Sagebrush is one of the most imperiled ecosystems in western North America, having lost
about half of its original 62 million hectare extent. Annual grass invasions are known to be …

Abstract Information criteria (IC s) are used widely for data summary and model building in
ecology, especially in applied ecology and wildlife management. Although IC s are useful for …

Military training areas (MTAs) are special environments with specific anthropogenic
activities. The aims of this review are (1) to understand the interactions between military …

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 …

Understanding the effects of contemporary cattle grazing on herbaceous perennial
communities in big sagebrush steppe is important for managing for wildlife habitat, plant …

Maps of the distribution and abundance of dominant plants derived from satellite data are
essential for ecological research and management, particularly in the vast semiarid shrub …

In this chapter, we address these questions by concentrating on the effects of climate
change on exotic plant invasion in global grasslands. We specifically ask whether climate …

Understanding the factors that influence vegetation responses to disturbance is important
because vegetation is the foundation of food resources, wildlife habitat, and ecosystem …

This paper presents the Dominant Species-Physiognomy-Ecological (DSPE) classification
system developed for large-scale differentiation of plant ecological communities from high …

Questions Ecological communities are controlled by multiple, interacting abiotic and biotic
factors that influence the distribution, abundance, and diversity of species. These processes …