Dryland feedbacks to climatic change: Results from a climate manipulation experiment on the Colorado Plateau

Sasha Reed1, Jayne Belnap2, Scott Ferrenberg2, Timothy Michael Wertin3, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi4, Colin Tucker5 and William Austin Rutherford6, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, United States, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)University of Texas at El Paso, Biological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, United States, (6)USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, Canyonlands Research Station, Baltimore, MD, United States