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Effects of 20 years of parceling on the condition of communal rangeland on a Mexican ejido

Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, 2020
This study evaluated the current condition of rangeland on 18 out of 62 plots created in 1993 by parceling the communal rangeland of the El Castañón ejido (Catorce, San Luis Potosí, México).
Juan Rogelio Aguirre Rivera, Luis Octavio Negrete Sánchez, Rigoberto Castro Rivera   +2 more
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Rangeland vegetation dynamics in the Altai mountain region of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan and China: effects of climate, topography, and socio-political context for livestock herding practices

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Discriminating between climate- and human-induced variation in rangeland quality poses a major challenge for developing policy to sustain herder livelihoods and alleviate herder poverty. We contrasted changes in rangeland vegetation cover across a region—
Liza V Iegorova, James P Gibbs, Giorgos Mountrakis, Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Mikhail Yu Paltsyn, Atay Ayatkhan, Leonid V Baylagasov, Yury V Robertus, Andrey V Chelyshev   +8 more
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Integrated species distribution modeling to assess species status and current and future threats for an imperiled amphibian

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
To understand the range‐wide drivers of Arizona Toad distribution and anticipate future changes, we combined 13 datasets covering distinct portions of the range in an integrated species distribution model. We estimate that the current occupied range is 1/4–1/3 of previously defined range boundaries and that increasingly dry conditions will lead to ...
C. Lane Scher, Brian J. Tornabene, David F. Bradford, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Caren S. Goldberg, Evan H. Campbell Grant, David A. W. Miller, Riley O. Mummah, Erin Muths, Mason J. Ryan, Brent H. Sigafus, Kenzi M. Stemp, Brian K. Sullivan, Kevin K. Wheeler, Blake R. Hossack   +14 more
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Pro‐environment behaviors, invasive plant management, and the gap between motivations for behavioral intention and action

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Invasive plant species pose significant challenges to natural resources and communities around the world. However, invasive plant management may require different motivations than other pro‐environmental behaviors because mitigation of invasive plants often comes at high individual cost, has limited effectiveness when undertaken in isolation, and ...
Danielle M. McLaughlin, Elizabeth Baldwin, Alejandro Ponce, Elise Gornish, Adam Henry, Jose Soto, Aaron M. Lien   +6 more
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The relative productivity index: Mapping human impacts on rangeland vegetation productivity with quantile regression forests

Ecological Indicators
Rangeland degradation is a persistent decline in the productivity of vegetation that supports wild or domestic herbivores. However, rangelands often exhibit highly variable climates and dynamic, resilient vegetation, making it difficult to discriminate ...
Guy A. Lomax, Thomas W.R. Powell, Timothy M. Lenton, Andrew M. Cunliffe   +3 more
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Threat Integration Model for Sagebrush (TIMS): A framework for using spatial decision support tools for strategic management of invasive annual grasses and conifers in sagebrush ecosystems

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
The Threat Integration Model for Sagebrush (TIMS) combines multiple spatial decision support tools to provide a unified, actionable map of sagebrush ecosystem conditions across the western United States. TIMS improves upon existing tools by including multiple threats in the same map (invasive annual grass [IAG] and conifer encroachment), characterizing
Geoffrey Bedrosian, Alexander V. Kumar, Jason R. Reinhardt   +2 more
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Enhancing Recharge in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas: Measures, Outcomes, and Lessons for Karst Aquifers

Groundwater, EarlyView.
Abstract Managed aquifer recharge is a widely adopted method that involves storing excess water underground for future use. While managed aquifer recharge has been applied globally to different aquifer types, its use in karst aquifers is less common due to the unique hydrogeological characteristics of these systems, including high permeability ...
Neelam Thapa Magar, Robert E. Mace
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Regenerative wheat management: The relative effects of farm practices on the biodiversity of invertebrates

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Wheat in North America harbours a diverse insect community (565 morphospecies were identified in this study), and pests represented <7% of specimens collected. Regenerative wheat management promoted insect diversity without increasing pest populations.
Daniel Pecenka, Kelton D. Welch, Arvid Boe, Jonathan G. Lundgren   +3 more
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Environmental and seasonal filtering of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns of mountain butterflies in a prime butterfly area, Greece

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Forest clearings support butterfly communities comparable to mountainous grasslands in alpha‐diversity and conservation value, yet remain compositionally distinct. Generalized linear models (GLMs) showed three key habitat predictors shaping multifaceted diversity and community composition: herb/grass height, flowerhead abundance and elevation.
Konstantina Nasiou, Konstantina Zografou, Andreja Radović, Apostolis Stefanidis, Vassiliki Kati   +4 more
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The Piosphere Effects of Livestock Grazing on Rangeland Vegetation in Ahir Mountain of Kahramanmaras Region

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2017
Excessive grazing pressure on rangeland vegetation reduces the basal area value of vegetation and also changes the botanic composition. This study examined the piosphere effects of livestock grazing on rangeland vegetation based on distance from a ...
Mahmut Reis, Nurşen Şen
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