Brandon Bestelmeyer
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2008. Social-biophysical feedbacks and land change in an arid rangeland region. 93rd Ecological Society of America Annual Meetings. :PS51-157.
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2008. Teachers in the desert: Creating ecological reserech opportunities for teachres and students on the US Mexico border. 93rd Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. :OOS17-8.
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2008. Variation in ecological resilience: a fundamental concept for rangeland ecology. Society for Range Management. :1480.
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2008. Vulnerability and triggers in threshold development: models from the Chihuahuan Desert. Society for Range Management. :1487.
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2007. Does shrub invasion indirectly limit grass establishment via seedling herbivory? A test at grassland-shrubland ecotones Journal of Vegetation Science. 18:363-370.
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2007. Tipping points in rangelands: The scales of social-biophysical interactions. Ecological Society of America Abstracts. :SYMP2-7.
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2006. Fragmentation Effects on Soil Aggregate Stability in a Patchy Arid Grassland. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 59:406-415.
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2006. A Holistic View of an Arid Ecosystem: A Synthesis of Research and Its Applications. Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Site. :354-368.
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2006. How can LTER data contribute to ecosystem management. LTER All Scientists Meeting. :PaperNo.35.
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2006. Managing Vegetation Dynamics: Soil-geomorphic Maps, State-and-Transition Models, and Remote Sensing. 2005 Ecological Society International Meeting, Ecological Society of America Abstracts. :133.
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2006. A multi-scale classification of vegetation dynamics in arid lands: What is the right scale for models, monitoring, and restoration? Journal of Arid Environments. 65:296-318.
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2006. Soil-Geomorphic Heterogeneity Governs Patchy Vegetation Dynamics at an Arid Ecotone. Ecology. 87:963-973.
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2006. A three-tiered approach for coupled vegetation and soil sampling to develop ecological descriptions. Proceedings of 2006 West Regional Cooperative Soil Survey Conference.
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2006. Threshold Concepts and Their use in Rangeland Management and Restoration: The Good, The Bad and the Insidious. Restoration Ecology. 14(3):325-329.
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2005. Does desertification diminish biodiversity? Enhancement of ant diversity by shrub invasion in southwestern USA Diversity and Distributions. 11:45-55.
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2005. State and Transition Models 101: A Fresh Look at Vegetation Change. Quivira Coalition Newsletter. 7:6-11.
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2004. Applications of multi- and cross-scale analyses to management of dynamic systems. Sixth Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert Region. :19.
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2004. A general classification of vegetation dynamics for Chihuahuan Desert management models. Sixth Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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2004. Land management in the American Southwest: A state-and-transition approach to ecosystem complexity. Environmental Management. 34:38-51.
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2004. Managing land using ecological processes. 3rd Annual Conference, Quivira Coalition. :18-19.
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2004. Region-wide empirical testing of state-and-transition models. 57th Annual Meeting of Society for Range Management. :AbstractNo.31.
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2004. Scales of pattern and process in the management of the Chihuahuan Desert biodiversity. 11th Annual Conference, The Wildlife Society.
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2004. Soil-geomorphic basis of divergent landscape trajectories in the Chihuahuan Desert. 89th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America. :p.45.
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2003. Ants and termites: The little things that run your ranch. 56th Annual Meeting, Society for Range Management.
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2003. Applying species diversity theory to land management. Ecological Applications. 13:1750-1761.
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2003. Development and use of state-and-transition models for rangelands. Journal of Range Management. 56:114-126.
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2003. A field guide to land: User-friendly interpretations of rangeland communities. Second National Conference on Grazing Lands.
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2003. Future directions in soil-vegetation descriptions: Systematizing dynamics. Proceedings of the National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference. :35-36.
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2003. Grazing in complex environments: The details matter. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Quivira Coalition Conference. :1-6.
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2003. Scavenging ant foraging behavior and variation in the scale of nutrient redistribution in semiarid grasslands. Journal of Arid Environments. 53:373-386.
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2003. Using state-and-transition models: Tools for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or autopsy? 56th Annual Meeting of Society for Range Management. :16.
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2003. What does an ecological threshold look like? Proceedings of the VIIth International Rangelands Congress. :688-690.
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2002. Soil and spatial dependence of landscape dynamics in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands. 17th Annual Symposium, US-International Association for Landscape Ecology. :64.
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2002. What does an ecological threshold look like? Scale-dependent causes of a grassland-shrubland transition 87th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America. :319.
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2001. Ant biodiversity in semiarid landscape mosaics: The consequences of grazing vs. natural heterogeneity. Ecological Applications. 11:1123-1140.
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2001. An approach to managing landscape pattern and dynamics in southern New Mexico. Society for Range Management, New Mexico Section Newsletter.
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2001. Buffelgrass invasion: What is the value of a desert? Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park Newsletter. :1.
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2001. Developing and applying state-and-transition models to manage rangelands. 86th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America. :7.
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2001. An integrated approach to managing landscape pattern and dynamics in southern New Mexico. 16th Annual Symposium, US-International Association for Landscape Ecology Meeting. :29.
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2001. Local and regional-scale responses of ant diversity to a semiarid biome transition. Ecography. 24:381-392.