Dryland responses to global change suggest the potential for rapid non-linear responses to some changes but resilience to others
Sasha Reed1, Scott Ferrenberg2, Colin Tucker3, William Austin Rutherford4, Timothy Michael Wertin5, Theresa Ann McHugh6, Ember Morrissey7, Cheryl Kuske8 and Jayne Belnap2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, United States, (2)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, UT, United States, (3)Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Moab, United States, (4)Canyonlands Research Station, USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, United States, (5)Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (7)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, (8)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States