Benjamin F. Schwartz

TL;DR: In this article, electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) and time domain reflectometry (TDR) were used to simultaneously measure resistivity and soil moisture at an experimental field site with the objective of quantifying soil moisture in 2D unsaturated zone profiles (>40m long and 9m deep).

TL;DR: Among the angiosperms, mortality rates correlated with wood density, lending further support to the hypothesis that species with more cavitation-resistant xylem are more susceptible to catastrophic hydraulic failure under acute drought.

TL;DR: In this paper, a controlled recharge event was conducted with multiple tracers in a karst aquifer in southeastern Minnesota, and data were collected at Freiheit Spring approximately 95m north of the sinkhole to monitor spring responses.

TL;DR: This work reevaluated the subterranean food web paradigm by examining spatial variation in the isotopic composition of basal food resources and consumers, food web structure, stygobiont species diversity, and chromophoric organic matter across a geochemical gradient in a large and complex groundwater system, the Edwards Aquifer in Central Texas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted five biological inventories in a marble cave in the Sierra Nevada Range, California, USA between May and December 2010, where the cave was divided into six quadrats and temperature was continuously logged in each (humidity was logged at the entrance and in the deep cave).