Publications

2025

*Ohlert, T.J.., *Smith, M. D., Collins, S. L., Knapp, A. K., Dukes, J. S., Sala, O., Wilkins, K. D., Munson, S. M., Anderson, M. I., Avolio, M. L., Chen, A., Hayden, M. T., Holdrege, M. C., Slette, I. J., Wilfahrt, P., Beier, C., Fraser, L. H., Jentsch, A., Loik, M. E., Luo, Y., Maestre, F. T., Phillips, R. P., Power, S. A., Yahdjian, L., Yu, Q., Chen, A., Felton, A. J., Gherardi, L. A., Lyon, N. J., Abdoli, H., Abedi, M., Alberti, J., Arroyo, A. I., Asbjornsen, H., Auge, H., Bachle, S., Bahn, M., Bartholomew, D. C., Batbaatar, A., Bauerle, T. L., Beard, K. H., Behn, K., Beil, I., Biancari, L., Blindow, I., Bondaruk, V. F., Borer, E. T., Bork, E. W., Bruschetti, C. M., Byrne, K. M., Cahill, J. F. Jr., Calvo, D. A., Carbognani, M., Carlyle, C. N., Castillioni, K., Castillo-Garcia, M., Chandregowda, M. H., Chang, S. X., Chieppa, J., Churchill, A. C., Cianciaruso, M. V., Cordeiro, A. L., Cousins, S. A. O., Cusack, D. F., Dahlke, S., Daleo, P., Dietterich, L. H., Dubbert, M., Eisenhauer, N., Forte, T. G. W., Funk, F. A., Galiano, D., Greenville, A. C., Han, L., Haugum, S. V., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Henry, H. A. L., Hoss, D., Isbell, F., Jordan, S. E., Ke, Y., Kelly, E. F., Koerner, S. E., Kreyling, J., Kröel-Dulay, G., Kröpfl, A. I., Kübert, A., Kulmatiski, A., Lamb, E. G., Larsen, K. S., Lee, S., Limbu, S. P., Linstädter, A., Liu, S., Longo, G., Loydi, A., Luan, J., Lubbe, F. C., Malyshev, A. V., McIntire, C. D., Metcalfe, D. B., Mokoka, M. V., Mori, A. S., Mudongo, E., Newman, G. S., Nielsen, U. N., Ochoa-Hueso, R., O'Connor, R. C., Ogaya, R., Oñatibia, G. R., Orbán, I., Osborne, B. B., Otfinowski, R., Pärtel, M., Pascual, J., Peñuelas, J., Peri, P. L., Pescador, D. S., Peter, G., Petraglia, A., Picon-Cochard, C., Pillar, V. D., Piñeiro-Guerra, J. M., Ploughe, L. W., Plowes, R. M., Portales-Reyes, C., Prober, S. M., Pueyo, Y., Rahmati, G., Reed, S. C., Rodríguez, D. A., Rogers, W. E., Roscher, C., Rowley, D. W., Sánchez, A. M., Santos, B. A., Schellenberg, M. P., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Seabloom, E. W., Shen, R., Shi, B., Souza, L., Stampfli, A., Standish, R. J., Sternberg, M., Sun, W., Sünnemann, M., Tedder, M., Terry, T. J., Thorvaldsen, P., Tielbörger, K., Tissink, M., Vadeboncoeur, M. A., Valdecantos, A., van den Brink, L., Vandvik, V., Velle, L. G., Wanke, S., Wardle, G. M., Wei, C., Werner, C., Wiehl, G., Williams, J. L., Wolf, A. A., Wu, H., Xu, C., Yang, X., Yang, Y., Yost, J. L., Young, A. L., Yue, P., Zeberio, J. M., Zeiter, M., Zhang, H., Zhu, J., Zuo, X. (2025) Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity. Science. 390(6770), 284-289 https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2982/full
K. M. Byrne, J. C. Luong, & K. M. Kaczynski (2025) Divergent drought responses in two cold desert shrublands. Ecosphere 16(3): e70211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70211

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.

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