Saving the sagebrush sea: an ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities

KW Davies, CS Boyd, JL Beck, JD Bates… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

A systems approach to restoring degraded drylands

JJ James, RL Sheley, T Erickson… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands support over 2 billion people and are major providers of critical ecosystem goods
and services across the globe. Drylands, however, are one of the most susceptible biomes …

Demographic processes limiting seedling recruitment in arid grassland restoration

JJ James, TJ Svejcar, MJ Rinella - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Seeding is an important management tool in aridland restoration, but seeded species often
fail to establish. Previous research has largely focused on the technical aspects of seeding …

[HTML][HTML] A strategic and science-based framework for management of invasive annual grasses in the Sagebrush Biome

CS Boyd, MK Creutzburg, AV Kumar, JT Smith… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last 20 years, the North American sagebrush biome has lost over 500 000 ha of intact
and largely intact sagebrush plant communities on an annual basis. Much of this loss has …

Protecting restoration investments from the cheatgrass‐fire cycle in sagebrush steppe

DS Pilliod, MI Jeffries, JL Welty… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The US federal government has recently committed to the difficult task of slowing and
managing the invasive grass‐fire cycle in sagebrush steppe, where property, livelihoods …

Weather-centric rangeland revegetation planning

SP Hardegree, JT Abatzoglou, MW Brunson… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Invasive annual weeds negatively impact ecosystem services and pose a major
conservation threat on semiarid rangelands throughout the western United States …

The impacts of wildfires of different burn severities on vegetation structure across the western United States rangelands

Z Li, JP Angerer, XB Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Large wildfires have increased in western US rangelands over the last three decades. There
is limited information on the impacts of wildfires with different severities on the vegetation in …

Agglomerating seeds to enhance native seedling emergence and growth

MD Madsen, KW Davies, CJ Williams… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration in rangelands is constrained by low establishment of species sown from seed.
Non‐biotic soil‐surface crust is one of the major factors limiting reseeding success by acting …

Impacts of fire and invasive species on desert soil ecology

EB Allen, RJ Steers, SJ Dickens - Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2011 - Elsevier
A review of literature shows that both fire and invasive species may cause changes in
biological, chemical, and physical properties of desert soils. Although soil may recover from …

Toward integrated fire management to promote ecosystem resilience

K Wollstein, MK Creutzburg, C Dunn, DD Johnson… - Rangelands, 2022 - Elsevier
On the Ground• Management interventions for addressing invading annual grasses and
encroaching conifers and their effects on fire dynamics in the sagebrush ecosystem are …