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	address = {New York},
	title = {A {Holistic} {View} of an {Arid} {Ecosystem}: {A} {Synthesis} of {Research} and {Its} {Applications}},
	url = {bibliography/06-068.pdf},
	abstract = {A primary objective of the Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has been to provide a broad view of desert grassland ecology. Early architects of the LTER program felt that existing ecological datasets were usually of too short a duration and represented too few ecosystem components to provide a foundation for predicting dynamics in response to disturbances (NSF 1979). This recognition gave rise to the LTER approach—using long-term and multidisciplinary research at particular places to advance a holistic and broad-scale, but also mechanistic, view of ecological dynamics. Such a view is essential to applying ecological research to natural resources management (Golley 1993; Li 2000). In this synthesis chapter we ask: What has this approach taught us about the structure and function of a desert grassland ecosystem? How should this knowledge change the way we manage arid ecosystems? What gaps in our knowledge still exist and why?},
	booktitle = {Structure and {Function} of a {Chihuahuan} {Desert} {Ecosystem}: {The} {Jornada} {Basin} {Long}-{Term} {Ecological} {Research} {Site}},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	author = {Bestelmeyer, BT and Brown, JR and Havstad, KM and Fredrickson, E. L.},
	editor = {Schlesinger, W.H.},
	year = {2006},
	keywords = {JRN, synthesis book}
}

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