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Mitchel McClaran (PhD ’86, UC Berkeley) is Professor of Range Management with a focus on rangeland ecology and policy since 1986. He is a Fellow in the Bart Cardon Academy for Teaching Excellence, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Range Science and Education Council in 1999, and was named a Fellow in the Society for Range Management in 2014. Since 2020 he serves as the Director of the Arizona Experiment Station, in the Division of Agriculture, Life, and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension., and since 2004 he serves as Director for Research at the 21,500 ha UA Santa Rita Experimental Range. He has authored or co-authored 107 scientific publications. More details are available at http://snre.arizona.edu/people/mitch-mcclaran.
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Courses
- RPCWRangeland Plant Communities of the West
Grants
- Leadership and support in development, analysis, modeling, assessment, and other CEAP-GL activities for better informed conservation decisions
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$2.6M
Active - CNH2-L: Solving Grand Challenges in Coupled Natural Human Systems: Predicting Effective Governance Strategies for Manning Invasive Species
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$1.6M
Active - LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production - Phase 2
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$289.5K
Active - DS CESU: NRCS CEAP-Grazing Lands
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$3.2M
Active - The Utility of Plant Traits to Identify Range Seeding Candidates that can Achieve Multiple Management Goals
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$342.5K
Active - Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$232.4K
Active - CEAP-GL Modeling Support by TALR
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$351.9K
- Reducing Livestock Production and Legal Risks from Increased Climate Variability by Co-Developing Tools for Ranch-Scale Drought Detection
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$50.0K
- LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$484.8K
- Using a Co-Development Process to Improve, Integrate and Encourage Use of Drought Information and Adaptive Management of Livestock Grazing on Nat.....
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$285.6K
News
- UA Partners with Alpi Cozie Natural Parks in Rangeland Management Research
2019
- Bringing Policy and Law Into Fight Against Buffelgrass
2019
- RISE Symposium to Highlight Range Research
2016
- Plants Adapt to Drought But Limits Are Looming, Study Finds
2013
- Santa Rita Experimental Range: A Century of Sustainability
2010
- Students Take Home Honors, Jobs
2009
- Agriculture to Hold Santa Rita Range Centennial Conference
2003
Publications (90)
Recent
- span style= font-size:11pt; Evaluation of Aggregate Stability Methods for Soil Health. /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Rancher’s Knowledge of Social-Ecological Change: Centering Agency and Scale in Resilience. /span
2022
- Ranch-scale Drought Monitoring Tools for Arizona
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Linking microbial community structure to potential carbon mineralization: A continental scale assessment /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Carbon-sensitive pedotransfer functions for plant available water. /span
2022
- span style= font-size:11pt; Differences in population size structures drive grass response to long-term livestock removal. /span
2022
- Identifying restoration opportunities beneath native mesquite canopies
2021
- Critical decision dates for drought management in Central and Northern Great Plains Rangelands
2021
- Innovations to expand drone data collection and analysis for rangeland monitoring.
2021
- Shrub influence on soil carbon and nitrogen in a semi-arid grassland is mediated by precipitation and largely insensitive to livestock grazing
2021
- Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing
2020
- Photo Gallery: Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing
2020
- How long before a second defoliation of actively growing grass plants in the Desert Grassland?
2020
- Soil microbial activity is resistant to recreational camping disturbance in a Prosopis dominated semiarid savanna.
2020
- Multi-scale drivers of soil resistance predict vulnerability of seasonally wet meadows to trampling in the Sierra Nevada, USA.
2020
- Satellite Patches, Patch Expansion, and Doubling Time as Decision Metrics for Invasion Control: Pennisetum ciliare Expansion in Southwestern Arizona
2019
- Estimating forage utilization with drone-based photogrammetric point clouds
2019
- Story-telling natural resource conflict on U.S. public lands.
2019
- Framework for a collaborative process to increase preparation for drought on U.S. public rangelands.
2018
- Guide to Co-Developing Drought Preparation Plans for Livestock on Southwest National Forests
2018
- Shrub encroachment into grasslands: end of an era?
2018
- Considerations for achieving cross-platform point cloud data fusion across different dryland ecosystem structural states
2018
- Quantifying long-term trajectories of plant community change with movement models: implication for ecological resilience.
2017
- Do-it-yourself Construction Guide: Rugged Accumulation Precipitation Gauge for Remote Monitoring
2017
- Hyperspectral and lidar data fusion for arid and semi-arid land vegetation monitoring.
2017
- Rain Gauges for Range Management: Precipitation Monitoring Best Practices Guide
2017
- Where do seasonal climate predictions belong in the drought management toolbox?
2016
- Can ecological land classification increase the utility of vegetation monitoring data?
2016
- Ranchers, Forest Service, and University of Arizona are co-developing approaches to improve planning for drought on public lands, Part II
2016
- Groups co-develop approaches to improve planning for drought on public lands.
2016
- Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in grassland plant communities.
2016
- Uprooted buffelgrass thatch reduces buffelgrass seedling stablishment.
2016
- Increased preparation for drought among livestock producers reliant on rain-fed forage
2015
- Ranchers, Forest Service, University of Arizona co-develop approaches to improve planning for drought on public lands.
2015
- Life form influences survivorship patterns for 109 herbaceous perennials from six semi-arid ecosystems.
2014
- Effect of check dams on runoff, sediment yield and retention on small semi-arid watersheds.
2014
- Recent drought phase in a 73-year record at two spatial scales: Implications for livestock production on rangelands in the Southwestern United States
2014
- Evaluating a state-and-transition model using a long-term dataset
2014
- Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st century drought.
2014
- Extreme precipitation patterns and reductions of terrestrial ecosystem production across biomes
2013
- A tool for estimating impacts of woody encroachment in arid grasslands: allometric equations for biomass, carbon and nitrogen content in Prosopis velutina.
2013
- Life form influences survivorship patterns for 109 herbaceous perennials from six semi-arid ecosystems
2013
- Extreme precipitation patterns reduced terrestrial ecosystem production across biomes.
2013
- Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions
2013
- Advancing water resource management in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds: why land-grant universities matter
2013
- Net primary productivity of subalpine meadows in yosemite national park in relation to climate variability
2013
- Sonoran desert ecosystem transformation by a C4 grass without the grass/fire cycle
2012
- Santa Rita Experimental Range Long Term Transect Database
2012
- Ranching with drought.
2012
- Empirical assessment of state-and-transition models with a long-term vegetation record from the Sonoran Desert
2012
- Cover and density of semi-desert grassland plants in permanent quadrats mapped from 1915 to 1947
2012
- Sonoran Desert Ecosystem transformation by a C sub 4 /sub grass without the grass/fire cycle
2012
- Long-term cross-scale assessment of woody cover stability in drylands
2011
- AGWA: The automated geospatial watershed assessment tool to inform rangeland management
2011
- Convergence of dynamic vegetation net productivity responses to precipitation variability from 10 years of MODIS EVI
2011
- Long-term runoff and sediment yields from small semiarid watersheds in southern Arizona
2010
- Multispecies allometric models predict grass biomass in semidesert rangeland
2009
- Archiving and distributing three long-term interconnected geospatial data sets
2009
- Woody plants in grasslands: Post-encroachment stand dynamics
2008
- Soil cycling of trace gases in response to mesquite management in a semiarid grassland
2008
- Evaluating sustainability of Symplocos ramosissima harvest for herder huts: A case study near an upper-elevation village in Nepal
2008
- Postfire stand structure in a semiarid savanna: Cross-scale challenges estimating biomass
2007
- Mesquite and grass relationships at two spatial resolutions
2007
- Long-term vegetation response to mesquite removal in Desert Grassland
2006
- Distinguishing hyperbole from action in corporate strategic responses to global climate change
2006
- Biophysical characterization and management effects on semiarid rangeland observed from landsat ETM+ data
2005
- Response of mountain meadows to grazing by recreational pack stock
2004
- Isotopic analysis of tooth enamel carbonate from modern North American feral horses: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions
2004
- Deriving land surface biophysical parameters from satellite data for soil carbon sequenstration
2004
- Santa rita experimental range digital database: User's guide
2002
- Long-term influences of livestock management and a non-native grass on grass dynamics in the Desert Grassland
2001
- Range condition, tenure, management, and bio-phyiscal relationships in Sonora, Mexico
2001
- Detecting fragmentation of cover in desert grasslands using line intercept
2001
- Viewpoint: Selecting the 5 most important papers in the first 50 years of the journal of range management
2000
- Desert grassland dynamics estimated from carbon isotopes in grass phytoliths and soil organic matter
2000
- Procedural fairness, personal benefits, agency expertise, and planning participants' support for the forest service
1999
- Theory in practice: Applying participatory democracy theory to public land planning
1997
- Viewpoint: Implications of participatory democracy for public land planning
1997
- Desert grasslands and grasses
1995
- Can soil organic carbon isotopes be used to describe grass-tree dynamics at a savanna-grassland ecotone and within the savanna?
1995
- Packstock in wilderness: use, impacts, monitoring, and management
1993
- Composition and production of California oak savanna seasonally grazed by sheep
1992
- Spread of introduced Lehmann lovegrass along a grazing intensity gradient
1992
- Forest Service and livestock permittee behavior in relation to wilderness designation
1991
- Comparison of actual and predicted blue oak age structures
1990
- Livestock in wilderness: A review and forecast
1990
- Comparison of fire history estimates between open-scarred and intact Quercus douglasii
1988
- Differential farmland assessment and land use planning relationships in Tulare County, California.
1985