Brandon Bestelmeyer

Dr. Bestelmeyer is the Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range in Las Cruces, NM. In this project, he contributes to Precision Ranching and Pericoupling research. Dr. Bestelmeyer is Director of the Jornada Experimental Range Long-Term Agroecosystem Research program and a co-PI of the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research program at New Mexico State University. The Jornada research unit links site-based research on ecological processes, innovative livestock production systems, and ecosystem restoration with national and global research on land monitoring and decision support tools. Dr. Bestelmeyer’s personal research focuses on the causes of ecosystem change in rangelands, the development of Ecological Site Descriptions as tools to manage change, and the use of monitoring for collaborative decision-making.