Benjamin Sullivan

Carbon allocation in an East African ant-acacia: field testing a 13C-labeling method for evaluating biotic impacts on the carbon cycle.

2023

Plant Ecol 224, 953–963

Mizell, G.M., Kim, T., Sullivan, B.W. et al.

Carbon stocks and total belowground carbon flux respond to weather and grazing in semiarid montane meadows.

2023

Ecosystems 26, 1428–1440

Morra, B., Richardson, W., Stringham, T. & Sullivan, B. W.

Ecosystem carbon and nitrogen gains following 27 years of grazing management in a semiarid alluvial valley.

2023

J Environ Manage. 2023 Jul 1;337:117724

Morra B, Brisbin H, Stringham T, Sullivan BW.

The Contribution of Fe(III) Reduction to Soil Carbon Mineralization in Montane Meadows Depends on Soil Chemistry, Not Parent Material or Microbial Community.

2023

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(5), e2022JG007325

Reed, C. C., Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., Castle, S. C., Vuono, D. C., & Sullivan, B. W.

Variation in diet of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni): Tradeoffs associated with parturition

2023

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1071771

Blum, M. E., Stewart, K. M., Cox, M., Shoemaker, K. T., Bennett, J. R., Sullivan, B. W., Wakeling, B. F., & Bleich, V. C.

Vegetation productivity drives soil mineral associated organic matter formation and the relative contribution of sorption capacity across climates

2023

Rhizosphere, 27, 100737

Morra, B., Reed, C., Poulson, S. R., & Sullivan, B. W.

Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows

2022

Ecological Applications, Volume32, Issue7 October 2022 e2677

C.C. Reed, A.A. Berhe, K.C. Moreland, J. Wilcox, B.W. Sullivan

Variation in diet of desert bighorn sheep: tradeoffs associated with parturition

2022

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10 (2023) 14

M.E. Blum, K.M. Stewart, M. Cox, K.T. Shoemaker, J.R. Bennett, B.W. Sullivan, B.F. Wakeling, V.C. Bleich

Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?

2021

Ecosystems, 24(5), 1125–1141

C.C. Reed, A G. Merrill, W. M. Drew, B. Christman, R. A. Hutchinson, L. Keszey, M. Odell,S. Swanson, P. S. J. Verburg, J. Wilcox, S.C. Hart, B. W. Sullivan

Persistent agricultural legacy in soil influences plant restoration success in a Great Basin salt desert ecosystem.

2020

Ecological Restoration, vol. 38 no. 1 42-53

Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., Freund, S. M., Uselman, S., Leger, E. A., Sullivan, B. W.

Snowmelt causes different limitations on transpiration in a Sierra Nevada conifer forest

2020

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Cooper, A.E., Kirchner, J.W., Wolf, S., Lombardozzi, D.L., Sullivan, B., Tyler, S.W. and A.A. Harpold

Biogeochemical recuperation of lowland tropical forest during succession

2019

Ecology, e02641. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2641

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.

Leaf cutter ants engineer large nitrous oxide hot spots in tropical forests.

2019

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286: 20182504.

Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, B.B. Osborne, A.N. Shaw, L. Phillipot, C.C. Cleveland.

Resource limitation modulates the fate of dissimilated nitrogen in a dual-pathway Actinobacterium.

2019

Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 3 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00003

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.

Shrub facilitation of tree establishment varies with ontogenetic stage across environmental gradients.

2019

New Phytologist, 223(4), 1795--1808

Urza, A. K., Weisberg, P. J., Chambers, J. C., Sullivan, B. W.

A framework for evaluating estimates of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in forests

2018

The American Naturalist 192(5) 618-629.

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

Actinorhizal species influence plant and soil nitrogen in semiarid shrub-dominated ecosystems in the western Great Basin

2018

Journal of Arid Environments 157, 48-56

Freund, S.M., F.M. Soper, S.R. Poulson, P.C. Selmants, B.W. Sullivan

Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenhouse gas fluxes

2018

PLoS ONE 13(7) e0198997.

Reed, C.C., J. Winters, S.C. Hart, R. Hutchinson, M. Chandler, G. Venicx, B.W. Sullivan

Charcoal increases microbial activity in eastern Sierra Nevada forest.

2018

Forests 92 (3): 93, DOI:10.3390/f9020093.

Carter, Z., Sullivan, B. W., Qualls, R. G., Blank, R., Schmidt, C., Verburg, P.

Deconstruction of a plant-arthropod community reveals influential plant traits with nonlinear effects on arthropod assemblages.

2018

Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13060.

Harrison, J., Philbin, C., Gompert, Z., Forister, G., Hernandez, L., Sullivan, B. W., Wallace, I., Beltran, L., Dodson, C., Francis, J., Schlageter, A., Shelef, O., Yoon, S., Forister, M. L.

Legume Abundance Along Successional And Rainfall Gradients In Neotropical Forests

2018

Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 11014-1111

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.

Regime shift in the littoral ecosystem of volcanic lake Atitlán in Central America: combined role of stochastic event and invasive plant species

2018

Freshwater Biology 63(9), 1088-1106

Rejmankova, E., B.W. Sullivan, J. Aldad, J. Snyder, S. Castle, F. Morales.

Remotely sensed canopy nitrogen correlates with nitrous oxide emissions in a lowland tropical rainforest

2018

Ecology 99(9), 2080-2089.

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

Restoring dryland old fields with native shrubs and grasses: Does facilitation and seed source matter?

2018

PloS One, 3 (10), e0205760

Uselman SM, Davison J, Baughman OW, Sullivan BW, Miller WW, Leger EA

Climate, Topography, and Canopy Chemistry Exert Hierarchical Control Over Soil N Cycling in a Neotropical Lowland Forest

2017

Ecosystems 20 (6): 1089-1103.

Osborne, B. B., Nasto, M. K., Asner, G. P., Balzotti, C. S., Cleveland, C. C., Sullivan, B. W., Taylor, P. G., Townsend, A. R., Porder, S.

Nutrient limitation of soil microbial activity during the earliest stages of ecosystem development.

2017

Oecologia 185: 513

Castle, S. C., Sullivan, B. W., Knelman, J., Hood, E., Nemergut, D. R., Schmidt, S. K., Cleveland, C. C.

Temperature and rainfall interact to control carbon cycling in tropical forests.

2017

Ecology Letters 20 (6): 779-788.

Taylor, P.G., Cleveland, C. C., Wieder, W. R., Sullivan, B. W., Doughty, C. E., Dobrowski, S., Townsend, A.R.

A comparison of plot-based, satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical NPP.

2015

Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(5), 626–644.

Cleveland, C. C., Taylor, P., Chadwick, K. D., Doughty, C., Malhi, Y., Smith, W. K., Sullivan, B. W., Wieder, W. R., Townsend, A. R.

Proximate controls on semiarid soil greenhouse gas fluxes across 3 million years of soil development.

2015

Biogeochemistry, 125(3), 375-391.

Sullivan, B. W., Nasto, M. K., Hart, S. C., Hungate, B. A.

Assessing nutrient limitation in complex forested ecosystems: Alternatives to large-scale fertilization experiments.

2014

Ecology 95 (3). 668-681

Sullivan, B.W., S. Alvarez-Clare, S.C. Castle, S. Porder, S. Reed, L. Schreeg, A. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland.

Interactions among nitrogen fixation and soil phosphorus acquisition strategies in lowland tropical rain forests

2014

Ecology Letters 17(10): 1282–1289.

Nasto, M.K., S. Alvarez-Clare, Y. Lekberg, B.W. Sullivan, A.R. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland.

<p>Paradoxically, symbiotic dinitrogen (N₂) fixers are abundant in nitrogen (N)-rich, phosphorus (P)-poor lowland tropical rain forests. One hypothesis to explain this pattern states that...

Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle.

2014

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111 (22), 8101-8106.

Sullivan, B.W., W.K. Smith, A.R. Townsend, M.K. Nasto, S.C. Reed, R. Chazdon, C.C. Cleveland

Does dissolved organic carbon regulate biological methane oxidation in semiarid soils?

2013

Global Change Biology 19 (7), 2149-2157.

Sullivan, B.W., P.C. Selmants, S.C. Hart.

Evaluation of mechanisms controlling the priming of soil carbon along a substrate age gradient.

2013

Soil Biology and Biochemistry 58, 293-301.

Sullivan, B.W., S.C. Hart.

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.

2012

Plant and Soil 357, 89-102.

Looney, C.L., B.W. Sullivan, J.M. Kane, T.E. Kolb, S.C. Hart.

Carbon Sequestration Monitoring Equipment Demo

2016

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Sullivan, B and Drew, M