Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology
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Recent Awards and Honors
Dr. David Briske Receives 2020 Frederic G Renner Award
Recently Published
Future Climate Variability Will Challenge Rangeland Beef Cattle Production in the Great Plains
Opening learning spaces to create actionable knowledge for conservation and environmental management
Can Collaborative Adaptive Management Improve Cattle Production in Multi-paddock Grazing Systems?
Bio-Brief
David D. Briske is T.M. O’Connor & Regents Professor in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University. Professor Briske’s teaching program emphasizes ecological literacy to prepare the next generation of leaders to navigate the challenging environmental issues of our time. His research and scholarship have focused on ecological function, management strategies, and policy consequences of global rangelands. He served as Editor-in-Chief of ‘Rangeland Ecology & Management’, academic coordinator of the USDA ‘Conservation Effects Assessment Project’ (CEAP), and editor of the volumes ‘Conservation Benefits of Rangeland Practices’ (USDA 2011) and ‘Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges’ (Springer 2017). Current research priorities address climate risk assessment to support rangeland conservation through maintenance of working lands in the Great Plains, and a more complete accounting of the diverse ecosystem services to more clearly define the value of global rangelands.