Segi TT. Indigenous fishponds are sediment traps for terrigenous sediment on the southern coast of Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i. Journal of Sea Research. 2026;102671. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2026.102671
2025
Bretzing I, Terry A, Gill R. Diving Deeper: How AUVs Are Making Waves in Coral Reef Recovery [poster]. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting; August 2025; Baltimore, MD.
Gill RA, Higgins SI, Larcombe MJ, Potter B, Lee WG. Evolutionary and ecological controls over leaf‑level traits in New Zealand’s tussock grasses. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 2025;49(1):1‑15.
Tanner DA, Kildew K, Zenger N, Abbott BW, Hansen N, Gill RA, Clair SBS. Regeneration and Herbivory Across Multiple Forest Types Within a Megafire Burn Scar. Fire. 2025; 8(8):323. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8080323
Terry, Anna and Gill, Richard, "Diving Deeper: How AUVs Are Making Waves in Coral Reef Recovery" (2025). Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2025.
Love S, Hill S, Gill R, Abbott B, Lee R, Wood R, Bailey E, Corson‑Dosch HR, Nell C, Nixon R. Where is the water? Coast [poster]. U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 232; 2024. doi:10.3133/gip232
Smith TC, Bishop TBB, Duniway MC, et al. Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert. Biological Invasions. 2023;25:3839‑3858. doi:10.1007/s10530-023-03142-z
Villarreal M, Waller EK, Smith TC, Knight AC, Bishop TB, Duniway MC, Munson SM, Gill RA. Maps of early season invasive grasses and hot spots in the Mojave Ecoregion from 2009–2020. US Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release. 2023:67.
2022
Cassinat JJ, Cassinat KC, Segi T, Tavana NG, Gill RA. Traditional village roles and gender shape Samoan perceptions of climate change. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. 2022;4:100173.
Ellis LK, Gill RA. Quantifying impacts of grazing and poor land management strategies on erosion through a semi‑automated change detection workflow in Ka’amola, Molokai. In: Utah Space Grant Consortium Conference; May 9, 2022; Space Dynamics Laboratory, Auditorium Room A. Session 4.
Smith TC. Biophysical factors control invasive grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert [master’s thesis]. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University; 2022.
2021
Smith T, Bishop T, Duniway M, Gill R. Grass, humans, and heat: an ecoregional characterization of annual grass invasion in the Mojave Desert. In: AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts; December 2021. AGU; GC21E‑04.
Terry TJ, Madsen MD, Gill RA, Anderson VJ, St. Clair SB. Herbicide effects on the establishment of a native bunchgrass in annual grass‑invaded areas: indaziflam versus imazapic. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 2021;2:e12049. doi:10.1002/2688-8319.12049
Terry TJ, Madsen MD, Gill RA, Anderson VJ, St. Clair SB. Selective herbicide control: using furrows and carbon seed coatings to establish a native bunchgrass while reducing cheatgrass cover. Restoration Ecology. 2021;29(1):e13351. doi:10.1111/rec.13351
2020
Bishop TBB, Gill RA, McMillan BR, St. Clair SB. Fire, rodent herbivory, and plant competition: implications for invasion and altered fire regimes in the Mojave Desert. Oecologia. 2020;192(1):155‑167. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04562-2
Cassinat J, Gill RA. Using physiological niche modeling to assess plant vulnerability to climate change in the Pacific. 2020 ESA Annual Meeting; August 3‑6, 2020. Ecological Society of America.
Gilman J, Gill RA, St. Clair SB, Bishop TB. Changes in climate and trophic interactions affect secondary succession in water-limited, post-fire environments. 2020 ESA Annual Meeting; August 3‑6, 2020. Ecological Society of America.
Gilman J, Campbell CS, Gill R. Projected changes in climate have cascading effects on the timing and availability of soil water [abstract]. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Annual Meeting; 2020; Virtual, Phoenix, AZ. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2020am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/127550
Koger SA, Gill RA. Gender role‑based perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Pacific Small Island States. 2020 ESA Annual Meeting; August 3‑6, 2020. Ecological Society of America.
Orr S, Gilman J, Campbell C, Gill RA. High‑resolution data analytics of meso‑environmental differences between tree islands and meadows of the subalpine Wasatch Plateau, Utah, USA. 2020 ESA Annual Meeting; August 3‑6, 2020. Ecological Society of America.
Terry TJ, Armond DN, Madsen MD, Gill RA, Anderson V, St. Clair SB. Herbicide effects on the establishment of a native bunchgrass in cheatgrass‑invaded areas: indaziflam vs imazapic. 2020 ESA Annual Meeting; August 3‑6, 2020. Ecological Society of America.
Winkler DE, Belnap J, Duniway MC, Hoover D, Reed SC, Yokum H, Gill RA. Seasonal and individual event-responsiveness are key determinants of carbon exchange across plant functional types. Oecologia. 2020;193(3):811‑825. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04718-5
2019
Aanderud ZT, Bahr J, Robinson DM, Belnap J, Campbell TP, Gill RA, McMillian B and St. Clair S (2019) The Burning of Biocrusts Facilitates the Emergence of a Bare Soil Community of Poorly-Connected Chemoheterotrophic Bacteria With Depressed Ecosystem Services. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7:467. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00467
Bishop TBB, Munson S, Gill RA, Belnap J, St. Clair SB, Petersen SL. Spatiotemporal patterns of cheatgrass invasion in Colorado Plateau National Parks. Landscape Ecol. 2019;34:925-941. doi:10.1007/s10980-019-00817-8
Gill R, Campbell CS. Key role of vascular plants in modifying microenvironment at treeline across continents. SSSA International Soils Meeting. ASA‑CSSA‑SSSA; 2019.
Gilman J, Gill RA. Changes in precipitation affect soil moisture availability and plant community composition in post-fire, semi-arid environments. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019;2019:H33H-2003.
Jensen JL, Manwaring KF, Gill RA, Sudweeks RS, Davies RS, Olsen JA, Phillips AJ, Bybee SM. Religious affiliation and religiosity and their impact on scientific beliefs in the United States. BioScience. 2019;69(4):292-304. doi:10.1093/biosci/biz014
Lindsay J, Arok A, Bybee SM, et al. Using a Reconciliation Module Leads to Large Gains in Evolution Acceptance. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2019;18(4):ar58. doi:10.1187/cbe.19-04-0080
Polley HW, Aspinwall MJ, Collins HP, Gibson AE, Gill RA, Jackson RB, Jin VL, Khasanova AR, Reichmann LG, Fay PA. CO2 enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity. New Phytol. 2019;222:183-192. doi:10.1111/nph.15562
Reed S, Choi RT, Howell A, Gill RA, Belnap J, Tucker C. Interaction of multiple resources in controlling dryland soil CO2 exchange with the atmosphere. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019;2019:B11A-04.
St Clair SB, Bishop TBB, Gill RA, McMillan BR. Loss of biotic resistance conferred by rodent herbivores and high propagule pressure promote invasive grass-fire cycles. Presented at: 2019 ESA Annual Meeting; August 11-16, 2019..
2018
Fay, Philip, Michael Aspinwall, Hal Collins, Anne Gibson, Richard Gill, Robert Jackson, Virginia Jin, Alina Khasanova, Lara Reichmann, H. Wayne Polley. 2018. Flowering in grassland predicted by CO2 and resource effects on species abundance. Global Change Biology. 24:1771-1781 DOI 10.1111/gcb.14032 (0/8.502)
Gill, RA, RC O’Connor, A Rhodes, TB Bishop, DC Laughlin, SB St. Clair. 2018. Niche opportunities for invasive annual plants in dryland ecosystems are controlled by disturbance, trophic interactions, and rainfall. Oecologia. DOI 10.1007/s00442-018-4137-z (0/3.13)
Jensen, J., Phillips, A. J., Manwaring, K. F., Gill, R. A., Peck, S. L., Bybee, S. M. 2018. A Longitudinal Study of Attitudes toward Evolution among Mormon Undergraduates. PLOS ONE
Manwaring, Katie F., J. Jensen, RA Gill, RR Sudweeks, RS Davies, SM Bybee. 2018. Scientific reasoning ability does not predict scientific views on evolution among religious individuals. Evolution: Education and Outreach. (0/N/A)
Polley, HW, M.J. Aspinwall, H.P. Collins, A.E. Gibson, R.A. Gill, R.B. Jackson, V.L. Jin, A.R. Khasanova, L.G. Reichmann, P.A. Fay. 2018. CO2 enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity, New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/nph.15562
2017
Colin L. Tucker, Theresa A. McHugh, Armin Howell, Richard A. Gill, Bettina Weber, Jayne Belnap, Edmund Grote, Sasha C. Reed. 2017. The concurrent use of novel soil surface microclimate measurements to evaluate CO2 pulses in biocrusted interspaces in a cool desert ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 135:239-249. DOI 10.1007/s10533-017-0372-3 (3/3.428)
Conner, Lafe G., Richard A. Gill, Joshua T. Harvey. 2017. . Early snowmelt leads to warmer spring soil temperatures in mid-latitude aspen forest and subalpine meadow: implications for soil carbon cycling. Plant and Soil. (0/3.052)
Thomas, Anne, Richard A. Gill. 2017. Patterns of Urban Forest Composition in Utah’s Growing Mountain Communities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.03.001 (0/2.113)
2016
Conner, Lafe G., Richard A. Gill, Jayne Belnap. 2016. Soil moisture response to experimentally-altered snowmelt timing is mediated by soil, vegetation, and regional climate patterns. Ecohydrology (2/2.852)
St Clair, SB, R O’Connor, R.A. Gill, B McMillian. 2016. Biotic resistance and disturbance: rodent consumers regulate post-fire plant invasions and increase plant community diversity. Ecology 97 (7):1700-1711. (17/3.573)
2015
Conner LG, Gill RA, Belnap J. 2015. Soil moisture response to experimentally altered snowmelt timing is mediated by soil, vegetation, and regional climate patterns. Ecohydrology. DOI 10.1002/eco.1697.
Gill, RA, CS Campbell, SM Karlinsey. 2015. Soil moisture controls Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmannii) seedling carbon balance and survivorship at timberline in Utah, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45:1845-1852. 10.1139/cjfr-2015-0239 (8/1.827)
Kadlec, J., B. St. Clair, DP Ames, RA Gill. 2015. WaterML R Package for Managing Ecological Experiment Data on a CUAHSI HydroServer. Ecological Informatics 28:19-28. 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.05.002 (9/2.02)
Manwaring, Katie F.; Jensen, Jamie L.; Gill, Richard A.; Bybee, Seth M. 2015. Influencing highly religious undergraduate perceptions of evolution: Mormons as a case study. Evolution: Education and Outreach 8:23. 10.1186/s12052-015-0051-6 (13/N/A)
Polley, H. Wayne, Justin D. Derner, Robert B. Jackson, Richard A. Gill, and Philip A. Fay. 2015. Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ15N to CO2 enrichment in mesic grasslands. Oecologia 178:591-601. 10.1007/s00442-015-3221-x (3/3.13)
Procter, Andrew, Richard A. Gill, Philip Fay, H. Wayne Polley, and Robert B. Jackson. 2015. Soil carbon responses to past and future CO2 in three Texas prairie soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 83:66-75. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.01.012 (5/4.857)
2014
Belnap, J, B.J. Walker, S.M. Munson, R.A. Gill. 2014. Site controls on dust generation in two U.S. Deserts. Aeolian Research 14:15-24. doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.03.007 (18/2.298)
Conner LG, Bunnell MC, Gill RA. 2014. Forest diversity as a factor influencing Engelmann spruce resistance to beetle outbreaks. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Published on the web 12 August 2014. 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0236.
Conner, LG, M.C. Bunnell, RA Gill. 2014. Forest diversity and patterns of spruce survival following a spruce beetle epidemic. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44:1383-1393. 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0206(7/1.827)
Gill, Richard A. 2014. The influence of 3-years of warming and N-deposition on ecosystem dynamics is small compared to past land use in subalpine meadows. Plant and Soil. DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-1868-9. (10/3.052)
Shi, Zenquing, Z. Balogh-Brunstad, M. Grant, J. Harsh, R.A. Gill, L. Tomashow, A. Dohnalkova, D. Stacks, M. Letourneau, C. Kent Keller. 2014. Cation uptake and allocation by red pine seedlings under cation-nutrient stress in a column growth experiment. Plant and Soil 374: 197-210. DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-2016-2 (4/3.052)
Yurkewycz, R., Bishop, J, Crisafulli, C., Harrison, J., Gill, RA. 2014. Northern pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides) affect ecosystem processes and plant communities during primary succession. Oecologia 176:1135-1150. (10/3.13)
2013
Conner, Lafe G., Ames, Daniel P., Gill, Richard A. 2013. HydroServer Lite as an Open Source Solution for Archiving and Sharing Environmental Data for Independent University Labs, Ecological Informatics, doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.08.006. (23/2.02)
Gill RA. 2013. The influence of 3-years of warming and N-deposition on ecosystem dynamics is small compared to past land use in subalpine meadows. Plant and Soil. DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-1868-9.
2012
Fay, Philip A., Jin, Virginia L., Way, Danielle A., Potter, Kenneth N., Gill, Richard A., Jackson, Robert B., Polley, H. Wayne. 2012. Soil-mediated effects of subambient to increased carbon dioxide on grassland productivity. Nature-Climate Change 2:742-746/DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1573 (29/19.304)
2011
Gill RA. 2011. Effective strategies for engaging students in large-lecture, non-majors science courses. Journal of College Science Teaching: 41(2): 14-21. (18/N/A)
Kelley, AM, Fay, PA, Polley HW, Gill RA, Jackson RB. 2011. Altered soil extracellular enzyme activity with changing atmospheric CO2: results from a meta-analysis and unique CO2 field gradient. Ecosphere 2(8): 2-20. (31/2.49)
2010
Bishop, J.G., N.B. O'Hara, J.H. Titus, J.L. Apple, R. A. Gill, L. Wynn. 2010. N-P Co-Limitation of Primary Production and Response of Arthropods to N and P in Early Primary Succession on Mount St. Helens Volcano PLOS One: 5(10): e13598. (34/2.806)
2009
Gill RA. 2009. Can we engage students in large-lecture, nonmajors environmental science courses? The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 90 (2), 199-204. (1/N/A)
2008
Balogh-Brunstad, Z, Keller, CK, Gill, RA, Bormann, BT, Li, CY. 2008. The effect of bacteria and fungi on chemical weathering and chemical denudation fluxes in pine growth experiments. Biogeochemistry 88 (2):153-167. (33/3.428)
2007
Gill RA. 2007. Influence of 90 years of protection from grazing on plant and soil processes in the subalpine of the Wasatch Plateau, USA. Rangeland Ecology and Management 60:88-98. (35/1.94)
2006
Gill, R.A., J.A. Boie, J.G. Bishop, L. Larsen, J.L. Apple, R.D. Evans. 2006. Linking community and ecosystem development on Mount Saint Helens. Oecologia 148:312-324. (19/3.13)
Gill, R.A., H. W. Polley, H.B. Johnson, R.B. Jackson. 2006. Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2. Ecology 87:41-52. (78/4.809)
Hopfensperger, K., J. Wu, R.A. Gill. 2006. Plant species richness and erosion potential of a watershed in the Salmon River Subbasin, Idaho. Western North American Naturalist.66 (3):354-364. (5/0.311)
White, Ethan P., Peter B. Adler, William K. Lauenroth, Richard A. Gill, David Greenberg, Dawn M. Kaufmann, Andrew Rossweiler, James A. Rusak, Melinda A. Smith, John Steinbeck, Robert B. Waide, Jin Yao. 2006. A comparison of species-time relationships across ecosystems and taxa. Oikos 112:185-195. (149/4.03)
2005
Burke, I.C. P.B. Hook, D.G. Milchunas, J.E. Barrett, M.A. Vinton, R.L. McCulley, J.P. Kaye, R.A. Gill, H.E. Epstein, R.H. Kelly, W.J. Parton, A.R. Mosier, and C.M. Yonker. 2005. Soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics of the shortgrass steppe. In Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe. (10/Book Chapter)
2003
Gill RA. Impacts of 130 years of grazing on ecosystem carbon dynamics in the subalpine zone of the Wasatch Plateau [abstract]. In: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; December 2003; San Francisco, CA. Abstract B11D‑0715.
Gill RA. Using long‑term chart quadrats to evaluate plant demography in the subalpine: rescuing the Great Basin Experimental Range data sets [abstract]. NSF Award 0245325, Directorate for Biological Sciences. 2003;2(245325):45325.
Gill RA, Jackson RB. Global distribution of root turnover in terrestrial ecosystems. ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC); 2003. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/661.
Gill R, Polley HW, Johnson H, Jackson R. Short‑ and medium‑term carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a grassland exposed to past and future atmospheric CO₂ [abstract]. Ecological Society of America Abstracts. 2003;122.
Lauenroth WK, Gill R. Turnover of root systems. In: de Kroon H, Visser EJW, eds. Root Ecology. Vol 168. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2003. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-09784-7_3.
2002
Epstein, H.E., R.A. Gill, J.M. Paruelo, W.K. Lauenroth, G.J. Jia, I.C. Burke. 2002. Effects of climate change on plant functional type composition in temperate zone grasslands and shrublands. Journal of Biogeography 29(7):875-888. (78/4.248)
Gill, Richard A. and Ingrid C. Burke. 2002. Influence of soil depth on the decomposition of Bouteloua gracilis roots in the shortgrass steppe. Plant and Soil 241:233-242. (79/3.052)
Gill, RA, Ingrid C. Burke, William K. Lauenroth, Daniel G. Milchunas. 2002. Root longevity and turnover in the shortgrass steppe: Influence of diameter and depth. Plant Ecology 159 (2): 241-251 (75/1.615)
Gill, RA, H. Wayne Polley, Hyrum B. Johnson, Laurel J. Anderson, Hafiz Maherali, and Robert B. Jackson. 2002. Nonlinear grassland response to past and future atmospheric CO2. Nature 417:279-282. (316/40.137)
2001
Gill, R.A., R.H. Kelly, W.J. Parton, K.A. Day, R.B. Jackson, J.A. Morgan, J.M.O. Scurlock, L.L. Tieszen, D.S. Ojima, J. van de Castle, X.S. Zhang. 2001. Enhancing the worldwide grassland NPP database using simple environmental variables to estimate belowground productivity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:79-86. (132/6.045)
2000
Gill, Richard A. and Robert B. Jackson. 2000. Global patterns of root turnover for terrestrial ecosystems. New Phytologist 147:13-31. (1005/7.33)
1999
Gill, Richard A., Ingrid C. Burke, Daniel G. Milchunas, and William K. Lauenroth. 1999. Relationship between root biomass and soil organic matter pools in the shortgrass steppe of eastern Colorado. Ecosystems 2: 226-236. (139/4.196)
Gill, Richard A., and Ingrid C. Burke. 1999. Using an environmental science course to promote scientific literacy. Journal of College Science Teaching 29:105-110. (13/N/A)
Gill, Richard A. and Ingrid C. Burke. 1999. Ecosystem consequences of plant life form changes at three sites in the semiarid United States. Oecologia 121:551- 563. (130/3.13)
1998
Burke IC, Lauenroth WK, Vinton MA, et al. Plant–soil interactions in temperate grasslands. Biogeochemistry. 1998;42:121‑143. doi:10.1023/A:1005987807596
