ecology

With fossil fuels waning, a public awareness of global warming and biodiversity issues increasing, and new green technologies breaking into public markets, the world is poised for planning sustainability of a global society.

The 10th Biennial Conference for Research on the Colorado Plateau invites all resource managers, scientists, citizens, Society for Conservation Biology chapters, and students of North American conservation. This conference will focus on solutions to some of the most pressing conservation issues facing not only the Southwest and West, but also virtually every other region in North America.

23rd Annual Meeting and Non-Native Plant Identification Workshop.

Meeting topics will include meeting future water-supply needs, drought and flood co-management, ecosystem impacts, and water-management challenges.

A study by Kelly and Goulden (2008) demonstrates that the actual boundaries of plant species ranges stay the same, but the central tendencies of the plant population moved upslope over a period of 30 years. Breshears and colleagues (2008) define this movement as leaning.

The known extent of Salt Cedar (Tamarix sp.) invasion in the United States. The vertical line marks the 100th meridian, west of which rainfall drops below 45 cm yr−1 and agriculture becomes highly dependent on irrigation.