All Publications
Peer-reviewed publications (journal articles and conference papers) organized by year.
20256 publications
Five Lessons for Closing the Last Mile: How to Make Climate Decision Support Actionable
K. Baylis, E. C. Lentz, Kelly K. Caylor, M. Gu, C. Gunderson, T. Haigh, M. Hayes, H. Lahr, D. Maxwell, C. Funk
Earth's Future
Ecological and hydroclimatic determinants of vegetation water-use strategies.
Bryn E. Morgan, R. Araki, A. Trugman, Kelly K. Caylor
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nonlinear Soil Moisture Loss Function Reveals Vegetation Responses to Water Availability
R. Araki, Bryn E. Morgan, H. McMillan, Kelly K. Caylor
Geophysical Research Letters
Thank You to Our 2024 Reviewers
Kelly K. Caylor, J. Abatzoglou, Kirsten M. de Beurs, G. Le Cozannet, C. Dalin, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Dabo Guan, R. Kopp, Jesse H. Kroll, J. Mankin, A. Mishra, V. Mishra, J. Murphy, Michael Puma, P. Reed, M. Rulli, A. Trugman, Xin Zhang
Earth's Future
Commitment to Advance Excellence and Inclusion in the Earth and Space Sciences Scholarly Publications
M. Xenopoulos, Lisa Beal, G. Caprarelli, Kelly K. Caylor, Georgia Destouni, Qingyun Duan, Steven A. Hauck,, M. Huber, K. Karnauskas, Kate Lajtha, N. Lugaz, Alberto Montanari, Helen Nguyen, Julia K. Parrish, Ann Rowan, Isaac R. Santos, A. Schubnel, Michael Wysession
AGU Advances
Using hyperspectral and thermal imagery to monitor stress of Southern California plant species during the 2013–2015 drought
Susan K. Meerdink, Dar A. Roberts, Jennifer Y. King, K. Roth, Paul D. Gader, Kelly K. Caylor
Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
20247 publications
Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient
Pierre Lochin, Hervé Piégay, John C. Stella, Kelly K. Caylor, Lise Vaudor, Michael Bliss Singer
Ecohydrology
Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs
M. M. Rohde, Christine M. Albano, Xander Huggins, Kirk R Klausmeyer, Charles Morton, Ali Sharman, E. Zaveri, Laurel Saito, Zach Freed, Jeanette K Howard, N. Job, Holly Richter, K. Toderich, A. Rodella, Tom Gleeson, Justin Huntington, H. Chandanpurkar, A. Purdy, James S. Famiglietti, M. Singer, Dar A. Roberts, Kelly K. Caylor, John C. Stella
Nature
Fluxbot: The Next Generation - Design and Validation of a Wireless, Open-Source Mechatronic CO2 Flux Sensing Chamber
Connor Pan, Vatsal V. Patel, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Ian Richardson, Ravish Dubey, Kelly K. Caylor, A. Dollar, Elizabeth S. Forbes
The Compass
A river runs through it: Robust automated mapping of riparian woodlands and land surface phenology across dryland regions
Conor A. McMahon, Dar A. Roberts, John C. Stella, A. Trugman, M. Singer, Kelly Caylor
Remote Sensing of Environment
Establishing ecological thresholds and targets for groundwater management
M. M. Rohde, John C. Stella, M. Singer, Dar A. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, Christine M. Albano
Nature Water
Field-scale crop water consumption estimates reveal potential water savings in California agriculture
Anna S Boser, Kelly K. Caylor, Ashley E. Larsen, M. Pascolini‐Campbell, J. Reager, T. Carleton
Nature Communications
Thank You to Our 2023 Reviewers
Kelly K. Caylor, Amir Aghakouchak, C. Dalin, Kirsten M. de Beurs, G. Le Cozannet, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Dabo Guan, R. Kopp, Jesse H. Kroll, A. Mishra, V. Mishra, P. Reed, M. Rulli, A. Trugman, Xin Zhang
Earth's Future
20238 publications
Estimating Fine‐Scale Transpiration From UAV‐Derived Thermal Imagery and Atmospheric Profiles
Bryn E. Morgan, Kelly Caylor
Water Resources Research
Potential impacts of transportation infrastructure improvements to maize and cassava supply chains in Zambia
Junren Wang, M. Konar, Kathy Baylis, Lyndon D. Estes, Protensia Hadunka, S. Xiong, K. Caylor
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield?
Michael Cecil, Allan Chilenga, Charles Bwalya Chisanga, N. Gatti, N. Krell, N. Vergopolan, Kathy Baylis, Kelly Caylor, Tom Evans, M. Konar, J. Sheffield, L. Estes
Field Crops Research
Integrating fine root diameter and watershed mapping to characterize rhizosphere hydrology
J. Warren, Keita Decarlo, H. Bilheux, J. Bilheux, Kelly Caylor
Rhizosphere
Evapotranspiration regulates leaf temperature and respiration in dryland vegetation
Christopher L. Kibler, A. Trugman, D. Roberts, C. Still, R. Scott, Kelly Caylor, J. Stella, M. Singer
Agricultural & Forest Meteorology
Fluxbots: A Method for Building, Deploying, Collecting and Analyzing Data From an Array of Inexpensive, Autonomous Soil Carbon Flux Chambers
ElizabethS Forbes, Vincent Benenati, Spencer Frey, Mare Hirsch, George Koech, Grace Lewin, J. Mantas, Kelly Caylor
Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences
Modeling seasonal vegetation phenology from hydroclimatic drivers for contrasting plant functional groups within drylands of the Southwestern USA
M. Warter, M. Singer, M. Cuthbert, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, R. Sabathier, J. Stella
Environmental Research: Ecology
Smallholder social networks: Advice seeking and adaptation in rural Kenya
S. Giroux, Patrick Kaminski, Kurt B. Waldman, Jordan P. Blekking, Tom Evans, Kelly Caylor
Agricultural Systems
20225 publications
Thank you to our 2022 reviewers
A. Aghakouchak, Kelly Caylor, C. Dalin, Kirsten Beurs, N. Diffenbaugh, Dabo Guan, Robert E Kopp, Jesse H. Kroll, V. Mishra, P. Reed, Xin Zhang
Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development
High resolution spatiotemporal patterns of flow at the landscape scale in montane non‐perennial streams
R. Sabathier, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, K. Jaeger, J. Olden
River Research and Applications
Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components
E. Zahn, E. Bou‐Zeid, S. Good, G. Katul, Christoph K. Thomas, K. Ghannam, J. Smith, M. Chamecki, N. Dias, J. Fuentes, J. Alfieri, H. Kwon, Kelly Caylor, Zhiqiu Gao, K. Soderberg, N. Bambach, L. Hipps, J. Prueger, W. Kustas
Agricultural & Forest Meteorology
High Resolution, Annual Maps of Field Boundaries for Smallholder-Dominated Croplands at National Scales
L. Estes, Su Ye, Lei Song, B. Luo, J. R. Eastman, Zhen-zhi Meng, Qi Zhang, D. McRitchie, Stephanie Debats, J. Muhando, Amukoa, Brian W. Kaloo, Jackson Makuru, Ben K. Mbatia, Isaac M. Muasa, Július, Mucha, Adelide M. Mugami, J. Mugami, Francis W. Muinde, Mwawaza, Jeff Ochieng, Charles J. Oduol, Purent Oduor, Thuo Wanjiku, Wanyoike, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Using real-time mobile phone data to characterize the relationships between small-scale farmers’ planting dates and socio-environmental factors
N. Krell, F. Davenport, L. Harrison, W. Turner, S. Peterson, S. Shukla, Jessica Marter-Kenyon, G. Husak, Tom Evans, Kelly Caylor
Climate Risk Management
202110 publications
Mapping global inputs and impacts from of human sewage in coastal ecosystems
Cascade Tuholske, B. Halpern, Gordon D. Blasco, Juan Carlos Villasenor, Melanie Frazier, Kelly Caylor
PLoS One
Mapping research topics at multiple levels of detail
Sara Lafia, W. Kuhn, Kelly Caylor
Patterns
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, C. Funk, A. Verdin, S. Sweeney, K. Grace, P. Peterson, Tom Evans
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California
M. Warter, M. Singer, M. Cuthbert, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, R. Sabathier, J. Stella
Hydrology and Earth System Science
Vegetation responses to climatic and geologic controls on water availability in Arizona
R. Sabathier, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor
Environmental Research Letters
Consequences of dryland maize planting decisions under increased seasonal rainfall variability
N. Krell, B. Morgan, D. Gower, Kelly Caylor
Water Resources Research
RF Backscatter-Based Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
M. Stanaćević, A. Ahmad, Xiao Sha, A. Athalye, S. Das, Kelly Caylor, B. Glišić, P. Djurić
International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom)
Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making
Z. Guido, S. Lopus, Kurt B. Waldman, C. Hannah, Andrew Zimmer, N. Krell, Chris Knudson, L. Estes, Kelly Caylor, Tom Evans
Climatic Change
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots
Jingwen Zhang, K. Guan, B. Peng, Chongya Jiang, Wang Zhou, Yi Yang, M. Pan, T. Franz, D. Heeren, D. Rudnick, O. Abimbola, H. Kimm, Kelly Caylor, S. Good, M. Khanna, J. Gates, Yaping Cai
Environmental Research Letters
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation
Zhenzhong Zeng, Dashan Wang, Long Yang, Jie Wu, A. Ziegler, Maofeng Liu, P. Ciais, T. Searchinger, Zong‐Liang Yang, Deliang Chen, Anping Chen, Laurent Z. X. Li, S. Piao, David Taylor, Xitian Cai, M. Pan, Liqing Peng, P. Lin, Drew Gower, Yu Feng, C. Zheng, K. Guan, Xu Lian, Tao Wang, Lang Wang, Sujong Jeong, Zhongwang Wei, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, E. Wood
Nature Geoscience
202011 publications
Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales
M. Mayes, Kelly Caylor, M. Singer, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, P. Nagler
Hydrological Processes
Comparing measures of urban food security in Accra, Ghana
Cascade Tuholske, K. Andam, Jordan P. Blekking, Tom Evans, Kelly Caylor
Food Security
Dynamics of population growth in secondary cities across southern Africa.
Andrew Zimmer, Z. Guido, Cascade Tuholske, Alex Pakalniskis, S. Lopus, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Landscape Ecology
Farmer Forecasts: Impacts of Seasonal Rainfall Expectations on Agricultural Decision- Making in Sub-Saharan Africa
Z. Guido, Andrew Zimmer, S. Lopus, C. Hannah, Drew Gower, Kurt B. Waldman, N. Krell, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Climate Risk Management
Has the vision of a gender quota rule been realized for community-based water management committees in Kenya?
C. Hannah, S. Giroux, N. Krell, S. Lopus, Laura E. McCann, Andrew Zimmer, Kelly Caylor, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
World Development
Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields
N. Vergopolan, S. Xiong, L. Estes, N. Wanders, N. Chaney, E. Wood, M. Konar, Kelly Caylor, H. Beck, N. Gatti, Tom Evans, J. Sheffield
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
A high-frequency mobile phone data collection approach for research in social-environmental systems: Applications in climate variability and food security in sub-Saharan Africa
S. Giroux, Inna Kouper, L. Estes, Jacob Schumacher, Kurt B. Waldman, J. Greenshields, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Environmental Modelling & Software
Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis Framework for Mapping Vegetation Physiognomic Types at Fine Scales in Neotropical Savannas
F. Ribeiro, D. Roberts, L. Hess, F. Davis, Kelly Caylor, G. Daldegan
Remote Sensing
Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations
A. Elmes, S. H. Alemohammad, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor, J. R. Eastman, Lewis Fishgold, M. Friedl, Meha Jain, D. Kohli, J. L. Bayas, D. Lunga, J. McCarty, R. Pontius, A. Reinmann, J. Rogan, Lei Song, H. Stoynova, Su Ye, Zhuang-Fang Yi, L. Estes
Remote Sensing
Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya
N. Krell, S. Giroux, Z. Guido, C. Hannah, S. Lopus, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Climate and Development
Environmental heterogeneity and commodity sharing in smallholder agroecosystems
S. Giroux, P. McCord, S. Lopus, Drew Gower, J. Dell’Angelo, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Xiwei Chen, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
PLoS One
20196 publications
Adaptive Governance and Market Heterogeneity: An Institutional Analysis of an Urban Food System in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jordan P. Blekking, Cascade Tuholske, T. Evans
Food Security
Zika Virus: Knowledge Assessment of Residents and Health-Care Providers in Roat´an, Honduras, following an Outbreak
Daniela I. Brissett, Cascade Tuholske, I. Allen, Noely S Larios, D. J. Mendoza, A. Murillo, E. Bloch
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Variability in urban population distributions across Africas
Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans, R. Avery
Environmental Research Letters
The salience of climate change in farmer decision-making within smallholder semi-arid agroecosystems
Kurt B. Waldman, S. Attari, Drew Gower, S. Giroux, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Climatic Change
Cognitive Biases about Climate Variability in Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia
Kurt B. Waldman, N. Vergopolan, S. Attari, J. Sheffield, L. Estes, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Weather, Climate & Society
A global database of water vapor isotopes measured with high temporal resolution infrared laser spectroscopy
Zhongwang Wei, X. Lee, F. Aemisegger, M. Benetti, M. Berkelhammer, M. Casado, Kelly Caylor, E. Christner, C. Dyroff, O. García, Y. González, T. Griffis, N. Kurita, Jie Liang, M. Liang, G. Lin, D. Noone, K. Gribanov, N. Munksgaard, M. Schneider, F. Ritter, H. Steen‐Larsen, C. Vallet-Coulomb, X. Wen, Jonathon S. Wright, W. Xiao, K. Yoshimura
Scientific Data
20188 publications
Dew deposition suppresses transpiration and carbon uptake in leaves
Cynthia Gerlein Safdi, M. Koohafkan, M. Chung, F. Rockwell, S. Thompson, Kelly Caylor
Agriculture & Forest Meteorology
Comparing empirical and survey-based yield forecasts in a dryland agro-ecosystem
Yi Zhao, N. Vergopolan, K. Baylis, Jordan P. Blekking, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans, S. Giroux, J. Sheffield, L. Estes
Agricultural & Forest Meteorology
Accelerating forest loss in Southeast Asian Massif in the 21st century: A case study in Nan Province, Thailand
Zhenzhong Zeng, Drew Gower, E. Wood
Global Change Biology
The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology
L. Estes, P. R. Elsen, T. Treuer, L. Ahmed, Kelly Caylor, Jason Chang, Jonathan J. Choi, Erle C. Ellis
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Simulated sensitivity of African terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis to rainfall frequency, intensity, and rainy season length
K. Guan, S. Good, Kelly Caylor, D. Medvigy, M. Pan, E. Wood, Hisashi Sato, M. Biasutti, Min Chen, A. Ahlström, A. Ahlström, Xiangtao Xu
Environmental Research Letters
Calibration of a parsimonious distributed ecohydrological daily model in a data-scarce basin by exclusively using the spatio-temporal variation of NDVI
G. Ruiz-Pérez, J. Koch, J. Koch, S. Manfreda, Kelly Caylor, F. Francés
Hydrology and Earth System Science
Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle.
F. Tauro, J. Selker, N. C. van de Giesen, T. Abrate, R. Uijlenhoet, M. Porfiri, S. Manfreda, Kelly Caylor, T. Moramarco, J. Benveniste, G. Ciraolo, L. Estes, A. Domeneghetti, M. Perks, C. Corbari, E. Rabiei, G. Ravazzani, H. Bogena, A. Harfouche, L. Brocca, A. Maltese, A. Wickert, A. Tarpanelli, Stephen Good, José M. Lopez Alcala, A. Petroselli, C. Cudennec, T. Blume, R. Hut, S. Grimaldi
Hydrological Sciences Journal
201715 publications
Drivers of farmer satisfaction with small-scale irrigation systems
S. Lopus, P. McCord, Drew Gower, T. Evans
Applied Geography
A Large-Area, Spatially Continuous Assessment of Land Cover Map Error and Its Impact on Downstream Analyses
L. Estes, Peng Chen, Stephanie Debats, Tom Evans, Stefanus Ferreira, T. Kuemmerle, G. Ragazzo, J. Sheffield, A. Wolf, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor
Global Change Biology
Leaf water 18O and 2H maps show directional enrichment discrepancy in Colocasia esculenta
Cynthia Gerlein Safdi, P. Gauthier, Craig Sinkler, Kelly Caylor
Plant, Cell, & Environment
A platform for crowdsourcing the creation of representative, accurate landcover maps
L. Estes, D. McRitchie, Jonghyun Choi, Stephanie Debats, T. Evans, W. Guthe, D. Luo, G. Ragazzo, R. Zempleni, Kelly Caylor
Environmental Modelling & Software
Thirty years of land use/cover change in the Caribbean: Assessing the relationship between urbanization and mangrove loss in Roatán, Honduras
Cascade Tuholske, Z. Tane, D. López‐Carr, D. Roberts, Susan Cassels
Applied Geography
Real-Time Evolution of Zika Virus Disease Outbreak, Roatán, Honduras
Trevor Brooks, A. Roy‐Burman, Cascade Tuholske, M. Busch, S. Bakkour, M. Stone, J. Linnen, Kui Gao, Jayleen Coleman, E. Bloch
Emerging Infections Diseases
The influence of memory, sample size effects, and filter paper material on online laser-based plant and soil water isotope measurements
J. Cui, L. Tian, Cynthia Gerlein Safdi, D. Qu
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectroscopy
Household-level heterogeneity of water resources within common-pool resource systems
P. McCord, J. Dell’Angelo, Drew Gower, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Ecology & Society
Comparision of ET partitioning and crop coefficients between partial plastic mulched and non-mulched maize fields
D. Gong, X. Mei, Weiping Hao, Hanbo Wang, Kelly Caylor
Agricultural Water Management
Triple oxygen isotope composition of leaf waters in Mpala, central Kenya
Shuning Li, Shuning Li, N. Levin, N. Levin, K. Soderberg, K. Dennis, Kelly Caylor
Earth & Planetary Science Letters
Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites
A. Colliander, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, S. Chan, N. Das, Seungbum Kim, M. Cosh, R. Dunbar, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, J. Asanuma, K. Aida, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, Kelly Caylor, D. Goodrich, H. K. Jassar, E. López-Baeza, J. Martínez-Fernández, Á. González-Zamora, S. Livingston, H. Mcnairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Prueger, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, P. Starks, Z. Su, Yijian Zeng, R. Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, Xiaoling Wu, A. Monerris, P. O’neill, D. Entekhabi, E. Njoku, S. Yueh
Remote Sensing of Environment
Comparison of multi-level water use efficiency between plastic film, partially mulched, and non-mulched croplands at eastern Loess Plateau of China
D. Gong, X. Mei, Weiping Hao, Hanbo Wang, Kelly Caylor
Agricultural Water Management
20164 publications
Modeling ecohydrological dynamics of smallholder strategies for food production in dryland agricultural systems
Drew Gower, J. Dell’Angelo, P. McCord, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans
Environmental Research Letters
Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier
L. Estes, T. Searchinger, M. Spiegel, D. Tian, S. Sichinga, M. Mwale, L. Kehoe, T. Kuemmerle, A. Berven, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences
A generalized computer vision approach to mapping crop fields in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes
Stephanie Debats, D. Luo, L. Estes, Thomas J. Fuchs, Kelly Caylor
Remote Sensing of Environment
Improved removal of volatile organic compounds for laser-based spectroscopy of water isotopes
E. Chang, A. Wolf, Cynthia Gerlein Safdi, Kelly Caylor
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
201511 publications
Soil organic C and total N pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change on C sequestration in savannas
K. Dintwe, G. Okin, P. D’Odorico, Tanja Hrast, N. Mladenov, Alina Handorean, A. Bhattachan, Kelly Caylor
Plant and Soil
Soil organic C and total N pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change on C sequestration in savannas
K. Dintwe, G. Okin, P. D’Odorico, Tanja Hrast, N. Mladenov, Alina Handorean, A. Bhattachan, Kelly Caylor
Plant and Soil
A quantitative description of the interspecies diversity of belowground structure in savanna woody plants
F. O’Donnell, Kelly Caylor, A. Bhattachan, K. Dintwe, P. D’Odorico, G. Okin
Ecosphere
Dynamic interactions of ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes in water-limited systems
Lixin Wang, S. Manzoni, Sujith Ravi, D. Riveros‐Iregui, Kelly Caylor
Ecosphere
Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models
W. Anderegg, W. Anderegg, C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J. Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A. P. Williams, A. Wolf, Emanuele Ziaco, S. Pacala
Science
Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river
D. McCauley, T. Dawson, M. Power, J. Finlay, M. Ogada, Drew Gower, Kelly Caylor, W. Nyingi, J. M. Githaiga, J. Nyunja, Francis H. Joyce, R. Lewison, J. Brashares
Ecosphere
High Carbon and Biodiversity Costs from Converting Africa’s Wet Savannas to Cropland
T. Searchinger, L. Estes, P. Thornton, T. Beringer, A. Notenbaert, D. Rubenstein, R. Heimlich, R. Licker, M. Herrero
Nature Climate Change
Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate
K. Guan, M. Pan, Haibin Li, A. Wolf, Jin Wu, D. Medvigy, Kelly Caylor, J. Sheffield, E. Wood, Y. Malhi, Miaoling Liang, J. Kimball, S. Saleska, J. Berry, J. Joiner, A. Lyapustin
Nature Geoscience
Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change
J. A. Bonachela, R. Pringle, Efrat Sheffer, Tyler C. Coverdale, Jennifer A. Guyton, Kelly Caylor, S. Levin, C. Tarnita
Science
Early assessment of SMAP Level 2/3 Soil Moisture Products over Core Validation Sites
A. Colliander, J. Martínez-Fernández, Seungbum Kim, Á. González-Zamora, X. Wu, M. Vreugdenhil, M. Cosh, Njoku, H. Mcnairn, E. López-Baeza, S. Dunbar, M. Moghaddam, L. Dang, M. Temimi, P. O’neill, A. Pacheco, H. K. Jassar, Kelly Caylor, Yijian Zeng, M. Spencer, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, R. Velde, J. Walker, G. Niedrist, W. Dorigo, D. Entekhabi, N. Das, S. Yueh, A. Monerris-Belda, T. Jackson, T. Pellarin, L. Pashaian, C. Notarnicola, J. Ramos, T. Rowlandson, C. Montzka, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, M. Thibeault, S. Chan, A. Berg, R. Bindlish
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
201410 publications
Continental-scale impacts of intra-seasonal rainfall variability on simulated ecosystem responses in Africa
K. Guan, S. Good, Kelly Caylor, Hisashi Sato, E. Wood, Haibin Li
Biogeosciences
Global synthesis of vegetation control on evapotranspiration partitioning
Lixin Wang, S. Good, Kelly Caylor
Geophysical Research Letters
Deriving Vegetation Phenological Time and Trajectory Information Over Africa Using SEVIRI Daily LAI
K. Guan, D. Medvigy, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor, Shi Li, Sujong Jeong
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
An analysis of structure: biomass structure relationships for characteristic species of the western Kalahari, Botswana
T. Meyer, P. D’Odorico, G. Okin, H. Shugart, Kelly Caylor, F. O’Donnell, A. Bhattachan, K. Dintwe
African Journal of Ecology
δ2H isotopic flux partitioning of evapotranspiration over a grass field following a water pulse and subsequent dry down
S. Good, K. Soderberg, K. Guan, Lizzie King, T. Scanlon, Kelly Caylor
Water Resources Research
Using Changes in Agricultural Utility to Quantify Future Climate-Induced Risk to Conservation
L. Estes, Lydie-Line Paroz, B. Bradley, Jonathan M. H. Green, D. Hole, S. Holness, G. Ziv, M. Oppenheimer, D. Wilcove
Conservation Biology
Virtual water trade and development in Africa
M. Konar, Kelly Caylor
Hydrology and Earth System Science
Modelling Vegetation Patterns in Semiarid Environments
S. Manfreda, Teresa Pizzolla, Kelly Caylor
Procedia Environmental Sciences
Ecosystem-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotopes of soil nitrogen in African savannas
Lixin Wang, G. Okin, P. D’Odorico, Kelly Caylor, S. Macko
Landscape Ecology
20134 publications
Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches
L. Estes, H. Beukes, B. Bradley, Stephanie Debats, M. Oppenheimer, A. Ruane, R. Schulze, M. Tadross
Global Change Biology
The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partitioning using laser- based isotope monitoring techniques
Lixin Wang, S. Niu, S. Good, K. Soderberg, M. Mccabe, R. Sherry, Yiqi Luo, Xuhui Zhou, J. Xia, Kelly Caylor
Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
Seasonal coupling of canopy structure and function in African tropical forests and its environmental controls
K. Guan, A. Wolf, D. Medvigy, Kelly Caylor, M. Pan, E. Wood
Ecosphere
Using atmospheric trajectories to model the isotopic composition of rainfall in central Kenya
K. Soderberg, S. Good, M. O'Connor, Lixin Wang, K. Ryan, Kelly Caylor
Ecosphere
201210 publications
Reframing hydrology education to solve coupled human and environmental problems
Lizzie King, F. apos, Frances O'Donnell, Kelly Caylor
Hydrology and Earth System Science
Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances
Lixin Wang, P. D’Odorico, J. Evans, D. Eldridge, M. Mccabe, Kelly Caylor, Lizzie King
Hydrology and Earth System Science
Uncertainties in the assessment of the isotopic composition of surface fluxes: A direct comparison of techniques using laser-based water vapor isotope analyzers
S. Good, K. Soderberg, Lixin Wang, Kelly Caylor
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
Multi-sensor derivation of regional vegetation fractional cover in Africa
K. Guan, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor
Remote Sensing of Environment
A model-based evaluation of woody plant encroachment effects on coupled carbon and water cycles
F. O’Donnell, Kelly Caylor
Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences
Evaluating ecohydrological theories of woody root distribution in the Kalahari
A. Bhattachan, M. Tatlhego, K. Dintwe, F. O’Donnell, Kelly Caylor, G. Okin, D. Perrot, S. Ringrose, P. D’Odorico
PLoS One
Stable isotopes of water vapor in the vadose zone: A review of measurement and modeling techniques
K. Soderberg, S. Good, Lixin Wang, Kelly Caylor
Vadose Zone Journal
Direct quantification of leaf transpiration isotopic composition
Lixin Wang, S. Good, Kelly Caylor, L. Cernusak
Agriculture & Forest Meteorology
Characterizing ecohydrological and biogeochemical connectivity across multiple scales: a new conceptual framework
Lixin Wang, C. Zou, F. O’Donnell, S. Good, T. Franz, G. Miller, Kelly Caylor, J. Cable, B. Bond
Ecohydrology
An ecohydrological approach to predicting hillslope-scale vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems
T. Franz, Kelly Caylor, Lizzie King, J. Nordbotten, M. Celia, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Water Resources Research
20115 publications
Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in drylands
L. Turnbull, B. Wilcox, J. Belnap, S. Ravi, P. D’Odorico, D. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, Kelly Caylor, Teki Sankey
Ecohydrology
Metabolic principles of river basin organization
I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe, Kelly Caylor, A. Rinaldo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa
S. Good, Kelly Caylor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Quantifying transient soil moisture dynamics using multi-point direct-current resistivity in homogeneous sand
T. Franz, J. Nolan, J. Nordbotten, Kelly Caylor, L. Slater
Vadose Zone Journal
20102 publications
Partitioning evapotranspiration across gradients of woody plant cover: Assessment of a stable isotope technique
Lixin Wang, Kelly Caylor, J. C. Villegas, G. Barron‐Gafford, D. Breshears, T. Huxman
Geophysical Research Letters
An ecohydrological approach to predicting regional species distribution patterns in dryland ecosystems
T. Franz, Kelly Caylor, J. Nordbotten, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe, M. Celia
Advances in Water Resources
20096 publications
Nutrient limitation on above-ground grass production in four savanna types along the Kalahari Transect
Lydia R. O’Halloran, H. Shugart, Lixin Wang, Kelly Caylor, S. Ringrose, B. Kgope
Journal of Arid Environments
Combined effects of soil moisture and nitrogen availability on grass productivity in African savannas
Lixin Wang, P. D’Odorico, Lydia R. O’Halloran, Kelly Caylor, S. Macko
Plant & Soil
Ecohydrological optimization of pattern and processes in water-limited ecosystems: A tradeoff-based hypothesis
Kelly Caylor, T. Scanlon, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Water Resources Research
Decoupling structural and environmental determinants of sap velocity: Part II, Observational application
Kelly Caylor, D. Dragoni
Agriculture & Forest Meteorology
20083 publications
On the calibration of continuous, high-precision δ18O and δ2H measurements using an off-axis integrated cavity output spectrometer
Lixin Wang, Kelly Caylor, D. Dragoni
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Spatial patterns of soil nutrients in two contrasting southern African savannas
G. Okin, N. Mladenov, Lixin Wang, D. Cassel, Kelly Caylor, S. Ringrose, S. Macko
JGR-Biogeosciences
20075 publications
On soil moisture-vegetation feedbacks and their possible effects on the dynamics of dryland plant ecosystems
P. D’Odorico, Kelly Caylor, G. Okin, T. Scanlon
JGR-Biogeosciences
A temporally explicit Production Efficiency Model for fuel load allocation in southern Africa
C. Hély, Kelly Caylor, P. Dowty, S. Alleaume, R. Swap, H. Shugart, C. Justice
Ecosystems
Positive feedbacks promote power-law clustering of Kalahari vegetation
T. Scanlon, Kelly Caylor, S. Levin, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Nature
Spatial variation in vegetation structure coupled to plant available water at landscape scales in a Brazilian savanna
J. Ferreira, M. Bustamante, D. García‐Montiel, Kelly Caylor, E. Davidson
Oecologia
When is breeding for drought tolerance optimal if drought is random?
Julianno B. M. Sambatti, Kelly Caylor
New Phytologist
20054 publications
Determinants of woody cover in African savannnas: A continental scale analysis
M. Sankaran, N. Hanan, R. Scholes, J. Ratnam, D. Augustine, B. Cade, J. Gignoux, S. Higgins, X. Roux, F. Ludwig, J. Ardo, F. Banyikwa, Andries Bronn, G. Bucini, Kelly Caylor, M. Coughenour, A. Diouf, W. Ekaya, C.J.W. Feral, E. February, P. Frost, P. Hiernaux, H. Hrabar, K. Metzger, H. Prins, S. Ringrose, W. Sea, Jörg Tews, J. Worden, N. Zambatis
Nature
Dynamic response of grass cover to rainfall variability: Implications for the function and persistence of savanna ecosystems
T. Scanlon, Kelly Caylor, S. Manfreda, S. Levin, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Advances in Water Resources
Tree canopy effects on simulated water stress in southern African savannas
Kelly Caylor, H. Shugart, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Ecosystems
20044 publications
Relationship between small-scale structural variability and simulated productivity across a regional moi sture gradient in southern Africa
Kelly Caylor, P. Dowty, H. Shugart, S. Ringrose
Global Change Biology
On the coupled geomorphological and ecohydrological organization of river basins
Kelly Caylor, S. Manfreda, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Advances in Water Resources
Feasible optimality of vegetation patterns in river basins
Kelly Caylor, T. Scanlon, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Geophysical Research Letters
A simulation analysis of the detectability of understory burns in miombo woodlands
J. Pereira, B. Mota, J. Privette, Kelly Caylor, João M. N. Silva, A. Sá, W. Ni-Meister
Remote Sensing of Environment
20035 publications
Vegetation structure characteristics and relationships of Kalahari woodlands and savannas
J. Privette, Yuhong Tian, G. Roberts, R. Scholes, Y. Wang, Kelly Caylor, P. Frost, M. Mukelabai
Global Change Biology
Tree spacing along the Kalahari Transect in southern Africa
Kelly Caylor, H. Shugart, P. Dowty, Thomas M. Smith
Journal of Arid Environments
Regional fuel load for two climatically contrasting years in southern Africa
C. Hély, P. Dowty, S. Alleaume, Kelly Caylor, S. Korontzi, R. Swap, H. Shugart, C. Justice
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
Soil moisture and plant stress dynamics along the Kalahari precipitation gradient
A. Porporato, F. Laio, L. Ridolfi, Kelly Caylor, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
Release of gaseous and particulate carbonaceous compounds from biomass burning during the SAFARI 2000 dry season field campagin
C. Hély, Kelly Caylor, S. Alleaume, R. Swap, H. Shugart
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
20023 publications
Trends in savanna structure and composition on an aridity gradient in the Kalahari
R. Scholes, P. Dowty, Kelly Caylor, D. Parsons, P. Frost, H. Shugart
Journal of Vegetation Science
Determining land surface fractional cover from NDVI and rainfall time series for a savanna ecosystem
T. Scanlon, J. Albertson, Kelly Caylor, C. Williams
Remote Sensing of Environment
The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): Wet season campaigns
L. Otter, R. Scholes, P. Dowty, J. Privette, Kelly Caylor, S. Ringrose, M. Mukelabai, P. Frost, N. Hanan, O. Totolo, E. Veenendaal
South African Journal of Science
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