The Disturbance and Resources Across Global Grasslands (DRAGNet) project aims to quantify community assembly dynamics and trajectories of herbaceous plant community and ecosystem recovery under a range of biotic and abiotic conditions, and test whether assembly, recovery rate, or trajectory in herbaceous-dominated plant communities interacts with environmental nutrient enrichment and disturbance. The UMBS DRAGNet site, located in the northern end of the UV-B field, contributes data to this global network and presents a number of additional research opportunities in community and ecosystem ecology.