2024

• Zhu, K., Song, Y., Lesage, J.C. et al. (2024) Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change. Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02552-z
  
• Smith, M.D., Wilkins, K.D., et al. (2024) Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121.4

2023

• Batbaatar, A., Carlyle, C. N., Bork, E. W., Chang, S. X. & Cahill, J. F. (2023) Differential sensitivity of above- and belowground plant biomass to drought and defoliation in temperate grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 356, 108660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108660.
• Wu, X.-P., S. Liu, J. Luan, Y. Wang, X. Gao, C. J. F. E. Chen, and Management. (2023). Nitrogen addition alleviates drought effects on water status and growth of Moso bamboo (Phllostachys edulis). Forest Ecology and Management 530:120768.
• Toledo, S., Bondaruk, V. F., Yahdjian, L., Oñatibia, G. R., Loydi, A., Alberti, J., ... & Peri, P. L. (2023). Environmental factors regulate soil microbial attributes and their response to drought in rangeland ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment, 892, 164406.
• Cusack, D. F., Dietterich, L., & Sulman, B. N. (2023). Soil Respiration Responses to Throughfall Exclusion Are Decoupled From Changes in Soil Moisture for Four Tropical Forests, Suggesting Processes for Ecosystem Models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10.1029/2022GB007473. doi:10.1029/2022GB007473
• van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Neidhardt, H., Knüver, T., Rios, R. S., Saldaña, A., ... & Tielbörger, K. (2023). No home‐field advantage in litter decomposition from the desert to temperate forest. Functional Ecology, 37(5), 1315-1327.
• Birkeli, K., Gya, R., Haugum, S. V., Velle, L. G., & Vandvik, V. (2023). Germination and seedling growth of Calluna vulgaris is sensitive to regional climate, heathland succession, and drought. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), e10199.

2022

• Bondaruk, V. F., Oñatibia, G. R., Fernández, R. J., Agüero, W., Blanco, L., Bruschetti, M., ... & Yahdjian, L. (2022). Forage provision is more affected by droughts in arid and semi‐arid than in mesic rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59(9), 2404-2418.
• Dietterich, L. H., Bouskill, N. J., Brown, M., Castro, B., Chacon, S. S., Colburn, L., Cordeiro, A. L., García, E. H., Gordon, A. A., Gordon, E., Hedgpeth, A., Konwent, W., Oppler, G., Reu, J., Tsiames, C., Valdes, E., Zeko, A., & Cusack, D. F. (2022). Effects of experimental and seasonal drying on soil microbial biomass and nutrient cycling in four lowland tropical forests. Biogeochemistry, 161, 227–250. doi:10.1007/s10533-022-00980-2
• Luan, J., S. Li, Y. Wang, L. Ding, C. Cai, and S. Liu. 2022. Decomposition of diverse litter mixtures affected by drought depends on nitrogen and soil fauna in a bamboo forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 173:108783.
• Nunes, A., and K. M. Byrne. 2022. Drought and shrub cover differentially affect seed bank composition within two sagebrush steppe communities. Journal of Arid Environments 202: 104752. 
• Smith, L. J. and J. L. Williams. 2022. Plant and herbivorous insect communities respond in complex ways to rainfall manipulation in an oak savanna grassland. Journal of Ecology 00, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14053

 
2021

• Haugum, S. V., Thorvaldsen, P., Vandvik, V., & Velle, L. G. (2021). Coastal heathland vegetation is surprisingly resistant to experimental drought across successional stages and latitude. Oikos, 130(11), 2015-2027. 
• Lundell S, Batbaatar A, Carlyle CN, Lamb EG, Otfinowski R, Schellenberg MP, Bennett JA. 2022. Plant responses to soil biota depend on precipitation history, plant diversity, and productivity. Ecology. 103(10):e3784. doi:10.1002/ecy.3784.

 
 
2020

• Hannusch, HJ, Rogers, WE, Lodge, AG, Starns, HD, Tolleson, DR. Semi-arid savanna herbaceous production and diversity responses to interactive effects of drought, nitrogen deposition, and fire. J Veg Sci. 2020; 31: 255– 265. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12848
• Kübert, A., E. Kuester, M. Götz, D. Dubbert, M. Eiblmeier, C. Werner, Y. Rothfuss, and M. Dubbert (2020): Combined experimental drought and nitrogen loading: the role of species dependent leaf level control of carbon and water exchange in a temperate grassland. Plant Biology, doi:0./plb.3230
• Wu, X.-P., S. Liu, J. Luan, Y. Wang, and C. Cai. 2019. Responses of water use in Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla) culms of different developmental stages to manipulative drought. Forest Ecosystems 6:31.

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2019

• Alon, M., & Sternberg, M. (2019). Effects of extreme drought on primary production, species composition and species diversity of a Mediterranean annual plant community. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(6), 1045-1061.
• Kübert, A., M. Götz, E. Kuester, A. Piayda, C. Werner, Y. Rothfuss, and M. Dubbert (2019): Nitrogen Loading Enhances Stress Impact of Drought on a Semi-natural Temperate Grassland. Frontiers in Plant Science, doi: 0.89/fpls.09.005
• Siebert, J., Sünnemann, M., Auge, H., Berger, S., Cesarz, S., Ciobanu, M., Guerrero-Ramírez, N.R., Eisenhauer, N., 2019. The effects of drought and nutrient addition on soil organisms vary across taxonomic groups, but are constant across seasons. Sci Rep 9, 639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36777-3

2017

• Felton AJ, Smith MD. 2017 Integrating plant ecological responses to climate extremes from individual to ecosystem levels. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372: 20160142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0142
• Knapp, A.K., Avolio, M.L., Beier, C., Carroll, C.J.W., Collins, S.L., Dukes, J.S., Fraser, L.H., Griffin-Nolan, R.J., Hoover, D.L., Jentsch, A., Loik, M.E., Phillips, R.P., Post, A.K., Sala, O.E., Slette, I.J., Yahdjian, L. and Smith, M.D. (2017), Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Glob Change Biol, 23: 1774-1782. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13504
• Knapp, A.K., Ciais, P. and Smith, M.D. (2017), Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation–productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytol, 214: 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.1438​
• Smith, M.D., Wilcox, K.R., Power, S.A., Tissue, D.T. and Knapp, A.K. (2017), Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change – toward a more comparative approach. J Veg Sci, 28: 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12524

 
2016

• Lemoine, N.P., Sheffield, J., Dukes, J.S., Knapp, A.K. and Smith, M.D. (2016), Terrestrial Precipitation Analysis (TPA): A resource for characterizing long-term precipitation regimes and extremes. Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1396-1401. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12582
• Breshears, David D., et al. Rangeland responses to predicted increases in drought extremity. Rangelands 38.4 (2016): 191-196.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.06.009

2015

• Knapp, A.K., Hoover, D.L., Wilcox, K.R., Avolio, M.L., Koerner, S.E., La Pierre, K.J., Loik, M.E., Luo, Y., Sala, O.E. and Smith, M.D. (2015), Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments. Glob Change Biol, 21: 2624-2633. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12888