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CO2 impacts on ecosystems 

Publications are listed in chronological order; PDF indicates that a copy of the publication is available in the Publications menu

191. Ehleringer, J.R., and T.E. Cerling. 1995. Atmospheric CO2 and the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO2 levels in plants. Tree Physiology 15:105-111. PDF

221. Cerling, T.E., J.M. Harris, B.J. MacFadden, M.G. Leakey, J. Quade, V. Eisenmann, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Global vegetation change through the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Nature 389:153-158. PDF

222. Ehleringer, J.R., T.E. Cerling, and B.R. Helliker. 1997. C4 photosynthesis, atmospheric CO2, and climate. Oecologia 112:285-299. PDF
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226. Ehleringer, J.R., R.D. Evans, and D. Williams. 1998. Assessing sensitivity to change in desert ecosystems - a stable isotope approach, p. 223-237. In H. Griffiths (ed.), Stable Isotopes Integration of Biological, Ecological, and Geochemical Processes. BIOS Scientific Publ., Oxford. PDF

229. Cerling, T.E., J.R. Ehleringer, and J.M. Harris. 1998. Carbon dioxide starvation, the development of C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 353:159-171. PDF

237. Cerling, T.E., J.M. Harris, B.J. MacFadden, J. Quade, M.G. Leakey, V. Eisenmann, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1998. Miocene-Pliocene shift: one step or several? Nature 393:127. PDF

260. Cerling, T.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2000. Welcome to the C4 world, p. 273-286. In R.A. Gastaldo and W.A. DiMichele (eds.), Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. The Paleontological Society Papers. Yale University Press, New Haven.  PDF

263. Ehleringer, J.R. and T.E. Cerling. 2001. Photosynthetic pathways and climate, p. 267-277. In E.-D. Schulze, M. Heimann, S.P. Harrison, E.A. Holland, J. Lloyd, I.C. Prentice, and D. Schimel (eds.), Global biogeochemical cycles in the climate system. Academic Press, San Diego. PDF

269. 
Ehleringer, J.R., T.E. Cerling, and L.B. Flanagan. 2001. Global changes and the linkages between physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology, p. 115-138. In: M. Press, N. Huntly, and S. Levin (eds.), Ecology: Achievement and Challenge. Blackwell, Oxford.  PDF

286. Ehleringer, J.R., T.E. Cerling, and D. Dearing. 2002. Atmospheric CO2 as a global change driver influencing plant-animal interactions. Integrated and Comparative Physiology 42:424-430. PDF

337. Williams, D.G., J.B. Coltrain, M. Lott, N.B. English, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2005. Oxygen isotopes in cellulose identify source water for archaeological maize in the American Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:931-939. PDF

360. Levin, N.E., T.E. Cerling, B.H. Passey, J.H. Harris, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2006. A stable isotope aridity index for terrestrial environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:11201-11205. PDF

378. Williams, D.G., R.D. Evans, J.B. West, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Applications of stable isotope measurements for early-warning detection of ecological change. In Dawson, T.E., and R.T.W. Siegwolf (eds.), Stable isotopes as indicators of ecological change. Academic Press, San Diego. PDF

456. Tipple, B, M. Berke, B. Hambach, J. Roden, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2014. Craig-Gordon related processes impact leaf wax n-alkane 2H/1H ratios – results from hydroponically grown trees. Plant, Cell and Environment doi:10.1111/pce.12457. PDF

465. Zazzo, A., T.E. Cerling, J.R. Ehleringer, A. Mooney, F.J. Monahan, and O. Schmidt. 2015. Isotopic composition of sheep wool records seasonality of climate and diet. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 29:1357-1369. PDF

468. 
Berke, M.A., B.J. Tipple, B. Hambach, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2015. Life-form specific gradients in compound specific 2H of modern leaf waxes along a North American monsoonal transect. Oecologia 179:981-997. doi: 10.1007/s00442-015-3432-1. PDF

525. 
Kannenberg, S.A., A.W. Driscoll, P. Szejner, W.R.L. Anderegg, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2021. Rapid increases in shrubland and forest water-use efficiency during an ongoing megadrought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118(52):e 2118052118 http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118052118. PDF



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