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Abramova, A., Mills J. V., Maurer, G. E., Gilbert, B., Getenet, M., Lammers, L., Zahabi, S., Chitsaz, M., Pfeiffer, M. & Amundson, R. (2026). Thermally driven CO2 adsorption/desorption and its effect on soil respiration. Science Advances, 12(39), eaed9979. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed9979
Elmendorf, S. C., Maurer, G. E., Lyon, N. J., Downs, M. R., LaMontagne, J. M., Barry, K. E., Chen, A., Dee, L. E., Earl, S., Isbell, F., Sokol, E. R. & Carey, J. C. (2026). Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70378
Amundson, R., Mills, J. V., Lammers, L. N., Barthel, M., Gallarotti, N., Six, J., Gebauer, G. & Maurer, G. E. (2023). Simultaneous production and consumption of soil N2O creates complex effects on its stable isotope composition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37(9), e2022GB007536. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007536
Mills, J. V., Maurer, G. E., Lammers, L. N., & Amundson, R. (2022). Emergent climate change impacts on the soil C and N cycles in the Mojave Desert. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(9), e2021GB007254. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007254
Meng, B., Li, J., Maurer, G. E., Zhong, S., Yao, Y., Yang, X., Collins, S. L. & Sun, W. (2021). Nitrogen addition amplifies the nonlinear drought response of grassland productivity to extended growing‐season droughts. Ecology, 102(11), e03483. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3483 PDF
Hallmark, A. J., Maurer, G. E., Pangle, R. E., & Litvak, M. E. (2021). Watching plants’ dance: Movements of live and dead branches linked to atmospheric water demand. Ecosphere, 12(8), e03705. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3705
Maurer, G. E., Hallmark, A. J., Brown, R. F., Sala, O. E., & Collins, S. L. (2020). Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States. Ecology Letters, 23(3), 527-536. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13455
Oerter, E., Mills, J. V., Maurer, G. E., Lammers, L. N., & Amundson, R. (2018). Greenhouse gas production and transport in desert soils of the southwestern United States. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(11), 1703-1717. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB006035
Rudgers, J. A., Chung, Y. A., Maurer, G. E., Moore, D. I., Muldavin, E. H., Litvak, M. E., & Collins, S. L. (2018). Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: a framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology, 99(3), 576-582. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2136
Morillas, L., Pangle, R. E., Maurer, G. E., Pockman, W. T., Mcdowell, N., Huang, C. W., Krofchek, D. J., Fox, A. M., Sinsabaugh, R. L., Rahn, T. A. & Litvak, M. E. (2017). Tree mortality decreases water availability and ecosystem resilience to drought in piñon‐juniper woodlands in the southwestern US. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(12), 3343-3361. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004095
Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Bell, T. W., Bowling, D. R., Dore, S., Garatuza‐Payan, J., Kolb, T. E., Krishnan, P., Krofchek, D. J., Litvak, M. E., Maurer, G. E., Meyers, T. P., Oechel, W. C., Papuga, S. A., Ponce-Campos, G. E., Rodriguez, J. C., Smith, W. K., Vargas, R., Watts, C. J., Yepez, E. A. & Goulden, M. L. (2017). CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. Global Change Biology, 23(10), 4204-4221. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13686
Maurer, G. E., Chan, A. M., Trahan, N. A., Moore, D. J., & Bowling, D. R. (2016). Carbon isotopic composition of forest soil respiration in the decade following bark beetle and stem girdling disturbances in the Rocky Mountains. Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(7), 1513-1523. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12716
Biederman, J. A., Scott, R. L., Goulden, M. L., Vargas, R., Litvak, M. E., Kolb, T. E., Yepez, E. A., Oechel, W. C., Blanken, P. D., Bell, T. W., Maurer, G. E., Dore, S. & Burns, S. P. (2016). Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America. Global Change Biology, 22(5), 1867-1879. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13222
Maurer, G. E., & Bowling, D. R. (2015). Dust effects on snowpack melt and related ecosystem processes are secondary to those of forest canopy structure and interannual snowpack variability. Ecohydrology, 8(6), 1005-1023. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1558 PDF
Hall, S. J., Maurer, G., Hoch, S. W., Taylor, R., & Bowling, D. R. (2014). Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and cold air pools on urban to montane gradients of snowpack ion concentrations in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah. Atmospheric Environment, 98, 231-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.08.076
Maurer, G. E., & Bowling, D. R. (2014). Seasonal snowpack characteristics influence soil temperature and water content at multiple scales in interior western US mountain ecosystems. Water Resources Research, 50(6), 5216-5234. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014452 PDF
Ruess, R. W., Hendrick, R. L., Burton, A. J., Pregitzer, K. S., Sveinbjornssön, B., Allen, M. F., & Maurer, G. E. (2003). Coupling fine root dynamics with ecosystem carbon cycling in black spruce forests of interior Alaska. Ecological Monographs, 73(4), 643-662. https://doi.org/10.1890/02-4032
Specht, A., Bastin, G., Carter, J. O., Cowley, R., Diete, R., Facelli, J., Maurer, G. E., O’Reagain, P. & Thornton, C. (2025, July 13). The value proposition for systematic long-term vegetation studies. In XII International Rangelands Congress, Australia 2025 (IRC 25), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15875094
Gries, C., Beaulieu, S., Brown, R., Gastil-Buhl, G., Elmendorf, S., Hsieh, H. Y., Kui, L., Maurer, G. & Porter, J. H. (2020). Change in Pictures: Creating best practices in archiving ecological imagery for reuse. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 4. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59082
Gries, C., Brown, R., Gastil-Buhl, M., Elmendorf, S., Garritt, H., Martin, M., Maurer, G. Nguyen, A., Porter, J. & Whiteaker, T. (2020). Going beyond the spreadsheet - developing Best Practices in ‘long-tail’ environmental data curation and publishing. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505435.1
Downs, M., Lyon, N., Kappel, C., Kui, L., Elmendorf, S., Maurer, G. E., & De La Rosa, G. (2025). Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) (Version v1.0) [Book/Course website]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16969471
Hernandez Rosales, B. & Maurer G.E. (2022). Long-term climate indices (SPEI and scPDSI) derived from monthly meteorology data collected at USHCN stations in the northern Chihuahuan Desert of the United States, 1911-2021 ver 2 [Dataset]. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/087795f6fac0f174397536ab27d50db6
Hernandez Rosales, B. & Maurer G.E. (2022). Derived SPEI and vapor pressure deficit for 15 NPP study sites on the Jornada Basin, 2013-ongoing ver 1 [Dataset]. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/094b708fcc8bddca273010ddcde3dce1
Gries, C., Beaulieu S., Brown, R. F., Elmendorf, S. C., Garritt, H., Gastil-Buhl, G., Hsieh, H. Y., Kui, L., Martin, M., Maurer, G. E., Nguyen, A. T., Porter, J. H., Sapp, A., Servilla, M. & Whiteaker, T. L. (2021). Data Package Design for Special Cases ver 1 [Book]. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9d4c803578c3fbcb45fc23f13124d052
Maurer, G. E., Hallmark, A., Brown, R. F., Sala, O. E., & Collins, S. E. (2019). Derived data and code for: Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States (Ecology Letters) [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4780313.v1
Maurer, G., Lammers, L. N., & Amundson, R. (2019). MojaveCarbon Climosequence [Dataset]. HydroShare. http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/d01662d827f34170a5fd3589e468d06b
Rudgers J., Chung, Y., Maurer, G., Moore, D., Muldavin, E., Litvak, M., & Collins, S. (2017). Net primary production (NPP) and climate data from Sevilleta LTER core and control sites in desert grassland and shrubland ecosystems, 1999 - 2017 [Dataset]. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/451fe8e98c663c728be3f85d3149e109
Maurer, G. E. (2014). Ecosystem responses to seasonal snowpack variation in the western United States [Dissertation]. The University of Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/dl_files/d5/9b/d59b360c25d6fe4399d2449e68c4733b5b892395.pdf
Sala, O. E. & Maurer, G. E. (in revision). Unexpected indirect effects of field simulated drought offset direct climate-change impacts.
Maurer, G.E., Mills, J. V., Oerter, E. J., Amundson, R., Lammers, L. N. (in prep). Measured and modeled soil carbon cycling in the Mojave desert: toward projected regional greenhouse gas budgets.
Maurer, G. E., Gries, C., Kamener, G., Lichtenwalner, S., Martin, M., O’Brien, M., Porter, J., Whiteaker, T., & Committee, L. N. I. M. (in prep). Best Practices for Dataset Metadata in Ecological Metadata Language – Environmental Dataset Preparation Guides [Book]. https://prerelease-edi-docs.netlify.app/guide-eml-bp/
Maurer, G. E., Barry, K., Carey, J., Chen, A., Dee, L., Downs, M., Earl, S., Elmendorf, S., Kappel, C., Kui, L., LaMontagne, J., Lyon, N., Smith, C., Sokol, E., & Wright, A. (in prep). A Course for Collaborative Ecologists – Ecological Data Synthesis: A Primer on Essential Methods [Book/Course website]. https://lter.github.io/eco-data-synth-primer/
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