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Chambers, Strand, Ellsworth, Tortorelli, Urza, Crist, Miller, Reeves, Short, Williams
Background: Sagebrush ecosystems are experiencing increases in wildfire extent and severity. Most research on vegetation treatments that reduce fuels and fire risk has been short term (2–3 years) and focused on ecological responses. We review…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Holdrege, Schlaepfer, Palmquist, Crist, Doherty, Lauenroth, Remington, Riley, Short, Tull, Wiechman, Bradford
Background: Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Wester, Rideout-Hanzak, Britton, Whitlaw
Severe wildfires are increasing in extent in the western US. We used a matched-pairs design with plots in burned and non-burned areas to study effects of the East Amarillo Complex (EAC) wildfires on mixed grass prairie mean community composition and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Gray, Dickson, Zachmann
In the lower Sonoran Desert of south-western Arizona, climate change and non-native plant invasions have the potential to increase the frequency and size of uncommon wildfires. An understanding of where and why ignitions are more likely to become…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Hegeman, Dickson, Zachmann
The frequency and size of wildfires within the Mojave Desert are increasing, possibly due to climate and land cover changes and associated increases in non-native invasive plant biomass, as measured by normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Williams, Pierson, Robichaud, Boll
The recent increase in wildfire activity across the rangeland-xeric forest continuum in the western United States has landscape-scale consequences in terms of runoff and erosion. Concomitant cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) invasions, plant community…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Moran, Ponce-Campos, Huete, McClaran, Zhang, Hamerlynck, Augustine, Gunter, Kitchen, Peters, Starks, Hernandez
Grasslands across the United States play a key role in regional livelihood and national food security. Yet, it is still unclear how this important resource will respond to the prolonged warm droughts and more intense rainfall events predicted with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Cox, Johns
Cholla infestations can be problematic on rangelands in North America, Australia, Africa, and Europe, and treatment options for this plant are limited because of its ability to resprout from broken stem fragments. We investigated dragged-rail…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Buyuktahtakin, Feng, Olsson, Frisvold, Szidarovszky
Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) is a fire-prone, African bunchgrass spreading rapidly across the southern Arizona desert. This article introduces a model that simulates buffelgrass spread over a gridded landscape over time to evaluate strategies to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Yarborough
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations in the Southwest have experienced declines in the past 50 years due to habitat degradation from fire suppression, exotic species invasion, and increased livestock grazing. Habitat requirements of mule deer…
Year: 2014
Type: Document