In arid/semi-arid ecosystems, biological resources, such as water, soil nutrients, and plant
biomass, typically go through periods of high and low abundance. Short periods of high …

Forested soils are being increasingly transformed to agricultural fields in response to
growing demands for food crop. This modification of the land use is known to result in …

Changes in resource availability can alter the functioning of ecosystems, especially with
regard to both population dynamics and the cycling of organic matter and nutrients. At …

An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the ecology of Wyoming and adjacent Rocky
Mountain states Many changes--some discouraging, others hopeful--have occurred in the …

Agriculture has a large effect on the properties of the soil and with that on soil hydrology. The
partitioning of rainfall into infiltration and runoff is relevant to understand runoff generation …

Global climate change models indicate that storm magnitudes will increase in many areas
throughout southwest North America, which could result in up to a 25% increase in seasonal …

Vegetation of dryland ecosystems is sensitive to precipitation pulses. Future climate
scenarios suggest that the frequency and magnitude of precipitation events will change …

Aims Under global climate change, precipitation patterns were predicted to change with
larger seasonal and annual variations and more extreme events in the semiarid regions of …

The amount and spatial distribution of deep drainage (downward movement of water across
the bottom of the root zone) and groundwater recharge affect the quantity and quality of …

Plant water source partitioning suffers from multiple uncertainty sources including tracers,
depleted xylem water deuterium, and mixing models, but the uncertainties have rarely been …