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Díaz-Martínez, P. et al. including H.L. Throop.  2024. Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02087-y

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Gross, N. et al. including H.L. Throop. 2024. Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature. 632:808–814

 

Dantzer, B., K.E. Mabry, J.R. Bernhardt, R.M. Cox, C.D. Francis, C.K. Ghalambor, K.L. Hoke, S. Jha, E. Ketterson, N.A. Levis, K.M. McCain, G.L. Patricelli, S.H. Paull, N. Pinter-Wollman, R.J. Safran, T.S. Schwartz, H.L. Throop, L. Zaman, and L.B. Martin. 2023. Understanding organisms using ecological observatory networks. Integrative Organismal Biology. 5(1).

 

Moran, M., L.M.T. Aparecido, D. Koepke, H. Cooper, C. Doughty, C. Gehring, H.L. Throop, T. Whitham, G. Allan, and K. Hultine. 2023. Limits of thermal and hydrological tolerance in a foundation tree species (Populus fremontii) in the desert southwestern United States. New Phytologist 240: 2298-2311.

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McBride, S.G., E.M. Levi, J.A. Nelson, S.R. Archer, P.W. Barnes, H.L. Throop, K. Predick, and R.L. McCulley. 2023. Soil-litter mixing mediates drivers of dryland decomposition along a continuum of biotic and abiotic factors. Ecosystems 26:1349–1366.

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Monus, B.D., E.N. Nghalipo, V.J. Marufu, F. Garcia-Pichel, and H.L. Throop. 2023. Contributions of hypolithic communities to surface soil organic carbon across a hyperarid-to-arid climate gradient. Geoderma 433:116428. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116428
 

Daniels, Q.F. and H.L. Throop. 2022. Ecophysiological responses of Terminalia sericea to fire history in a semi-arid woodland savanna, central Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 146:205-212.

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Davis, A.R., K. Hultine, O.E. Sala, and H.L. Throop. 2022. Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub. Oecologia 199:441-451.

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Grünzweig, J.M. H.J. De Boeck, A. Rey, M.J. Santos, O. Adam, M. Bahn, J. Belnap, G. Deckmyn, S.C. Dekker, O. Flores, D. Gliksman, D. Helman, K.R. Hultine, E. Meron, Y. Michael, E. Sheffer, H.L. Throop, O. Tzuk, D. Yakir. 2022. Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:1064-1076.

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Maestre, F.T., Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, D.J. Eldridge, H. Saiz, et al. including H.L. Throop. 2022. Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378:915-920.

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Osborne, B.B., B.T. Bestelmeyer, C.M. Currier, P. Homyak, H.L. Throop, K. Young, and S.C. Reed. 2022. The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry. New Phytologist doi:10.1111/nph.18312

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Throop, H.L., S. Munson, N. Hornslein, and M.P. McClaran. 2022. Shrub influence on soil carbon in a semi-arid grassland is mediated by climate and largely insensitive to livestock grazing. Arid Land Research and Management 36:27-46.

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Balderelli, L., H.L. Throop, S.C. Collins, and D. Ward. 2021. Nutrient additions have direct and indirect effects on biocrust biomass in a long-term Chihuahuan Desert grassland experiment. Journal of Arid Environments 184:104317.

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Nghalipo, E. and H.L. Throop. 2021. Vegetation patch type has a greater influence on soil respiration than does fire history on soil respiration in an arid broadleaf savanna woodland, central Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 193:104577.

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Chuckran, P.F., R. Reibold, H.L. Throop, and S.C. Reed. 2020. Multiple mechanisms determine the effect of warming on plant litter decomposition in a dryland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 145:107799. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107799

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Levi, E.M., S.R. Archer, H.L. Throop, and C. Rasmussen. 2020. Soil-litter mixing promotes decomposition and soil aggregate formation on contrasting geomorphic surfaces in a shrub-invaded Sonoran Desert grassland. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04508-1

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Schreiner-McGraw, A.P., E.R. Vivoni, H. Ajami, O.E. Sala, H.L. Throop, and D.P.C. Peters. 2020. Woody plant encroachment will have a larger impact than climate change on dryland water budgets. Scientific Reports 10:8112. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-65094-x

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Throop, H.L., S.R. Archer, and M.P. McClaran. 2020. Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing. Ecological Applications doi:10.1002/eap.2150

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Throop, H.L., M.K. Seely, V.J. Marufu, and Summer Drylands Program Participants. 2020. Multiple scales of spatial heterogeneity control soil respiration responses to precipitation across a dryland rainfall gradient. Plant and Soil doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04614-0

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Campos, H., Boeing, W.J., and Throop, H.L. 2019. Decaying woodrat (Neotoma spp.) middens increase soil resources and accelerate decomposition of contemporary litter. Journal of Arid Environments. 171:104007.

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Clark, C.M., S.M. Simkin, E.B. Allen, W.D. Bowman, J. Belnap, M.L. Brooks, S.L. Collins, L.H. Geiser, F.S. Gilliam, S.E. Jovan, L.H. Pardo, B.K. Schulz, C.J. Stevens, K.N. Suding, H.L. Throop, and D.M. Waller. 2019. Differential vulnerability of 348 herbaceous species to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur across the contiguous U.S. Nature Plants 5:697-705.

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de Graaff, M.-A., N. Hornslein, H.L. Throop, P. Kardol, and L.T.A. van Diepen. 2019. Effects of agricultural intensification on soil biodiversity and implications for ecosystem functioning: a meta-analysis. Advances in Agronomy 155:1-44.

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Gravuer, K., S. Gennet, and H.L. Throop. 2019. Organic amendment additions to rangelands: A meta-analysis of multiple ecosystem outcomes. Global Change Biology 25:1152–1170. 

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Hewins, D.B., H. Lee, P.W. Barnes, N.G. McDowell, W. Pockman, T. Rahn, and H.L. Throop. 2019. Early exposure to UV radiation overshadowed by precipitation and litter quality as drivers of decomposition in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. PLoS One 14:e0210470.

 

Joly, F.-X., A.K. Weibel, M. Coulis, and H.L. Throop. 2019. Rainfall frequency, not quantity, controls isopod effect on litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 135:154-162.

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Nghalipo, E., D. Joubert, H.L. Throop, and A. Groengroeft. 2019. The effect of fire history on soil nutrients and soil organic carbon in a semi-arid savanna woodland, central Namibia. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 36:9-16. 

 

Throop. H.L. and J. Belnap. 2019. Connectivity dynamics in dryland litter cycles: Moving decomposition beyond spatial stasis. BioScience 69:602-614.  

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Predick, K.I., Archer, S.R., Aguillon, S.M., Keller, D.A., Throop, H.L., and Barnes, P.W. 2018. UV-B radiation and shrub canopy effects on surface litter decomposition in a shrub-invaded dry grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 157: 13-21.

 

Smith, J.G., and H.L. Throop. 2018. Animal generation of green leaf litter in an arid shrubland enhances decomposition by altering litter quality and location. Journal of Arid Environments 151:15-22.

 

Throop, H.L. and K. Lajtha. 2018. Spatial and temporal changes in ecosystem carbon pools following juniper encroachment and removal. Biogeochemistry 140:373-388.

Hewins, D.B., R.L. Sinsabaugh, S.R. Archer, and H.L. Throop. 2017. Soil-litter mixing and microbial activity mediate decomposition and soil aggregate formation in sandy soil shrub-invaded Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Plant Ecology 218:459-474.

 

Joly, F.X., K.L. Kurupas, and H.L. Throop. 2017. Pulse frequency and soil-litter mixing alter the control of cumulative precipitation over litter decomposition. Ecology 98:2255-2260.

Throop, H.L., M.A. Salem, and W.G. Whitford. 2017. Fire enhances litter decomposition and reduces vegetation cover influences on decomposition in a dry woodland. Plant Ecology 218:799-811.

 

DeMarco, J., T. Filley, and H.L. Throop. 2016. Patterns of woody plant-derived soil carbon losses and persistence after brush management in a semi-arid grassland. Plant and Soil 406:277-293.

 

Hewins, D.B. and H.L. Throop. 2016. Leaf litter decomposition is rapidly enhanced by the co-occurrence of monsoon rainfall and soil-litter mixing across a gradient of coppice dune development in the Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 129:111-118.

Kardol, P., H.L. Throop, J. Adkins, M.-A. de Graaff. 2016. A hierarchical framework for studying the role of biodiversity in soil food web processes and ecosystem services. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 102: 33-36.

Simkin, S.M., E.B. Allen, W.D. Bowman, C.M. Clark, J. Belnap, M.L. Brooks, B.S. Cade, S.L. Collins, L.H. Geiser, F.S. Gilliam, S.E. Jovan, L.H. Pardo, B.K. Schulz, C.J. Stevens, K.N. Suding, H.L. Throop, and D.M. Waller. 2016. Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 113:4086-4091.

Barnes, P.W., H.L. Throop, S.R. Archer, D.D. Breshears, R.L. McCulley, and M.A. Tobler. 2015. Sunlight and soil-litter mixing: Drivers of litter decomposition in drylands. Progress in Botany 76:273-302.

de Graaff, M.-A., J. Adkins, P. Kardol, and H.L. Throop. 2015. A meta-analysis of soil biodiversity impacts on the carbon cycle. SOIL 1:257-271. OPEN ACCESS

Monger, H.C., O.E. Sala, M. Duniway, H. Goldfus, I.A. Meir, R.M. Poch, H.L. Throop, and E.R. Vivoni. 2015. Legacy effects in dryland ecological and soil-geomorphic systems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13:13-19. OPEN ACCESS

Okin, G.S., M. Moreno-de las Heras, P.M. Saco, H.L. Throop, E.R. Vivoni. A.J. Parsons, J. Wainwright, and D.P.C. Peters. 2015. Connectivity in dryland landscapes: Shifting concepts of spatial interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13:20–27. OPEN ACCESS

Soliveres, S., D.J. Eldridge, J. Mueller, F. Hemmings, and H.L. Throop. 2015. On the interaction between tree canopy position and environmental effects on soil attributes and plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 26:1030-1042.

Wang, L., H.L. Throop, and T. Gill. 2015. A novel method to continuously monitor litter moisture – a microcosm-based experiment. Journal of Arid Environments. 115:10-13.

de Graaff, M.-A., H.L. Throop, P.S.J. Verburg, J.A. Arnone III, and X. Campos. 2014. A synthesis of climate change and elevated atmospheric CO2 impacts on biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen in shrub-dominated drylands. Ecosystems 17:931-945.

Lee, H., J. Fitzgerald, D.B. Hewins, R.L. McCulley, S.R. Archer, T. Rahn, and H.L. Throop. 2014. Soil moisture and soil-litter mixing effects on surface litter decomposition: A controlled environment assessment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry  72:123-132.

Daryanto, S., D.J. Eldridge, and H.L. Throop. 2013. Managing semi-arid woodlands for carbon storage: grazing and shrub effects on above- and belowground carbon. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 169:1-11.

Hewins, D.B., S.R. Archer, G.S. Okin, R.L. McCulley, and H.L. Throop. 2013. Soil-litter mixing accelerates decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Ecosystems 16:183-195.

Throop, H.L., K. Lajtha, and M. Kramer. 2013. Density fractionation and 13C reveal changes in soil carbon following woody encroachment in a desert ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 112:409-422.

Barnes, P.W., H.L. Throop, D.B. Hewins, M.L. Abbene, and S.R. Archer. 2012. Soil coverage reduces photodegradation and promotes the development of soil-microbial films on dryland leaf litter. Ecosystems 15:311-321.

Lee, H., T. Rahn, and H.L. Throop. 2012. An accounting of C-based trace gas release during abiotic plant litter degradation. Global Change Biology 18:1185-1195.

Lee, H., T. Rahn, and H.L. Throop. 2012. A novel source of atmospheric H2: Abiotic degradation of organic material. Biogeosciences 9:4411-4419.OPEN ACCESS

Smith, J.G., D.J. Eldridge, and H.L. Throop. 2012. Landform and vegetation patch type moderate the effects of grazing-induced disturbance on carbon and nitrogen pools in a semi-arid woodland. Plant and Soil 360:405-419.

Throop, H.L., S.R. Archer, H.C. Monger, and S.W. Waltman. 2012. When bulk density methods matter: Implications for estimating soil organic carbon pools in rocky soils. Journal of Arid Environments 77:66-71.

Throop, H.L., L.G. Reichmann, O.E. Sala, and S.R. Archer. 2012. Response of dominant grass and shrub species to water manipulation: An ecophysiological basis for shrub invasion in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Oecologia 169:373-383.

Funk, J.L. and H.L. Throop. 2010. Enemy release and plant invasion: patterns of defensive traits and leaf damage in Hawaii. Oecologia 162:815-823.

Nafus, A.M., M.P. McClaran, S.R. Archer and H.L. Throop. 2009. Multi-species allometric models predict grass biomass in a semi-desert rangeland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62:68-72.

Throop, H.L. and S.R. Archer. 2009. Resolving the dryland decomposition conundrum: Some new perspectives on potential drivers. Progress in Botany 70:171-194.

Throop, H.L. and S.R. Archer. 2008. Shrub (Prosopis velutina) encroachment in a semi-desert grassland: spatial-temporal changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools. Global Change Biology 14:2420-2431.

Throop, H.L. and S. Archer. 2007. Interrelationships among shrub encroachment, land management and leaf litter decomposition in a semi-desert grassland. Ecological Applications 17:1809-1823.

Throop, H.L. 2005. Nitrogen deposition and herbivory affect biomass production and allocation in an annual plant. Oikos 111:91-100.

Fay, P.A. and H.L. Throop. 2005. Branching responses in Silphium integrifolium (Asteraceae) following mechanical or gall damage to apical meristems and neighbor removal. American Journal of Botany 92:954-959.

Funk, J.L., C.G. Jones, D.W. Gray, H.L. Throop, L.A. Hyatt, and M.T. Lerdau. 2005. Variation in isoprene emission from Quercus rubra: sources, causes, and consequences for estimating fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research 110(D4), D04301.

Throop, H.L., E.A. Holland, W.J. Parton, D.S. Ojima, and C.A. Keough. 2004. Effects of nitrogen deposition and herbivory on ecosystem-level carbon and nitrogen dynamics: results from the CENTURY model. Global Change Biology 10:1092-1105.

Throop, H.L. and M.T. Lerdau. 2004. Effects of nitrogen deposition on insect herbivory: implications for community and ecosystem processes. Ecosystems 7:109-133.

Lerdau, M. and H.L. Throop. 2000. Sources of variability in isoprene emission and photosynthesis in tropical tree species. Biotropica 32:670-676.

Lerdau, M. and H.L. Throop. 1999. Isoprene emission and photosynthesis in a tropical wet forest canopy: implications for model development. Ecological Applications 9:1109-1117.

Throop, H.L. and P.A. Fay. 1999. Effects of fire, browsers, and gallers on New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus herbaceous) growth and reproduction. American Midland Naturalist 141:51-58.

Hinman, K.E., H.L. Throop, K.L. Adams, A.J. Dake, K. McLauchlan, and M.J. McKone. 1997. Predation by free-ranging birds on partial coral snake mimics: the importance of ring width and color. Evolution 51:1011-1014.