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- Library Collection RecordObservation is a simple method of acquiring information and is a critical step in the scientific method for both developing and investigating testable hypotheses. Cameras have long played a role in…Publication Date 2017
- Arizona
- cattle
- elk
- grazing
- riparian
- time-lapse photography
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1964-03-01
- Quercus turbinella
- dry weight
- Sprout Growth
- Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest
- Shurb Live Oak
- Season of Burning
- top removal
- Mechanical Top Removal
- Chemical Spraying
- 2,3,6-TBA
- Fresh Weight
- Pairs
- chaparral
- burning
- grazing capacity
- herbicides
- Silvex
- perennial grasses
- clipping
- reseeding
- vigor
- chemical treatments
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordMany nonnative invasive grasses alter fire regimes to their own benefit and the detriment of native organisms. In southern Arizona the nonnative Lehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees)…Publication Date 2011-07-01
- Arizona
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- invasive grasses
- Lehmann lovegrass
- livestock grazing
- native plants
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring processes that affect plant population dynamics and determine community structure is central in forest restoration ecology. To study effects of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and elk (…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- artificial regeneration
- flowering
- Cervus elaphus nelsoni
- Ceanothus
- Ceanothus fendleri
- forest thinning
- understory
- plant morphology
- Pinus ponderosa
- branches
- Odocoileus hemionus
- biomass
- browsing
- Arizona
- ecological restoration
- Ceanothus fendleri
- stem morphology
- flower production
- Cervus elaphus
- Odocoileus hemionus
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding landscape conversion is vital for assessing the impacts of ecological and anthropogenic disturbances at regional and global scales. Since rangelands cover nearly half of the global land…Publication Date 2003-09-01
- environmental degradation
- land use change
- anthropogenic activities
- vegetation cover
- urbanization
- shrublands
- landscape ecology
- Prosopis
- image analysis
- urban areas
- rural areas
- remote sensing
- vegetation types
- semiarid zones
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- grasses
- Arizona
- land conversion
- landscape indices
- fire suppression
- rangeland maintenance
- semiarid
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordA growth function for range calves is estimated using a polynomial function of calf age that accounts for weather variation, sex, prior calf weights relative to a norm, and a compensatory gain factor…Publication Date 2003-09-01
- slaughter weight
- herd size
- cow-calf operations
- birth weight
- geographical variation
- carrying capacity
- production costs
- liveweight gain
- calves
- gender differences
- Hereford
- profitability
- feed supplements
- precipitation
- grazing
- Arizona
- beef cattle
- optimal calf sale weight
- livestock supplementation effects
- livestock marketing
- polynomial age growth function
- rainfall
- Library Collection RecordMontezuma quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae Vigors) are closely associated with oak woodlands (Quercus spp.). Livestock grazing and cover availability are considered important factors affecting Montezuma…Publication Date 2004-09-01
- Arizona
- Cyrtonyx montezumae
- grazing
- habitat selection
- livestock
- Madrean evergreen woodland
- Montezuma quail
- Library Collection RecordThe Walker Basin Allotment grazing system in central Arizona is designed to allocate resource use under elk (Cervus elaphus L.) and cattle (Bos taurus L.) grazing. The grazing system was designed to…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- feeding habits
- stubble
- topography
- woodland grasslands
- rotational grazing
- Pascopyrum smithii
- Cervus elaphus canadensis
- wildlife management
- canopy
- grazing
- Arizona
- beef cattle
- plant height
- Arizona
- deferred grazing
- paired-plot
- rest rotation
- stubble height
- western wheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordThe value of public land forage has been of key interest since grazing fees were first established on federal lands. Additionally, knowing the value of rangeland forage is important for assessing the…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- grazing permits
- quality of life
- leasing
- land values
- estimation
- rangelands
- United States
- grazing
- forage
- forage values
- grazing fees
- grazing leases
- hedonic models
- contingent valuation
- public lands grazing
- Library Collection RecordPanels of experts from the Society for Range Management and the National Research Council proposed that status of rangeland ecosystems could be ascertained by evaluating an ecological site's…Publication Date 2002-11-01
- soil surface
- soil structure
- flow resistance
- soil morphology
- gullied land
- wind erosion
- hydrologic factors
- assessment
- rapid methods
- data collection
- ecological balance
- grassland condition
- overland flow
- rill erosion
- ground cover
- grasslands
- range condition
- perennials
- mortality
- vegetation
- biomass production
- range management
- plant litter
- introduced species
- invasive species
- literature reviews
- United States
- soil compaction
- soil stability
- hydrologic function
- biological integrity
- ecosystem status
- erosion
- infiltration
- inventory
- Library Collection RecordA 2-year field experiment was undertaken to quantify the interacting effects of a late-spring prescribed burn and summer rainfall on seasonal runoff and erosion in a southern Arizona grassland. Six…Publication Date 2003-01-01
- Lycurus
- perennial bunchgrasses
- soil water movement
- Muhlenbergia
- soil density
- Eragrostis
- Bouteloua
- water erosion
- semiarid grasslands
- rain
- runoff
- prescribed burning
- rainfall simulators
- plant communities
- sediment yield
- grasses
- bulk density
- Arizona
- Arizona
- sediment yield
- summer rainfall
- Library Collection RecordPeriodic summer rainstorms in some semi-arid regions result in variable soil moisture and differential establishment of seeded species. A 2-year study investigated soil water effects on germination…Publication Date 2003-01-01
- Muhlenbergia porteri
- Bothriochloa barbinodis
- drying front
- choice of species
- Leptochloa dubia
- Eragrostis intermedia
- Leptochloa
- revegetation plants
- Digitaria californica
- adventitious roots
- recruitment
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- Eragrostis
- semiarid grasslands
- seedling emergence
- drought tolerance
- rain
- species differences
- soil water content
- summer
- seed germination
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- Arizona
- warm season
- desert grasslands
- rangeland revegetation
- drought tolerance
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- Bothriochloa barbinodis
- Leptochloa dubia
- Digitaria californica
- Muhlenbergia porteri
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- Eragrostis intermedia
- Eragrostis lehanniana X tricophera
- Library Collection RecordWildlife water developments have been constructed and maintained throughout the arid western United States to benefit big game and upland gamebird populations. There is debate, however, over possible…Publication Date 2000-05-01
- drinkers
- birds of prey
- water resources
- game birds
- coyotes
- predator-prey relationships
- wildlife management
- Arizona
- carnivores
- desert ecology
- raptors
- predator-prey relationships
- ungulates
- wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on the results of a 3-year field study of the effects of spring/summer burning and cattle grazing on wintering sparrows in the grasslands of southeastern Arizona. The effects of…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- ammodramus bairdii
- ammodramus savannarum ammolegus
- aimophila cassinnii
- passerculus sandwichensis
- wild birds
- pooecetes gramineus
- prescribed burning
- grazing intensity
- wildlife management
- grazing
- Arizona
- beef cattle
- birds
- conservation
- bird-banding
- Library Collection RecordRobust needlegrass (Achnatherum robustum [Vasey] Barkw. = Stipa robusta [Vasey] Scribn.) is a high-biomass rangeland species that is adapted to warmer temperatures and matures later than most cool-…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Colorado
- beef cattle
- forage
- Stipa
- dry matter
- feed intake
- feeding preferences
- plant height
- zero grazing
- Elytrigia elongata
- Acremonium
- endophytes
- Leymus chinensis
- ergot alkaloids
- ergometrine
- fungi
- roadside plants
- green fodders
- lysergic acid amide
- Stipa robusta
- Achnatherum robustum
- Acremonium
- ergonovine
- lysergic acid amide
- narcosis
- Neotyphodium
- sleepygrass
- Stipa robusta
- Library Collection RecordForage use data can help rangeland and wildlife managers make informed decisions. However, managers need to know if forage use techniques that are commonly used to estimate ungulate herbivory under…Publication Date 2000-09-01
- experimental plots
- height-weight curve methods
- paired-plot method
- growth curve
- regression analysis
- equations
- Cervus elaphus
- selective grazing
- Pascopyrum smithii
- biomass
- range management
- beef cattle
- forage
- plant height
- Arizona
- height-weight
- herbivory
- paired-plot
- stubble height
- Library Collection RecordFrequent and intense defoliation of grasses has been associated with the evolution of "grazing morphotypes" that exhibit a variety of vegetative traits correlated with improved grazing…Publication Date 2000-09-01
- apomixis
- selection pressure
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- inflorescences
- plant morphology
- seed productivity
- genetic effects
- grazing
- Arizona
- Bouteloua
- defoliation tolerance
- evolution
- grazing resistance
- Library Collection RecordIn recent times, pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands have expanded into large portions of the Southwest historically occupied by grassland vegetation. From 1997-1998, we studied…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- wild birds
- pinyon-juniper
- frequency
- grasslands
- species diversity
- ecological succession
- woodlands
- establishment
- botanical composition
- Pinus
- Juniperus
- Arizona
- Juniperus monosperma
- grasslands
- pinyon-juniper
- Arizona
- southwestern U.S.
- avian communities
- succession
- Library Collection RecordThe cover of native and non-native introduced plants was compared between seeded (reclaimed) ski runs and adjacent or nearby unseeded (control) areas at a managed ski area in northern Arizona to…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- sowing
- disturbed soils
- skiing
- topsoil
- soil degradation
- ground cover
- grasslands
- reclamation
- species diversity
- introduced species
- botanical composition
- Arizona
- disturbance
- reclamation
- ski runs
- non-native species
- richness
- Library Collection RecordPrey selection by mountain lions (Puma concolor) in the Aravaipa-Klondyke area in southeastern Arizona was studied from February 1991 to September 1993. Overall diet as determined from frequency of…Publication Date 1999-05-01
- Puma concolor
- prey
- tayassu tajacu
- montane forests
- predator-prey relationships
- predation
- predator control
- semiarid grasslands
- population density
- calves
- diet
- Odocoileus
- seasonal variation
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordAn understanding of overstory-understory relationships in southwestern oak woodlands is important for predicting response of these systems to disturbance or manipulation. The objective of this study…Publication Date 1998-11-01
- Quercus emoryi
- Magnoliopsida
- C4 grasses
- C3 grasses
- understory
- woodland grasslands
- rain
- Poaceae
- biomass
- canopy
- grasses
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordBurning of vegetation generally increases surface runoff and erosion and potentially can change the nutrient dynamics of an ecosystem with loss of nutrients. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium…Publication Date 1999-11-01
- nitrogen
- runoff
- prescribed burning
- sandy loam soils
- potassium
- rainfall simulators
- gravelly soils
- phosphorus
- biomass
- losses from soil
- range management
- plant litter
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordWe studied the diets of desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki Mearns) at 3 sites in Arizona and collated this information with that of previous diet studies of desert mule deer across their…Publication Date 1997-09-01
- odocoileus hemionus crooki
- xerophytes
- browse plants
- diet
- Odocoileus hemionus
- seasonal variation
- botanical composition
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordSome have argued that federal grazing preferences or permits are a form of private property and should be recognized as such by the federal government. This viewpoint studies the grazing controversy…Publication Date 1997-07-01
- legal rights
- public domain
- pastures
- United States
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this study were to identify a Site Conservation Threshold, the point at which accelerated erosion occurs, and to examine the usefulness of the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP…Publication Date 1996-05-01
- water erosion
- rill erosion
- ground cover
- semiarid grasslands
- highlands
- mathematical models
- loam soils
- clay soils
- range condition
- rain
- biomass
- sediment yield
- range management
- plant litter
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordSuccessful managers of federal rangelands in the next century will have to implement politically supportable policies that address both forage and non-forage values. To do so will require an…Publication Date 1996-01-01
- public opinion
- public domain
- surveys
- multiple land use
- Oregon
- wildlife management
- range management
- rangelands
- United States
- Library Collection RecordLehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees), an introduced warm season grass, has invaded grasslands in southern Arizona, in many areas replacing the native warm-season grasses. A water balance…Publication Date 1994-09-01
- water binding capacity
- water content
- water balance
- evapotranspiration
- rain
- biomass
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- introduced species
- Arizona
- soil water
- Library Collection RecordFew perennial legumes have been successfully introduced into western North American rangelands receiving less than 250 mm annual precipitation. Winter annual legumes in the genus Medicago (medics)…Publication Date 1993-01-01
- Medicago littoralis
- hard seeds
- medicago laciniata
- winter annuals
- Medicago polymorpha
- Medicago truncatula
- annuals
- seed banks
- arid zones
- persistence
- genotype
- drought tolerance
- stand establishment
- sowing rates
- precipitation
- semiarid zones
- rangelands
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordOver the past century woody plants have increased in abundance on sites formerly occupied by grasslands in the Sonoran Desert. Woody plant invasion has been associated with a multitude of biological…Publication Date 1993-01-01
- desert rodents
- shrub invasion
- edaphic factors
- Acacia
- woody weeds
- sowing depth
- deserts
- weed biology
- Prosopis velutina
- seed dispersal
- grasslands
- seedling emergence
- invasion
- fires
- fire effects
- air temperature
- woody plants
- environmental factors
- sheep
- cattle
- seed germination
- establishment
- Arizona
- soil texture
- Library Collection RecordFire on rangelands used as a management tool or as an unwanted wildfire removes vegetation cover. Vegetation cover is thought to be a dominate factor controlling surface runoff and erosion.…Publication Date 1992-09-01
- ground cover
- soil erosion
- spatial variation
- ground vegetation
- loam soils
- fires
- fire effects
- runoff
- prescribed burning
- sandy loam soils
- natural grasslands
- range management
- seasonal variation
- rangelands
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordIn 1974 we selected 8 pairs of gully headcuts on the Santa Rita Experimental Range. Mesquite (Prosopis velutina Woot.) on the watershed of 1 headcut of each pair was killed with diesel oil. Densities…Publication Date 1993-03-01
- Prosopis velutina
- semiarid grasslands
- watersheds
- soil erosion
- brush control
- vegetation management
- rain
- runoff
- plant density
- losses from soil
- rangelands
- grasses
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordWe studied use of pastures and habitats in relation to moderate cattle grazing for 19 radio-collared desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) in a southeastern Arizona grass-shrubland. For each…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- odocoileus hemionus crooki
- xeroriparian habitats
- home range
- semi-desert scrub
- habitat selection
- habitats
- pastures
- Odocoileus hemionus
- cattle
- grazing
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordEven though the Wilderness Act of 1964 provided for continuation of livestock grazing after wilderness designation, there has been continued debate about the Forest Service's implementation of…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- land policy
- permits
- animal unit month
- coronado national forest
- Tonto National Forest
- USDA
- wilderness
- national forests
- multiple land use
- grazing intensity
- range management
- rangelands
- grazing
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordSuccessful germination and establishment of grass seedlings from surface-sown seeds requires a microsite which provides adequate soil water and temperature conditions, among other species-specific…Publication Date 1991-05-01
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- hybrids
- broadcasting
- soil morphological features
- Eragrostis
- Panicum antidotale
- seedbeds
- Eragrostis trichophora
- surface roughness
- safesites
- microenvironments
- sown grasslands
- seedling emergence
- soil water content
- land restoration
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe concept of market interdependence is defined in this paper as the influence that public market quantity allocations and pricing decisions have on observed quantity and price in private markets.…Publication Date 1992-03-01
- market
- private sector
- public sector
- market interdependence
- fair market value
- malheur national wildlife refuge
- federal government
- regulation
- econometric models
- market prices
- Oregon
- United States
- forage
- Library Collection RecordLaboratory tests are often conducted to determine seed germination responses to temperatures for seedbed ecology interpretations and revegetation seeding rate calculations. To determine the utility…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- Eragrostis trichophora
- Eragrostis intermedia
- hybrids
- Eragrostis
- seedbeds
- soil temperature
- diurnal variation
- seedling emergence
- stand establishment
- soil water content
- land restoration
- seed germination
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordPerennial plants collected from 5 north-central Arizona semiarid locations were assayed for tebuthiuron [N-5-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl-N,N'-dimethylurea] and its metabolites…Publication Date 1991-05-01
- long term experiments
- herbicide residues
- metabolites
- Bouteloua eriopoda
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- tebuthiuron
- Poaceae
- Bouteloua gracilis
- shrubs
- semiarid zones
- application rates
- rangelands
- Arizona
- forage
- Library Collection RecordRange scientist members of the Society for Range Management were surveyed to evaluate where research efforts have been concentrated in the recent past relative to current and future allocation of…Publication Date 1991-05-01
- research projects
- research topics
- publication patterns
- research support
- patterns
- questionnaires
- surveys
- trends
- range management
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe concepts of relatively stable multiple states and thresholds or transitions between these states has received little attention in range management until recently. On North American rangelands…Publication Date 1991-09-01
- desert grasslands
- annual grasslands
- climax communities
- grasslands
- plant ecology
- ecological succession
- natural grasslands
- climatic zones
- range management
- rangelands
- United States
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPonderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) overstory-forage understory relationships were studied on the Kaibab Plateau of northern Arizona to evaluate how well forage (graminoid, forb, and current year…Publication Date 1992-05-01
- stand density
- stand structure
- understory
- mathematical models
- prediction
- indexes
- Pinus ponderosa
- regression analysis
- crop production
- canopy
- Arizona
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe dry-weight rank technique has been used to measure vegetation in various habitats but has not been evaluated in desert shrub habitats. We sampled browse, forb, and grass in the palo-verde (…Publication Date 1991-07-01
- Sonoran Desert
- ranking
- xerophytes
- mountains
- deserts
- semi-desert scrub
- browse
- measurements
- plant ecology
- sampling
- slopes
- grasses
- Arizona
- forage
- dry matter
- Library Collection RecordRange condition is usually defined by similarity of current to climax or potential vegetation. It is often assumed that rangelands in low condition are biologically less productive than those in…Publication Date 1991-01-01
- seral stages
- site factors
- productivity
- pastures
- biomass production
- plant communities
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- Arizona
- forage
- Library Collection RecordCreosotebush (Larrea tridentata [Sesse & Moc. ex DC.] Cov) and other shrubs have spread into semidesert grasslands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico; and as creosotebush…Publication Date 1990-01-01
- Condalia
- Zinnia
- parthenium incanum
- land imprinting
- railing
- acacia constricta
- cassia wisleizeni
- condalia ericoides
- zinnia pumila
- Acacia
- plowing
- Larrea tridentata
- manual weed control
- Flourensia
- Flourensia cernua
- pesticide application
- Prosopis velutina
- Prosopis glandulosa
- tebuthiuron
- brush control
- Cassia
- Mexico
- range management
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordCattle trampling has been recommended to bury seeds and encourage seedling establishment but has not been compared with traditional seedbed preparation techniques. We compared seedling emergence of…Publication Date 1991-03-01
- land imprinting
- plowing
- buried seeds
- seedbed preparation
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- hybrids
- Eragrostis
- Panicum antidotale
- Eragrostis trichophora
- seedling emergence
- seeds
- land restoration
- cattle
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- trampling
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordLocation of seeds in the seedbed may affect germination and seedling establishment of range grasses. Our objective was to determine the effects of trampling by livestock and mechanical seedbed…Publication Date 1991-03-01
- Eragrostis trichophora
- land imprinting
- plowing
- buried seeds
- seedbed preparation
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- hybrids
- Eragrostis
- Panicum antidotale
- seedling emergence
- rain
- seeds
- environmental factors
- cattle
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- trampling
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordUtilizing source data for annual herbage production which had been obtained through repeated measurements, though not necessarily taken in each year, in 2 Arizona ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)…Publication Date 1990-01-01
- forest ecology
- watersheds
- understory
- Pinus ponderosa
- regression analysis
- growth rate
- plant communities
- canopy
- Arizona
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe measured runoff from a contour-ripped rangeland watershed is compared with hypothetical runoff based on KINEROS model simulations assuming that the watershed had not been treated. The results…Publication Date 1990-11-01
- ripping
- kinematics
- kineros model
- simulation models
- hydrology
- arid zones
- watersheds
- mathematical models
- runoff
- range management
- rangelands
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe key to managing Arizona chaparral depends on creating and maintaining brush-free or savanna-like habitats. Brush control using fire, chemicals, and mechanical methods has been tested previously;…Publication Date 1991-03-01
- chaparral
- chaparral soils
- Quercus turbinella
- manual weed control
- soil density
- biological control
- controlled grazing
- brush control
- soil fertility
- stocking rate
- vegetation
- regrowth
- grazing intensity
- goats
- range management
- browsing
- grazing
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordLehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees), a perennial bunchgrass from southern Africa, has recently replaced native grasses on 200,000 ha in southeastern Arizona. Hence the need to determine…Publication Date 1990-07-01
- range management
- biomass accumulation
- phenology
- climatic factors
- plant litter
- seasonal variation
- crop yield
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- introduced species
- water relations
- live biomass
- dead biomass
- grazing
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordJunipers (Juniperus spp.) and pinyons (pinus edulis Engelm.) are reinfesting areas from which they have been removed and are encroaching into other areas. Controlling these trees while they are small…Publication Date 1990-05-01
- pesticide application
- Pinus edulis
- soil classification
- tebuthiuron
- brush control
- picloram
- range management
- Juniperus
- New Mexico
- Arizona