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Dryland ecosystems make up 40% of the global land surface and support one-sixth of world鈥檚听population. Over the past several decades, there has been widespread recognition that increasing听human population pressures and land use intensification across dryland ecosystems has resulted听in extensive degradation or 鈥渄esertification鈥 across many of these regions. Our current research听focus as a lab group is on restoration of degraded dryland ecosystems with a focus on native听plant and biological soil crust restoration.