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Stanley D. Smith is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, encompassing several specialized subfields including Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work spans a range of topics related to environmental and water resource studies, with specific focus areas including:

  • Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
  • Light effects on plants
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Water Quality and Resources Studies

Stanley D. Smith has contributed to several publications in established venues. The frequent publication outlets of their work include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Land

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Stanley D. Smith feature a combination of environmental and hydrogeological research topics:

  • Ecovoltaics: Maintaining Native Plants and Wash Connectivity inside a Mojave Desert Solar Facility Leads to Favorable Growing Conditions, 2023, Land
  • GROUNDWATER DOES NOT FLOW IN A VACUUM-HOW COLLABORATION IS IMPERATIVE FOR REGIONAL-SCALE GROUNDWATER STUDIES: A CASE STUDY IN OGDEN VALLEY, UTAH, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • INSIGHTS INTO GROUNDWATER-SURFACE-WATER INTERACTION IN OGDEN VALLEY, UTAH, FROM STABLE ISOTOPES OF WATER, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers who appear repeatedly in their publication history. These co-authors include:

  • J. Lucy Jordan
  • Tamara Wynne-Sison
  • D. A. Devitt
  • Janae Wallace

Best Publications

  • Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

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

  • Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Alan K. Knapp;Claus Beier;David D. Briske;Aimée T. Classen

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

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

  • Functional responses of plants to elevated atmospheric CO2– do photosynthetic and productivity data from FACE experiments support early predictions?

    Robert S. Nowak;David S. Ellsworth;Stanley D. Smith

  • Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem.

    Stanley D. Smith;Travis E. Huxman;Travis E. Huxman;Stephen F. Zitzer;Therese N. Charlet

  • Mechanisms Associated With Decline of Woody Species in Riparian Ecosystems of the Southwestern U.S.

    David E. Busch;Stanley D. Smith

  • Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants

    S. D. Smith

  • Hall-petch strengthening for the microhardness of twelve nanometer grain diameter electrodeposited nickel

    G.D. Hughes;S.D. Smith;C.S. Pande;H.R. Johnson

  • Photosynthesis, carboxylation and leaf nitrogen responses of 16 species to elevated pCO2 across four free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments in forest, grassland and desert

    David S Ellsworth;Peter B Reich;Elke S Naumburg;George W Koch

  • Water Uptake in Woody Riparian Phreatophytes of the Southwestern United States: A Stable Isotope Study

    David E. Busch;Neil L. Ingraham;Stanley D. Smith

  • Stress physiology and the distribution of plants

    C. B. Osmond;M. P. Austin;J. A. Berry;W. D. Billings

  • Water Use by Tamarix Ramosissima and Associated Phreatophytes in a Mojave Desert Floodplain

    Anna Sala;Stanley D. Smith;Dale A. Devitt

  • Invasive capacity of Tamarix ramosissima in a Mojave Desert floodplain: The role of drought

    James R. Cleverly;Stanley D. Smith;Anna Sala;Dale A. Devitt

  • Soil resource heterogeneity in the Mojave Desert

    Jonathan H. Titus;Jonathan H. Titus;Robert S. Nowak;Stanley D. Smith

  • Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions

    Stanley D. Smith;Dale A. Devitt;Dale A. Devitt;Anna Sala;James R. Cleverly

  • Functional Responses of Riparian Vegetation to Streamflow Diversion in the Eastern Sierra Nevada

    Stanley D. Smith;A. Bruce Wellington;Janet L. Nachlinger;Carl A. Fox

  • Root channel macropores enhance downward movement of water in a Mojave Desert ecosystem

    Dale A. Devitt;Dale A. Devitt;Stanley D. Smith

  • Impacts of Invasive Plants on Community and Ecosystem Properties

    Lawrence R. Walker;Stanley D. Smith

  • Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata

    Erik P. Hamerlynck;Travis E. Huxman;Michael E. Loik;Stanley D. Smith

  • Crassulacean acid metabolism

    C. Barry Osmond;William W. Adams;Stanley D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Robert S. Nowak
Robert S. Nowak University of Nevada Reno
Michael E. Loik
Michael E. Loik University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeffrey R. Seemann
Jeffrey R. Seemann University of Connecticut
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman Rice University
Anna Sala
Anna Sala University of Montana
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
James Cleverly
James Cleverly James Cook University
Park S. Nobel
Park S. Nobel University of California, Los Angeles

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