Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for US rangelands, 1984–2017

MO Jones, BW Allred, DE Naugle, JD Maestas… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Innovations in machine learning and cloud‐based computing were merged with historical
remote sensing and field data to provide the first moderate resolution, annual, percent cover …

Unmanned aerial vehicle-based remote sensing for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and management

A Rango, A Laliberte, JE Herrick… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Rangeland comprises as much as 70% of the Earth's land surface area. Much of this vast
space is in very remote areas that are expensive and often impossible to access on the …

Grazing Into the Anthropocene or Back to the Future?

RH Behnke - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This essay examines three central components of extensive livestock production—herd
composition, grazing/pasture management, and rangeland tenure. In all of these areas …

Pastoralism in the highest peaks: Role of the traditional grazing systems in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the alpine Himalaya

T Ingty - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Rangelands cover around half of the planet's land mass and provide vital ecosystem
services to over a quarter of humanity. The Himalayan rangelands, part of a global …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond inventories: emergence of a new era in rangeland monitoring

MO Jones, DE Naugle, D Twidwell, DR Uden… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the absence of technology-driven monitoring platforms, US rangeland policies,
management practices, and outcome assessments have been primarily informed by the …

The impacts of wildfires of different burn severities on vegetation structure across the western United States rangelands

Z Li, JP Angerer, XB Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Soil carbon pools in California's annual grassland ecosystems

WL Silver, R Ryals, V Eviner - Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2010 - Elsevier
Rangeland ecosystems cover approximately one-third of the land area in the United States
and half of the land area of California. This large land area, coupled with the propensity of …

The rangeland hydrology and erosion model: A dynamic approach for predicting soil loss on rangelands

M Hernandez, MA Nearing… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we present the improved Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM V2.
3), a process‐based erosion prediction tool specific for rangeland application. The article …

Rangeland productivity partitioned to sub-pixel plant functional types

NP Robinson, MO Jones, A Moreno, TA Erickson… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Understanding and monitoring the dynamics of rangeland heterogeneity through time and
across space is critical for the effective management and conservation of rangeland systems …

Barriers to prescribed fire in the US Great Plains, Part I: Systematic review of socio-ecological research

AS Clark, DA McGranahan, BA Geaumont, CL Wonkka… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and
private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed fire use in a land management context …