[HTML][HTML] Remote sensing for monitoring rangeland condition: current status and development of methods

A Retallack, G Finlayson, B Ostendorf, K Clarke… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the current status and development of remote sensing methods for
monitoring rangeland condition. Remote sensing offers ideal solutions for assessing …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change amplifies ongoing declines in sagebrush ecological integrity

MC Holdrege, KA Palmquist, DR Schlaepfer… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding how climate change will contribute to ongoing declines in sagebrush
ecological integrity is critical for informing natural resource management, yet complicated by …

Losses of tree cover in California driven by increasing fire disturbance and climate stress

JA Wang, JT Randerson, ML Goulden… - AGU …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Forests provide natural climate solutions for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate
change, yet are increasingly threatened by increasing temperature and disturbance …

Spatial scale selection for informing species conservation in a changing landscape

AP Monroe, JA Heinrichs, AL Whipple… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the relevant spatial scale at which species respond to features in a landscape
(scale of effect) is a pressing research need as managers work to reduce biodiversity loss …

[HTML][HTML] An interactive tool to promote stepping down the Sagebrush Conservation Design to local conservation planning

EM Olimpi, T Mozelewski, J Gage, AV Kumar… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation efforts for the sagebrush biome in the western United States have been
significant, but habitat loss and degradation are currently outpacing collective conservation …

[HTML][HTML] A hidden cost of single species management: Habitat-relationships reveal potential negative effects of conifer removal on a non-target species

NJ Van Lanen, AP Monroe, CL Aldridge - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Land management priorities and decisions may result in population declines for non-target
wildlife species. In the western United States, large-scale removal of conifer from sagebrush …

The influence of grazing on the spatiotemporal activity patterns of a primary sage-grouse nest predator

NA Helmstetter, CJ Conway, S Roberts… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2025 - Elsevier
A bstract Perturbations in ecological processes can occur when wildlife alter their
spatiotemporal activity patterns to avoid human activities that they perceive as a risk. Such …

Managing invasive annual grasses, annually: A case for more case studies

VM Schroeder, DD Johnson, RC O'Connor, CG Crouch… - Rangelands, 2022 - Elsevier
On the Ground• The continued expansion of invasive annual grasses is a complex
ecosystem management problem requiring a shift in focus from a discrete, single treatment …

Predator‐specific mortality of sage‐grouse nests based on predator DNA on eggshells

NA Helmstetter, CJ Conway, S Roberts… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Greater sage‐grouse (hereafter sage‐grouse; Centrocercus urophasianus) populations
have declined across their range. Increased nest predation as a result of anthropogenic land …

[HTML][HTML] Using state-and-transition simulation models to scope post-fire success in restoring greater sage-grouse habitat

EK Orning, JA Heinrichs, DA Pyke, PS Coates… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfires are increasingly modifying wildlife habitat in the western United States and
managers need ways to scope the pace and degree to which post-fire restoration actions …