For most of the 20th century and beyond, national wildland fire policies concerning fire
suppression and fuels management have primarily focused on forested lands. Using …

On the Ground• New geographic strategies provide the landscape context needed for
effective management of invasive annual grasses in sagebrush country.• Identifying and …

Monitoring temporal dynamics of rangelands to detect and understand change in vegetation
cover and composition provides a wealth of information to improve management and …

Strategic plans for landscape-scale conservation are preferable to ad-hoc decisions that
lack evidence and cohesion. The Sagebrush Conservation Design (SCD) is a biome-wide …

Conservation efforts for the sagebrush biome in the western United States have been
significant, but habitat loss and degradation are currently outpacing collective conservation …

Soil temperature and moisture (soil-climate) affect plant growth and microbial metabolism,
providing a mechanistic link between climate and growing conditions. However, spatially …

Remote sensing is a rapidly advancing technology with a wide range of applications in
ecosystem management. This chapter presents a literature review focusing on ecological …

Vegetation structure is a crucial dimension of wildlife habitat, responsive to global changes
in human activities and ecosystem processes. NASA's recent Global Ecosystem Dynamics …

The spatial patterns and context of invasions are increasingly recognized as important for
successful and efficient management actions. Beyond mapping occurrence or percent cover …

Estimated population trends can identify declining species to focus biological conservation,
but monitoring may fail to illuminate causes of population change and strategies for …