Publications

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Peer-reviewed publications

1. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, Palmquist, KA (2020) Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century. Global Change Biology, 26, 3906–3919

2. Petrie, MD, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Schlaepfer, DR, Andrews, CM, Bell, DM (2020) Non-analog increases to air, surface, and belowground temperature extreme events due to climate change. Climatic Change, 163, 2233–2256

3. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, Palmquist, KA, Chambers, JC, Maestas, JD, and Campbel, SB (2019) Climate-driven shifts in soil temperature and moisture regimes suggest opportunities to enhance assessments of dryland resilience and resistance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 358

4. Renne, RR, Schlaepfer, DR, Palmquist, KA, Bradford, JB, Burke, IC, and Lauenroth, WK. (2019) Soil and stand structure explain shrub mortality patterns following global change type‐drought and extreme precipitation. Ecology, 100, 12, e02889

5. Swindon, JG, Lauenroth, WK, Schlaepfer, DR, & Burke, IC (2019) Spatial distribution of roots across three dryland ecosystems and plant functional types. Western North American Naturalist, 79, 2, 159–169

6. Schlaepfer, DR, Braschler, B, Rusterholz, HP, & Baur, B (2018) Genetic effects of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on remnant animal and plant populations: a meta-analysis. Ecosphere 9, e02488

7. Renwick, KM, Curtis, CA, Kleinhesselink, AR, Schlaepfer, DR, Bradley, BA, Aldridge, CL, Poulter, B, & Adler, PB (2018) Multi-model comparison highlights consistency in predicted effect of warming on a semi-arid shrub. Global Change Biology, 24, 424–438

8. Palmquist, KA, Bradford, JB, Martyn, TE, Schlaepfer, DR, & Lauenroth, WK (2018) STEPWAT2: an individual-based model for exploring the impact of climate and disturbance on dryland plant communities. Ecosphere, 9, e02394

9. Wilson, SD, Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Duniway, MC, Hall, SA, Jamiyansharav, K, Jia, G, Lkhagva, A, Munson, SM, Pyke, DA, & Tietjen, B (2018) Functional group, biomass, and climate change effects on ecological drought in semiarid grasslands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 1072–1085

10. Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Munson, SM, Tietjen, B, Hall, SA, Wilson, SD, Duniway, MC, Jia, G, Pyke, DA, Lkhagva, A, & Jamiyansharav, K (2017) Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils. Nature Communications, 8, 14196

11. Bradford, J.B., Schlaepfer, D.R., Lauenroth, W.K., Yackulic, C.B., Duniway, M., Hall, S., et al. (2017). Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands. Scientific Reports, 7, 12923

12. Petrie, MD, Bradford, JB, Hubbard, RM, Lauenroth, WK, Andrews, CM, & Schlaepfer, DR (2017). Climate change may restrict dryland forest regeneration in the 21st century. Ecology, 98, 1548-1559

13. Tietjen, B, Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Hall, SA, Duniway, MC, Hochstrasser, T, Jia, G, Munson, SM, Pyke, DA, & Wilson, SD (2017) Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands. Global Change Biology, 23, 2743-2754

14. Palmquist, KA, Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, & Lauenroth, WK (2016) Spatial and ecological variation in dryland ecohydrological responses to climate change: implications for management. Ecosphere, 7, e01590 (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1590)

15. Pennington VP, Bradford JB, Schlaepfer DR, Beck JL, & Palmquist KA, & Lauenroth WK (2016) Sagebrush, Greater Sage-Grouse, and the Occurrence and Importance of Forbs. Western North American Naturalist, 76, 298-312

16. Palmquist, KA, Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2016) Mid-latitude shrub steppe plant communities: Climate change consequences for soil water resources. Ecology, 97, 2342-2354

17. Bell, DM, & Schlaepfer, DR (2016) On the dangers of model complexity without ecological justification in species distribution modeling. Ecological Modelling 330:50-59

18. Martyn, TE, Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Burke, IC, & Lauenroth, WK (2016) Seed bank and big sagebrush plant community composition in a range margin for big sagebrush. Ecosphere, 7, e01453 (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1453)

19. Moore, L, Lauenroth, WK, Bell, DM, & Schlaepfer, DR (2015) Soil water and temperature explain canopy phenology and onset of spring in a semiarid steppe. Great Plains Research, 25, 121-138

20. Schlaepfer, DR, Taylor, K, Pennington, VP, Nelson, KN, Martyn, TE, Rottler, CM, & Lauenroth, WK (2015) Simulation of regeneration of big sagebrush supports predicted changes in habitat suitability at the trailing and leading edges of distribution shifts. Ecosphere, 6, art3 (10.1890/ES14-00208.1)

21. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Burke, I (2014) Ecohydrological consequences of plant functional type transitions in North American sagebrush ecosystems. Journal of Ecology, 102, 1408–1418

22. Lauenroth, WK, Schlaepfer, DR, & Bradford, JB (2014) Ecohydrology of dry regions: Storage versus pulse soil water dynamics. Ecosystems, 17, 1469-1479

23. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2014) Regeneration processes in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata). Rangeland Ecology & Management, 67, 344-357

24. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2014) Modeling regeneration responses of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) to abiotic conditions. Ecological Modelling, 286, 66-77

25. Schlaepfer, DR, Ewers, BE, Shuman, BN, Williams, DG, Frank, JM, Massman, WJ, & Lauenroth, WK (2014) Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration: Comment. Ecosphere, 5, art61 (10.1890/ES13-00391.1)

26. Avirmed, O, Burke, IC, Mobley, ML, Lauenroth, WK, & Schlaepfer, DR (2014) Natural recovery of soil organic matter in 30-90 year old abandoned oil and gas wells in sagebrush steppe. Ecosphere, 5, art24 (10.1890/ES13-00272.1)

27. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, & Lauenroth, WK (2014) Ecohydrology of adjacent sagebrush and lodgepole pine ecosystems: the consequences of climate change and disturbance. Ecosystems, 17, 590-605

28. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2012) Consequences of declining snow accumulation for water balance of mid-latitude dry regions. Global Change Biology, 18, 1988-1997

29. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2012) Effects of ecohydrological variables on current and future ranges, local suitability patterns, and model accuracy in big sagebrush. Ecography, 35, 374-384

30. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2012) Ecohydrological niche of sagebrush ecosystems. Ecohydrology, 5, 453-466

31. van Kleunen, M, Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M, & Fischer, M (2011) Preadapted for invasiveness: do species traits or their plastic response to shading differ between invasive and non-invasive plant species in their native range? Journal of Biogeography, 38, 1294-1304

32. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ, & Billeter, R (2010) Why only tetraploid Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae) became invasive: a common garden comparison of ploidy levels. Oecologia, 163, 661-673

33. Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M, Fischer, M, & van Kleunen, M (2010) A multi-species experiment in their native range indicates pre-adaptation of invasive alien plant species. New Phytologist, 185, 1087-1099

34. van Kleunen, M, Dawson, W, Schlaepfer, DR, & Fischer, M (2010) Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness. Ecology Letters, 13, 947–958

35. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ, Widmer, A, & Billeter, R (2008) Phylogeography of native ploidy levels and invasive tetraploids of Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae). Molecular Ecology, 17, 5245-5256

36. Schlaepfer, DR, Edwards, PJ, Semple, JC, & Billeter, R (2008) Cytogeography of Solidago gigantea (Asteraceae) and its invasive ploidy level. Journal of Biogeography, 35, 2119-2127

37. Doering, M, Uehlinger, U, Rotach, A, Schlaepfer, DR, & Tockner, K (2007) Ecosystem expansion and contraction dynamics along a large Alpine alluvial corridor (Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32, 1693-1704

Other contributions

1. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR (2020) Robust ecological drought projection data for drylands in the 21st century: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YU6PQB

2. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR (2019) Historical and 21st century soil temperature and moisture data for drylands of western U.S. and Canada. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PJFE82

3. Adler, PB, Renwick, K, Kachergis, E, Manning, M, Remington, T, Thacker, E, Aldridge, C, Bradley, B, Kleinhesselink, A, Curtis, C, Schlaepfer, DR, & Poulter, B (2018). Managing Big Sagebrush in a Changing Climate. Utah State University Extension, All Current Publications No. 1882, https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/1882/

4. Reeves, MC, Manning, ME, DiBenedetto, JP, Palmquist, KA, Lauenroth, WK, Bradford, JB, & Schlaepfer, DR (2018) Effects of Climate Change on Rangeland Vegetation in the Northern Rockies. Pages 97–114 in J. E. Halofsky and D. L. Peterson, eds. Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems. Springer, Cham (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-56928-4_6)

5. Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Munson, SM, Tietjen, B, Hall, SA, Wilson, SD, Duniway, MC, Jia, G, Pyke, DA, Lkhagva, A, & Jamiyansharav, K (2016) Global temperate drylands climate change vulnerability. U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7930RB1

Conference & seminar contributions

1. Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB, Lauenroth, WK, Shriver, RK (2020) Insights about future big sagebrush regeneration from projecting a complex ecological process (talk COS 42-4). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 3-8 August 2020; virtual.

2. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, Bradford, JB, & Palmquist, KA (2019). Unexpected spatial heterogeneity and more severe droughts in parts of drylands globally under solar geoengineering (talk COS 23-7). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 11-16 August 2019; Louisville, KY

3. Palmquist, KA, Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Renne, RR, & Lauenroth, WK (2019). Climate change impacts on shrub steppe plant communities vary with environmental context and geography (talk 16-10). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 11-16 August 2019; Louisville, KY

4. Schlaepfer DR, Bradford JB, Palmquist KA, & Lauenroth WK (2018) Evapotranspiration and ecological drought under a geoengineered future (talk COS 21-2). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 5-10 August 2018; New Orleans, LA

5. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, Palmquist, KA, & Lauenroth, WK (2017) Climate change impacts on soil temperature and moisture regimes in western North America (talk COS 173-7). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 6-11 August 2017; Portland, OR

6. Palmquist, KA, Jordan, SE, Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, & Lauenroth, WK (2017) Resource quantity and resource heterogeneity shape species richness and beta-diversity patterns in big sagebrush plant communities (talk COS 27-2). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 6-11 August 2017; Portland, OR

7. Schlaepfer, DR, Bradford, JB. Palmquist, KA, & Lauenroth, WK (2017) Geoingineering impacts on ecological droughts in global drylands (talk COS 150-4). Presented at the ESA Annual Meeting, 6-11 August 2017; Portland, OR

8. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB (2016, oral) Topographic influence on the structure of a shrub steppe–temperate forest boundary. GfOe 46th Annual Meeting 2016, 5 – 9 Sep 2016. Marburg, Germany.

9. Renwick KM, Kleinhesselink AR, Schlaepfer DR, Curtis CA, Bradley BA, Aldridge CL, Poulter B, & Adler PB (2016) Estimating climate sensitivity of semi-arid vegetation: What can we learn by comparing forecasts derived from different modeling techniques? (talk COS 52-6). ESA Annual Meeting, 7-12 August 2016. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

10. Palmquist KA, Schlaepfer DR, Bradford JB, & Lauenroth WK (2016) Spatial and ecological variation in big sagebrush ecohydrological responses to climate change: Implications for management and conservation (talk COS 67-10). ESA Annual Meeting, 7-12 August 2016. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

11. Bradford JB, Schlaepfer DR, Lauenroth WK, Tietjen B, Wilson SD, Duniway MC, Munson SM, Pyke DA, Hall SA, Jamiyansharav K, Jia G, & Lkhagva A (2016) Assessing the ecohydrological future of temperate drylands: Drought, vegetation structure and ecosystem services in the 21st century (talk COS 82-4). ESA Annual Meeting, 7-12 August 2016. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

12. Renwick KM, Kleinhesselink A, Curtis C, Schlaepfer DR, Aldridge CL, Bradley BA, Poulter B, & Adler P (2016) Forecasting changes in the distribution and abundance of sagebrush under climate change. In Sagebrush ecosystem conservation: All lands, all hands. February 23-26, 2016. Joint conference of the Great Basin Consortium and a WAFWA-sponsored sagebrush science and management meeting: Salt Lake City, Utah.

13. Schlaepfer DR, Bradford JB, Duniway MC et al. (2015) Global temperate drylands will respond to climate change on average with more wet days and longer ecological droughts. In: GfOe 45th Annual Meeting 2015, 31 Aug - 4 Sep 2015. Göttingen, Germany.

14. Schlaepfer DR, & Bell DM (2015) Complex SDMs lead to undetected data-model mismatches and degenerated global change predictions. In: BES Annual Meeting 2015, 13-16 December 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland.

15. Petrie M, Bradford JB, Schlaepfer DR, Andrews C, Palmquist K, & Lauenroth WK (2015) Validation of the SOILWAT hydrological model for ecosystems in the central and western united states (poster H11C-1352). In: AGU Fall Meeting 2015, 14-18 December 2015. San Francisco, CA, USA.

16. Palmquist KA, Lauenroth WK, Bradford JB, & Schlaepfer DR (2015) Climate change impacts on future sagebrush ecohydrology across the western US (talk COS 23-7). In: ESA Annual Meeting, 9-14 August 2015. altimore, MD.

17. Martyn TE, Lauenroth WK, Schlaepfer DR, & Bradford JB (2015) Seed bank and existing plant community mismatch: Potential impacts on climate change induced species range shifts (poster PS 18-176). In: ESA Annual Meeting, 9-14 August 2015. Baltimore, MD.

18. Bradford JB, Schlaepfer DR, & Lauenroth WK (2015) Modeling and forecasting big sagebrush regeneration in the context of climate change (talk 189). In: 68th Annual SRM Meeting, 31 Jan - 6 Feb 2015. pp Page, Sacramento, CA.

19. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB: Biome boundaries across gradients: the sagebrush steppe – temperate forest ecotone. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Minneapolis, MN (Aug 2013, oral)

20. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB: Future regeneration of big sagebrush under climate variability. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Portland, OR (August 2012, oral)

21. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB: Big sagebrush in a world of changing ecosystem water balance. University of Wyoming, Department of Botany Seminar Series (Jan 2012, oral)

22. Bradford, JB, Schlaepfer, DR, & Lauenroth, WK: Soil water availability patterns across a sagebrush-lodgepole ecotone: The role of disturbance and climate. Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ (October 2011, oral)

23. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB: Consequences of declining snow accumulation for semiarid intermountain ecosystem water balance. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Austin,TX (August 2011, oral)

24. Schlaepfer, DR, Lauenroth, WK, & Bradford, JB: How does process-based soil water modeling of sagebrush steppe inform climate envelopes? Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Pittsburgh, PA (August 2010, oral)

25. Schlaepfer, DR, Glättli, M, Fischer, M, & van Kleunen, M: Experimental comparison of invasive and non-invasive species in their native range. Annual Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfÖ). Bern, Switzerland (May 2009, oral)

26. Schlaepfer, DR: Influence of polyploidy on Solidago gigantea. „Seminars on community ecology“. University of Bern, Switzerland. Invited by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig (Oct 2007)

27. Schlaepfer, DR, & Billeter, R: Solidago gigantea: Plant performance in a ploidy-level precise common garden. Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ). Marburg, Germany (Sept 2007, oral)

28. Schlaepfer, DR: Solidago gigantea: A ploidy-level precise alien - native range comparison. Workshop: Colonization versus invasion. Monte Verità, Switzerland (Feb 2007, oral)

29. Schlaepfer, DR, & Billeter, R: Not all ploidy levels of Solidago gigantea Ait. are invasive! NEOBIOTA. Vienna, Austria (Sept 2006, poster)

30. Schlaepfer, DR: The role of polyploidy in plant invasions. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Seminar series of the Geobotanical Institute (Jan 2005, oral)

31. Schlaepfer, DR, & Billeter, R: The role of polyploidy in invasive plants – A case study on Solidago gigantea Ait. NEOBIOTA. Bern, Switzerland. (Sept 2004, poster)