James F. Reynolds

Journal article Ecosistemas · 2021 Featured Publication Since its origins, the concept of desertification has been shrouded in controversy and ambiguity. As a result, no single definition of the term has been acceptable; there is no agreement on its extent or seriousness; and the solutions proposed are ... Full text Open Access Cite

World Atlas of Desertification Rethinking Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management

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Hydrological and ecological responses of ecosystems to extreme precipitation regimes: A test of empirical-based hypotheses with an ecosystem model

Journal article Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics · October 1, 2016 Featured Publication Many uncertainties exist in our quest to understand and predict how terrestrial ecosystems will respond to climate change. A particularly challenging issue is how increases in extreme precipitation regimes, which are characterized by larger but fewer indiv ... Full text Open Access Cite

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: An expert assessment

Journal article Environmental Research Letters · March 7, 2016 Featured Publication As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of this release will be offset by increased production of Arctic and boreal ... Full text Open Access Cite

Changes in evapotranspiration and phenology as consequences of shrub removal in dry forests of central Argentina

Journal article Ecohydrology · October 1, 2015 Featured Publication More than half of the dry woodlands (forests and shrublands) of the world are in South America, mainly in Brazil and Argentina, where in the last years intense land use changes have occurred. This study evaluated how the transition from woody-dominated to ... Full text Open Access Cite

A novel approach to assess livestock management effects on biodiversity of drylands

Journal article Ecological Indicators · January 1, 2015 Featured Publication In drylands livestock grazing is the main production activity, but overgrazing due to mismanagement is a major cause of biodiversity loss. Continuous grazing around water sources generates a radial gradient of grazing intensity called the piosphere. The ec ... Full text Open Access Cite

Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations

Journal article Soil Biology and Biochemistry. · November 2014 Featured Publication Earthworms modify the way roots respond to soil nutrient patchiness. However, few studies have evaluated the joint effects of earthworms and soil heterogeneity on plant community biomass and species dominance, and none of them have assessed the influence o ... Full text Open Access Cite

A mechanistic-bioclimatic modeling analysis of the potential impact of climate change on biomes of the Tibetan Plateau.

Journal article Ecology · August 2014 Featured Publication The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is experiencing high rates of climatic change. We present a novel combined mechanistic-bioclimatic modeling approach to determine how changes in precipitation and temperature on the TP may impact net primary production (NPP) in fou ... Full text Open Access Cite

Impacts of increased variability in precipitation and air temperature on net primary productivity of the Tibetan Plateau: a modeling analysis

Journal article Climatic Change · 2013 Featured Publication We analyzed interannual variability (IAV) of precipitation and air temperature over a 40-year period (1969-2008) for 11 sites along a precipitation gradient on the Tibetan Plateau. The observed IAV for both precipitation and air temperature decreases with ... Full text Open Access Cite

Scientific concepts for an integrated analysis of desertification

Journal article Land Degradation and Development · 2011 Featured Publication The Global Drylands Observing System proposed in this issue should reduce the huge uncertainty about the extent of desertification and the rate at which it is changing, and provide valuable information to scientists, planners and policy-makers. However, it ... Full text Open Access Cite

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: Towards a global synthesis

Journal article Ecology Letters · 2011 Featured Publication Encroachment of woody plants into grasslands has generated considerable interest among ecologists. Syntheses of encroachment effects on ecosystem processes have been limited in extent and confined largely to pastoral land uses or particular geographical re ... Full text Open Access Cite

Global desertification: building a science for dryland development.

Journal article Science · May 11, 2007 Featured Publication In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability scie ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite