Scientific research is a collaborative process. Sometimes that looks like a lot of small contributions from a whole lot of researchers.
UC Santa Barbara’s Sedgwick Reserve was among 100 sites on six continents where 173 scientists conducted coordinated experiments to suss out the true effects of droughts on productivity in grasslands and shrublands around the world. Fieldwork at Sedgwick helped the researchers reveal that the impacts of extreme drought have been underestimated in these habitats.