Category Archives: Publications

Heckman’s perspective: drought, fire, and recent rains

PhD student and Tague Team Lab member Chris Heckman shares his perspective on the effect of the recent rains in Santa Barbara in the wake of drought and recent fire: After years of drought it felt a little odd to spend almost half of the days this month inside because of rainstorms; I mean itContinue reading “Heckman’s perspective: drought, fire, and recent rains”

Tague presenting at AGU Chapman Conference

Naomi Tague is presenting “Why subsurface features matter for managing forests, water and fire in the face of increasing drought frequency and severity” today at the AGU Chapman Conference on Extreme Climate Event Impacts on Aquatic Biogeochemical Cycles and Fluxes in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

New Publication

New publication in Ecological Monographs “Nitrogen cycling and export in California chaparral: the role of climate in shaping ecosystem responses to fire“, from Erin Hanan, Naomi Tague, and Josh Schimel. Hanan, E. J., Tague, C. and Schimel, J. P. (2016), Nitrogen cycling and export in California chaparral: the role of climate in shaping ecosystem responses to fire.Continue reading “New Publication”

Chaparral growth-ring analysis as an indicator of stand biomass development

Recent publication in International Journal of Wildland Fire. Uyeda Kellie A., Stow Douglas A., O’Leary John F., Tague Christina, Riggan Philip J. (2016) Chaparral growth-ring analysis as an indicator of stand biomass development. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25, 1086-1092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF16080

Vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming

New publication in Plos One from Tague Team Lab member Ryan Bart with Naomi Tague and Max Moritz. The RHESSys model was used to examine the effects of tree-to-shrub type conversion, in combination with climate change, on streamflow in two lower montane forest watersheds in the Sierra Nevada. Read the paper: Bart RR, Tague CL, Moritz MAContinue reading “Vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming”

Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

Naomi Tague was a collaborator with others on a new publication in Nature Climate Change that reviews how climate change alters key processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems related to nitrogen cycling and availability, and the response of ecosystems to nitrogen addition in terms of carbon cycling, acidification and biodiversity. View the paper T. L. Greaver,Continue reading “Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change”

Tague Team Lab members at CZO meeting

Tague Team Lab members Naomi Tague, Chris Heckman, and Janet Choate attended the 2016 SSCZO (Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory) team meeting this week at UC Merced. Ongoing work from our lab was represented: Naomi Tague: presentation on Eco-Hydrology and the CZO Chris Heckman: poster ‘Does transpiration increase with warming? The effect of soil water storageContinue reading “Tague Team Lab members at CZO meeting”

How fine scale topography influences streamflow..

Kyongho Son and others publish a paper in WATERS that shows how fine scale topography influences streamflow – and other ecosystem functions such as forest productivity – Accounting for fine scale topography (5m-10m) in hydrologic models alters estimates of how climate variability influences estimates of productivity – by accounting for the role played by micro-refugiaContinue reading “How fine scale topography influences streamflow..”

Lab members at CUAHSI

Tague Team Lab members Dr. Naomi Tague and PhD student Chris Heckman, as well as former lab member Kyongho Son (now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Foundation of The City University of New York) are attending the CUAHSI Biennial Colloquia on Water Science at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia this week. The theme forContinue reading “Lab members at CUAHSI”