Precipitation-Pulse Regimes Determine Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems
Osvaldo Sala1, Sasha Reed2, Scott L Collins3, Laureano Gherardi1, Kevin Wilcox4 and Alan Knapp5, (1)Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, (3)Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States