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Simberloff
It would be an exaggeration to argue that most invasions produce ecosystem impacts, and the term should be reserved for cases in which many species in an ecosystem are affected. However, certain facts suggest that true ecosystem impacts are more…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Ralphs, McDaniel
Broom snakeweed is a native weed widely distributed on rangelands of western North America. It often increases to near monocultures following disturbance from overgrazing, fire, or drought. This paper presents an up-to-date review of broom snakeweed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pocewicz, Kiesecker, Jones, Copeland, Daline, Mealor
Conservation easements are the primary tool used globally by land trusts and governmental agencies to achieve conservation goals on private lands, but empirical evaluations of their effectiveness are lacking. Here we compared biodiversity in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Peppin, Fulé, Sieg, Beyers, Hunter, Robichaud
Broadcast seeding is one of the most commonly used post-fire rehabilitation treatments to establish ground cover for erosion control and mitigation of non-native plant species invasions. Little quantitative information is available on overall trends…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Parks
From the text ... 'Since the 1950s the US Forest Service (USFS) has relied on fire-retardant chemicals as one method of battling wildland blazes, primarily in the American West. ...In 2004, the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Madsen, Zvirzdin, Petersen, Hopkins, Roundy, Chandler
Soil water repellency is commonly found in piñon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) (P-J) woodlands and may limit site recovery after a fire. Understanding the extent of this problem and the impact it has on vegetation recovery will help guide…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Engel, Abella
1) Theories of plant succession are poorly developed in arid lands, hindering our understanding of how long communities may take to recover after disturbances such as fire. In desert landscapes vulnerable to fire, information about vegetation…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Abatzoglou, Kolden
Anthropogenic climate change is hypothesized to modify the spread of invasive annual grasses across the deserts of the western United States. The influence of climate change on future invasions depends on both climate suitability that defines a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Brunson, Tanaka
Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rather than human dimensions of these environmental processes. We offer a synthetic perspective on economic and social aspects of wildfire and invasive…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pierson, Williams, Hardegree, Weltz, Stone, Clark
Millions of hectares of rangeland in the western United States have been invaded by annual and woody plants that have increased the role of wildland fire. Altered fire regimes pose significant implications for runoff and erosion. In this paper we…
Year: 2011
Type: Document