Saving the sagebrush sea: an ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities

KW Davies, CS Boyd, JL Beck, JD Bates… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

Operationalizing ecological resilience concepts for managing species and ecosystems at risk

JC Chambers, CR Allen, SA Cushman - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
This review provides an overview and integration of the use of resilience concepts to guide
natural resources management actions. We emphasize ecosystems and landscapes and …

Emerging seed enhancement technologies for overcoming barriers to restoration

MD Madsen, KW Davies, CS Boyd, JD Kerby… - Restoration …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rangelands occupy over a third of global land area, and in many cases are in less than
optimum condition as a result of past land use, catastrophic wildfire, and other disturbances …

Quantifying western US rangelands as fractional components with multi-resolution remote sensing and in situ data

M Rigge, C Homer, L Cleeves, DK Meyer, B Bunde… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Quantifying western US rangelands as a series of fractional components with remote
sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. Nine rangeland …

Using resilience and resistance concepts to manage persistent threats to sagebrush ecosystems and greater sage-grouse

JC Chambers, JD Maestas, DA Pyke, CS Boyd… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Conservation of imperiled species often demands addressing a complex suite of threats that
undermine species viability. Regulatory approaches, such as the US Endangered Species …

Modeling ecological minimum requirements for distribution of greater sage‐grouse leks: implications for population connectivity across their western range, USA

ST Knick, SE Hanser, KL Preston - Ecology and evolution, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Greater sage‐grouse C entrocercus urophasianus (B onaparte) currently occupy
approximately half of their historical distribution across western N orth A merica. Sage …

Operationalizing resilience and resistance concepts to address invasive grass-fire cycles

JC Chambers, ML Brooks, MJ Germino… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plant invasions can affect fuel characteristics, fire behavior, and fire regimes resulting in
invasive plant-fire cycles and alternative, self-perpetuating states that can be difficult, if not …

Evaluating the sagebrush conservation design strategy through the performance of a sagebrush indicator species

BG Prochazka, CG Lundblad, KE Doherty… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sagebrush ecosystems support a suite of unique species such as the emblematic greater
sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) but are under increasing pressure …

Single species conservation as an umbrella for management of landscape threats

CA Runge, JC Withey, DE Naugle, JE Fargione… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Single species conservation unites disparate partners for the conservation of one species.
However, there are widespread concerns that single species conservation biases …

Evaluating a seed technology for sagebrush restoration across an elevation gradient: support for bet hedging

KW Davies, CS Boyd, MD Madsen, J Kerby… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) restoration is needed across vast areas,
especially after large wildfires, to restore important ecosystem services. Sagebrush …