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- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2019-02
- breeding
- conservation
- cropland
- grasses
- pastures
- rangeland
- Library Collection RecordAbstract In this study, hydrological processes are evaluated to determine impacts of stream restoration in the West Turkey Creek, Chiricahua Mountains, southeast Arizona, during a summer-monsoon…Publication Date 2015
- Arizona
- Check dam
- restoration
- runoff ratio
- semi-arid watersheds
- United States
- water budget
- 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 RecordCommunities can persist in the environment over considerable timescales. Even when subjected to multiple natural or anthropogenic disturbances, ecosystems show a remarkable resistance to change.…Publication Date 2014
- resistance
- community structure
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment has been recognised in southern Africa since the late nineteenth century. Our review of 23 studies showed that the rate of woody cover change has ranged from ?0.131 to 1.275% y?1.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- grasses
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe link between species' functional traits and competitive abilities has been described as a major factor structuring plant communities. However, two diverging hypotheses have been proposed to…Publication Date 2014
- functional trait
- community ecology
- grasses
- competition
- ecosystem ecology
- soil moisture
- soil nutrients
- root ecology
- plant competition
- root length density
- root phosphorus use efficiency
- specific root length
- trait hierarchy
- trait similarity
- France
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Erosion dynamics in semiarid environments is defined by high magnitude, low frequency rainfalls that produce runoff with high sediment concentration. Check dams are widely used in this…Publication Date 2014
- Arizona
- Check dam
- erosion
- runoff
- Santa Rita Mountains
- sediment yield
- semiarid
- United States
- watershed
- 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 RecordAllelopathy has traditionally been viewed as a phytotoxic disruption of recipient plant metabolism, and allelopathic effects are generally strongest on species lacking historic exposure to particular…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- allelopathy
- autotoxicity
- Centaurea maculosa
- competition avoidance strategy
- historic interactions
- intraspecific recognition
- novel weapons hypothesis
- plant population and community dynamics
- spatiotemporal biodiversity
- sympatric species recognition
- germination
- United States
- Argentina
- Library Collection RecordA quantitative description of woody plant communities that aimed at aiding studies on grass–tree competition interactions, bush encroachment and estimation of food to browser herbivore species, was…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- competition
- grasses
- browse
- fodder production
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFew assessments of the effects of fire and grazing on the herbaceous components of savannas have been reported for Africa. In the Kruger National Park, South Africa, range condition was monitored at…Publication Date 2014
- fire ecology
- grazing
- management
- savanna
- game
- rangeland condition
- rainfall gradient
- grasses
- forage
- ecosystem ecology
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Apomixis has been suggested to result from the asynchronous gene expression of duplicated genes governing plant reproduction. The similarity of embryological stages and gene expression…Publication Date 2014
- Asynchrony
- Confocal
- Heterochronous
- apomixis
- plant breeding
- Pseudogamy
- grasses
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- Library Collection RecordNearly all climate scientists are convinced that human-caused climate change is occurring, yet half of Americans do not know or do not believe that a scientific consensus has been reached. That such…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- communication
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAs Kasulaitis puts it, in the early 1800s "Arivaca was a ranch, not a town." The Ortis family had a 8,896 acre land grant that covered most of the valley and raised cattle, but when three…Publication Date 2014
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief history of the Rancho de la Osa, a guest ranch located in Southern Arizona, intermixed with commentary on the current owners' plans to sell the property. The first…Publication Date 2014
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cattle Ranching
- Historical Site
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Desert marshes, or cienegas, are extremely biodiverse habitats imperiled by anthropogenic demands for water and changing climates. Given their widespread loss and increased recognition,…Publication Date 2014
- Arizona
- Cienega
- Gabions
- restoration
- United States
- wetlands
- Library Collection RecordThis article covers the turbulent years between 1848 and 1853 which saw Tubac burned in by Apaches, Arivaca abandoned under threat of Apache raids, and increased traffic through Tucson as 49'ers…Publication Date 2014
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Desert grasslands of the southwestern United States have experienced an increase in the abundance and distribution of woody plant species over the past century. Shrub encroachment has caused…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- black grama
- Bouteloua eriopoda
- broom snakeweed
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- invasive species
- Lehmann lovegrass
- New Mexico
- perennial grasses
- prescribed burn
- United States
- Library Collection RecordIn 1952 Don Rowley purchased the Rancho Seco from Peggy and Jack Rubel, establishing the Carrow Cattle Company several years later after acquiring additional parcels. After his death, his sons sold a…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordIn this featured article, Bree Collins explores the role the ranching community plays in environmental stewardship in the Southwest. Touching on the issues of endangered species protection, the…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- conservation
- endangered species
- energy development
- New Mexico
- Ranching Economy
- United States
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordWilliam M. Marteny and his family settled at the headwaters of Arivaca Creek, filing for a homestead while trading cattle and horses. In 1919 Marteny sold the homestead, purchasing the Robles Ranch…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- 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 RecordDiscussing the major themes and political tensions of the 1960s and 70s, Mary Kasulaitis tells us the story of Arivaca in the late sixties as "the hippies" began to arrive, focusing in on…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article tells the story of the Santa Lucia Ranch and the people who called it home. Originally homesteaded by Gabriel E. Angulo, Jr. in 1921, the Santa Lucia was located near the confluence of…Publication Date 2013
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRestoration priorities are typically established without quantitative information on how to overcome the thresholds that preclude successful restoration of desirable ecosystem properties and services…Publication Date 2013
- fire intensity
- fire physics
- fire trap
- grassland
- juniper
- positive feedback
- regime shifts
- resilience
- restoration ecology
- state and transition model
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- modelling
- management
- indigenous encroaching species
- grasslands
- United States
- Library Collection RecordReserve site selection models can be enhanced by including habitat conditions that populations need for food, shelter, and reproduction. We present a new population protection function that…Publication Date 2013
- Reserve design
- Life history-based protection
- Spatial optimization
- 0-1 Programming
- conservation
- planning
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- Lopez Island
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAn updated and revised version of an article published in 2010, Mary Kasulaitis presents us with a brief biography of some of the doctors who called the Arivaca area home between 1860 and 1940, many…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands of the Sky Islands region once covered over 13 million acres in southeastern Arizona and adjacent portions of New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Roughly two-thirds of these remain as…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Desert Graslands
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- United States
- Vegetation Change
- Library Collection RecordThis article tells the story of Lucretia Roberts, the first female deputy sheriff in the state. Lucretia was elected to office in 1912 in Canelo, Arizona.Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Law enforcement
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed (or targeted) sheep grazing can effectively suppress the invasive perennial forb spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L. ssp. micranthos [Gugler] Hayek). Some ranchers and other natural…Publication Date 2012-05-01
- Centaurea maculosa
- Centaurea stoebe
- grasses
- prescribed grazing
- targeted grazing
- timing
- Weeds
- Library Collection RecordEarly in 1896 the owners of the Montana Mine requested the contruction or repair of a road over which they could haul ore. This led Pima County to declare the road from Amado to Oro Blanco a County…Publication Date 2012
- road construction
- erosion
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article follows the Ronstadts, a prominent family in early Southern Arizona history, from Frederick Augustus Ronstadt's arrival in Mexico in the 1850s to the present day.Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief but entertaining overview of life in the Arivaca area in 1917. Many of the more exciting events were born of the tensions surrounding the impending prohibition of…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordCynodon dactylon is widely distributed in Iran in diverse habitats. In this study, morphological variation of 46 populations of this species was evaluated based on 52 qualitative and quantitative…Publication Date 2012
- Cynodon dactylon
- taxonomy
- grasses
- plant anatomy
- leaf epidermis
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides an overview of the notable events of 1918 including the filming of two westerns, The Trail to Yesterday and The Light of Western Stars, the drafting of several Arivaca residents…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief overview of what life was like in Arivaca from its early years in the 1860s to 1912 when Arizona gained statehood.Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordDelayed seed germination is considered to be a bet-hedging strategy, but experimental evidence of its adaptive role as an inherited trait is still lacking. In each of two co-occuring annual grass…Publication Date 2012
- Desert annuals
- Reciprocal introduction
- seed dormancy
- seed size
- soil seed bank
- Aridity gradient
- Hordeum spontaneum
- Avena sterilis
- Bet-hedging
- seeds
- grasses
- seed banks
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- Israel
- Library Collection RecordTrait-based community assembly theory suggests that trait variation among co-occurring species is shaped by two main processes: abiotic filtering, important in stressful environments and promoting…Publication Date 2012
- abiotic filtering
- bottom-up control
- community assembly
- competition
- functional diversity
- grasses
- grasshoppers
- herbivores
- savannas
- top-down control
- trait dispersion
- trophic interactions
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief overview of what life was like in Arivaca after 1912. Arivaca was essentially a company town of the Arivaca Land and Cattle Company (ALCC). The ALCC owned the town store…Publication Date 2012
- ranching
- history
- cattle
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordIn productive agricultural grasslands the relative importance of species identity, species richness and functional group composition for production and yield stability is not clear. We, therefore,…Publication Date 2012
- diversity
- forbs
- grasses
- legume
- Species identity
- Library Collection RecordIn this installment of Arivaca Yesterdays Mary Kasulaitis investigates the question of Arivaca's origins through a dissection of "Harvey's Historic Hyperbole," a claim made by…Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief history of several major roads in the Altar Valley from the initial community-led push for the development of improved roads to facilitate use of the newly available…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- erosion
- history
- road construction
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Although rock check dams have been used for centuries to control erosion and support subsistence agriculture on western US rangelands, there is a lack of measured data to quantify their…Publication Date 2012
- Alluvial fan
- Arizona
- Check dam
- grassland
- Landscape degradation
- restoration
- southeast Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The rangeland science profession in the United States has its roots in the widespread overgrazing and concurrent severe droughts of the late 19th century. These drivers contributed to…Publication Date 2012
- applied science
- Arizona
- ecosystem management
- range science history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides the background for the construction of Ruby Road and details the politics surrounding its placement and maintenance over the years. As with many of the road projects in the late…Publication Date 2012
- mining
- road construction
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Not Available.Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Border Enforcement
- Border Security
- conservation
- immigration
- migration
- United States
- Library Collection RecordForages are important throughout the south-east USA for livestock production and wildlife habitat. However, little is known about how forage species commonly grown in this region influence soil-…Publication Date 2011
- soils
- foragage quality
- ecosystem ecology
- fungi
- water-stable aggregates
- hyphal density
- grasses
- legumes
- south-east USA
- Library Collection RecordThis article continues the story of the Kellner family, opening just as John F. Kellner leases his ranch, and sells the store and boarding house before moving the family to Casa Grande.Publication Date 2011
- ranching
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Utah Calvary was part of a National Guard contigent called up by President Wilson to deal with the spill over from the Mexican Revolution along the U.S.-Mexico border. The unit was involved in…Publication Date 2011
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Mexican Revolution
- United States
- Library Collection Record1. Plant-plant interactions are known to vary with changing environmental conditions; however, we have little empirical knowledge of the impact of abrupt environmental changes on millennial scale…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- palaeoecology
- management
- grasses
- modelling
- community dynamics
- ecosystem changes
- abrupt climate change
- alternative stable states
- community dynamics
- competition
- facilitation
- fire
- herbivore density
- nitrogen availability
- plant population
- Tree-grass coexistence
- England