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Dominant cold desert plants do not partition warm season precipitation by event size We conducted experiments to examine the quantitative relationships between rainfall event size and rainwater uptake and use by four common native plant species of the Colorado Plateau, including two perennial grasses, Hilaria jamesii (C(4)) and Oryzopsis hymenoides (C(3)), and two shrubs, Ceratoides lanata (C(3)), and Gutierrezia sarothrae (C(3)). Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that grasses use small rainfall events more efficiently than shrubs and lose this advantage when events are large. Rainfall events between 2 and 20 mm were simulated in spring and summer by applying pulses of deuterium-labeled irrigation water. Afterwards, pulse water fractions in stems and the rates of leaf gas exchange were monitored... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Deuterium-labeled irrigation, Niche separation, Oecologia, Precipitation change, Rain use efficiency, All tags... Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Fewer tags