[HTML][HTML] Establishing quantitative benchmarks for soil erosion and ecological monitoring, assessment, and management

NP Webb, BL Edwards, A Heller, SE McCord… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil erosion can have a multitude of negative impacts on agroecosystems and society and
there remains an urgent need for tools to support its management. Quantitative benchmarks …

Oil and gas development influences potential for dust emission from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA

GL Tyree, A Chappell, ML Villarreal… - Earth Surface …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wind erosion and dust emission from drylands have large consequences for ecosystem
function and human health. Wind erosion is naturally reduced by soil crusting and sheltering …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the gap intercept method to measure rangeland connectivity

SE McCord, JR Brehm, LA Condon… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Characterizing the connectivity of materials, organisms, and energy on rangelands is critical
to understanding and managing ecosystem response to disturbances. For over twenty years …

Dryland soil recovery after disturbance across soil and climate gradients of the Colorado Plateau

KD Eckhoff, SC Reed, JB Bradford, NC Daly… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Drylands impacted by energy development often require costly reclamation activities to
reconstruct damaged soils and vegetation, yet little is known about the effectiveness of …