Research Interests

• Diversity and productivity of desert plant communities in relation to landscape structure, ecosystem processes and disturbance.
• Seed movement and annual plant recruitment.
• Desertification, desert landscape management and restoration.

• Patterns of recruitment and growth of the common desert sub-shrub Atractylis serratuloides in relation to landscape heterogeneity and resource flow.
• Species diversity and productivity of annual plants after a severe drought in relation to shrub patches and crust encroachment.