Dryland Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change

In collaboration with colleagues at the USGS and UC Davis, this research team is developing predictive models of plant community and ecosystem responses to global environmental change through a variety of experimental treatments, measurements and monitoring. This research is being conducted along a gradient spanning more than 1000m elevation and includes three SEGA garden sites (Black Point, Blue Chute, Arboretum Meadow).

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