Publications
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Litvak E, McCarthy HR, Pataki DE. 2012. Transpiration from urban trees in a semi-arid climate is constrained by xylem vulnerability to cavitation. Tree Physiology, In press.

Townsend-Small A, Tyler SC, Pataki DE, Xu X, Christensen LE. 2012. Isotopic measurements of atmospheric methane in Los Angeles, California, USA reveal the influence of "fugitive" fossil fuel emissions. JGR Atmospheres, In press.

Gillespie TW, Pincetl S, Brossard S, Smith J, Saatchi S, Pataki D, Saphores J-D. 2012. A time series of urban forestry in Los Angeles. Urban Ecosystems 15(1) 233-246.

Bijoor NS, McCarthy HR, Zhang D, Pataki DE. 2012. Water sources of urban trees in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Urban Ecosystems 15(1): 194-214.

Goedhart CM, Pataki DE. 2012.  Do arid species use less water than mesic species in an irrigated common garden? Urban ecosystems 15(1): 215-232.

Wang W, Pataki DE. 2012. Drivers of spatial variability in urban plant and soil isotopic composition in the Los Angeles Basin. Plant and Soil 350: 323–338.

McCarthy HR, Pataki DE, Jenerette GD. 2011. Plant water use efficiency as a metric of urban ecosystem services. Ecological Applications 21(8): 3115–3127

Townsend-Small A, Rosso D, Pataki DE, Tseng L, Tsai C-Y. 2011. Nitrous oxide emissions from water reclamation plants in southern California. Journal of Environmental Quality 40: 1542-1550.

McKinley DC, Ryan MG, Birdsey RA, Giardina CP, Harmon ME, Heath LS, Houghton RA, Jackson RB, Morrison JF, Murray BC, Pataki DE, Skog KE. 2011. A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States. Ecological Applications 21: 1902-1924.

Bijoor, N.S., Pataki D.E., Rocha A.V., Goulden M.L. 2011. The application of d18O and dD for understanding water pools and fluxes in a Typha marsh. Plant, Cell and Environment 34: 1761-1775.

Litvak E, McCarthy HR, Pataki DE. 2011. Water relations of coast redwood planted in the semi-arid climate of southern California. Plant, Cell and Environment, 34(8): 1384-1400.

Goedhart CM, Pataki DE. 2011. Ecosystem effects of groundwater depth in Owens Valley, California. Ecohydrology, 4(3): 458-468.

Pataki DE, McCarthy HR, Litvak E, Pincetl S. 2011. Transpiration of urban forests in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Ecological Applications, 21(3): 661-677

Pataki DE, Boone CG, Hogue TS, Jenerette GD, McFadden JP, Pincetl S. 2011. Socio-ecohydrology and the urban water challenge. Ecohydrology 4(2): 341-347.

Pataki DE, Carreiro MM, Cherrier J, Grulke NE, Jenning V, Pincetl S, Pouyat RV, Whitlow TH, Zipperer WC. 2011. Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: Ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 27-36.

Townsend-Small A, Pataki DE, Czimczik CI, Tyler SC. 2011. Nitrous oxide emissions and isotopic composition in urban and agricultural systems in southern California. JGR Biogeosciences 116, G01013: doi:10.1029/2010JG001494

McCarthy HR, Pataki DE. 2010. Drivers of variability in water use of native and non-native urban trees in the Greater Los Angeles area. Urban Ecosystems 13(4): 393-414.

Djuricin S, Pataki DE, Xiaomei Xu. 2010. A comparison of tracer methods for quantifying CO2 sources in an urban region. JGR Atmospheres 115, D11303 doi:10/1029/2009JD012236.

Kennedy C, Steinberger J, Gasson B, Hansen Y, Hillman T, Havranek M, Pataki D, Phdungsilp A, Ramaswami A, Mendez GV. 2010. Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities. Energy Policy 38(9): 4828-4837

Goedhart CM, Pataki DE, Billings SA. 2010. Seasonal variations in plant nitrogen relations and photosynthesis along a grassland to shrubland gradient in Owens Valley, California. Plant and Soil 327: 213-223.

Pataki DE, Randerson JT, Wang W, Herzenach MK, Grulke NE. 2010. The carbon isotope composition of plants and soils as biomarkers of pollution. In West JB, Bowen G, Dawson TE, Eds. Isoscapes: Understanding movement, pattern, and process on Earth through isotope mapping. Springer, New York.

Wang W, Pataki DE. 2010. Spatial patterns of plant isotope tracers in the Los Angeles urban region. Landscape Ecology 25(1):35-52.

Kennedy C, Steinberger J, Gasson B, Hansen Y, Hillman T, Havranek M, Pataki D, Phdungsilp A, Ramaswami A, Mendez GV. 2009. Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities. Environmental Science and Technology 43, 7297-7302.

Pataki DE, Emmi PC, Forster CB, Mills JI, Pardyjak ER, Peterson TR, Thompson JD, Dudley-Murphy E. 2009. An integrated approach to improving fossil fuel emissions scenarios with urban ecosystem studies. Ecological Complexity 6(1):1-14.

Riley WJ, Hsueh DJ, Randerson JT, Fischer ML, Hatch JG, Pataki DE, Goulden ML. 2008. Where do fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions from California go? An analysis based on radiocarbon observations and an atmospheric transport model. JGR Biogeosciences 113, G04002, doi:10.1029/2007JG000625

Hultine KR, Bush SE, West AG, Burtch KG, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. 2008. Gender-specific patterns of aboveground allocation, canopy conductance and water use in a dominant riparian tree species: Acer negundo. Tree Physiology 28(9) 1383-1394.

Bijoor NS, Czimczik C, Pataki DE, Billings SA. 2008. The effects of temperature and fertilization on nitrogen cycling and community composition of an urban lawn. Global Change Biology,  14: 1-13.

Pataki DE, Billings SA, Naumburg E, Goedhart CM. 2008. Water sources and nitrogen relations of grasses and shrubs in phreatophytic communities of the Great Basin Desert. Journal of Arid Environments, 72(9):1581-1593

Grimm NB, Foster D, Groffman P, Grove JM, Hopkinson CS, Nadelhoffer K, Pataki DE, Peters D. 2008. The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(5): 264-272.

Bush SE, Pataki DE, Hultine KR, West AG, Sperry JS, Ehleringer JR. 2008. Wood anatomy constrains stomatal responses to atmospheric vapor pressure deficit in irrigated, urban trees. Oecologia, 156: 13-20.

Ngo NS, Pataki DE. 2008. The energy and mass balance of Los Angeles County. Urban Ecosystems, 11: 121-139.

Bowling DR, Pataki DE, Randerson JT. 2008. Carbon isotopes in terrestrial ecosystem pools and CO2 fluxes. New Phytologist, 178(1): 24–40.

Pataki DE, Xu T, Luo YQ, Ehleringer JR. 2007. Inferring biogenic and anthropogenic CO2 sources across an urban to rural gradient. Oecologia 152: 307-322.

Bush SE, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. 2007. Sources of variation in d13C of fossil fuel emissions in Salt Lake City, USA. Applied Geochemistry 22: 715-723.

Pataki DE, Lai CT, Keeling CD, Ehleringer JR. 2007. Insights from stable isotopes on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle.  In Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Canadell JG, Pataki DE, Pitelka LF, Eds, Springer, Berlin.

Pouyat RV, Pataki DE, Belt KT, Groffman PM, Hom J, Band LE. 2007. Effects of urban land use change on biogeochemical cycles. In Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Canadell JG, Pataki DE, Pitelka LF, Eds, Springer, Berlin.

Gurney K, Ansely W, Mendoza D, Petron G, Frost G, Gregg J, Fischer, M, Pataki D, Acerkman K, Houseling S, Corbin K, Andres R, Blasing TJ. 2007. Research needs for finely resolved fossil carbon emissions. EOS 88(40): 542-543

Canadell JG, Pataki DE, Gifford R, Houghton R, Luo Y, Raupach M, Smith P, Steffen W. 2007.  Saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink. In Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Canadell JG, Pataki DE, Pitelka LF, Eds, Springer, Berlin.

Canadell JG, Pataki DE, Pitelka LF, Eds. 2007. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World, Springer, Berlin.

Pataki DE, Alig RJ, Fung AS, Golubiewski NE, Kennedy CA, McPherson EG, Nowak DJ, Pouyat RV, Romero Lankao P. 2006. Urban ecosystems and the North American Carbon Cycle.  Global Change Biology 12: 2092-2101, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01242.x

Pataki DE, Bowling DR, Ehleringer JR, Zobitz JM. 2006. High resolution monitoring of urban carbon dioxide sources.  Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03813, doi:10.1029/2005GL024822

Aranibar JN, Berry JA, Riley WJ, Pataki DE, Law BE, Ehleringer JR. 2006.  Combining meteorology, eddy fluxes, isotope measurements, and modeling to understand environmental controls of carbon isotope discrimination at the canopy scale. Global Change Biology, 12: 710-730.

Pataki DE, Tyler BJ, Peterson RE, Nair AP, Steenburgh WJ, Pardyjak ER.  2005. Can carbon dioxide be used as a tracer of urban atmospheric transport? Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres,110: D15102, doi:10.1029/2004JD005723.

Pataki DE. 2005. Emerging topics in stable isotope ecology: are there isotope effects in plant respiration? New Phytologist, 167: 321-323.

Pataki DE, Bush SE, Ehleringer JR. 2005. Stable isotopes as a tool in urban ecology. In Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Processes and biological controls. Flanagan LB, Ehleringer JR, Pataki DE, Eds. Elsevier Press.

Flanagan LB, Ehleringer JR, Pataki DE, Eds. 2005. Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Processes and biological controls. Elsevier Press.

Pataki DE, Bush SE, Gardner P, Solomon DK, Ehleringer JR. 2005. Ecohydrology in a Colorado River riparian forest: Implications for the decline of Populus fremontii. Ecological Applications 15(3): 1009-1018.

Luo Y, Su B, Currie WS, Dukes JS, Finzi A, Hartwig U, Hungate B, McMurtrie R, Oren R, Parton WJ, Pataki DE, Shaw R, Zak DR, Field C. 2004. Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric CO2. 2004. Bioscience 54(8): 731-739.

Morgan JA, Pataki  DE, Gruenzweig J, Körner C, Newton P, Niklaus PA, Nippert J, Nowak RS, Parton W, Clark H, Del Grosso SJ, Knapp  AK, Mosier AR, Polley W, Shaw R. 2004. Grassland responses to rising atmospheric CO2 are driven primarily by water relations. Oecologia 140: 11-25.

Pataki DE, Bowling DR, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and its isotopic composition in an urban atmosphere: anthropogenic and biogenic effects. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. 108(D23), 4735, doi:10.1029/2003JD003865.

Pataki DE, Oren R. 2003. Species differences in stomatal control of water loss at the canopy scale in a mature bottomland deciduous forest. Advances in Water Resources. 26(12): 1267-1278.

Pataki DE, Ellsworth DW, Evans RD, Gonzalez-Meler M, King JS, Leavitt SW, Lin G, Matamala R, Pendall E, Siegwolf R, van Kessel C, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Tracing changes in ecosystem function under elevated CO2.  Bioscience 53(9): 805-818.

Bowling DR, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Ecosystem isotope exchange and whole-canopy discrimination in Medicago sativa. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 116: 159-179.

Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR, Flanagan LB, Yakir D, Bowling DR, Still C, Buchmann N, Kaplan JO, Berry JA. 2003. The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(1), 1022, doi:10,1029/2001GB001850.

Pataki DE. 2002. Atmospheric CO2, climate and evolution – lessons from the past. New Phytologist 154:10-14.

Canadell J, Pataki DE. 2002. New advances in carbon cycle research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(4): 156-158.

Oren R, Pataki DE. 2001. Transpiration in response to variation in microclimate and soil moisture in southeastern deciduous forests. Oecologia 127:549–559.

Oren R, Sperry JS, Ewers BE, Pataki DE, Phillips N, Megonigal JP. 2001. Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum L. forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. Oecologia. 126:21-29.

Pataki, D.E., T.E. Huxman, D.N. Jordan, S.F. Zitzer, J.S. Coleman, S.D. Smith, R.S. Nowak, J.R. Seemann. 2000. Water use of two Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 6(8): 889-898

Pataki, D.E., R. Oren, and W.K. Smith. 2000. Sap flux of co-occurring species in a western subalpine forest during seasonal soil drought. Ecology 81(9) 2557-2566. 

Oren, R., N. Phillips, B.E. Ewers, D.E. Pataki, and J.P. Megonigal. 1999. Sap flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichumL. forest. Tree Physiology 19: 337-347. 

Oren R., J.S. Sperry, G.G. Katul, D.E. Pataki, B.E. Ewers, N. Phillips, K.V.R. Schäfer. 1999. Survey and synthesis of intra- and interspecific variation in stomatal sensitivity to vapour pressure deficit. Plant, Cell and Environment 22: 1515-1526.

Pataki, D.E., R. Oren, and D.T. Tissue. 1998. Elevated carbon dioxide does not affect stomatal conductance of Pinus taedaL. Oecologia 117: 47-52. 

Pataki, D.E., R. Oren, and N. Phillips. 1998. Responses of sap flux and stomatal conductance of Pinus taedaL. trees to stepwise reductions in leaf area. Journal of Experimental Botany 49: 871-878. 

Pataki, D.E., R. Oren, G. Katul, and J. Sigmon. 1998.  Canopy conductance of Pinus taeda,  Liquidambar styraciflua and Quercus phellosunder varying atmospheric and soil moisture conditions. Tree Physiology18: 307-315. 

Oren, R., N. Phillips, G. Katul, B.E. Ewers, and D.E. Pataki. 1998. Scaling xylem sap flux and soil water balance, and calculating variance: a method for partitioning water flux in forests. Annales des Sciences Forestieres55: 191-216. 

Katul, G., P. Todd, D.E. Pataki, Z.J. Kabala, and R. Oren. 1997. Soil water depletion by oak trees and the influence of root water uptake on the moisture content spatial statistics. Water Resources Research 33(4):611-623. 

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