Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
(for abstracts & links to papers see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9651-2009
or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H_Schenk2)
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
Quick, D. D., S. Espino, M. G. Morua, and H. J. Schenk. 2017. Effects of thermal gradients in sapwood on stem psychrometry. Acta Horticulturae in press.
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.
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
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 papers see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9651-2009
or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/H_Schenk2)
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
Quick, D. D., S. Espino, M. G. Morua, and H. J. Schenk. 2017. Effects of thermal gradients in sapwood on stem psychrometry. Acta Horticulturae in press.
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.
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
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.