Departmental Research Seminars via Zoom on Physical Geography
Via Zoom: link will be provided upon successful registration
Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=77322
Enquiry: geog.event@hku.hk
[ 10:00-10:45 ]
Topic:
Woody plant encroachment in southwestern US: Drivers, feedbacks, and conceptual models
Many grass-dominated ecosystems in arid and semiarid regions have experienced increasing woody plant density and abundance during the past century. An example is the Chihuahuan Desert in the southwestern US, which experienced different stages of shrub encroachment in the past 150 years. This study synthe