New Forum article in September issue of Rangeland Ecology and Management led by SNRE visiting PhD student Anna Urgeghe
Anna Urgeghe, from Universidad de Alicante in Spain, working with Dave Breshears and others, discusses how how maximization of runon to herbaceous patches relates to minimization of hillslope-scale runoff. Anna and her co-authors suggest that considering such relationships could be valuable for managing rangelands by explicitly accounting for optimality and tradeoffs between having enough bare soil area to re-concentrate water for grasses and having too much bare soil, which can lead to excessive erosion.
