The Global Drylands Center wishes to congratulate Executive Committee Member Enrique R. Vivoni on his latest publication this month in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, “A micrometeorological flux perspective on brush management in a shrub-encroached Sonoran Desert grassland,” for which he is the first author. Vivoni is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. His research focuses on water, climate and ecosystem processes and interactions with sustainability and management, with a specific emphasis on semiarid and arid regions of North America.
The article is the result of over 7 years of work studying and comparing “ecosystem responses to brush management in an herbicide-treated site to an untreated, control location to explicitly account for pre-treatment differences” in the Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER) of the Sonoran Desert, just under 30 miles south of Tucson. Its contribution is especially important with regard to brush management strategies, which “rarely account for site differences that might occur prior to treatment.” You can access the full article here.