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Overview

Brandon T. Bestelmeyer is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields Bestelmeyer has contributed to are:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Plant Science

Their research covers several key topics such as:

  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Bestelmeyer has published several recent papers, including:

  • Scaling Up Agricultural Research With Artificial Intelligence, 2020, IT Professional
  • Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Rangeland degradation in Mongolia: A systematic review of the evidence, 2021, Journal of Arid Environments
  • Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework, 2021, Ecological Indicators
  • The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry, 2022, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Bestelmeyer include:

  • Sheri Spiegal
  • Sarah E. McCord
  • Nicholas P. Webb
  • Santiago A. Utsumi
  • Rick E. Estell

The scientist's work has been published in a number of recurring venues, which include:

  • Journal of Arid Environments
  • Rangelands
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management

Best Publications

  • Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events.

    Debra P. C. Peters;Roger A. Pielke;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Craig D. Allen

  • Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

    Rachel J. Standish;Richard J. Hobbs;Margaret M. Mayfield;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

    Paolo D'Odorico;Paolo D'Odorico;Gregory S. Okin;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States

    William H. Romme;Craig D. Allen;John D. Bailey;William L. Baker

  • Ecological services to and from rangelands of the United States

    Kris M. Havstad;Debra P.C. Peters;Rhonda Skaggs;Joel Brown

  • Development and use of state-and-transition models for rangelands

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Joel R. Brown;Kris M. Havstad;Robert Alexander

  • Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

    Brandon T Bestelmeyer;Gregory S Okin;Michael C Duniway;Steven R Archer

  • The Effects of Land Use on the Structure of Ground‐Foraging Ant Communities in the Argentine Chaco

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;John A. Wiens

  • Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification

    Gregory S. Okin;Anthony J. Parsons;John Wainwright;Jeffrey E. Herrick

  • Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Aaron M. Ellison;William R. Fraser;Kristen B. Gorman

  • Cross–Scale Interactions and Changing Pattern–Process Relationships: Consequences for System Dynamics

    Debra P. C. Peters;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Monica G. Turner

  • State-and-Transition Models for Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Strategy for Development and Application

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Arlene J. Tugel;George L. Peacock;Daniel G. Robinett

  • Threshold Concepts and Their Use in Rangeland Management and Restoration: The Good, the Bad, and the Insidious

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Recommendations for Development of Resilience-Based State-and-Transition Models

    D.D. Briske;B.T. Bestelmeyer;T.K. Stringham;P.L. Shaver

  • The trade‐off between thermal tolerance and behavioural dominance in a subtropical South American ant community

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for U.S. rangelands, 1984–2017

    Matthew O. Jones;Brady W. Allred;David E. Naugle;Jeremy D. Maestas

  • Disentangling Complex Landscapes: New Insights into Arid and Semiarid System Dynamics

    Debra P. C. Peters;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Jeffrey E. Herrick;Ed L. Fredrickson

  • Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty

    Brady W. Allred;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Chad S. Boyd;Christopher Brown

  • Using Unmanned Aerial vehicles for Rangelands: Current Applications and Future Potentials

    Albert Rango;Caiti Steele;Jeffrey E. Herrick;Brandon Bestelmeyer

  • ANT BIODIVERSITY IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPE MOSAICS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF GRAZING VS. NATURAL HETEROGENEITY

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;John A. Wiens

  • Land Management in the American Southwest: A State-and-Transition Approach to Ecosystem Complexity

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Jeffrey E. Herrick;Joel R. Brown;David A. Trujillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Joel R. Brown
Joel R. Brown United States Department of Agriculture
Debra P. C. Peters
Debra P. C. Peters United States Department of Agriculture
Kris M. Havstad
Kris M. Havstad Agricultural Research Service
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles
David D. Briske
David D. Briske Texas A&M University
Steven R. Archer
Steven R. Archer University of Arizona
Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez
Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez Colorado State University
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University
Enrique R. Vivoni
Enrique R. Vivoni Arizona State University

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