Selected Research Publications
(† = graduate student; * = undergraduate student)
Walker†, J.S., J.M. Briggs, L. Dugan, C. Gries and N.B. Grimm. In press. Multiscalar patterns and controls of plant diversity in a rapidly expanding desert metropolis. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Butterfield†, B.J. and J.M. Briggs. In press. Patch dynamics of soil-biotic feedbacks in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Arid Environments.
Grimm, N.B., S.H. Faeth, N.E. Golubiewski, C.L. Redman, J. Wu, X. Bai, and J.M. Briggs. Global Change and the Ecology of Cities. 2008. Science 319:756-760.
Knapp, A.K., J.M. Briggs, S.L. Collins, S.R. Archer, M.S. Bret-Harte, B.E. Ewers, D.P. Peters, D.R. Young, G.R. Shaver, E. Pendall, and M.B. Cleary. 2008. Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: Shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology 14:615-623.
Briggs, J.M., H. Schaafsma†, and D. Trenkov†. 2007. Woody vegetation expansion in a desert grassland: Prehistoric human impact? Journal of Arid Environment 69: 458-472.
Walker†, J.S., and J.M. Briggs. 2007. An object-oriented approach to urban forest mapping with high-resolution, true-color aerial photography. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 73:577-583.
Briggs, J.M., K. A. Spielmann, H. Schaafsma†, K. W. Kintigh, M. Kruse†, K. Morehouse†, and K. Schollmeyer†. 2006. Ecology needs archaeologists: Archaeology needs ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4:180-188.
Nippert†, J.B., A. K. Knapp, and J.M. Briggs. 2006. Intra-annual rainfall variability and grassland productivity: can the past predict the future? Plant Ecology 184:65-74.
Briggs, J.M., A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, J.L. Heisler†, G.A. Hoch†, M.S. Lett†, and K. McCarron†. 2005. An ecosystem in transition: woody plant expansion into mesic grassland. BioScience 55:243-254.
Heisler†, J.L., J. M. Briggs, A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, and A. Seery*. 2004. Direct and indirect effects of fire on shrub density and aboveground productivity in a mesic grassland. Ecology 85: 2245-2257.
Lett†, M.S., A.K. Knapp, J.M. Briggs, and J.M. Blair. 2004. Influence of shrub expansion on carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 1363-1370.
Heisler†, J. L., J.M. Briggs, and A.K. Knapp. 2003. Long-term patterns of shrub expansion in a C4-dominated grassland: fire frequency and the dynamics of shrub cover and abundance. American Journal of Botany 90:423-428.
Briggs, J.M., A.K. Knapp, and B. L. Brock. 2002. Expansion of woody plants in tallgrass prairie: A 15-year study of fire and fire-grazing interactions. The American Midland Naturalist 147: 287-294.
Hoch†, G.A., J.M. Briggs, and L.C. Johnson. 2002. Assessing the rate, mechanism and consequences of conversion of tallgrass prairie to Juniperus virginiana forest. Ecosystems 6: 578-586.
Collins, S.L., A.K. Knapp, J.M. Briggs, J.M. Blair, and E.M. Steinauer. 1998. Modulation of diversity by grazing and mowing in native tallgrass prairie. Science 280: 745-747.
Knapp, A.K. J.M. Briggs, D.C. Hartnett and S.L. Collins. 1998. Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Oxford University Press, New York. 364pp.
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