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Overview

Kevin R. Hultine is affiliated with the Desert Botanical Garden in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in related subfields.

Their key areas of study include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

The main topics covered in their work are:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Botanical Research and Applications

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "High water use in desert plants exposed to extreme heat" (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • "Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world" (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice" (2021, Conservation Physiology)
  • "An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation" (2020, Ecosystems)
  • "Adaptive trait syndromes along multiple economic spectra define cold and warm adapted ecotypes in a widely distributed foundation tree species" (2020, Journal of Ecology)

Hultine has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Conservation Physiology
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Journal of Ecology

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of Hultine's work, often co-authoring with:

  • Gerard J. Allan
  • Thomas G. Whitham
  • Catherine A. Gehring
  • Hillary F. Cooper
  • Christopher E. Doughty

Best Publications

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

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

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

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Altitude trends in conifer leaf morphology and stable carbon isotope composition

    K. R. Hultine;J. D. Marshall

  • Using phenocams to monitor our changing Earth: toward a global phenocam network

    Tim B Brown;Kevin R Hultine;Heidi Steltzer;Ellen G Denny

  • Calibration of thermal dissipation sap flow probes for ring- and diffuse-porous trees.

    Susan E Bush;Kevin R Hultine;John S Sperry;James R Ehleringer

  • Seasonal variations in moisture use in a piñon–juniper woodland

    A. G. West;A. G. West;K. R. Hultine;K. G. Burtch;J. R. Ehleringer

  • 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

  • TRANSPIRATION AND HYDRAULIC STRATEGIES IN A PINON-JUNIPER WOODLAND

    A. G. West;K. R. Hultine;J. S. Sperry;S. E. Bush

  • Climate change perils for dioecious plant species.

    Kevin R. Hultine;Kevin C. Grady;Troy E. Wood;Stephen M. Shuster

  • The ecohydrologic significance of hydraulic redistribution in a semiarid savanna

    Russell L. Scott;William L. Cable;Kevin R. Hultine

  • Wood anatomy constrains stomatal responses to atmospheric vapor pressure deficit in irrigated, urban trees

    Susan E. Bush;Diane E. Pataki;Kevin R. Hultine;Adam G. West;Adam G. West

  • Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth

    Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Vasilis Dakos;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M.R. Robert;Elisabeth M.R. Robert

  • Precipitation pulse use by an invasive woody legume: the role of soil texture and pulse size.

    Alessandra Fravolini;Kevin R. Hultine;Enrico Brugnoli;Rico Gazal

  • Contrasting patterns of hydraulic redistribution in three desert phreatophytes

    K.R. Hultine;D.G. Williams;Stephen Burgess;T.O. Keefer

  • High water use in desert plants exposed to extreme heat.

    Luiza M. T. Aparecido;Sabrina Woo;Crystal Suazo;Kevin R. Hultine

  • Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

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  • Roles of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) and capillary rise in salinizing a non-flooding terrace on a flow-regulated desert river

    E.P. Glenn;K. Morino;Pamela L. Nagler;R.S. Murray

  • Comparison of Methods to Estimate Ephemeral Channel Recharge, Walnut Gulch, San Pedro River Basin, Arizona

    David C. Goodrich;David G. Williams;Carl L. Unkrich;James F. Hogan

  • The conservation physiology toolbox: status and opportunities.

    Christine L Madliger;Christine L Madliger;Oliver P Love;Kevin R Hultine;Steven J Cooke

  • Tamarisk biocontrol in the western United States: ecological and societal implications

    Kevin R. Hultine;Jayne Belnap;Charles van Riper;James R. Ehleringer

  • Sap flux-scaled transpiration by tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) before, during and after episodic defoliation by the saltcedar leaf beetle (Diorhabda carinulata)

    K.R. Hultine;P.L. Nagler;K. Morino;S.E. Bush

  • Differential summer water use by Pinus edulis and Juniperus osteosperma reflects contrasting hydraulic characteristics

    A. G. West;K. R. Hultine;T. L. Jackson;J. R. Ehleringer

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
Edward P. Glenn
Edward P. Glenn University of Arizona
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Pamela L. Nagler
Pamela L. Nagler University of Arizona
Tom L. Dudley
Tom L. Dudley University of California, Santa Barbara
Adam G. West
Adam G. West University of Cape Town
Catherine A. Gehring
Catherine A. Gehring Northern Arizona University
Steven J. Cooke
Steven J. Cooke Carleton University
Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
David L. Dettman
David L. Dettman University of Arizona

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