| MDSS Presentations. The following presentations are copyright work of the authors. Do not use graphics, tables, charts, or passages from the talks without the explicit consent of the author. All presentations are in MS Power Point format and may be upwards of 90 MB downloads. Download speeds may be slow depending on the size of the file. Charles Wilkinson Keynote - The Mojave Desert: Land of Power and Passions, Land of Vulnerability Stanley Smith Keynote - Global Change: How May the Mojave Desert Respond? (47.5 MB) Email: ssmith@ccmail.nevada.edu Michael Pool Keynote - Management and Science in the Mojave Desert Steven Thompson Keynote - Management and Science in the Mojave Desert Jill Heaton Keynote - Management and Science in the Mojave Desert (18.3 MB) Email: jheaton@unr.edu Theme One: Threats to the Mojave Desert; Past, Present and Future Theme One Introduction by Jill Heaton (59 KB) Email: jheaton@unr.edu Robert Webb Keynote - Threats to the Mojave Desert: Past, Present and Future (74.1 MB) Email: rhwebb@usgs.gov Edith Allen - Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Mojave Desert Vegetation and Soils (15.9 MB) Email: edith.allen@ucr.edu Matthew Brooks - Invasive Plants of the Mojave Desert: Current Status and Management Issues Cameron Barrows - Fragmenting a Desert Landscape: Creating a Cascade toward Extinction? Richard Tracy - Scientific Assessment of Threats to the Persistence of the Mojave Desert Tortoise Claudia Faunt - Regional Ground-Water Flow System, Nevada and California - Hydrologic Framework and Transient Ground-Water Flow Model (32.7 MB) Email: ccfaunt@usgs.gov David Miller - Summary and Discussion Theme Two: Ecosystem Monitoring: Linking Ecosystem Attributes to Ecological Processes Theme Two Introduction by Eric McDonald (57 KB) Email: emcdonald@dri.edu Mark Porter Keynote - Prospects for a Broader Understanding of Ecosystem Function (13.8 MB) Email: j.mark.porter@cgu.edu Jeffery Johansen - Biological Soil Crusts as Indicators of Ecosystem Health in the Mojave Desert (21.8 MB) Email: johansen@jcu.edu Lesley DeFalco - Long-Term Studies: Relating Past Efforts to Future Management Needs (73 MB) Email: Lesley_DeFalco@usgs.gov Erik Hamerlynck - Linking Soils, Hydrology and Vegetation Dynamics (11.5 MB) Email: epham@andromeda.rutgers.edu Leslie Saul-Gershenz - Fatal Attraction: Blister Beetle Larvae Cooperate to Practice Mass Deception in the Mojave Desert (5.6 MB) Email: lsaul@meer.net Summary and Discussion - James M. André Theme Three: Natural Recovery or Active Restoration? Theme Three Introduction by Lesley DeFalco Jayne Belnap Keynote - Leaving it Alone: How do we Determine When and Where Natural Restoration Will Work (18.4 MB) Email: jayne_belnap@usgs.gov Eric McDonald - Integration of Soil, Landscape Position, and Hydrology to Evaluate Active Restoration Strategy (25.3 MB) Email: emcdonald@dri.edu Kent Ostler - Active Restoration of Disturbances in the Mojave Desert (71.5 MB) Email: ostlerwk@nv.doe.gov David Bainbridge - The Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Economics of Desert Destruction and Restoration (2 MB) Email: dbainbridge@alliant.edu Todd Esque - From Ant to Elk: The Problems and Opportunities in Arid Land Restoration Due to Granivores and Herbivores Summary and Discussion - Robert H. Webb Theme Four: Scales and Sustainability Theme Four Introduction by Lynn Fenstermaker James Brown Keynote - Sustainability: Assumption, Hypothesis, Oxymoron? (.5 MB) Email: jhbrown@unm.edu David Bradford - An Approach for Determining Regional Land Cover and Vertebrate Species Habitat Distributions in the American Southwest: The Southwest Regional GAP Analysis Project (32.3 MB) Email: bradford.david@epa.gov Kelly Redmond - Ecological Effects of Climate Driven Process Through Time (8.6 MB) Email: kelly.redmond@dri.edu Brett Riddle - Using Molecular Approaches to Identify Biodiversity Attributes in the North American Aridlands (3.5 MB) Email: riddle@ccmail.nevada.edu Mary Cablk - Ecological Impacts - Certainty Within An Uncertain Future (12.3 MB) Email: mcablk@dri.edu Summary and Discussion - Debra L. Hughson |
