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Sasha C. Reed is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research largely focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a total of 160 and 107 publications respectively in these fields.

The scientist's work extensively covers several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The main topics of their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Sasha C. Reed has contributed papers to a variety of publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Global Change Biology (8 publications)
  • New Phytologist (6 publications)
  • Geoderma (4 publications)
  • Forest Service Research Data Archive (4 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Reed include:

  • "Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes," published in 2020 in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community," published in 2022 in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands," published in 2022 in Science
  • "The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands," published in 2020 in Global Change Biology
  • "Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States," published in 2021 in Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sasha C. Reed include:

  • Tana E. Wood
  • Molly A. Cavaleri
  • Matthew A. Bowker
  • Robin Reibold
  • David J. Eldridge

Best Publications

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Chanda Trivedi;David J. Eldridge

  • Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems.

    Peter M. Vitousek;Duncan N. L. Menge;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland

  • Functional Ecology of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation: A Contemporary Perspective

    Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend

  • Microbial community assembly and metabolic function during mammalian corpse decomposition

    Jessica L. Metcalf;Jessica L. Metcalf;Zhenjiang Zech Xu;Sophie Weiss;Simon Lax

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • The origin of litter chemical complexity during decomposition

    Kyle Wickings;A. Stuart Grandy;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland

  • Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization

    W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF RAPID MICROBIAL TURNOVER AND SEASONAL SUCCESSION IN SOIL

    S. K. Schmidt;E. K. Costello;D. R. Nemergut;D. R. Nemergut;Cory C. Cleveland

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Patterns of new versus recycled primary production in the terrestrial biosphere

    Cory C. Cleveland;Benjamin Z. Houlton;W. Kolby Smith;Alison R. Marklein

  • Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

    Sasha C. Reed;Kirsten K. Coe;Jed P. Sparks;David C. Housman

  • Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

    William K. Smith;Matthew P. Dannenberg;Matthew P. Dannenberg;Dong Yan;Stephanie Herrmann

  • The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils.

    S.K Schmidt;Sasha C Reed;Sasha C Reed;Diana R Nemergut;A Stuart Grandy

  • Nutrient regulation of organic matter decomposition in a tropical rain forest.

    Cory C. Cleveland;Sasha C. Reed;Alan R. Townsend

  • Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts.

    Scott Ferrenberg;Sasha C. Reed;Jayne Belnap

  • Stoichiometric patterns in foliar nutrient resorption across multiple scales

    Sasha C. Reed;Alan R. Townsend;Eric A. Davidson;Cory C. Cleveland

  • Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis.

    Cory C. Cleveland;Sasha C. Reed;Adrienne B. Keller;Diana R. Nemergut

  • Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

    Felipe Bastida;Carlos García;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;David J. Eldridge

  • The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands.

    David J. Eldridge;Sasha Reed;Samantha K. Travers;Matthew A. Bowker

  • Experimental drought in a tropical rain forest increases soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere

    Cory C. Cleveland;William R. Wieder;Sasha C. Reed;Sasha C. Reed;Alan R. Townsend

  • Convergent responses of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption to nitrogen inputs in a semiarid grassland.

    Xiao-Tao Lü;Sasha Reed;Qiang Yu;Nian-Peng He

  • Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests.

    Molly A. Cavaleri;Sasha C. Reed;W. Kolby Smith;Tana E. Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Cory C. Cleveland
Cory C. Cleveland University of Montana
Alan R. Townsend
Alan R. Townsend University of Montana
Matthew A. Bowker
Matthew A. Bowker Northern Arizona University
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Cheryl R. Kuske
Cheryl R. Kuske Los Alamos National Laboratory
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Xiao-Tao Lü
Xiao-Tao Lü Chinese Academy of Sciences
Diana R. Nemergut
Diana R. Nemergut University of Colorado Boulder

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