Project Number: 6235-11210-006-53
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: May 01, 2007
End Date: Sep 30, 2011

Objective:
The objective of this cooperative research project is to develop technologies for integrative assessment and monitoring of ecologically important rangeland properties at multiple scales, and develop ecological approaches for describing landscapes.

Approach:
Collaborative experiments will be designed and implemented at jointly identified sites in the southwestern United States within the Malpai Borderlands Region. Experiments will be patterned after existing experiments to 1) design methods for describing ecological sites in a globally consistent manner that can be applied specifically to the Malpai Borderlands region, and 2) design assessment and monitoring technologies appropriate for both ground-based and remotely sensed indicators of ecosystem properties that are linked to those ecological site descriptions.