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- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2020-02
- alkaloids
- beef
- cattle
- Delphinium
- larkspur
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordTargeted livestock grazing is a proven tool for manipulating rangeland vegetation, and current knowledge about targeted livestock grazing is extensive and expanding rapidly. Targeted grazing…Publication Date 2019
- focused grazing
- livestock
- prescriptive grazing
- rangelands
- targeted grazing
- Vegetation Manipulation
- Library Collection RecordWe present information useful to various stakeholders, including land managers, agency personnel, practitioners, and researchers, as it presents methodology for ○ Determining the best period for hay…Publication Date 2017-10
- climate change
- Geographic Information System
- grasslands
- Pastoralists
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordRemotely sensed imagery at multiple spatial scales is used increasingly in conjunction with field data to estimate rangeland indicators (e.g., vegetation cover) and meet the growing need for…Publication Date 2017
- Bayesian additive regression trees
- BLM AIM
- monitoring
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordWe examined multiple environmental factors related to climate change that affect cattle production on rangelands to identify sources of vulnerability among seven regions of the western United States…Publication Date 2017
- cattle
- climate change
- rangelands
- vulnerability
- 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 • Rangelands in Indian Country are unique. Legal and historical realities present challenges to range and natural resources management not seen outside of Indian Country. • Cooperative…Publication Date 2016-12-01
- American Indian
- Cooperative Extension
- Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program (FRTEP)
- Indian Land Tenure
- rangelands
- Indian Country Extension
- 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 • 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
- 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 • Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution is a leading cause of water quality degradation on 40% of the semiarid lands within the western United States, with sediment from runoff on…Publication Date 2015-12-01
- rangelands
- terracettes
- erosion
- water
- policy
- best management practices
- 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 • 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 RecordOn the Ground • Impermanence syndrome involves farmer apprehension or uncertainty about the future and leads to disinvestment in an agricultural operation as well as erosion of producer confidence…Publication Date 2014-04-01
- impermanence syndrome
- ranching
- public lands
- Southwestern United States
- disinvestment
- US–Mexico border
- land use
- cattle Industry
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Ecosystem services are the wide array of benefits that people gain from natural ecosystems but many are not paid for nor is their future supply guaranteed. • Many attempts are being…Publication Date 2014-04-01
- ecosystem services
- stewardship
- rangelands
- ecological site descriptions
- Library Collection RecordAlthough human influence across rural landscapes is often discussed, interactions between the native, natural systems and human activities are challenging to measure explicitly. We assessed the…Publication Date 2014-03
- Anthropogenic inuence
- land use
- noxious weeds
- sagebrush steppe
- semiarid ecosystem
- semiarid ecosystem
- species distributions
- Library Collection RecordAlthough human influence across rural landscapes is often discussed, interactions between the native, natural systems and human activities are challenging to measure explicitly. We assessed the…Publication Date 2014-03
- Anthropogenic inuence
- land use
- noxious weeds
- sagebrush steppe
- semiarid ecosystem
- semiarid ecosystem
- species distributions
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Toxic larkspur (Delphinium species) cause large economic losses from cattle deaths, increased management costs, and reduced utilization of pastures and rangelands. • We recommend that…Publication Date 2014-02-01
- alkaloids
- Delphinium
- larkspur
- cattle
- beef
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordUsing an analysis of aerial photographs from 1942, 1985 and 2004 we assessed the impact of changing land tenure and land-use regimes on the cover of thicket vegetation on the Grahamstown commonage.…Publication Date 2014
- bush encroahcment
- land use
- management
- Aerial Photographs
- goats
- browsing
- livestock
- grazing
- grasses
- shrubs
- degradation
- Grahamstown
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined the effect of changes in land use and land tenure on bush encroachment and vegetation condition. An analysis of aerial photographs from three time steps (1949, 1985 and 2004) was used to…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- land use
- land tenure
- degradation
- aeiral phtographs
- commonage
- commercial agriculture
- rangeland condition
- goats
- browsing
- rangeland condition
- Fort Beaufort
- South Africa
- 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 RecordForage legumes have the potential to contribute substantially to warm-season, subtropical and tropical pastures and rangelands. Compared to grasses, they have advantages in accessing subsoil…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- pastures
- rangelands
- legumes
- forage ecology
- nutrients
- management
- agriculture
- nutritional value
- Library Collection RecordThe quality of the landscape is declining in many grassland and savanna areas of Africa as a consequence of woody plant encroachment. We investigated the changes in vegetation at selected sites on…Publication Date 2014
- Vegetation Change
- grasslands
- savanna
- degradation
- Bush encroachment
- land use
- soils
- rainfall
- temperature
- climate change
- carbon dioxide
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordTropical and subtropical rangeland systems provide core ecosystem services for the welfare of human populations that rely on readiness and quality of forage resources. However, forage species are…Publication Date 2014
- Landscape genetics
- Plant population dynamics
- population genetics
- Tropical rangeland systems
- Themeda australis
- rangelands
- Themed atriandra
- ecosystem services
- genetics
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change is expected to adversely affect agriculture in South Africa. A rise in variable and unfavourable conditions is likely to surpass the limits of current coping mechanisms of farmers,…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- agriculture
- livestock
- Karoo
- rangelands
- Subsistence farming
- communal farming
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Mexican scholarship has often obscured women’s contributions to small-scale sheep production by using imprecise descriptions as to who producers are, what they do, and why. Such women…Publication Date 2013-12-02
- gendered roles in livestock management
- rangelands
- diffusion of innovations
- small ruminants
- Library Collection RecordWoody plant effects on grass production at specific points in some rangeland savannas may be a function of numerous surrounding woody plants with lateral roots that extend into those patches of grass…Publication Date 2013-11-01
- brush invasion
- competition
- lateral roots
- Prosopis glandulosa
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordDowny brome or cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) are the most problematic invasive annual grasses in rangelands of the western United States, including…Publication Date 2013-09-01
- annual grass
- imazapic
- invasive
- rangelands
- revegetation
- Library Collection RecordTraditional upland livestock grazing is declining worldwide, leading to concerns about possible impacts on biodiversity. Although monitoring of protected areas often focuses on rare species,…Publication Date 2013-07-01
- field methods
- herbivory
- joint learning
- rangelands
- stakeholder participation
- structural heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordThe importance of sexual reproduction in tussock grasses that regenerate through vegetative growth is unclear. Festuca gracillima Hook. f. was studied as a model because it is a perennial tussock-…Publication Date 2013-03-01
- demography
- Festuca gracillima
- rangelands
- sexual reproduction
- sheep
- soil seed bank
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • Range scientists, managers, and practitioners can benefit by including history in their current monitoring and restoration efforts. • A symposium at the 2012 SRM Annual Meeting…Publication Date 2013-02-01
- history
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordThe total area of abandoned and fallow agricultural fields in Japan has been increasing annually. The change in agricultural land use can alter belowground carbon (C) stocks associated with changes…Publication Date 2013
- agriculture
- land use
- soil carbon
- carbon sinks
- carbon sequestration
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock farming in communal areas is an activity pursued by rural households as one of a range of livelihood strategies aimed at spreading risk. The cash and non-cash benefits derived from…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- policy
- management
- livestock production
- Poverty
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany of the intransigent problems facing the world arise in complex systems. In this paper, I propose that communal rangelands in South Africa be recognised as complex social-ecological systems and…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rangelands
- socio-economic aspects
- Sustainable development
- climate change
- policy
- management
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act was created to maintain horses on public lands, but is that the case anymore? According to a policy forum article, A Critical Crossroad for BLM’s Wild…Publication Date 2013
- rangelands
- horses
- Bureau of Land Management
- Western United States
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection RecordSpecies richness of plants generally decreases along elevational gradients or peaks at intermediate elevations. Land use including grazing by wild and domestic herbivores also affects plant…Publication Date 2013
- beta diversity
- buffering
- climate warming
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- herbivory
- homogenization
- land use
- species richness
- stability
- turnover
- globale warming
- grazing
- Norway
- Europe
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists in Namaqualand, South Africa, use herd mobility to manage livestock and rangeland resources. However, their socioeconomic conditions and ecological landscapes are changing and we explore…Publication Date 2013
- management
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- communal farming
- policy
- pastoralism
- grazing
- Namaqualand
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper the use of fenced grazing camps to manage the rangeland commons is challenged. A historical perspective is presented on fencing and rotational grazing in South Africa. Two case studies…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- management
- communal agriculture
- rangelands
- fending
- Commercial farming
- land tenure
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- Sustainable development
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper was prepared in response to a paper prepared by Vetter (in this issue) that addressed the issue of policy development related to sustainable management of rangelands. In line with the…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- Sustainable development
- management
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- livestock
- agriculture
- animal productivity
- Plant Productivity
- Msinga
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper critiques Vetter's (in this issue) assertion that commercialisation of smallholder agriculture holds dangers for sustainable rangeland management. The paper argues that a range of…Publication Date 2013
- sustainability
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- management
- policy
- smallholder farming
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPolicy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines the current policy situation and…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- Communal areas
- management
- Sustainable development
- agriculture
- livestock
- Tenure
- legislation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordCarbon storage in vegetation and soil underpins climate regulation through carbon sequestration. Because plant species differ in their ability to capture, store and release carbon, the collective…Publication Date 2013
- ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon sequestration
- carbon dioxide
- soils
- land use
- Chaco forest
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordIn the savanna rangelands of southern Africa, the debate about land reform tends to be about the redistribution of formerly freehold ranches and fencing-off the rangeland commons into ranches for…Publication Date 2013
- savanna
- rangelands
- management
- land reform
- communal farming
- sustainability
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Rangelands encompass 30–40% of Earth's land surface and support 1 to 2 billion people. Their predominant use is extensive livestock production by pastoralists and ranchers. But…Publication Date 2013
- climate change
- Globalization
- land use
- livestock production
- stewardship
- Library Collection RecordThe creation of local institutions with a mandate over land access and control is seen as a prerequisite for successful decentralisation of land tenure and effective local resource management in sub-…Publication Date 2013
- land tenure
- management
- policy
- rangelands
- communal agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have numerous effects on temperate grassland ecosystems, but prairie restorations are frequently located in sites with depauperate AMF communities. In this…Publication Date 2013
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- dark septate endophytes
- little bluestem
- sand prairie
- smooth brome
- restoration ecology
- soils
- fungi
- grasslands
- land use
- La Crosse
- Wisconsin
- USA
- Library Collection RecordSeveral studies have demonstrated that seed mass is related to different environmental factors. However, they have taken no account of the joint effects of spatial and phylogenetic information. We…Publication Date 2013
- Elevational gradient
- Phylogenetic autocorrelation
- soil pH
- soil fertility
- spatial autocorrelation
- temperature
- seeds
- grasslands
- climate
- soils
- modelling
- land use
- southern Alps
- Library Collection RecordThe paper gives an overview on the trends in the usage of landscape metrics as indicators for: land use changes, habitat functions (biodiversity, habitats), landscape regulating functions (fire…Publication Date 2013
- land use
- biodiversity
- habitat
- fire ecology
- laqndscape metrics
- ecosystem services