Biology / Ecology is one of more than 16 discipline tags that we use to categorize and aggregate our interdisciplinary information within and across CZOs. Much of our information has been tagged with 2-3 disciplines.
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2020
Modeling the Role of Root Exudation in Critical Zone Nutrient Dynamics. Roque-Malo, S., Woo, D.K., and P. Kumar (2020): Water Resources Research
2020
Discerning the thermodynamic feasibility of the spontaneous coexistence of multiple functional vegetation groups. Richardson, M. and Kumar, P. (2020): Nature Scientific Reports
2020
Sustainability of soil organic carbon in consolidated gully land in China’s Loess Plateau. Yan, Q., Kumar, P., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Lin, H., Ran, Q., An, Z., & Zhou, W. (2020): Nature Scientific Report
2019
Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. Brewer, Tess E., Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O’Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer (2019): mBio Oct 2019, 10 (5) e01318-19 Cross-CZO National
2019
Characterizing Relative Degrees of Clumping Structure in Vegetation Canopy using Waveform LiDAR. Wang, K. and Kumar, P. (2019): Remote Sensing of Environment
2018
Interactions of information transfer along separable causal paths. Jiang, P. and Kumar, P. (2018): Physical Review
2018
Critical Transition in Critical Zone of Intensively Managed Landscapes. Kumar, P., Le, P.V.V., Papanicolaou, A.N., Rhoads, B.L., Anders, A.M., Stumpf, A., Wilson, C.G., Bettis, E.A., Blair, N., Ward, A.S., Filley, T., Lin, H., Keefer, L., Keefer, D.A., Lin, Y.-F., Muste, M., Royer, T.V., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., and Belmont, P. (2018): Anthropocene
2018
Stochastic Lattice-Based Modelling of Malaria Dynamics. Le, P.V.V., Kumar, P., and Ruiz, M.O. (2018): Malaria Journal
2018
Comparing the Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Co-existing Vegetation Interaction in Semi-arid Upland and Riparian Sites. Lee, E., Kumar, P., Barron-Gafford, G., Scott, R.L. (2018): Abstract H11A-08 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec Cross-CZO
2018
Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Multispecies Vegetation Water Use in a Semiarid Savanna Ecosystem: An Experimental and Modeling Synthesis. Lee, E., Kumar, P., Barron-Gafford, G.A., Hendryx, S.M., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Colella, T., and Scott, R.L. (2018): Water Resources Research Cross-CZO
2018
Streambed Restoration to Remove Fine Sediment Alters Reach-Scale Transient Storage in a Low-Gradient Fifth-Order River, Indiana, USA. Ward, A.S., Morgan, J.A., White, J.R., and Royer, T.V. (2018): Hydrological Processes
2017
Impacts of hydraulic redistribution on grass–tree competition vs facilitation in a semi-arid savanna. Barron-Gafford G.A., Sanchez-Cañete E.P., Minor R.L., Hendryx S.M., Lee E., Sutter L.F., Tran N., Parra E., Colella T., Murphy P.C., Hamerlynck E.P., Kumar P. and Scott R.L. (2017): New Phytologist 215(4): 1451–1461 Cross-CZO
2017
Impacts of Hydraulic Redistribution on Grass-tree Competition vs Facilitation in a Semi-arid Savanna. Barron-Gafford, G.A., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Hendryx, S.M., Lee, E., Sutter, L.F., Tran, N., Parra, E., Colella, T., Murphy, P.C., Hamerlynck, E.P., Kumar, P., and Scott, R.L. (2017): New Phytologist
2017
Microbial diversity in an intensively managed landscape is structured by landscape connectivity . Griffin, J.S., Lu, N., Sangwan, N., Li, A., Dsouza, M., Stumpf, A.J., Sevilla, T., Culotti, A., Keefer, L.L., Kelly, J.J., Gilbert, J.A., Wells, G.F., and Packman, A.I. (2017): FEMS Microbiology Ecology
2017
Coupling flow with nutrient dynamics via BioChemFOAM in the Mississippi River. Hernandez Murcia, O.E., Schnoebelen, D.J., Papanicolaou, A.N., and Abban, B. (2017): Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research
2017
Interaction Between Ecohydrologic Dynamics and Microtopographic Variability Under Climate Change. Le, P.V.V. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research
2017
Critical Zone services as environmental assessment criteria in intensively managed landscapes. Richardson, M., and Kumar, P. (2017): Earth's Future
2017
Role of Micro-Topographic Variability on the Distribution of Inorganic Soil-Nitrogen Age in Intensively Managed Landscape. Woo, D.K. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources research
2016
Belowground competition among invading detritivores. Chang, C., Szlavecz, K., Filley, T., Buyer, J.S., Bernard, M.J., Pitz, S.L. (2016): Ecology 97: 160–170
2016
Characterizing Vegetation Canopy Structure Using Airborne Remote Sensing Data. Dutta, D., Wang, K., Lee, E., Goodwell, A., Woo, D.K., Wagner, D., and Kumar, P. (2016): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2016
Coupling freshwater mussel ecology and river dynamics using a simplified dynamic interaction model. Hansen, A.T., J.A. Czuba, J. Schwenk, A. Longjas, M. Danesh-Yazdi, D.J. Hornbach, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou (2016): Freshwater Science 35 (1): 200-215
2016
Spatio-temporally variable controls confound transport process interpretation of stream solute tracers. Schmadel, NM, AS Ward, MJ Kurz, JH Fleckenstein, JP Zarnetske, DM Hannah, T Blume, T Datry, M Vieweg, C Schmidt, PH Blaen, MJ Klaar, J Knapp, P Romeijn, T Keller, S Folegot, A Marruedo, S Krause (2016): Water Resources Research
2016
Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change. Srinivasan, V., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2016): Global Change Biology
2016
Mean Age Distribution of Inorganic Soil-nitrogen. Woo, D.K., and Kumar, P. (2016): Water Resources Research
2015
Enhanced Vadose Zone Nitrogen Removal by Poplar During Dormancy. Ausland, H., Ward, A., Licht, L., and Just, C (2015): International Journal of Phytoremediation
2015
Bi-national research and education cooperation in the US-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability 7 (4):. Filley, T.R., Li, M., Zhuang, J., Yu, G., Sayler, G., Ouyang, Z., Han, X., Zhang, X., Jiang, G., Zhou, C., Wang, F., and Bickham, J.W. (2015): Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
2015
Linking wood source and charring temperature to the stability and biological reactivity of PyOM in a temperate forest soil. Gibson, C., Filley, T., Hatton, P.J., Nadelhoffer, K., Stark, R., and Bird, J. (2015): EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 17: 8197
2015
Influence of wood source and temperature on pyrogenic organic matter-induced priming effect in a high-latitude forest soil. Gibson, C., Filley, T., Hatton, P.J., Nadelhoffer, K., Stark, R., and Bird, J. (2015): EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 17: 8109
2015
Hydrocomplexity: Addressing Water Security and Emergent Environmental Risks. Kumar, P. (2015): Water Resources Research, 51: pp12
2015
Determining the Role of Hydraulic Redistribution Regimes in the Critical Zone. Lee E., Kumar P., Barron-Gafford G., Scott R., Hendryx S., Sanchez-Canete E. (2015): Abstract H53E-1701 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Cross-CZO
2015
Effects of Land Cover on Streamflow Variability in a Small Iowa Watershed: Assessing Future Vulnerabilities. Schilling, K., M. Streeter, K. Hutchinson, C.G. Wilson, B.K. Abban, K.M. Wacha and A.N. Papanicolaou (2015): American Journal of Environmental Sciences
2015
The evolution and state of interdisciplinary hyporheic research. Ward, A. (2015): WIREs Water 2015
2015
Coupled reversion and stream-hyporheic exchange processes increase environmental persistence of trenbolone metabolites. Ward, A.S., Cwiertny, D.M., Kolodziej, E.P., and Brehm, C.C. (2015): Nature Communications
2014
Antecedent Moisture Controls on Stream Nitrate Flux in an Agricultural Watershed. Davis. C.A., Ward, A.S., Burgin, A.J., Loecke, T.D., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Schnoebelen, D.J., Just, C.L., Thomas, S.A., Weber, L.J., St. Clair, M.A. (2014): Journal of Environmental Quality
2014
Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification. Drewry, D.T., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2014): Global Change Biology
2014
Prediction of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Dynamics in an Iowan Agriculture Watershed. Elhakeem, M., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wilson, C., and Chang, Y. (2014): International Journal of Biological, Veterinary, Agricultural, and Food Engineering
2014
Emergent and divergent resilience behavior in catastrophic shift systems. Srinivasan, V. and Kumar, P. (2014): Ecological Modelling
2012
Wepp: Model use, calibration, validation. Flanagan, D.C., Frankenberger, J.R., and Ascough, J.C. (2012): Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2012
The Agricultural BMP Handbook for Minnesota. Miller, T.P., Peterson, J.R., Lenhart, C.F., and Nomura, Y. (2012): Minnesota Department of Agricultural
2011
Upper Sangamon River watershed monitoring data for the USEPA targeted watershed study: 2005–2008. Keefer, L.L. and Bauer, E. (2011): Illinois State Water Survey, Contract Report 2011-03
2010
Ecohydrological responses of dense canopies to environmental variability: 2 Role of acclimation under elevated CO2. Drewry, D.T., Kumar, P., Long, S., Bernacchi, C., Liang, X.-Z., and Sivapalan, M. (2010): Journal of Geophysical Research
2010
Hydrologic and nutrient monitoring of the Lake Decatur Watershed: Final Report 1993–2008. Keefer, L.L., Bauer, E., and Markus, M. (2010): Illinois State Water Survey, Contract Report in Review 2010
2009
Nitrogen mass balance of a tile-drained agricultural watershed in east-central Illinois. Gentry, L.E., David, M.B., Below, F.E., Royer, T.V., and McIsaac, G.F. (2009): Journal of Environmental Quality
2009
High-frequency diel dissolved Oxygen stream data modeled for variable temperature and scale. Loperfido, J.V., Just, C.L., and Schnoor, J.L. (2009): Journal of Environmental Engineering-ASCE 2009.135:1250-1256
2006
A sediment composite fingerprinting tool: A field-based quantification method of the sediment origin within a water environment — A pilot study. Papanicolaou, A.N., Abaci, O., and Theregowda, R.B. (2006): Iowa Department of Natural Resources
2003
Uncertainty of weekly nitrate forecasts using artificial neural networks. Markus, M., Tsai, C.W.-S., and Demissie, M. (2003): Journal of Environmental Engineering 129(3):267-274
06 Jul 2018 - A new study shows that mesquites employ hydraulic redistribution to move water between soil layers in the savannas of Santa Rita.
17 Oct 2017 - A new information partitioning methodology allows researchers to identify the factors that drive behavior in an ecohydrologic system.
23 Nov 2016 - A group of researchers at the University of Illinois have found a way to make soybeans more productive by reducing the number of leaves on each plant.
23 Nov 2016 - Scientists predict that modern soybeans produce more leaves than they need to the detriment of yield—made worse by rising atmospheric CO2.
25 Aug 2015 - The Role of Runoff and Erosion on Soil Carbon Stocks: From Soilscapes to Landscapes instrument training short course Oct 20-21, Purdue University
02 Jul 2014 - Recent flooding in southeastern Iowa has brought high water and wind damage to the Clear Creek watershed in the IML-CZO. Researcher Art Bettis took...
03 Mar 2014 - The IML-CZO focuses on intensely managed agricultural and urban landscapes in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.