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Disturbance facilitates rapid range expansion of aspen into higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains under a warming climate, Simon M. Landhausser, Dominique Deshales, and Victor J. Lieffers

Disturbance of biological soil crusts: Impacts on potential wind erodibility of sandy desert soils in southeastern Utah, Jayne Belnap and D. A. Gillette

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?, Gregory S. Okin, Anthony J. Parsons, John Wainwright, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Debra C. Peters, and Ed L. Fredrickson

Documenting measurement sensitivity and bias of field-measured parameters in water quality monitoring programs, David P. Thorna, Roy J. Irwin, and Pete E. Penoyer

Dominant cold desert plants do not partition warm season precipitation by event size, Susanne Schwinning, Benjamin I. Starr, and James R. Ehleringer

Do soil characteristics or microhabitat determine field emergence and success of Bromus tectorum?, B. A. Newingham, P. Vidiella, and Jayne Belnap

Drought limitation of photosynthesis differs between C3 and C4 grass species in a comparative experiment, S. H. Taylor, B. S. Ripley, F. I. Woodward, and C. P. Osborne

Dryland biological soil crust cyanobacteria show unexpected decreases in abundance under long-term elevated CO2, Blaire Steven, La Verne Gallegos-Graves, Chris M. Yeager, Jayne Belnap, R. David Evans, and Cheryl R. Kuske

Dryland Ecosystems, Anne Hartley, Nichole Barger, Jayne Belnap, and Gregory S. Okin

Dust emission and deposition in southwestern United States - integrated field, remote sensing, and modeling studies to evaluate response to climatic variability and land use, R. Reynolds, M. Reheis, T. Hinkley, R. Tigges, G. Clow, P. Lamothe, J. Yount, G. Meeker, P. Chavez, D. Mackinnon, M. Velasco, S. Sides, D. Soltesz, N. Lancaster, M. Miller, R. Fulton, and Jayne Belnap

Dust: Small-Scale Processes With Global Consequences, Gregory S. Okin, Joanna E. Bullard, Richard L. Reynolds, John-Andrew C. Ballantine, Kerstin Schepanski, Martin C. Todd, Jayne Belnap, Matthew C. Baddock, Thomas E. Gill, and Mark E. Miller

Dynamics of cover, UV-protective pigments, and quantum yield in biological soil crust communities of an undisturbed Mojave Desert shrubland, Jayne Belnap, Susan L. Phillips, and Stanley D. Smith

Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses, Henry D. Adams, Charles H. Luce, David D. Breshears, Craig D. Allen, Markus Weiler, V. Cody Hale, Alistair M.S. Smith, and Travis E. Huxman

Ecological resources of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Jayne Belnap

Ecology of Small Mammals on 2 Isolated Buttes in Canyonlands-National-Park, Utah, D. W. Johnson

Ecosystem sustainability and condition, C. Ronald Carroll, Jayne Belnap, Bob Breckenridge, and Gary K. Meffe

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Effect of Simulated Browsing on Aspen Regeneration: Implications for Restoration, Bobette E. Jones, David F. Lile, and Kenneth W. Tate

Effects of a coal-fired power plant on the rock lichen Rhizoplaca melanophthalma: Chlorophyll degradation and electrolyte leakage, Jayne Belnap and Kimball T. Harper

Effects of air pollutants on cold-desert cyanobacterial-lichen crusts and rock lichens: Chlorophyll degradation, electrolyte leakage and nitrogenase activity, Jayne Belnap

Effects of altered temperature and precipitation on desert protozoa associated with biological soil crusts, Brian J. Darby, David C. Housman, Amr M. Zaki, Yassein Shamout, Sina M. Adl, Jayne Belnap, and Deborah A. Neher

Effects of Bromus tectorum invasion on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in two adjacent undisturbed arid grassland communities, Sean M. Schaeffer, Susan E. Ziegler, Jayne Belnap, and R. D. Evans

Effects of river regulation on aeolian landscapes, Colorado River, southwestern USA, Amy E. Draut

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Effects of Soil Amendments on Germination and Emergence of Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum) and Hilaria jamesii, Jayne Belnap, Susan K. Sherrod, and Mark E. Miller

Effects of water additions,chemical amendments, and plants on in situ measures of nutrient bioavailability in calcareoussoils of southeastern Utah, U.S.A., Mark E. Miller, Jayne Belnap, Susan W. Beatty, and Bruce L. Webb

Effects of wet and dry pollutants on the physiology and elemental accumulation of cryptogamic crusts and selected lichens of the Colorado Plateau, Jayne Belnap

Elemental Composition of Background Soils from Arches National Park, Utah, E. S. Gladney, R. W. Ferenbaugh, and Jayne Belnap

Elevated CO2 did not mitigate the effect of a short-term drought on biological soil crusts, Timothy M. Wertin, Susan L. Phillips, Sasha C. Reed, and Jayne Belnap

Environment and Communiy Organization in Grasslands of Canyonlands National Park, Edgar F. Kleiner and K. T. Harper

Eolian and noneolian facies of the lower Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member of the Cutler Formation, southeastern Utah, Steven M. Condon, J. D. Stanesco, and J. A. Campbell

Eolian dust on the Colorado Plateau: Magnetic and geochemical evidence from sediment in potholes and biologic soil crust, R. Reynolds, Jayne Belnap, M. Reheis, and N. Mazza

Erratum: Autoradiographic Distribution of Radioactive Sodium in Rat Kidney

ESA publications revisited, Jayne Belnap

Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Jayne Belnap, Susanne Neuer, and Ferdinand Schanz

Evaporative losses from soils covered by physical and different types of biological soil crusts, S. Chamizo, Y. Canton, F. Domingo, and Jayne Belnap

Evidence for micronutrient limitation of biological soil crusts: Importance to arid-lands restoration, Matthew A. Bowker, Jayne Belnap, Diane W. Davidson, and Susan L. Phillips

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Exotic Plant Invasion Alters Nitrogen Dynamics in an Arid Grassland, R. D. Evans, R. Rimer, L. Sperry, and J. Belnap

Factors controlling threshold friction velocity in semiarid and arid areas of the United States, Beatrice Marticorena, Gilles Bergametti, Dale Gillette, and Jayne Belnap

Factors Influencing Development of Cryptogamic Soil Crusts in Utah Deserts, David C. Anderson, Kimball T. Harper, and Ralph C. Holmgren

Factors influencing nitrogen fixation and nitrogen release in biological soil crusts, Jayne Belnap

Factors influencing production systems of the Mongolian steppe: Potential global change impacts on semi-arid ecosystems, D. S. Ojima, Larry L. Tieszen, T. Chuluun, Jayne Belnap, J. Dodd, and Z. Chen

Fan-Delta and Lacustrine Margin Sedimentation, Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic), Canyonlands-National-Park, Utah, R. C. Blakey and R. Gubitosa

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Fault Growth by Segment Linkage - An Explanation for Scatter in Maximum Displacement and Trace Length Data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah, J. A. Cartwright, B. D. Trudgill, and C. S. Mansfield

Fault Growth by Segment Linkage: an Explanation for Scatter in Maximum Displacement and Trace Length Data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah: Discussion, G. E. McGill, R. A. Schultz, and J. M. Moore

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Fault Growth by Segment Linkage: an Explanation for Scatter in Maximum Displacement and Trace Length Data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah: Reply, J. Cartwright, B. Trudgill, and C. Mansfield

Few apparent short-term effects of elevated soil temperature and increased frequency of summer precipitation on the abundance and taxonomic diversity of desert soil micro- and meso-fauna

Field-based evaluation of sampling techniques to support long-term monitoring of riparian ecosystems along wadeable streams on the Colorado Plateau, M. L. Scott and E. W. Reynolds

Field evaluations of sampling methods for long-term monitoring of upland ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau, Mark E. Miller, Dana L. Witwicki, Rebecca K. Mann, and Nicole J. Tancreto

Field evaluations of sampling methods for long-term monitoring of upland ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau, Mark E. Miller, Dana L. Witwicki, Rebecca K. Mann, and Nicole J. Tancreto

Fine gravel controls hydrologic and erodibility responses to trampling disturbance for coarse-textured soils with seak cyanobacterial crusts, J. E. Herrick, J. W. Van Zee, Jayne Belnap, J. R. Johansen, and M. Remmenga

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First-Year Movements by Juvenile Mexican Spotted Owls in the Canyonlands of Utah, D. W. Willey and C. Van Riper

Flush responses of Mexican spotted owls to recreationists, Elliott C.H. Swarthout and Robert J. Steidl

Forecasting climate change impacts to plant community composition in the Sonoran Desert region, Seth M. Munson, Robert H. Webb, Jayne Belnap, J. Andrew Hubbard, Don E. Swann, and Sue Rutman

From Outcrop to Reservoir Simulation Model: Workflow and Procedures, H. D. Enge, S. J. Buckley, A. Rotevatn, and J. A. Howell

From the ground up: Biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert, Jayne Belnap

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Fungi Associated with Biological Soil Crusts in Desert Grasslands of Utah and Wyoming, Jack S. States and Martha Christensen

Genetic integrity: Why do we care? An overview of the issues, Jayne Belnap

Geology for a changing world 2010-2020: Implementing the U.S. Geological Survey science strategy, Linda C.S. Gundersen, Jayne Belnap, Martin Goldhaber, Arthur Goldstein, Peter J. Haeussler, S. E. Ingebritsen, John W. Jones, Geoffrey S. Plumlee, E. Robert Thieler, Robert S. Thompson, and Judith M. Back

Geology of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Cutler Group and Permian Kaibab Limestone in the Paradox Basin, Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado, Steven M. Condon

Geomorphology of the hanging gardens of the Colorado Plateau, Cathleen L. May, James F. Fowler, and Nancy L. Stanton

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Geophysical Exploration within Northern Devils Lane Graben, Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Implications for Sediment Thickness and Tectonic Evolution, E. B. Grosfils, R. A. Schultz, and G. Kroeger

Getting a handle on visitor carrying capacity: A pilot project at Arches National Park, Marilyn Hof, Jim Hammett, Michael Rees, Jayne Belnap, N. Poe, Dave Lime, and Bob Manning

Global biodiversity monitoring, Henrique M. Pereira, Jayne Belnap, Neil Brummitt, Ben Collen, Hui Ding, Mario Gonzalez-Espinosa, Richard D. Gregory, Joao Honrado, Rob H.G. Jongman, Romain Julliard, Louise McRae, Vania Proenca, Patricia Rodrigues, Michael Opige, Jon P. Rodriguez, Dirk S. Schmeller, Chris Van Swaay, and Christiana Vieira

Global change and biological soil crusts: Effects of ultraviolet augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and nitrogen additions, Jayne Belnap, Susan L. Phillips, Stephan Flint, John Money, and Martyn Caldwell

Global change and the future of biological soil crusts, R. David Evans, Jayne Belnap, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, and Susan L. Phillips

Ground Water Resources in the Part of Canyonlands National Park East of the Colorado River and Contiguous Bureau of Land Management Lands, Utah, H. Richter

Heterogeneity of soil nutrients and subsurface biota in a dryland ecosystem, David C. Housman, Chris M. Yeager, Brian J. Darby, Robert L. Sanford Jr., Cheryl R. Kuske, Deborah A. Neher, and Jayne Belnap

Highlights of natural resources management: Soil crusts sound pollution alarm, Jayne Belnap

Historical and modern disturbance regimes, stand structures, and landscape dynamics in piñon-juniper vegetation of the western United States, William H. Romme, Craig D. Allen, John D. Bailey, William L. Baker, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Peter M. Brown, Karen S. Eisenhart, M. Lisa Floyd, David W. Huffman, Brian F. Jacobs, Richard F. Miller, Esteban H. Muldavin, Thomas W. Swetnam, Robin J. Tausch, and Peter J. Weisberg

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Home Range Characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls in the Canyonlands of Utah, D. W. Willey and C. Van Riper

How Can Science Be General, Yet Specific? The Conundrum of Rangeland Science in the 21st Century, Debra P.C. Peters, Jayne Belnap, John A. Ludwig, Scott L. Collins, Jose Paruelo, M. Timm Hoffman, and Kris M. Havstad

How To Be General, Yet Specific: The Conundrum of Rangeland Science in the 21st Century, Debra P.C. Peters, Jayne Belnap, John A. Ludwig, Scott L. Collins, Jose Paruelo, M. Timm Hoffman, and Kris M. Havstad

Identification of Candidate Clean Air Corridors for the Colorado Plateau, M. C. Green, M. L. Pitchford, and L. Ashbaugh

Identification of sensitive species, Lichens as bioindicators of air quality, Jayne Belnap, L. E. Sigal, W. M. Moir, and S. E. Eversman

Identifying Thresholds for Ecosystem-Based Management, Jameal F. Samhouri, Phillip S. Levin, and Cameron H. Ainsworth

Impact of biological soil crusts and desert plants on soil microfaunal community composition, Brian J. Darby, Deborah A. Neher, and Jayne Belnap

Impact of soil surface disturbance on cyanobacterial-lichen soil crusts in deserts of the southwest United States, Jayne Belnap

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Impacts of Biological Soil Crust Disturbance and Composition on C and N Loss from Water Erosion, N. N. Barger, J. E. Herrick, J. Van Zee, and J. Belnap

Impacts of off-road vehicles on nitrogen cycles in biological soil crusts: Resistance in different U.S. deserts, Jayne Belnap

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis, David J. Eldridge, Matthew A. Bowker, Fernando T. Maestre, Erin Roger, James F. Reynolds, and Walter G. Whitford

Impacts of soil surface trampling: A case study in Arches National Park, Jayne Belnap

Impacts of trampling soils in southeast Utah ecosystems, Jayne Belnap

Increased temperature and altered summer precipitation have differential effects on biological soil crusts in a dryland ecosystem, Shannon L. Johnson, Cheryl R. Kuske, Travis D. Carney, David C. Housman, La Verne Gallegos-Graves, and Jayne Belnap

Increase in surface ozone at rural sites in the western US, Dan Jaffe and John Ray

Influence of biological soil crusts on soil environments and vascular plants, Jayne Belnap, R. Prasse, and K. T. Harper

Influence of cryptobiotic soil crusts on elemental content of tissue of two desert seed plants, Jayne Belnap and K. T. Harper

Influence of Livestock Grazing and Climate on Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis) Dynamics, Nichole N. Barger, Henry D. Adams, Connie Woodhouse, Jason C. Neff, and Gregory P. Asner

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Initiation of Brittle Faults in the Upper Crust: A Review of Field Observations, J. G. Crider and D. C.P. Peacock

Intense seed predation by harvester ants on a rare mustard, Joshua P. White and Ian C. Robertson

Interactions of cattle grazing and climate change: Hierarchical data analysis, D. Clausnitzer, M. Huso, D. Pyke, Jayne Belnap, T. Graham, R. L. Sanford, and Susan L. Phillips

Interactive effects of grazing and burning on wind- and water-driven sediment fluxes: rangeland management implications, Jason P. Field, David D. Breshears, Jeffrey J. Whicker, and Chris B. Zou

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Interspecific Competition and Resource Pulse Utilization in a Cold Desert Community, Renate L.E. Gebauer, Susanne Schwinning, and James R. Ehleringer

Introduced and Invasive Species in Novel Rangeland Ecosystems: Friends or Foes?, Jayne Belnap, John A. Ludwig, Bradford P. Wilcox, Julio L. Betancourt, W. Richard Dean, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, and Sue J. Milton

Is Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change Necessary in Grazed Rangelands?, Andrew Ash, Philip Thornton, Chris Stokes, and Chuluun Togtohyn

Late Quaternary Arthropods from the Colorado Plateau, Arizona and Utah, S. A. Elias, J. I. Mead, and L. D. Agenbroad

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Late Quaternary Eolian and Alluvial Response to Paleoclimate, Canyonlands, Southeastern Utah, M. C. Reheis, R. L. Reynolds, H. Goldstein, and H. M. Roberts

Late Quaternary eolian dust in surficial deposits of a Colorado Plateau grassland: Controls on distribution and ecologic effects, Richard Reynolds, Marith C. Reheis, Jason C. Neff, Harland Goldstein, and James Yount

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Lateral Displacement Variation and Lateral Tip Geometry of Normal Faults in the Canyonlands National Park, Utah, J. A. Cartwright and C. S. Mansfield

Lichens and microfungi in biological soil crusts: Community structure, physiology and ecological functions, Jayne Belnap and Otto L. Lange

Life in the Fast Pool, Tim B. Graham

Linkages between microbial and hydrologic processes in arid and semi-arid watersheds, Jayne Belnap, Jill R. Welter, Nancy B. Grimm, Nichole Barger, and John A. Ludwig