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- Library Collection RecordCompensatory increases in net photosynthetic assimilation rates (Anet) following herbivory are well documented in adult rangeland grasses but have not been quantified in bunchgrass seedlings, which…Publication Date 2016
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- crested wheatgrass
- herbivory
- photosynthesis
- root-shoot ratios
- sagebrush steppe
- Library Collection RecordMillions of hectares of sagebrush (Artemisia L.) plant communities have been degraded by past improper management, resulting in dense sagebrush stands with depleted herbaceous understories. Rest from…Publication Date 2016
- Artemisia tridentata
- defoliation
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- recovery
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordMore frequent wildfires and incidences of mega-fires have increased the pressure for fuel treatments in sagebrush (Artemisia) communities. Winter grazing has been one of many fuel treatments proposed…Publication Date 2016
- Artemisia tridentata
- cattle
- Exclosure
- Exotic annual grass
- fire
- fuel treatment
- Library Collection RecordTargeted grazing uses livestock to address woody plant encroachment, flammable biomass accumulations, exotic weed invasions, and other management issues. In principle, a feature distinguishing…Publication Date 2016
- herbivory
- invasive weed
- Leafy spurge
- prescribed grazing
- simulated grazing
- targeted grazing
- Library Collection RecordHerbicides are frequently used in natural systems to control invasive plants, but nontarget impacts from persistent soil residues can result in unintended ecosystem effects. Imazapyr and triclopyr…Publication Date 2016
- active restoration seeding
- herbicide degradation
- herbicide dose response
- minimum plant back intervals
- tamarisk
- Library Collection RecordLand managers often face the dilemma of balancing livestock use with conservation of sensitive species and ecosystems. For example, most of the remaining vernal pools in California are grazed by…Publication Date 2016
- grazing
- Modoc Plateau
- Orcuttia tenuis
- seasonal wetlands
- vernal pool plants
- Library Collection RecordMaintaining self-sustaining populations of desired plants is fundamental to rangeland management, and understanding the relationships among plant growth, seed production, and seedling recruitment is…Publication Date 2016
- fecundity
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- restoration
- water amendment
- Library Collection RecordPiñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) expansion and infilling in sagebrush (Artemisia L.) steppe communities can lead to high-severity fire and annual weed dominance. To determine…Publication Date 2016
- encroachment
- Expansion
- fuel control
- Infilling
- mastication
- resilience
- resistance
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordEvaluating the influence of energy development on pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) winter mortality risk is particularly critical given that northern populations already experience decreased…Publication Date 2016
- Antilocapra americana
- Cox's proportional hazards regression
- mortality risk
- pronghorn survival
- wind energy
- winter range
- Library Collection RecordWe determined the effects of two forage allowance levels (LOW vs. HIGH) and weather conditions on daytime and nighttime movement patterns of young rangeland-raised cows. We also investigated whether…Publication Date 2016
- feeding site selection
- global positioning system (GPS)
- juniper woodland
- livestock
- stocking rate
- Library Collection RecordRangeland management practices such as burning and grazing may affect the development, survival, and reproduction of grasshopper populations. Experiments in the northern Great Plains that examine…Publication Date 2016
- drought
- grasshopper
- grassland
- herbivory
- livestock grazing
- prescribed burn
- Library Collection RecordA greater diversity of native legumes and forbs is desirable for rangeland restoration practice in the Intermountain Region of the western United States. But for such diversity to materialize in the…Publication Date 2016
- germination
- prechill
- rangeland legumes
- rangeland plant materials
- scarification
- stratification
- Library Collection RecordNearly all of the ecosystem services supported by rangelands, including production of livestock forage, carbon sequestration, and provisioning of clean water, are negatively impacted by soil erosion…Publication Date 2016
- change detection
- digital elevation model
- photogrammetry
- rangeland monitoring
- remote sensing
- soil erosion
- Library Collection RecordSagebrush steppe ecosystems in the western United States are characterized by harsh environmental conditions with high annual and seasonal variability in both precipitation and temperature.…Publication Date 2016
- model
- mortality
- restoration
- Seedbed
- temperature
- water availability
- Library Collection RecordAlthough fire is becoming frequent in arid lands throughout the world, little is known about the recruitment pattern of many arid land shrub species after fire. We explored topographic and edaphic…Publication Date 2016
- bitterbrush
- functional traits
- Great Basin
- plant reproduction strategy
- postfire succession
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordThe gendered contexts of rangeland decision-making in the southwestern United States are poorly understood. We conducted life-history interviews with 19 ranching women and analyzed the resulting…Publication Date 2016
- decision-making
- Gender
- life-history
- natural resource management
- rangeland
- women ranchers
- Library Collection RecordFrequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production,…Publication Date 2016
- burn season
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordPlant invasions are a threat to rangelands in California. Understanding how seeds of invasive plants are dispersed is critical to developing sound management plans. Domestic livestock can transport…Publication Date 2016
- California rangelands
- cattle grazing
- endozoochory
- epizoochory
- invasive plants
- seed dispersal
- Library Collection RecordWe investigated the hypothesis that not only forage allowance but also sward structure affects daily forage intake by beef heifers on natural grasslands of the Pampa Biome (southern Brazil). We used…Publication Date 2016
- alkane
- grazing intensity
- intake rate
- nutrient intake
- Pampa biome
- tussocks
- Library Collection RecordCurrent climate change (e.g., temperature and precipitation variations) profoundly influences terrestrial vegetation growth and production, ecosystem respiration, and nutrient circulation. Grasslands…Publication Date 2016
- aridity index
- Chinese grassland
- terrestrial biogeochemical modeling
- terrestrial carbon cycle
- water budget condition
- Library Collection RecordGrazing facilitates foraging opportunities for brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), an obligate brood parasite. Cowbirds can reduce productivity of their hosts, causing some host species to…Publication Date 2016
- brown-headed cowbird
- cowbird management
- Edwards Plateau
- Molothrus ater
- Vireo atricapilla
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this paper is to recommend a framework and methodology for incorporating hydrologic data and ecohydrologic relationships in Ecological Site Descriptions (ESDs) and thereby enhance the…Publication Date 2016
- adaptive management
- ecological site
- erosion
- infiltration
- monitoring
- multiple stable states
- rangeland
- rangeland health
- rangeland hydrology and erosion model
- resilience
- runoff
- state-and-transition models
- Library Collection RecordPyric-herbivory is the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing on area resources that results in site selection by animals on recently burned areas. Pyric-herbivory promotes…Publication Date 2016
- annual burn grazing
- patch burn grazing
- rainfall simulation
- saturated hydraulic conductivity
- sediment transport
- surface runoff
- Library Collection RecordManagers of rangeland ecosystems require methods to track the condition of natural resources over large areas and long periods of time as they confront climate change and land use intensification. We…Publication Date 2016
- Bureau of Land Management
- climate and land use change
- Colorado Plateau
- ecological sites
- state-and-transition models
- vegetation monitoring
- Library Collection RecordManaging the risk of wildfires is a growing concern in the western United States. Targeted grazing, or managing livestock grazing to achieve specific vegetation goals, is one possible tool to treat…Publication Date 2016
- fuel reduction
- grazing behavior
- herding
- livestock distribution
- strategic supplementation
- Library Collection RecordIn native campos of Uruguay, overseeding legumes coupled with phosphorus (P) fertilization is a technology used to increase animal production. Short-term improvements in both forage productivity and…Publication Date 2016
- campos
- improvement
- legumes
- long-term integrity
- short-term production
- trade-off
- Library Collection RecordProtected areas are essential, but not sufficient on their own, to conserve biodiversity into the future. Rangelands, used primarily for livestock grazing, have the potential to complement existing…Publication Date 2016
- community composition
- land sharing
- livestock grazing
- response mechanism
- sustainable agriculture
- vertebrate fauna
- Library Collection RecordGrassland bird species are declining more quickly than birds of any other biome in North America, but effects of the most widespread use of native mixed-grass prairies, livestock grazing, on nest…Publication Date 2016
- chestnut-collared longspur
- grasslands
- Sprague's pipit
- stocking rate
- vesper sparrow
- Library Collection RecordRangelands, due to their large expanse, are responsible for processing a significant portion of freshwater in the western United States. Rangeland managers are in need of methods to quantify…Publication Date 2016
- ecological sites
- infiltration
- rainfall simulation
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge regarding the economic impacts of predicted increases in seasonal precipitation variability on cowcalf enterprises, through influences of precipitation on both forage and cattle…Publication Date 2016
- Calf Gains
- climate change
- drought
- forage production
- northern mixed-grass prairie
- semiarid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordAlthough the impact of optimal stocking rate on rangeland health and ranch profitability has been extensively studied, grazing management practice has received far less attention in mathematical…Publication Date 2016
- continuous grazing
- Grass Composition
- livestock consumption
- multipaddock grazing
- rangeland health
- Library Collection RecordIn northern New Mexico, complex interactions among climate, land use, and the associated reduction of surface fire in forest and savanna communities facilitated the expansion of piñon-juniper…Publication Date 2016
- juniper
- Land cover change
- piñon pine
- restoration
- woodland
- 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 2015-11
- Library Collection RecordFew seed sources of North American forbs are available for revegetation/restoration of degraded western rangelands adapted to annual precipitation zones less than 300 mm, and those that are available…Publication Date 2015-11
- Astragalus filipes
- Dalea ornata
- Dalea searlsiae
- revegetation
- seed germination
- seed scarification
- Library Collection RecordSagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities in the Great Basin region are being severely impacted by increasingly frequent wildfires in association with the expansion of exotic annual…Publication Date 2015-11
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- climate variability
- restoration
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordGrazing tolerance of dominant native species may determine the fate of rangeland ecosystems, and using native plant populations with good grazing tolerance in restoration seedings may improve…Publication Date 2015-11
- clipping tolerance
- Elymus wawawaiensis
- Pseudoroegneria spicata
- SLA
- tiller number
- timing of defoliation
- Library Collection RecordSupplementing wildlife populations with resources during times of limitation has been suggested for many species. The focus of our study was to determine responses of northern bobwhite (Colinus…Publication Date 2015-11
- Artificial water sources
- northern bobwhite
- resource utilization functions
- scaled quail
- survival
- Library Collection RecordElephant-induced thicket degradation in the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP), Eastern Cape, South Africa, was assessed during 1973 and 2010 using multitemporal satellite imagery. Changes in the…Publication Date 2015-11
- botanical reserves
- landscape metrics
- normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)
- postclassification
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordFertilization can affect vegetation dynamics and natural grassland diversity. This study evaluated the vegetation dynamics of a natural grassland 16 years after the initial fertilization, discussing…Publication Date 2015-11
- diversity
- exotic species introduction
- Floristic Composition
- herbage mass production
- Library Collection RecordMost remaining grasslands are used for livestock grazing; stocking rates could be managed to help stop declining songbird populations. We examined the effects of stocking rates on grassland songbirds…Publication Date 2015-11
- Baird's sparrow
- cattle grazing
- chestnut-collared longspur
- Ecological threshold
- grassland management
- Sprague's pipit
- stocking rates
- Library Collection RecordWestern rangelands are currently under severe threat from exotic annual grasses. To successfully manage rangelands that are either infested with or susceptible to exotic annual grasses, we must focus…Publication Date 2015-11
- fuel attributes
- fuel-based model
- perennial bunchgrass
- resistance and resilience
- wildfire
- Wyoming big sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordThe Gunnison sage-grouse (GUSG) is an iconic species recently proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In Colorado's Upper Gunnison River Basin, ranchers own the majority…Publication Date 2015-11
- conservation
- Endangered Species Act
- Gunnison sage-grouse
- private land
- ranching
- rangeland
- 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 2015-11
- Library Collection RecordFew seed sources of North American forbs are available for revegetation/restoration of degraded western rangelands adapted to annual precipitation zones less than 300 mm, and those that are available…Publication Date 2015-11
- Astragalus filipes
- Dalea ornata
- Dalea searlsiae
- revegetation
- seed germination
- seed scarification
- Library Collection RecordSagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities in the Great Basin region are being severely impacted by increasingly frequent wildfires in association with the expansion of exotic annual…Publication Date 2015-11
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- climate variability
- restoration
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordGrazing tolerance of dominant native species may determine the fate of rangeland ecosystems, and using native plant populations with good grazing tolerance in restoration seedings may improve…Publication Date 2015-11
- clipping tolerance
- Elymus wawawaiensis
- Pseudoroegneria spicata
- SLA
- tiller number
- timing of defoliation
- Library Collection RecordSupplementing wildlife populations with resources during times of limitation has been suggested for many species. The focus of our study was to determine responses of northern bobwhite (Colinus…Publication Date 2015-11
- Artificial water sources
- northern bobwhite
- resource utilization functions
- scaled quail
- survival
- Library Collection RecordElephant-induced thicket degradation in the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP), Eastern Cape, South Africa, was assessed during 1973 and 2010 using multitemporal satellite imagery. Changes in the…Publication Date 2015-11
- botanical reserves
- landscape metrics
- normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)
- postclassification
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordFertilization can affect vegetation dynamics and natural grassland diversity. This study evaluated the vegetation dynamics of a natural grassland 16 years after the initial fertilization, discussing…Publication Date 2015-11
- diversity
- exotic species introduction
- Floristic Composition
- herbage mass production
- Library Collection RecordMost remaining grasslands are used for livestock grazing; stocking rates could be managed to help stop declining songbird populations. We examined the effects of stocking rates on grassland songbirds…Publication Date 2015-11
- Baird's sparrow
- cattle grazing
- chestnut-collared longspur
- Ecological threshold
- grassland management
- Sprague's pipit
- stocking rates
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