Restoration of Shrub Steppe Ecosystems
This research theme provides land managers information to help them make restoration decision at local and landscape scales.
Millions of acres of shrub-grassland ecosystems are in need of restoration in the western United States. For lands degraded by invasive annual grasses, we have been studying best management practices for restoring ecosystem function through using either native or introduced plant species. On lands with degraded herbaceous layers, we are attempting to restore grasses and forbs without destroying the shrubs. In addition, we are providing land managers with handbooks to use in making restoration decisions at local and landscape scales.
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Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Western juniper and ponderosa pine ecotonal climate-growth relationships across landscape gradients in southern Oregon
Defoliation effects on Bromus tectorum seed production: Implications for grazing
Biotic soil crusts in relation to topography, cheatgrass, and fire in the Columbia Basin, Washington
Short-term responses of desert soil and vegetation to removal of feral burros and domestic cattle (California)
Establishing native grasses in a big sagebrush-dominated site: An intermediate restoration step
Plant invaders, global change and landscape restoration
Available nitrogen: A time-based study of manipulated resource islands
Science for the changing Great Basin
Effects of invasive alien plants on fire regimes
The effect of stochiastic technique on estimates of population viability from transition matrix models
Restoring forbs for sage grouse habitat: Fire, microsites, and establishment methods
Born of fire - restoring sagebrush steppe
This research theme provides land managers information to help them make restoration decision at local and landscape scales.
Millions of acres of shrub-grassland ecosystems are in need of restoration in the western United States. For lands degraded by invasive annual grasses, we have been studying best management practices for restoring ecosystem function through using either native or introduced plant species. On lands with degraded herbaceous layers, we are attempting to restore grasses and forbs without destroying the shrubs. In addition, we are providing land managers with handbooks to use in making restoration decisions at local and landscape scales.
Click here to return to FRESC Restoration and Ecology of Arid Lands Team.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.