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This year’s symposium with the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range has gone virtual. Presentations will cover themes on climate adaptations in the Southwest; Southwest beef supply chains-strategies for sustainability; ecosystem dynamics and management; and big data science and tools. Several Jornada LTER-affiliated researchers will be presenting itheir work in the symposium. Check out the pre-recorded presentations […]

The Jornada LTER is now on Twitter (@JornadaLTER). For news and highlights from our program, follow us at https://twitter.com/JornadaLTER !

A recent article published in BioScience celebrates the 40th anniversary of the LTER Network. To read about the network and featured LTER sites, access the article here: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaa098/5903132

Jornada researcher Niall Hanan and colleague Julius Anchang recently published a News and Views piece in Nature. The authors describe how technological advancements and higher spatial resolution of satellite imaging could potentially map individual trees on a global scale. The article can be accessed at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02830-3#ref-CR2. Figure 1 | Large-scale tree mapping. Accurate information about tree

Jornada researchers Casey Wagnon, Robert Schooley, and Bradley Cosentino recently published a new paper in Ecosphere. Their research highlights how shrub encroachment at the Jornada Basin affects risk perception of the black-tailed jackrabbit and desert cottontail.  Results from this study suggest that, overall, both desert species perceive less risk in shrubbier habitats than in grassland