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Hunter, Robles
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Neary, Leonard
Grasslands occur on all of the continents. They collectively constitute the largest ecosystem in the world, making up 40.5% of the terrestrial land area, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Grasslands are not entirely natural because they have…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Crist
Invasive annual grasses are quickly expanding across the West, dramatically changing sagebrush country. Today we are experiencing more frequent and hotter wildfires that are harmful to communities, western lands, and wildlife. Join in for this 1-…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Barga, Olwell, Edwards, Prescott, Leger
Seeds of Success (SOS) is a national seed collection program led by the Bureau of Land Management. SOS represents the most comprehensive native seed repository in the United States, supporting native plant restoration, management, and research.…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Gerhold, McDougald, Beckstead
Coccidiosis is an important disease in captive gamebirds, including northern bobwhites (Colinusvirginianus). Three Eimeria species, Eimeria lettyae, Eimeria dispersa, and Eimeria colini, have been described in bobwhites. Distinguishing the various…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pacheco, Escalante, Garner, Bradley, Aguilar
The avian haemosporidian parasites (phylum Apicomplexa) are taxonomically diverse and cosmopolitan in distribution: infecting most bird families. Sources of concern are reports of clinical haemosporidian infections in birds kept as part of zoo and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Limb, Fuhlendorf, Engle, Weir, Elmore, Bidwell
Achieving economically optimum livestock production on rangelands can conflict with conservation strategies that require lower stocking rate to maintain wildlife habitat. Combining the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing (pyric-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Winter, Fuhlendorf, Goad, Davis, Hickman
Patch burning is the deliberate application of fire to a management unit in a heterogeneous manner, resulting in the heterogeneous distribution of grazing animal impact. The application of patch burning typically has been discussed within a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
White, Gutzwiller, Barrow, Johnson-Randall, Zygo, Swint
Avian conservation efforts must account for changes in vegetation composition and structure associated with climate change. We modeled vegetation change and the probability of occurrence of birds to project changes in winter bird distributions…
Year: 2011
Type: Document