Nathan A. Pierce

Grass-Shrub Competition in Arid Lands: An Overlooked Driver in Grassland–Shrubland State Transition?

Nathan A. Pierce, Steven R. Archer, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer et al. · Ecosystems · 2018 · 52 citations

Landscape Processes, Engineering, Rangeland Productivity +12

Competition suppresses shrubs during early, but not late, stages of arid grassland–shrubland state transition

Nathan A. Pierce, Steven R. Archer, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer · Functional Ecology · 2019 · 39 citations · Full text

Landscape Processes, Engineering, Botany +14

Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland

Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Nathan A. Pierce et al. · Functional Ecology · 2021 · 31 citations

Engineering, Drought Resilience, Larger Storms +19

Sandblasting promotes shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

Furong Niu, Nathan A. Pierce, Gregory S. Okin et al. · New Phytologist · 2023 · 16 citations · Full text

Arid Grasslands, Engineering, Shrub Encroachment +11