico Region" Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(8):1247-1265; doi:10.1002/2015GB005125.
Anderegg, W.R.L., C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J.J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A.P. Williams, A. Wolf, E. Ziaco, S. Pacala. 2015. Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models. Science 349:528-532.
Dean, S., D. Warnock, A.P.-Alfaro, M. Litvak, and R. Sinsabaugh. 2015. Root Associated Fungal Community Response to Drought-Associated Changes in Vegetation Community. Mycology, 107(6): 1089-1104; doi: 10.3852/14-240
Cueva, A. M. Bahn, M. Litvak, J. Pumpanen, R. Vargars. 2015. A multisite analysis of temporal random errors in soil CO2 efflux. JGR Biogeosciences DOI 10.1002/2014/JG002690.
Petrie, M.D., S.L. Collins and M.E. Litvak 2015. The ecological role of small rainfall events in a desert grassland. Ecohydrology 8:1614-1622.
Harpold, A.A., N.P. Molotch, K.N. Musselman, R.C. Bales, P.B. Kirchner, M. Litvak, and P.D. Brooks. 2015. Soil moisture response to snowmelt timing in mixed-conifer subalpine forests. Hydrological Processes doi 10.1002/hyp.10400.
Field, J.P, David D. Breshears, Darin J. Law, Juan C. Villegas, Laura López-Hoffman, Paul D. Brooks, Jon Chorover, Greg A. Barron-Gafford, Rachel E. Gallery, Marcy E. Litvak, Rebecca A. Lybrand, Jennifer C. McIntosh, Thomas Meixner, Guo-Yue Niu, Shirley A. Papuga, Jon D. Pelletier, Craig R. Rasmussen, and Peter A. Troch. 2015. Critical Zone Services: Expanding context, constraints, and currency beyond ecosystem services. Vadose Zone Journal. doi:10.2136/vzj2014.10.0142.
Stielstra, C.M, K.A. Lohse, J. Chorover, J.C. McIntosh,G.A. Barron-Gafford, J.N. Perdrial, M. Litvak, H.R. Barnard, P.D. Brooks. 2015. Climatic and landscape influences on soil moisture are primary determinants of soil carbon fluxes in seasonally snow-covered forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 123:447-465.
2014
Collins, S.L., J. Belnap, N.B. Grimm, J.A. Rudgers, C.N. Dahm, P. D’Odorico, M. Litvak, D.O. Natvig, D.C. Peters, W.T. Pockman, R.L. Sinsabaugh, and B.O. Wolf. 2014. A multi-scale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in aridland ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 45:397-419.
Sinsabaugh, R.L., J. Belnap, S.G. Findlay, J.J. Follstad Shah, B.H. Hill, K.A. Kuehn, C.Kuske, M.E. Litvak, N.G. Martinez, D.L. Moorhead, D.D. Warnock. 2014. Extracellular enzyme kinetics scale with resource availability. Biogeochemistry DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-0030-y.
Petrie, M.D., S.L. Collins, A.M. Swann, P.L. Ford, and M.E. Litvak. 2014. Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan desert. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.1273.
Tokumoto, I., J. L. Heilman, S. Schwinning, K.J. McInnes, M.E. Litvak, C.L. S. Morgan, R.H. Kamps. 2014. Small-scale variability in water storage and plant available water in shallow, rocky soils. Plant and Soil. DOI 10.1007/s11104-014-2224-4.
McDowell, N.G., N.C. Coops, P. Bieck, J. Chambers, C. Gangodagmage, J.A. Hicke,C. Huange, R. Kennedy, D. Krofcheck, M. Litvak, A. Meddens, J. Muss, R. Negron-Juarez, C. Peng, A. Schwantes, J. J. Swenson, L. Vernon, A. P. Williams, C. Xu, M. Zhao, S. Running and C. Allen. 2014. Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. Trends in Plant Science. 20 (2), 114-123.
Heilman, J.L., M.E. Litvak, KJ McInnes, JF Kjelgaard, RH Kamps, S Schwinning 2014. Water-storage capacity controls energy partitioning and water use in karst ecosystems on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Ecohydrology 7(1):127-138.
Krofcheck, D.J., J. U.H. Eitel, L.A. Vierling, U. Schulthess, E. Dettweiler-Robinson, R. Pendleton, and M.E. Litvak. 2014. Linking structural with functional changes in a piñon-juniper woodland using a time series of high spatial resolution satellite data and eddy covariance. Remote Sensing of the Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment 151, 102-113; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.009.
Meyer, N.A., D.O. Breecker, M.H. Young, M.E. Litvak. 2014. Simulating the role of
vegetation in formation of pedogenic carbonate. Soil Science Society of America Journal 78 (3), 914-924, doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.08.0326.
Thomey, M.L.; P.L. Ford, M.C. Reeves.; D.M. Finch, M.E. Litvak, S.L. Collins, 2014. Climate change impacts on future carbon stores and management of warm deserts of the United States. Rangelands. 36:16-24.
Perdrial, J.N, J. McIntosh, A. Harpold, P.D. Brooks, X. Zapta-Rios, J. Ray, T. Meixer, T. Kanduc, M. Litvak, P. A. Troch, J. Chorover. 2014. Stream water carbon controls in seasonally snow-covered mountain catchment: impact of inter-annual variability of water fluxes, catchment aspect and seasonal processes. Biogeochemistry 118 (1-3), 273-290 DOI 10.1007/s10533-013-9929-y.
Elkington, R.J., K.T. Rebel, J.L. Heilman, M.E. Litvak, S.C. Dekker, G.W. Moore. 2014. Species –specific water use by woody plants on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Ecohydrology 7 (2), 278-290.
Shi, Z. M.L. Thomey, W. Mowll, M. Litvak, N.A. Brunsell, S.L. Collins, W.T. Pockman, M.D. Smith, A.K. Knapp, Y. Luo. 2014. Differential Effects of Extreme Drought on Production and Respiration: Synthesis and Modeling Analysis. Biogeosciences, 11:621-633,
2013
Berryman, E., J.D. Marshall, T. Rahn, M.E. Litvak and J. Butnor. 2013. Decreased carbon limitation of litter respiration in a mortality-affected piñon-juniper woodland. Biogeosciences, 10: 1625-1634.
2012
Breecker, D.O., L.D. McFadden, Z.D. Sharp, M. Litvak. 2012. Seasonal variations in the d13C value of soil respired CO2 in mixed C3-C4 ecosystems from central New Mexico. Ecosystems 15:83-96.
Niu, S., Luo, Y., Fei, S., Yuan, W., Schimel, D., Law, B.E., Ammann, C., Altaf Arain, M.,Arneth, A., Aubinet, M., Barr, A., Beringer, J., Bernhofer, C., Andrew Black, T., Buchmann, N., Cescatti, A., Chen, J., Davis, K.J., Dellwik, E., Desai, A.R., Etzold, S., Francois, L., Gianelle, D., Gielen, B., Goldstein, A., Groenendijk, M., Gu, L., Hanan, N., Helfter, C., Hirano, T., Hollinger, D.Y., Jones, M.B., Kiely, G., Kolb, T.E., Kutsch, W.L., Lafleur, P., Lawrence, D.M., Li, L., Lindroth, A., Litvak, M., Loustau, D., Lund, M., Marek, M., Martin, T.A., Matteucci, G., Migliavacca, M., Montagnani, L., Moors, E., William Munger, J., Noormets, A., Oechel, W., Olejnik, J., U, K.T.P., Pilegaard, K., Rambal, S., Raschi, A., Scott, R.L., Seufert, G., Spano, D., Stoy, P., Sutton, M.A., Varlagin, A., Vesala, T., Weng, E., Wohlfahrt, G., Yang, B., Zhang, Z. and Zhou, X. 2012. Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms. New Phytologist 194, 775-783.
2011
Eitel, J.U.H., L. A. Vierling, M.E. Litvak, D. Krofcheck, D.S. Long, A.A. Ager, A. Hudak and L. Stoscheck. 2011. Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in conifer forests. Remote Sensing doi:10.1016/ j.rse.2011.09.002.
Chorover, J., P.A. Troch, C. Rasmussen, P.D. Brooks, J.D. Pelletier, D.D. Breshears,T.E. Huxman, S.A. Kurc, K.A. Lohse, J.C. McIntosh, T. Meixer, M.G. Schaap, M.E. Litvak, J. perdrial, A. Harpold, M. Durcik. 2011. How water, carbon, and energy drive landscape evolution: The Jemez– Santa Catalina Mountains Critical Zone Observatory. (Vadose Zone Journal, Special Issue on the Critical Zone 10: 884-899.
Berryman, E.M, Marshall, J.D., Rahn, T., Cook, S.P. and Litvak, M. 2011. Adaptation of continuous-flow cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) for batch analysis of δ13C of CO2. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 16:2355-60.
Eitel, J.U.H., L.A. Vierling, D.S. Long, M. Litvak, K.B. Eitel. 2011. Simple assessment of needleleaf and broadleaf chlorophyll content using a flatbed color scanner. Can J For Res 41:1445-1451.
Anderson-Teixera, K. J., DeLong J. P., Fox, A. M., Brese, D. and Litvak, M. E., 2011. Climate change will reduce the capacity of Southwest ecosystems to sequester and store carbon. Global Change Biology 17, 410-424.
Xiao, J., Zhuang, Q., Law, B.E., Baldocchi, D.D., Chen, J., Richardson, A.D., Melillo, J.M.,Davis, K.J., Hollinger, D.Y., Wharton, S., Oren, R., Noormets, A., Fischer, M.L., Verma, S.B., Cook, D.R., Sun, G., McNulty, S., Wofsy, S.C., Bolstad, P.V., Burns, S.P., Curtis, P.S., Drake, B.G., Falk, M., Foster, D.R., Gu, L., Hadley, J.L., Katul, G.G., Litvak, M., Ma, S., Martin, T.A., Matamala, R., Meyers, T.P., Monson, R.K., Munger, J.W., Oechel, W.C., Paw, U.K.T., Schmid, H.P., Scott, R.L., Starr, G., Suyker, A.E. and Torn, M.S. 2011. Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations. Agric. For. Meteorol. 151, 60-69.
2010
He, Y., P. D’Odorico, S.F.J. de Wekker, J. D. Fuentes, M.E. Litvak. 2010. On the impact of shrub encroachment on microclimate conditions in the Northern Chihuahuan desert JGR-Atmospheres doi:10.1029/2009JD013529. D’Odorico, P. Y. He, J.D. Fuentes, S. Collins, S. de Wekker, W. Pockman and M.E.
Litvak. 2010. Postive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the Chihuahuan desert. Ecosphere 1, 1-11.
Xiao, J., Zhuang, Q., Law, B.E., Chen, J., Baldocchi, D.D., Cook, D.R., Oren, R., Richardson,
A.D., Wharton, S., Ma, S., Martin, T.A., Verma, S.B., Suyker, A.E., Scott, R.L., Monson, R.K., Litvak, M., Hollinger, D.Y., Sun, G., Davis, K.J., Bolstad, P.V., Burns, S.P., Curtis, P.S., Drake, B.G., Falk, M., Fischer, M.L., Foster, D.R., Gu, L., Hadley, J.L., Katul, G.G., Matamala, R., McNulty, S., Meyers, T.P., Munger, J.W., Noormets, A., Oechel, W.C., Paw U, K.T., Schmid, H.P., Starr, G., Torn, M.S. and Wofsy, S.C. 2010. A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Remote Sens. Environ. 114, 576-591.
2009
Molotch, N.P., J.R. McConnell, M. Litvak, S.P. Burns, R.K. Monson, K. Musselman and P.D. Brooks. 2009. Ecohydrological controls on snow accumulation and snowmelt partitioning in mixed-conifer sub-alpine forests. Ecohydrology, Vol. 2, doi: 10.1002/eco.48.
2008
Xiao J., Zhuang Q., Baldocchi D.D., Law B.E., Richardson A.D., Chen J., Oren R., Starr G.,Noormets A., Ma S., Verma S.B., Wharton S., Wofsy S.C., Bolstad P.V., Burns S.P., Cook D.R., Curtis P.S., Drake B.G., Falk M., Fischer M.L., Foster D.R., Gu L., Hadley J.L., Hollinger D.Y., Katul G.G., Litvak M., Martin T.A., Matamala R., McNulty S., Meyers T.P., Monson R.K., Munger J.W., Oechel W.C., Paw U K.T., Schmid H.P., Scott R.L., Sun G., Suyker A.E., and Torn M.S. 2008. Estimation of net ecosystem carbon exchange for the conterminous United States by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Agric. For. Meteorol. 148, 1827-1847.
2007
Goulden, M.L. M.E. Litvak, S.D. Miller. 2007. Controls on Typha marsh evapotranspiration. AQUATIC BOTANY; FEB 2007; v.86, no.2, p.97-106
2006
Goulden, M.L., G.C. Winston, A.M.S. McMillan, M.E. Litvak, E.L. Read, A.V. Rocha, J.R. Elliot. 2006. An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land-atmosphere exchange. Global Change Biology 12:2146-2162.
Amiro, B.D., A.L. Orchansky, A.G. Barr, T.A. Black, S.D. Chambers, F.S. Chapin III, M.L. Goulden, M. Litvak, H.P. Liu, J.H. McCaughey, A. McMillan, J.T. Randerson. 2006. The effect of post-fire stand age on the boreal forest energy balance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 140:41-50.
2004
Barth, M., J.P. McFadden, J. Sun, C. Wiedinmyer, P. Chuang, D. Collins, R. Griffin, M. Hannigan, T. Karl, S-W. Kim, S. Lasher-Trapp, S. Levis, M. Litvak, N. Mahowald, K. Moore, S. Nandi, E. Nemitz, A. Nenes, M. Potosnak, T.Raymond, J. Smith, C. Still, S. Stroud. 2004. Future Scientific Directions: Coupling between land ecosystems and the atmospheric hydrologic cycle through biogenic aerosol pathways. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 86(12), 1738-1742.
2003
Litvak, M.E., Miller, S, Wofsy, S.C., and Goulden, M. (2003). Effect of stand age on whole ecosystem CO2 exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D3), 8225, doi:10.1029/2001JD000854, 2003. Special Section: Comparison of Carbon Exchange between Boreal Black Spruce Forests and the Atmosphere for a Wildfire Age Sequence (FIRE-EXB).
Dioumaeva, I., Trumbore, S., Schuur, E, Goulden, M., Litvak, M.E. and Hirsch, A. (2003). Decomposition of peat from upland boreal forest. Temperature dependence and sources of respired carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D3), 8222, doi:10.1029/2001JD000848, 2003. Special Section: Comparison of Carbon Exchange between Boreal Black Spruce Forests and the Atmosphere for a Wildfire Age Sequence (FIRE-EXB).
1999
Litvak, M.E., Constable, J.V.H., and R.K. Monson (2002). Supply and demand processes as controls over needle monoterpene synthesis in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga mensiesii (Mirb.). Oecologia 132:382-391.Litvak, M.E., S. Madronich and R.K. Monson (1999) Herbivore-induced monoterpene emissions from coniferous forests: potential impact on local tropospheric chemistry dynamics. Ecological Applications 9:1147-1159.
Constable, J.V.H., M.E. Litvak, J.P. Greenberg, and R.K. Monson (1999) Monoterpene emission from coniferous trees in response to elevated CO2 concentration and climate warming. Global Change Biology 5:255-267.
1998
Litvak, M.E. and R.K. Monson (1998) Patterns of induced and constitutive monoterpene defenses in conifer needles in relation to insect herbivory. Oecologia 114:531-40
1997
Lerdau, M.T., M.E. Litvak, P. Palmer, and R.K. Monson (1997) Controls over monoterpene emission from boreal forest conifers. Tree Physiology 17:563-569.
1996
Litvak M.E., F. Loreto, P.C. Harley, T.D. Sharkey, and R.K. Monson (1996) The response of isoprene emission rate and photosynthetic rate to growth photon flux and nitrogen supply in aspen and white oak trees. Plant, Cell and Environment 19:560-568.
1994
Lerdau, M.T., M.E. Litvak and R.K. Monson (1994). Supply and demand in plant chemical defense: monoterpenes and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:58-61.
Monson, R.K., P.C. Harley, M.E. Litvak, M. Wildermuth, A.B. Guenther, P.R. Zimmerman and R. Fall (1994). Environmental and developmental controls over the seasonal pattern of isoprene emission from aspen leaves. Oecologia. 99:260-270.
Harley, P.C., M.E. Litvak, T.D. Sharkey, and R.K. Monson (1994). Isoprene emission from velvet bean leaves. Interactions among nitrogen availability, growth photon flux density, and leaf development. Plant Physiology 105:279-285.
1993
Miller, J., M. Litvak, S. Kelso, and A. Vargo (1993). Comparative reproductive biology of two alpine species of primrose. Arctic Alpine Res. 26:297-303.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Litvak, M.E., S. Schwinning, and J. Heilman. 2011. The role of ecosystem structure in regulating fluxes in Oak/Juniper Savannas in Central Texas, USA. Published in “Ecosystem Function in Global Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales", edited by Michael J. Hill and Niall P. Hanan and published by CRC/Taylor and Francis.
Hauwert, N. M., Litvak, M. E., & Sharp, J. M. (2005, August). Characterization and water balance of internal drainage sinkholes. In Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst (pp. 188-200). ASCE.
Litvak, M.E. (2003). Biogenic non-methane hydrocarbons. In: “McGraw-Hill Handbook of Weather, Climate and Oceans” (eds. T.D. Potter, and B. Coleman). John Wiley & Sons.
Litvak, M. and T. Perez. Global tropospheric chemistry. In: Notes from 1996 Colloquium on Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere, Boulder, CO, 14-27 July 1996 (eds. D. Schimel and R. Monson). Advanced Study Program, NCAR, Boulder, CO.