@inbook {50420,
	title = {A Holistic View of an Arid Ecosystem: A Synthesis of Research and Its Applications},
	booktitle = {Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Site},
	year = {2006},
	month = {July 1, 2006},
	pages = {354-368},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	chapter = {17},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {A primary objective of the Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has been to provide a broad view of desert grassland ecology. Early architects of the LTER program felt that existing ecological datasets were usually of too short a duration and represented too few ecosystem components to provide a foundation for predicting dynamics in response to disturbances (NSF 1979). This recognition gave rise to the LTER approach{\textemdash}using long-term and multidisciplinary research at particular places to advance a holistic and broad-scale, but also mechanistic, view of ecological dynamics. Such a view is essential to applying ecological research to natural resources management (Golley 1993; Li 2000). In this synthesis chapter we ask: What has this approach taught us about the structure and function of a desert grassland ecosystem? How should this knowledge change the way we manage arid ecosystems? What gaps in our knowledge still exist and why?},
	keywords = {Chihuahuan Desert, desert grassland ecosystem, holistic view, Jornada Basin, LTER, multidisciplinary, patch-based correlations, research, synthesis book},
	url = {/files/bibliography/06-068.pdf},
	author = {Brandon T Bestelmeyer and Joel R. Brown and Kris Havstad and E.L. Fredrickson},
	editor = {Kris Havstad and L. Huenneke and W. H. Schlesinger}
}
