Publications

Plant Physiological Ecology Laboratory

Refereed Journal Articles (students/post-docs in bold)

79. Salmela, MJ, BE Ewers, C Weinig. In Press. Natural quantitative genetic variance in plant growth differs in response to ecologically relevant temperature heterogeneity. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2482

78. Edwards, CE, BE Ewers, C Weinig. 2016. Genotypic variation in biomass allocation in response to field drought has a greater affect on yield than gas exchange or phenology. BMC Plant Biology. 16:185; DOI 10.1186/s12870-016-0876-3

77. Mitra B, DS Mackay, BE Ewers, E Pendall. 2016. Response of sagebrush carbon metabolism to experimental precipitation pulses. Journal of Arid Environments. 135:181-194

76. Anderegg WR, Martinez-Vilalta J, Cailleret M, Camarero JJ, Ewers BE, Galbraith D, Gessler A, Grote R, Huang CY, Levick SR, Powell TL. 2016. When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes. Ecosystems. 28:1-5. PDF

75. Salmela, M, K Greenham, P Lou, CR McClung, BE Ewers, C Weinig. 2016. Variation in circadian rhythms is maintained among and within populations in Boechera stricta. Plant, Cell & Environment. 39:1293–1303 PDF 

 

74. Yarkhunova, Y, CE Edwards, BE Ewers, T Aston, CR McClung, P Lou, C Weinig. 2016. Selection during crop diversification involves correlated evolution of the circadian clock and ecophysiological traits in Brassica rapa. New Phytologist. 210.1: 133-144 PDF 

 

73. Frank, JM, WJ Massman, E Swiatek, HA Zimmerman, BE Ewers. 2016. All sonic anemometers need to correct for transducer and structural shadowing in their velocity measurements. J Atm & Oceanic Tech. 33.1: 149-167
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72. Borkhuu, B, SD Peckham, U Norton, BE Ewers, E Pendall. 2015. Does soil respiration decline following bark beetle induced forest mortality? Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. 214-15:201-207 PDF

 

71. Cleary, MB, KJ Naithani, BE Ewers, E Pendall. 2015. Upscaling CO2 fluxes using leaf, soil and chamber measurements across successional growth stages in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments.  121:43-51. PDF

 

70. Mackay, DS, DE Roberts, BE Ewers, JS Sperry, NG McDowell, WT Pockman. 2015. Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought. Water Resources Research. 51 doi:10.1002/2015WR017244
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69. Q Xie, P Lou, BE Ewers, M Salmela, V Hermand, C Weinig, McClung, CR. 2015. Allelic polymorphism of GIGANTEA is responsible for naturally occurring variation in circadian period in Brassica rapa. Proceedings National Academy of Science. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1421803112

 

68. Norton, N, BE Ewers, B Borkhuu, E Pendall. 2015. Soil and litter nitrogen and greenhouse gas fluxes during five years of bark beetle infestation in a lodgepole pine forest. Soil Science Society of America Journal 79(1):282-293. Email for PDF

 

67. Reed, D, BE Ewers, E Pendall. 2014. Impact of mountain pine beetle induced mortality on forest carbon and water fluxes. Environmental Research Letters. 9:105004. Doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/105004 PDF

 

66. Biederman, J, A Harpold, D Gochis, BE Ewers, D Reed, S Papuga, P Brooks. 2014. Compensatory vapor flux reduces water for streamflow following severe bark beetle-induced forest mortality. Water Resources Research 50(7):5395-5409 Email for PDF

 

65. Nathani KJ, BE Ewers, J Adelman, D Siemens. 2014. Abiotic and biotic controls on spatial distribution and performance of a Boechera stricta population. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5:art348. Email for PDF

 

64. Frank JM, WD Massman, BE Ewers, L Huckabee, J Negron. 2014. Ecosystem CO2/H2O fluxes are explained by hydraulically limited gas exchange during tree mortality from spruce beetles. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 119:1195-1215 PDF

 

63. Schlaepfer, DR, BE Ewers, BN Shuman, DG Williams, JM Frank, WJ Massman, WK Lauenroth. 2014. Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration: Comment. Ecosphere. 5:art61. Doi: 10.1890/ES13-00391.1 PDF

 

62. Weinig, C, BE Ewers, SM Welch. 2014. Ecological genomics of local adaptation to climate. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 18:66-72 PDF

 

61. Mitra B, DS Mackay, E Pendall, BE Ewers, MB Cleary. 2014. Does vegetation structure regulate the spatial structure of soil respiration within a sagebrush steppe ecosystem? Journal of Arid Environments. 103:1-10 PDF

 

60. Biederman, JA, PD Brooks, AA Harpold, DJ Gochis, E Gutmann, DE Reed, E Pendall, BE Ewers. 2014. Multi-scale observations of snow accumulation and peak snowpack following widespread, insect-induced lodgepole pine mortality. Ecohydrology. DOI 10.1002/eco.1342. PDF

 

59. Angstmann, JL, BE Ewers, J. Barber, H. Kwon. 2013. Testing drivers of transpiration by quantifying spatial variability along a boreal black spruce forest drainage gradient. Ecohydrology. DOI 10.1002/eco.1300 PDF

 

58. Frank, JM, WJ Massman, BE Ewers. 2013. Underestimates of sensible heat flux due to vertical velocity measurements in non-orthogonal sonic anemometers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 171-172:72-81. PDF

 

57. Ewers, BE. 2013. Understanding stomatal conductance responses to long-term environmental changes: A Bayesian framework that combines patterns and processes. Tree Physiology. 33:119-PDF

 

56. Sivanpillai, R and BE Ewers. 2013. Relationship between sagebrush species and structural characteristics and Landsat Thematic Mapper Data. Journal of Applied Vegetation Science. 16(1):122-130 PDF

 

55. Nathani KJ, BE Ewers, E Pendall. 2012. Sap flux-scaled transpiration and stomatal conductance response to soil and atmospheric drought in a semi-arid sagebrush ecosystem. Journal of Hydrology. 464-465:176-185. PDF

 

54. Chen, L, Zhang Z, Ewers BE. 2012. Urban tree species show the same hydraulic responses to vapor pressure deficit across varying tree size and environmental conditions. PLoS ONE. 7(10): e47882. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047882 PDF

 

53. Edburg, SL, JA Hicke, PD Brooks, EG Pendall, BE Ewers, U Norton, D Gochis, E Gutmann. 2012. Cascading Impacts of Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality to Coupled Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Processes. Frontiers Ecology and Environment 10: 416–424  PDF

 

52. Angstmann, JL, BE Ewers, H Kwon. 2012. Size-mediated tree transpiration along soil drainage gradients in a boreal black spruce forest wildfire chronosequence. Tree Physiology. 32:599-611. PDF

 

51. Mackay DS, BE Ewers, MM Loranty, EL Kruger, S Samanta. 2012. Bayesian analysis of canopy transpiration models: a test of posterior means against measurements. Journal of Hydrology 432:75-83 PDF

 

50. Edwards, CE, BE Ewers, CR McClung, P Lou, C Weinig. 2012. Quantitative variation in water-use efficiency across water regimes and its relationship with circadian, vegetative, reproductive, and leaf gas-exchange traits. Molecular Plant 5:653-668 PDF

 

49. Edwards, CE, BE Ewers, DG Williams, Q Xie, P Lou, X Xu, CR McClung, C Weinig. 2011. The genetic architecture of ecophysiological and circadian traits in Brassica rapa. Genetics. doi:10.1534/genetics.110.125112 PDF

 

48. Cable, JM, K Ogle, RW Lucas, TE Huxman, ME Loik, SD Smith, DT Tissue, BE Ewers, E Pendall, JM Welker, TN Charlet, M Cleary, A Griffith, RS Nowak, M Rogers, H Steltzer, PF Sullivan, NC van Gestel. 2011. The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis. Biogeochemistry. 103:71-90 PDF

 

47. Bond-Lamberty, B, ST Gower, B Amiro, C Barker, BE Ewers. 2011. Measurement and modeling of brophyte evaporation in a boreal forest chronosequence. Ecohydrology. 4:26-35. PDF

 

46. Loranty, MM, DS Mackay, BE Ewers, E Traver, EL Kruger. 2010. Competition for light between individual trees lowers reference canopy stomatal conductance: results from a model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. Vol. 115 Art. No. G04019; DOI 10.1029/2010JG001377 PDF

 

45. Wilske, B; H Kwon;  L Wei; S Chen; N Lu; G Lin; J Xie; W Guan; E Pendall; B E Ewers; J Chen. 2010. Evapotranspiration (ET) and regulating mechanisms in two semiarid Artemisia-dominated shrub steppes at opposite sides of the globe. Journal of Arid Environments. 74(11):1461-1470 PDF

 

44. Cleary, MB, E Pendall, BE Ewers. 2010. Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Pools After Fire in Mountain Big Sagebrush Steppe. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:187-196 PDF

 

43. Loranty, MM, DS Mackay, BE Ewers, E Traver, EL Kruger. 2010. Contribution of Competition for Light to Within-Species Variability in Stomatal Conductance. Water Resources Research. 46:W05516. PDF

 

42. Mackay, DS, BE Ewers, ML Loranty, EL Kruger. 2010. On the representativeness of plots for scaling canopy transpiration in a Populus tremuloides forest stand. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 115:602016. PDF

 

41. Traver, E, BE Ewers, DS Mackay and ML Loranty. 2010. Tree transpiration varies spatially in response to atmospheric but not edaphic conditions. Functional Ecology. 24: 273-282. PDF

 

40. Edwards CE, MSHL Haselhorst, AM McKnite, BE Ewers, DG Williams, and C Weinig. 2009. Genotypes of Brassica rapa respond differently to plant-induced variation in air CO2 concentration in growth chambers with standard and enhanced venting. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 119(6): 991-1004 PDF

           

39. Barker CA, BD Amiro, H Kwon, BE Ewers and JL Angstmann. 2009. Evapotranspiration in intermediate-aged and mature fens and upland black spruce boreal forests. Ecohydrology. 2(4): 462-471 PDF

 

38. Bond-Lamberty, B, SD Peckham, ST Gower, BE Ewers. 2009. Effects of fire on regional evapotranspiration in the central Canadian boreal forest. Global Change Biology. 15(5):1242-1254 PDF

 

37. Resco, V, BE Ewers, W Sun, TE Huxman, JF Weltzin, DG Williams. 2009 Drought-induced hydraulic limitations constrain leaf gas exchange recovery after precipitation pulses in the C3 woody legume, Prosopis velutina. New Phytologist. 181: 672–682. PDF

 

36. Nehm RH, TM. Poole, ME. Lyford, SG. Hoskins, LC, BE Ewers, PJS Colberg. 2008. Does the Segregation of Evolution in Biology Textbooks and Introductory Courses Reinforce Students’ Faulty Mental Models of Biology and Evolution? Evolution Education and Outreach DOI 10.1007/s12052-008-0100-5 PDF

 

35. Samanta, S, MK Clayton, DS Mackay, EL Kruger, BE Ewers. 2008. Quantitative comparison of canopy conductance models using a Bayesian approach. Water Resources Research. 44:W09431doi:10.1029/2007WR006761 PDF

 

34. Loranty, M, DS Mackay, BE Ewers, JD Adelman, and EL Kruger. 2008. Environmental drivers of spatial variation in whole-tree canopy transpiration in an aspen-to-wetland forest gradient. Water Resources Research. 44:W02441 doi:10.1029/2007WR006272 PDF

 

33. Knapp, AK, JM Briggs, SR Archer, MS Bret-Harte, SL Collins, BE Ewers, DP Peters, DR Young, GR Shaver, E Pendall, MB Cleary. 2008. Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology. 14:1-9 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01512.x PDF

 

32. Adelman, JD, BE Ewers, DS Mackay. 2008. Using Temporal Patterns in Vapor Pressure Deficit to Explain Spatial Autocorrelation Dynamics in Tree Transpiration. Tree Physiology 28:647-658 PDF

 

31. Kwon, H, E Pendall, BE Ewers, MB Cleary, K Nathani. 2008. Spring Drought Regulates Summer Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange in a Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystem. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 148:381-391 PDF

 

30. Cleary, MB, E Pendall, BE Ewers. 2008. Testing sagebrush alllometric relationships across three fire chronosequences in Wyoming, USA. Journal of Arid Environments. 72:285-301. PDF

 

29. Ewers, BE, DS Mackay J Tang, PV Bolstad, S Samanta. 2008. Intercomparison of Stand Transpiration Responses to Environmental Conditions from the Western Great Lakes Region of the United States. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. 148(2): 231-248, 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.003 PDF

 

28. Ewers, BE and E Pendall. 2008. Spatial patterns in leaf area and plant functional type cover across chronosequences of sagebrush ecosystems. Plant Ecology. 194:67–83 PDF

 

27. Samanta S, DS Mackay, MK Clayton, EL Kruger, BE Ewers. 2007. Bayesian analysis for uncertainty estimation of a canopy transpiration model. Water Resources Research. VOL. 43, W04424, doi:10.1029/2006WR005028 PDF

 

26. Mackay, DS, BE Ewers, BD Cook, KJ Davis. 2007. Environmental drivers of evapotranspiration are different between wetland and upland forests in northern Wisconsin. Water Resources Research VOL. 43, W03442, doi:10.1029/2006WR005149 PDF

 

25. Ewers, BE, R Oren, H-S Kim, G Bohrer, CT Lai. 2007 Effects of hydraulic architecture and spatial variation in light on mean stomatal conductance of tree branches and crowns. Plant, Cell Environment 30:483-496. PDF

 

24. Ewers, BE, DS Mackay, S Samanta. 2007. Interannual consistency in canopy stomatal conductance control of leaf water potential across seven tree species. Tree Physiology. 27:11-24 PDF

 

23. Tang, J, PV Bolstad, BE Ewers, AR Desai, KJ Davis. 2006. Sap flux upscaled canopy transpiration, stomatal conductance and water use efficiency in an old-growth forest in the Great Lakes region of United States. Journal of Geophysical Research. 111, G02009, doi:10.1029/2005/JG000083 PDF

 

22. Ewers BE, ST Gower, B Bond-Lamberty, CK Wang. 2005. Effects of Stand Age and Tree Species Composition on Transpiration and Canopy Conductance of Boreal Forests. Plant, Cell Environment 28, 660-678 PDF

 

21. Mackay, DS, DE Ahl, BE Ewers, S Samanta, SN Burrows, and ST Gower. 2003. Physiological tradeoffs in the parameterization of a model of canopy transpiration. Advances in Water Resources, 26(2), 179-194. PDF

 

20. Mackay, DS, S Samanta, DE Ahl, BE Ewers, and ST Gower. 2003. Automated parameterization of land surface process models using fuzzy logic. Transactions in GIS. 7(1), 139-153. PDF

 

19. Mackay, DS, DE Ahl, BE Ewers, ST Gower, SN Burrows, S Samanta, and KJ Davis. 2002. Effects of aggregated classifications of forest composition on estimates of evapotranspiration in a northern Wisconsin forest. Global Change Biology, 8(12), 1253-1265. PDF

 

18. Ewers. BE, DS Mackay, ST Gower, DE Ahl, SN Burrows, S Samanta. 2002. Tree species effects on stand transpiration in northern Wisconsin. Water Resources Research, 38(7), Art. No. 1103 10.1029/2001WR000830. PDF

 

17. Ewers, BE, R Oren, N Phillips, M Strömgren, and S Linder. 2001. Effects of water and nutrient availability on mean canopy stomatal conductance response to environmental variation in Picea abies and Pinus taeda. Tree physiology. 21:841-850. PDF

 

16. Oren R, DS Ellsworth, KH Johnsen, N Phillips, BE Ewers, C Maier, KVR Schafer, H McCarthy , G Hendrey, SG McNulty, GG Katul. 2001. Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere. Nature 411 (6836): 469-472. PDF

 

15. Ewers, BE, R Oren, KH Johnsen, and JJ Landsberg. 2001. Estimating maximum mean canopy stomatal conductance for use in models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31:(2) 198-207. PDF

 

14. Oren, R, JS Sperry, BE Ewers, DE Pataki, N Phillips, JP Megonigal. 2001. Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum L. forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. Oecologia 126:21-29. PDF

 

13. Ewers, BE, R Oren, and JS Sperry. 2000. Influence of nutrient versus water supply on hydraulic architecture and water balance in Pinus taeda. Plant, Cell, and Environment. 23:1055-1066. PDF

 

12. Ewers, BE and R Oren. 2000. Analysis of assumptions and errors in the calculation of stomatal conductance from sap flux measurements. Tree Physiology 20:579-589. PDF

 

11. Hacke, U, JS Sperry, BE Ewers, DS Ellsworth, K Schäfer, and R Oren. 2000. Influence of soil porosity on water use in Pinus taeda. Oecologia 124(4): 495-505. PDF

 

10. Oren, R, N Phillips, BE Ewers, DE Pataki, and JP Megonical. 1999. Sap flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichum L. forest. Tree Physiology 19:337-347. PDF

 

9. Oren, R, JS Sperry, GG Katul, DE Pataki, BE Ewers, N Phillips, KVR and Schäfer. 1999. Survey and synthesis of intra- and interspecific variation in stomatal sensitivity to vapour pressure deficit. Plant, Cell, and Environment 22:1515-1526. PDF

 

8. Ewers, BE, R Oren, TJ Albaugh, and PM Dougherty. 1999. Carry-over effects of long term water and nutrient supply on short term water use of Pinus taeda. Ecological Applications 9(2) 513-525. PDF

 

7. Oren, R, N Phillips, G Katul, BE Ewers, and DE Pataki. 1998. Scaling xylem sap flux and soil water balance, and calculating variance: A method for partitioning water flux in forests. Annales des Sciences Forestieres 55:191-216. PDF

 

6. Oren, R, BE Ewers, P Todd, N Phillips and G Katul. 1998. Water balance delineates the layer in which soil moisture affects canopy conductance. Ecological Applications 8:990-1002. PDF

 

5. Ewers, B, D Binkley, and M Bashkin. 1996. Influence of adjacent stand on spatial patterns of soil carbon and nitrogen in Eucalyptus and Albizia plantations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26(8)    1501-1503. PDF

 

Refereed Book Chapters

 

3. Noormets, A, BE Ewers, G Sun, DS Mackay, D Zheng, J Chen, S McNulty. 2007. Linking Ecology to Land Mosaics: An ecosystem perspective. In Linking ecology to landscape hierarchies.  eds J Chen, S C Saunders, K D Brosofske, T R Crow. Nova Sciences.

Refereed Proceedings/Transactions

 

2. Williams, DG and BE Ewers. 2014. Spatial and temporal variation in the isotopic signature of transpired water from a conifer forest canopy. Proceedings, International Symposium on "Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation", 23-27 July 2012, Vienna, Austria.

 

1. Mackay, DS, S Samanta, RR Nemani and BE Ewers. 2004. Remotely sensed estimates of stomatal conductance for regions around flux towers. In Proceedings of the 2nd international CAHMDA workshop on: The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Modeling and Data Assimilation Across Catchment Scales, edited by A.J. Teuling, H. Leijnse, P.A. Troch, J. Sheffield and E.F. Wood, pp. 63–65, Princeton, NJ, October 25–27