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Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, PR China
Naiman Desertification Research Station,
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The Portal Project, Arizona
Abundance of summer annual grasses on the plots at the Portal Project.
50-year grazing exclosure near Portal, AZ
The perennial grass, Bouteloua eriopoda, has recently returned inside a 50-year grazing exclosure in southeastern AZ.
Audubon's Appleton Whittell Research Ranch
Elgin, AZ The Research Ranch is a 3100-ha grazing exclosure established in 1968. While grazing has continued outside the fence on several adjacent ranches, the region has not experienced broad desertification, and the vegetation is still primarily perennial grasses. This site makes as excellent comparison site to the 50-yr exclosure in Portal, which has also been continuously grazed outside the fence.
Undergraduate field assistants heading out for the summer ant census on the plots of the Portal Project.
The Portal Project is a long-term experimental site in southeastern Arizona, initiated in 1977, to study the relationship between granivorous rodents, ants and the annual plant communities on the site. Surprising dynamics reveal themselves when you track a community for thirty years! I served as a research assistant on this site, conducting plant and ant censuses, from 2007-2011.
Lucky Hills Site at the ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tombstone, AZ
Undergraduate field assistants collecting water infiltration measurements on a cold March day in Tombstone, AZ.
The Ozarks
Spurgeon Hollow Glade, in Shannon County, MO.
A fantastic example of a dolomite glade.
Plot work at The Nature Conservancy's Chilton Creek Preserve. Van Buren, MO
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