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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Angert AL, Barron-Gafford G, Gerst K, Huxman TE, Venable DL (In Press) Interspecific and seasonal variation in growth and allocation in a guild of desert winter annuals. Plant, Cell and Environment.

Ignace DD, Huxman TE, Weltzin J, Williams DG (In Press) Functional response of native and non-native grasses to simulated precipitation in the Sonoran Desert. Oecologia

Patrick L, Cable J, Potts D, Ignace D, Barron-Gafford G, Griffith A, Alpert H, Van Gestel N, Robertson T, Huxman T, Zak J, Loik M, Tissue D (In Press) Effect of a increase in summer precipitation on leaf, soil and ecosystem CO 2 and H 2O fluxes in a stool-grassland in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Oecologia.

Enquist EJ, Kerkhoff AJ, Huxman TE, Economo EP (In Press) Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: insights from metabolic scaling theory. Global Change Biology

Potts DL, Huxman TE, Scott RL, Williams DG, Goodrich DC (2006) The sensitivity of ecosystem carbon exchange to seasonal precipitation and woody plant encroachment. Oecologia 150:453-463.

Scott, RL, Huxman TE, Cable WL, Emmerich WE (2006) The partitioning of evaporation and its relation to the components of carbon dioxide exchange in a Chihuahuan Desert shrubland. Hydrological Processes 20:3227-3243.

Williams DG, Scott RL, Huxman TE, Goodrich DC, Lin G (2006) Sensitivity of riparian ecosystems in arid and semiarid environments to moisture pulses. Hydrological Processes 20:3191-3205.

Housman, DC, Naumburg E, Huxman TE, Charlet TN, Nowak RS, Smith SD (2006). Increases in desert shrub productivity under elevated CO 2 vary with seasonal water availability. Ecosystems 9:374-385.

Potts DL, Huxman TE, Cable JM, English NB, Ignace DD, Eilts JA, Mason MJ, Weltzin JF, Williams DG (2006) Antecedent moisture and seasonal precipitation influence response of canopy-scale carbon and water exchange to rainfall pulses in a semi-arid grassland. New Phytologist 170:849-860.

Scott RL, Huxman TE, Williams DG, Goodrich D (2006) Ecohydrological impacts of woody plant encroachment: seasonal patterns of water and carbon dioxide exchange within a semiarid riparian environment. Global Change Biology 12:311-324.

Potts DL, Huxman TE, Enquist BJ, Weltzin J, Williams DG (2006) Resilience and resistance of ecosystem functional response to a precipitation pulse in a semi-arid grassland. Journal of Ecology 94:23-30.

Huxman TE, Wilcox BP, Scott RL, Snyder K, Hultine K, Small E, Breshears D, Pockman W, Jackson RB (2005) Ecohydrological implications of woody plant encroachment. Ecology 86:308-319.

Monson RK, Sparks JP, Rosenstiel TN, Scott-Denton L, Huxman TE, Harley PC, Turnipseed AA, Burns S, Backlund B, Hu J (2005) Climatic influences on net ecosystem CO 2 exchange during the transition from wintertime respiration to springtime photosynthesis in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Oecologia 146:130-147

Yepez EA, Huxman TE, Ignace DD, English NB, Weltzin JF, Castellanos AE, Williams DG (2005) Transpiration and evaporation following a moisture pulse in semiarid grassland: a chamber-based isotope method for partitioning evapotranspiration. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 132:359-376.

Cable JM, Huxman TE (2004) Precipitation pulse size effects on Sonoran Desert soil microbial crusts. Oecologia 141:317-324.

Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, McAuliffe JR, Smith SD (2004) Carbon isotope discrimination and foliar nutrient status of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) in contrasting Mojave Desert soils. Oecologia 138:210-215.

Huxman TE, Cable JM, Ignace DD, Eilts AJ, English N, Weltzin J, Williams DG (2004) Response of net ecosystem gas exchange to a simulated precipitation pulse in a semiarid grassland: the role of native versus non-native grasses and soil texture.Oecologia 141:295-305.

Huxman TE, Smith, MD, Fay PA, Knapp AK, Shaw MR, Loik ME, Smith SD, Tissue DT, Zak JC, Weltzin JF, Pockman WT, Sala OE, Haddad BM, Harte J, Koch GW, Schwinning S, Small EE, Williams DG (2004) Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. Nature 429:651-654.

Huxman TE, Snyder KA, Tissue D, Leffler AJ, Pockman W, Ogle K, Sandquist D, Potts DL, Schwinning S (2004) Precipitation pulses and carbon balance in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. Oecologia 141:254-268.

Loik ME, Still CJ, Huxman TE, Harte J (2004) In situ photosynthetic freezing tolerance for plants exposed to a global warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, U.S.A. New Phytologist 162:331-341

Nagel JM, Huxman TE, Griffin KL, Smith SD (2004) CO 2 enrichment reduces the energetic cost of biomass construction in an invasive desert grass. Ecology 85:100-106.

Scott RL, Edwards EA, Shuttleworth WJ, Huxman TE, Watts C, Goodrich DC (2004) Interannual and seasonal variation in fluxes of water and CO 2 from a riparian woodland ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 122:65-84.

Enquist BJ, Economo EP, Huxman TE, Allen AP, Ignace DD, Gillooly JF (2003) Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems. Nature 423:639-642

Housman DC, Zitzer SF, Huxman TE, Smith SD (2003) Functional ecology of shrub seedlings after a natural recruitment event at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Global Change Biology 9:718-728.

Huxman TE , Turnipseed AA, Sparks JP, Harley PC, Monson RK (2003) Temperature as a control over ecosystem CO 2 fluxes in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Oecologia. 134: 537-546

Huxman TE , Monson RK (2003) Stomatal responses of C 3, C 3-C 4, and C 4Flaveria species to light and intercellular CO 2 concentration: implications for the evolution of stomatal behavior. Plant, Cell and Environment. 26:313-322.

Naumburg E., Housman DC, Huxman TE, Charlet TN, Loik ME, Smith SD (2003) Photosynthetic responses of Mojave Desert shrubs to Free Air CO 2 Enrichment are greatest during wet years. Global Change Biology. 9:276-285.

Weltzin JF, ME Loik, S Schwinning, DG Williams, P Fay, B Haddad, J Harte, TE Huxman, AK Knapp, G Lin, WT Pockman, MR Shaw, E Small, MD Smith, SD Smith, DT Tissue, JC Zak (2003) Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation. BioScience 53:941-952.

Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, Charlet TN, Smith SD (2002) Effects of elevated CO 2 (FACE) on the functional ecology of the drought-deciduous Mojave Desert Shrub, Lycium andersonii. Environmental & Experimental Botany. 43:93-106.

Monson RK, Turnipseed AA, Sparks JP, Harley PC, Scott-Denton LE, Sparks K, Huxman TE (2002) Carbon sequestration in a high-elevation subalpine forest. Global Change Biology. 8:459-478.

Huxman TE , Smith SD (2001) Photosynthesis in an invasive grass and native forb at elevated CO 2 during an El Niño year in the Mojave Desert. Oecologia, 128:193-201.

Huxman TE, Charlet TN, Grant C, Smith SD (2001) The effect of parental CO 2 and offspring nutrient environment on initial growth and photosynthesis in an annual grass. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 162:617-623.

Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, Loik ME, Smith SD (2000) Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO 2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata. Plant Ecology 148:185-195.

Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, Smith SD, Nowak RS, Redar S, Loik ME, Jordan DN, Zitzer SR, Coleman JS, Seemann JR (2000) Photosynthetic responses of contrasting Mojave Desert shrub species to elevated CO 2 concentration at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Journal of Arid Environments 44:425-436.

Loik ME, Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Smith SD (2000) Low temperature tolerance and cold acclimation for seedlings of three Mojave Desert Yucca species exposed to elevated CO 2. Journal of Arid Environments, 46:43-56.

Pataki DE, Huxman TE, Jordan DN, Zitzer SF, Coleman JS, Smith SD, Nowak RS, Seemann JR (2000) Water use of Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO 2. Global Change Biology 6:889-890.

Smith SD, Huxman TE, Zitzer SF, Charlet TN, Housman DC, Coleman JS, Fenstermaker LK, Seemann JR, Nowak RS (2000) Elevated CO 2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature 408:79-82.

Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Smith SD (1999) Reproductive allocation and seed production in Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens at elevated CO 2. Functional Ecology 13:769-777.

Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Loik ME, Smith SD (1998) Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of three southwestern Yucca species to elevated CO 2 and high temperature. Plant, Cell & Environment 21:1275-1283.

Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Moore BD, Smith SD, Jordan DN, Zitzer SF, Nowak RS, Coleman JS, Seemann JR (1998) Photosynthetic down-regulation in Larrea tridentata exposed to elevated atmospheric CO 2: Interaction with drought under glasshouse and field (FACE) exposure. Plant, Cell & Environment 21:1153-1161.

Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Jordan DN, Salsman KL, Smith SD (1998) The effects of parental CO 2 environment on seed quality and subsequent seedling performance in Bromus rubens. Oecologia 114:202-208.

Huxman TE, Loik ME (1997) Reproductive patterns of two varieties of Yucca whipplei (Liliaceae) with different life histories. International Journal of Plant Sciences 78:113-120.

Huxman TE, Huxman KA, Stamer MR (1997) Dispersal characteristics of yucca weevils in a flowering field of Yucca whipplei. Great Basin Naturalist 57:38-43.

Huxman TE, Loik ME (1996) Seeds of Yucca whipplei var. whipplei germinate in the fruit. Southwestern Naturalist 43:318-320.

Huxman TE, Loik ME (1996) Abiotic and biotic inflorescence damage and reproductive strategy in Yucca whipplei. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly 46: 45-48.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Smith SD, Tissue DT, Huxman TE, Loik ME (In Press) Ecophysiological responses of desert plants to elevated CO 2: environmental determinants and case studies. In: Park Nobel – festschrift. Springer.

Gordon W, Huxman TE (In Press) Ecohydrology and Climate Change. In: Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present, and Future. Wood PJ, Hannah DM, and Sadler JP (eds). John Wiley and Sons.

Bronstein JL, Huxman TE, Davidowitz G (2007) Plant-mediated indirect effects linking herbivory and pollination. pp. 75-103 In: Indirect interaction webs: nontrophic linkages through induced plant traits. Ohgushi T, Craig TP, and Price PW (eds.). Cambridge University Press.

Shaw MR, Huxman TE, Lund CP (2005) Modern and future semi-arid and arid ecosystems. pp. 415-440 In: The Impact of CO 2 on Plants, Animals and Ecosystems. Ehleringer, J., T. Cerling, and D. Dearling (eds.).  Springer-Verlag..

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Huxman TE, Scott RL (2007) Climate Change, Vegetation Dynamics, and the Landscape Water Balance. Southwestern Hydrology 6:28-29,37.

McAuliffe J, Hamerlynck E, Huxman T (2003) Ecologists study impacts of drought in the desert. Sonoran Quarterly 57:6-9.

Fenstermaker LK, Charlet TN, Huxman TE, Coleman JS, Nowak RS, Smith SD (2002) Global climate change research in the Nevada Desert. Pages 97-106 in Charlet DA (ed) Nevada Environmental Issues. Kendall/Hunt Publ Co, Dubuque, IA.

Smith SD, Huxman TE (2001) Elevated atmospheric CO 2 and deserts: Will increasing CO 2 alter deserts and desertification processes? Arid Lands Newsletter Issue # 49.