Operationalizing ecological resilience concepts for managing species and ecosystems at risk

JC Chambers, CR Allen, SA Cushman - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
This review provides an overview and integration of the use of resilience concepts to guide
natural resources management actions. We emphasize ecosystems and landscapes and …

Operationalizing resilience and resistance concepts to address invasive grass-fire cycles

JC Chambers, ML Brooks, MJ Germino… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plant invasions can affect fuel characteristics, fire behavior, and fire regimes resulting in
invasive plant-fire cycles and alternative, self-perpetuating states that can be difficult, if not …

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 …

Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for US rangelands, 1984–2017

MO Jones, BW Allred, DE Naugle, JD Maestas… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Innovations in machine learning and cloud‐based computing were merged with historical
remote sensing and field data to provide the first moderate resolution, annual, percent cover …

Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America

JC Chambers, BA Bradley, CS Brown, C D'Antonio… - Ecosystems, 2014 - Springer
Alien grass invasions in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are resulting in grass–fire cycles and
ecosystem-level transformations that severely diminish ecosystem services. Our capacity to …

Wildfire, climate, and invasive grass interactions negatively impact an indicator species by resha** sagebrush ecosystems

PS Coates, MA Ricca, BG Prochazka… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Iconic sagebrush ecosystems of the American West are threatened by larger and more
frequent wildfires that can kill sagebrush and facilitate invasion by annual grasses, creating …

Quantifying western US rangelands as fractional components with multi-resolution remote sensing and in situ data

M Rigge, C Homer, L Cleeves, DK Meyer, B Bunde… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Quantifying western US rangelands as a series of fractional components with remote
sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. Nine rangeland …

[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 …

Conditions favouring Bromus tectorum dominance of endangered sagebrush steppe ecosystems

MD Reisner, JB Grace, DA Pyke… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem invasibility is determined by combinations of environmental variables, invader
attributes, disturbance regimes, competitive abilities of resident species and evolutionary …

Saving sage-grouse from the trees: a proactive solution to reducing a key threat to a candidate species

S Baruch-Mordo, JS Evans, JP Severson… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Conservation investment in management of at-risk species can be less costly than a delay-
and-repair approach implemented after species receive legal protection. The United States …