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Maczko, Hidinger, Tanaka, Morgan, Mitchell, Fox, Joyce, Duke
Rangelands encompass over 770 million acres of land in the United States, and despite their classification into a single land “type”, these U.S. rangelands occur across a variety of ecosystems and have unique vulnerabilities and suggested management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Aslan, Dickson, Theobald, Samberg
Although the Sonoran Desert is considered a non-fire-adapted ecosystem, emergence of a novel fire regime is underway, driven by increasing strength and duration of drought as well as invasion of non-native annual plant communities. Increasingly…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Fusco, Finn, Balch, Nagy, Bradley
Fire-prone invasive grasses create novel ecosystem threats by increasing fine-fuel loads and continuity, which can alter fire regimes. While the existence of an invasive grass-fire cycle is well known, evidence of altered fire regimes is typically…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem extends across a large portion of the Western United States. Affected by multiple stressors, including interactions among fire, exotic plant invasions, and human land uses, this ecosystem has experienced…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Bennett, Barnwell, Freedman, Smutko, Western
This report focuses on a mixed-method social science study that engaged stakeholders closely involved with management and conservation efforts across the sagebrush range in order to address the following research objectives:
Assess the current…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The Great Plains Grassland Summit: Challenges and Opportunities from North to South was held April 10-11, 2018 in Denver, Colorado to provide syntheses of information about key grassland topics of interest in the Great Plains; networking and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Daryanto, Fu, Zhao
With the proliferation of woody plant species in much of the world's grasslands, human has manipulated landscape fire to return their forage provisioning service. Yet other ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Davies, Bates, Boyd
Reestablishment of perennial vegetation is often needed after wildfires to limit exotic species and restore ecosystem services. However, there is growing body of evidence that questions if seeding after wildfires increases perennial vegetation and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Frid
Range management is like being a trial lawyer: you need all the evidence you can get to help you make decisions how your management and production objectives may need to change. State-and-transition simulation models are a general tool that can be…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Jarnevich, Thomas, Young, Backer, Cline, Frid, Grissom
Invasive species can alter ecosystem properties and cause state shifts in landscapes. Resource managers charged with maintaining landscapes require tools to understand implications of alternative actions (or inactions) on landscape structure and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document