Sensitivity of root production to long-term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems “Our results yield new insight into how dryland plant roots respond to climate change. Our comparison of dryland ecosystems of the northern Chihuahuan Desert predicted that root production in shrublands would be more sensitive to future climates that are drier and more variable than root production…
Author: Em Gonzalez
Hispanic Drylands, a Workshop Beyond Borders
The Global Drylands Center (GDC) & the Chicano/Latino Faculty and Staff Association (CLFSA) coordinated an evening event on March 15, entitled Hispanic Drylands. We developed a new framework analyzing the two-way interactions between Hispanic Culture and Drylands. Hispanic culture originated in the drylands of Southern Europe and spread mostly into the drylands of the Americas. How the culture-environment interaction determines…
ASU News Highlight | “The Secret Web of Life in Our Soil”
Ferran Garcia-Pichel, committee member of the Global Drylands Center, was featured recently in ASU News. Check out the article by clicking through!