Dry-farmed wheat beside a plot of bare soil in San Juan Bautista, California, with green hills and an oak tree behind

Publications

Ruehr, S., Bassiouni, M., Kang, Y., Socolar, Y., Magney, T., & Keenan, T. (2025). Crop diversification improves water-use efficiency and regional water sustainability. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae15a9
Gill, A. R., Rainey, C., Socolar, Y., Gil-Santos, Y., & Bowles, T. M. (2024). Comparing dry farming of tomatoes across varieties and soil management history. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1301434. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1301434
Socolar, Y., Carlisle, L., & Bowles, T. M. (2024). Tomato dry farming as an agroecological model for California’s drought resilient future: Farmers’ perspectives and experiences. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1), 00139. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00139
Socolar, Y., Matta, T. J., Fuentes, M. R., Andoko, B., Cook, J., Hernández, C. C., Mazariegos-Anastassiou, C., Mazariegos-Anastassiou, V., Schirmer, J., Socolar, J. B., Woodard, C., Wong, D. G., & Bowles, T. M. (2024). Deep nutrients and soil fungal communities support tomato fruit yield and quality in dry farm management systems. Environmental Research: Food Systems, 1(1), 015005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/ad382e
Socolar, Y. (2023). Adapting agroecosystems to water scarcity: Dry farming and crop rotation as transitions to diversified farming systems in California and the US Midwest [PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley]. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38w564br
Debray, R., Socolar, Y., Kaulbach, G., Guzman, A., Hernandez, C. A., Curley, R., Dhond, A., Bowles, T., & Koskella, B. (2022). Water stress and disruption of mycorrhizas induce parallel shifts in phyllosphere microbiome composition. New Phytologist, 234(6), 2018–2031. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17817
Petersen-Rockney, M., Baur, P., Guzman, A., Bender, S. F., Calo, A., Castillo, F., De Master, K., Dumont, A., Esquivel, K., Kremen, C., LaChance, J., Mooshammer, M., Ory, J., Price, M. J., Socolar, Y., Stanley, P., Iles, A., & Bowles, T. (2021). Narrow and brittle or broad and nimble? Comparing adaptive capacity in simplifying and diversifying farming systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 564900. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.564900
Socolar, Y., Goldstein, B. R., de Valpine, P., & Bowles, T. M. (2021). Biophysical and policy factors predict simplified crop rotations in the U.S. Midwest. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 054045. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf9ca
Bowles, T. M., Mooshammer, M., Socolar, Y., Calderón, F., Cavigelli, M. A., Culman, S. W., Deen, W., Drury, C. F., Garcia y Garcia, A., Gaudin, A. C. M., Harkcom, W. S., Lehman, R. M., Osborne, S. L., Robertson, G. P., Salerno, J., Schmer, M. R., Strock, J., & Grandy, A. S. (2020). Long-term evidence shows that crop-rotation diversification increases agricultural resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America. One Earth, 2(3), 284–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.007
Strauman, T. J., Socolar, Y., Kwapil, L., Cornwell, J. F. M., Franks, B., Sehnert, S., & Higgins, E. T. (2015). Microinterventions targeting regulatory focus and regulatory fit selectively reduce dysphoric and anxious mood. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 72, 18–29.