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Overview

Kris M. Havstad is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to several subfields including Mechanics of Materials, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

Their work addresses multiple key topics comprising Forest Biomass Utilization and Management, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

Havstad has contributed to scholarly literature with publications in venues such as Utah State Research and Scholarship (Utah State University) and Ecology. Two recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research:

  • The Energy Expenditure of Heifers Grazing Crested Wheatgrass Rangeland in West-Central Utah, 2021, Utah State Research and Scholarship (Utah State University)
  • Quadrat-based monitoring of desert grassland vegetation at the Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1915-2016, 2021, Ecology

Collaboration is a part of Havstad's research activity, with frequent coauthors including Erica M. Christensen, Darren K. James, Connie J. Maxwell, Amalia Slaughter, and Peter B. Adler.

Best Publications

  • Rotational Grazing on Rangelands: Reconciliation of Perception and Experimental Evidence

    D. D. Briske;J. D. Derner;J. R. Brown;S. D. Fuhlendorf

  • Object-oriented image analysis for mapping shrub encroachment from 1937 to 2003 in southern New Mexico

    Andrea S. Laliberte;Albert Rango;Kris M. Havstad;Jack F. Paris

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

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

  • Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and management.

    Albert Rango;Andrea Laliberte;Jeffrey E. Herrick;Craig Winters

  • 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

  • Vegetation changes in the Jornada Basin from 1858 to 1998

    R.P. Gibbens;R.P. McNeely;K.M. Havstad;R.F. Beck

  • Field soil aggregate stability kit for soil quality and rangeland health evaluations

    J.E Herrick;W.G Whitford;A.G de Soyza;J.W Van Zee

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Rangeland ecosystem services: Shifting focus from supply to reconciling supply and demand

    Laura Yahdjian;Osvaldo E Sala;Kris M Havstad

  • Climate Change and Ecosystems of Asia With Emphasis on Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

    Jay Angerer;Guodong Han;Ikuko Fujisaki;Kris Havstad

  • Harnessing the power of big data: infusing the scientific method with machine learning to transform ecology

    Debra P. C. Peters;Kris M. Havstad;Judy Cushing;Craig Tweedie

  • Strategies to alleviate poverty and grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia: intensification vs production efficiency of livestock systems.

    David D. Briske;Mengli Zhao;Guodong Han;Changbai Xiu

  • A test of critical thresholds and their indicators in a desertification-prone ecosystem: more resilience than we thought

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Michael C. Duniway;Michael C. Duniway;Darren K. James;Laura M. Burkett

  • Long-term measurements of CO2 flux and evapotranspiration in a Chihuahuan desert grassland

    P. Mielnick;W.A. Dugas;K. Mitchell;K. Havstad

  • Perspectives on desertification: south-western United States

    Ed Fredrickson;Kris.M. Havstad;Rick Estell;Paul Hyder

  • High-resolution images reveal rate and pattern of shrub encroachment over six decades in New Mexico, U.S.A.

    S. C. Goslee;K. M. Havstad;D. P. C. Peters;A. Rango

  • Morphological characteristics of shrub coppice dunes in desert grasslands of southern New Mexico derived from scanning LIDAR.

    A. Rango;Mark Chopping;J. Ritchie;K. Havstad

  • Nonlinear dynamics in arid and semi-arid systems: Interactions among drivers and processes across scales

    D.P.C. Peters;K.M. Havstad

  • SOIL‐GEOMORPHIC HETEROGENEITY GOVERNS PATCHY VEGETATION DYNAMICS AT AN ARID ECOTONE

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Judy P. Ward;Kris M. Havstad

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Debra P. C. Peters
Debra P. C. Peters United States Department of Agriculture
Albert Rango
Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Joel R. Brown
Joel R. Brown United States Department of Agriculture
Walter G. Whitford
Walter G. Whitford New Mexico State University
David D. Briske
David D. Briske Texas A&M University
Walter D. Willms
Walter D. Willms Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Joe D. Wallace
Joe D. Wallace New Mexico State University
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service

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