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AMAZON-ANDES CLIMATE, PALEOCLIMATE, AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
Baker PA, Fritz SC, Dick CW, Eckert AJ, Horton BK, Manzoni S, Ribas CC, Garzione CN, Battisti DS (2014). The emerging field of geogenomics: constraining geological problems with genetic data. Earth Science Reviews 135: 38-47, doi.10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.04.001 pdf

Nace TE, Baker PA, Dwyer GS, Silva CG, Rigsby CA, Burns SJ, Giosan L, Ott-Bliesner B, Liu Z, Zhu J (2014). The role of North Brazil Current transport in the paleoclimate of the Brazilian Nordeste margin and paleoceanography of the western tropical Atlantic during the late Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 415: 3-13, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.030. link

Fornace KL, Hughen KA, Shanahan TM, Fritz SC, Baker PA, Sylva SP (2014). A 60,000-year record of hydrologic variability in the Central Andes from the hydrogen isotopic composition of leaf waxes in Lake Titicaca sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 408: 263-271. link

Maroon EA, Frierson DMW, Battisti DS (2014). The tropical precipitation response to Andes topography and ocean heat fluxes in an aquaplanet model. Journal of Climate 28: 381-398, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00188.1. link

Liu X, Battisti DS (2015). The influence of orbital forcing of tropical insolation on the climate and isotopic composition of precipitation in South America. Journal of Climate 28: 4841-4862, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00639.1. link

Horton BH, Perez ND, Fitch JD, Saylor, JE (2015). Punctuated shortening and subsidence in the Altiplano Plateau of southern Peru: implications for an early Andean mountain building. Lithosphere 7: 117-137, doi:10.1130/L397.1. link

Baker PA, Fritz SC (2015). Nature and causes of Quaternary climate variation of tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 124: 31-47, doi:/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.011. pdf

Park E, Latrubesse E (2015). Surface water and sediment distribution patterns at the confluence of mega rivers: the Solimões-Amazon and Negro rivers junction. Water Resources Research 51, doi 10.1002/2014WR016757. link

Baker PA, Fritz SC, Silva C, and Trans-Amazon Drilling Project Members (2015). Origins and evolution of the forests, climate, and hydrology of the South American tropics. Scientific Drilling 20: 41-49. link

Kar N, Garzione CN, Jaramillo C, Shanahan T, Carlotto V, Pullen A, Moreno F, Anderson V, Moreno E, Eiler J (2016). Rapid regional surface uplift of the northern Altiplano plateau revealed by multiproxy paleoclimate reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 447: 33-47. link

Valencia BG, Matthews-Bird F, Urrego DH, Williams JJ, Gosling WD, Bush M (2016). Andean microrefugia: testing the Holocene to predict the Anthropocene. New Phytologist 212: 510-522 link

Bershaw J, Saylor JE, Garzione CN, Leier A, Sundell KE (2016). Stable isotope variations (18O and D) in modern waters across the Andean Plateau. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 194: 310-342. link

Liu X, Battisti DS, Donohoe AD (2017). Tropical precipitation and cross-equatorial ocean heat transport during the mid-Holocene. Journal of Climate 30: 3529-3547, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0502.1. link

Liu X, Battisti DS, Roe G (2017). The effect of cloud cover on meridional heat transport (MHT): lessons from variable rotation experiments. Journal of Climate doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0745.1 link

Matthews-Bird F, Valencia BG, Church W, Peterson LC, Bush M (2017). A 2000-year history of disturbance and recovery at a sacred site in Peru’s northeastern cloud forest. The Holocene 1-13, doi: 10.1177/0959683617702232 link

D’Apolito CD, Absy ML, Latrubesse EM (2017). The movement of pre-adapted cool taxa in north-central Amazonia during the last glacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 169: 1-12. link

Latrubesse EM, Arima EY, Dunne T, Park E, Baker VR, d’Horta FM, Wight C, Wittmann F, Zuanon J, Baker PA, Ribas CC, Norgaard RB, Filizola N, Ansar A, Flyvberg B, Stevaux JC (2017). Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. Nature 546: 363-369. link

Park E, Latrubesse E (2017). High-resolution mapping of flood routing patterns and hydrological connectivity in the middle Amazon River floodplain. Remote Sensing of the Environment 198: 321-332. link

Garzione CN, McQuarrie N, Perez ND, Ehlers TA, Beck S., Kar N, Eichelberger N, Chapman AD, Ward KM, Ducea MN, Lease RO, Poulsen CJ, Wagner LS, Horton BK, Saylor JE, Zandt G (2017). Tectonic evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the growth of plateaus. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45: link

Weide DM, Fritz SC, Brinson BA, Billups WE, Thompson L (2017). Freshwater diatoms in the Sajama, Quelccaya, and Coropuna glaciers of the South American Andes. Diatom Research 32: 10.1080/0269249X.2017.1335240 link

Weide DM, Fritz SC, Hastorf CA, Bruno M, Baker PA, Guedron S, Salenbien W (2017). A ~6000-year diatom record of mid- to late-Holocene fluctuations in the level of Lago Wiñaymarca, Lake Titicaca, (Peru/Bolivia). Quaternary Research 88: link

Spanbauer TL, Fritz SC, Baker PA (2017) Punctuated change in the morphology of an endemic diatom from Lake Titicaca. Paleobiology

Fritz SC, Baker PA (2107). Geogenomics – integrating geology and phylogenetics to unravel the evolutionary history of Earth and its biota. Past Global Changes Magazine 25:

BIODIVERSITY AND PHYLOGENETICS
Silman MR (2014). Functional megadiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 5763-5764. link

Smith S, Pease J (2016). Heterogeneous molecular processes among the causes of how sequence similarity scores can fail to recapitulate phylogeny. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2016: 1-7. link

Nazareno AG, Bemmels JB, Dick CW, Lohmann LG (2017) Minimum sample sizes for population genomics: an empirical study from an Amazon plant species. Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12654. link

Nazareno AG, Dick CW (2107) Wide but not impermeable: testing the riverine barrier hypothesis for an Amazonian plant species. Molecular Ecology 2017: 1-13. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14142. link

ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODELING
Manzoni S, Vico G, Palmroth S, Porporato A, Katul G (2013). Optimization of stomatal conductance for maximum carbon gain under dynamic soil moisture. Advances in Water Resources 62: 90–105. link

Bartlett MS, Vico G, Porporato A (2014). Coupled carbon and water fluxes in CAM photosynthesis: modeling quantification of water use efficiency and productivity. Plant and Soil 380, doi 10.1007/s11104-014-2064-2. link

Manzoni S, Katul G, Porporato A (2014). A dynamical-system perspective on plant hydraulic failure. Water Resources Research 50, doi 10.1002/2013WR015236. link

Manzoni S, Vico G, Katul G, Palmroth S, Porporato A (2014). Optimal plant water-use strategies under stochastic rainfall. Water Resources Research 50, doi 10.1002/2014WR015375. link

Manzoni S (2014). 
Integrating plant hydraulics and gas exchange along the drought-response trait spectrum. Tree Physiology, doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu088. link

Vico G, Thompson S, Manzoni S, Molini et al. (2015). Climatic, ecophysiological and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems, Ecohydrology 8: 660–681. link

Hartzell S, Bartlett MS, Virgin L, Porporato A (2015). Nonlinear dynamics of the CAM circadian rhythm in response to environmental forcing, Journal of Theoretical Biology 368: 83-94. link

Feng X, Porporato A, Rodriguez-Iturbe I (2015) Stochastic soil water balance under seasonal climates. Proc. R. Soc. A 471: 20140623. link

Porporato A, Feng X, Manzoni S, Mau Y, Parolari AJ, Vico G (2015) Ecohydrological modeling in agroecosystems: Examples and challenges. Water Resources Research 51: doi: 10.1002/2015WR017289. link

Mau Y, Porporato A (2015) A dynamical system approach to soil salinity and sodicity. Advances in Water Resources 83: 68-76. link

Porporato A, Calabrese S (2015) On the probabilistic structure of water age. Water Resources Research 51: 3588-3600. link

Parolari AJ, Katul GG, Porporato A (2015) The Doomsday Equation and 50 years beyond: new perspectives on the human‐water system. WIREs Water 2: 407-414. link

Rigby JR, Yin J, Albertson JD, Porporato A (2015) Approximate analytical solution to diurnal atmospheric boundary-layer growth under well-watered conditions. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 156: 73-89. link

Pascale S, Lucarini V, Feng X, Porporato A, ul Hasson S (2015) Projected changes of rainfall seasonality and dry spells in a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-015-2648-4. link

Manzoni S, Vico G, Thompson S, Beyer F, Weih M (2015). Contrasting leaf phenological strategies optimize carbon gain under droughts of different duration. Advances in Water Resources 84: 37–51. link

Hunt AG, Manzoni S. (2015). Networks on Networks. doi:10.1088/978-1-6817-4159. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. link

Parolari AJ, Porporato A (2016) Forest soil carbon and nitrogen cycles under biomass harvest: Stability, transient response, and feedback. Ecological Modelling 329: 64-76. link

Bonetti S, Feng X, Porporato A (2017) Ecohydrological controls on plant diversity in tropical South America. Ecohydrology doi: 10.1002/eco.1853. link

Bonetti S, Porporato A (2017). On the dynamic smoothing of mountains. Geophysical Research Letters 44, doi: 10.1002/2017GL073095. link

Vico G, Dralle D, Feng X, Thompson S, Manzoni S (2017). How competitive is drought deciduousness in tropical forests? A combined eco-hydrological and eco-evolutionary approach. Environmental Research Letters 12: 065006, link