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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Sagebrush steppe ecosystems are threatened by human land-use legacies, biological invasions, and altered fire and climate dynamics. Steppe protected areas are therefore of heightened conservation importance but are few and vulnerable to the same impacts ...
Thomas J. Rodhouse +2 more
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Ten‐year ecological responses to fuel treatments within semiarid Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems
Ecosphere, 2022 Sagebrush ecosystems of western North America are threatened by invasive annual grasses and wildfires that can remove fire‐intolerant shrubs for decades. Fuel reduction treatments are used ostensibly to aid in fire suppression, conserve wildlife habitat,
David A. Pyke +6 more
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Restoration ecology in conflict along the Colorado front range
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 7, September 2026.Abstract Introduction Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is a challenge to restoration in western North America. It attracts the attention of academic and government research scientists, weed managers, and chemical companies. Attempts to control it cause conflicts among these groups.
G. Robert Brakenridge, Tim R. Seastedt
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Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 7, September 2026.Abstract Introduction The invasion of the winter annual grass Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) reduces native plant biodiversity and increases wildfire risk in western North America. Seed‐based restoration often fails to increase native plant recruitment in degraded, Cheatgrass‐invaded areas.
Amy S. Gill +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The invasion of exotic annual grass (EAG), e.g., cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), into rangeland ecosystems of the western United States is a broad-scale problem that affects wildlife habitats, increases wildfire ...
Devendra Dahal +5 more
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Trajectories and drivers of compositional and functional variation in sagebrush steppe restoration
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 3, July–September 2026.Restoration success is often challenged by unpredictable and undesirable outcomes, especially in arid systems like the sagebrush steppe. In an 11‐year study in Grand Teton National Park, climatic conditions during establishment and local soil texture drove long‐term differences in plant community composition and functional traits.
Sienna A. Wessel +4 more
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Protecting restoration investments from the cheatgrass‐fire cycle in sagebrush steppe
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 The U.S. federal government has recently committed to the difficult task of slowing and managing the invasive grass‐fire cycle in sagebrush steppe, where property, livelihoods, and entire ecosystems are at risk.
David S. Pilliod +3 more
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Cheatgrass and range science: 1930-1950.
, 1997 Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is currently and historically has been a serious point of contention among a wide variety of people interested in sagebrush (Artemisia)bunchgrass rangelands.
Allen, F.L., Young, J.A.
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Ecosystem resilience is evident 17 years after fire in Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems
Ecosphere, 2016 Recent policy has focused on prevention of wildfire in the sagebrush steppe in an effort to protect habitat for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus).
L. M. Ellsworth +3 more
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Native perennial grasses show evolutionary response to Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) invasion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Invasive species can change selective pressures on native plants by altering biotic and abiotic conditions in invaded habitats. Although invasions can lead to native species extirpation, they may also induce rapid evolutionary changes in remnant native ...
Erin M Goergen +2 more
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