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Bold text indicates authorship by laboratory members. Available datasets are below the publications list.

2023 or in review

Vegetative productivity drives soil mineral associated organic matter formation and the relative contribution of sorption capacity across climates.
Morra, B., C.C. Reed, S.R Poulson, B.W. Sullivan
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, submitted March 2023

Assessing the financial viability of meadow restoration-based carbon projects in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, USA
Bowman, A., M. Taylor, C. Reed, B. Morra, B.W. Sullivan
Journal of Environmental Management, submitted March 2023
Carbon allocation by trees in a tropical savanna: field-testing methods for evaluating biotic impacts on the carbon cycle.
Mizell, G.M., T. Kim, B.W. Sullivan, J.S. Lemboi, J. Mosiany, T.M. Palmer, E.G. Pringle
Biotropica, submitted March 2023
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon.
Mao, H.-R., M.F. Cotrufo, S.C. Hart, B.W. Sullivan, X. Zhu, J. Zhang, C. Liang, M. Zhu
In revision, March 2023
The contribution of Fe(III) reduction to soil carbon mineralization in montane meadows depends on soil chemistry, not parent material or microbial community.
Reed, C.C., S.M. Dunham-Cheatham, S.C. Castle, D.C. Vuono, B.W. Sullivan
JGR-Biogeosciences, resubmitted March 2023
Carbon stocks and total belowground carbon fluxes are large, differ by plant community, and respond to weather and grazing in surface soils of semiarid montane meadows.
Morra, B., W. Richardson, T. Stringham, and B.W. Sullivan
Ecosystems, resubmitted January 2023
Ecosystem carbon and nitrogen gains following 27 years of grazing management in a semiarid alluvial valley
Morra, B., H. Brisbin, T. Stringham, B.W. Sullivan
Journal of Environmental Management, accepted March 2023
Preprint available here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4272303
Variation in diet of desert bighorn sheep around parturition: Tradeoffs associated with parturition.
Blum, M., K.M. Stewart, K.T. Shoemaker, M. Cox, J.R. Bennett, B.W. Sullivan, B. Wakeling, V. Bleich
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:1071771.

2022

Restoring function: positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows.
Reed, C.C., A.A. Berhe, K. Moreland, J. Wilcox, B.W. Sullivan
Ecological Applications, 32(7), e2677

2021

Montane meadows: a carbon sink or source?
Reed, C.C., A.G. Merrill, W.M. Drew, B. Christman, R. Hutchinson, L. Keszey, M. Odell, S. Swanson, P.S.J. Verburg, J. Wilcox, S.C. Hart, B.W. Sullivan
Ecosystems, 24, 1125-1141.
Data associated with the project are available at https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qbzkh18g6
Liter inputs drive patterns of soil nitrogen heterogeneity in a diverse tropical forest: Results from a litter manipulation experiment.
Osborne, B., F.M. Soper, M.K. Nasto, D. Bru, S. Hwang, M.B. Machmuller, M. Lopez Morales, L. Philippot, B.W. Sullivan, G.P. Asner, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder
Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 158, 108247

2020

The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across global biomes.
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., P.B. Reich, R.D. Bardgett, D.J. Eldridge, H. Lambers, S.C. Reed, C. Plaza, G.K. Png, S. Newhauser, A.A. Berhe, S.C. Hart, H.-W. Hu, J.-Z. He, F. Bastida, S. Abades, F.D. Alfaro, N.A. Cutler, A. Gallardo, L. García-Veláquez, P.E. Hayes, Z.-Y. Hseu, C. A. Pérez, F. Santos, C. Siebe, P. Trivedi, B.W. Sullivan, L. Weber-Grullon, M.A. Williams, N. Fierer.
Nature Communications 11, 4721.
Snowmelt causes different limitations to transpiration in a Sierra Nevada conifer forest.
Cooper, A.E., J.W. Kirchner, S. Wolf, D.L. Lombardozzi, B.W. Sullivan, S.W. Tyler, A.A Harpold.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 291, 108089.

Persistent agricultural legacy influences plant restoration success in a native salt desert shrubland.
Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., S.M. Freund, S.M. Uselman, E.A. Leger, B.W. Sullivan
Ecological Restoration 38(1), 42-53.
Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., P.B. Reich, C. Trivedi, D.J. Eldridge, S. Abades, F. Alfaro, F. Bastida, A.A. Berhe, N.A. Cutler, A. Gallardo, L. García-Velázquez, S.C. Hart, P.E. Hayes, J.-Z. He, Z.-Y. Hseu, H.-W. Hu, M. Kirchmair, S. Neuhauser, C.A. Pérez, S.C. Reed, F. Santos, B.W. Sullivan, P. Trivedi, J.-T. Wang, L. Weber-Grullon, M.A. Wililams, B.K. Singh.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1084-y

2019

Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect.
Bastida, F., C. García, N. Fierer, D.J. Eldridge, M.A. Bowker, S. Abades, F.D. Alfaro, A.A. Berhe, N.A. Cutler, A. Gallardo, L. García-Velázquez, S.C. Hart, P.E. Hayes, T. Hernández, Z.-Y. Hseu, N. Jehmlich, M. Kirchmair, H. Lambers, S. Neuhauser, V.M. Peña-Ramírez, C.A. Pérez, S.C. Reed, F. Santos, C. Siebe, B.W. Sullivan, P. Trivedi, A. Vera, M.A. Williams, J.L. Moreno, M. Delgado-Baquerizo.
Nature Communications 10, 3481. 
Shrub facilitation of tree establishment varies with ontogenetic stage across stress gradients.
Urza, A.K., P.J. Weisberg, J.C. Chambers, B.W. Sullivan
New Phytologist 223(4), 1795-1808.
Desiccation and rehydration of mosses greatly increases resource fluxes that alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Slate, M., B.W. Sullivan, R. Callaway.
Journal of Ecology 107(4), 1767-1778.
Featured in Science: Mosses in forest nutrient fluxes (Science 364(6439) 448-449)
Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development.
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., R.D. Bardgett, P. Vitousek, F.T. Maestre, M.A. Williams, D.J. Eldridge, H. Lambers, S. Newhauser, A. Gallardo, L. García-Velázquez, O, Sala, S. Abades, F.D. Alfaro, A.A. Berhe, M.A. Bowker, C. Currier, N.A. Cutler, S.C. Hart, P.E. Hayes, Z.-Y. Hseu, M. Kirchmair, V.M. Peña-Ramírez, C. A. Pérez, S.C. Reed, F. Santos, C. Siebe, B.W. Sullivan, L. Weber-Grullon, N. Fierer.
PNAS 116(14), 6891-6896. 
Biogeochemical recuperation of lowland tropical forest during succession.
Sullivan, B. W., R.L. Nifong, M.K. Nasto, S. Alvarez-Clare, C. Dencker, F.M. Soper, K.T. Shoemaker, F. Yoko Yashida, J. Zaragoza-Castells, E.A. Davidson and C.C. Cleveland.
Ecology 100(4), e02641.
Resource limitation modulates the fate of dissimilated nitrogen in a dual-pathway Actinobacterium.
Vuono, D.C., R.W. Read, J. Hemp, B.W. Sullivan, J.A. Arnone III, I. Neveux, B. Blank, C. Staub, E. Loney, D. Miceli, M. Winkler, R. Chakraborty, D.A. Stahl, J.J.Grzymski.
Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 3 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00003
Leaf cutter ants engineer large nitrous oxide hot spots in tropical forests.
Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, B.B. Osborne, A.N. Shaw, L. Phillipot, C.C. Cleveland.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 20182504.
See press coverage here and here. Ants do not cause climate change. Seriously. This is a natural part of the ecosystem.

2018

A framework for evaluating estimates of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in forests
Winbourne J., M. Harrison, B.W. Sullivan, S. Alvarez-Clare, S. Rafaela Lins, L. Martinelli, M.K. Nasto, D. Piotto, S. Rolim, M. Wong, S. Porder
The American Naturalist 192(5), 618-629.

Restoring arid old fields with native shrubs and grasses: do facilitation and seed source matter?
Uselman, S.M., J. Davison, O.W. Baughman, B.W. Sullivan, W.W. Miller, E.A. Leger.
PLoS ONE e0205760. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205760
Resource limitation modulates the fate of dissimilated nitrogen in a dual-pathway Actinobacterium
Vuono, D.C., R.W. Read, J. Hemp, B.W. Sullivan, J.A. Arnone III, I. Neveux, B. Blank, C. Staub, E. Loney, D. Miceli, M. Winkler, R. Chakraborty, D.A. Stahl, J.J.Grzymski.
BioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/364331.
Remotely sensed canopy nitrogen correlates with nitrous oxide emissions in a lowland tropical rainforest.
Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, D. Bru, C. Balzotti, P. Taylor, G. Asner, A.R. Townsend, L. Philippot, S. Porder, C.C. Cleveland
Ecology 99(9), 2080-2089. 
Please also refer to this article with illustrative photographs in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

(DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1440)
Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen in semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin.
Freund, S.M., F.M. Soper, S.R. Poulson, P.C. Selmants, B.W. Sullivan
Journal of Arid Environments 157, 48-56.

Regime shift in the littoral ecosystem of volcanic lake Atitlán in Central America: combined role of stochastic event and invasive plant species.
Rejmankova, E., B.W. Sullivan, J. Aldad, J. Snyder, S. Castle, F. Morales.
Freshwater Biology 63(9), 1088-1106.
Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenhouse gas fluxes.
Reed, C.C., J. Winters, S.C. Hart, R. Hutchinson, M. Chandler, G. Venicx, B.W. Sullivan
PLoS ONE 13(7), e0198997.
Legume Abundance Along Successional And Rainfall Gradients In Neotropical Forests.
Gei, M., D. Rozendaal, L. Poorter, F. Bongers, J. Sprent, M. Garner, T.M. Aide, J. Andrade, P. Balavanera, J. Becknell, P.H. Brancalion, G.A. Cabral, R. César, R. Chazdon, R. Cole, G. Colletta, B. de Jong, J.S. Denslow, D. Dent, S. DeWalt, J. Dupuy, S. Durán, M. do Espírito Santo, G. Fernandes, J. Ferrera Nunes, B. Finegan, V.G. Moser, J. Hall, J.L. Hernandez-Stefanoni, A. Junqueira, D. Kennard, E. Lebrija-Trejos, S. Lecher, M. Lohbeck, E. Marin-Spiotta, M. Martinez-Ramos, J. Meave, D. Menge, F. Mora, R. Munoz, R. Muscarella, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, R. Ostertag, M. Peña Claros, E.A. Perez-Garcia, D. Piotto, P. Reich, C. Reyes-Garcia, J. Rodríguez-Velázquez, I.E. Romero-Perez, L. Sanaphre, A. Sanzhez-Azofeifa, N. Schwartz, A.S. de Almeida, J. Almeda-Cortez, W. Silver, V. Souza Moreno, B.W. Sullivan, N. Swenson, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M. Veloso, H. Vester, I. Vieira, J. Zimmerman, J. Powers.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 11014-1111.
Charcoal increases microbial activity in eastern Sierra Nevada forest.
Carter, Z., B.W. Sullivan, R.G. Qualls, R. Blank, C. Schmidt, P. Verburg.
Forests 9(2), 93. DOI:10.3390/f9020093.
Deconstruction of a plant-arthropod community reveals influential plant traits with nonlinear effects on arthropod assemblages.
Harrison, J., C. Philbin, Z. Gompert, G. Forister, L. Hernandez, B.W. Sullivan, I. Wallace, L. Beltran, C. Dodson, J. Francis, A. Schlageter, O. Shelef, S. Yoon, M.L. Forister. 
Functional Ecology 32(5), 1317-1328.

2017

Nutrient limitation of soil microbial activity during the earliest stages of ecosystem development.
Castle, S.C., B.W. Sullivan, J. Knelman, E. Hood, D.R. Nemergut, S.K. Schmidt, C.C. Cleveland.
Oecologia 185(3), 513-524.

Temperature and rainfall interact to control carbon cycling in tropical forests.
Taylor, P.G., C.C. Cleveland, W.R. Wieder, B.W. Sullivan, C.E. Doughty, S. Dobrowski, A.R. Townsend.
Ecology Letters 20 (6), 779-788.

Climate, topography, and canopy chemistry exert hierarchical control over soil N cycling in a Neotropical lowland forest.
Osborne, B.B., M.K. Nasto, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, C.C. Cleveland, B.W. Sullivan, P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder.
Ecosystems 20(6), 1089-1103.

2015

Proximate controls on semiarid soil greenhouse gas fluxes across 3 million years of soil development.
Sullivan, B.W., M.K. Nasto, S.C. Hart, B.A. Hungate.
Biogeochemistry 125(3), 375-391.

See publicly available dataset below.

A comparison of plot-based, satellite, and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production

Cleveland, C.C., P. Taylor, K.D. Chadwick, K. Dahlin, C.E. Dahlin, C.E. Doughty, Y. Malhi, W.K. Smith, B.W. Sullivan, W.R. Wieder, A.R. Townsend.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29(5), 626-644.

2014

Interactions among nitrogen fixation and soil phosphorus acquisition strategies in lowland tropical rain forests
Nasto, M.K., S. Alvarez-Clare, Y. Lekberg, B.W. Sullivan, A.R. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland.
Ecology Letters 17(10), 1282-1289.

Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle
Sullivan, B.W., W.K. Smith, A.R. Townsend, M.K. Nasto, S.C. Reed, R. Chazdon, C.C. Cleveland.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA  111(22), 8101-8106.

Assessing nutrient limitation in complex forested ecosystems: Alternatives to large-scale fertilization experiments
Sullivan, B.W., S. Alvarez- Clare, S.C. Castle, S. Porder, S. Reed, L. Schreeg, A. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland.
Ecology 95(3), 668-681.

What is the relationship between soil methane oxidation and other C compounds?
Sullivan, B.W., P.C. Selmants, S.C. Hart.
Global Change Biology 20, 2381-2382.

2013

Does dissolved organic carbon regulate biological methane oxidation in semiarid soils?
Sullivan, B.W., P.C. Selmants, S.C. Hart.
Global Change Biology 19(7), 2149-2157.

Evaluation of mechanisms controlling the priming of soil carbon along a substrate age gradient
Sullivan, B.W., S.C. Hart.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 58, 293-301.

2012

Drought and tropical soil emissions
Cleveland, C.C., B.W. Sullivan.
Nature 489, 211-212.

High potential nitrification rates occur in soils during dry seasons
Sullivan, B.W., P.C. Selmants, S.C. Hart.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 53, 28-31.

Effects of water additions on pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) water relations, growth, and mortality across a three million year old soil age gradient in northern Arizona, USA
Looney, C.L., B.W. Sullivan, J.M. Kane, T.E. Kolb, S.C. Hart.
Plant and Soil 357, 89-102.

Snowmelt causes pulse emissions of carbon dioxide from snowpack at a high-elevation site in northern Arizona, USA
Sullivan, B.W., Dore, S., Hart, S.C., Montes-Helu, M.C., Kolb, T.E.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 44(2), 247-254.

2011

Wildfire reduces carbon dioxide efflux and increases methane uptake in ponderosa pine forest soils of the southwestern USA
Sullivan, B.W., T.E. Kolb, S.C. Hart, J.P. Kaye, B.A. Hungate, S. Dore, M.C. Montes-Helu.
Biogeochemistry 104(1), 251-265.

2010

Evaluation of methods for estimating soil carbon dioxide efflux across a gradient of forest disturbance
Sullivan, B.W., S. Dore, T.E. Kolb, S.C. Hart, M.C. Montes-Helu.
Global Change Biology 16, 2449-2460.
 
Carbon and water fluxes from ponderosa pine forests disturbed by wildfire and thinning
Dore, S., T.E. Kolb, M. Montes-Helu, S.E. Eckert, B.W. Sullivan, B.A. Hungate, J.P. Kaye, S.C. Hart, G.W. Koch, A. Finkral.
Ecological Applications 20(3), 663-683.

2009

Persistent effects of fire-induced vegetation change on energy partitioning and evapotranspiration in ponderosa pine forests
Montes-Helu, M.C., T.E. Kolb, S. Dore, B.W. Sullivan, S.C. Hart, G.W. Koch, B.A. Hungate.
Agricultural and Forest Meterology, 149, 491-500.

2008

Thinning reduces soil carbon dioxide but not methane flux from southwestern USA ponderosa pine forests
Sullivan, B.W., T.E. Kolb, S.C. Hart, J.P. Kaye, S. Dore, M. Montes-Helu.
Forest Ecology and Management 255(12), 4047-4055.

Long-term impact of a stand-replacing fire on ecosystem CO2 exchange of a ponderosa pine forest
Dore, S., T.E. Kolb, M. Montes-Helu, B.W. Sullivan, W.D. Winslow, S.C Hart, J.P. Kaye, G.W. Koch, B.A. Hungate, T.E. Kolb.
Global Change Biology 14(8), 1801-1820.

Datasets

sullivan2015ghg_rawdataforpublication.xlsx
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Dataset for Sullivan et al. 2015 - GHG flux and soil characteristics across the SAGA. Also available on Dryad.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p0jn1
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