James F. Reynolds

Publications  

Papers Published

1. REYNOLDS, JF, DM Stafford Smith, EF Lambin, BL Turner, II, M Mortimore, SPJ Batterbury, TE Downing, H Dowlatabadi, RJ Fernández, JE Herrick, E Huber-Sannwald, R Leemans, T Lynam, FT Maestre, M Ayarza & B Walker, Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development, Science, vol. 316 no. 5826 (May 11, 2007), pp. 847-851 .
2. REYNOLDS, J.F., Cutting through confusion. A new paradigm for understanding the interrelated factors that make up desertification, so as better to combat it, Our Planet, vol. 17 (July, 2006), pp. 26-27 [available here]  [author's comments].
3. Maestre, FT & JF REYNOLDS, Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings, Plant Ecology, vol. 183 (March, 2006), pp. 65-75 .
4. Ogle, K & JF REYNOLDS, Plant responses to precipitation in desert ecosystems: integrating functional types, pulses, thresholds, and delays, Oecologia, vol. 141 (2004), pp. 282–294 .
5. Gao, Q & JF REYNOLDS, Historical shrub-grass transitions in the northern Chihuahuan Desert: Modeling the effects of shifting rainfall seasonlity and event size over a landscape, Global Change Biology, vol. 9 (2003), pp. 1-19 .
6. REYNOLDS, James F, PR Kemp, K Ogle and RJ Fernández, Modifying the ‘pulse-reserve’ paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water and plant responses, Oecologia, vol. 141 (2004), pp. 194–210 .
7. Ogle, K, RL Wolpert & JF REYNOLDS, Reconstructing plant root area and water uptake profiles, Ecology, vol. 85 (2004), pp. 1967-1978 .
8. Maestre, FT, F Valladares & JF REYNOLDS, The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments, Journal of Ecology, vol. 94 (January, 2006), pp. 17-22 .
9. REYNOLDS, JF, RA Virginia, PR Kemp, AG De Soyza & DC Tremmel, Impact of simulated drought on resource islands of shrubs in the Chihuahuan Desert: Effects of species, season, and degree of island development, Ecological Monographs, vol. 63(1) (1999), pp. 69-106 .
10. Maestre, FT, F Valladares & JF REYNOLDS, Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments, Journal of Ecology, vol. 93 (2005), pp. 748–757 .
11. REYNOLDS, JF, PR Kemp & JD Tenhunen, Effects of long-term rainfall variability on evapotranspiration and soil wate distribution in the Chihuahuan Deser: a modeling analysis, Plant Ecology, vol. 150 (2000), pp. 145-159 .
12. Ogle, K & JF REYNOLDS, Desert dogma revisited: coupling of stomatal conductance and photosyntesis in the desert shrub, Larrea tridentata, Plant, Cell and Enviroment, vol. 25 (2002), pp. 909-921 .

Books

1. REYNOLDS, JF & DM Stafford Smith, Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts?, Dahlem Report 88 (December, 2002), pp. 437, Dahlem University Press (Berlin.) .

Book Chapters

1. Maestre, FT, JF REYNOLDS, E Huber-Sannwald, J Herrick, M Stafford-Smith, Understanding global desertification: biophysical and socioeconomic dimensions of hydrology, in Dryland Ecohydrology, edited by P. D'Odorico and A Porporato (February, 2006), pp. 315-332, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht .
2. REYNOLDS, JF, Desertification, in Encyclopedia Of Biodiversity, edited by S Levin (2001), pp. 61-78, Academic Press (San Diego, CA.) .
3. REYNOLDS, JF, PR Kemp, K Ogle, RJ Fernandez, Q Gao & J Wu, Modeling the unique attributes of desert ecosystems: Potentials and limitations based on lessons from the Jornada Basin, in Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem, edited by KM Havstad, LF Huenneke & WH Schlesinger (August, 2006), pp. 321-353, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK .