Ecological droughts are deficits in soil–water availability that induce threshold-like
ecosystem responses, such as causing altered or degraded plant-community conditions …

Exotic annual grasses (EAG) are one of the most damaging agents of change in western
North America. Despite known socio‐environmental effects of EAG there remains a need to …

Fuel-treatments targeting shrubs and fire-prone exotic annual grasses (EAGs) are
increasingly used to mitigate increased wildfire risks in arid and semiarid environments, and …

Wildfires change plant community structure and impact wildlife habitat and population
dynamics. Recent wildfire‐induced losses of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) in North …

In the intermountain western US, expansion of Pinyon (Pinus edulis) and Juniper (Juniperus
spp.) woodlands (PJ) into grasslands and shrublands is a pervasive phenomenon, and an …

Imperiled sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems of western North America are
experiencing unprecedented conservation planning efforts. Advances in decision-support …

Expansion of exotic annual grass (EAG), such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and
medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), could cause irreversible changes …

Adverse weather conditions, particularly freezing or drought, are often associated with poor
seedling establishment following restoration seeding in drylands like the Great Basin …

Unprecedented conservation efforts for sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems across the
western United States have been catalyzed by risks from escalated wildfire activity that …

Context Plant communities vary both abruptly and gradually over time but differentiating
between types of change can be difficult with existing classification and ordination methods …