PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara MA, University of California, Santa Barbara Diploma in Biology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, F. R. Germany

Plant ecology, plant water relations, structure and function of plant hydraulic systems, root ecology, desert plant ecology

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.