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- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The Land Resource Hierarchy is a useful framework for organizing natural resource information and can provide both insight and explanation while maintaining consistency in terminology…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- landscape classification
- land resource hierarchy
- ecological site groups
- ecological sites
- generalized state-and-transition models
- landscape ecology
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ecological sites and their component state-and-transition models are valuable tools for predicting the effects of climatic and management changes on a variety of ecosystem services…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- soil survey
- natural resource management
- Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Information embodied in ecological site descriptions and their state-and-transition models is crucial to effective land management, and as such is needed now. • There is not time (or…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- ecological site
- state-and-transition model
- inference
- scientific method
- rangeland management
- monitoring
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • State-and-transition models (STMs) are useful tools for management, but they can be difficult to use and have limited content. • STMs created for groups of related ecological sites…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- database
- ecological sites
- management
- soil survey
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Engaging multiple stakeholders in building state-and-transition models (STMs) can increase the credibility and relevance they have to land managers. • Land managers and land stewards…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- collaborative research
- state-and-transition models
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Numerous ecological site descriptions in the southern Utah portion of the Colorado Plateau can be difficult to navigate, so we held a workshop aimed at adding value and functionality…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drylands
- land classification
- MLRA 35
- grazing
- biological soil crusts
- erosion
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The identification of unique areas of vegetative potential across the Northern Appalachians is complicated by a long land-use history of vegetation management. • We introduce…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- forest
- ecological site
- Appalachian
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ecological land classification enables improved conservation by linking land types to vegetation, ecosystem services, disturbance regimes, and conservation practices. • Defining…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- ecological site
- state-and-transition model
- ecosystem services plant community
- ecological classifications
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Managers of large landscapes with limited financial resources can use ecological sites and state-and-transition models to identify landscape divisions with the highest chances of…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- ecological sites
- state-and-transition models
- conservation management planning
- adaptive management
- non-equilibrium
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ecological sites often occur at scales too small for application in planning large-scale vegetation treatments or post-fire rehabilitation. • Disturbance Response Groups (DRGs) are…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- ecological site
- state-and-transition model
- disturbance response group
- landscape-scale management
- GIS
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The utility of ecological site descriptions (ESD) in the management of rangelands hinges on their ability to characterize and predict plant community change, the associated ecological…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- adaptive management
- ecological site
- erosion
- rangeland hydrology and erosion model
- resilience
- runoff
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Climate change models for the western United States predict warmer winters in the Great Basin and hotter, drier summers in the Mojave Desert, increasing the already high rate of…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- plant materials
- restoration
- novel ecosystems
- plant breeding
- abiotic stress tolerance
- resilience
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Poisonous plants on western North American rangelands have historically been troublesome to livestock producers. • Research on toxic plants was initiated by the United States…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- poisonous plants
- cattle
- sheep
- livestock
- toxic
- plant secondary compounds
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Livestock numbers have been declining since the early 1930s but many of the same resource concerns are still present today. • We must change the way we think about and manage…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- grazing
- rangelands
- management
- Utah
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Bison are considered the keystone species of the Great Plains but widespread slaughter led to their near extinction. • Utah has two wild, free-ranging herds on public lands managed as…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- bison
- wildlife restoration
- Utah
- collaboration
- public land
- trust
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Quaking aspen is widely regarded as a key resource for humans, livestock, and wildlife with these values often competing with each other, leading to overuse of aspen in some locations…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Populus tremuloides
- ungulate
- herbivory
- fire
- biodiversity
- research
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The need for large-scale disturbed land rehabilitation in the west is well known but is recently receiving new attention. • Seeding appropriate species, varieties, and ecotypes is…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- land rehabilitation
- wildland seed
- seed suppliers
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) dramatically changes shrub steppe ecosystems in the Northern Great Basin, United States. • Current-season cheatgrass location and percent cover are…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Bromus tectorum
- ecological models
- satellite data
- shrub steppe
- fire regime
- invasive grass
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • We assessed the long-term effects of continuous and rotational grazing on grass and treedynamics on adjacent ranches in the semiarid Kalahari of western Botswana. • Rotationally…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- continuous grazing
- grazing capacity
- grazing value
- rotational grazing
- stocking rate
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • The American beef industry is paying more attention to cattle temperament, but studies examining relationships between temperaments and grazing behavior or animal performance on…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- behavioral syndromes
- grazing behavior
- calf weight
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Method comparison studies are necessary to reconcile monitoring methods that have arisen among disparate programs; however, we find that Thacker et al.s study comparing Daubenmire…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- monitoring
- rangeland management
- canopy cover
- foliar cover
- method comparison
- sage-grouse
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages public lands to sustain their health, diversity, and productivity for the…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Bureau of Land Management
- Federal Land policy and management Act
- public land
- National landscape conservation System
- BLM
- FLPMA
- Library Collection Record
124 Highlights
The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2016-12-01 - Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Drought adversely affects land managers, ranching enterprises, and pastoral systems. • As an ecological driver, drought historically shaped vegetation composition, structure,…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought
- rangelands
- adaptive management
- proactive drought management
- translating research
- extension and outreach
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Drought is a persistent problem on rangelands and adjusting management to respond appropriately is critical to both preserving natural resources and to maintaining financial viability…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- rangeland drought
- vulnerability assessment
- policy
- climate change
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Seasonal climate predictions, based largely on the status of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, are one such tool but need to be used with prudence, understanding when and where they…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought
- seasonal climate prediction
- forecasts
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Historical drought assessment and ongoing monitoring is essential for understanding past drought occurrence, the relationships between past drought and its impacts, and for triggering…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought
- monitoring
- risk atlas
- VegDRI
- risk assessment
- planning
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Level 3 soil moisture datasets from the recently launched Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite are evaluated for drought monitoring in rangelands. • Validation of SMAP soil…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought monitoring
- remote sensing
- SMAP
- soil moisture
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Rangeland managers actively focus on the potential to induce a shift in a site to an alternative state, but predicted changes in climate, particularly the likelihood of more extreme…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought
- state and transition
- grassland
- shrubland
- woodland
- savanna
- Library Collection Record
131 Highlights
The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2016-12-01 - Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • When scientists or change agents engage other cultures to problem-solve, there is a high risk of miscommunication and project failure. • This process can be further crippled by…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- participatory rural appraisal
- participatory action research
- community-based natural resource management
- innovation systems
- social–ecological systems
- engaged scholarship
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • A collaborative effort to create an innovative food production system is underway on the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation. • Three land-grant universities and colleges, along with…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- meat production
- Lakota resource management
- land-grant collaboration
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Maintaining cattle and prairie dogs on rangelands is important ecologically, economically, and culturally. However, competition between these species, both actual and perceived, has…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- prairie dogs
- cattle
- grazing
- plant communities
- ecological sites
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Over generations, Native Americans have developed a timely and reliable knowledge of the land, its processes, and its management needs. This knowledge has been referred to as Native…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- Native science
- respect
- holistic
- scientific method
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • One objective of the ongoing Renewal on Standing Rock Reservation project is to evaluate the response of grazing steers to the level of prairie dog colonization on Northern Mixed…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- beef cattle
- grazing
- prairie dogs
- diet quality
- forage intake
- global positioning systems
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • With expected increases in drought frequency and severity, long-term drought management strategies that focus on cattle selection and natural resource management are essential. • The…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- beef
- climate
- efficiency
- integrated management
- rangeland
- variability
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Adaptive management can be used to manage complexity, such as how to match forage production variability across years and within portions of a grazing season with animal demand…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- enterprise flexibility
- grassbanking
- herd structure
- resiliency
- risk management
- risk reduction
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ranchers’ responses to drought differ depending on where they live and specific circumstances of their ranches, but there are striking similarities across regions. • Changes in…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- drought
- income diversification
- management adaptation
- ranch planning
- recovery
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Rangeland livestock producers were among the first agricultural communities affected by California’s multiyear drought. • Rancher surveys and in-person interviews have identified key…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- adaptive capacity
- climate change
- decision-making
- livestock production
- ranching
- working landscapes
- Library Collection Record
142 Highlights
The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2016-12-01 - Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • A common practice for assessing livestock weight gains from grazing animals on rangelands is to confine animals overnight without feed or water to reduce variation in weight loss and…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- air temperature
- overnight shrink
- relative humidity
- remote sensing
- shortgrass steppe
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Past management and historic occupation by black-tailed prairie dogs will affect the vegetation responses to changes in management. • Ecological sites have different production…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- black-tailed prairie dogs
- coterie: home territory size
- ecological sites
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Since plant palatability affects many aspects of sustainable rangeland management, including grazing capacity and grazing behavior, introducing indicators for determining rangeland…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- plant palatability
- forage quality
- secondary compounds
- external plant attributes
- principal component analysis
- Karsanak rangelands
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Due to woody plant encroachment and seeing the need for fire on their lands, private landowners throughout the southern Great Plains have started forming prescribed burn associations…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- cross-scale dynamics
- fire risk
- landowner cooperative
- landowner survey
- prescribed fire
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Emerging applications of ecosystem resilience and resistance concepts in sagebrush ecosystems allow managers to better predict and mitigate impacts of wildfire and invasive annual…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- sagebrush ecosystems
- sage-grouse
- resilience
- resistance
- soils
- cheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Cattle within riparian zones can negatively impact water quality and riparian health, which are important environmental concerns for grazing lands. • Best management practices (BMPs)…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- best management practices
- water quality
- riparian zone
- shade
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Female bison at three Northern Great Plains parks reached maximum size at 5.5 years of age. Male bison reached maximum size around 10.5 years of age. • The mean weight for females 5.5…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- age
- bison
- Great Plains
- national parks
- sex
- weight
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Oman and Mongolia feature different political systems and physical landscapes yet represent similar challenges encountered across global pastoral societies. • Extractive industries…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- pastoralism
- rangelands
- climate
- resources
- Oman
- Mongolia