Publications
2021
Caster, J., T.T. Sankey, J.B. Sankey, M.A. Bowker, D. Buscombe, M.C. Duniway, N.N. Barger, A.M. Faist,, T. Joyal. 2021. Biocrust and the soil surface: Influence of climate, disturbance, and biocrust recovery on soil surface roughness. Geoderma. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115369
Shackelford, N., G.B. Paterno, D.E. Winkler, T.E. Erickson, E.A. Leger, L.N. Svejcar, M.F. Breed, A.M. Faist, P.A. Harrison, M.F. Curran, Q. Guo, A. Kirmer, D.J. Law, K.Z. Mganga, S.M. Munson, L.M. Porensky, R.E. Quiroga, P. Török, C.E. Wainwright, ... Katharine L Suding. 2021. Drivers of Seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01510-3
Churchill, A.C., A.M. Faist . 2021. Consequences of aboveground invasion by non-native plants into restored vernal pools do not prompt same changes in belowground processes. AoB PLANTS. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab042
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
Young, KE., S.C. Reed, S. Ferrenberg, A.M. Faist, D.E. Winkler, C. Cort, A. Darrouzet-Nardi. 2021. Incorporating biogeochemistry into dryland restoration. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab043
Faist, A.M., A.J., Antoninka, N.N. Barger, M.A. Bowker, V.B. Chaudhary, C.A. Havrilla, E. Huber-Sannwald, S.C. Reed, B. Weber. 2021. Broader impacts for ecologists: Biological soil crusts as a model system for education. Frontiers in Microbiology https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.577922
Maxwell, C., A.G. Fernald, D. Cadol, A.M. Faist, J.P. King. 2021. Managing flood flow connectivity to landscapes to build buffering capacity to disturbances: an ecohydrologic modeling framework for drylands. Journal of Environmental Management. 278:111486
2020
Eldridge, D.J., Reed, S., Travers, S.K., Bowker, M.A., Maestre, F.T., Ding, J., Havrilla, C., Rodriguez‐Caballero, E., Barger, N., Weber, B., Antoninka, A., Belnap, J., Chaudhary, B., Faist, A.M., Ferrenberg, S., Huber‐Sannwald, E., Malam Issa, O., Zhao, Y. 2020. The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands. Global Change Biology. 26:6003-6014 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15232
Collinge, S.K., A.M. Faist. 2020. Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB): California vernal pool plant community ecology and restoration, 2000-2017 ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/1daedb3a3b601d0fd9ccb4120cfb504e
Antoninka, A.J., Faist, A.M.,, Rodriguez-Caballero, E., Young, K.E., Chaudhary, V.B., Condon, L.A., Pyke, D.A. 2020. Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: emerging research and perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13201 (Special Biocrust Restoration Issue)
Faist, A.M., A.J. Antoninka, J. Belnap, M.A. Bowker, M.C. Duniway, F. Garcia-Pichel, C. Nelson, S.C. Reed, A. Giraldo-Silva, S. Velasco-Ayuso, N.N. Barger. 2020. Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13087 (Special Biocrust Restoration Issue)
Stricklan, D., P. Saud, A.F. Cibils, R.L. Steiner, D.S. Cram, K.Young, and A.M. Faist. 2020. Germination of one-seed juniper seeds distributed by different frugivore groups. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 73:433-440
2019
Havrilla, C.A, B. Chaudhary, S. Ferrenberg, A.J. Antoninka, J. Belnap, M.A. Bowker, D. Eldridge, A.M. Faist, E. Huber-Sanwald, A. Leslie, E. Rodriguez-Caballero, Y. Zhang, and N.N. Barger. 2019. Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology. 107:2789-2807
Haight, J.D., S.C. Reed, A.M. Faist. 2019. Seed bank community and soil texture relationships in a cold desert. Journal of Arid Environments. 164:46-52
Chock, T., A.J. Antoninka, A.M. Faist, M.A. Bowker, J. Belnap, N.N. Barger. 2019. Responses of biological soil crusts to rehabilitation strategies. Journal of Arid Environments. 163:77-85
2018
Winkler, D.E., D.M. Backer. J. Belnap, J.B., Bradford, B.J. Butterfield, S.M. Copeland, M.C Duniway, A.M. Faist, S.E. Fick, S.L. Jensen, A.T. Kramer, R. Mann, R.T. Massatti, M.L. McCormick, S.M. Munson, P. Olwell, S.D. Parr, A.A. Pfennigwerth, A.M. Pilmanis, B.A. Richardson, E. Samuel, K. See, K.E. Young, and S.C. Reed. 2018. Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau. Restoration Ecology. 26:1055-1060
Hund, A.K., A.C. Churchill, A.M. Faist, C.A., Havrilla, S.M. Love Stowell, H.F. McCreery, J. Ng, C.A. Pinzone, and E.S.C. Scordato, 2018. Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders. Ecology and Evolution. 8:9962-9974
Ferrenberg, F., A.M. Faist, A. Howell, and S.C. Reed. 2018. Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination. Plant and Soil. 429:77-90 (special issue Biocrust3)
Fornwalt, P.J., C.C. Rhoades, R.M. Hubbard, R.L. Harris, A.M. Faist, and W.D. Bowman. 2018. Short-term understory plant community responses to salvage logging in beetle-affected lodgepole pine forests, Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 409:84-93
Javornik, C.J., and A.M. Faist. 2018. Plant responses to a changing climate. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=962&id=962
Kueppers, L.M., A.M. Faist, S. Ferrenberg, C. Castanha, E. Conlisk, and J. Wolf. 2018. Lab and field warming similarly advance germination date and limit germination rate for high and low elevation provenances of two widespread subalpine conifers. Forests. 8, 433: doi:10.3390/f8110433
Faist, A.M., S.C. Beals. 2018. Invasive plant feedbacks promote multiple alternative states in restored California (USA) vernal pools. Restoration Ecology. 26:255-263
2017
Havrilla, C., A.M. Faist, and N.N. Barger. 2017. Understory plant community responses to fuel-reduction treatments in an upland piñon-juniper woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 70:609-620
Faist, A.M., J.E. Herrick, J. W. Van Zee, J. Belnap, and N.N. Barger. 2017. Biological soil crust and disturbance controls on surface hydrology in a semi-arid ecosystem. Ecosphere. 8:eo1691
2016
Ferrenberg, S., A.S. Martinez, and A.M. Faist. 2016. The influence of stochastic and deterministic assembly processes differs among aboveground and belowground arthropod communities following disturbance in a conifer forest. Peer J. 4:e2545
Faist, A.M. 2016. Grazing in vernal pools. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=850&id=850
Schlatter, K.J., A.M. Faist, and S.K. Collinge. 2016. Using performance standards to facilitate adaptive management and inform restoration: Lessons learned from a vernal pool flora mitigation project. Restoration Ecology. 24:145-152
Faist, A.M., H. Stone and E.A. Tripp. 2015. Impacts of mastication: Soil seed bank responses to a forest thinning treatment in three Colorado (USA) conifer forest types. Forests. 6:3060-3074
2015
Faist, A.M., and S.K. Collinge. 2015. Seed bank composition varies along invasion and inundation gradients in vernal pools. Plant Ecology. 216:553-564
Faist, A.M., J.M.Ramp Neale, B. Mines, and S.K. Collinge. 2015. Maintenance of pollinator function in restored vernal pools: Gnats filling the role of solitary bees. Ecological Restoration. 33:51-60
Faist, A.M., P. Collinge, I.A. Schwartz, and S.K. Collinge. 2015. Aliens invade and drop of litter. Science Scope 48:16-23
2013
Faist, A.M., S. Ferrenberg, and S.K. Collinge. 2013. Banking on the past: Seed banks as a reservoir for rare and native species in restored vernal pools. AoB PLANTS doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt043
Beers A.T., T.S. Potter, A.C. Churchill, A.M. Faist, E. S. Golden, H.R. Filkins, J.J. Hicks, and N.N. Barger. 2013. Advocating for Science Writing Cooperatives in Graduate Programs. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94:245-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-94.3.245 (Non peer-refereed)