The high productivity of sandy groundwater-coupled woodlands in the Monte Desert is exploited by local pastoralist communities for fuel, domestic use, and manure accumulation and export to irrigated oases. We explored processes and species that could replenish C and N losses from the ecosystem using stable isotopes of plants and nutrient analysis of soils. Foliar 15N natural abundances, which were lower in Prosopis flexuosa plants and C4 grasses from dune flanks, indicate that these plants may fix atmospheric N2. Groundwater availability did not decrease water use efficiency (indicated by similar foliar δ13C in dune flanks and interdune valleys), suggesting that the higher stomatal conductance allowed by the additional water source and repo...
Carbon exchange in drylands is typically low, but during significant rainfall events (wet anomalies)...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...
In the woodlands of the Central Monte desert (Argentina), phreatophyte vegetation is exposed to diff...
Land use changes affecting ecological and hydrological processes often shape the biogeochemistry of ...
During three consecutive years with contrasting precipitation, we analysed the relationship between ...
In arid ecosystems, evapotranspiration generally exceeds precipitation, preventing deep drainage and...
[1] We examined the effects of elevated CO2 on soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in the Mojave Desert by me...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
Journal ArticleVariation in the ability to utilize pulses of both water and nitrogen (N) is one poss...
Community composition in semi-arid ecosystems has largely been explained by water availability; howe...
Ecological processes are centered to water availability in drylands; however, less known nutrient st...
The Central Asian Taklamakan desert is characterized by a hyperarid climate with less than 50 mm ann...
Carbon exchange in drylands is typically low, but during significant rainfall events (wet anomalies)...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...
In the woodlands of the Central Monte desert (Argentina), phreatophyte vegetation is exposed to diff...
Land use changes affecting ecological and hydrological processes often shape the biogeochemistry of ...
During three consecutive years with contrasting precipitation, we analysed the relationship between ...
In arid ecosystems, evapotranspiration generally exceeds precipitation, preventing deep drainage and...
[1] We examined the effects of elevated CO2 on soil nitrogen (N) dynamics in the Mojave Desert by me...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
We examined soil and vegetation N isotopic composition (\u2715N) and soil inorganic N availability i...
Journal ArticleVariation in the ability to utilize pulses of both water and nitrogen (N) is one poss...
Community composition in semi-arid ecosystems has largely been explained by water availability; howe...
Ecological processes are centered to water availability in drylands; however, less known nutrient st...
The Central Asian Taklamakan desert is characterized by a hyperarid climate with less than 50 mm ann...
Carbon exchange in drylands is typically low, but during significant rainfall events (wet anomalies)...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...
We investigated the relationships between foliar stable carbon isotope discrimination (Delta), % fol...