John A. Ludwig

TL;DR: Cost-efficient ecological and natural resource surveys need: (1) flexible, logistically simple, and statistically sound sampling methods, and (2) sensitive, computationallysimple, and ecologically robust data analysis methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors monitored vegetation transects in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA to follow temporal dynamics of desert grassland communities on a variety of landforms and soil types over a 26-yr period after the removal of domestic livestock.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied distribution patterns of vascular plant species and environmental variables along a permanent transect traversing a closed-drainage watershed in the northern Chihuahuan Desert of south-central New Mexico, USA.

TL;DR: The importance of nutrients associated with shrub canopies on the micro-distribution of many desert-annuals is becoming evident through LTER and other studies.

TL;DR: The generality of the water-limited-nitrogen-regulated plant growth hypothesis for desert ecosystems was tested by applying water, nitrogen and sulfur amendments in a complete factorial design to three Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems.