Maud Moes is a vegetation ecologist focusing on community responses to climate change and grazing pressure of rangeland vegetation in the Middle East. She has earned a MSc degree in Forest and Nature Conservation with a specialization in ecology at Wageningen University. Within SAGE she is working on a field experiment manipulating precipitation using rainout shelters with a gradient of 30-90% interception. This will give an insight into possible tipping points of rangeland vegetation.