Principal biome/main communities: Hot desert. Playa, piedmont, and swale; bajada, basin, mountain and swale shrubland; mesquite dunes 

Research topics: Desertification; factors affecting primary production; animal-induced soil disturbances; direct and indirect consumer effects; vertebrate and invertebrate population dynamics; grazing effects on ecosystem structure and function; biodiversity and ecosystem function; small mammal effects on soil and vegetation heterogeneity; soil microbial processes; surface hydrology; trace gas emissions from soils; eolian processes. 

Site Coordinates:  32.5, -106.8