Summary
This Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCoR Research Fellows project provides a fellowship to an Associate Professor and training for a post-doctoral scholar at Boise State University. The work is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Rudgers at the University of New Mexico. Through the fellowship, the PI will examine how drought and rainfall variability affect plant clustering in dryland ecosystems. In turn, the research will test whether shifts in clustering signal ecosystem degradation. The PI will integrate ecology, remote sensing, and data science by applying machine learning t
