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Robertson, Hickrnan, Harmoney, Leslie
The invasive yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum [L.] Keng) threatens native biodiversity, and its control is of interest to land managers involved in restoration of invaded grasslands. We used single, double, and triple applications of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Owen, Sieg, Johnson, Gehring
Soil disturbances can alter microbial communities including arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, which may in turn, affect plant community structure and the abundance of exotic species. We hypothesized that altered soil microbial populations owing to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
McGlone
Desert grasslands of the southwestern United States have experienced an increase in the abundance and distribution of woody plant species over the past century. Shrub encroachment has caused a substantial loss of grasslands in the northern…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
MacDougall, McCann, Gellner, Turkington
Long-term and persistent human disturbances have simultaneously altered the stability and diversity of ecological systems, with disturbances directly reducing functional attributes such as invasion resistance, while eliminating the buffering effects…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Liu, Zhang, Nowak, Dimeyeva
The invasion of nonnative plants is considered one of the main threats to the structure and function of North American ecosystems. Moreover, they can alter ecosystem processes and reduce biodiversity. In arid and semi-arid region of North America,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Bagchi, Briske, Bestelmeyer, Wu
Summary 1. Resilience-based approaches are increasingly being called upon to inform ecosystem management, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This requires management frameworks that can assess ecosystem dynamics, both within and between…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Voggesser, Lynn, Daigle, Lake, Ranco
Climate change related impacts, such as increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, higher temperatures, extreme changes to ecosystem processes, forest conversion and habitat degradation are threatening tribal access to valued resources. Climate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Shive, Kuenzi, Sieg, Fulé
Questions: How did post-wildfire understorey plant community response, including exotic species response, differ between pre-fire treated areas that were less severely burned, and pre-fire untreated areas that were more severely burned? Were these…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Shive, Sieg, Fulé
Land managers are routinely applying fuel reduction treatments to mitigate the risk of severe, stand-replacing fire in ponderosa pine communities of the southwestern US. When these treatments are burned by wildfire they generally reduce fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Narog, Corcoran, Wilson
Thousands of acres of giant saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) habitat in the Sonoran Desert have been scorched by fire in recent decades. Resource managers struggle to maintain scenic landscapes featuring majestic saguaro faced with the challenges of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document