Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate

M Sample, AE Thode, C Peterson, MR Gallagher… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle
existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with …

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

N Shackelford, GB Paterno, DE Winkler… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse
desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live in these areas. Bold …

Using revegetation to suppress invasive plants in grasslands and forests

MJ Schuster, PD Wragg, PB Reich - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Following the removal of invasive plant species, most land managers rely on natural
succession to re‐establish native plant communities. However, insufficient native propagule …

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions

BA Bradley, CA Curtis, EJ Fusco, JT Abatzoglou… - Biological …, 2018 - Springer
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an invasive grass pervasive across the Intermountain
Western US and linked to major increases in fire frequency. Despite widespread ecological …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

SM Simkin, EB Allen, WD Bowman… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has been shown to decrease plant species richness
along regional deposition gradients in Europe and in experimental manipulations. However …

Refining the cheatgrass–fire cycle in the Great Basin: Precipitation timing and fine fuel composition predict wildfire trends

DS Pilliod, JL Welty, RS Arkle - Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Larger, more frequent wildfires in arid and semi‐arid ecosystems have been associated with
invasion by non‐native annual grasses, yet a complete understanding of fine fuel …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience and resistance of sagebrush ecosystems: implications for state and transition models and management treatments

JC Chambers, RF Miller, DI Board, DA Pyke… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2014 - Elsevier
In sagebrush ecosystems invasion of annual exotics and expansion of piñon (Pinus
monophylla Torr. and Frem.) and juniper (Juniperus occidentalis Hook., J. osteosperma …

Living with exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush ecosystem

KW Davies, EA Leger, CS Boyd, LM Hallett - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exotic annual grasses dominate millions of hectares and increase fire frequency in the
sagebrush ecosystem of North America. This devastating invasion is so costly and …

Challenges and limitations to native species restoration in the Great Basin, USA

T Svejcar, C Boyd, K Davies, E Hamerlynck, L Svejcar - Plant Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Great Basin of the western USA is an arid region characterized by high spatial
and temporal variability. The region experienced high levels of ecological disturbance …