How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you're interested in river drying and cross-ecosystem linkages, check out our new Ecology paper led by undergraduate extraordinaire Amin al-Jamal! -> Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A really cool paper from our incredibly talented former undergraduate, Amin al-Jamal (so far bluesky-less) is out in Ecology! It’s also my first senior author paper! We looked at the feeding habits of everyone’s “favorite” predatory stream insect—the giant water bug. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....