Rain

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Accounting for landscape heterogeneity improves spatial predictions of tree vulnerability to drought. 
  • Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development 
  • Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. 
  • Combined effects of short term rainfall patterns and soil texture on soil nitrogen cycling - a modeling analysis. 
  • Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density. 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • Continental-level population differentiation and environmental adaptation in the mushroom Suillus brevipes. 
  • Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment. 
  • Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century. 
  • Emergence of Epidemic Dengue-1 Virus in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. 
  • Environmental aridity is associated with cytotype segregation and polyploidy occurrence in Brachypodium distachyon (Poaceae). 
  • Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework. 
  • Farmer's lung is now in decline. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • How Bees Deter Elephants: Beehive Trials with Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) in Gabon. 
  • Hydraulic redistribution of soil water by roots affects whole-stand evapotranspiration and net ecosystem carbon exchange. 
  • Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO₂ concentration alleviate forest mortality risk. 
  • Interactive effects of nocturnal transpiration and climate change on the root hydraulic redistribution and carbon and water budgets of southern United States pine plantations. 
  • Interannual variation in UV-B and temperature effects on bud phenology and growth in Populus tremula. 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • Mammals and rainfall: paleoecology of the middle Miocene at La Venta (Colombia, South America). 
  • Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas. 
  • Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). 
  • Mobility of Four Common Mercury Species in Model and Natural Unsaturated Soils. 
  • Modifying the ‘pulse-reserve’ paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water and plant responses 
  • Observed change of the standardized precipitation index, its potential cause and implications to future climate change in the Amazon region 
  • Paleoclimate. Trans-Atlantic climate connections. 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Plant responses to precipitation in desert ecosystems: integrating functional types, pulses, thresholds, and delays 
  • Predicting soil erosion for alternative land uses. 
  • Re-assessment of plant carbon dynamics at the Duke free-air CO(2) enrichment site: interactions of atmospheric [CO(2)] with nitrogen and water availability over stand development. 
  • Sex-specific fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions are associated with DNA methylation in the avian glucocorticoid receptor. 
  • Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA) to quantify water performance of urban design-technology-environment configurations. 
  • Soil C and N changes with afforestation of grasslands across gradients of precipitation and plantation age. 
  • Temperature and Precipitation Associate With Ischemic Stroke Outcomes in the United States. 
  • The geography of demography: long-term demographic studies and species distribution models reveal a species border limited by adaptation. 
  • The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. 
  • Toxicity of stormwater runoff after dormant spray application of diazinon and esfenvalerate (Asana) in a French prune orchard, Glenn county, California, USA. 
  • Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. 
  • Understanding urban water performance at the city-region scale using an urban water metabolism evaluation framework. 
  • Water quality risks of 'improved' water sources: evidence from Cambodia. 
  • Weather fluctuations affect the impact of consumers on vegetation recovery following a catastrophic die-off. 
  • White monkey syndrome and presumptive copper deficiency in wild savannah baboons. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Duke Science & Society