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- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2019-02
- climate change
- drought
- fire
- grazing
- semi-arid ecosystems
- state-and-transition simulation models
- Library Collection RecordThis study assesses the drought coping strategies of rangeland users (RUs) in Fars province in southwest Iran. Our findings reveal that in the RUs’ experience, the most effective drought coping…Publication Date 2017-10
- drought
- grazing capacity
- Indigenous knowledge
- rangeland improvement
- stocking rate
- sustainable rangeland management
- Library Collection RecordThe extent and heterogeneity of rangelands in the state of Nevada (United States) pose a challenging situation for land managers when determining stocking levels for livestock grazing.…Publication Date 2017
- drought
- grazing
- livestock
- MODIS
- PDSI
- precipitation
- 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 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 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 • 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 • 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 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 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 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 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 RecordForage and cow-calf productivity on two lightly and two conservatively grazed pastures were evaluated over a 15-year period (1997-2011) in the Chihuahuan Desert of south-central New Mexico. Spring-…Publication Date 2015-03
- cattle productivity
- drought
- forage
- grazing management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordForage and cow-calf productivity on two lightly and two conservatively grazed pastures were evaluated over a 15-year period (1997-2011) in the Chihuahuan Desert of south-central New Mexico. Spring-…Publication Date 2015-03
- cattle productivity
- drought
- forage
- grazing management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Drought is an adaptive challenge where management strategies and practices that work today might not work tomorrow. Adaptive challenges facing management may require thinking…Publication Date 2014-12-01
- systems thinking
- drought
- ranch flexibility
- management alternatives
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Droughts are common on California rangelands. • The current drought in California is listed as severe or exceptional for most of the state. • The drought has affected rangeland, and…Publication Date 2014-10-01
- drought
- California
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordMost wildfires occur during summer in the northern hemisphere, the area burned annually is increasing, and fire effects during this season are least understood. Understanding plant response to…Publication Date 2014-01
- drought
- grassland
- herbivory
- prescribed burn
- productivity
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordLittle information is available to help managers of cool-season dominated semiarid rangelands determine when to begin and end grazing in the spring and fall. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of…Publication Date 2014-01
- Carex filifolia
- drought
- fall regrowth
- Hesperostipa comata
- Stipa comata
- Library Collection RecordLittle information is available to help managers of cool-season dominated semiarid rangelands determine when to begin and end grazing in the spring and fall. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of…Publication Date 2014-01
- Carex filifolia
- drought
- fall regrowth
- Hesperostipa comata
- Stipa comata
- Library Collection RecordMost wildfires occur during summer in the northern hemisphere, the area burned annually is increasing, and fire effects during this season are least understood. Understanding plant response to…Publication Date 2014-01
- drought
- grassland
- herbivory
- prescribed burn
- productivity
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordOxidative stress caused by drought stress is a major limiting factor for grass cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions. In order to investigate the effect of nitric oxide (NO) donors on drought…Publication Date 2014
- Nitric oxide donors
- Oxidative stress
- drought
- Antioxidant enzymes
- Turfgrasses
- pastures
- drought
- plant production
- Shiraz
- Iran
- Library Collection RecordPopulations of the common perennial herb Plantago lanceolata L. have been exposed to nearly two decades of summer drought at the Buxton Climate Change Experiment (BCCIL), a controlled manipulation of…Publication Date 2014
- adaptation
- climate change
- drought
- functional traits
- grassland
- plant population and community dynamics
- Plantago lanceolata
- soils
- genetics
- ecosystem ecology
- northern England
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How do recent patterns of drought-induced woody plant mortality in Texas semi-arid savanna compare to the extended drought of the 1950s? Does the relative composition of the woody plant…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- climatic variability
- dieback
- Flash drought
- grazing
- Juniperus
- Legacy effect
- rangelands
- scale
- State transition
- Vegetation Change
- woody encroachment
- drought
- savanna
- indigenous encroaching species
- grazing
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordVetch species (Vicia narbonensis, V. sativa and V. villosa) are widely used for fodder production in Tunisia. This study aims to investigate vetch strategies involved in drought resistance through…Publication Date 2014
- drought
- Fodder
- management
- plant production
- water stress
- vetch species
- growth
- water relations
- stomatal conductance
- proline
- Tunisia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this article Mary Kasulaitis describes a number of historic droughts, referencing rainfall records and personal accounts of area residents, and discusses the importance of precipitation to the…Publication Date 2014
- history
- Rainfall patterns
- drought
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordWoody vegetation encroachment has been assumed to occur uniformly over the past century across the southern Great Plains of the United States. To assess this assumption, we evaluated changes in…Publication Date 2013-05-01
- aerial photos
- drought
- fire
- patch mosaic
- woody vegetation encroachment
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Quantifying the association of plant functional traits to environmental gradients is a promising approach for understanding and projecting community responses to land use and climatic…Publication Date 2013
- connectivity
- Drought-stress
- Habitat filtering
- limiting similarity
- Null models
- plant height
- Seed mass
- Seed number
- Specific leaf area (SLA)
- plant functional traits
- land use
- climate
- ecosystem ecology
- drought
- plant production
- Southern Judean Lowlands
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordAccording to the insurance hypothesis, more diverse plant communities are more likely to be resistant to drought. Whilst many experiments have been carried out to determine the effects of plant…Publication Date 2013
- biomass-dependent hypothesis
- drought
- ecosystem stability
- global change
- insurance hypothesis
- isotopes
- plant hierarchy
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation
- ecosystem ecology
- grassland
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of exotic grasses into savannas is occurring globally. Despite threats to ecosystem processes and biodiversity, few studies have investigated factors that facilitate invasion success. *…Publication Date 2013
- cattle grazing
- exotic grass
- facilitation
- grass-fire cycle
- savanna
- wind dispersal
- grazing
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- restoration ecology
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- grasses
- fire ecology
- grazing
- soils
- rainfall
- drought
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn arid and semi-arid environments, where low and unpredictable rainfall is typical, establishment of perennial vegetation can be enhanced with modest increases in soil moisture. We evaluated methods…Publication Date 2012-05-01
- big sagebrush
- desert shrubland reclamation
- drought
- hydrogel
- revegetation
- slash
- Library Collection RecordAn important consideration in designing and managing forage systems is the knowledge of the physiological response mechanisms to cutting, especially when water deficit conditions are prevailing. The…Publication Date 2012
- cut
- drought
- stomatal conductance
- transpiration
- water potential
- Macedonia
- Greece
- Library Collection RecordRestorations commonly utilize seed addition to formerly arable lands where the development of native plant communities is severely dispersal limited. However, variation in seed addition practices may…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- diversity
- drought
- invasive
- prairie
- priority effects
- Rainfall manipulation
- recovery
- resilience
- resistance
- restoration
- stability
- Nebraska
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestion Does the below-ground bud bank mediate response to drought in restored grasslands? Location Platte River Valley region of south-central Nebraska, USA. Methods We imposed severe drought for…Publication Date 2012
- below-ground
- climate change
- community
- forb
- grass
- Lag
- meristem
- Plant
- prairie
- Rainfall manipulation
- restoration ecology
- grasslands
- drought
- Nebraska
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of exotic plants into savanna ecosystems can disrupt the natural pattern of vegetation. Indian couch Bothriochloa pertusa was introduced into Australia as a species for rehabilitation of…Publication Date 2012
- biodiversity conservation
- Bothriochloa
- drought
- grazing pressure
- tropical weed ecology
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThere is little direct evidence about the business model used by the legendary cattle king, Sir Sidney Kidman. Kidman's properties were invariably stocked at less than full capacity, and were…Publication Date 2012
- adaptation
- climate change
- diversification
- drought
- rangelands
- real options
- market risk
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis study examined the literature in ISI Web of Science to identify the effects that the main drivers of global change have on the nutrient concentrations and C:N:P stoichiometry of organisms and…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- CO2
- drought
- Elemental stoichiometry
- eutrophication
- Warming
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Do Acacia tortilis trees facilitate herbaceous species development under arid conditions? Do tree–herb interactions change with water stress and grazing intensity? Location National Park…Publication Date 2012
- Arid Areas
- Acacia tortilis subsp. raddiana
- grazing
- Herb composition
- microclimate
- Soil enrichment
- water stress
- water availability
- savanna
- drought
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- North Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is increasing evidence that climate change will be one of the primary challenges facing future development and agriculture. Farmers, whether crop or livestock farmers, will be faced with…Publication Date 2012
- carbon farming
- climate change adaptation
- drought
- Livestock Farmers
- subtropical thicket
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract. Bladdder saltbush (Atriplex vesicaria) is used extensively as an indicator of land condition in chenopod shrublands in South Australia. It is palatable, long lived, drought tolerant and…Publication Date 2012
- drought
- mortality
- Atriplex vesicaria
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAnthropogenic climate change is hypothesized to modify the spread of invasive annual grasses across the deserts of the western United States. The influence of climate change on future invasions…Publication Date 2011-09-01
- Bromus
- drought
- global climate models
- Pennisetum
- Library Collection RecordGrazing management is important for sustaining the productivity and health of rangelands. However, the effects of grazing management on herbage growth and species composition in the tropical savannas…Publication Date 2011-05-01
- disturbance
- drought
- soil fertility
- state-and-transition models
- vegetation dynamics
- Library Collection RecordFire is an important process in many ecosystems, especially grasslands. However, documentation of plant community and soil environment responses to fire is limited for semiarid grasslands relative to…Publication Date 2011-01-01
- drought
- prescribed burning
- productivity
- rangelands
- semiarid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordLong-term information on the effects of managed grazing versus excluded grazing effects on vegetation composition of desert rangelands is limited. Our study objectives were to evaluate changes in…Publication Date 2011-01-01
- drought
- grazing management
- range condition
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordTef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] occupies two million hectares of land each year, which accounts for 28% of the total acreage. However, its productivity is constrained by drought. Development of…Publication Date 2011
- drought
- Drought Resistance
- Eragrostis pilosa
- RILs
- tef
- plant breeding
- genotypes
- Ethiopia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOverseeded winter annuals in bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] improve annual dry-matter (DM) yield and capture nutrients in fields receiving manure application. This study determined the…Publication Date 2011
- Dry Matter Yield
- pastures
- plant production
- drought
- fertiliser
- annual ryegrass
- Bermudagrass
- berseem clover
- cereal rye
- fertilization
- manure
- nitrogen
- Mississippi
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Growing recognition of the importance of climate extremes as drivers of contemporary and future ecological dynamics has led to increasing interest in studying these locally and globally important…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- drought
- ecosystem sensitivity
- Extreme events
- extreme weather
- global change
- heat wave
- plant-climate interactions
- state change
- thresholds
- ecosystem ecology
- Ecosystem function
- Library Collection Record1. Climate extremes are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude as a consequence of global warming. 2.Managed permanent grasslands cover a large surface in Europe and contribute substantially…Publication Date 2011
- agriculture
- drought
- modelling
- adaptation
- climate change
- plant production
- Ecosystem function
- climatic events
- extreme weather
- grassland
- meadows
- phenotypes
- plant-climate interactions
- provenances
- within-species variability
- Europe
- Library Collection Record1. Models predict that the duration and intensity of drought will increase under future climate regimes. Although semi-arid grasslands are adapted to moisture limitation, the sensitivity of semi-arid…Publication Date 2011
- gracilis
- climate change
- dominant species
- drought
- grassland
- plant species composition
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation manipulation
- shortgrass steppe
- Colorado
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThis study evaluated the effects of soil moisture deficit and subsequent watering on the growth of Bromus inermis Leyss., Dactylis glomerata L., Lolium perenne L. and Phleum pratense L. under a non-…Publication Date 2011
- soil moisture
- drought
- pastures
- grasses
- plant physiology
- Bromus inermis
- Dactylis glomerata
- Drought Stress
- Lolium perenne
- Phleum pratense
- Tottori
- JapanÂ
- Library Collection Record1. Studying the effects of climate or weather extremes such as drought and heat waves on biodiversity and ecosystem functions is one of the most important facets of climate change research. In…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- drought
- biodiversity
- Ecosystem function
- primary production
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- plant physiology
- soil micro-organisms
- below-ground
- competition
- Decomposition
- invasion
- leaf chemistry
- microbial
- phenology
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation change
- productivity
- Europe