Sagebrush ecosystems of western North America are experiencing widespread loss and
degradation by invasive annual grasses. Positive feedbacks between fire and annual …

Native species that are abundant and persistent across disturbance‐succession cycles can
affect recovery and restoration of plant communities, especially in drylands. In the sagebrush …

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 …

Aims Invasion by annual grasses (IAGs) and concomitant increases in wildfire are impacting
many drylands globally, and an understanding of factors that contribute to or detract from …

Exotic annual grass invasion is a widespread threat to the integrity of sagebrush ecosystems
in Western North America. Although many predictors of annual grass prevalence and native …

Ecological restoration often requires exotic invasive plant control. In many ecosystems,
reestablishment of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) is a desired restoration outcome because …

Success of ecological restoration is often only knowable if treatments meet criteria defined
by biotic thresholds, but analytical frameworks to determine metrics of success and their …

Biocrusts and plants are the main ground cover and provide multiple ecosystem functions in
arid and semiarid areas. As land degradation worsens and waste management is ever more …

Biocrust inoculation and microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) are tools used
in restoring degraded arid lands. It remains unclear whether the ecological functions of the …

Control of nonnative grasses is needed where they are altering fire regimes and degrading
rangelands, such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) invasion of perennial sagebrush-steppe …