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Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Researcher at New Mexico State University
Publications - 152
Citations - 8979
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer is an academic researcher from New Mexico State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rangeland & Vegetation. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 147 publications receiving 7818 citations. Previous affiliations of Brandon T. Bestelmeyer include Colorado State University & Agricultural Research Service.
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Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events.
Debra P. C. Peters,Roger A. Pielke,Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,Craig D. Allen,Stuart H. Munson-McGee,Kris M. Havstad +5 more
TL;DR: This work provides an interdisciplinary, conceptual, and general mathematical framework for understanding and forecasting nonlinear dynamics through time and across space and shows that decisions that minimize the likelihood of catastrophic events must be based on cross-scale interactions, and such decisions will often be counterintuitive.
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Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States
William H. Romme,Craig D. Allen,John D. Bailey,William L. Baker,Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,Peter M. Brown,Karen S. Eisenhart,M. Lisa Floyd,David W. Huffman,Brian F. Jacobs,Brian F. Jacobs,Richard F. Miller,Esteban Muldavin,Thomas W. Swetnam,Robin J. Tausch,Peter J. Weisberg +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized what we know (and don't know) about three fundamentally different kinds of pinon-juniper vegetation, and provided a source of information for managers and policy makers, and stimulate researchers to address the most important unanswered questions.
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A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a simplistic modelling framework that can integrate the various drivers to explain the emergence of bistability for shrub-encroached grassland systems and identify the basic stages in the transition from grassland to shrubland.
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Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?
Rachel J. Standish,Richard J. Hobbs,Margaret M. Mayfield,Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,Katherine N. Suding,Loretta L. Battaglia,Valerie T. Eviner,Christine V. Hawkes,Vicky M. Temperton,Viki A. Cramer,James A. Harris,Jennifer L. Funk,Peter Thomas +12 more
TL;DR: It is argued that thresholds of disturbance are central to measuring resilience and linking thresholds to functional diversity indices may improve the ability to predict the resilience of ecosystems to future, potentially novel, disturbances according to their spatial and temporal scales of influence.
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Ecological services to and from rangelands of the United States
Kris M. Havstad,Debra P. C. Peters,Rhonda Skaggs,Joel R. Brown,Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,Ed L. Fredrickson,Jeffrey E. Herrick,John B. Wright +7 more
TL;DR: The use of ecologically-based principles of land management remains at the core of the ability of private land owners and public land managers to provide these existing and emerging services.