Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
(for abstracts & links to full papers see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9651-2009
or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H_Schenk2)
De Baerdemaeker, N., K. N. R. Arachchige, J. Zinkernagel, J. Van den Bulcke, J. Van Acker, H. J. Schenk, and K. Steppe. 2019. The stability enigma of hydraulic vulnerability curves: addressing the link between hydraulic conductivity and drought-induced embolism. Tree Physiology in press.
Kotowska, M. M., R. Thom, Y. Zhang, H. J. Schenk, and S. Jansen. 2019. Within-tree variability and sample storage effects of bordered pit membranes in xylem of Acer pseudoplatanus. Trees - Structure and Function in press.
Schenk, H. J. 2018. Wood: Biology of a living tissue. American Journal of Botany 105:139-141 (open access).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1039
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, S. M. Rich-Cavazos, and S. Jansen. 2018. From the sap’s perspective: The nature of vessel surfaces in angiosperm xylem. American Journal of Botany 105:172-185 (open access). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1034.
Cover image at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1043
Morris, H., L. Plavcová, M. Gorai, M. Klepsch, M. Kotowska, H. J. Schenk, and S. Jansen. 2018. Vessel-associated cells in angiosperm xylem: highly specialized living cells at the symplast-apoplast boundary. American Journal of Botany 105:151-160.
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, D. M. Romo, N. Nima, A. Y. T. Do, J. M. Michaud, B. Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg, J. Yang, Y. Zuo, K. Steppe, and S. Jansen. 2017. Xylem surfactants introduce a new element to the cohesion-tension theory. Plant Physiology 173:1177-1196 (open access). http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/173/2/1177
Li, S., F. Lens, S. Espino, Z. Karimi, M. Klepsch, H. J. Schenk, M. Schmitt, B. Schuldt, and S. Jansen. 2016. Intervessel pit membrane thickness as a key determinant of embolism resistance in angiosperm xylem. IAWA Journal 37:152-171. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22941932-20160128
Hendricks D., H. J. Schenk, and E. C. Jones. 2016. Do mature Olneya tesota (desert ironwood) trees need overland water flow? Southwestern Naturalist 61:119-124. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1894/15-00058R3.1
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, A. Visser, and B. K. Esser. 2016. Dissolved atmospheric gas in xylem sap measured with membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Plant, Cell & Environment. 39:944-950. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.12678/full
Jansen, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2015. On the ascent of sap in the presence of bubbles. American Journal of Botany 102:1561-1563. http://www.amjbot.org/content/102/10/1561
Schenk, H. J., K. Steppe, and S. Jansen. 2015. Nanobubbles: a new paradigm for air-seeding in xylem. Trends in Plant Science 20:199-205. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138515000278
Martínez-Cabrera, H. I., H. J. Schenk, S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, and C. S. Jones. 2011. Integration of vessel traits, wood density, and height in angiosperm shrubs and trees. American Journal of Botany 98:915-922. http://www.amjbot.org/content/98/5/915.short
Espino, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2011. Mind the bubbles: Achieving stable measurements of maximum hydraulic conductivity through woody plant samples. Journal of Experimental Botany 62:1119-1132. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/62/3/1119/478516/
Lambert, S. E., C. S. Jones, and H. J. Schenk. 2011. Distribution of axis-splitting in Mojave Desert shrub species along an elevational gradient. Journal of Arid Environments 75:106-111. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310002661
Martínez-Cabrera, H. I., C. S. Jones, S. Espino, and H. J. Schenk. 2009. Wood anatomy and wood density in shrubs: Responses to varying aridity along transcontinental transects. American Journal of Botany 96: 1388-1398. http://www.amjbot.org/content/96/8/1388.long
Espino, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2009. Hydraulically integrated or modular?: Comparing whole-plant-level hydraulic systems between two desert shrub species with different growth forms. New Phytologist 183:142-152. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02828.x/full
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, C. M. Goedhart, M. Nordenstahl, H. I. Martinez-Cabrera, and C. S. Jones. 2008. Hydraulic integration and shrub growth form linked across continental aridity gradients. PNAS 105:11248–11253. http://www.pnas.org/content/105/32/11248.short
Schenk, H. J. 2008. The shallowest possible water extraction profile: A null model for global root distributions. Vadose Zone Journal 7:1119-1124. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/vzj/abstracts/7/3/1119
Schenk, H. J. 2006. Essay Review: Root competition: beyond resource depletion. Journal of Ecology 94:725-739.
Schenk, H. J., and R. B. Jackson. 2005. Mapping the global distribution of deep roots in relation to climate and soil characteristics. Geoderma 126:129-140.
Casper, B. B., H. J. Schenk, and R. B. Jackson. 2003. Defining a plant's belowground zone of influence. Ecology 84:2313-2321.
Schenk, H. J., C. Holzapfel, J. G. Hamilton, and B. E. Mahall. 2003. Spatial ecology of a small desert shrub on adjacent geological substrates. Journal of Ecology 91:383-395.
Schenk, H. J. and R. B. Jackson. 2002. The global biogeography of roots. Ecological Monographs 72:311-328.
Schenk, H. J. and R. B. Jackson. 2002. Rooting depths, lateral root spreads, and belowground/aboveground allometries of plants in water limited ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 90:480-494.
Schenk, H. J., and B. E. Mahall. 2002. Positive and negative interactions contribute to a north-south-patterned association between two desert shrub species. Oecologia 132:402-410.
Schenk, H. J., and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 2001. On the sectional nomenclature of Suaeda (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 50:857-873.
Jackson, R. B., H. J. Schenk, E. G. Jobbágy, J. Canadell, G. D. Colello, R. E. Dickinson, C. B. Field, P. Friedlingstein, M. Heimann, K. Hibbard, D. W. Kicklighter, A. Kleidon, R. P. Neilson, W. J. Parton, O. E. Sala, and M. T. Sykes. 2000. Belowground consequences of vegetation change and its treatment in models. Ecological Applications 10:470-483.
Schenk, H. J. 1999. Clonal splitting in desert shrubs. Plant Ecology 141:41-52.
Schenk, H. J., R. M. Callaway, and B. E. Mahall. 1999. Spatial root segregation: Are plants territorial?
Advances in Ecological Research 28:145-180.
Fisher, D. D., H. J. Schenk, J. A. Thorsch, and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 1997. Leaf anatomy and subgeneric affiliations of C3 and C4 species of Suaeda (Chenopodiaceae) in North America. American Journal of Botany 84:1198-1210.
Schenk, H. J. 1996. Modeling the effects of temperature on growth and persistence of tree species: A critical review of tree population models. Ecological Modelling 92:1-32.
Conference Proceedings
Jansen, S., M. Klepsch, S. Li, M. M. Kotowska, S. Schiele, Y. Zhang, and H. J. Schenk. 2018. Challenges in understanding air-seeding in angiosperm xylem. Acta Horticulturae 1222:13-20. https://www.actahort.org/books/1222/1222_3.htm
Quick, D. D., S. Espino, M. G. Morua, and H. J. Schenk. 2017. Effects of thermal gradients in sapwood on stem psychrometry. Acta Horticulturae 1197:23-29. https://www.actahort.org/books/1197/1197_4.htm
Schenk, H. J. 2014. Formation and repair of xylem embolisms: Current state of knowledge and implications for irrigation of horticultural crops. Acta Horticulturae 1038:311-325. https://www.actahort.org/books/1038/1038_37.htm
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, A. N. Mendez, and A. J. McElrone. 2013. Limitations in the hydraulic pathway: Effects of xylem embolisms on sap velocity and flow. Acta Horticulturae 991:323-332. https://www.actahort.org/books/991/991_40.htm
Book Chapters
Schenk, H. J. and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 2012. Suaeda. In: The Jepson Manual. 2nd ed. University of California Press.
Schenk, H. J. and E. W. Seabloom. 2010. Evolutionary ecology of plant signals and toxins: a conceptual framework. pp. 1-19 in Ninkovic, V. and F. Baluška (eds.) Plant communication from an ecological perspective. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Schenk, H. J. 2005. Vertical vegetation structure below ground: Scaling from root to globe. Progress in Botany 66: 341-373.
Ferren, W. R., Jr., and H. J. Schenk. 2003. Suaeda. pp. 390-398 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, editors. Flora of North America, Volume 4. Oxford University Press, New York.
Schenk, H. J., and D. B. Botkin. 1993. Long-term forest dynamics on nutrient-poor sandy soils in Northern Germany -- projections of a forest growth model. Scripta Geobotanica 21:105-118.
Commentaries
Pratt, R. B., A. L. Jacobsen, G. B. North, L. Sack, & H. J. Schenk. 2008. Plant hydraulics: new discoveries in the pipeline. New Phytologist 179:590-593.
Schenk, H. J. 2008. Soil depth, plant rooting strategies and species' niches. New Phytologist 178:223-225.
Published Databases
Schenk, H. J. & R. B. Jackson. 2003. Global Distribution of Root Profiles in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Data set with documentation. Available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. On-line at http://www.daac.ornl.gov.
Schenk, H. J., Jackson, R.B. 2003. ISLSCP II ecosystem rooting depths. In: Hall FG, Collatz G, Meeson B, Los S, Brown de Colstoun E, Landis D (eds) ISLSCP Initiative II Collection. Data set. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov/] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
(for abstracts & links to full papers see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9651-2009
or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H_Schenk2)
De Baerdemaeker, N., K. N. R. Arachchige, J. Zinkernagel, J. Van den Bulcke, J. Van Acker, H. J. Schenk, and K. Steppe. 2019. The stability enigma of hydraulic vulnerability curves: addressing the link between hydraulic conductivity and drought-induced embolism. Tree Physiology in press.
Kotowska, M. M., R. Thom, Y. Zhang, H. J. Schenk, and S. Jansen. 2019. Within-tree variability and sample storage effects of bordered pit membranes in xylem of Acer pseudoplatanus. Trees - Structure and Function in press.
Schenk, H. J. 2018. Wood: Biology of a living tissue. American Journal of Botany 105:139-141 (open access).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1039
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, S. M. Rich-Cavazos, and S. Jansen. 2018. From the sap’s perspective: The nature of vessel surfaces in angiosperm xylem. American Journal of Botany 105:172-185 (open access). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1034.
Cover image at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1043
Morris, H., L. Plavcová, M. Gorai, M. Klepsch, M. Kotowska, H. J. Schenk, and S. Jansen. 2018. Vessel-associated cells in angiosperm xylem: highly specialized living cells at the symplast-apoplast boundary. American Journal of Botany 105:151-160.
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, D. M. Romo, N. Nima, A. Y. T. Do, J. M. Michaud, B. Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg, J. Yang, Y. Zuo, K. Steppe, and S. Jansen. 2017. Xylem surfactants introduce a new element to the cohesion-tension theory. Plant Physiology 173:1177-1196 (open access). http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/173/2/1177
Li, S., F. Lens, S. Espino, Z. Karimi, M. Klepsch, H. J. Schenk, M. Schmitt, B. Schuldt, and S. Jansen. 2016. Intervessel pit membrane thickness as a key determinant of embolism resistance in angiosperm xylem. IAWA Journal 37:152-171. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22941932-20160128
Hendricks D., H. J. Schenk, and E. C. Jones. 2016. Do mature Olneya tesota (desert ironwood) trees need overland water flow? Southwestern Naturalist 61:119-124. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1894/15-00058R3.1
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, A. Visser, and B. K. Esser. 2016. Dissolved atmospheric gas in xylem sap measured with membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Plant, Cell & Environment. 39:944-950. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.12678/full
Jansen, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2015. On the ascent of sap in the presence of bubbles. American Journal of Botany 102:1561-1563. http://www.amjbot.org/content/102/10/1561
Schenk, H. J., K. Steppe, and S. Jansen. 2015. Nanobubbles: a new paradigm for air-seeding in xylem. Trends in Plant Science 20:199-205. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138515000278
Martínez-Cabrera, H. I., H. J. Schenk, S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz, and C. S. Jones. 2011. Integration of vessel traits, wood density, and height in angiosperm shrubs and trees. American Journal of Botany 98:915-922. http://www.amjbot.org/content/98/5/915.short
Espino, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2011. Mind the bubbles: Achieving stable measurements of maximum hydraulic conductivity through woody plant samples. Journal of Experimental Botany 62:1119-1132. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/62/3/1119/478516/
Lambert, S. E., C. S. Jones, and H. J. Schenk. 2011. Distribution of axis-splitting in Mojave Desert shrub species along an elevational gradient. Journal of Arid Environments 75:106-111. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310002661
Martínez-Cabrera, H. I., C. S. Jones, S. Espino, and H. J. Schenk. 2009. Wood anatomy and wood density in shrubs: Responses to varying aridity along transcontinental transects. American Journal of Botany 96: 1388-1398. http://www.amjbot.org/content/96/8/1388.long
Espino, S., and H. J. Schenk. 2009. Hydraulically integrated or modular?: Comparing whole-plant-level hydraulic systems between two desert shrub species with different growth forms. New Phytologist 183:142-152. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02828.x/full
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, C. M. Goedhart, M. Nordenstahl, H. I. Martinez-Cabrera, and C. S. Jones. 2008. Hydraulic integration and shrub growth form linked across continental aridity gradients. PNAS 105:11248–11253. http://www.pnas.org/content/105/32/11248.short
Schenk, H. J. 2008. The shallowest possible water extraction profile: A null model for global root distributions. Vadose Zone Journal 7:1119-1124. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/vzj/abstracts/7/3/1119
Schenk, H. J. 2006. Essay Review: Root competition: beyond resource depletion. Journal of Ecology 94:725-739.
Schenk, H. J., and R. B. Jackson. 2005. Mapping the global distribution of deep roots in relation to climate and soil characteristics. Geoderma 126:129-140.
Casper, B. B., H. J. Schenk, and R. B. Jackson. 2003. Defining a plant's belowground zone of influence. Ecology 84:2313-2321.
Schenk, H. J., C. Holzapfel, J. G. Hamilton, and B. E. Mahall. 2003. Spatial ecology of a small desert shrub on adjacent geological substrates. Journal of Ecology 91:383-395.
Schenk, H. J. and R. B. Jackson. 2002. The global biogeography of roots. Ecological Monographs 72:311-328.
Schenk, H. J. and R. B. Jackson. 2002. Rooting depths, lateral root spreads, and belowground/aboveground allometries of plants in water limited ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 90:480-494.
Schenk, H. J., and B. E. Mahall. 2002. Positive and negative interactions contribute to a north-south-patterned association between two desert shrub species. Oecologia 132:402-410.
Schenk, H. J., and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 2001. On the sectional nomenclature of Suaeda (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 50:857-873.
Jackson, R. B., H. J. Schenk, E. G. Jobbágy, J. Canadell, G. D. Colello, R. E. Dickinson, C. B. Field, P. Friedlingstein, M. Heimann, K. Hibbard, D. W. Kicklighter, A. Kleidon, R. P. Neilson, W. J. Parton, O. E. Sala, and M. T. Sykes. 2000. Belowground consequences of vegetation change and its treatment in models. Ecological Applications 10:470-483.
Schenk, H. J. 1999. Clonal splitting in desert shrubs. Plant Ecology 141:41-52.
Schenk, H. J., R. M. Callaway, and B. E. Mahall. 1999. Spatial root segregation: Are plants territorial?
Advances in Ecological Research 28:145-180.
Fisher, D. D., H. J. Schenk, J. A. Thorsch, and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 1997. Leaf anatomy and subgeneric affiliations of C3 and C4 species of Suaeda (Chenopodiaceae) in North America. American Journal of Botany 84:1198-1210.
Schenk, H. J. 1996. Modeling the effects of temperature on growth and persistence of tree species: A critical review of tree population models. Ecological Modelling 92:1-32.
Conference Proceedings
Jansen, S., M. Klepsch, S. Li, M. M. Kotowska, S. Schiele, Y. Zhang, and H. J. Schenk. 2018. Challenges in understanding air-seeding in angiosperm xylem. Acta Horticulturae 1222:13-20. https://www.actahort.org/books/1222/1222_3.htm
Quick, D. D., S. Espino, M. G. Morua, and H. J. Schenk. 2017. Effects of thermal gradients in sapwood on stem psychrometry. Acta Horticulturae 1197:23-29. https://www.actahort.org/books/1197/1197_4.htm
Schenk, H. J. 2014. Formation and repair of xylem embolisms: Current state of knowledge and implications for irrigation of horticultural crops. Acta Horticulturae 1038:311-325. https://www.actahort.org/books/1038/1038_37.htm
Schenk, H. J., S. Espino, A. N. Mendez, and A. J. McElrone. 2013. Limitations in the hydraulic pathway: Effects of xylem embolisms on sap velocity and flow. Acta Horticulturae 991:323-332. https://www.actahort.org/books/991/991_40.htm
Book Chapters
Schenk, H. J. and W. R. Ferren, Jr. 2012. Suaeda. In: The Jepson Manual. 2nd ed. University of California Press.
Schenk, H. J. and E. W. Seabloom. 2010. Evolutionary ecology of plant signals and toxins: a conceptual framework. pp. 1-19 in Ninkovic, V. and F. Baluška (eds.) Plant communication from an ecological perspective. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Schenk, H. J. 2005. Vertical vegetation structure below ground: Scaling from root to globe. Progress in Botany 66: 341-373.
Ferren, W. R., Jr., and H. J. Schenk. 2003. Suaeda. pp. 390-398 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, editors. Flora of North America, Volume 4. Oxford University Press, New York.
Schenk, H. J., and D. B. Botkin. 1993. Long-term forest dynamics on nutrient-poor sandy soils in Northern Germany -- projections of a forest growth model. Scripta Geobotanica 21:105-118.
Commentaries
Pratt, R. B., A. L. Jacobsen, G. B. North, L. Sack, & H. J. Schenk. 2008. Plant hydraulics: new discoveries in the pipeline. New Phytologist 179:590-593.
Schenk, H. J. 2008. Soil depth, plant rooting strategies and species' niches. New Phytologist 178:223-225.
Published Databases
Schenk, H. J. & R. B. Jackson. 2003. Global Distribution of Root Profiles in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Data set with documentation. Available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. On-line at http://www.daac.ornl.gov.
Schenk, H. J., Jackson, R.B. 2003. ISLSCP II ecosystem rooting depths. In: Hall FG, Collatz G, Meeson B, Los S, Brown de Colstoun E, Landis D (eds) ISLSCP Initiative II Collection. Data set. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov/] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.
