This study reveals how climate, grazing, and nutrients shape soil life in grasslands across five continents. …
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Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
In the Great Plains, ranchers and conservation professionals ignored expanding eastern red cedar trees or spent valuable time and …
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Modeling Songbird Density-Habitat Relationships to Predict Population Responses to Environmental Change Within Pinyon-juniper and Sagebrush Ecosystems
As wildlife populations decline in the shifting landscapes of sagebrush and pinyon-juniper ecosystems, land managers face a tough …
Predicted 2020 densities for 11 songbird species across the western United States
Understanding how songbird populations respond to changing habitats is crucial for effective wildlife management—this study …
Living on the edge: Predicting songbird response to management and environmental changes across an ecotone
This study models population trends and density-habitat relationships for multiple bird species in pinyon-juniper and sagebrush …
Smoke: How new emissions data could enable more prescribed fire
Wildfires have become more severe and have burned larger swaths of the western United States and Canada in recent decades. The …
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Systematic Process for Determining Field-Sampling Effort Required to Know Vegetation Changes in Large, Disturbed Rangelands Where Management Treatments Have Been Applied
This article describes and evaluates a flexible, scalable process for determining the sampling effort needed to monitor how …
Combining resilience and resistance with threat-based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems
Conservation Planning, ecological integrity index, ecological resilience, prioritization, resistance to invasion, restoration …