Articles: PubMed: Population structure of a vector-borne plant parasite. PubMed: When vegetation change alters ecosystem water availability. PubMed: Seedling responses to water pulses in shrubs with contrasting histories of grassland encroachment. PubMed: Quantifying the timescales over which exogenous and endogenous conditions affect soil respiration. PubMed: Environmental and physiological controls on the carbon isotope composition of CO2 respired by leaves and roots of a C3 woody legume (Prosopis velutina) and a C4 perennial grass (Sporobolus wrightii). PubMed: Protection from livestock fails to deter shrub proliferation in a desert landscape with a history of heavy grazing. PubMed: Inter- and under-canopy soil water, leaf-level and whole-plant gas exchange dynamics of a semi-arid perennial C4 grass. PubMed: Nocturnal and seasonal patterns of carbon isotope composition of leaf dark-respired carbon dioxide differ among dominant species in a semiarid savanna. PubMed: Diurnal and seasonal variation in the carbon isotope composition of leaf dark-respired CO(2) in velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina). PubMed: Drought-induced hydraulic limitations constrain leaf gas exchange recovery after precipitation pulses in the C3 woody legume, Prosopis velutina. PubMed: Sensitivity of mesquite shrubland CO2 exchange to precipitation in contrasting landscape settings. PubMed: Woody plants in grasslands: post-encroachment stand dynamics. PubMed: Structural characterization of mesquite (Prosopis velutina) gum and its fractions. PubMed: Climatic/edaphic controls on soil carbon/nitrogen response to shrub encroachment in desert grassland. PubMed: Interrelationships among shrub encroachment, land management, and litter decomposition in a semidesert grassland. PubMed: The sensitivity of ecosystem carbon exchange to seasonal precipitation and woody plant encroachment. PubMed: Influence of soil texture on hydraulic properties and water relations of a dominant warm-desert phreatophyte. PubMed: Precipitation pulse use by an invasive woody legume: the role of soil texture and pulse size. PubMed: Macromolecular dimensions and mechanical properties of monolayer films of Sonorean mesquite gum. PubMed: A hierarchical analysis of the interactive effects of elevated CO2 and water availability on the nitrogen and transpiration productivities of velvet mesquite seedlings. PubMed: Vulnerability to xylem cavitation and the distribution of Sonoran Desert vegetation. PubMed: Purification and characterization of a novel peptidase (IImes) from mesquite (Prosopis velutina) pollen. PubMed: Isolation and properties of an angiotensin II-cleaving peptidase from mesquite pollen.