Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rather than human dimensions of these environmental processes. We offer a synthetic perspective on economic and social aspects of wildfire and invasive plants in American deserts, focusing on the Great Basin because greater research attention has been given to the effects of cheatgrass expansion than to other desert wildfire/invasion cycles. We focus first on impacts at the level of the individual decision-maker, then on impacts experienced at the human community or larger socio-political scales. Economic impacts of wildfire differ from those of invasive grasses because although fire typically reduces forage availability and thus ranch profit op...
Grasslands and savannas are ecosystems that require frequent wildfires, or modern vegetation clearin...
The potential of invasive plants to alter fuel properties over time has implications for the rancher...
The Southwestern Borderlands Region of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico are known for its bi...
Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rat...
The high desert sagebrush ecosystems of the Great Basin evolved with fire. However, the introduction...
The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush steppe lands in the G...
The spread of invasive annual grasses and resulting escalation of wildfire frequency and severity po...
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in ...
Graduation date: 2008The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush ...
Graduation date: 2007The last five decades of research in arid land ecology cites Invasive species a...
JFSP-funded researchers are exploring the ecological functioning of sagebrush-steppe communities in ...
Disturbances are key processes that alter environmental conditions which have consequences for speci...
The problems posed by the role of invasive plants on changing wildfire regimes is considered to be t...
This research examines the role of private ranchers in Sonora, Mexico, in regional-scale landscape c...
Settlement by Anglo-Americans in the desert shrublands of North America resulted in the introduction...
Grasslands and savannas are ecosystems that require frequent wildfires, or modern vegetation clearin...
The potential of invasive plants to alter fuel properties over time has implications for the rancher...
The Southwestern Borderlands Region of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico are known for its bi...
Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rat...
The high desert sagebrush ecosystems of the Great Basin evolved with fire. However, the introduction...
The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush steppe lands in the G...
The spread of invasive annual grasses and resulting escalation of wildfire frequency and severity po...
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in ...
Graduation date: 2008The relative success of restoration practices on cheatgrass infested sagebrush ...
Graduation date: 2007The last five decades of research in arid land ecology cites Invasive species a...
JFSP-funded researchers are exploring the ecological functioning of sagebrush-steppe communities in ...
Disturbances are key processes that alter environmental conditions which have consequences for speci...
The problems posed by the role of invasive plants on changing wildfire regimes is considered to be t...
This research examines the role of private ranchers in Sonora, Mexico, in regional-scale landscape c...
Settlement by Anglo-Americans in the desert shrublands of North America resulted in the introduction...
Grasslands and savannas are ecosystems that require frequent wildfires, or modern vegetation clearin...
The potential of invasive plants to alter fuel properties over time has implications for the rancher...
The Southwestern Borderlands Region of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico are known for its bi...