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Hot Desert Research

Lisa Core. 1998. Economic dimensions of desertification: A case study of the Jornada Range, New Mexico. NSF- Research Experiences for Undergraduates Project.

Joshua Mooney. 1998. Effects of Climate Change on Decomposition in Deserts: Jornada LTER, New Mexico. NSF- Research Experiences for Undergraduates Project.

Virginia, R. A., J. F. Reynolds, P. R. Kemp, J. R. Mooney, and K. Gross. 1997. The Patch Arid Lands Simulator (PALS): II. Predicting the effects of drought on above- and belowground litter decomposition and nitrogen cycling. Bulletin Ecol. Soc. Am. Suppl. 78:327.

Dana Brenner. 1995. Honors Thesis. Sources of water to desert shrubs. A laboratory and field study using natural variations in oxygen and hydrogen isotope abundances.

Dezbah Tso. 1994. Honors Thesis. Plant water-use efficiency and stable carbon isotope ratios in creosotebush shrubs subjected to drought under field conditions.

Rachael Roisman. 1993. Using strontium and rubidium tracers to characterize nutrient uptake patterns in creosotebush and mesquite. NSF- Research Experiences for Undergraduates Project.

Ho, M., R. E. Roisman, and R. A. Virginia. 1996. Southwestern Naturalist 41:239-247.

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