Selected Publications of Current Desert Laboratory Scientists

Betancourt, J.L., Van Devender, T.R., and Martin, P.S., eds. 1990. Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 467 p.

Betancourt, J.L., Schuster, W.S., Mitton, J.B., and Anderson, R.S. 1991. Fossil and genetic history of a pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) isolate. Ecology 72:1685-1697.

Betancourt, J.L., Latorre, C., Rech, J. A., Quade, J., and Rylander, K. A. 2000. A 22,000-yr record of monsoonal precipitation from northern Chile's Atacama Desert. Science 289:1542-1546.

Bowers, J.E. 1988. A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve. Tucson: University of AZ Press, 195 p.

Bowers, J.E. 1990. A debt to the future: scientific achievements of the Desert Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona. Desert Plants 10:9-12, 35-47.

Bowers, J. E. 1992. Plant World and its metamorphosis from a popular journal into Ecology. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 119:333-341.

Bowers, J. E. and Turner, R. M. 2002. The influence of climatic variability on local population dynamics of foothill paloverde (Cercidium microphyllum). Oecologia 130:105-113.

Burgess, T. L., Bowers, J. E., and Turner, R. M. 1991. Exotic plants at the Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. MadroZo 38:96-114.

Cerling, T.E., Quade, J., Wang, Y. and Bowman, J.R. 1989. Carbon isotopes in soils and paleosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators. Nature 342:138-139.

Collier, M. and Webb, R. H. 2002. Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 160 pp.

Collier, M.P., Webb, R.H., and Schmidt, J.C. 1996. Dams and Rivers: A Primer on The Downstream Effects of Dams. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1126. 94 p

Collier, M.P., Webb, R.H., and Andrews, E.D. 1997. Experimental flooding in Grand Canyon. Scientific American 276:82-89.

Connin, S. L., Betancourt, J. L., and Quade, J. 1998. Late Pleistocene C4 plant dominance and summer rainfall in the southwestern U.S.A. from isotopic study of herbivore teeth. Quaternary Research 2:170-193.

English, N.E., Betancourt, J.L., Dean, J.S., Quade, J. 2001. Strontium isotopes reveal source of architectural timber at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:11891-11896.

Enquist, B.J. and K.J. Niklas 2001. Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities. Nature 410:655-660.

Enquist, B.J. & A. J. Leffler 2001. Long-term tree ring chronologies from sympatric tropical dry-forest trees: individualistic responses to climate variation. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:41-60.

Enquist, B.J., West, G.B., Charnov, E.L., and Brown, J.H. 1999. Allometric scaling of production and life history variation in vascular plants. Nature 401:907-911.

Enquist, B.J., Haskell, J., Niklas, K.J., and Tiffney, B.H. 2001. The evolution of plant communities: biodiversity and community structure through time. In: S. Levin, ed., Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. San Diego: Academic Press.

Friedman, J. M., Osterkamp, W. R., and Lewis, W. M., Jr. 1996. The role of vegetation and bed-level fluctuations in the process on channel narrowing: Geomorphology 14:341-351.

Goldberg, D.E. and Turner, R.M. 1986. Vegetation change and plant demography in permanent plots in the Sonoran Desert. Ecology 67:695-712.

Hastings, J.R., and Turner, R.M. 1965. The Changing Mile: An Ecological Study of Vegetation Change with Time in the Lower mile of an Arid and Semi-arid Region. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 317 p.

Holmgren, C., Betancourt, J.L., Rylander, K.A., Roque, J., Tovar, O., Zeballos, H., Linares, E., and Quade, J. 2001. Holocene vegetation history from fossil rodent middens near Arequipa Peru. Quaternary Research 56:242-251.

House, P.K., Webb, R.H., Baker, V.R., and Levish, D.R., eds. 2001. Ancient Floods, Modern Hazards: Principles and Applications of Paleoflood Hydrology. American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application Series, v. 5. 385 p.

Hunter, K. L., Betancourt, J. L., Riddle, B. R., Van Devender, T. R., Cole, K. L., and Spaulding, W. G. 2001. Ploidy race distributions since the Last Glacial Maximum in the North American desert shrub, Larrea tridentata. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10:521-533.

Hupp, C.R., Osterkamp, W.R., and Howard, A.D., eds. 1996. Biogeomorphology, Terrestrial and Freshwater Systems. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 347 p.

Huxman, T.E., Hamerlynck, E.P, and Smith, S.D. 1999. Reproductive allocation and seed production in Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens at elevated CO2. Functional Ecology 13:769-777.

Huxman, T.E., Hamerlynck, E.P., Loik, M.E., and Smith, S.D. 1998. Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of three southwestern Yucca species to elevated CO2 and high temperature. Plant, Cell and Environment 21:1275-1283

Huxman, T.E., Hamerlynck, E.P., Moore, B.D., Smith, S.D., Jordan, D.N., Zitzer, S.F., Nowak, R.S., Coleman, J.S., and Seemann, J.R. 1998. Photosynthetic down-regulation in Larrea tridentata exposed to elevated atmospheric C02: interaction with drought under glasshouse and field (FACE) exposure. Plant, Cell and Environment 21:1153-1161.

Huxman, T.E., Hamerlynck, E.P., Jordan, D.N., Salsman, K.L., and Smith, S.D. 1998. The effects of parental CO2 environment on seed quality and subsequent seedling performance in Bromus rubens. Oecologia 114:202-208.

Huxman, T.E. and Loik, M.E. 1997. Reproductive patterns of two varieties of Yucca whippleii (Liliaceae) with different life histories. International Journal of Plant Sciences 78:113-120.

Latorre, C.L., Betancourt, J.L., Rylander, K.A., and Quade, J.A. 2002. Vegetation invasions into Absolute Desert: a 45,000-year rodent midden record from the Calama-Salar de Atacama Basins, Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114:349-366.

Kuch, M., Rohland, N., Betancourt, J.L., Latorre, C., Steppan, S., and Poinar, H. N. 2002. Molecular analysis of an 11,700-year old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile. Molecular Ecology 11:913-924.

Martin, P.S. 1963. The Last 10,000 Years. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Martin, P.S. and Klein, R.G., eds. 1984. Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 892 p.

Martin, P.S., Yetman, D., Fishbein, M., Jenkins, P., Van Devender, T.R., and Wilson, R.K. 1998. Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 558 p.

Orr, T. and Osterkamp, W.R. 1999. Vigil Network data now online. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 80:346.

Osterkamp, W.R. 1998. Processes of fluvial-island formation, with examples from Plum Creek, Colorado, and Snake River, Idaho. Wetlands 18:530-545.

Osterkamp, W.R. and Toy, T.J. 1997. Geomorphic considerations for erosion prediction. Environmental Geology 29:152-157.

Osterkmap, W.R., Heilman, P., and Lane, L.J. 1998. Economic considerations of a continental sediment-monitoring program. International Journal of Sediment Research 13:12-24.

Osterkamp, W.R. and Friedman, J.M. 2000. The disparity between extreme rainfall events and rare floods--with emphasis on the semiarid American West. Hydrological Processes 14:2817-2829.

Pake, C. and Venable, D.L. 1995. Is coexistence in Sonoran Desert annuals mediated by temporal variablility in reproductive success? Ecology 76:246-261.

Pake, C.E. and Venable, D.L. 1996. Seed banks in desert annuals: implications for persistence and coexistence in a variable environment. Ecology 77:1427-1435.

Placzek, C., Quade, J., and Betancourt, J. L. 2001. Holocene lake level fluctuations of Lago Aricota, southern Peru. Quaternary Research 56:181-190.

Quade, J. and Cerling, T.E. 1990. Stable isotopic evidence for a pedogenic origin of carbonates in Trench 14 near Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Science 250:1549-1552.

Quade, J., Cerling, T.E., and Bowman, J.R. 1989. Development of Asian monsoon revealed by marked ecological shift during the latest Miocene in northern Pakistan. Nature 342:163-166.

Quade, J., Roe, L., DeCelles, P. G., and Ojha, T. P. 1997. The Late Neogene 87Sr/86Sr record of lowland Himalayan rivers. Science 276:1828-1831.

Quade, J., Forester, R. M., Pratt, W. L., and Carter, C. 1998. Black mats, spring-fed streams, and late-glacial-age recharge in the southern Great Basin. Quaternary Research 49:129-148.

Quade, J. 2001. Desert pavements and associated rock varnish in the Mojave Desert: how old can they be? Geology 29: 855-858.

Pataki, D.E., Huxman, T.E., Jordan, D.N., Zitzer, S.F., Coleman, J.S., Smith, S.D., Nowak, R.S.,and Seemann, J.R. 2000. Water use of Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 6:889-890.

Rech, J. A., Quade, J., and Betancourt, J. L. 2002. Late Quaternary paleohydrology of the central Atacama Desert (22-24°S), Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114:334-348.

Rogers, F.G., Malde, H.E., and Turner, R.M. 1984. Bibliography of Repeat Photography for Evaluating Landscape Change. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 179 p.

Schmidt, J.C., Webb, R.H., Valdez, R .A., Marzolf, G.R., and Stevens, L.E. 1998. The roles of science and values in river restoration in Grand Canyon. BioScience 48:735-747.

Smith, F.A., Betancourt, J.L., and Brown, J.H. 1995. Effects of global warming on woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) body size during the last deglaciation. Science 270:2012-2014.

Smith, S.D., Huxman, T.E., Zitzer, S.F., Charlet, T.N., Housman, D.C., Coleman, J.S., Fenstermaker, L.K., Seemann, J.R., and Nowak, R. 2000. Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature 408:79-82.

Swetnam, T.R. and Betancourt, J.L. 1990. Fire-Southern Oscillation relations in the southwestern United States. Science 24:1017-1020.

Swetnam, T.W. and Betancourt, J.L. 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal-scale climate variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128-3147.

Turner, R.M. 1974. Quantitative and Historical Evidence of Vegetation Changes along the Upper Gila River, Arizona. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 655-H, H1-H20.

Turner, R. M. 1990. Long-term vegetation change at a fully protected Sonoran Desert site. Ecology 71:464-467.

Turner, R.M. and Karpiscak, M.M. 1980. Recent Vegetation Changes along the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, Arizona. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1132, 125 p.

Turner, R.M., Bowers, J.E., and Burgess, T.L. 1995. Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 400 p.

Turner, R. M., Ochung', H. A., and Turner, J. B. 1998. Kenya's Changing Landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 177 p.

Turner, R. M., Webb, R. H., Bowers, J. E., and Hastings, J. R. In press. The Changing Mile Revisited. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Pantastico-Caldas, M. and Venable, D.L. 1993. Competition in two species of desert annuals along a topographic gradient: Ecology 74:2192-2203.

Van de Water, P.D., Leavitt, S.L., and Betancourt, J.L. 1994. Trends in stomatal density and 13C/12C ratios of Pinus flexilis needles during last glacial/interglacial cycle. Science 264:239-243.

Venable, D.L. and C.E. Pake. 1997. Population ecology of Sonoran Desert annual plants. In: R.H. Robichaux, ed., The Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities, pp. 115-142. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Webb, R.H. 1996. Grand Canyon, a Century of Change. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 320 p.

Webb, R.H. and Betancourt, J.L. 1992. Climatic Variability and Flood Frequency of the Santa Cruz River, Pima County, Arizona. USGS Water-Supply Paper 2379.

Webb, R.H. and Wilshire, H.G., eds. 1983. Environmental Effects of Off-road Vehicles. New York: Springer-Verlag, 534 p.

Webb, R.H., Steiger, J.W., and Turner, R.M. 1987. Dynamics of Mojave Desert shrub vegetation in the Panamint Mountains. Ecology 50:478-490.

Webb, R.H., Schmidt, J.C., Marzolf, G.R., and Valdez, R.A., eds. 1999. The Controlled Flood in Grand Canyon. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph 110, 367 p.

West, G.B., Brown, J.H. and Enquist, B.J. 1999. The fourth dimension of life: fractal geometry and allometric scaling of organisms. Science 284:167-169.

Wolfe, J.A. 1990. Palaeobotanical evidence for a marked temperature increase following the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Nature 343:153-156.

Wolfe, J. A. 1991. Palaeobotanical evidence for a June 'impact winter' at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 352:420-423.

Wolfe, J.A. 1993. A method of obtaining climatic parameters from leaf assemblages. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2040, 71 pp.

Wolfe, J.A., Schorn, H.E, Forest, C.E., and Molnar, P. 1997. Paleobotanical evidence for high altitudes in Nevada during the Miocene. Science 276:1672-1675.

Wolfe, J. A. and Uemura, K. 1999. Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: an Eocene example. Geology 27: 9192.