Dr. Eric MacDonald of the College of Environment & Design at UGA is shepherding this student-run initiative that uses prescribed grazing to control invasive species, reclaim forgotten natural areas on campus, and foster environmental stewardship in students. The goats, or the…
With long-time collaborator Trenton Franz, we recently developed a dynamic cellular automata model that incorporates the factors that our empirical research has shown to strongly govern vegetation dynamics at the patch scale (2-4m): rain event frequency and intensity, surface water…
With Trenton Franz and Dan Rubenstein, we have been monitoring 24 30-m transects on a hillslope at Koija, Kenya for 7 years. On each transect, we monitor the vegetation patch structure, composition, and soil surface condition using the Landscape Function…
Georgia has one of the least-developed coastlines on the Atlantic seaboard, and a lot of that coastline is salt marsh — hypnotically beautiful salt marsh. While the graceful mosaics of water, marsh, and upland hammocks may appear “untouched,” coastal ecosystems…
This project is investigating how and why Sansevieria volkensii, a humble succulent native to Kenyan drylands, has become a pernicious pest plant. The proliferation has coincided with intensifying grazing pressure in the area and drastic reduction of grass cover. The…
This interesting synthesis of transcendental factors that can be “deal-makers and deal-breakers” for pastoralist sustainability is now off the back burner and getting properly cooked and seasoned to be served up to the public quite soon!