Papers
2024
68. Dodds, W.K., Barmuta, L. A., Bernal, S., Corman, J., Harms, T. K., Johnson, S., Li, L., Cunha, D.G.F., Olden, J.D., Silva, L.C.R., Sullivan, P.L., Wohl, E. (2024). Defining riparian areas based on multidimensional environmental gradients. Water Resources Research. (in review)
67. Keen, R.M., Sadayappan, K., Jarecke, K., Li, L., Kirk, M.F., Sullivan, P.L., Nippert, J.B. (2024). Unexpected hydrologic response to ecosystem state change in tallgrass prairie. Water Resources Research. (in review)
66. Price, R.M., Sullivan, P. L., Flower, H., & Troxler, T. (2024). Ecohydrological hotspots: Mangroves and tree islands in a subtropical wetland. Journal of Hydrology. (in review).
65. Kerins, D., Sadayappan, K., Zhi, W., Sullivan, P.L., Williams, K.H., Carrol, R.W.H., Baranrd, H.R., Sprenger, M., Dong, W., Perdrial, J., & Li, L. (2024). Hydrology driven production and export of dissolved organic carbon in a water-limited Rocky Mountains catchment. Water Resources Research. (in review).
64. Johnson, K., Christensen, J., Gardner, P., Sprenger, M., Li, L., Williams, K.H., Carroll, R., Thiros, N., Brown, W., Beutler, C., Newman, A., & Sullivan, P.L. (2024). Shifting groundwater fluxes in bedrock fractures and an alluvial fan: Evidence from radon and water isotopes. Journal of Hydrology. (in review).
63. Singha, K., Sullivan, P.L., Billings, S., Walls, L., Jaracke, K., Li, L., Barnard, H., Gasparini, N., Madoff, R., Dhital, S., Candace, J., Kastelic, E., Ma, L., Perilla-Castillo, P., Song, B., & Zhu, T. (2024). Expanding the spatial and human reaches of the critical zone . Earth’s Future. doi:10.1029/2023EF003971.
62. Li, L., Knapp, J., Linern, A., Ng, C., Perdrial, J., Sullivan, P.L., Zhi, W. (2024). River water quality shaped by land-river connectivity in a changing cliamte. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/s41558-023-01923-x
61. Johnson, K., Carey, K., Jankowski, K.J., Wymore, A. S., McDowell, W. H., Shogren, A.J., Julian, P., Sethna, L., Jones, J.B., Diane M. McKnight, D.M., Poste, A., Kortelainen, P., Raike, Laudon, A.H., Kaste, Ø., Thomas, P.K., Heindel, R., Wollheim,W. Abbott, B., Deegan, L. & Sullivan. P.L. (2024). Establishing stream water silica regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi: 10.1002/lol2.10372.
2023
60. Duro, A.M., Hirmas, D.R., Ajami, H., Giménez, D., Billings, S.A., Zhang, Z., Li, L., Flores, A., Moreno, V., Cao, Xiayoang, C., Guilinger, J., & Sullivan, P.L. (2023). Topographic correction of visible near-infrared soil reflectance spectra for high-resolution, horizon-scale soil organic carbon mapping. Soil Science Society of America Journal. doi: 10.1002/saj2.20612.
59. Sadayappan K., Keen, R.M., Jaracke, K., Moreno, V., Nippert, J.B., Kirk M. F., Sullivan, P.L., & Li, L. (2023). Drier streams despite a wetter climate in woody-encroached grasslands. Journal of Hydrology. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130388.
58. Jankowski, K. J., Johnson, K., Julian, P., Sethna, L., Wymore, A.S., Shogren, A. J., Thomas, P. K., Sullivan, P.L., McKnight, D.M., McDowell, W.H., Heindel, R., Jones, J.B., Wollheim, W., Abbott, B., Deegan, L., & Carey, J. (2023). Long-term changes in concentrations and yield of riverine dissolved silicon from the poles to the tropics. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi: 10.1029/2022GB007678.
57. Souza L.F.T, Hirmas, D.H., Sullivan, P.L., Reuman, D.C., Kirk, M.F., Li, L. Ajami, H., Wen, H., Sarto, M.V.M., Loecke, T.D., Ruick, A.K., Rice, C.W., Billings, S.A. (2023). Root distributions, precipitation, and soil structure converge to govern soil organic carbon depth distributions. Geoderma. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116569.
56. Johnson, K., Harpold, A., Carroll, R.W.H., Barnard., H., Raleigh, M., Segura, C., William, H.K., Sullivan, P.L. (2023). Leveraging climate and groundwater dynamics to improve predictions of summer low flow discharges. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2023WR035126.
55. Hwang, K., Harpold, A., Tague, N., Lowman, L., Boisramé, G., Lininger, K., Sullivan, P.L., Manning, A., Graup, L., Litvak, M., Lewis, G., Miller, K., Brooks, P., Barnard, H. (2023). Seeing the disturbed forest for the trees: Remote sensing offers potential to quantify critical zone response to unprecedented disturbance. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2022EF003314.
54. Koop, A., Hirmas, D., Billings, S.A., Li, L., Cueva, A., Zhang, X., Nemes, A., Sousa, L.F.T., Ajami, H., Flores, A.N., Rudick, A.K., Guthrie, A., Klama, LM., Unruch, M., Sullivan, P.L. (2023). Is macroporosity controlled by complexed clay and soil organic carbon? Geoderma. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116565.
53. Norwood, B.S., Stotler, R.L., Brookfield, A., Sullivan, P. L., Macpherson, G.L. (2023). Flux and stable isotope fractionation of CO2 in a mesic prairie headwater stream. Water and Climate Change. doi: 10.2166/wcc.2023.067.
52. Brookfield, A.E., Ajami, H., Carroll, R.W.H., Tague, N., Sullivan, P.L., Condon, L. (2023). Advances in Integrated Hydrologic Models. Journal of Hydrology. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129515.
51. Bush, S.A., Birch, A.L., Warix, S.R., Sullivan, P.L., Gooseff, M.N., McKnight, D.M. Barnard, H.R. (2023). Dominant source areas shift seasonally from longitudinal to lateral contributions in a montane headwater stream. Journal of Hydrology. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129134
2022
50. Covington, M. D., Martin, J. B., Toran, L. E., Macalady, J. L., Sullivan, P. L., García, Á. A. Jr., Heffernan, J. B., Graham, W. D. (2022). Carbonates in the Critical Zone. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2022EF002765
49. Gregory, R.B., Bush, S.A., Sullivan, P.L., Barnard, H.R. (2022). Examining Spatial Variation in Soil Solutes and Flowpaths in a Semi-arid, Montane. Frontiers in Water, section Water and Critical Zone. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2022.1003968.
48. Hauser, E., Sullivan, P. L., Hirmas, D.R., Flores, A., Billings, S.A. (2022) Global-scale shifts in Anthropocene rooting depths pose unexamined consequences in critical zone functioning. Earth’s Future. doi: 10.1029/2022EF002897
47. Goldrich-Middaugh, G.M., Ma, L., Engle, M.A., Ricketts, J.W., Soto-Montero, P., Sullivan, P.L. (2022). Regional Drivers of Stream Chemical Behavior: Leveraging Lithology, Land Use, and Climate Gradients across the Colorado River, Texas USA. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2022WR032155.
46. Wen, H., Sullivan, P.L., Billings, S., Ajami, H., Cuvea, A., Hirmas, D., Flores, Koop, A., A., Murenbeeld, K., Zhang, X., Li, L. (2022). From Soils to Streams: Connecting Terrestrial Carbon Transformation and Chemical Weathering to Solute Export across Hydrologic Regimes. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2022WR032314
45. Keen, R.M., Nippert, J.B., Sullivan, P.L., Ratajczak, Z., Ritchey, B., O’Keefe, K., Dodds, W.K. (2022). Impacts of riparian and non- riparian woody encroachment on tallgrass prairie ecohydrology. Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s10021-022-00756-7.
44. Acharya, S.B., Bulbul, A., Yunxian, C., Davidson, D.H., Haygood, L., Hensley, R.T., Kumar, R., Lerback, J., Liu, H., Mehan, S., Mehana, M., Patil, S.D., Persaud, B.D., Sullivan, P.L., URycki, D. (2022). Hydrological Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science. Earth and Space Science. doi: 10.1029/2022EA002320
43. Stops, M.W, Sullivan, P.L., Peltier E., Young, B., Brookfield, A.E. (2022). Tracking the hydrologic response of agricultural tile outlet terraces to storm events. Agricultural Water Management. doi 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107382.
42. Sullivan, P.L., Billings, S., Hirmas, D., Li, L. Zhang, X., Moreno, V., Duro, A., Ajami, H., Murenbeeld, K., Guthrie, A., Flores, A., Ziegler, S., Nemes, A., Cuvea, A., Koop, A., Wen, H., Gimenez, D., Nikolaidis, N, Keen, R., Nippert, J., Banwart, S.A., Richter, D., Souza, L., Unruch, M., Bailey, V., Robinson, D.A. (2022). Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene. Earth-Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103873.
2021
41. Wymore, A, Johnes, P.J., Bernal, S., Brookshire, E.N.J., Fazekas, H.M., Helton, A.M., Argerich, A., Barnes, R.T., Coble, A.A., Dodds, W.K., Hay, S., Johnson S.L., Jones, J.B., Kaushal, S.S., Kortelainen, P., López-Lloreda, C., Rodríguez-Cardona, B.M., Spencer, R.G.M., Sullivan, P.L., Yates, C.A., McDowell, W.H. (2021). Gradients of anthropogenic nutrient enrichment alter N composition and DOM stoichiometry in freshwater ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles doi: 10.1029/2021GB006953.
40. Brookfield, A., Hansen, A., Sullivan, P.L., Czuba, J., Kirk, M., Li, L., Newcomer, M., Wilkinson, G. (2021). Predicting algal blooms: Are we over looking groundwater? Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144442
39. Wen, H., Sullivan, P.L., Macpherson, G.L., Billings, S.A., Li, L. (2021). Deepening roots can enhance carbonate weathering by amplifying recharge. Biogeosciences . doi: 10.5194/bg-18-55-2021
2016-2020
38. Singha, K., Sullivan, P.L., Li, L., Gasparini, N., (2020). Demystifying critical zone science to make it more inclusive. Eos. doi 10.1029/2020EO148937.
37. Li., L. Sullivan, P.L., Benettin, P., Bishop, K., Brantley, S.L., Cirpka, O.A., Kirchner J., Knapp, J., van Merrveld, I., Rinalda, A., Seibert, J., Wen, H. (2020). Crossing boundaries: toward an integrated hydrological and biogeochemical theory at the catchment scale. WIRES. doi:10.1002/wat2.1495.
36. Sullivan, P.L., Zhang, C., Behm, M., Zhang, F., Macpherson, G.L. (2020). Towards a new conceptual model for groundwater flow in merokarst systems: Insights from multiple geophysical approaches. Hydrological Processes. doi: 10.1002/hyp.13898.
35. Noireaux, J., Sullivan, P.L., Gaillardet, J., Steinhoefel, G., Brantley, S.L. (2020). Boron isotope fractionation during shale weathering in the Shale Hills critical zone observatory. Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119900.
34. Koop, A.N., Hirmas, D.R., Sullivan, P.L., Mohammed, A.K. (2020). A generalizable index for soil development. Geoderma. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113898.
33. Sullivan, P.L., Macpherson, G.L., Martin, J.B., Price ,R.M. (2019). Evolution of carbonate and karst Critical Zones. Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.06.023.
32. Weintraub, S., Flores, A.N., Weider, W., Sihi, D., Cagnarini, C., Gonçalves, D.R.P., Young M, Li. L., Olshansky, Y., Baatz, R., Sullivan, P.L., Groffman, P.M. (2019). Leveraging environmental research and observation networks to advance soil carbon science. JGR-Biogeosciences. doi: 10.1029/2018JG004956.
31. Sullivan, P.L., Goddéris, Y., Shi, Y., Schott, J., Hasenmuller, A.E, Kaye, J., Duffy, C.J., Jin, L., & Brantley, S.L. (2019). Exploring the effect of aspect to inform future earthcasts of climate-driven changes in weathering of shale. JGR Earth's Surface. doi:10.1029/2017JF004556.
30. Macpherson, G.L., Sullivan, P.L., Stotler, R.L., Norwood, B.S. 2019. Increasing groundwater CO2 in a midcontinent tallgrass prairie: Controlling factors. 16th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 5 p.
29. Fan, Y., Clark, M., Lawrence, D., Swenson, S., Band, L., Brantley, S.L., Brooks, P., Dietrich, W., Flores, A., Grant, G., Kirchner, J., Mackay, D.S., McDonnell, J., Sullivan, P.L., Tague, N., Ajami, H., Chaney, N., Hartmann, A., Hazenberg, P., McNamara, J., Pelletier, J., Perket, J., Rouholahnejad-Freund, E., Wagener, T., Zeng, X., Buzan, J., Huang, M., Livneh, B., Mohanty, B., Nijssen, B., Safeeq, M., Shen, C., van Verseveld, W., Volk, J., &Yamazaki, D. (2019). Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1029/2018WR023903
28. Sullivan, P.L., Stops, M.W., Macpherson, G.L., Li L., Hirmas, D.R., & Dodds, W.K. (2019). How landscape heterogeneity governs stream water concentration-discharge behavior in carbonate terrains (Konza Prairie, USA). Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.12.002.
27. Macpherson, G.L. & Sullivan, P.L. (2019). Watershed Scale Weathering in a Merokarst Terrain, Konza Prairie LTER Site (KS, USA). Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.12.001.
26. Stinchcomb, G.E., Kim, H., Hasenmuller, E., Sullivan, P.L., Sak, P.B., & Brantley, S.K. (2018). Relating soil gas to weathering using rock and regolith geochemistry. American Journal of Science (In Press). doi: 10.2475/07.2018.01.
25. Macpherson, G.L. & Sullivan, P.L. (2018). Dust, impure calcite, and phytoliths: Modeled alternative sources of chemical weathering solutes in shallow groundwater. Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.007.
24. Herndon, E. M., Steinhoefel, G., Dere, A.L., & Sullivan, P.L. (2018). Perennial flow through convergent hillslopes explains chemodynamic solute behavior in a shale headwater catchment. Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.06.019.
23. Baatz, R., Sullivan, P.L., Li, L., Weintraub, S., Loescher, H., Mertl, M., Groffman, P.M., Wall, D.H., Young, M., White, T., Wen, H., Zacharias, S., Kuhn, I., Tang, J., Gaillardet, J., Braud, I., Flores, A., Kumar, P., Lin, H., Ghezzehei, T., Gholz, H.L., Vareeken, H., & Van Looy, K. (2018). Steering operational synergies in terrestrial observation networks: opportunity for advancing Earth system dynamics modelling. Earth System Dynamics. doi:10.5194/esd-9-593-2018.
22. Billings, S. A., Hirmas, D., Sullivan, P.L., Lehmeier, C.A., Bagchi, S., Min, K., Brecheisen, Z., Hauser, E., Stair, R., Flournoy, R., Richter, D. deB. (2018). Loss of deep roots limits biogenic agents of soil development only partially restored by 80 y of forest regeneration. Elementa. doi: 10.1525/elementa.287.
21. Vero, S.E., Macpherson, G.L., Sullivan, P.L., Brookfield, A.E., Nippert, J.B., Kirk, M.F., Datta, S., & Kempton, P. (2017). Developing a Conceptual Framework of Landscape and Hydrology on Tallgrass Prairie: A Critical Zone Approach. Vadose Zone Journal. doi: 10/2136/vzj2017.03.0069.
20. Wymore, A.S., West, N.R., Maher, K., Sullivan, P.L., Harpold, A., Karwan, D., Marshall, J.A., Perdrial, J., Rempe, D., & Ma, L., 2017. Growing New Generations of International Critical Zone Scientists. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi: 10.1002/esp.4196.
19. Li, L., Bao, C., Sullivan, P. L., Brantley, S. L., Shi, Y., & Duffy, C. (2017). Understanding watershed hydrogeochemistry: 2. Synchronized hydrological and geochemical processes Drive Chemostatic Behavior. Water Resources Research. doi: 10.1002/2016WR018934.
18. Li, L., Maher, K., Navarre-Sitchler, A., Druhan, J., Lawrence, C., Meile, C., Moore, J., Perdial, J., Sullivan, P. L., Thompson, A., Jin, L., Bolton, E., Brantley, S., Dietrich, W., Mayer, U., Steefel, C. I., Valocchi, A., Zachara, J., Kocar, B., Mcintosh, J., Tutolo, B. M., Beisman, J., Kumar, M., & Sonnethal, E. (2017). Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes. Earth-Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.09.001.
17. *Brantley, S. L., Lebedeva, M., Balashov, V., Singha, K., Sullivan, P. L., & Stinchcomb, G. (2017). Toward a conceptual model relating chemical reaction fronts to water flow paths in hills. Geomorphology. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.09.027.
16. Sullivan, P. L., Hynek, S., Gu, X., Singha, K., White, T., West, N., Kim, H., Clarke, B., Kirby, E., Duffy, C. J., & Brantley, S. L. (2016). Oxidative dissolution at the channel leads geomorphological evolution at the Shale Hills Catchment. American Journal of Science. doi: 10.2475/10.2016.02.
15. Sullivan, P. L., Ma, L., West, N., Jin, L., Karwan, D. K., Noireaux, J., Stienhoefel, G., Gaines, K., Eissenstat, D., Gaillardet, J., Derry, L., Meek, K., Hynek, S., & Brantley, S. L. (2016). CZ-tope at Susquehanna Shale Hills CZO: Synthesizing multiple isotope proxies to elucidate Critical Zone processes across timescales in a temperate forested landscape. Chemical Geology. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.05.012.
14. Sullivan, P. L., Price, R. M., Ross, M. S., Sah, J., Scinto, L. J., Cline, E., Drechel, T. W., & Sklar, F. H. (2016). Trees: A powerful geomorphic agent governing the landscape evolution of a subtropical wetland. Biogeochemsitry. doi:10.1007/s10533-016-0213-9.
2010-2015
13. Herndon, E., Dere, A., Sullivan, P. L., Norris, D., Reynolds, B., & Brantley, S. L. (2015). Landscape heterogeneity drives contrasting concentration-discharge relationships in shale headwater catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. doi: 10.5194/hess-19-3333-2015.
12. Sullivan, P. L., Engel, V., Ross, M. S., Price, R. M., et al. (2014). The influence of vegetation on the hydrodynamics and geomorphology of a tree island in Everglades National Park (Florida, United States). Ecohydrology, 7(2), 727-744. doi:10.1002/eco.1394
11. Sullivan, P. L., Price, R. M., Miralles-Wilhelm, F., Rose, M. S., Scinto, L. J., Cline, E., Drechel, T. W., & Sklar, F. H. (2014). The role of recharge and evapotranspiration as hydraulic drivers of ion concentrations in shallow groundwater on Everglades tree islands, Florida (USA). Hydrological Processes, 28(2), 293-304. doi:10.1002/hyp.9575.
10. Sullivan, P. L., Schedlbauer, J. L., Saha, A., & Price, R. M. (2014). The influence of hydrologic restoration on groundwater-surface water interactions in a karst wetland, Everglades (FL, USA). Wetlands, 34, 23-35. doi:10.1007/s13157-013-0451-8.
9. Duffy, C., Shi, Y., Davis, K., Slingerland, R., Li, L., Sullivan, P. L., & Brantley, S. L. (2014). Designing a suite of models to explore critical zone function. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 10, 7-15. doi:10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.003.
8. Noireaux, J., Gaillaret, J., Sullivan, P. L., & Brantley, S. L. (2014). Boron isotope fractionation in soils at Shale Hills CZO. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, 10, 218-222. doi:10.1016/j.proeps.2014.08.024
7. Jin, L., Ogrinc, N., Yesavage, T., Hasenmueller, E., Ma, L., Sullivan, P. L., Kaye, J., Duffy, C., & Brantley, S. L. (2014). The CO2 consumption potential during gray shale weathering: Insights from the evolution of carbon isotopes in the Susquehanna Shale Hills critical zone observatory. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 142, 260-280. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.07.006.
6. Sullivan, P. L., Gaiser, E. E., Surratt, D., Rudnick, D., Davis, S., & Sklar, K. (2014). Wetland ecosystem response to hydrologic restoration and management: The Everglades and its urban-agricultural boundary (FL, USA). Wetlands, 34, 1-8. doi:10.1007/s13157-014-0525-2.
5. Gaiser, E. E., Sullivan, P. L., Tobias, F. A.C., & Trexler, J. C. (2013). Boundary effects on benthic microbial phosphorus concentrations and diatom beta diversity in a hydrologically-modified, nutrient-limited wetland. Wetlands. doi:10.1007/s13157-013-0379-z.
4. Thomas, E., Duffy, C. J., Lin, H. S., Sullivan, P. L., Holmes, G., Brantley, S. L., & Jin, L. (2013). Spatiotemporal patterns of water stable isotope compositions at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory: Linkages to subsurface hydrologic processes. Vadose Zone. doi:0.2136/vzj2013.01.0029.
3. Sullivan, P. L., Price, R. M., Ross, M. S., Scinto, L. J., Stoffella, S. L., Cline, E., Drechel, T. W., & Sklar, F. H. (2011). Hydrologic processes of tree islands in the Everglades (Florida, USA): Tracking the effects of tree establishment and growth. Hydrogeology Journal [14312174], 19(2), 367-378. doi:10.1007/s10040- 010-0691-0.
2. Wetzel, P. R., Sklar, F. H., Coronado, C. A., Trozler, T. G., Krupa, S. L., Ewe, S., Price, R. M., Sullivan, P. L., Newman, S., & Orem, W. H. (2011). Biogeochemical processes on tree islands in the greater Everglades: Initiating a new paradigm. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 670-701. doi: 10.1080/10643389.2010.530908.
1. Stoffella, S. L., Ross, M. S., Sah, J. P., Price, R. M., Sullivan, P. L., Cline, E. A., & Scinto, L. J. (2010). Survival and growth responses of eight Everglades tree species along experimental hydrology gradient on tree island types. Applied Vegetation Science, 13, 439-449. doi:10.1111/j.1654-109X.2010.01081.x.