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41. JL Funk, S. Kimball, MA Nguyen, M Lulow, GE Vose. 2023. Interacting ecological filters influence success and functional composition in restored plant communities over time. Ecological Applications, e2899. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2899
40. Nguyen, MA, S. Kimball, JC Burger, R Freese, M Lulow, KT Schmidt, P Ta, and J.L. Funk. 2023. Applying community assembly theory to restoration: overcoming dispersal and abiotic filters is key to diversifying California grassland. Restoration Ecology, e14018. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14018
39. McGuire, K.**, K.T. Schmidt‡, P. Ta‡, J.L. Long, M. Yurko, and S. Kimball. 2022. Is it best to add native plants to restoration projects as seeds or as seedlings? PloS one 17.2: e0262410. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262410
38. Hantson, S., T.E. Huxman, S. Kimball, J.T. Randerson, and M.L. Goulden. 2021. Warming as a driver of vegetation loss in the Sonoran Desert of California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(6), e2020JG005942. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005942
37. Kimball, S. 2021. Review of Time in Ecology: A Theoretical Framework. Monographs in Population Biology, Volume 61. By Eric Post. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. Quarterly Review of Biology 96(1): 46-47. https://doi.org/10.1086/713230
36. Finks, S.S., C. Weihe, S. Kimball, S.D. Allison, A.C. Martiny, K.K. Treseder, and J.B.H. Martiny. 2021. Microbial community response to a decade of simulated global changes depends on the plant community. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9(1): 00124. doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.00124
35. Young, S. L., S. Kimball, & Novak, S. J. 2022. Invasion of plant communities. In Global Plant Invasions (pp. 29-51). Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89684-3_2
34. Laskey, H.*, E.D. Crook, and S. Kimball. 2020. Analysis of rare plant occurrence data for monitoring prioritization. Diversity 12(427): 1-25. doi:10.3390/d12110427
33. Schmidt, K.T. **, M. Maltz, P. Ta**, B. Khalili, C. Weihe, M. Phillips, E. Aronson, M. Lulow, J. Long, and S. Kimball. 2020. Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities. Diversity, 12(4), 150. doi:10.3390/d12040150
32. Kimball, S., J. Long, S. Ludovise, P.Ta**, K. Schmidt**, C. Halsch, K. Magliano, and L. Nguyen. 2019. Impacts of Competition and Herbivory in a 3-year, community-engaged adaptive management restoration experiment. Conservation Science and Practice 1:12 e122. doi:10.1111/csp2.122
31. Khalili, B., C. Weihe, S. Kimball, K. Schmidt**, and J. Martiny. 2019. Optimization of a method to quantify soil bacterial abundance by flow cytometry. mSphere 4:5 e435-19. doi:10.1128/mSphere.00435-19
30. Bell, M.D. ‡, M.E. Lulow, K.R. Balazs‡, K.A. Huxman, J.R. McCollum‡, T.E. Huxman, and S. Kimball. 2019. Restoring a Mediterranean-climate shrub community with perennial species reduces future invasion. Restoration Ecology 27(2):298-307. doi:10.1111/rec.12851
29. Kimball, S. and M. Lulow. 2019. Adaptive management in variable environments. Plant Ecology 220(2): 171-182. doi: 10.1007/s11258-018-0856-9
28. Kimball, S., Z. Principe, D. Deutschman, S. Strahm, T.E. Huxman, M. Lulow, and K. Balazs‡. 2018. Resistance and resilience: 10 years of monitoring shrub and prairie communities in Orange County, California. Ecosphere 9(5):1-26. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2212
27. Kimball, S., M.E. Lulow, K. Balazs‡, and T.E. Huxman. 2017. Predicting drought tolerance from slope aspect preference in restored plant communities. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2881
26. Tamura, N.**, M. Lulow, Halsch, C.**, M. Major, K. Balazs‡, P. Austin‡, T. Huxman, and S. Kimball. 2017. Effectiveness of seed sowing techniques for sloped restoration sites. Restoration Ecology 25(6):942-952. doi: 10.1111/rec.12515
25. Kimball, S., J. Funk, M. Goulden, and K.N. Suding. 2016. Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change? Ecosphere 7(12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1602
24. Balshor, B.**, M. Garrambone*, P. Austin‡, K.R. Balazs‡, C. Weihe, J.B.H. Martiny, T. Huxman, J.R. McCollum‡, and S. Kimball. 2016. The effect of soil inoculants on seed germination of native and invasive species. Botany 95(5):469-480. doi: 10.1139/cjb-2016-0248
23. Gremer, J., S. Kimball, and D.L. Venable. 2016. Within and among-year germination in Sonoran Desert winter annuals: Bet hedging and predictive germination in a variable environment. Ecology Letters 19(10):1209-1218. doi: 10.1111/ele.12655
22. Kimball, S., J. L. Funk, D. Sandquist, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2016. Ecophysiological considerations for restoring plant communities. Chapter 6 in: D.A. Falk, M. Palmer, J. Zedler, and R.J. Hobbs, editors. Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island Press, Washington. https://islandpress.org/books/foundations-restoration-ecology-0
21. Nguyen, M.A., A.E. Ortega, Q.L. Nguyen, M. Goulden, S. Kimball, and J.L. Funk. 2016. Evolutionary responses of invasive grass species to variation in precipitation and soil nitrogen. Journal of Ecology 104: 979-986. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12582
20. Kimball, S., M.E. Lulow, Q. Sorenson, K. Balazs, Y. Fang, S. Davis, M. O’Connel, and T.E. Huxman. 2015. Cost effective ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology 23: 800-810. doi: 10.1111/rec.12261
19. Matulich, K., C. Weihe, S. Allison, A. Amend, M. Goulden, S. Kimball, A. Martiny, and J. Martiny. 2015. Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial composition to simulated global change. The ISME Journal. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.58
18. Angert, A.L., S. Kimball, M. Peterson, T.E. Huxman, and D.L. Venable. 2014. Phenotypic constraints and community structure: Linking trade-offs within and among species. Evolution 68: 3147-3165. doi: 10.1111/evo.12514
17. Kimball, S., M. Goulden, K. Suding, and S. Parker. 2014. Water and nitrogen manipulations alter succession in a Southern California Coastal Sage Scrub community. Ecological Applications 24: 1390-1404. doi: 10.1890/13-1313.1
16. Kimball, S., J.R. Gremer, G.A. Barron-Gafford, A.L. Angert, T.E. Huxman, and D.L. Venable. 2014. High water-use efficiency and growth contribute to success of non-native Erodium cicutarium in a Sonoran Desert winter annual community. Conservation Physiology 2: 1-14. doi: 10.1093/conphys/cou006
15. Kimball, S., M. Lulow, K. Mooney, and Q. Sorenson. 2014. Establishment and management of native functional groups in restoration. Restoration Ecology 22: 81-88. doi: 10.1111/rec.12022
14. Horst, J.*, S. Kimball, J.X. Becerra, K. Nogi, and D.L. Venable. 2014. Documenting the early stages of invasion of Matthiola parviflora and predicting its spread in North America. Southwestern Naturalist 59: 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1894/F07-FMO-13.1
13. Kimball, S., J.R. Gremer, D.L. Venable, T.E. Huxman, and A.L. Angert. 2013. Phenotypic selection favors missing trait combinations in coexisting annual plants. The American Naturalist 182: 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1086/671058
12. Venable, D. L. and S. Kimball. 2013. Population and community dynamics of Sonoran Desert winter annuals. In: C.K. Kelly, M.G. Bowler and G.A. Fox, editors. Temporal Dynamics and Ecological Process. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. DOI:10.3732/ajb.1200463
11. Gremer, J.R., S. Kimball, K. Keck**, T.E. Huxman, A.L. Angert, and D.L. Venable. 2013. Water-use efficiency and relative growth rate mediate competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annual plants. American Journal of Botany 100: 2009-2015. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1300064
10. Huxman, T.E., S. Kimball, A.L. Angert, J.R. Gremer, Barron-Gafford, G.A., and D.L. Venable. 2013. Understanding past, contemporary, and future dynamics of plants, populations and communities of Sonoran Desert winter annuals. American Journal of Botany 100: 1369-1380. [cover article] doi: 10.3732/ajb.1200463
9. Gremer, J., S. Kimball, A.L. Angert, D.L. Venable, and T.E. Huxman. 2012. Variation in photosynthetic response to temperature in a guild of winter annuals. Ecology 93: 2693-2704. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0006.1
8. Kimball, S., J.R. Gremer, A.L. Angert, T.E. Huxman, and D.L. Venable. 2012. Fitness and physiology in a variable environment. Oecologia 169: 319-329. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2199-2
7. Kimball, S., A.L. Angert, T.E. Huxman, and D.L. Venable. 2011. Differences in the timing of germination and reproduction relate to growth physiology and population dynamics of Sonoran Desert winter annuals. American Journal of Botany 98: 1773-1781. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100034
6. Kimball, S., A.L. Angert, T.E. Huxman, and D.L. Venable. 2010. Contemporary climate change in the Sonoran Desert favors cold-adapted species. Global Change Biology 16: 1555-1565. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02106.x
5. Kimball, S., and D.R. Campbell. 2009. Physiological differences among two Penstemon species and their hybrids in field and common garden environments. New Phytologist 181: 478-488. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02654.x
4. Kimball, S., D.R. Campbell, and C. Lessin*. 2008. Differential performance of reciprocal hybrids in multiple environments. Journal of Ecology 96: 1306-1318. [cover article] DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01432.x
3. Kimball, S. 2008. Links between floral morphology and floral visitors along an elevational gradient in a Penstemon hybrid zone. Oikos 117: 1064-1074. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16573.x
2. Kimball, S., P. Wilson, and J. Crowther. 2004. Local ecology and geographic ranges of plants in the Bishop Creek watershed, Sierra Nevada, California. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1637-1657. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01111.x
1. Kimball, S. and P.M. Schiffman. 2003. Differing effects of cattle grazing on native and alien plants. Conservation Biology 17: 1681-1693. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00205.x