Journals
Assessing the financial viability of meadow restoration-based carbon projects in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, USA
2024
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–22
Bowman, A., Taylor, M. H., Reed, C., Morra, B., & Sullivan, B. W.
Does montane meadow restoration influence the mineral association and stability of soil carbon?
2024
Biogeochemistry 167, 1089–1105 (2024)
Bagcilar, S.H., Reed, C.C., Poulson, S.R. et al.
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon
2024
Soil Biology and Biochemistry Volume 192, May 2024, 109390
Hai-Ruo Mao, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Stephen C. Hart, Benjamin W. Sullivan, Xuefeng Zhu, Jianchao Zhang, Chao Liang, Mengqiang Zhu
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 (N<sub>2</sub>) 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.
