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- Library Collection RecordEffective conservation requires an understanding of how species respond to management actions. For species of conservation concern such as greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), this…Publication Date 2017
- cross validation
- information theoretic approach
- mechanical treatment
- mountain big sagebrush
- sagebrush removal
- Strawberry Valley
- Library Collection RecordBasin wildrye (Leymus cinereus [Scribn. & Merr. Á. Löve]) is a perennial grass native to western regions of North America. Despite its importance for rangelands, stand establishment of basin…Publication Date 2017
- genetic gain
- plant breeding
- revegetation
- Library Collection RecordThurber's needlegrass (Achnatherum thurberianum [Piper] Barkworth) is a key restoration species in the Great Basin and surrounding areas, yet comprehensive studies of how climate relates to…Publication Date 2017
- climate
- GEnecology
- Great Basin
- plant adaptation
- restoration
- seed zones
- Library Collection RecordRangeland economists have noted that people tend to pay far more for ranches and rangelands than can be justified by the potential income from livestock operations alone. This gap in price can be…Publication Date 2017
- capital gains
- contingent valuation
- dehesa
- income accounting
- ranch
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangeland Ecology & Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2017
- Library Collection RecordCurrently, > 20 million acres in the United States are protected through conservation easements. While the role of property rights in enabling conservation easements is well documented, attitudes…Publication Date 2017
- conservation easements
- incentive programs
- Private land conservation
- property rights
- Library Collection RecordWhen species are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, there are often real or perceived negative consequences for landowners that may produce perverse incentives and…Publication Date 2017
- Library Collection RecordPastoral livestock production systems in Africa that have existed for centuries are now threatened by changing demographics, improved communications, increased availability of modern weapons, open…Publication Date 2017
- Africa
- cattle
- food crisis
- grazing
- livestock
- nomads
- range management
- Library Collection RecordEcosystem management is a difficult task because it must conciliate the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of socioecological systems. In those systems, the action of any single component…Publication Date 2017
- agropastoral practices
- collaboration networks
- Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park
- ski resorts
- Socioeconomic systems
- Library Collection RecordIn rangelands, management interventions have sought to minimize disturbances that decrease survival of perennial grasses to avoid compositional shifts toward less desirable species. However, the…Publication Date 2017
- brush management
- bunchgrass mortality
- grassland community composition
- perennial grassland
- relative species turnover
- state and transition models
- woody vegetation control
- Library Collection RecordRough fescue prairies were once common across the northern prairies but have now been almost entirely lost to a combination of agricultural expansion, energy development, fire suppression, and…Publication Date 2017
- Biological invasion
- Festuca hallii
- grazing exclosure
- native prairie
- restoration ecology
- Library Collection RecordTo evaluate mechanisms by which defoliation alters grassland productivity, we examined mixed grass prairie herbage yields under recurring treatments that included hand-clipping of plots over five…Publication Date 2017
- annual production
- defoliation regime
- forage growth
- phenology
- Library Collection RecordLarge grazing animals can have profound impacts on plant communities and soil properties; however, these impacts are not always uniform across or within regions. The distribution of features such as…Publication Date 2017
- California
- exotic annual grasses
- indicator species
- native versus exotic species
- oak savanna
- plant community composition
- Quercus agrifolia
- Quercus lobata
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding changes in topsoil water balance induced by grazing is of great interest for both theoretical and applied reasons. It can elucidate the processes involved in grassland degradation and…Publication Date 2017
- grassland
- inner Mongolia
- livestock grazing
- soil water
- Library Collection RecordTemperate grassland ecosystems are imperiled globally, and habitat loss in North America has resulted in steep declines of endemic songbirds. Commercial livestock grazing is the primary land use in…Publication Date 2017
- grassland birds
- grazing
- northern Great Plains
- precipitation
- Soil Productivity
- Library Collection RecordLoess Plateau covers 640 000 km2 in the central northern China. Despite a semiarid environment, harsh winters, and hot summers, agriculture has been practiced in this region for > 5 000 yr,…Publication Date 2017
- land use conversion
- semiarid region
- soil organic carbon
- soil total nitrogen
- soil total phosphorus
- Library Collection RecordTwentieth-century fire exclusion has produced unnatural and undesirable changes in vegetation structure and dynamics of many rangelands of western North America, but not all kinds of ecosystems have…Publication Date 2017
- Dinosaur National Monument
- historical fire rotation
- modern fire rotation
- piñon-juniper woodlands
- Library Collection RecordThe expansion of piñon-juniper woodlands over the past 100-150 yr in the western United States has resulted in large-scale efforts to kill trees and recover sagebrush steppe rangelands. Western…Publication Date 2017
- Bromus tectorum
- invasive annual grass
- sagebrush-steppe
- western juniper
- Library Collection RecordWoodland reduction has been underway for decades to improve habitat for certain wildlife species, increase forage for livestock, improve watershed function and reduce soil erosion, and increase plant…Publication Date 2017
- chaining
- hydro-ax
- pinyon-juniper management
- roller-chop
- tree removal
- wildlife
- Library Collection RecordBoth salt cedar (Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.) and willow baccharis (Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray) are readily invading rivers, streams, and lake basins throughout Texas. Both outcompete…Publication Date 2017
- experience
- intake
- Supplementation
- toxic
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead is an annual weed that invades millions of acres in the western United States. This study explored the effect of energy supplementation on use of this unpalatable weed by ewes and their…Publication Date 2017
- diet selection
- foraging behavior
- preference
- weed control
- Library Collection RecordVegetation on the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington has been altered to a community dominated by medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski). Medusahead is used by livestock but…Publication Date 2017
- Hycrest II
- revegetation
- Sherman Big Bluegrass
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- Vavilov II
- Library Collection RecordGiven the high cost of restoration and the underlying assumption that reducing annual grass abundance is a necessary precursor to rangeland restoration in the Intermountain West, United States, we…Publication Date 2017
- Bromus tectorum
- Ecosystem resilience
- invasive annual grass
- perennial grass competition
- rangeland restoration
- soil disturbance
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangeland Ecology & Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2017
- Library Collection RecordConservation of imperiled species often demands addressing a complex suite of threats that undermine species viability. Regulatory approaches, such as the US Endangered Species Act (1973), tend to…Publication Date 2017
- Conifer expansion
- conservation
- invasive annual grasses
- population persistence
- soil temperature/moisture regimes
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordEcological interactions between fire and grazing have shaped the evolutionary history of grassland ecosystems. Currently, grassland birds have experienced ongoing population declines, following…Publication Date 2017
- home range
- intensive early stocking
- patch-burn grazing
- prescribed fire
- resource utilization function
- Tympanuchus cupido
- Library Collection RecordDespite inhabiting fire-adapted grasslands and shrublands across much of their continental distribution, northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus, hereafter bobwhite) behavior relative to disturbance (…Publication Date 2017
- Colinus virginianus
- dispersal
- home range
- movement
- prescribed burning
- prescribed fire
- Library Collection RecordElk (Cervus elaphus L.) and cattle (Bos taurus L.) co-occur on rangelands throughout western North America. Literature regarding range relations between elk and cattle, however, is contradictory,…Publication Date 2017
- behavior
- Bos taurus
- Cervus elaphus
- GPS tracking
- range relations
- Library Collection RecordWhile the primary use of rangelands for over a century has been livestock grazing to produce food and fiber, elevated demand for recreational land has increasingly brought livestock-recreation…Publication Date 2017
- conservation
- grassland
- land-use conflicts
- rangeland
- recreation
- Library Collection RecordThe invasive annual grass medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski) poses a substantial threat to the health and function of rangelands across the western United States. On rangelands…Publication Date 2017
- Annual Grassland
- California
- Dirichlet regression
- Elymus caput-medusae
- invasive plant management
- multistate modeling
- Library Collection RecordOptimal rates of litter retention for maximizing annual aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) were investigated in native mixed-grass rangelands in Saskatchewan, Canada. The study was conducted…Publication Date 2017
- Litter Accumulation
- productivity
- Range Health
- soil moisture
- Library Collection RecordFire plays a crucial role in mediating species composition in Fescue Prairie. However, previous studies focused on responses of plant community to burning without disentangling the effects of burning…Publication Date 2017
- fescue prairie
- fire
- seedling emergence
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordManagement of conservation-reliant species can be complicated by the need to manage ecosystem processes that operate at extended temporal horizons. One such process is the role of fire in regulating…Publication Date 2017
- cutting
- fire
- juniper
- pinyon
- prescribed burning
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordThe Endangered Species Act (ESA) continues to serve as one of the most powerful and contested federal legislative mandates for conservation. In the midst of heated debates, researchers, policy makers…Publication Date 2017
- adaptive management
- collaboration
- cooperative conservation
- endangered species management
- human dimensions of natural resource
- management
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordWestern Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook.) has greatly expanded in the past 150+years and now dominates over 3.6 million ha of rangeland in the Intermountain Western United States. The impacts of…Publication Date 2017
- iSnobal
- juniper
- sage grouse
- sagebrush
- snow
- streamflow
- Library Collection RecordJuniper and piñon coniferous woodlands have increased 2- to 10-fold in nine ecoregions spanning the Intermountain Region of the western United States. Control of piñon-juniper woodlands by mechanical…Publication Date 2017
- conifer woodland
- fuel reduction
- juniper
- prescribed fire
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordRecent and unprecedented scale of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation in the American West enables assessment of community-level benefits afforded to other sagebrush-obligate…Publication Date 2017
- Brewer's sparrow
- conifer removal
- sage thrasher
- sage-grouse
- sagebrush landscape protection
- sagebrush sparrow
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated bird abundance in response to western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) removal using a short-term chronosequence approach and generated estimates of density and responses to…Publication Date 2017
- Brewer's sparrow
- conifer removal
- gray flycatcher
- green-tailed towhee
- vesper sparrow
- western juniper
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands are among themost imperiled ecosystems in North America. Reasons that grasslands are threatened include conversion to row-crop agriculture, fragmentation, and changes in fire regimes. The…Publication Date 2017
- Eastern Redcedar
- habitat selection
- lesser prairie-chicken
- nest survival
- tympanuchus pallidicinctus
- woody encroachment
- Library Collection RecordLoss of native grasslands by anthropogenic disturbances has reduced availability and connectivity of habitat for many grassland species. A primary threat to contiguous grasslands is the encroachment…Publication Date 2017
- avoidance
- lesser prairie-chicken
- mesquite
- Prosopis glandulosa
- resource utilization function
- space use
- tympanuchus pallidicinctus
- Library Collection RecordThe link between individual variation in resource selection (e.g., functional response) and fitness creates a foundation for understanding wildlife-habitat relationships. Although many anthropogenic…Publication Date 2017
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- conifer removal
- fitness
- functional response
- greater sage-grouse
- resource selection function
- Library Collection RecordConiferwoodlands expanding into sage-steppe (Artemisia spp.) are a threat to sagebrush obligate species including the imperiled greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Conifer removal is…Publication Date 2017
- conifer management
- encroachment
- Great Basin
- sage-grouse
- sagebrush steppe
- western juniper
- Library Collection RecordIn sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems, encroachment of pinyon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.; hereafter, "pinyon-junipeR&Rdquo;) trees has increased dramatically since European…Publication Date 2017
- avoidance
- Bi-State Distinct Population Segment
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- Conifer
- demography
- ecological trap
- hazard ratio
- resource selection
- treatment
- Library Collection RecordFine-scale spatiotemporal studies can better identify relationships between individual survival and habitat fragmentation so thatmechanistic interpretations can be made at the population level.…Publication Date 2017
- behavioral change point analysis
- Brownian Bridge Movement Model
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- juniper
- pinyon
- Library Collection RecordPlains rough fescue (Festuca hallii [Vasey] Piper) is an important, native forage grass species in Western Canada. Despite the high demand of seeds of this species, supply remains extremely limited…Publication Date 2017
- autumn
- Festuca hallii
- forage
- precipitation
- seed production
- spring
- temperature
- Library Collection RecordThe conversion of dry woody rangelands into pastures can alter key soil physical properties that regulate ecosystem water circulation and storage. Based on three paired stands of native woodlands and…Publication Date 2017
- Arid Chaco
- deforestation
- ecohydrology
- land use/land cover change
- water balance
- Library Collection RecordA study examining the composition and dynamics of the soil seedbank was conducted at two locations in central Queensland between December 2007 and May 2009. These two grassland communities were…Publication Date 2017
- Biological invasion
- grasslands
- parthenium weed
- plant diversity
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangeland Ecology & Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2017
- Juniperus
- prairie-chicken
- prosoporis
- sage-grouse
- voluntary conservation
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangeland Ecology & Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further…Publication Date 2017
- Library Collection RecordInvasive woody plant expansion is a primary threat driving fragmentation and loss of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and prairie habitats across the central andwestern United States. Expansion of native…Publication Date 2017
- Eastern Redcedar
- encroachment
- juniper
- lesser prairie-chicken
- mesquite
- remote sensing
- sage grouse