College of Agricultural Sciences

R. A. Lybrand, Heckman, K., and Rasmussen, C., “Soil organic carbon partitioning and Δ14C variation in desert and conifer ecosystems of southern Arizona”, Biogeochemistry, vol. 134, pp. 261-277, 2017.

R. A. Lybrand and Rasmussen, C., “Quantifying Climate and Landscape Position Controls on Soil Development in Semiarid Ecosystems”, Soil Science Society of America Journal, vol. 79, pp. 104-116, 2015.

R. A. Lybrand, Bockheim, J. G., Ge, W., Graham, R. C., Hlohowskyj, S. R., Michalski, G., Prellwitz, J. S., Rech, J. A., Wang, F., and Parker, D. R., “Nitrate, perchlorate, and iodate co-occur in coastal and inland deserts on Earth”, Chemical Geology, vol. 442, pp. 174-186, 2016.

J. Perdrial, Brooks, P. D., Swetnam, T., Lohse, K. A., Rasmussen, C., Litvak, M. C., Harpold, A. A., Zapata-Rios, X., Broxton, P., Mitra, B., Meixner, T., Condon, K., Huckle, D., Stielstra, C., Vazquez-Ortega, A., Lybrand, R. A., Holleran, M., Orem, C., Pelletier, J. D., and Chorover, J., “A net ecosystem carbon budget for snow dominated forested headwater catchments: linking water and carbon fluxes to critical zone carbon storage”, Biogeochemistry, vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 225-243, 2018.

R. A. Lybrand and Rasmussen, C., “Linking soil element-mass-transfer to microscale mineral weathering across a semiarid environmental gradient”, Chemical Geology, vol. 381, pp. 26-39, 2014.

R. A. Lybrand, Michalski, G., Graham, R. C., and Parker, D. R., “The geochemical associations of nitrate and naturally formed perchlorate in the Mojave Desert, California, USA”, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 104, pp. 136-147, 2013.

R. A. Lybrand, Rasmussen, C., Jardine, A., Troch, P. A., and Chorover, J., “The effects of climate and landscape position on chemical denudation and mineral transformation in the Santa Catalina mountain critical zone observatory”, Applied Geochemistry, vol. 26, pp. s80-s84, 2011.

R. A. Lybrand, Gallery, R. E., Trahan, N. A., and Moore, D. J. P., “Disturbance Alters the Relative Importance of Topographic and Biogeochemical Controls on Microbial Activity in Temperate Montane forests”, Forests, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018.

R. A. Lybrand and Rasmussen, C., “A cross-scale study of feldspar transformation in the Santa Catalina Mountain Critical Zone Observatory”, Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, vol. 10, pp. 63-68, 2014.

J. P. Field, Breshears, D. D., Law, D. J., Villegas, J. C., Lopez-Hoffman, L., Brooks, P. D., Chorover, J., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Gallery, R. E., Litvak, M. C., Lybrand, R. A., McIntosh, J. C., Meixner, T., Niu, G. - Y., Papuga, S. A., Pelletier, J. D., Rasmussen, C. R., and Troch, P. A., “Critical Zone Services: Expanding Context, Constraints, and Currency beyond Ecosystem Services”, Vadose Zone Journal, vol. 14, 2015.

R. A. Lybrand, Austin, J. C., Fedenko, J., Gallery, R. E., Rooney, E., Schroeder, P. A., Zaharescu, D. G., and Qafoku, O., “A coupled microscopy approach to assess the nano-landscape of weathering”, Nature: Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 2019.

J. D. Pelletier, Barron-Gafford, G. A., Breshears, D. D., Brooks, P. D., Chorover, J., Durcik, M., Harman, C. J., Huxman, T. E., Lohse, K. A., Lybrand, R. A., Meixner, T., McIntosh, J. C., Papuga, S. A., Rasmussen, C., Schaap, M., Swetnam, T. L., and Troch, P. A., “Coevolution of nonlinear trends in vegetation, soils, and topography with elevation and slope aspect: A case study in the sky islands of southern Arizona”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 118, pp. 741-758, 2013.

R. A. Lybrand and Rasmussen, C., “Climate, topography, and dust influences on the mineral and geochemical evolution of granitic soils in southern Arizona”, Geoderma, vol. 314, pp. 245-261, 2018.

C. Rasmussen, Lybrand, R. A., Orem, C., Kielhoffer, J., and Holleran, M., “Western Range and Irrigated Land Resource Region”, in The Soils of the USA, Cham Springer, 2017, pp. 115-130.