Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

Drylands support over 2 billion people and are major providers of critical ecosystem goods
and services across the globe. Drylands, however, are one of the most susceptible biomes …

Seeding is an important management tool in aridland restoration, but seeded species often
fail to establish. Previous research has largely focused on the technical aspects of seeding …

In the last 20 years, the North American sagebrush biome has lost over 500 000 ha of intact
and largely intact sagebrush plant communities on an annual basis. Much of this loss has …

The US federal government has recently committed to the difficult task of slowing and
managing the invasive grass‐fire cycle in sagebrush steppe, where property, livelihoods …

Invasive annual weeds negatively impact ecosystem services and pose a major
conservation threat on semiarid rangelands throughout the western United States …

Large wildfires have increased in western US rangelands over the last three decades. There
is limited information on the impacts of wildfires with different severities on the vegetation in …

Restoration in rangelands is constrained by low establishment of species sown from seed.
Non‐biotic soil‐surface crust is one of the major factors limiting reseeding success by acting …

A review of literature shows that both fire and invasive species may cause changes in
biological, chemical, and physical properties of desert soils. Although soil may recover from …

On the Ground• Management interventions for addressing invading annual grasses and
encroaching conifers and their effects on fire dynamics in the sagebrush ecosystem are …