• Lab Publications

    [27] Petrie MD, Hubbard RM, Bradford JB, Kolb TE, Moser WK, Noel A, Schlaepfer DR, Bowen MA, Fuller LR and Moser WK. 2023. Widespread regeneration failure in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States. Forest Ecology and Management: 545: 121208, doi:10.1016//j.foreco.2023.121208.

     

    [26] Li M, Petrie MD, Chen H, Zeng F, Ahmed Z and Sun X. 2023. Effects of groundwater and seasonal streamflow on the symbiotic nitrogen fixation of deep-rooted legumes in a dryland floodplain. Geoderma 434: 116490, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116490.

     

    [25] Devitt DA, Apodaca L, Bird B, Dawyot JP, Fenstermaker L and Petrie MD. 2022. Assessing the impact of a utility scale solar shotovoltaic facility on a down gradient Mojave Desert ecosystem. Land 11: 1315, doi:10.3390/land11081315.

     

    [24] Petrie MD, Savage NP and Stephen H. 2022. High and low air temperatures and natural wildfire ignitions in the Sierra Nevada region. Environments 9: 96,
    doi:10.3390/environments9080096.

     

    [23] Petrie MD and Savage NP. 2022. Climate and landscape variation shapes the water balance of piñon pine-juniper woodlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 323: 109068, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109068.

     

    [22] Koehn CR, Petrie MD and Hubbard RM. 2022. Not only severe events: Moderate dry periods impact the hydraulic functioning and survival of planted ponderosa pine seedlings. Forests 13: 370, doi:10.3390/f13030370.

     

    [21] Pirtel NL, Bradford JB, Hubbard RM, Abella SR, Kolb TE, Litvak ME, Porter SL and Petrie MD. 2021. The aboveground and belowground growth characteristics of juvenile conifers in the southwestern US. Ecosphere 12: e03839, doi:10.1002/ecs2.3839.

     

    [20] Devitt DA, Bird B, Fenstermaker L and Petrie MD. 2021. Fine-scale responses of vegetation and bare soil to moisture variation in a pinyon-juniper woodland underlie landscape-scale responses from remote sensing. Environment and Natural Resources Research 11: 1-17, doi:10.5539/enrr.v11n1p1.

     

    [19] Koehn CR, Petrie MD, Bradford JB, Litvak ME and Strachan S. 2021. Seasonal precipitation and soil moisture relationships across forests and woodlands in the southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 126: e2020JG005986, doi:10.1029/2020JG005986.

     

    [18] Li M, Petrie MD, Tariq A and Fan-jiang Z. 2021. Response of nodulation and N fixation to salt stress in a desert legume, Alhagi Sparsifolia. Environmental and Experimental Botany 183: 104348, doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104348.

     

    [17] Petrie MD, Bradford JB, Lauenroth WK, Schlaepfer DR, Andrews CA and Bell DM. 2020. Non-analog increases to air, surface and belowground temperature extremes due to climate change. Climatic Change 163: 2233-2256, doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02944-7.

     

    [16] Devitt DA, Landau F, Abella SR, Petrie MD, McLuckie AM and Kellam JO. 2020. Post burn restoration response of Encelia virginensis within a small wash system in the Mojave Desert. Ecological Restoration 38: 169-179, doi:10.3368/er.38.3.169.

     

    [15] Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Burruss ND, Ji W and Savoy HM. 2019. Local-regional similarity in drylands increases during multiyear wet and dry periods and in response to extreme events. Ecosphere 10: e02939, doi:10.1002/ecs2.2939.

     

    [14] Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Burruss ND, Ji W and Savoy HM. 2019. Differing climate and landscape effects on regional dryland vegetation responses during wet periods allude to future patterns. Global Change Biology 25: 3305-3318, doi:10.1111/gcb14724.

     

    [13] Duniway MC, Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Anderson J, Crossland K, Herrick JE and Monger HC. 2018. Soil water dynamics at 15 locations distributed across a desert landscape: Insights from a 27 year dataset. Ecosphere 9: 1-36, doi:10.1002/ecs2.2335.

     

    [12] Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Yao J, Blair JM, Buruss ND, Collins SL, Derner JD, Gherardi LA, Hendrickson JR, Sala OE, Starks PJ and Steiner JL. 2017. Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multi-year dry and wet periods. Global Change Biology 24: 1935-1951, doi:10.1111/gcb.14024.

     

    [11] Petrie MD, Bradford JB, Hubbard RM, Lauenroth WK, Andrews CA and Schlaepfer DR. 2017. Climate change may restrict dryland forest regeneration in the 21st century. Ecology 98: 1548-1559, doi:10.1002/ecy.1791.

     

    [10] Collins SL, Ladwig LM, Petrie MD, Jones SK, Mulhouse JM, Thibault JR and Pockman WT. 2016. Press-pulse interactions: effects of warming, N-deposition, winter precipitation and fire on plant community structure and dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Global Change Biology 23: 1095-1108, doi:10.1111/gcb.13493.

     

    [9] Petrie MD, Brunsell NA, Vargas R, Collins SL, Flanagan LB, Hanan NP, Litvak ME and Suyker AE. 2016. The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 121: 280-294, doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.

     

    [8] Ladwig LM, Ratajczak ZR, Ocheltree TW, Hafich KA, Churchill AC, Frey SJK, Fuss CB, Kazanski CE, Munoz JD, Petrie MD, Reinmann AB and Smith JG. 2016. Beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems. Ecology 97: 372-382, doi:10.1890/15-0153.1.

     

    [7] Petrie MD, Wildeman AM, Bradford JB, Hubbard RM, and Lauenroth WK. 2016. A review of precipitation and temperature control on seedling emergence and establishment for ponderosa and lodgepole pine forest regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management 361: 328-338, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.028.

     

    [6] Petrie MD, Pockman WT, Pangle RE, Limousin JM, Plaut JA and McDowell NG. 2015. Winter climate change promotes an altered spring growing season in piñon pine-juniper woodlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 214-215C: 357-368, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.08.269.

     

    [5] Petrie MD, Collins SL and Litvak ML. 2015. The ecological role of small rainfall events in a desert grassland. Ecohydrology 8: 1614-1622, doi:10.1002/eco.1614.

     

    [4] Petrie MD, Collins SL, Litvak ML, Swann AM and Ford PL. 2015. Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Global Change Biology 20: 1226–1235, doi:10.1111/gcb.12743

     

    [3] Petrie MD, Collins SL, Gutzler DS and Moore DM. 2014. Regional trends and local variability in monsoon precipitation in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 103: 63-70, doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.01.005

     

    [2] Petrie MD, Brunsell NA and Nippert JB. 2012. Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics of tallgrass prairie. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 107: 427-440, doi:10.1007/s00704-011-0484-y

     

    [1] Petrie MD and Brunsell NA. 2012. Precipitation variability and the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology 5: 337-345, doi:10.1002/eco.224

    Funding

    PI: Petrie MD. 2023-2028. US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center. G23AS00268: Mojave Desert shrub community responses to microclimate alteration and enhanced heat loading at the Gemini solar project.

     

    PIs: Harris FC, et al. NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1. 2022-2027. NSF 2148788: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science.

     

    PI: Petrie MD. US Geological Survey, Nevada Water Resources Research Institute. 2022-2023. G21AP10578: Climatic and hydrologic aridification in mid- and high-elevation ecosystems of southern Nevada.

     

    PI: Petrie MD. National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology. 2020-2024. NSF 2020185: The role of short duration climate events in reducing natural tree regeneration in forests and woodlands of the southwestern United States.


    PIs: Petrie MD, Bradford JB, Hubbard RM. US Geological Survey, Southwest Adaptation Climate Science Center. 2020-2024. G20AC00440: Can management actions support forest regeneration across the diverse landscapes and climate change futures of the southwestern US?

     

    PIs: Hubbard RM, Bradford JB, Petrie MD. USDA Forest Service, Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center. 2020-2025. 20-JV-11221634-190: Regeneration failures may decrease ecosystem resilience and erode habitat quality in intermountain west ponderosa pine forests in the 21st century.