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

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 …

A fundamental goal of population ecologists is to identify drivers responsible for temporal
variation in abundance. Understanding whether variation is associated with environmental …

Abstract The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages nearly 1 million km 2 of
public lands that support recreation, livestock production, and wildlife habitat. Monitoring the …

There are concerns about the negative consequences of non‐native livestock grazing of
sagebrush communities, especially since these communities are experiencing unpreceded …

Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican
settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered …

Rangeland ecosystems in the western United States are vulnerable to climate change, fire,
and anthropogenic disturbances, yet classification of rangeland areas remains difficult due …

The sagebrush biome is a dryland region in the western United States experiencing rapid
transformations to novel ecological states. Threat‐based approaches for managing …

Plant communities in a stable, long-term state with high sagebrush cover and low desirable
perennial herbaceous cover and/or relatively high invasive annual cover are widespread …

Background Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big
sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate …