Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
Title & Affiliation(s):
Co-Principal Investigator, Jornada Basin LTER
Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
Primary Research Interests:
biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycles, physiological ecology, plant ecology
Selected Publications:
Pierce N, Archer SR, Bestelmeyer BT. 2020. Competition suppresses shrubs during early, but not late, stages of arid grassland-to-shrubland transition. Funct Ecol. (In Press.)
Pierce N, Archer SR, Bestelmeyer BT, James DK. 2019. Grass-shrub competition in arid lands: an overlooked driver in grassland-shrubland state transition? Ecosystems. 22:619-628
Ji W, Hanan NP, Browning DM, Monger HC, Peters DPC, Bestelmeyer BT, Archer SR, Ross CW, Lind BM, Anchang J, Kumar SS, Prihodko L. 2019. Constraints on shrub cover and shrub-shrub competition in a U.S. Southwest desert. Ecosphere. 10: e02590. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2590.
Archer SR, and Predick KI. 2014. An ecosystem services perspective on brush management: research priorities for competing land use objectives. J Ecol. 102:1394-1407.
Browning DM, and Archer SR. 2011. Protection from livestock fails to deter shrub proliferation in a desert landscape with a history of heavy grazing. Ecol Appl. 21:1629–1642.
Synergistic Activities:
Co-Organizer of NCEAS ‘Interactions in Mixed Tree-Grass Systems’ project
Member: SCOPE/FAO Global Biogeochemistry Consequences subgroup in “Livestock in a changing landscape” initiative. Co-lead for chapter on Livestock and the global carbon cycle
Member: Writing Team, US Climate Change Science Program Synthesis: “Effects of global change on agriculture, biodiversity, land, & water resources” (co-lead on Land Resources chapter)
Member: Writing Team, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Effects Assessment Program (Lead Author on Shrub Ecology and Management chapter)
Member: Writing Team, US Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment Indicators Project (Grasslands group)
