Fernandes, V.M.C., N.M. Machado de Lima, D. Roush, J.A. Rudgers, S.L. Collins and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2018. Exposure to predicted precipitation patterns decrease population size and alter community structure of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from the Chihuahuan Desert. Environmental Microbiology 20: 259-269.

Rudgers, J.A., Y.A. Chung, G. Maurer, D.I. Moore, E. Muldavin, M. Litvak and S.L. Collins. 2018. Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology 99: 576–582.

Petrie, M.D., D.P.C. Peters, O.E. Sala, J. Yao, K.M. Havstad, J.D. Derner, L.A. Gherardi, N.D. Burruss, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins, J.R. Hendrickson, M. Sanderson, P.J. Starks and J.L. Steiner. 2018. Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multi-year above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology 24: 1935–1951.

Collins, S.L., M.L. Avolio, C. Gries, L.M. Hallett, S.E. Koerner, K.J. La Pierre, A.L. Rypel, E.R. Sokol, S.B. Fey, D.B. Flynn, S.K. Jones, L.M. Ladwig, J. Ripplinger and M.B. Jones. 2018. Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities. Ecology 99: 858-865.

Ochoa-Hueso, R., S.L. Collins, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, K. Hamonts, W.T. Pockman, R.L. Sinsabaugh, M.D. Smith, A.K. Knapp and S.A. Power. 2018. Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents. Global Change Biology 24: 2818–2827.

Griffin-Nolan, R.J., E.M. Denton, M.K. Johnson, C.J.W. Carroll, S.L. Collins, M.D. Smith and A.K. Knapp. 2018. Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands. Plant Ecology 219: 505-515.

Hodapp, D., E.T. Borer, W.S. Harpole, E.M. Lind, E.W. Seabloom, P.B. Adler, J. Alberti, C.A. Arnillas, J.D. Bakker, L. Biederman, M. Cadotte, E.E. Cleland, S.L. Collins, P.A. Fay, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, O. Iribarne, J.M.H. Knops, R.L. McCulley, A. MacDougall,  J.L. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, K.J. La Pierre, A.C. Risch, M. Schütz, P. Peri, C.J. Stevens, J. Wright, and H. Hillebrand. 2018. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. Ecology Letters 21: 1364-1371.

Koerner, S.E., M.D. Smith, D.E. Burkepile, N. Hanan, M.L. Avolio, S.L. Collins, A.K. Knapp, N.P. Lemoine, E.J. Forrestel, S. Eby, D.I. Thompson, G. Aguado-Santacruz, J.P. Anderson, M. Anderson, A. Angassa, S. Bagchi, E.S. Bakker, G. Bastin, L.E. Baur, K.H. Beard, E.A. Beever, P.J. Bohlen, E.H. Boughton, D. Canestro, A. Cesa, E. Chaneton, J. Cheng, C.M. D'Antonio, C. Deleglise, F. Dembélé, J. Dorrough, D. Eldridge, B. Fernandez-Going, S. Fernández-Lugo, L.H. Fraser, B. Freedman, G. Garcia-Salgado, J.R. Goheen, L. Guo, S. Husheer, M. Karembé, J.M.H. Knops, T. Kraaij, A. Kulmatiski, M. Kytöviita, F. Lezama, G. Loucougaray, A. Loydi, D.G. Milchunas, S. Milton, J.W. Morgan, C. Moxham, K.C. Nehring, H.Olff, T. M. Palmer, S. Rebollo, C. Riginos, A.C. Risch, M. Rueda, M. Sankaran,, T. Sasaki, K. Schoenecker, N.L. Schultz, M. Schütz, A. Schwabe, F. Siebert, C. Smit, K.A. Stahlheber, C. Storm, D.J. Strong, J. Su, Y.V. Tiruvaimozhi, C. Tyler, J. Val, M.L. Vandegehuchte,, K.E. Veblen, L.T. Vermeire, D. Ward, J. Wu, T.P. Young,, Q. Yu, T.J. Zelikova. 2018. Resolving variation in herbivore effects on plant biodiversity – change in dominance as a global mechanism. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1925-1932.

Suazo, M.M., S.L. Collins, R.R. Parmenter and E. Muldavin. 2018. Montane valley grasslands are highly resistant to wildfire. Journal of Vegetation Science: 29: 1017-1028.

Whitney, K.D., J. Mudge, D.O. Natvig, J.A. Rudgers, A. Sundararajan, W.T. Pockman, J. Bell and S.L. Collins. 2019. Experimental drought reduces genetic diversity in the grassland foundation species Bouteloua eriopoda. Oecologia 189: 1107-1120.

Yu, K., P. D’Odorico, S.L. Collins, D. Carr, A. Porporato, W.R.L. Anderegg, W.P. Gilhooly III, L. Wang, A. Bhattachan, M. Bartlett, S. Hartzell, J. Yin, Y. He, W. Li, M. Tatlhego and J.D. Fuentes. 2019. The competitive advantage of a constitutive CAM species over a C4 grass species under drought and CO2 enrichment. Ecosphere 10: e02721. 10.1002/ecs2.2721.

Clark, C.M., S. M. Simkin, E.B. Allen, W.D. Bowman, J. Belnap, M.L. Brooks, S. L Collins, L. H. Geiser, F.S. Gilliam, S.E. Jovan, L.H. Pardo, B.K. Schulz, C.J Stevens, K.N. Suding, H.L. Throop and D.M. Waller. 2019. Potential vulnerability of 348 herbaceous species to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur in the U.S. Nature Plants 5: 697-705.

Ratajczak, Z., A.C. Churchill, L.M. Ladwig, J.H. Taylor and S.L. Collins. 2019. The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 687–697.

Noble, J.D., S.L. Collins, A.J. Hallmark, K. Maldonado, B.O. Wolf and S.D. Newsome. 2019. Foraging strategies of individual silky pocket mice over a boom-bust cycle in a stochastic dryland ecosystem. Oecologia 190: 569-578.

Remy, C.C., D.J. Krofcheck, A.L. Keyser, M.E. Litvak, S.L. Collins and M.D. Hurteau. 2019. Integrating species-specific information in models improves regional projections under climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 6554-6562

Chung, Y.A., S.L. Collins and J.A. Rudgers. 2019. Connecting plant–soil feedbacks to long-term stability in a desert grassland. Ecology 100: e02756. 10.1002/ecy.2756.

Corman, J, S.L. Collins, E. Cook, X. Dong, L.A. Gherardi, N.B. Grimm, R.L. Hale, T. Lin, J. Ramos, L.G. Reichmann and O.E. Sala. 2019. Foundations and frontiers of ecosystem science: Legacy of a classic paper (Odum 1969). Ecosystems 22: 1160-1172.

Griffin-Nolan, R.J., D.M. Blumenthal, S.L. Collins, T.E. Farcas, A.M. Hoffman, K.E. Mueller, T.W. Ocheltree, M.D. Smith, K.D. Whitney and A.K. Knapp. 2019. Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 107: 2133–2148.

Komatsu, K.J., M.L. Avolio, N.P. Lemoine, F. Isbell, E. Grman, G.R. Houseman, S.E. Koerner, D.S. Johnson, K.R. Wilcox, J.M. Alatalo, J.P. Anderson, R. Aerts, S.G. Baer, A.H. Baldwin, J. Bates, C. Beierkuhnlein, R.T. Belote, J.M. Blair, J.M.G. Bloor, P.J. Bohlen, E.W. Bork, E.H. Boughton, W.D. Bowman, A.J. Britton, J.F. Cahill, Jr., E. Chaneton, N. Chiariello, J. Cheng, S.L. Collins, J.H.C. Cornelissen, G. Du, A. Eskelinen, J. Firn, B. Foster, L. Gough, K. Gross, L.M. Hallett, X. Han, H. Harmens, M.J. Hovenden, A. Jentsch, C. Kern, K. Klanderud, A.K. Knapp, J. Kreyling. W. Li, Y. Luo, R.L. McCulley, J.R. McLaren, J.P. Megonigal, J.W. Morgan, V. Onipchenko, S.C. Pennings, J.S. Prevéy, J. Price, P.B. Reich, C.H. Robinson, F.L. Russell, O.E. Sala, E.W. Seabloom, M.D. Smith, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, L. Souza, K.N. Suding, K.B. Suttle, T. Svejcar, D. Tilman, P. Tognetti, R. Turkington, Z. Xu, L. Yahdjian, Q. Yu, P. Zhang, Y. Zhang. 2019. Global changes systematically shift plant communities without driving local species loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 17867-17873.

Ladwig, L.M., S.L. Collins, D. Krofcheck and W.T. Pockman. 2019. Minimal mortality and rapid recovery of the dominant shrub Larrea tridentata following an extreme cold event in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 963-972.

Avolio, M.L., I. Carroll, S.L. Collins, G. Houseman, L.M. Hallett, F. Isbell, S.E. Koerner, K.J. La Pierre, M.D. Smith and K.R. Wilcox. 2019. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere: In press.

Baer, S.G., T.J. Adams, D.A. Scott, J.M. Blair and S.L. Collins. 2019. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications: In press.

Risch, A.C., S. Zimmerman, R. Ochoa-Hueso, M. Schütz, B. Frey, J.L. Firn, P.A. Fay, F. Hagedorn, E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom, W.S. Harpole, J.M.H. Knops, R.L. McCulley, A.D.D. Broadbent, C.J. Stevens, P.B. Adler, J.V.S. Báez, L.A. Biederman, J.M. Blair, C.S. Brown, M.C. Caldeira, S.L. Collins, P. Daleo, A. di Virgilio, A. Ebling, E. Esch, A. Eskelinen, S. Guesewell, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K.P. Kirkman, A.S. MacDougall, J.L. Moore, S.A. Power, S.M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, M.L. Speziale, P.M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, L. Yahdjian and B. Moser. 2019. Soil net nitrogen mineralization in global grasslands. Nature Communications: In press.