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Marguerite E. Mauritz

Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Environmental Science and Engineering

Office Building: Biology Building
Office Room: 415
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Email: memauritz@utep.edu

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Bio

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Education

Ph D in Ecology, San Diego State University (2013)

Publications

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake Nature Climate Change (2025), Anna M. Virkkala, .... ...., Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Diminishing warming effects on plant phenology over time New Phytologist 245 2 (2024), C Lu, K. J. van Groenigen, .. ., Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, et al .
Seasonal CO2 amplitude in northern high latitudes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5 11 (2024), Z Liu, B.M Rogers, G. Keppel-Aleks, ... , Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, ... , Y Zhang.
Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems Nature Climate Change 14 8 (2024), Craig R. See, Anna M. Virkkala, Susan Natali, Brendan Rogers, Marguerite Mauritz, Mika Aurela, Christina Biasi, Stefan Bokhorst, Julia Boike, Marion Bret-Harte, Gerardo Celis, Namyi Chae, Torben Christensen, Sara J. Murner (Connon) , Sigrid Dengel, Han Dolman, Colin Edgar, Bo Elberling, Craig Emmerton, Eugenie Euskirchen, Mathias Goeckede, Achim Grelle, Juha Hatakka, Liam Heffernan, Manuel Helbig, David Holl, Elyn Humphreys, Hiroki Iwata, Järvi Järveoja, Hideki Kobayashi, John Kochendorfer, Pasi Kolari, Ayumi Kotani, Lars Kutzbach, Min J. Kwon, Emma R. Lathrop, Tuomas Laurila, Annalea Lohila, Efrén López-Blanco, Ivan Mammarella, Maija Marushchak, Mikhali Mastepanov, Yojiro Matsuura, Lutz Merbold, Gesa Meyer, Christina Minions, Mats B. Nilsson, Julia Nojeim, Steven Oberbauer, David Olefeldt, Sang-Jong Park, Frans-Jan Parmentier, Matthias Peichl, Darcy Peter, Roman Petrov, Rafael Poyatos, Anatoly Prokushkin, William Quinton, Heidi Rodenhizer, Torsten Sachs, Kathleen Savage, Christopher Schulze, Sofie Sjogersten, Oliver Sonnentag, Vincent St. Louis, Margaret Torn, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Masahito Ueyama, Andrej Varlagin, Carolina Voigt, Jennifer D. Watts, Donatella Zona, Vyacheslav Zyrianov, Edward Schuur.
Ecosystem and Soil Respiration Radiocarbon Detects Old Carbon Release as a Fingerprint of Permafrost Destabilization with Climate Change Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 38 2261 (2023), Edward A. Schuur, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Elaine Pegoraro, Heidi Rodenhizer, Craig See, Chris Ebert.
Consistent microbial and nutrient resource island patterns during monsoon rain in a Chihuahuan Desert bajada shrubland Ecosphere 14 4 (2023), Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Isabel Siles Asaff, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Kathleen Roman, Eleanor Keats, Craig E. Tweedie, Jennie R. McLaren.
Abrupt permafrost thaw drives spatially heterogeneous soil moisture and carbon dioxide fluxes in upland tundra Global Change Biology 29 (2023), Heidi Rodenheizer, Susan Natali, Marguerite Mauritz, et al .
Consistent microbial and nutrient resource island patterns during monsoon rain in a Chihuahuan Desert bajada shrubland Ecosphere 14 4 (2023), Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Isabelle S. Asaff, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Kathleen Roman, Eleanor Keats, Craig E. Tweedie, Jennie R. McLaren.
Consistent microbial and nutrient resource island patterns during monsoon rain in a Chihuahuan Desert bajada shrubland Ecosphere 14 4 (2023), Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Isabelle S. Asaff, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Kathleen Roman, Eleanor Keats, Craig E. Tweedie, Jennie R. McLaren.
Optical reflectance across spatial scales—an intercomparison of transect-based hyperspectral, drone, and satellite reflectance data for dry season rangeland. Drone Systems and Applications 11 (2023), Glenn Slade, Fawcet Dominic, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Kamal Nyaupane, Marguerite Mauritz, Sergio Vargas, Karen Anderson.
Pecan Orchard PhenoCam (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Permafrost and climate change: carbon cycle feedbacks from the warming Arctic Annual Review of Environment and Resources 47 (2022), Edward A. Schuur, Benjamin W. Abbott, Roisin Commane, Jessica Ernakovich, Eugenie Euskirchen, Gustaf Hugelius, Guido Grosse, Miriam Jones, Charlie Koven, Victor Leshyk, Marguerite Mauritz, et al. .
Red Lake Playa PhenoCam (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Abrupt permafrost thaw accelerates carbon dioxide and methane release at a tussock tundra site Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 54 1 (2022), Heidi Rodenhizer, Fay Belshe, Gerardo Celis, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Scott Goetz, Temuulen Sankey, Edward A. Schuur.
AmeriFlux BASE US-Jo1 Jornada Experimental Range Bajada Site, Ver. 4-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset) (2022), Craig E. Tweedie, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, G Ramirez.
Bajada Eddy Covariance Tower Site (US-Jo-1) (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Pecan Orchard Eddy Covariance Tower Site (US-PeA) (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 8 1 (2022), Andrew M. Cunliffe, Karen Anderson, Fabio Boschetti, Richard E. Brazier, Hugh A. Graham, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Thomas Astor, Matthias M. Boer, Leonor G. Calvo, Patrick E. Clark, Marguerite Mauritz, et al. .
Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils Journal of Ecology (2022), Briana L. Jasinski, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Samantha N. Miller, Edward A. Schuur, Meghan A. Taylor, Xanthe J. Walker, Michelle C. Mack.
Representativeness assessment of the pan-Arctic eddy covariance site network and optimized future enhancements Biogeosciences 19 3 (2022), Martijn M. Pallandt, Jitendra Kumar, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Edward A. Schuur, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Gerardo Celis, Forrest M. Hoffman, G\"ockede, Mathias.
The ABCflux database: Arctic--boreal CO 2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems Earth system science data 14 1 (2022), Susan M. Natali, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer D. Watts, Kathleen Savage, Sara J. Connon, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Edward A. Schuur, Darcy Peter, Christina Minions, Julia Nojeim, others.
Red Lake Playa Eddy Covariance Tower Site (US-Jo3) (2021), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Carbon Release Accelerated by Abrupt Thaw at Eight Mile Lake, AK 2021 (2021), Heidi Rodenhizer, Fay Belshe, Gerardo Celis, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Scott Goetz, Michelle Mack, Temuulen Sankey, Edward Schuur.
Data Management in Excel and R using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data (2021), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Sarah McCord.
Developing a ground observation network to monitor carbon fluxes across the Arctic-boreal zone 2021 (2021), Brendan Rogers, Susan Natali, Jennifer Watts, Anna Virkalla, Torben Christensen, Eugenie Euskirchen, Greg Fiske, Laure Gandois, Mathias Goeckede, Elyn Humphreys, others.
Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region Journal of Ecology 109 1 (2021), Fia Bengtsson, Rydin, H\aakan, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Luca Bragazza, Zhao-Jun Bu, Simon J. Caporn, Ellen Dorrepaal, Kjell I. Flatberg, Olga Galanina, Ga\lka, Mariusz, others.
Experimental Soil Warming and Permafrost Thaw Increase CH4 Emissions in an Upland Tundra Ecosystem Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 11 (2021), MA Taylor, G Celis, JD Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, SM Natali, E-F Pegoraro, Sch\"adel, C, EAG Schuur.
Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants Nature communications 12 1 (2021), Courtney G. Collins, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robert D. Hollister, Greg H. Henry, Karin Clark, Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Prev\'ey, Janet S, Isabel W. Ashton, Jakob J. Assmann, others.
Investigating thaw and plant productivity constraints on old soil carbon respiration from permafrost Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 6 (2021), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Elaine Pegoraro, Kiona Ogle, Christopher Ebert, Edward A. Schuur.
Lower soil moisture and deep soil temperatures in thermokarst features increase old soil carbon loss after 10 years of experimental permafrost warming Global change biology 27 6 (2021), Elaine F. Pegoraro, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Kiona Ogle, Christopher H. Ebert, Edward A. Schuur.
Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework Ecological Indicators 131 (2021), Dawn M. Browning, Eric S. Russell, Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos, Nicole Kaplan, Andrew D. Richardson, Bijan Seyednasrollah, Sheri Spiegal, Nicanor Saliendra, Joseph G. Alfieri, John Baker, others.
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland Oecologia 197 4 (2021), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, DA Lipson.
Representativeness assessment of the pan-Arctic eddy-covariance site network, and optimized future enhancements Biogeosciences Discussions 2021 (2021), Martijn Pallandt, Jitendra Kumar, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Edward Schuur, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Gerardo Celis, Forrest Hoffman, G\"ockede, Mathias.
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties Global Change Biology 27 17 (2021), Anna-Maria Virkkala, Juha Aalto, Brendan M. Rogers, Torbern Tagesson, Claire C. Treat, Susan M. Natali, Jennifer D. Watts, Stefano Potter, Aleksi Lehtonen, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, others.
The tundra phenology database: more than two decades of tundra phenology responses to climate change Arctic Science (2021), Prev\'ey, Janet S, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Anne Bjorkman, Juha M. Alatalo, Isabel Ashton, Jakob J. Assmann, Bj\"ork, Robert G, Bj\"orkman, Mats P, Nicoletta Cannone, Michele Carbognani, others.
Tundra underlain by thawing permafrost persistently emits carbon to the atmosphere over 15 years of measurements Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 6 (2021), Edward A. Schuur, Rosvel Bracho, Gerardo Celis, E F. Belshe, Chris Ebert, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Elaine F. Pegoraro, Plaza, C\'esar, Heidi Rodenhizer, others.
Understanding the drivers, dynamics, and regional patterns of terrestrial ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the Arctic-Boreal Zone 2021 (2021), Anna-Maria Virkkala, Brendan Rogers, Jennifer Watts, Susan Natali, Arden Burrell, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Stefano Potter, Kathleen Savage, Edward Schuur.
Where management and climate variability matter most: an evaluation of metrics for monitoring agroecosystem production and phenology 2021 (2021), Dawn Browning, Eric Russell, Guillermo Ponce-Campos, Nicole Kaplan, Andrew Richardson, Bijan Seyednasrollah, Sheri Spiegal, Nicanor Saliendra, Joseph Alfieri, John Baker, others.
Accounting for Subsidence Reveals 50\% Deeper Permafrost Thaw and Double the Rate of Carbon Thaw in a Permafrost Warming Experiment 2020 (2020), Heidi Rodenhizer, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Susan Natali, Elaine Pegoraro, Plaza, C\'esar, Emily L. Romano, Christina Schaedel, Megan Taylor, Edward Schuur.
Carbon thaw rate doubles when accounting for subsidence in a permafrost warming experiment Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125 6 (2020), Heidi Rodenhizer, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Susan M. Natali, Elaine Pegoraro, Plaza, C\'esar, Emily Romano, Sch\"adel, Christina, Meghan Taylor, Edward Schuur.
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data Global change biology 26 12 (2020), Ben Bond-Lamberty, Danielle S. Christianson, Avni Malhotra, Stephanie C. Pennington, Debjani Sihi, Amir AghaKouchak, Hassan Anjileli, Muhammad Altaf Arain, Juan J. Armesto, Samaneh Ashraf, others.
Drone-derived canopy height predicts biomass across non-forest ecosystems globally bioRxiv (2020), AM Cunliffe, K Anderson, F Boschetti, RE Brazier, HA Graham, IH Myers-Smith, T Astor, MM Boer, L Calvo, PE Clark, others.
Estimating the Terrestrial Ecosystem CO 2 Flux Budget for the Arctic-boreal Zone Using a Synthesis of Field Observations and Statistical Upscaling (2020), Brendan M. Rogers, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Susan Natali, Jennifer Watts, Kathleen E. Savage, Sara J. Giacomini, Christina Minions, Darcy L. Peter, Stefano Potter, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, others.
Estimating the Terrestrial Ecosystem CO 2 Flux Budget for the Arctic-boreal Zone Using a Synthesis of Field Observations and Statistical Upscaling 2020 (2020), AM Virkkala, BM Rogers, S Natali, J Watts, KE Savage, SJ Giacomini, C Minions, DL Peter, S Potter, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, others.
Interannual and seasonal CO2 exchange and rainfall dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert shrubland 2020 (2020), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Gesuri Ramirez, Robin Luna, Christine M. Laney, Aline Jaimes, Alejandra Flores, Xia Song, Libia Gonzalez, Marcy E. Litvak, Craig E. Tweedie.
Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project EDDIE) with CO2 and 13CO2 data: adapted for R (2020), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Linking Plot and Landscape phenology at Jornada Experimental Range in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert 2020 (2020), Alejandra Flores, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Sergio A. Vargas, Stephen M. Escarzaga, Ryan P. Cody, Robin Luna, Kamal Nyaupane, Craig E. Tweedie, others.
rDataFusion: A Project-Specific Multi-Data Fusion Tool for Discovering, Integrating, and Visualizing Heterogeneous Long-term Data Sets 2020 (2020), IH Nwigboji, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, SA Vargas Zesati, CE Tweedie.
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems Environmental research letters 16 1 (2020), Heather Kropp, Michael M. Loranty, Susan M. Natali, Alexander L. Kholodov, Adrian V. Rocha, Isla Myers-Smith, Benjamin W. Abbot, Jakob Abermann, Elena Blanc-Betes, Daan Blok, others.
Tundra Underlain by Thawing Permafrost Persistently Emits Carbon to the Atmosphere Over Fifteen Years of Measurements 2020 (2020), Edward Schuur, Rosvel G. Bracho, Gerardo Celis, Elizabeth F. Belshe, Christopher Ebert, Justin Ledman, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Elaine Pegoraro, Plaza, C\'esar, Heidi Rodenhizer, others.

Presentations

Addressing uncertainties in open-path eddy covariance CO2 fluxes: a dryland case-study. (2024), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, C Sturtevant, R L. Scott.
Do Trees in Dryland Agroecosystems Have Memory? Investigating The Ecophysiological Adaptations of Agroforests to Drought and Heatwaves Under the Modulating Influence of the Critical Zone Architecture (2024), J M. Ochoa-Rivero, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, K Esquivel Herrera, F G. Ledezma, L Camacho-Medina, A Ventura, V Martinez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, A Alvarez-Holguin, F Villareal-Guerrero, L C. Noperi-Mosqueda, O C. Ponce-Garcia, O Ramirez-Valle Sr, Lixin Jin.
Ecosystem wilting point defines transition to water-limited GPP in a semi-arid shrubland. (2024), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, J Guo, J A. Biederman, W Anderegg, W Kannenberg, W K. Smith.
Interannual variability governs performance of near-surface vegetation greenness to predict productivity and evapotranspiration across diverse agroecosystems. (2024), S O. Denham, D M. Browning, B Dalzell, D Durden, G N. Flerchinger, P Clark, S Goslee, D L. Hoover, M E. Litvak, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Root Biomass and Soil Carbon of a Pecan Orchard in the Chihuahuan Desert Across Contrasting Parent Materials. (2024), T Singh, I Anselmo, Lixin Jin, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.
Soil CO2 efflux in dryland soils: biotic vs. abiotic production and diffusive vs. advective transport. (2024), Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, B A. Salcido, E M. Andrews, V Molina, J Hartman, T Singh, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Lixin Jin.
Ecosistemas agroforestales de zonas áridas como laboratorios de la sensibilidad de los árboles a la sequía y al estrés térmico: ¿Que nos revelan su crecimiento y adaptaciones fisiológicas sobre sus dinámicas de uso de agua y carbono? (2024), Volume Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jesus Ochoa Rivero, Luis U. Castruita Esparza, Katya Esquivel Herrera, Alan Alvarez Holguin, Federico Villareal Guerrero, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Impacts of VPD on water and carbon dynamics of a pecan orchard in a semi-arid agroecosystem. (2024), K Esquivel Herrera, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Lixin Jin, S Palmate, S Kumar.
Investigating the physiological adaptations of Pecan Trees (Carya illinoensis) to the architecture of the Critical Zone under extreme climatic conditions in agroecosystems of the Chihuahuan Desert (2024), Volume University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Jesus Ochoa-Rivero, Katya Esquivel-Herrera, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Angel Ventura-Perez, Luisa Camacho, Victoria Martinez, Frida Garcia, Malcolm Levitt, Alfredo Dagda-Torres, Mark Engle, Lin Ma, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Lixin Jin.
Interannual and seasonal CO2 exchange and rainfall dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert shrubland (2023), Volume Tucson, Marguerite Mauritz, Gesuri Ramirez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Gerald Flerchinger, Libia Gonzalez, David P. Huber, Aline Jaimes, Christine M. Laney, Marcy E. Litvak, Robin Luna, Xia Song, Craig E. Tweedie.
Interannual and seasonal CO2 exchange and rainfall dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert shrubland (2023), Volume Tucson, Marguerite Mauritz, Gesuri Ramirez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Gerald Flerchinger, Libia Gonzalez, David P. Huber, Aline Jaimes, Christine M. Laney, Marcy E. Litvak, Robin Luna, Xia Song, Craig E. Tweedie.
Soil texture interactions with root biomass in a west Texas pecan orchard (2023), Volume El Paso, Isabelle Anselmo, Talveer Singh, Lindsey Dacey, Frida G. Ledezma, Isabel Uribe, Lixin Jin, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Marguerite Mauritz.
Biocrusts: Linking Physical Structure to Function (2023), Volume Las Cruces, Suellen Resendez, Anthony Schaefer, Brenda Almanza, Marguerite Mauritz-Tozer, Nicole Pietrasiak, Elizabeth LaRue, Samy Belteton.
Characterizing Rain Event Dynamics and Soil Moisture Response in the Jornada (2023), Volume Las Cruces, Isabel Uribe, Marguerite Mauritz.
Development of multiple-scale sensor and remote sensing technology to quantify carbon dioxide emission associated with pedogenic carbonate accumulation in irrigated soils of aridlands (2023), Volume Lyon, France, Lixin Jin, Jessica Hartman, Katya Esquivel Herrera, Santosh Palmate, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Saurav Kumar, Girisha Ganjegunte.
Measuring Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Capture Chihuahuan Desert Biocrust’s Physiological Responses to High and Low Water Treatments (2023), Volume Las Cruces, Almanza Brenda, Marguerite Mauritz, Mikaela Hoellrich, Marguerite Mauritz, Nicole Pietrasiak, Derek Scott.
Establishing Satellite-Derived Vegetation Index Baselines to Understand Pecan Orchard Water-Stress and Productivity in an Arid Environment (2022), Volume Chicago, Illinois, Katya Esquivel Herrera, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Lixin Jin, Saurav Kumar, Girisha Ganjegunte.
Carbon cycling through the critical zone in irrigated and unirrigated drylands (2022), Volume Chicago, IL, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Briana Salcido, Viridiana Orona, Valeria Molina, Tanzila Hanif, Zahra Gahremani, David Bjorneberg, Gerald Flerchinger, David Huber, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Jennifer L. Pierce, Craig E. Tweedie, Lixin Jin.
Carbon cycling through the critical zone in irrigated and unirrigated drylands (2022), Volume Chicago, IL, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Briana Salcido, Viridiana Orona, Valeria Molina, Tanzila Hanif, Zahra Gahremani, David Bjorneberg, Gerald Flerchinger, David Huber, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Jennifer L. Pierce, Craig E. Tweedie, Lixin Jin.
Interannual and Seasonal CO2 Exchange and Rainfall Dynamics in a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Shrubland (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Gesuri Ramirez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Gerald Flerchinger, Libia Gonzalez, David Huber, Aline Jaimes, Christine Laney, Marcy Litvak, Robin Luna, Marcy Litvak, Craig E. Tweedie.
Carbon cycling through the critical zone in irrigated and unirrigated drylands (2022), Volume Chicago, IL, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Brianna Salcido, V Molina, Tanzila Hanif, Zahra Ghahremani, Lixin Jin, Jennifer Pierce, Gerald Flerchinger, David P. Huber, Craig E. Tweedie, Dave Bjorneberg, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Interannual and seasonal CO2 exchange and rainfall dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert shrubland (2022), Volume Chicago, IL, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Gerald Flerchinger, L Gonzalez, A Jaimes, David P. Huber, C M. Laney, Marcy E. Litvak, R Luna, X Song, Craig E. Tweedie.
Carbon cycling through the critical zone in irrigated and unirrigated drylands. (2022), Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, B A. Salcido, V Orona, V Molina, T Hanif, Z Ghahremani, D Bjorneberg, G N. Flerchinger, D P. Huber, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Establishing Satellite-Derived Vegetation Index Baselines to Understand Pecan Orchard Water-Stress and Productivity in an Arid Environment. (2022), K Esquivel Herrera, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Lixin Jin, S Kumar, G K. Ganjegunte.
Interannual and Seasonal CO2 Exchange and Rainfall Dynamics in a Northern Chihuahuan Desert Shrubland. (2022), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, G Ramirez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, L Gonzalez, D P. Huber, A Jaimes, C M. Laney, M E. Litvak, R Luna, X Song, Craig E. Tweedie.
High-resolution evapotranspiration mapping of arid pecan orchard using aerial remote sensing data (2022), Volume Henderson, NV, Santosh Palmate, Saurav Kumar, Girisha Ganjegunte, Lixin Jin, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Katya Esquivel Herrera, Abby Johnson, Jessica Hartman.
Multiple-scale sensor and remote sensing technology to quantify abiotic carbon dioxide emission in irrigated soils of aridlands (2022), Volume Henderson, NV, Saurav Kumar, Santosh Palmate, Abbey Johnson, Jessica Hartman, Katya Esquivel Herrera, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Girisha Ganjegunte, Lixin Jin.

Grants

LTER: Advancing ecological understanding of drylands through integrated research at the Jornada Basin
Employing a Structural Diversity Framework to Integrate Biocrusts as a Dynamic Soil Property into Desert Southwest Ecological Sites and State-and- Transition Models
Seed Funds: Assessing abiotic and biotic controls on microbial roles in dryland primary production and carbon processes

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section
Fall 2025	GEOL 6398 - Dissertation I	16436
Fall 2025	GEOL 6399 - Dissertation II	18021
Fall 2025	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	15251
Fall 2025	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	16240
Fall 2025	ESE 6307 - Interdisciplin Envir Prob Solv	16269
Fall 2025	ESCI 1301 - Intro to Environmental Sci	12022
Fall 2025	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	13591
Fall 2025	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	13558
Fall 2025	BIOL 5302 - Resrch Biological Science	16394
Fall 2025	BIOL 4398 - Special Problems	18046
Fall 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	12981
Summer 2025	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	30049
Summer 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	32103

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2025	ESE 6307 - Interdisciplin Envir Prob Solv	16269
Fall 2025	ESCI 1301 - Intro to Environmental Sci	12022
Fall 2025	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	13591
Fall 2025	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	13558
Spring 2025	GEOL 6398 - Dissertation I	27643
Spring 2025	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	20390
Spring 2025	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	23523
Spring 2025	BIOL 5302 - Resrch Biological Science	27644
Spring 2025	ESCI 4301 - Senior Project	24225
Spring 2025	BIOL 4398 - Special Problems	27642
Fall 2024	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	16146
Fall 2024	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	17740
Fall 2024	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	18169
Fall 2024	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	18170
Fall 2024	ESE 6307 - Interdisciplin Envir Prob Solv	17693
Fall 2024	ESCI 1301 - Intro to Environmental Sci	12238	Syllabus
Fall 2024	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14066	Syllabus
Fall 2024	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14031	Syllabus
Fall 2024	BIOL 5302 - Resrch Biological Science	18156
Fall 2024	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	13317
Spring 2024	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	20438
Spring 2024	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	23992
Spring 2024	GEOL 6396 - Doctoral Research in Geol Sci	26168
Spring 2024	BIOL 4466 - Ecosystem Ecology	26692	Syllabus
Spring 2024	BIOL 6321 - Select Adv Topics Biol Science	25989	Syllabus
Spring 2024	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	26110
Fall 2023	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	17794
Fall 2023	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14952	Syllabus
Fall 2023	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14915	Syllabus
Fall 2023	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	13914
Summer 2023	ESE 6396 - Doctoral Research	30165
Spring 2023	BIOL 5302 - Resrch Biological Science	21583
Spring 2023	BIOL 4398 - Special Problems	20158
Spring 2023	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	27771
Fall 2022	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	19480	Syllabus
Fall 2022	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	19438
Fall 2022	BIOL 5302 - Resrch Biological Science	14533
Fall 2022	BIOL 4398 - Special Problems	10808
Fall 2022	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	13666
Fall 2022	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	17649
Fall 2021	ESCI 4399 - Senior Thesis	20076
Fall 2021	BIOL 4398 - Special Problems	19952
Spring 2021	BIOL 5327 - Advances in Ecological Theory	27846
Spring 2021	BIOL 5308 - Rsrch Funding & Prof Developmt	27845
Spring 2021	BIOL 6308 - Rsrch Funding & Prof Developmt	27900
Spring 2021	BIOL 4298 - Special Problems	27786
Fall 2020	BIOL 4466 - Ecosystem Ecology	18744
Fall 2020	BIOL 5301 - Select Adv Topics Biol Science	16206
Fall 2020	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	17837

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ESE 6307 - Interdisciplin Envir Prob Solv	17693	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ESCI 1301 - Intro to Environmental Sci	12238	Evaluation
Fall 2024	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14066	Evaluation
Spring 2024	BIOL 4466 - Ecosystem Ecology	26692	Evaluation
Fall 2023	BIOL 5208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14952	Evaluation
Fall 2023	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	14915	Evaluation
Fall 2022	BIOL 6208 - Prof Skills Devel Eco Evo	19438	Evaluation
Spring 2021	BIOL 5327 - Advances in Ecological Theory	27846	Evaluation
Spring 2021	BIOL 5308 - Rsrch Funding & Prof Developmt	27845	Evaluation
Spring 2021	BIOL 6308 - Rsrch Funding & Prof Developmt	27900	Evaluation
Fall 2020	BIOL 4466 - Ecosystem Ecology	18744	Evaluation
Fall 2020	BIOL 5301 - Select Adv Topics Biol Science	16206	Evaluation

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Ph D in Ecology, San Diego State University (2013)

Publications

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake Nature Climate Change (2025), Anna M. Virkkala, .... ...., Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Diminishing warming effects on plant phenology over time New Phytologist 245 2 (2024), C Lu, K. J. van Groenigen, .. ., Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, et al .
Seasonal CO2 amplitude in northern high latitudes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5 11 (2024), Z Liu, B.M Rogers, G. Keppel-Aleks, ... , Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, ... , Y Zhang.
Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems Nature Climate Change 14 8 (2024), Craig R. See, Anna M. Virkkala, Susan Natali, Brendan Rogers, Marguerite Mauritz, Mika Aurela, Christina Biasi, Stefan Bokhorst, Julia Boike, Marion Bret-Harte, Gerardo Celis, Namyi Chae, Torben Christensen, Sara J. Murner (Connon) , Sigrid Dengel, Han Dolman, Colin Edgar, Bo Elberling, Craig Emmerton, Eugenie Euskirchen, Mathias Goeckede, Achim Grelle, Juha Hatakka, Liam Heffernan, Manuel Helbig, David Holl, Elyn Humphreys, Hiroki Iwata, Järvi Järveoja, Hideki Kobayashi, John Kochendorfer, Pasi Kolari, Ayumi Kotani, Lars Kutzbach, Min J. Kwon, Emma R. Lathrop, Tuomas Laurila, Annalea Lohila, Efrén López-Blanco, Ivan Mammarella, Maija Marushchak, Mikhali Mastepanov, Yojiro Matsuura, Lutz Merbold, Gesa Meyer, Christina Minions, Mats B. Nilsson, Julia Nojeim, Steven Oberbauer, David Olefeldt, Sang-Jong Park, Frans-Jan Parmentier, Matthias Peichl, Darcy Peter, Roman Petrov, Rafael Poyatos, Anatoly Prokushkin, William Quinton, Heidi Rodenhizer, Torsten Sachs, Kathleen Savage, Christopher Schulze, Sofie Sjogersten, Oliver Sonnentag, Vincent St. Louis, Margaret Torn, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Masahito Ueyama, Andrej Varlagin, Carolina Voigt, Jennifer D. Watts, Donatella Zona, Vyacheslav Zyrianov, Edward Schuur.
Ecosystem and Soil Respiration Radiocarbon Detects Old Carbon Release as a Fingerprint of Permafrost Destabilization with Climate Change Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 38 2261 (2023), Edward A. Schuur, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Elaine Pegoraro, Heidi Rodenhizer, Craig See, Chris Ebert.

Presentations

Addressing uncertainties in open-path eddy covariance CO2 fluxes: a dryland case-study. (2024), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, C Sturtevant, R L. Scott.
Do Trees in Dryland Agroecosystems Have Memory? Investigating The Ecophysiological Adaptations of Agroforests to Drought and Heatwaves Under the Modulating Influence of the Critical Zone Architecture (2024), J M. Ochoa-Rivero, Hugo A. Gutierrez-Jurado, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, K Esquivel Herrera, F G. Ledezma, L Camacho-Medina, A Ventura, V Martinez, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, A Alvarez-Holguin, F Villareal-Guerrero, L C. Noperi-Mosqueda, O C. Ponce-Garcia, O Ramirez-Valle Sr, Lixin Jin.
Ecosystem wilting point defines transition to water-limited GPP in a semi-arid shrubland. (2024), Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, J Guo, J A. Biederman, W Anderegg, W Kannenberg, W K. Smith.
Interannual variability governs performance of near-surface vegetation greenness to predict productivity and evapotranspiration across diverse agroecosystems. (2024), S O. Denham, D M. Browning, B Dalzell, D Durden, G N. Flerchinger, P Clark, S Goslee, D L. Hoover, M E. Litvak, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer.
Root Biomass and Soil Carbon of a Pecan Orchard in the Chihuahuan Desert Across Contrasting Parent Materials. (2024), T Singh, I Anselmo, Lixin Jin, Marguerite E. Mauritz-Tozer, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi.

LTER: Advancing ecological understanding of drylands through integrated research at the Jornada Basin
Employing a Structural Diversity Framework to Integrate Biocrusts as a Dynamic Soil Property into Desert Southwest Ecological Sites and State-and- Transition Models
Seed Funds: Assessing abiotic and biotic controls on microbial roles in dryland primary production and carbon processes

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