The faculty of the School of Life Sciences, UNLV, publish in the areas of Arid Land Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics, Biomathematics, Global Climate Change, Microbiology, Plant Stress Physiology and Systematics and Biogeography.
Submissions from 2011
Order I. Opitutales, Jang-Cheon Cho
Class I. Lentisphaeria class. nov., Jang-Cheon Cho, Muriel Derrien, and Brian P. Hedlund
Order I. Lentisphaerales, Jang-Cheon Cho and Brian P. Hedlund
Class II. Opitutae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Peter H. Janssen, Kyle C. Costa, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Opitutaceae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Peter H. Janssen, Wung Yang Shieh, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Puniceicoccaceae, Jang-Cheon Cho, Jaewoo Yoon, and Brian P. Hedlund
Order II. Puniceicoccales, Jang-Cheon Cho, Jaewoo Yoon, and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Victivallaceae fam. nov., Muriel Derrien, Jang-Cheon Cho, and Brian P. Hedlund
Ammonia oxidation, denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in two US Great Basin hot springs with abundant ammonia-oxidizing archaea, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, B. A. Hungate, and Brian P. Hedlund
Measuring nitrification, denitrification, and related biomarkers in continental geothermal ecosystems, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Bruce A. Hungate, Jose de la Torre, Hongchen Jiang, and Brian P. Hedlund
Genus II. Prosthecobacter, Brian P. Hedlund
Phylum XXII. Lentisphaerae, Brian P. Hedlund, Jang-Cheon Cho, Muriel Derrien, and Kyle C. Costa
Potential role of Thermus thermophilus and T. oshimai in high rates of nitrous oxide (N2O) production in ∼80 °C hot springs in the US Great Basin, Brian P. Hedlund, Austin McDonald, Jenny Lam, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, J. R. Brown, and B. A. Hungate
Class III. Spartobacteria class. nov., Peter H. Janssen, Kyle C. Costa, and Brian P. Hedlund
Class I. Verrucomicrobiae, Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Chthoniobacteraceae fam. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Family I. Victivallaceae fam. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Order I. Chthoniobacterales ord. nov., Peter H. Janssen and Brian P. Hedlund
Genus II. Alterococcus, Wung Yang Shieh and Brian P. Hedlund
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on rhizosphere soil microbial communities in a Mojave Desert ecosystem, S. D. Smith
The Temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: A seven desert synthesis, S. D. Smith, M. E. Loik, D. T. Tissue, Therese N. Charlet, Robert S. Nowak, Matt Rogers, and Travis E. Huxman
Responses of a biological crust moss to increased monsoon precipitation and nitrogen deposition in the Mojave Desert, S. D. Smith, Lloyd Stark, and Nicholas N. McLetchie
Genus II. Candidatus Xiphinematobacter, Tom T.M. Vandekerckhove, Jason B. Navarro, August Coomans, and Brian P. Hedlund
Diversity of archaea in terrestrial hot springs and role in ammonia oxidation, Chuanlun L. Zhang, Brian P. Hedlund, and Jun Meng
Submissions from 2010
Microbiology and geochemistry of Smith Creek and Grass Valley hot springs: Emerging evidence for wide distribution of novel thermophilic lineages in the US Great Basin, Jeremy A. Dodsworth and Brian P. Hedlund
Interdomain conjugal transfer of DNA from Bacteria to Archaea, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, Lei Li, Shiping Wei, Brian P. Hedlund, John A. Leigh, and Paul de Figueiredo
Moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacteria from hot springs in Nevada USA, Christopher T. Lefevre, Fernanda Abreu, Marian L. Schmidt, Ulysses Lins, Richard B. Frankel, Brian P. Hedlund, and Dennis A. Bazylinski
Microbiology and geochemistry of Little Hot Creek, a hot spring environment in the Long Valley Caldera, T. J. Vick, Jeremy A. Dodsworth, K. C. Costa, E. L. Shock, and Brian P. Hedlund
Submissions from 2009
Genus Neptunomonas, Brian P. Hedlund and K. C. Costa
Bacterial Succession within an Ephemeral Hypereutrophic Mojave Desert Playa Lake, Jason B. Navarro, Andrea Flores, Christian Ross, Michael R. Rosen, Hailiang Dong, Gaosen Zhang, Duane P. Moser, and Brian P. Hedlund
Ecophysiological responses of desert plants to elevated CO2: Environmental determinants and case studies, S. D. Smith, D. T. Tissue, Travis E. Huxman, and Michael E. Loik
Stereo-Specific Glucose Consumption May Be Used to Distinguish Between Chemical and Biological Reactivity on Mars: A Preliminary Test on Earth, Henry J. Sun, Vienna R. Saccomanno, Brian P. Hedlund, and Christopher P. McKay
Remote sensing of biological soil crust under simulated climate change manipulations in the Mojave Desert, S. L. Ustin, P. G. Valko, S. C. Kefauver, M. J. Santos, J. F. Zimpfer, and S. D. Smith
Submissions from 2008
Geomicrobiological Changes in Two Ephemeral Desert Playa Lakes in the Western United States, Kyle C. Costa, Joy Hallmark, Jason B. Navarro, Brian P. Hedlund, Duane P. Moser, Stephanie LaBahn, and Debbie Soukup
A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of archaea, J. G. Elkins, V. Kunin, Iain Anderson, K. Barry, E. Goltsman, A. Lapidus, Brian P. Hedlund, P. Hugenholtz, N. Kyrpides, D. Graham, M. Keller, G. Wanner, P. Richardson, and Karl O. Stetter
Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems, S. D. Smith, C. Beier, Aimee T. Classen, Melinda D. Smith, Jana L. Heisler, S. W. Leavitt, Alan K. Knapp, D. Briske, Y. Luo, M. Reichstein, J. E. Bell, Philip A. Fay, R. Sherry, and Benjamin Smith
Global occurrence and biogeography of putative archaeal amoA genes in terrestrial hot springs, Chaunlun L. Zhang, Qi Ye, Zhiyong Huang, W-J. Li, J. Chen, Z. Song, W. Zhao, C. Bagwell, W. P. Inskeep, L. Gao, Juergen Wiegel, C. Romanek, and Brian P. Hedlund
Submissions from 2007
Dynamics of cover, UV-protective pigments, and quantum yield in biological soil crust communities of an undisturbed Mojave Desert shrubland, J. Belnap, S. L. Phillips, and S. D. Smith
Molecular phylogeny of uncultivated Crenarchaeota in Great Basin hot springs of moderately elevated temperature, Zhiyong Huang, Brian P. Hedlund, Juergen Wiegel, Jizhong Zhou, and Chuanlun L. Zhang
Linking plant invasions to global environmental change, M. Vila, J. D. Corbin, J. S. Dukes, J. Pino, and S. D. Smith
Submissions from 2006
Enhanced monsoon precipitation and nitrogen deposition affect leaf traits and photosynthesis differently in spring and summer in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata, D. H. Barker, Cheryl H. Vanier, Elke Naumburg, Therese N. Charlet, K. M. Nielsen, B. A. Newingham, and S. D. Smith
The genera Simonsiella and Alysiella, Brian P. Hedlund and D. A. Kuhn
Isolation and characterization of Pseudoalteromonas strains with divergent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon catabolic properties, Brian P. Hedlund and James T. Staley
Increases in desert shrub productivity under elevated carbon dioxide vary with water availability, David C. Housman, Elke Naumburg, Travis E. Huxman, Therese N. Charlet, Robert S. Nowak, and S. D. Smith
Submissions from 2005
Evidence of drought-induced stress on biotic crust moss in the Mojave Desert, D. H. Barker, Lloyd R. Stark, Jeff F. Zimpfer, Nicholas N. McLetchie, and S. D. Smith
Monitoring temporal change in riparian vegetation of Great Basin National Park, E. A. Beever, D. A. Pyke, J. C. Chambers, F. Landau, S. D. Smith, and K. Murray
Genus V. Neptunomonas, Brian P. Hedlund
Genus XI. Simonsiella, Brian P. Hedlund and Tone Tonjum
Net ecosystem CO2 exchange in Mojave Desert shrublands during the eighth year of exposure to elevated CO2, Richard L. Jasoni, S. D. Smith, and John A. Arnone III
A novel kingdom of parasitic archaea, Karl O. Stetter, Michael J. Hohn, Harald Huber, Reinhard Rachel, Eric Mathur, Brian P. Hedlund, and Ulrike Jahn
Submissions from 2004
Photosynthesis, carboxylation and leaf nitrogen responses of 16 species to elevated pCO2 across four free-air CO2 enrichment experiments in forest, grassland and desert, David S. Ellsworth, Peter B. Reich, Elke Naumburg, George W. Koch, Mark E. Kubiske, and S. D. Smith
Analysis and comparison of the microbial community structures of two enrichment cultures capable of reductively dechlorinatint TCE and cis-DCE, April Z. Gu, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, Stuart E. Strand, and David Stensel
Carbon isotope discrimination and foliar nutrient status of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) in contrasting Mojave Desert soils, Erik P. Hamerlynck, Travis E. Huxman, Joseph R. McAuliffe, and S. D. Smith
Microbial Endemism and Biogeography, Brian P. Hedlund and James T. Staley
Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency, Travis E. Huxman, Melinda D. Smith, Philip A. Fay, Alan K. Knapp, M. Rebecca Shaw, Michael E. Loik, S. D. Smith, D. T. Tissue, J. C. Zak, J. F. Weltzin, W. T. Pockman, O. E. Sala, B. Haddad, J. Harte, George W. Koch, S. Schwinning, E. A. Small, and D. G. Williams
CO2 enrichment reduces the energetic cost of biomass construction in an invasive desert grass, J. M. Nagel, K. L. Griffin, Travis E. Huxman, and S. D. Smith
Photosynthetic responses of Larrea tridentata to seasonal temperature extremes under elevated CO2, Elke Naumburg, Michael E. Loik, and S. D. Smith
Functional responses of plants to elevated atmospheric CO2– do photosynthetic and productivity data from FACE experiments support early predictions?, Robert S. Nowak, David S. Ellsworth, and S. D. Smith
Elevated atmospheric CO2 does not conserve soil water in the Mojave Desert, Robert S. Nowak, Stephen F. Zitzer, Derek Babcock, Vickie Smith-Longozo, Therese N. Charlet, James S. Coleman, Jeffrey R. Seemann, and S. D. Smith
Diversity and distribution of Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus in California, B. Oakley, M. North, J. F. Franklin, Brian P. Hedlund, and James T. Staley
Changing the way we think about global change research: Scaling up in experimental ecosystem science, B. Osmond, G. Ananyev, J. Berry, C. Langdon, Z. Kolber, G. Lin, R. Monson, C. Nichol, U. Rascher, U. Schurr, S. D. Smith, and D. Yakir
Leaf to landscape, S. D. Smith, Elke Naumburg, ULo Niinemets, and Matthew J. Germino
Age and sex-specific rates of leaf regeneration in the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis, Lloyd Stark, L. Nichols, Nicholas N. McLetchie, S. D. Smith, and C. Zundel
Submissions from 2003
Functional ecology of shrub seedlings after a natural recruitment event at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility, David C. Housman, Stephen F. Zitzer, Travis E. Huxman, and S. D. Smith
Photosynthetic responses of Mojave Desert shrubs to free air CO2 enrichment are greatest during wet years, Elke Naumburg, David C. Housman, Travis E. Huxman, Therese N. Charlet, Michael E. Loik, and S. D. Smith
On the relationship between stomatal characters and atmospheric CO2, C. D. Reid, H. Maherali, H. B. Johnson, S. D. Smith, S. D. Wullschleger, and R. B. Jackson
Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation, J. Weltzin, Michael E. Loik, S. Schwinning, D. Williams, Philip A. Fay, B. Haddad, J. Harte, Travis E. Huxman, Alan K. Knapp, G. Lin, W. Pockman, R. Shaw, E. Small, Melinda D. Smith, S. D. Smith, D. Tissue, and J. Zak
Submissions from 2002
Nocturnally retained zeaxanthin does not remain engaged in a state primed for energy dissipation during the summer in two Yucca species growing in the Mojave Desert, D. H. Barker, William W. Adams III, Barbara Demmig-Adams, Barry A. Logan, Amy S. Verhoeven, and S. D. Smith
Alterations of nitrogen dynamics under elevated carbon dioxide in an intact Mojave Desert ecosystem: Evidence from nitrogen-15 natural abundance, Sharon A. Billings, S. M. Schaeffer, Stephen F. Zitzer, Therese N. Charlet, and S. D. Smith
Root channel macropores enhance downward movement of water in a Mojave Desert ecosystem, Dale A. Devitt and S. D. Smith
Effects of elevated CO2 (FACE) on the functional ecology of the drought-deciduous Mojave Desert shrub, Lycium andersonii, Erik P. Hamerlynck, Travis E. Huxman, Therese N. Charlet, and S. D. Smith
Ecological responses of two Mojave Desert shrubs to soil horizon development and soil water dynamics, Erik P. Hamerlynck, Joseph R. McAuliffe, Eric V. McDonald, and S. D. Smith
Phylogeny of the genus Simonsiella and other members of the Neisseriaceae, Brian P. Hedlund and James T. Staley
Detection of 16S rDNA sequences representing the novel phylum “Nanoarchaeota”: indication for a world-wide distribution in high temperature biotopes, Michael J. Hohn, Brian P. Hedlund, and Harald Huber
Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter, Cheryl Jenkins, Ram Samudrala, Iain Anderson, Brian P. Hedlund, Giulio Petroni, Natasha Michailova, Nicolas Pinel, Ross Overbeek, Giovanna Rosati, and James T. Staley
Remarkable morphological diversity of viruses and virus-like particles in hot terrestrial environments, R. Rachel, M. Bettstetter, Brian P. Hedlund, M. Haring, A. Kessler, Karl O. Stetter, and D. Prangishvili
Soil resource heterogeneity in the Mojave Desert, J. H. Titus, Robert S. Nowak, and S. D. Smith
Arbuscular mycorrhizae of Mojave Desert plants, J. H. Titus, P. J. Titus, R. S. Nowak, and S. D. Smith
Submissions from 2001
Marinobacter strain NCE312 has a Pseudomonas-like naphthalene dioxygenase, Brian P. Hedlund, Allison D. Geiselbrecht, and James T. Staley
Vibrio cyclotrophicus sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading marine bacterium, Brian P. Hedlund and James T. Staley
The Effects of parental CO2 and offspring nutrient environment on initial growth and photosynthesis in an annual grass, Travis E. Huxman, Therese N. Charlet, C. Grant, and S. D. Smith
Photosynthesis in an invasive grass and native forb at elevated CO2 during an El Niño year in the Mojave Desert, Travis E. Huxman and S. D. Smith
Leaf conductance decreased under free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) for three perennials in the Nevada desert, Robert S. Nowak, Lesley A. DeFalco, Carolyn S. Wilcox, Dean N. Jordan, James S. Coleman, S. D. Smith, and Jeffrey R. Seemann
Elevated atmospheric CO2 and deserts: Will increasing CO2 alter deserts and the desertification process?, S. D. Smith and Travis E. Huxman
Submissions from 2000
Ecological interactions in the biological control of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) in the United States: Toward a new understanding, C. J. DeLoach, R. I. Carruthers, J. E. Lovich, T. L. Dudley, and S. D. Smith
Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata, Erik P. Hamerlynck, Travis E. Huxman, Michael E. Loik, and S. D. Smith
Photosynthetic responses of Larrea tridentata to a step-increase in atmospheric CO2 at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility, Erik P. Hamerlynck, Travis E. Huxman, Robert S. Nowak, S. Redar, Michael E. Loik, Dean N. Jordan, Stephen F. Zitzer, James S. Coleman, Jeffrey R. Seemann, and S. D. Smith
Effects of surface and sub-surface soil horizons on the seasonal performance of Larrea tridentata (creosotebush), Erik P. Hamerlynck, Joseph R. McAuliffe, and S. D. Smith
Low temperature tolerance and cold acclimation for seedlings of three Mojave Desert Yucca species exposed to elevated CO2, Michael E. Loik, Travis E. Huxman, Erik P. Hamerlynck, and S. D. Smith
Water use of two Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO2, Diane E. Pataki, Travis E. Huxman, Dean N. Jordan, Stephen F. Zitzer, James S. Coleman, S. D. Smith, Robert S. Nowak, and Jeffrey R. Seemann
Anaerobic naphthalene degradation by microbial pure cultures under nitrate-reducing conditions, Karl J. Rockne, Joanne C. Chee-Sanford, Robert A. Sanford, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, and Stuart E. Strand
Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem, S. D. Smith, Travis E. Huxman, Stephen F. Zitzer, Therese N. Charlet, David C. Housman, James S. Coleman, Lynn F. Fenstermaker, Jeffrey R. Seemann, and Robert S. Nowak
Comparative phylogenetic analyses of members of the order Planctomycetales and the division Verrucomicrobia: 23S rRNA gene sequence analysis supports the 16S rRNA gene sequence-derived phylogeny, Naomi L. Ward, Fred A. Rainey, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, Wolfgang Ludwig, and Erko Stackebrandt
Submissions from 1999
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by a new marine bacterium, Neptunomonas naphthovorans gen. nov., sp. nov, Brian P. Hedlund, Allison D. Geiselbrecht, Timothy J. Bair, and James T. Staley
Root hydraulic conductivity of Larrea tridentata and Helianthus annuus under elevated CO2, K. A. Huxman, S. D. Smith, and D. S. Neuman
Reproductive allocation and seed production in Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens at elevated atmospheric CO2, Travis E. Huxman, Erik P. Hamerlynck, and S. D. Smith
Biotic, abiotic and performance aspects of the Nevada Desert Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Facility, Dean N. Jordan, Stephen F. Zitzer, George R. Hendrey, Keith F. Lewin, John Nagy, Robert S. Nowak, S. D. Smith, James S. Coleman, and Jeffrey R. Seemann
Effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on root growth and carbohydrate allocation of Phaseolus spp., Katrina J. Salsman, Dean N. Jordan, S. D. Smith, and D. S. Neuman
Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature stress on ecosystem processes, S. D. Smith, Dean N. Jordan, and Erik P. Hamerlynck
Submissions from 1998
Bowen ratio estimates of evapotranspiration for stands on the Virgin River in Southern Nevada, Dale A. Devitt, A. Sala, S. D. Smith, J. Cleverly, L. K. Shaulis, and R. Hammett