Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

RC O'Connor, MJ Germino, DM Barnard… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Ecological droughts are deficits in soil–water availability that induce threshold-like
ecosystem responses, such as causing altered or degraded plant-community conditions …

What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios

SE Fick, TW Nauman, CC Brungard… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Postfire growth of seeded and planted big sagebrush—strategic designs for restoring greater sage‐grouse nesting habitat

DA Pyke, RK Shriver, RS Arkle, DS Pilliod… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires change plant community structure and impact wildlife habitat and population
dynamics. Recent wildfire‐induced losses of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) in North …

Rapid monitoring of the abundance and spread of exotic annual grasses in the western United States using remote sensing and machine learning

NJ Pastick, BK Wylie, MB Rigge, D Dahal… - AGU …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Integrating ecosystem resilience and resistance into decision support tools for multi-scale population management of a sagebrush indicator species

MA Ricca, PS Coates - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Imperiled sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems of western North America are
experiencing unprecedented conservation planning efforts. Advances in decision-support …

Variability in weather and site properties affect fuel and fire behavior following fuel treatments in semiarid sagebrush-steppe

MJ Germino - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

Management and environmental factors associated with simulated restoration seeding barriers in sagebrush steppe

SM Copeland, JB Bradford, SP Hardegree… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Adverse weather conditions, particularly freezing or drought, are often associated with poor
seedling establishment following restoration seeding in drylands like the Great Basin …

Targeting Sagebrush (Artemisia Spp.) Restoration Following Wildfire with Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus Urophasianus) Nest Selection and Survival Models

CL Roth, ST O'Neil, PS Coates, MA Ricca… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Unprecedented conservation efforts for sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems across the
western United States have been catalyzed by risks from escalated wildfire activity that …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting exotic annual grass abundance in rangelands of the western United States using various precipitation scenarios

D Dahal, SP Boyte, MJ Oimoen - Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Expansion of exotic annual grass (EAG), such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and
medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), could cause irreversible changes …

A draft genome provides hypotheses on drought tolerance in a keystone plant species in Western North America threatened by climate change

AE Melton, J Beck, SJ Galla, J Jenkins… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change presents distinct ecological and physiological challenges to plants as
extreme climate events become more common. Understanding how species have adapted …