BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 10 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Boise State biologist and Associate Professor Trevor Caughlin won a fellowship through the National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, also known as EPSCoR. Collaborating with University of New Mexico's Jennifer Rudgers, distinguished professor of biology and director of Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research program, the team will investigate how weather patterns affect plant clusters in dryland ecosystems. The research will combine cutting-edge drone technology and field experiments to identify early warning signals of imperiled ecosystems.
Though "drylands" might conjure images of barren and inhospitable wastelands...