Restoring the living skin of rangelands The Dryland & Intermountain Restoration Team (DIRT lab), is seeking applications from prospective students interested in refining and advancing techniques to restore biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in degraded sites in Montana. Biocrusts are a coherent “living skin” on the soil surface engineered by soil-dwelling organisms including tiny non-vascular plants and microbes. Biocrusts are integral to rangeland ecosystem function because they prevent erosion, protect fertility and regulate hydrology. The student would join a team including a post-doc, and another student in the project, and focus on refinement of our novel field techniques and their infusion into a broader ecological restoration program being implemented at a private ranch, currently being managed for conservation and science.
Degree program: Ph.D. in Forestry. Contact: Matthew Bowker [email protected] More information: Biological soil crusts in ecological restoration: emerging research and perspectives.
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