Bold: denotes current or former Carbonshed Lab member
Books
Walsh, S.J., Riveros-Iregui, D., Arce-Nazario, J., Page, P.H. (Editors), Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands: Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability. In the Galapagos Book Series, “Social, Terrestrial, and Marine Interactions in the Galapagos Islands,” (S.J. Walsh & C.F. Mena, Series Editors), Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43973-6
Refereed Publications
2025
Whitmore, K.M., DelVecchia, A.G., Zarate, D., Madrigal, A., Emerson, K., Bautista, M., Suárez, E., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Water Temperature and Catchment Characteristics Drive Variance in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Small Ponds in a Peatland-Rich, High-Altitude Tropical Ecosystem (submitted) Limnology and Oceanography
Duvert, C., Borges, A., Calamita, E., [….] including Whitmore, K.M., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Climate and Landscape Diversity Drive Highly Variable Greenhouse Gas Emissions from (Sub)Tropical Inland Waters (in review) Nature Water
Whitmore, K.M., DelVecchia, A.G., Farquhar, E., Rocher-Ros, G., Suárez, E., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Carbon Emissions from Low-Order Streams in a Tropical, High-Elevation, Peatland Ecosystem are Mediated by Catchment Morphology (in revision) Water Resources Research
Murray, A.R., Hall, A., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2025) A Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Geography of Public and Private Water Use in the United States. Water Research 276, 123171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123171 Link to Paper
Sánchez-Murillo, R., Herrera, D.A., Farrick, K.K., [….] including Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Stable Isotope Tempestology of Tropical Cyclones Across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean Basins (2025) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1543, 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15274
2024
Delesantro, J., Duncan, J.M., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Whitmore, K.M., and Band, L.E., (2024) High frequency monitoring and nitrate sourcing reveals baseflow and stormflow controls on total dissolved nitrogen and carbon export along a rural-urban gradient. Water Resources Research 60, e2023WR036750, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036750 LINK TO PAPER
Murray, A.R., Hall, A., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A. (2024) Considering Monitoring Well Bias in the Delineation of Benzene Plume Lengths. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 150(10):04024044, doi:10.1061/joeedu.eeeng-7589 LINK TO PAPER
Murray, A.R., Hall, A., Kremer, F., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A. (2024) Statistical Measures of Income and Demographic from Underground Storage Tanks. Environmental Justice 17(4), 279-287. doi:10.1089/env.2023.0006 LINK TO PAPER
Sheppy, J., Sudduth, E.B., Clinton, S., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Ledford, S.H. (2024) Urban beaver ponds show limited impact on stream carbon quantity in contrast to stormwater ponds. Urban Ecosystems https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01536-y LINK TO PAPER
2023
Suárez, E., Encalada, A., Chimbolema, S., Jaramillo, R., Duchicela, S., Segovia-Salcedo, C., Caiza, J., Pazmiño, G., Guamán, M., Riveros-Iregui, D., and Hofstede, R. (2023). Ecología de los Páramos del Ecuador: Un Paisaje Altoandino Integrado por Múltiples Ecosistemas. In Eds., Hofstede, R., Mena-Vásconez, P., and Suárez, E., Los Páramos del Ecuador: Pasado, Presente, y Futuro. USFQ Press. https://doi.org/10.18272/USFQPRESS.71
Mosquera, G., Hofstede, R., Bremer, L.L., Asbjornsen, H., Carabajo, A., Celleri, R., Crespo, P., Esquivel-Hernández, G., Feyen J., Manosalvas, R., Marin, F., Mena-Vásconez, P., Montenegro-Díaz, P., Ochoa-Sanchez, A., Pesántez, J., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Suárez, E., (2023) Frontiers in Páramo Water Resources Research: a Multidisciplinary Assessment. Science of the Total Environment 892, 164373 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164373 LINK TO PAPER
Shoenborn, A., Yannarell, S., MacVicar, C., Barriga-Medina, N., Markillie, M., Mitchell, H., Bonham, K., Leon-Reyes, A., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Klepac-Ceraj, V., and Shank, E. (2023) Microclimate is a strong predictor of the native and invasive plant-associated microbiota on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos Archipelago. Environmental Microbiology 25(8), 1377-1392. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16361 LINK TO PAPER
Suárez, E., Encalada, A.C., Chimbolema, S., Jaramillo, R., Hofstede, R.G.M., Riveros-Iregui, D. (2023) On the Use of “Alpine” for High-Elevation Tropical Environments. Mountain Research and Development https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.2022.00024 LINK TO PAPER
2022
Covino, T., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Schneider, C.L. (2022). Geomorphology Imparts Spatial Organization on Hydrological and Biogeochemical Fluxes. In Eds., Wohl, E., Treatise on Geomorphology. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00068-7 LINK TO PDF
Delesantro, J., Duncan, J.M., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Blaszczak, J., Bernhardt, E.S., Urban, D., and Band, L.E., The Non-Point Sources and Transport of Baseflow Nitrogen Loading Across a Developed Rural-Urban Gradient (2022) Water Resources Research e2021WR031533, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031533
2021
Delesantro, J., Duncan, J.M., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Blaszczak, J., Bernhardt, E.S., Urban, D., and Band, L.E., (2021) Characterizing and Classifying Urban Watersheds with Compositional and Structural Attributes. Hydrological Processes 35:e14339, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14339
Harris, A., Fidan, E.,Nelson, N., Emanuel, R., Jass, T., Kathariou, S., Niedermeyer, J., Sharara, M., de los Reyes III, F., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Stewart, J., Microbial Contamination in Environmental Waters of Rural and Agriculturally-Dominated Landscapes Following Hurricane Florence (2021) ES&T – Water 2021, 1, 9, 2012-2019, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00103
Larsen, W., Liu, X-M., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2021) Rare earth element behavior in springs and streams on a basaltic island: San Cristóbal, Galápagos. Applied Geochemistry 131, 105004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.105004
Whitmore, K.M., Stewart, N., Encalada, A.C., Suárez, E., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2021) Spatiotemporal Variability in Gas Transfer Velocity in a Tropical Stream Using Two Independent Methods. Ecosphere 12 (7) Article e03647. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3647
Gómez-Gener, L., Rocher-Ros, G., Battin, T., Cohen, M.J., Dalmagro, H., Dinsmore, K.J., Drake, T., Duvert, C., Prast, A.E., Horgby, A., Johnson, M., Kirk, L., Machado-Silva, F., Marzolf, N., McDowell, M.J., McDowell, W.H., Miettinen, H., Ojala, A.K., Peter, H., Pumpanen, J., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Santos, I., Six, J., Stanley, E.H., Wallin, M.B., White, S., and Sponseller, R.A., (2021) Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions. Nature Geoscience 14, 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00722-3
2020
Hu, J., Qubain, C., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2020) How do non-native plants influence soil nutrients along a hydroclimate gradient on San Cristobal Island? 205-219 pp. In Eds., Walsh, S.J. et al., Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands: Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability. Springer Nature.
McQueen, S.G., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Hu, J., (2020) The Carbon Balance of Tropical Islands: Lessons from Soil Respiration. 261-276 pp. In Eds., Walsh, S.J. et al., Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands: Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability. Springer Nature.
Schneider, C.L., Herrera, M., Raisle, M.L., Murray, A.R., Whitmore, K.M., Encalada, A.C., Suárez, E., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2020) Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Fluxes from Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments in a High-Altitude Tropical Catchment. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 125, e2020JG005844. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005844
Percy, M.S., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Mirus, B.B., and Benninger, L. Temporal and spatial variability of shallow soil moisture across four planar hillslopes on a tropical ocean island, San Cristóbal, Galápagos (2020) Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 30 (100692). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100692
Tague, C.L., Papuga, S.A., Gerlein-Safdi, C., Dymond, S., Morrison, R.R., Boyer, E.W., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Arora, B., Dialynas, Y.G., Hansen, A., Krause, S., Kuppel, S., Loheide II, S.P., and Schymaski, S.J., Adding our leaves: a community-wide perspective on research directions in ecohydrology (2020) Hydrological Processes 34, 1665-1673. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13693
2019
Awada, T., Skolaut, K., Battipaglia, G., Saurer, M., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Schapaugh, A., Zhou, X., Huddle, J., Martin, D., and Cherubini, P. (2019) Tree rings and stable isotopes show differential adaptation of native and invasive woody species to streamflow fluctuations in a semi-arid riparian ecosystem in the Great Plains, U.S. Ecohydrology 2019;12:e2074. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2074 Link to paper
2018
Schmitt, S.R., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Hu, J. (2018) The Role of Fog, Orography and Seasonality on Precipitation in a Semi-Arid, Tropical Island. Hydrological Processes 32, 2792-2805. doi:10.1002/hyp.13228 Link to paper
Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Lorenzo, T.M., Liang, L.L., and Hu, J. (2018) Summer Dry-Down Modulates the Isotopic Composition of Soil CO2 Production in Snow-Dominated Landscapes. PLoS ONE 13(5):e0197471. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197471
Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Covino, T.P., and Gonzalez-Pinzon, R.A. (2018) The Importance of and Need for Rapid Hydrologic Assessments in Latin America. Hydrological Processes 32, 2441-2451. doi:10.1002/hyp.13163 Link to paper
Hamel, P., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Ballari, D., Browning, T., Célleri, R., Chandler, D., Chun, K., Destouni, G., Jacobs, S., Jasechko, S., Johnson, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Poca, M., Pompeu, P., and Rocha, H. (2018) Watershed Services in the Humid Tropics: Opportunities from Recent Advances in Ecohydrology. Ecohydrology 2018;11:e1921. doi:10.1002/eco.1921 Link to paper
2017
Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Lenters, J.D., Peake, C.S., Ong, J., Healey, N., Zlotnik, V. (2017) Evaporation from a shallow, saline lake in the Nebraska Sandhills: Energy balance drivers of seasonal and interannual variability. Journal of Hydrology 553:172-187, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.08.002 Link to paper
Reyes, W.M., Epstein, H.E., Li, X., McGlynn, B.L., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Emanuel, R.E. (2017) Complex Terrain Influences Ecosystem Responses to Climate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31, 1306-1317, doi:10.1002/2017GB005658 Link to paper
Loecke, T.D., Burgin, A.J., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Ward, A.S., Thomas, S.A., Davis, C.A., and St. Clair, M.A., (2017) Weather whiplash in agricultural regions drives deterioration of water quality. Biogeochemistry 133, 7-15. doi:10.1007/s10533-017-0315-z Link to paper
2016
Peña, D.C., Rubiano, Y., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A. (2016) Effects of Land Use on Soil CO2 Flux in the Guerrero Paramo, Colombia. Agronomia Colombiana 34(3): 364-373, doi: 10.15446/agron.colomb.v34n3.58791 Link to paper
Liang, L.L., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Risk, D. (2016) Spatial and Seasonal Variability of the Stable Carbon Isotope Composition of Soil CO2 and Flux in Complex Terrain. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 121, 2328-2339. doi:10.1002/2015JG003193 Link to paper
Reynolds, K.N., Loecke, T.D., Burgin, A.J., Davis, C.A., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Thomas, S.A., Ward, A.S., and St. Clair, M.A., (2016) Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Riverine Nitrate using High-Frequency Data in Agricultural Watersheds. Environmental Science and Technology 50(12) 6406-6414, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b05423 Link to paper
Percy, M.S., Schmitt, S.R., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., and Mirus, B.B. (2016) The Galápagos Archipelago: A Natural Laboratory to Examine Sharp Hydroclimatic, Geologic and Anthropogenic Gradients. WIREs Water 3: 587-600. doi:10.1002/wat2.1145 Link to paper
Hu, J., and Riveros-Iregui, D.A., (2016) Life in the clouds: Are tropical montane cloud forests responding to changes in climate? Oecologia 180: 1061-1073. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3533-x (Equal Authorship) Link to paper
2015
Du, Z., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Jones, R.T., McDermott, T.R., Dore, J., McGlynn, B.L., Emanuel, R.E., and Li, X., (2015) Landscape Position Influences Microbial Composition and Function via Redistribution of Soil Water across a Watershed. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81:8457-8468. doi:10.1128/AEM.02643-15 Link to paper
Wang, L., Manzoni, S., Ravi, S., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Caylor, K., (2015) Dynamic interactions of ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes in water-limited systems. Ecosphere 6:art133. Invited Review and ESA Centennial Paper. doi:10.1890/ES15-00122.1 Link to paper
2014
Davis, C.A., Ward, A.S., Burgin, A.J., Loecke, T.D., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Schnoebelen, D.J., Just, C.L., Thomas, S.A., Weber, L.J., and St. Clair, M.A. (2014) Antecedent Moisture Controls on Stream Nitrate Flux in an Agricultural Watershed. Journal of Environmental Quality 43: 1494-1503, doi:10.2134/jeq2013.11.0438 Link to paper
Liang, L.L., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Emanuel, R.E., and McGlynn, B.L., (2014) A Simple Framework to Estimate Distributed Soil Temperature from Discrete Air Temperature Measurements in Data-Scarce Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 119(2): 407-417. doi:10.1029/2013JD020597 Link to paper
2012
Fisher, E., Mackey, K., Cusack, D., DeSantis, L., Hartzell-Nichols, L., Lutz, J., Melbourne-Thomas, J., Meyer, R., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Sorte, C., Taylor, J., and White, S., (2012) Is Pre-Tenure Interdisciplinary Research a Career Risk? EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 93:311-312. doi: 10.1029/2012ES003846 Link to paper
Riveros-Iregui, D.A., McGlynn, B.L., Emanuel, R.E., and Epstein, H.E., 2012 Complex Terrain Leads to Bidirectional Responses of Soil Respiration to Inter-annual Water Availability. Global Change Biology18(2):749-756. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02556.x Link to paper
2011
Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Wang, L., and Wilcox, B. (2011) Ecohydrology and the Challenges of the Coming Decades. American Geophysical Union, Hydrology Section Newsletter, p. 32-34.[COMMENTARY]
Emanuel, R.E., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., McGlynn, B.L., and Epstein, H.E., (2011) On the Spatial Heterogeneity of Net Ecosystem Production in Complex Landscapes. Ecosphere 2(7):art86. doi:10.1890/ES11-00074.1
Riveros-Iregui D.A., McGlynn BL, Marshall LA, Welsch DL, Emanuel RE, and Epstein HE. (2011) A Watershed-Scale Assessment of a Process Soil CO2 Production and Efflux Model. Water Resources Research 47, W00J04, doi:10.1029/2010WR009941
Riveros-Iregui DA, Hu J, Burns SP, Bowling DR, and Monson RK. (2011) An Inter-Annual Assessment of the Relationship between the Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition of Ecosystem Respiration and Climate in a High Elevation Subalpine Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences116, G02005, doi:10.1029/2010JG001556
Pacific VJ, McGlynn BL, Riveros-Iregui DA, Welsch DL, Epstein HE, (2011) Landscape Structure, Groundwater Dynamics, and Soil Water Content Influence Soil Respiration across Riparian-Hillslope Transitions, Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest, Montana. Hydrological Processes 25: 811-827. doi:10.1002/hyp.7870
2010
Hu J, Moore DJP, Riveros-Iregui DA, Burns SP, Monson RK, (2010) Modeling Whole Tree Carbon Assimilation Rate Using Observed Transpiration Rates and Needle Sugar Carbon Isotope Ratios. New Phytologist 185:1000-1025. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03154.x
2009
Pacific VJ, McGlynn BL, Riveros-Iregui DA, Epstein HE, Welsch DL, (2009) Differential Soil Respiration Responses to Changing Hydrologic Regimes. Water Resources Research 45, W07201, doi: 10.1029/2009WR007721
Riveros-Iregui DA, McGlynn BL, (2009) Landscape Structure Control on Soil CO2 Efflux Variability in Complex Terrain: Scaling from Point Observations to Watershed-Scale Fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 114, G02010, doi: 10.1029/2008JG000885
2008
Pacific VJ, McGlynn BL, Riveros-Iregui DA, Welsch DL, Epstein HE, (2008) Variability in Soil Respiration across Riparian-Hillslope Transitions. Biogeochemistry 91:51-70, doi: 10.1007/s10533-008-9258-8
Riveros-Iregui, DA. (2008) Hydrologic-Carbon Cycle Linkages in a Subalpine Catchment. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University. [DISSERTATION OF THE YEAR AWARD AT MONTANA STATE UNIV.]
Blankinship JC, Riveros-Iregui DA, Desai, AR, (2008) NCAR Advanced Study Program Students ‘Method Hop’ their way to Regional Biogeochemistry. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89:1571-1573, doi: 10.1175/2008BAMS2615.1
Riveros-Iregui DA, McGlynn BL, (2008) Measuring and Modeling CO2 and H2O Fluxes in Complex Terrain. FluxLetter 1(4):10-11 [INVITED COMMENTARY]
Riveros-Iregui DA, McGlynn BL, Epstein HE, Welsch DL, (2008) Interpretation and Evaluation of Combined Measurement Techniques for Soil CO2 Efflux: Discrete Surface Chambers and Continuous Soil CO2 Concentration Probes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 113, G04027, doi: 10.1029/2008JG000811
Riveros-Iregui DA, King JY, (2008) Isotopic Evidence of Methane Oxidation across the Surface Water – Groundwater Interface. Wetlands 28:928-937. doi:10.1672/07-191.1
2007
Riveros-Iregui DA, Emanuel RE, Muth DJ, McGlynn BL, Epstein HE, Welsch DL, Pacific VJ, Wraith JM, (2007) Diurnal Hysteresis between Soil CO2 and Soil Temperature is Controlled by Soil Water Content. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L17404, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030938