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Jia Hu

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor, AIRES | Assistant Dean, Graduate Education | Associate Professor, Riparian Ecology-Ecohydrology | Associate Professor, Dendrochronology

Sch of Nat Resource&Enviro-Res
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50+ Collaborators
$13.2M / $14.5M Funding
30+ Grants
60+ Publications

About

Dr. Jia Hu pronounced Jah Who) is Associate Professor and Associate Director in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at University of Arizona and Affiliate Faculty at the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research. You can hear more about her journey from graduate school to her current position at: Rock Your Research.

Research Area

climate change, ecosystem dynamics, plant physiology, hydrology, topography, climate, vegetation, climate adaptation, forest ecology, ecology, precipitation, watershed, research, environmental science, water resources, adaptation

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    Landscape Influences on Microclimate and Tree Growth Cessation in a Semi‐Arid Montane Forest

    2025
    microclimate, tree growth, semi-arid, montane forest

    The mobilization and transport of newly fixed carbon are driven by plant water use in an experimental rainforest under drought

    2024
    plant physiology, carbon transport, drought impact, rainforest ecology, mobilization

    Using phenology to unravel differential soil water use and productivity in a semiarid savanna

    2024
    phenology, productivity, semi-arid, savanna

    The Influence of Winter Snowpack on the Use of Summer Rains in Montane Pine Forests Across the Southwest U.S.

    2023

    Bioavailability of Macro and Micronutrients Across Global Topsoils: Main Drivers and Global Change Impacts

    2023
    nutrient availability, soil health, global change, micronutrients

    Deeroots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration

    2023
    drought impacts, tropical trees, transpiration, deeroots, mitigation

    The North American Monsoon buffers forests against the ongoing megadrought in the Southwestern United States

    2023
    monsoon, forest ecology, megadrought, climate resilience, southwestern united states

    Water use strategies between two co‐occurring woody species in a riparian area: Naturally occurring willow, i Salix exigua i and expanding juniper, i Juniperus scopulorum i in central Montana

    2022

    Tracing plant source water dynamics during drought by continuous transpiration measurements: An in‐situ stable isotope approach

    2022
    plant dynamics, stable isotopes

    Intra-annual tree-ring δ18O and δ13C reveal a trade-off between isotopic source and humidity in moist environments

    2022
    tree-ring, isotopic source, humidity, moist environments, intra-annual

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      Ecohydrology, Plant Ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry Majors: Natural Resources Environmental Sciences EEB Geography and Geospatial Sciences Hydrology

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