Publications

Akasha Faist's publications can be found at the following Google Scholar page.

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Hosna, R.K., S.C. Reed, A.M. Faist. 2023. Long-term relationships between seed bank communitites and wildfire across four North American desert sites. EcoSphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4398

Hallett, L.M., L. Aoyama, G. Barbás, B. Gilbert, L. Larios, N. Shackelford, C.M. Werner, O. Godoy, E.R. Ladouceur, J.E. Lucero, C.P. Weiss-Lehman, J.M. Chase, C. Chu, W.S. Harpole, M.M. Mayfield, A.M Faist, L.G. Shoemaker. 2023. Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.004

Lasché, S.L., R.W.R. Schroeder, M.M. McIntosh, J.E. Lucero, S.A. Spiegal, M.P. Funk, R.F. Beck, J.L. Holecek, A.M. Faist. 2023. Long-term growing season aridity and grazing seasonality effects on perennial grass biomass in a Chihuahuan Desert rangeland. Journal of Arid Environments. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104902

Schroeder, R.W.R., M.M. Reichenborn, E.A. Lehnhoff, D. Hooper, C. Velasco-Cruz, J. Weinstein, A.M. Faist. 2023. Impact of soil residual auxin herbicide on seedling emergence and biomass differs between soil types, water pulse event, and seedling species. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14043

McCann, E., S.C. Reed, P. Saud, R.H. Reibold, A. Howell, A.M. Faist. 2021. Plant growth and biocrust-fire interactions across five North American deserts. Geoderma. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115325

Shackelford, N., G.B. Paterno, D.E. Winkler, et al. 2021. Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01510-3

Havrilla C.A., V. Bala Chaudhary, S. Ferrenberg, A.J. Antoninka, J. Belnap, M.A. Bowker, D.J. Eldridge, A.M. Faist, E. Huber-Sannwalk, A.D. Leslie, E. Rodriguez-Caballero, Y. Zhang, N.N. Barger. 2019. Toward a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13269

Hund, A.K., A.C. Churchill, A.M. Faist, C.A. Havrilla, S.M. Love Stowell, H.F. McCreery, J. Ng, C.A. Pinzone, E.S.C. Scordato. 2018. Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4527