[HTML][HTML] Assessment of Habitat Quality in Arid Regions Incorporating Remote Sensing Data and Field Experiments

M Zhang, H Zhang, W Deng, Q Yuan - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
China's arid regions are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and
human activities, which pose threats to habitat quality. Consequently, evaluations of these …

Newly established, multifunctional woody polycultures preserve agroforestry soil health benefits of a widespread US land retirement program

CS Kasmerchak, S Lovell, M Douglass, B Gates… - Geoderma …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil health degradation within intensively managed annual crop systems threatens the long-
term economic sustainability of maize-and soybean-dominated production regions like the …

[HTML][HTML] Converting CRP grasslands to cropland, grazing land, or hayland: Effects on breeding bird abundances in the northern Great Plains of the United States

LD Igl, DA Buhl, MP van der Burg… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent declines of grassland bird populations in North America are linked to habitat loss
and fragmentation associated with agricultural practices. One tool used to conserve soil …

Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi‐arid cropland‐to‐grassland restoration

AL Mahood, DM Barnard, JA Macdonald… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Converting croplands to grasslands can restore ecosystem functions and services, but there
is uncertainty about why some restoration treatments succeed and others do not. One likely …

Conservation Reserve Program Vegetation Affects Occupancy of an Invasive Grass and Invasive Forb

KJ Elgersma, D Magee, A Wen - Ecological Restoration, 2024 - er.uwpress.org
One of the largest contributors to grassland restoration projects in the United States is the
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a program that converts marginal farmlands to …

[PDF][PDF] Climate before and after planting drive divergent outcomes ten years after restoration of a wheat field to grassland

A Mahood, D Barnard, J Macdonald, T Green… - 2023 - scholar.archive.org
Converting croplands to grasslands can restore ecosystem functions and services, but there
is uncertainty about why some restoration treatments succeed and others do not. Existing …