Research Highlight Video: Impacts of Shrub Encroachment on Dryland Water Budgets

Recent PhD graduate Adam Schreiner-McGraw, Enrique Vivoni, and other Jornada researchers recently published a high-profile paper in Scientific Reports. Their research indicates that shrub encroachment has a large impact on dryland water budgets. In this video, Adam and Enrique discuss their work and their key findings. The publication can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65094-x. Citation: Schreiner-McGraw, […]

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Jornada Desert Ecology Short-Course 2020

This year’s Jornada LTER Desert Ecology Short-Course took place as a virtual event from July 13-15th, 2020 and was well-attended by graduate students and Jornada researchers. This year’s short-course included many exciting and informative sessions such as student presentations, PI lightning talks, geological and geomorphological virtual field tours, discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion, data

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One Day in the Desert

Join Mariana and her classmates from Las Cruces, New Mexico, as they take a field trip to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park. Mariana is concerned that she won’t be able to find anything interesting about the desert to tell her Eco Pen Pals from French Polynesia and the Pacific Northwest. However, after a series of

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Long-Term Trends in Ecological Systems: A Basis for Understanding Responses to Global Change (EcoTrends book)

The EcoTrends Editorial Committee sorted through vast amounts of historical and ongoing data from 50 long-term research sites in the United States and Antarctica to present in a logical format the variables commonly collected. This work provides cross-site comparisons of ecological responses to global change drivers, as well as long-term trends in global change drivers

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