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Classic Publications, 1908 to Present

1908. Wooton, E.O. The range problem in New Mexico. New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 66, 46 pp.
1922. Jardine, J.T. and Forsling, C.L. Range and cattle management during drought. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 1031, 84 pp.
1934. Canfield, R.H. Stem structure of grasses on the Jornada Experimental Range. Botanical Gazette 95:636-648.
1964. Buffington, L.C. and Herbel, C.H. Vegetational changes on a semidesert grassland range from 1858 to 1963. Ecology Monograph 35:139-164.
1983. Gibbens, R.P., Tromble, J., Hennessy, J.T. and Cardenas, M. Soil movement in mesquite dunelands and former grasslands of southern New Mexico from 1933 to 1980. Journal of Range Management 36:145-148.
1986. Moorhead, D.L., Reynolds, J.F. and Whitford, W.G. A conceptual model of primary productivity, decomposition, and nitrogen cycling in the Chihuahuan creosotebush desert. Tree Physiology 2:215-222.
1987. Gibbens, R.P. and Beck, R.F. Increase in number of dominant plants and dominance-classes on a grassland in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Range Management 40:136-139.
1988. Gibbens, R.P. and Beck, R.F. Changes in grass basal area and forb densities over a 64-year period on grassland types of the Jornada Experimental Range. Journal of Range Management 41:186-192.
1990. Schlesinger, W.H., Reynolds, J.F., Cunningham, G.L., Huenneke, L.F., Jarrell, W.M., Virginia, R.A. and Whitford, W.G. Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification. Science 247:1043-1048.
1991. Whitford, W.G. Subterranean termites and long-term productivity of desert rangelands. Sociobiology 19(1):235-243.
1992. Gibbens, R.P., Beck, R.F., McNeeley, R. and Herbel, C.H. Recent rates of mesquite establishment in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Range Management 45:585-588.
1996. Herbel, C.H. and Gibbens, R.P. Post-drought vegetation dynamics on arid rangelands in southern New Mexico. New Mexico Agriculture Experimental Station Bulletin 776, 102 pp.
2001. Gibbens, R.P. and Lenz, J.M. Root systems of some Chihuahuan Desert plants. Journal of Arid Environments 49:221-263.
2003. Barrow, J.R. Atypical morphology variation of dark septate fungal root endophytes of Bouteloua in arid southwestern USA rangelands. Mycorrhiza 13(5):239-247.
2003. Bestelmeyer, B.T., Brown, J.R., Havstad, K.M. , Alexander, R., Chavez, G. and Herrick, J.E. Development and use of state-and-transition models for rangelands. Journal of Range Management 56(2):114-126.
2004. Peters, D.C., Pielke, R.A., Bestelmeyer, B.T. , Allen, C.D., Munson-McGee, S. and Havstad, K.M. Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(42):15130-15135.
2005. Gibbens, R.P., McNeely, R.P., Havstad, K.M., Beck, R.F. and Nolen, B. Vegetation changes in the Jornada Basin from 1858 to 1998. Journal of Arid Environments 65:651-668.
2005. Rango, A., Huenneke, L., Buonopane, M., Herrick, J.E. and Havstad, K.M. Using historic data to assess effectiveness of shrub removal in southern New Mexico. Journal of Arid Environments 62:75-91.
2006. Fredrickson, E.L., Estell, R.E., Laliberte, A.S. and Anderson, D.M. Mesquite recruitment in the Chihuahuan Desert: historic and prehistoric patterns with long-term impacts. Journal of Arid Environments 65:285-295.
2006. Peters, D.P.C., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Herrick, J.E., Fredrickson, E.L., Monger, H.C. and Havstad, K.M. Disentangling complex landscapes: new insights into arid and semiarid system dynamics. BioScience 56:491-501.

Background photo is of E.O. Wooton, ca. 1930.