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Publications (last 5 years, updated Nov. 2009):

In Review or Revision (*student or postdoc):
Pendall, E., Schwendenmann, L., Tans, P.P., Rahn, T., Miller, J.B. Fluxes of CO2, CH4, CO, N2O and H2 and isotope source signatures estimated from nocturnal boundary layers in forest and pasture sites in Panama. In review, Global Change Biology.

Wingate, L., Ogee, J., Cuntz, M., Genty, B., Reiter, I., Seibt, U., Yakir, D., Peylin, P., Miller, J.B., Burlett, R., Maseyk, K., Mencuccini, M., Pendall, E., Shim, J., Barbour, M., Hunt, J., Mortazavi, B., Grace, J. The impact of soil micro-organisms on the global budget of δ18O in atmospheric CO2. Accepted, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Oct 2009)

Pendall, E., Osanai, Y., Williams, A., and Hovenden, M.A. Soil C storage under simulated climate change is mediated by plant functional type. In review at Global Change Biology. (July 2009)

Dangi, S.R., Stahl, P.D., Pendall, E., Cleary, M.B., and Buyer, J.S. Recovery of soil microbial community structure after fire in a sagebrush-grassland ecosystem. In review at Rangeland Ecology and Management. (June 2009)

*Naithani, K., Ewers, B.E., and Pendall, E. Response of sapflux-scaled transpiration and stomatal conductance to soil and atmospheric drought in a semi-arid sagebrush ecosystem. In revision at New Phytologist. (June 2009)

Cable, J.M., Ogle, K., Lucas, R., Charlet, D., Cleary, M.B., Griffith, A., Nowak, R.S., Rogers, M., Steltzer, H., Sullivan, P., Pendall, E., Smith, S., Huxman, T.E., Loik, M., Tissue, D.T., van Gestel, N., Welker, J. The unique responses of desert soil respiration to temperature: a seven desert synthesis. In review at Biogeochemistry. (Oct. 2009)

Dijkstra, F.A., Blumenthal, D., Morgan, J.A., Pendall, E., Carrillo, Y., Follett, R.F.  Warming-enhanced soil inorganic N availability may alleviate progressive N limitation under elevated CO2 in a semi-arid grassland. In review, Global Change Biology.

King, L., Vance, G.F., Pendall, E., Hild, A.L., and Stahl, P.D. Ecosystem responses to land applications of coalbed natural gas coproduced waters. In revision for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 

*Cleary, M.B., Pendall, E., Ewers, B.E. Contrasting recovery of aboveground and belowground C pools after fire in upper elevation sagebrush steppe, Accepted, Rangeland Ecology and Management (Nov. 2009).

Wilske, B., Kwon, H., Wei, L., Xie, J., Lu, N., Chen, S., Lin, G., Guan, W.,, Pendall, E., Ewers, B.E., and Chen, J. Biophysical control on evapotranspiration in two semiarid Artemisia-dominated shrub steppes at opposite sides of the globe, In revision for Journal of Arid Environments.

PUBLISHED WORKS (* indicates lead authorship by my students or postdocs)
            Refereed Journal Articles:
Nicols, J., Booth, R.K., Jackson, S.T., Pendall, E., and Huang, Y-S. Differential hydrogen isotopic ratios of Sphagnum and vascular plant biomarkers in ombrotrophic peatlands as a quantitative proxy for precipitation—evaporation balance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, accepted with revisions.

*Bachman, S.A., Heisler-White, J., Pendall, E., Williams, D.G., and Morgan, J.A., 2010. Elevated [CO2] alters the sensitivity of ecosystem carbon fluxes to precipitation pulses in northern mixed-grass prairie. Oecologia, in press.

*Shim, J.H., Pendall, E., Ojima, D.S., and Morgan, J.A. 2009. Wetting and drying cycles drive variations in d13C of respired CO2 in semi-arid grassland. Oecologia,160, 321-333.

Pendall, E., Rustad, L., Schimel, J., 2008. Towards a predictive understanding of belowground process responses to climate change: Have we moved any closer? Functional Ecology 22: 937-940.

*Chatterjee, A., Vance, G.F., Pendall, E., Stahl, P.D. 2008. Timber harvesting alters soil carbon mineralization and microbial community structure in coniferous forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 1901-1907.

Dijkstra, F.A., Pendall, E., Mosier, A.R., King, J.Y., Milchunas, D.G., Morgan, J.A. 2008. Long-term enhancement of N availability and plant growth under elevated CO2 in a semiarid grassland. Functional Ecology 22:975-982.

*Schwendenmann L. and Pendall, E. 2008. Soil organic carbon pool sizes and mean residence times estimated by long-term incubations and acid hydrolysis: results from tropical forest and grassland ecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44:1053-1062.

Morgan, J.S., Derner, J.D., Milchunas, D., and Pendall, E. 2008. Management implications of rising atmospheric CO2 for semi-arid rangelands. Rangelands, June 2008, p. 18-22.

*Kwon, H., Pendall, E., Ewers, B.E., Cleary, M.B. and Naithani, K. 2008. Spring drought regulates summer net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148: 381-391.

*Cleary, M.B., Pendall, E. and Ewers, B.E. 2008. Testing sagebrush allometric relationships across three fire chronosequences in Wyoming, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 72: 285-301.

Cuna, S., Pendall, E., Miller, J.B., Tans, P.P, and White, J.W.C. 2008. Separating natural and anthropogenic methane in air from Black Sea region, Romania. Applied Geochemistry 23: 2871-2879.

Knapp, A., Briggs, J.M., Collins, S.L., Archer, S.L., Bret-Harte, M.S., Ewers, B.E., Peters, D.P., Young, D.R., Shaver, G.R., Pendall, E. & Cleary, M.B. 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.

Ewers, B.E., and Pendall, E. 2008. Spatial patterns in leaf area and plant functional type cover across chronosequences of sagebrush ecosystems. Plant Ecology 194: 67-83. DOI 10.1007/s11258-007-9275-z.

Pendall, E., and King, J.Y. 2007. Increased soil organic matter pool sizes and turnover rates under elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:2628-2639. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.016.

*Schwendenmann, L, and Pendall, E., 2006. Effects of forest conversion into grassland on soil aggregate structure and carbon storage in Panama: evidence from soil carbon fractionation and stable isotopes. Plant and Soil DOI:10.1007/s11104-006-9109-0 (Online First).

Nichols, J.E., Booth, R.K., Jackson, S.T., Pendall, E.G. & Huang, Y. 2006.  Paleohydrologic reconstruction based on n-alkane distributions in ombrotrophic peat.  Organic Geochemistry 37:1505-1513.

Del Grosso, S.J., Parton, W.R., Mosier, A.R., Holland, E.A., Pendall, E., Schimel, D.S., and Ojima, D.S. 2005. Modeling soil CO2 emissions from ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 73:71-91.

Pendall, E., Williams, D.G., and Leavitt, S.W. 2005. Comparison of measured and modeled variations in pinon pine leaf water isotopic enrichment across a summer moisture gradient. Oecologia 145: 605-618.

Pendall, E., Mosier, A.R., and Morgan, J.A., 2004. Rhizodeposition stimulated by elevated CO2 in a semi-arid grassland.  New Phytologist 162:311-322.

Pendall, E., Scott Bridgham, Paul J. Hanson, Bruce Hungate, David W. Kicklighter, Dale W. Johnson, Beverly E. Law, Yiqi Luo, J. Patrick Megonigal, Maria Olsrud, Michael G. Ryan, Peter Thornton, Shiqiang Wan. 2004. Belowground Process Responses to Elevated CO2 and Temperature: A Discussion of Observations, Measurement Methods, and Models. New Phytologist 162:447-458