Get reliable rangeland science

Ecological Site Descriptions (ESDs) integrate all kinds of information to classify and describe rangeland ecosystems in a way that is useful for management. Currently, most ESDs and their associated state-and-transition models (STMs) are not based on large datasets or statistical analyses due to a general lack of site-specific, well-replicated data. However, there is increasing opportunity to analyze and incorporate large datasets within the ESD framework. This workshop is intended to demonstrate data analysis techniques that are useful in developing ESDs and STMs when statistical datasets are available. This workshop will focus on common data types available to ESD developers, as well as the appropriate data analysis techniques for each data type. This is not meant as a course in statistics, but rather as an ESD-specific discussion of statistical methods.