Publications

Below are output from the DeAD project (grant period 2024-2029).

Papers

Moorhead, D.L., K.E. Todd-Brown, A.C. Besser, D.E. Bloom, A. Bonner, A. Cueva, J. Li, S.C. Reed, I. Torres, and H.L. Throop. 2025. Photodegradation of plant litter – reinterpreting data from Mendez et al., (2022). New Phytologist doi:10.1111/nph.70320
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Throop, H.L., M.-A. de Graaff, and J. Belnap. 2025. Small spaces have large impacts: Microsites determine plant litter decomposition rates in drylands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA doi:10.1073/pnas.2503852122
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Throop, H.L., J. Li, D.L. Moorhead, S.C. Reed, K. Todd-Brown, A.C. Besser, D. Bloom, T. Ingalls, and A.R. Cueva. 2025. Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.70029
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Presentations

Besser, A.C., Torres, I.L., Bloom, D., Peng, J., Bonner, A., Cueva, A., Moorhead, D., Reed, S., Todd-Brown, Kathe, Li, J., Throop, H.L. 2025. Spatial Heterogeneity of Plant Litter Distribution across North American Drylands. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Besser, A.C., Torres, I.L., Bloom, D., Peng, J., Bonner, A., Cueva, A., Moorhead, D., Reed, S., Todd-Brown, Kathe, Li, J., Throop, H.L. 2025. Quantifying Plant Litter Distribution across North American Drylands. Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems Symposium, Tucson, AZ.

Besser, A. C., Torres, I.L., Bloom, D., Peng, J., Bonner, A., Cueva, A., Moorhead, D., Reed, S., Todd-Brown, Kathe, Li, J., Throop, H.L. 2025. Exploring Plant Litter Distribution and Decomposition across North American Drylands. Arizona Postdoctoral Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.

Bloom, D.E., Bonner, A., Moorhead, D., Li, J., Throop, H., Besser, A., Torres, I., Reed, S., Cueva, A., Todd-Brown, K. December 2025. Dryland litter decomposition - Photodegradation or hot spot moisture effects? American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Moorhead, D. K. Todd-Brown, A. Cueva, J. Li, S. Reed, and H. Throop. 2024. Photofacilitation: Surface litter decay in arid lands. Soil Ecology Society Biennial Meeting.

Torres, I.L., Besser, A.C., Ingalls, T.C., Li, J., Moorhead, D., Reed, S. C., Cueva, A., Todd-Brown, K., Trembath-Reichert, E., Throop, H. 2024. Litter decomposition across the landscape: identifying and characterizing microsites of litter accumulation and decay in drylands. Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems Symposium, Tucson, AZ.

Torres I.L., Besser A.C., Li C., Bloom D., Peng J., Li J., Moorhead D., Reed S., Cueva A., Todd-Brown K., Throop H.L. 2025. Litter decomposition in drylands of North America: Using identified microsites to inform a large-scale litterbag study. Research Insights in Semi-arid Ecosystems Symposium, Tucson, AZ.

Datasets

All of our data will be published in publicly available online repositories. We will provide links from this page.

We do not have any data sets available yet. Please check back in the future or contact the DeAD Team to discuss data availability.