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Temperate, riparian, and boreal forests       (publications in chronological order)

107. Ehleringer, J. R., and M. P. Smedley. 1989. Stomatal sensitivity and water-use efficiency in oaks and their hybrids, p. 98-102. In: A. Wallace, E. D. McArthur, and M. R. Haferkamp (eds.), Symposium on Shrub Ecophysiology and Biotechnology, USDA Forest Service, Technical Report INT-256. PDF
112. Comstock, J., L. Donovan, and J. Ehleringer. 1989. The role of photoperiod in determining seasonal patterns of vegetative activity in the chaparral, p. 91-96. In S. Keeley (ed.), The California Chaparral: Paradigms Reexamined. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles. PDF

132. Dawson, T.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1991. Streamside trees that do not use stream water. Nature 350:335-337. PDF
 
160. Dawson, T.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1993. Gender-specific physiology, carbon isotope discrimination, and habitat distribution in boxelder, Acer negundo. Ecology 74:798-815. PDF

 
194. 
Phillips, S.L., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1995. Limited uptake of summer precipitation by bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum Nutt) and Gambel’s oak (Quercus gambelii Nutt). Trees 9:214-219. PDF

200. Ehleringer, J.R., and S.L. Phillips. 1996. Ecophysiological factors contributing to the distributions of several Quercus species in the intermountain west. Annales Forestiere Sciences 53:291-302. PDF

201. Williams, D.G., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1996. Carbon isotope discrimination in three semi-arid woodland species along a monsoon gradient. Oecologia 106:455-460. PDF

203. Buchmann, N., W.K. Kao, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1996. Carbon dioxide concentrations within forest canopies - variation with time, stand structure, and vegetation type. Global Change Biology 2:421-432. PDF

205. Flanagan, L.B., J.R. Brooks, G.T. Varney, S.C. Berry, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1996. Carbon isotope discrimination during photosynthesis and the isotope ratio of respired CO2 in boreal ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10:629-640. PDF

206.  
Jackson, R.B., J. Canadell, J.R. Ehleringer, H.A. Mooney, O.E. Sala, and E.-D. Schulze. 1996. A global review of rooting patterns. I. Root distribution by depth for terrestrial biomes. Oecologia 108:389-411. PDF

207. Schulze, E.-D., H.A. Mooney, O.E. Sala, E. Jobbagy, N. Buchmann, G. Bauer, J. Canadell, R.B. Jackson, J. Loreti, M. Osterheld, and J. R. Ehleringer. 1996. Rooting depth, water availability,and vegetation cover along an aridity gradient in Patagonia. Oecologia 108:503-511. PDF

208. Canadell, J., R.B. Jackson, J.R. Ehleringer, H.A. Mooney, O.E. Sala, and E.-D. Schulze. 1996. A global review of rooting patterns. II. Maximum rooting depth. Oecologia 108:583-595. PDF

209. Brooks, J.R., L.B. Flanagan, G.T. Varney, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Vertical gradients of photosynthetic gas exchange and recycling of respired CO2 within boreal forest canopies. Tree Physiology 17:1-12. PDF

212. Sparks, J., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Leaf carbon isotope discrimination and nitrogen content for riparian trees along elevational transects. Oecologia 109:362-367. PDF

213. Flanagan, L.B., J.R. Brooks, G.T. Varney, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Discrimination against C18O16O during photosynthesis and the oxygen isotope ratio of respired CO2 in boreal forest ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11:83-98. PDF

214. Buchmann, N., Kao, W., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Influence of stand structure on carbon-13 of vegetation, soils, and canopy air within deciduous and evergreen forests of Utah, United States. Oecologia 110:109-119. PDF
 
216. 
Brooks, J.R., L.B. Flanagan, N. Buchmann, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Carbon isotope composition of boreal plants: functional grouping of life forms. Oecologia 110:301-311. PDF

219. Sobrado, M.A., and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Leaf carbon isotope ratios from a tropical dry forest in Venezuela. Flora 192:121-124. PDF

225. Buchmann, N., J.R. Brooks, L.B. Flanagan, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1998. Carbon isotope discrimination of terrestrial ecosystems, p. 203-221. In H. Griffiths (ed.), Stable Isotopes Integration of Biological, Ecological, and Geochemical Processes. BIOS Scientific Publ., Oxford. PDF
 
231. Brooks, J.R., L.B. Flanagan, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1998. Responses of boreal conifers to climate fluctuations: indications from tree-ring widths and carbon isotope analyses. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:524-533. PDF

233. Ehleringer, J.R., and C.S. Cook. 1998. Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of ecosystem respiration along an Oregon conifer transect: preliminary observations based upon small-flask sampling. Tree Physiology 18:513-519. PDF

234. Flanagan, L.B., J.R. Brooks, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1998. Photosynthesis and carbon isotope discrimination in boreal forest ecosystems: a comparison of functional characteristics in plants from three mature forest types. Journal of Geophysical Research 102:28,861-28,869. PDF

236. Buchmann, N., T.M. Hinckley, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1998. Carbon isotope dynamics in Abies amabilis stands in the Cascades. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:808-819. PDF

242. Flanagan, L.B., D.S. Kubien, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1999. Spatial and temporal variation in the carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratio of respired CO2 in a boreal forest ecosystem. Tellus 51:367-384. PDF

255. Roden, J.S., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2000. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of tree-ring cellulose for field grown riparian trees. Oecologia 123:481-489. PDF
 
274. Fessenden, J.E., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Age dependent variations in the d13C of ecosystem respiration across a coniferous forest chronosequence in the Pacific Northwest. Tree Physiology 22:159-167. PDF

276. Buchmann, N., J. R. Brooks, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Predicting carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 within canopies. Functional Ecology 16:49-57. PDF
 
278. Ward, J.K., T.E. Dawson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Responses of Acer negundo genders to interannual differences in water availability determined from carbon isotope ratios of tree ring cellulose. Tree Physiology 22:339-346. PDF

287. Ometto, J.P.H.B., L.B. Flanagan, L.A. Martinelli, M.Z. Moreira, N. Higuchi, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Carbon isotope discrimination in forest and pasture ecosystems of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16: No. 4, doi:10.1029/2001GB001462. PDF

 288. Torres, R., F.A. Squeo, C. Jorquera, E. Aguirre, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2002. Assessment of the seasonal ability to use precipitation events in three native Chilean shrub species with different root systems. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 75:737-749. PDF

305. Bowling, D.R., N.G. McDowell, J.M. Welker, B.J. Bond, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Oxygen isotope content of CO2 in nocturnal ecosystem respiration 1. Observations in forests along a precipitation transect in Oregon, USA. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1120, doi:10.1029/2003GB002081. PDF

306. Bowling, D.R., N.G. McDowell, J.M. Welker, B.J. Bond, B.E. Law, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2003. Oxygen isotope content of CO2 in nocturnal ecosystem respiration 2. Short-term dynamics of foliar and soil component fluxes in an old-growth ponderosa pine forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1124, doi:10.1029/2003GB002082. PDF

308. McDowell, N.G., D.R. Bowling, B.J. Bond, J. Irvine, B.E. Law, P. Anthoni, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2004. Response of the carbon isotopic content of ecosystem, leaf and soil respiration to meteorological and physiological driving factors in a Pinus ponderosa ecosystem. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18: GBC 1011, doi:10.1029/2003GB002049. PDF

319. Winner, W.E., S.C. Thomas, J.A. Berry, B.J. Bond, C. Cooper, T. Hinckley, J.R. Ehleringer, J. E. Fessenden, B. Lamb, S. McCarthy, N.G. McDowell, N. Phillips, and M. Williams. 2004. Canopy carbon gain and water use: analysis of old growth conifers in the Pacific Northwest. Ecosystems 7:482-497. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-004-139-2. PDF
 
335. Pataki, D.E., S.E. Bush, P. Gardner, D.K. Solomon, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2005. Ecohydrology in a Colorado River riparian forest: implications for the decline of Populus fremontii. Ecological Applications 15:1009-1018. PDF

364. Roden, J., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Summer precipitation influences the stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of tree ring cellulose in Pinus ponderosa. Tree Physiology 27:491-501. PDF
 
379. Hultine, K.R., S.E. Bush, A.G. West, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Effect of gender on sap flux-scaled transpiration in a dominant riparian tree species: box elder (Acer negundo). Journal of Geophysical Research 112:G03S06, doi:10.1029/2006JG000232. PDF

380. Hultine, K.R., S.E. Bush, A.G. West, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Population structure, physiology and ecohydrological impacts of dioecious riparian tree species of western North America. Oecologia 154:85-93. DOI 10.1007/s00442-007-0813-0. PDF

381. West, A.G., K.R. Hultine, K. Burtch, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Seasonal variations in moisture use in a piñon-juniper woodland. Oecologia 153:787-798. DOI:10.1007/s00442-007-0777-0. PDF

382. West, A.G., K.R. Hultine, T.L. Jackson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2007. Differential summer moisture use by Pinus edulis and Juniperus osteosperma reflect contrasting hydraulic characteristics. Tree Physiology 27:1711-1720. PDF

385. Bush, S.E., D.E. Pataki, K.R. Hultine, A.G. West, J.S. Sperry, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2008. Wood anatomy constrains stomatal responses to atmospheric water vapor pressure deficit. Oecologia 156:13-20. PDF

388. West, A.G., K.R. Hultine, J.S. Sperry, S.E. Bush, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2008. Transpiration and hydraulic strategies in a piñon-juniper woodland. Ecological Applications 18:911-927. PDF

394. Hultine, K.R., T.L. Jackson, K.G. Burtch, S.M. Schaeffer, and J.R Ehleringer. 2008. Elevated stream inorganic nitrogen impacts on a dominant riparian tree species: results from an experimental riparian stream system. Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences 113, G04025. doi:10.1029/2008JG000809. PDF

395. Hultine, K.R., S.E. Bush, A.G. West, K.G. Burtch, D.E. Pataki, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2008. Gender specific patterns of above-ground allocation, canopy conductance and water use in a dominant riparian tree species: box elder (Acer negundo). Tree Physiology 28:1383-1394. PDF

401. Dennison, P.E., P.L. Nagler, K.R. Hultine. E.P. Glenn, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2009. Remote monitoring of tamarisk defoliation and evapotranspiration following saltcedar leaf beetle attack. Remote Sensing of Environment doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.022. PDF

404. Hultine, K.R., J. Belnap, C. van Ripper, J.R. Ehleringer, P.E. Dennison, M.E. Lee, P.L. Nagler, K.A. Snyder, S.M. Uselman, and J.B. West. 2009. Biocontrol of tamarisk in the western United States: an event underway with significant ecological and societal implications. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8:467-474; doi:10.1890/090031. PDF

414. Hultine, K.R., S.E. Bush, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2010. Ecophysiology of riparian cottonwood and willow before, during and after two years of soil water removal. Ecological Applications 20:347-361. PDF

416. Lai, C.-T., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2010. Deuterium excess reveals diurnal sources of water vapor in forest air. Oecologia doi 10.1007/s00442-010-1721-2. PDF

418. Hultine, K.R., P.L. Nagler, K. Morino, S.E. Bush, K.G. Burtch, P.E. Dennison, E.P. Glenn, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2010. Sap flux-scaled transpiration by tamarisk (Tamarix spp.), before, during and after episodic defoliation by the saltcedar leaf beetle (Diorhabda carinulata). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150:1467-1475; doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.07.009. PDF
 
420. Bush, S.E., K.R. Hultine, J.S. Sperry, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2010. Calibration of thermal dissipation sap flow probes for ring- and diffuse-porous trees. Tree Physiology 30:1545-1554. PDF

444. Hultine, K.R., K.G. Burtch, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2013. Gender specific patterns of carbon uptake and water use in a dominant riparian tree species in a warming climate. Global Change Biology 19:2290-3405. doi:10.1111/gcb.12230. PDF

481. Kimball, S., J.L. Funk, D.R. Sandquist, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2016. Ecophysiological considerations for restoration, pages 153-181. In Palmer, M.A., J.B. Zedler, and D.A. Falk (eds.), Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Second Edition. Island Press, New York. PDF

489. Duarte, H.F., B.M. Raczka, D.M. Ricciuto, J.C. Lin, C.D. Koven, P.E. Thornton, D.R. Bowling, C.-T. Lai, K.J. Bible, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2017. Evaluating the Community Land Model (CLM 4.5) at a coniferous forest site in northwestern United States using flux and carbon-isotope measurements. Biogeosciences 14:4315-4340. doi: /10.5194/bg-14-4315-2017. PDF

519. Kannenberg, S., R.E. Fiorella, W. Anderegg, R. Monson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2020. Seasonal and diurnal trends in progressive isotope enrichment along needles in two pine species. Plant Cell and Environment 44:43-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13915. PDF

527. Fiorella, R.P., S.A. Kannenberg. W.R.L. Anderegg, R.K. Monson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2022. Heterogeneous isotope effects decouple conifer leaf and phloem sugar 18O and 13C. Oecologia 198:357-370. http://doi.org/10.1007/s0442-022-05121-y. PDF

531. Strange, B.M., R.K. Monson, P. Szejner, J.R. Ehleringer, and Hu, J. 2023. The North American Monsoon buffers forests against the ongoing megadrought in the Southwestern United States. Global Change Biology 29:4354-4367. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb/16762. PDF

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