IRES: Responses of dryland agroecosystems to the compounding effects of climate variability, human intervention and the critical zone architecture on their hydrologic dynamics

This project investigates the impact of extreme weather events such as droughts and heatwaves on the water use efficiency and productivity of perennial croplands growing along dryland rivers of the Chihuahuan desert. The study focuses on pecan trees (Carya illinoinensis), which represent a major socioeconomic driver of the US-Mexico binational…