David G. Williams

Research.com Recognitions

• 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the study of gamma rays from extragalactic sources such as gammaray bursts and blazars, for using gammaray data to test cosmological models of the extragalactic background light, and for leadership in the development of past, present, and future groundbased gammaray telescopes
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Best Publications

• Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

  Nate G. McDowell;William T. Pockman;Craig D. Allen;David D. Breshears

  4867
  Citations

• Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

  Travis E. Huxman;Melinda D. Smith;Melinda D. Smith;Philip A. Fay;Alan K. Knapp

  1386
  Citations

• Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

  Jake F. Weltzin;Michael E. Loik;Susanne Schwinning;David G. Williams

  1075
  Citations

• Evapotranspiration components determined by stable isotope, sap flow and eddy covariance techniques

  D.G. Williams;W. Cable;K. Hultine;J.C.B. Hoedjes

  614
  Citations

• C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland.

  Jack A. Morgan;Daniel R. LeCain;Elise Pendall;Dana M. Blumenthal

  575
  Citations

• Hydrogen isotope fractionation during water uptake by woody xerophytes

  Patrick Z. Ellsworth;David G. Williams

  503
  Citations

• Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally 13C enriched compared with leaves in C3 plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses.

  Lucas A. Cernusak;Guillaume Tcherkez;Claudia Keitel;William K. Cornwell

  461
  Citations

• African Grass Invasion in the Americas: Ecosystem Consequences and the Role of Ecophysiology

  David G. Williams;Zdravko Baruch

  446
  Citations

• Intra- and interspecific variation for summer precipitation use in pinyon-juniper woodlands

  David G. Williams;James R. Ehleringer

  377
  Citations

• Water sources used by riparian trees varies among stream types on the San Pedro River, Arizona.

  Keirith A Snyder;David G Williams

  376
  Citations

• Genetic engineering of taxol biosynthetic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  JingHong M. DeJong;Yule Liu;Arthur P. Bollon;Robert M. Long

  365
  Citations

• Partitioning overstory and understory evapotranspiration in a semiarid savanna woodland from the isotopic composition of water vapor

  Enrico A. Yepez;David G. Williams;Russell L. Scott;Guanghui Lin

  340
  Citations

• Ecophysiology of Introduced Pennisetum Setaceum on Hawaii: The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity

  David G. Williams;David G. Williams;Richard N. Mack;R. Alan Black

  340
  Citations

• Response of net ecosystem gas exchange to a simulated precipitation pulse in a semi-arid grassland: the role of native versus non-native grasses and soil texture

  Travis E. Huxman;Jessica M. Cable;Danielle D. Ignace;J. Alex Eilts

  315
  Citations

• Ecohydrological impacts of woody‐plant encroachment: seasonal patterns of water and carbon dioxide exchange within a semiarid riparian environment

  Russell L. Scott;Travis E. Huxman;David G. Williams;David C. Goodrich

  302
  Citations

• Climate change alters stoichiometry of phosphorus and nitrogen in a semiarid grassland

  Feike A. Dijkstra;Elise Pendall;Jack A. Morgan;Dana M. Blumenthal

  296
  Citations

• Soil Texture Drives Responses of Soil Respiration to Precipitation Pulses in the Sonoran Desert: Implications for Climate Change

  Jessica M. Cable;Kiona Ogle;David G. Williams;Jake F. Weltzin

  282
  Citations

• Limits to water transport in Juniperus osteosperma and Pinus edulis: implications for drought tolerance and regulation of transpiration

  M. J. Linton;J. S. Sperry;D. G. Williams

  254
  Citations

• Antecedent moisture and seasonal precipitation influence the response of canopy‐scale carbon and water exchange to rainfall pulses in a semi‐arid grassland

  D. L. Potts;D. L. Potts;T. E. Huxman;J. M. Cable;N. B. English

  224
  Citations

• Elevated atmospheric CO2 improved Sorghum plant water status by ameliorating the adverse effects of drought

  G. W. Wall;T. J. Brooks;N. R. Adam;A. B. Cousins

  196
  Citations

• Hydraulic redistribution by a dominant, warm‐desert phreatophyte: seasonal patterns and response to precipitation pulses

  K. R. Hultine;R. L. Scott;W. L. Cable;D. C. Goodrich

  185
  Citations

• Dynamics of transpiration and evaporation following a moisture pulse in semiarid grassland: A chamber-based isotope method for partitioning flux components

  Enrico A. Yepez;Travis E. Huxman;Danielle D. Ignace;Nathan B. English

  182
  Citations

• Transpiration of cottonwood/willow forest estimated from sap flux

  Sean M. Schaeffer;Sean M. Schaeffer;David G. Williams;David C. Goodrich

  180
  Citations

• Seasonal estimates of riparian evapotranspiration using remote and in situ measurements.

  D.C Goodrich;R Scott;J Qi;B Goff

  173
  Citations

• Controls on transpiration in a semiarid riparian cottonwood forest

  Rico M. Gazal;Russell L. Scott;David C. Goodrich;David G. Williams

  164
  Citations

• Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems: Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics

  David G. Williams

  92
  Citations