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D'Odorico, Okin, Bestelmeyer
Many arid grasslands around the world are affected by woody plant encroachment and by the replacement of a relatively continuous grass cover with shrub patches bordered by bare soil. This shift in plant community composition is often abrupt in space…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Allen, Steers, Dickens
A review of literature shows that both fire and invasive species may cause changes in biological, chemical, and physical properties of desert soils. Although soil may recover from the impacts of fire during succession, these changes are permanent…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Lindsay, Bailey, Lance, Clifford, Delph, Cobb
Nonnative Lehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) has invaded large areas of the Southwestern United States, and its impact on native plants is not fully understood. Palmer's agave (Agave palmeri), an important resource for many pollinators, is a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
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
Litt, Steidl
Invasions by nonnative plants have changed the structure of many terrestrial ecosystems and altered important ecological processes such as fire, the dominant driver in grassland ecosystems. Reestablishing fire has been proposed as a mechanism to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Stoddard, McGlone, Fulé, Laughlin, Daniels
Dense ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern United States inhibit understory production and diversity and are susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Restoration treatments involving overstory thinning and prescribed burning are being…
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