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Technical Note on Bison Conservation and Bison Ranching in Canada Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Melissa H. Heppner, Andrea Olive
This technical note asks what role Canadian Bison ranchers play in conserving North American Bison. Bison are keystone species in grassland ecosystems and pose numerous ecological benefits as wild animals. Unfortunately, most wild Bison have been eradicated through the process of colonization. Today, over 90% of Bison exist in commercial production rather than for conservation; however, the Canadian
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Short-Term Cattle Grazing Effects on Restored Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands Across a Steep Precipitation Gradient Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 D. Fraser Watson, Gregory R. Houseman, Mary Liz Jameson, William E. Jensen, Molly Reichenborn, Alexandra Morphew, Esben L. Kjaer
Cattle grazing is often excluded from restored grasslands due to potential risks to grassland recovery. This restriction has often been applied to the 5.6 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) plantings designed to restore native grassland plant communities on former cropland. Because large herbivores historically played a key role in maintaining these grassland systems, excluding such
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Fire Seasonality and Herbicide Effects on Sarcobatus vermiculatus Survival and Structure in Western Great Plains Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nathan M. Wade, Lance T. Vermeire, J. Derek Scasta
Black greasewood ( Hook., Torr) is a native halophytic, resprouting shrub found on saline rangeland soils in the western United States, including the western Great Plains grasslands. Stands can become dense, with limited native herbaceous biomass, and are prone to invasion by exotic species. We tested fall and spring prescribed fire compared with nonburned controls in a degraded rangeland site near
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Optimizing Economic Performance of Rangeland Livestock Grazing Under Price and Climate Stressors Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Shanelle Trail, Maryfrances Miller, Frank A. Ward
Livestock grazing is the most economically important use of rangeland ecosystems in many parts of the world. An extensive body of literature has investigated livestock grazing plans that are economically optimal or ecologically sustainable. This paper's contribution to the literature is development and application of an empirical mathematical programming model for optimizing the economic performance
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Use of Global Positioning System Tracking to Assess Landscape Distribution in Extensive Small Ruminant Operations Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Caroline Wade, Mark Trotter, Anita Chang, Caitriana Steele, Lara Prihodko, Derek W. Bailey
Landscape distribution and grazing management of small ruminants are becoming more important issues as the sheep and goat industry continues to grow. The objective of this study was to evaluate spatial movement patterns of sheep and goats in Queensland, Australia using Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking to determine daily distance traveled, distance traveled from water, activity levels, and the
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Investigating the Long-Term Effect of Livestock Grazing, Slope Location, and Sampling Depth on Soil Moisture Characteristic Curves Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Manijeh Nosrati Ramesh, Eisa Ebrahimi, Hossein Bayat
Soil moisture characteristic curves (SMCCs) play a crucial role in understanding and managing soil-water relationships, which is vital in various fields including agriculture, civil engineering, environmental science, and hydrology. This study investigates the impact of livestock grazing, slope location, and sampling depth on SMCCs in the Gonbad watershed, western Iran. Livestock grazing practices
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Herders’ Preferences for Maintaining Yak Herding in the Eastern Himalayas Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rajesh Kumar Rai, Srijana Joshi, Tashi Dorji, Basant Pant
Yak herding, a market-based tradition, is vanishing gradually. The changing environment such as climate change, policy context, and socioeconomic change is not in favor of yak herding. Using a choice experiment survey approach, this study determines the yak herders’ preferences to improve yak herding in Kanchenjunga Landscape, Nepal. The results of the choice response analysis indicate that yak herders
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Digital Mapping of Vegetative Great Groups to Inform Management Strategies Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Lucas Phipps, Tamzen K. Stringham
Ecological site descriptions have become a prominent way of describing plant communities across rangelands. Disturbance response groups (DRGs) stratify landscapes by grouping ecological sites on the basis of their responses to natural or anthropogenic disturbances. DRGs allow managers to organize, scale, and evaluate information collected on the ground, thus creating expectations of how sites with
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Wintering Greater Sage-Grouse Preferentially Select Shrub Microhabitat Characteristics Within the Home Range Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Caitlyn P. Wanner, Aaron C. Pratt, Jeffrey L. Beck
In temperate landscapes, habitat selection is constrained by resource availability during winter. Most studies of habitat selection by greater sage-grouse ( “sage-grouse”) have focused on breeding and summer rather than winter habitat. We focused on winter microhabitat when available habitat was influenced by snow conditions. Our objectives were to 1) identify what microhabitat characteristics sage-grouse
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Flexible Stocking: Livestock Production and Economic Responses in Mixed-Grass Prairie Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Justin D. Derner, John P. Ritten, Tevyn Baldwin, Tamarah Jorns, Matt Mortenson, David J. Augustine
Matching animal demand to forage availability is a core principle in sustainable rangeland management. We evaluated the use of interannual flexibility in stocking rates compared with fixed stocking at light, moderate, and heavy stocking rates on livestock weight gains and economic responses for 7 yr (2016−2022) in North American northern mixed-grass prairie. The grazing season began in early June each
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Spring-Applied Treatments Offer Another Window of Opportunity for Revegetation of Annual Grass−Invaded Rangelands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 K.W. Davies, V.M. Schroeder, D.D. Johnson, L.N. Svejcar, D.R. Clenet
Invasive annual grasses have degraded tens of millions of hectares of the sagebrush ecosystem of western North America. Restoration of perennial vegetation in annual grass−invaded rangelands is a management priority to decrease fire risk, increase livestock forage quality, and improve wildlife habitat. Annual grasses are traditionally controlled in the fall with preemergent herbicides, such as imazapic
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Nontarget Woody Plant Responses to Broadcast Herbicide Treatment for Mesquite and Pricklypear Control Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 R. James Ansley, Megan Clayton, William E. Pinchak
Aerial spraying of herbicides is an option for treating undesirable woody species on grasslands and rangelands, but few studies have determined effects of these products on nontarget woody plants important to wildlife. A recently introduced herbicide containing a mixture of clopyralid and aminopyralid (CA) is thought to be specific to honey mesquite control. Our objective was to document effects of
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Land-Use Intensification by Overseeding Legumes on Natural Grasslands: Impacts on Plant Diversity Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 F. Lezama, D. Cáceres, P. Pañella, A. del Pino
Land-use intensification threatens biodiversity conservation of grasslands worldwide. One example of intensification is overseeding legumes in natural grasslands coupled with phosphorus fertilization, a management practice oriented to increase forage production and quality. Several studies show increases in forage due to this practice, at least in the short term, but less is known about impacts on
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Evaluating Impacts of Imazapic Treatments on Mule Deer Forage Quality, Quantity, and Composition Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Trenton D. Gianella, Dana M. Sanchez
The invasion of exotic annual grasses including cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), and North Africa grass (Ventenata dubia) have drastically altered grassland ecosystems across the western United States. Continuous efforts have been made to reclaim these ecosystems through the application of annual grass selective herbicides. The effectiveness of these herbicides
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Snapshot of Enteric Methane Emissions from Stocker Cattle Grazing Extensive Semiarid Rangelands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Edward J. Raynor, Ashley Schilling-Hazlett, Sara E. Place, Juan Vargas Martinez, Logan R. Thompson, Melissa K. Johnston, Tamarah R. Jorns, Matthew R. Beck, Larry A. Kuehn, Justin D. Derner, Kimberly R. Stackhouse-Lawson
Enteric methane (CH4) emissions from cattle grazing extensive semiarid rangelands are largely unknown and represent a considerable knowledge gap for the beef cattle industry. Knowledge of baseline enteric CH4 emissions is beneficial for understanding the range of variability in individual animal emission production (g CH4 head [hd]−1 d−1) and emission intensity (g CH4 kg−1 average daily gain [ADG]−1)
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15-Yr Biomass Production in Semiarid Nebraska Sandhills Grasslands: Part 1—Plant Functional Group Analysis Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Biquan Zhao, Mitchell B. Stephenson, Tala Awada, Jerry D. Volesky, Brian Wardlow, Yuzhen Zhou, Yeyin Shi
Semiarid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills provide critical ecosystem services and are an important forage resource for the local cattle industry. Over the past decades, warming and climate-related extremes have affected grassland production worldwide, which promotes the initiation of numerous grassland monitoring projects. Despite this, production trends for plant functional groups in the Sandhills
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Cows or Condos: Rancher and Land-Use Outcomes Following Compensated Federal Grazing Permit Waivers Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tessa M. Wittman, Drew E. Bennett
Considering the nexus between public grazing lands and privately owned rangelands in the American West, some scholars argue that reduced access to public grazing allotments can result in subdivision or land conversion of private lands affiliated with livestock production—an argument presented as a choice between “cows or condos.” This argument has been applied to compensated permit waivers, a tool
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Comparing the Predictive Capacity of Allometric Models in Estimating Grass Biomass in a Desert Grassland Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Adam T. Naito, Steven R. Archer, Philip Heilman
Allometric models provide a rapid, nondestructive means for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) of perennial grass species. In the absence of site-specific models, allometric relationships developed at other sites at other times are often used. This implicitly assumes that size-biomass relationships are highly robust. In this study, we assess the comparability of allometric relationships developed
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Codistribution of Cattle and Exotic Oryx on Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland, South-Central New Mexico Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Louis C. Bender, Andrew Cox
We investigated factors influencing codistribution of cattle and exotic oryx on the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (CDRRC), south-central New Mexico. We established a camera-trapping grid on the CDRRC, 2019–2022, and modeled occupancy of cattle (Bos indicus) and oryx (Oryx gazella gazella) as a function of habitat attributes and presence of the other species. Species interaction factors
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Survey of Attitudes of Human Local Communities of Conservation Areas of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Toward Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Azamsadat Moradi, Abbas Ahmadi, Hamid Toranjzar, Bahman Shams-Esfandabad
A human-leopard conflict (HLC) is said to be any type of interaction that results in a mutually harmful effect on wildlife and humans. In recent decades, the scope and intensity of the HLC have increased due to the growth of the human population, changes in land use patterns, inefficient nature protection measures, and manipulation of nature. The study of habitats is considered vital to know their
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Resource Selection Function-Adjusted Carrying Capacity Informs Bison Conservation Management in the Imperilled Mixed Grassland Ecosystem Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Thuy Doan, Stefano Liccioli, Maggi Sliwinski, Claude Samson, Bill Biligetu, Michelle Sawatzky, Xulin Guo
In Canada, plains bison (Bison bison bison) was assessed by The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada as threatened. While bison are no longer at risk of demographic extinction, conservation programs remain challenged by the rarity of large populations and most bison are found in small, isolated, and confined herds. In this context, proper assessment of ecological carrying capacity
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Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers’ Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Paige Stanley, Nathan Sayre, Lynn Huntsinger
Unprecedented climatic and economic uncertainty, in particular severe drought, calls for management that can preclude some of the costs of reactionary measures for California ranchers. Increasing adaptive capacity has been widely recommended to address such uncertainty. Within this context, holistic management (HM), a decision-making framework marketed for ranchers, is of interest because it emphasizes
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A Grazer in a Browser's Habitat: Resource Selection of Foraging Cattle in Productive Boreal Forest Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Mélanie Spedener, Morten Tofastrud, Gunnar Austrheim, Barbara Zimmermann
In Norway, cattle (Bos taurus) are released to large areas of boreal forest for summer grazing. To determine to what degree this practice challenges timber production and wildlife management, we need a better understanding of basic cattle ecology. What do cattle, typical grazers, feed on in a habitat typically used by browsers? We determined cattle's resource use and selection at three scales: habitat
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Analysis of the Cost and Cost Components of Conducting Prescribed Fires in the Great Plains Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Maddie Watts, Aaron Russell, Saroj Adhikari, John Weir, Omkar Joshi
Fire is a naturally occurring process in the Great Plains and was anthropologically applied first by Native Americans and now by a diverse group of landholder types. Fire is a critical tool to help restore historical fire regimes in the region and maintain and grow benefits for agricultural outputs, risk reduction, and ecosystem maintenance. With the Great Plains dominated by private landholdings,
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Evaluating Nonfee Grazing Permit Costs on Federal and Private Lands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Kasey D. Dollerschell, John A. Tanaka, Kristie A. Maczko, Shaun S. Wulff
Nonfee grazing costs on both federal and privately leased land have been a topic of research since the 1960s. A nonfee cost difference of $1.23 animal unit mo (AUM)−1, later adjusted to $1.35 AUM−1, was found between grazing on federal and privately leased land. This value became the base for the federal land forage value in the current federal grazing fee. In 1992, a task force group was formed to
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Comparison of Three Machine Learning Algorithms Using Google Earth Engine for Land Use Land Cover Classification Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Zhewen Zhao, Fakhrul Islam, Liaqat Ali Waseem, Aqil Tariq, Muhammad Nawaz, Ijaz Ul Islam, Tehmina Bibi, Nazir Ur Rehman, Waqar Ahmad, Rana Waqar Aslam, Danish Raza, Wesam Atef Hatamleh
Google Earth Engine (GEE) is presently the most innovative international open-source platform for the advanced-level analysis of geospatial big data. In this study, we used three machine learning algorithms to apply this cloud platform for Land Use Land Cover (LULC) research in the Mardan, Pakistan. The machine learning algorithm in GEE is the most advanced technique to generate reliable and informative
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Solar Radiation Drives Potential Demographic Collapse in a Perennial Bunchgrass via Dramatically Reduced Seedling Establishment Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Timothy H. Parker, Alex Gerber, Erin Campbell, Molly Simonson, Robert K. Shriver, Lyman Persico
Many perennial plants in semiarid rangelands have experienced population declines, and understanding the ecological and demographic processes behind these declines is important to slowing or reversing them. Although anthropogenic disturbances drive many declines, other sorts of environmental variability, such as the differences in solar radiation with aspect, may impact population success locally.
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Managing Grass Height for Birds and Livestock: Insights from the Río de la Plata Grasslands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Joaquín Aldabe, Ana Inés Sánchez-Iriarte, Mercedes Rivas, Oscar Blumetto
Success in conserving biodiversity in rangelands depends on effectively managing the systems to achieve positive economic outcomes while preserving biodiversity. In the native grasslands of the Río de la Plata region, livestock production often falls below its potential due to low forage availability. Cattle management strategies that promote taller grass height can increase forage mass without replacing
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Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Sandra Duarte-Guardia, Pablo L. Peri, Guillermo Martinez-Pastur, Romina Lasagno, Maria Vanessa Lencinas, Evert Thomas, Brenton Ladd
Plant diversity has long been linked to an increase in ecosystem productivity and function, but concrete examples in which ecosystem services are linked to diversity at the scale at which management decisions are taken are rare. We specifically tested for a correlation between plant diversity and provisioning ecosystem services estimated via the potential to produce meat and wool. We also tested whether
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Plot-Measured Variables Indicate Landscape-Scale Patterns of Annual Grass Invasion in Northwestern US Rangelands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Andrea De Stefano, Brian A. Mealor, Lisa C. Jones, Erik A. Lehnhoff, Jane M. Mangold, Timothy Prather, Corey V. Ransom, Lisa J. Rew
Introduced annual grasses (IAGs) have invaded tens of millions of hectares of western US rangelands, displacing native vegetation and altering ecosystem functions and services. Our main goal was to assess the influence of introduced annual grasses by 1) exploring the relationships among IAG cover, species richness, diversity, and cover of other plant functional groups; and 2) identifying biotic and
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Consequences of Participatory Behavior of Pastoralists on Rangeland Restoration Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Seyedeh Khadijeh Mahdavi, Mohammadreza Shahraki, Mohsen Sharafatmandrad
Rangelands are among the important natural resources that are being degraded all around the world. One of the effective ways to control rangeland degradation is to take the advantage of the pastoralists’ participation in the implementation of rangeland management projects, especially restoration practices. Therefore, this study was conducted to reveal the consequences of participatory behavior of Turkmen
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Systematic Process for Determining Field-Sampling Effort Required to Know Vegetation Changes in Large, Disturbed Rangelands Where Management Treatments Have Been Applied Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Cara Applestein, Matthew J. Germino
Adequate numbers of replicated, dispersed, and random samples are the basis for reliable sampling inference on resources of concern, particularly vegetation cover across large and heterogenous areas such as rangelands. Tools are needed to predict and assess data precision, specifically the sampling effort required to attain acceptable levels of precision, before and after sampling. We describe and
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Potential Seed Dispersal by Persian Wild Ass in South Central Iran Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Amin Ghasemi, Mahmoud-Reza Hemami, Sorour Karimi, Majid Iravani, Josef Senn
Seed dispersal plays a pivotal role in plant ecology, impacting various aspects such as dispersal, reproduction, and population dynamics. In this study, we investigated the endozoochoric seed dispersal by the onager or Persian wild ass (Equus hemionus onager) in Qatrouiyeh National Park, located in south-central Iran. Fecal samples were collected from three plains within the park over three seed production
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Long-Term Effects of Revegetation Efforts in Annual Grass−Invaded Rangeland Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Kirk W. Davies, Chad S. Boyd, Lauren N. Svejcar, Danielle R. Clenet
Invasive annual grasses, such as medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), have invaded tens of millions of hectares of the sagebrush ecosystem. These invasions severely reduce ecosystem goods and services provided, as well as increase the probability of frequent, large wildfires. Revegetation of invasive annual grass−invaded rangeland with perennial bunchgrasses is critical to reversing
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Relating Threshold Changes in Soil Function to Structural Changes in Woody Vegetation Along Herbivore Utilization Gradients with Different Management Histories in an Arid Thicket Mosaic, South Africa Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Anton Schmidt, Graham Kerley
The hypothesis that transformation of rangelands by domestic herbivores follows state-and-transition models predicts that vegetation communities will cross ecological thresholds when shifting from one state to another. We test this hypothesis by identifying threshold responses of soil function in Gamka Thicket, a variation of Arid Thicket in South Africa. We relate indices of soil water infiltration
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Tracking Livestock Diets Using Stable Isotopes in Complex Mixed Farming Systems Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Sala Alanda Lamega, Martin Komainda, Kingsley Kwabena Ayisi, Johannes Isselstein
Stable isotope analysis of 13C and 15N has been widely used to provide information regarding short- or long-term animal dietary composition as affected by changes in land or ecological system use. In complex mixed-crop−livestock systems, rangeland biomass, crop residues, and feedstuff contribute to livestock diets with high seasonal variations. Particularly in the Limpopo province, South Africa, livestock
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Waterhole Characteristics in Tuberculosis Positive and Negative Beef Cattle Farms from Endemic Regions in Spain Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 G. Herrero-García, P. Barroso, L. Preite, D. Relimpio, R. Vaz-Rodrigues, A. Balseiro, C. Gortázar
In dry climates, livestock farming contributes to waterhole creation and maintenance, thereby contributing to biodiversity conservation. However, these lentic water bodies also represent a critical environmental connection between microorganisms and their vertebrate hosts since the water can facilitate pathogen persistence and transmission. Therefore, interventions for tuberculosis (TB) risk mitigation
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Sagebrush-Associated Bunchgrasses Drive Invasion Resistance in a Greenhouse Experiment Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Lisa M. Ellsworth, Lilybeth Gutierrez Yee, Jacob W. Dittel, Dana M. Sanchez, Anita Antoninka
Invasion of non-native annual grasses is a significant threat to the sustainability of sagebrush steppe ecosystems. Ecological resilience, the ability to bounce back after a disturbance, and resistance, the ability to withstand invasion, are influenced by both abiotic factors, such as soil temperature, moisture, elevation, and aspect, and biotic factors, such as plant community composition. We quantified
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Western US Residents’ Knowledge of Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Their Management on Federal Public Lands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Nicki Frey, Jeffrey L. Beck, Loretta Singletary, Laura Snell, Derek Scasta, Jessie Hadfield
Wild free-roaming (WFR) horses (Equus ferus caballus) occur on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service in 10 western US states. Little is known about public knowledge concerning management of WFR horse populations. In 2020, we conducted a survey to assess public knowledge with the intent of establishing baseline information that may be used to shape horse management
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Wyoming Big Sagebrush Transplant Survival and Growth Affected by Age, Season of Planting, and Competition Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Corinna M. Holfus, Chad S. Boyd, Roxanne C. Rios, Kirk W. Davies, Stella M. Copeland, Ricardo Mata-González
Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. wyomingensis [Beetle & A. Young] S. L. Welsh) has decreased from its historic prevalence across the sagebrush steppe in part because of its interaction with invasive annual grasses and the increased wildfire frequency. Restoration of this species is vital to the ecosystem; however, traditional seeding methods such as broadcast or drill seeding
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A Case for Adaptive Management of Rangelands’ Wicked Problems Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Jacob W. Dittel, Dana Sanchez, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Connor N. Morozumi, Ricardo Mata-González
Sagebrush-steppe restoration has long been seen as a wicked problem—each case has multifaceted problems with no universal solutions—and thus managers have had to adopt adaptive management techniques to meet ever-changing landscape demands. In this study, we characterize the efficacy of an adaptive management plan in a severely degraded sagebrush-steppe winter range habitat for mule deer for 8 yr by
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A Mediated Peer-to-Peer Prescribed Fire Outreach Program for Texas Hill Country Landowners Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Kaitlyn N. Restivo, Sanford Smith, Maureen G. Frank
Traditional range and wildlife extension programs offered to landowners and land managers provide information, knowledge, and tools for land stewardship. However, effectively educating today's landowners may require new methods. We investigated the effectiveness of the Peers and Pros 360° teaching method, which is a mediated peer-to-peer learning approach. The objective of this teaching method is to
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Growing Season Fires and Herbicide May not Be the Silver Bullet to Lespedeza cuneata Management Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Nicholas A. McMillan, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Craig A. Davis, Robert G. Hamilton
Invasive species are generally managed across rangelands to achieve livestock productivity and biodiversity maintenance objectives. The invasive legume Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don. is managed across much of the Great Plains with aerially applied herbicides that target broadleaf forbs and dormant season (late March−early April) fire. It is hypothesized that altering fire timing to the growing
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Habitat Selection of Female Rio Grande Wild Turkey Influenced by Vegetation and Anthropogenic Structures Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Allison R. Carl, David W. Londe, R. Dwayne Elmore, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Craig A. Davis
The Rio Grande wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia) is a popular game species throughout the southcentral United States. It has experienced recent population declines in some areas of its distribution, though the cause is not clear. To better understand Rio Grande wild turkey (hereafter, turkey) ecology and inform management, we attached Global Positioning System transmitters to 34 females
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Onthophagus taurus Increases Soil Microbes Associated with Nutrient Cycling in California Pastureland Soils Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Suzanne Lipton, Rachel S. Meyer, Greg Richardson, Stacy M. Philpott
When grazed intensively, grasslands can result in biodiversity loss and increased greenhouse gas emissions. However, when grasslands are maintained using agroecological practices, they can create diverse habitats and act as carbon sinks. Carbon sequestration in soil is mediated by the soil microbial community, which is largely affected by influxes of nutrients and the soil arthropod community. One
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A Revised Adaptive Decision-Making Framework for Rangeland Management Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Ada P. Smith, Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf, Alexander L. Metcalf, Laurie Yung
Rangelands across the world are facing rapid and unprecedented social and ecological change. In the US West, sustaining the ecological and economic integrity of rangelands across both public and private lands depends largely on ranchers who make adaptive decisions in the face of variability and uncertainty. In this study, we build on previous conceptualizations of adaptive decision making that situate
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Landscape Use and Activity Patterns of Feral Swine on Rangelands in North Texas Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jacob G. Harvey, Aaron B. Norris, John M. Tomeček, Caitlyn E. Cooper-Norris
Feral swine (Sus scrofa) inhabit 35 states in the United States with an estimated population of 6 million animals. The feral swine population is greatest in Texas with an estimated population of at least 2.5 million. Monitoring swine landscape use and activity patterns is the first step to understanding effects on plant communities and potential zoonotic disease spillover events with livestock. Feral
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Trojan Horse on the Great Plains: Landowner Thresholds, Coping Capacity, and Management of Kentucky Bluegrass Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kiandra Rajala, David Toledo, Michael G. Sorice
Kentucky bluegrass, an invasive cool-season grass in the US northern Great Plains, embodies the Greek story of the Trojan horse in which an apparent gift initially seems to bestow benefits but ultimately becomes harmful and subversive. Its competitive nature and early spring growth give it an advantage over native cool season grasses. This early and prolific growth provides forage for livestock but
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Evaluating Riparian Plant Communities After Restoration of Plains Bison in the Northern Great Plains of Montana Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Sze Wing Yu, Kyran E. Kunkel, Donald L. Hagan, David S. Jachowski
Restoration of plains bison (Bison bison bison) in the northern Great Plains has been controversial for a variety of reasons, including the public concern that bison will supplant cattle on public rangelands. Riparian zones are among the most biologically rich areas within rangelands, but they are highly sensitive to disturbances such as grazing, leading to the public perception that riparian vegetation
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Review of Conservation Challenges and Possible Solutions for Grassland Birds of the North American Great Plains Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jacy S. Bernath-Plaisted, Maureen D. Correll, Scott G. Somershoe, Angela M. Dwyer, Andy Bankert, Adam Beh, Humberto Berlanga, W. Alice Boyle, J. Lizardo Cruz-Romo, T. Luke George, James Herkert, Nicola Koper, Alberto Macías-Duarte, Arvind O. Panjabi, Oscar M. Ramírez-Flores, Barry Robinson, Irene Ruvalcaba-Ortega, Julie Sibbing, Erin H. Strasser, Mieke Titulaer, Tammy VerCauteren
North America's grassland birds remain in crisis despite decades of conservation efforts. This review provides an overview of factors contributing to these declines, as well as strategies and resources available to a diversity of stakeholders to help conserve grassland bird communities with an emphasis on the Great Plains—a grassland region of global ecological significance and a habitat stronghold
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Understanding the Barriers to Adoption of Mixed-Species Herbivory in the Southern Great Plains of the United States Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Saroj Adhikari, Kristin F. Hurst, Omkar Joshi
Mixed-species herbivory, along with prescribed fire, is one of the most effective ways of controlling woody plant encroachment in the southern Great Plains and comes with the added benefits of maintaining grazing efficiency and rangeland productivity. Despite its experimental stage success, most landowners in the southern Great Plains have not fully adopted mixed-species herbivory as a range management
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Managing Medusahead Using Dormant Season Grazing in the Northern Great Basin Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
The invasive annual grass, medusahead, infests rangelands throughout the West, from the Columbia Plateau to the California Annual Grasslands and the Great Basin. Dominating secondary succession in the sagebrush steppe, medusahead can degrade the habitat of threatened species such as the greater sage-grouse. This research explores the potential of dormant season grazing as an applied management strategy
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Prescribed Burning Alters Insects and Wood Decay in a Sagebrush-Steppe Rangeland in Southwestern Idaho, United States Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-17
Prescribed fall burning is commonly used worldwide on rangeland sites to enhance vegetation resources and restore disturbed ecosystems, but little is known about how it may alter microbial communities and insect activities. We used two site treatments (low- to moderate-burn severity plots and unburned control plots) at a high-elevation (2 100 m above sea level) shrub-steppe rangeland site. Four yr
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Distribution of Willows Along Streambanks of Publicly Managed Streams in the Interior Pacific Northwest Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Willows are an important component of western riparian zones as their roots stabilize streambanks, their overstory mediates stream temperature, and aquatic biota use their stems and leaves as forage and building material. We evaluated 1894 stream reaches in the Inland Pacific Northwest for the presence of willows and detected one or more willow species at 1 247 (66%) of those reaches. Most stream reaches
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Litter-Mediated Soil Alterations by Guinea Grass (Megathyrsus maximus) in Semiarid Rangelands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Invasive plants are regarded as both drivers and passengers of change in the ecosystems they invade. In both conditions, these plants are reported to cause significant changes in soil biological, physical, and chemical characteristics, which have a long-lasting impact in the invaded soils compared with the surrounding uninvaded soils. One of the mechanisms of such change is the addition of both aboveground
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Mesquites Limit Targeted Grazing Effects on Texas Wintergrass Growth and Reproduction Responses Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
In mixed C3/C4 grasslands of the southern Great Plains of North America, honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) invasion facilitates the dominance of the C3 midgrass Texas wintergrass (Nassella leucotricha [Trin. & Rupr.] Pohl) to the detriment of warm-season grasses. Little is known about the viability of targeted grazing as a treatment method for reducing Texas wintergrass biomass and reproduction
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Phenologically Targeted Grazing: A Potential Sustainable Strategy for Native Bees in Semiarid Rangelands Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Scott R. Mitchell, Sandra J. DeBano, Mary M. Rowland, Lesley R. Morris, Heidi Schmalz, Skyler Burrows, Scott B. Lukas
Rangelands may offer valuable habitat for invertebrate wildlife, helping conserve ecologically and economically significant organisms, like native bees. In some systems, livestock may affect bees by consuming or trampling blooming plants that bees rely on for food. One potential way to reduce potential negative effects of livestock on bees is to delay grazing on floristically rich parts of the landscape
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Influence of Rangeland Land Cover on Infiltration Rates, Field-Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity, and Soil Water Repellency in Southern Patagonia Rangel. Ecol. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Pedro Hervé-Fernández, R. Muñoz-Arriagada, C. Glucevic-Almonacid, L. Bahamonde-Vidal, S. Radic-Schilling
This study investigated the influence of rangeland land cover on infiltration rates (IRs), field-saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs), and soil water repellency in Patagonia. Four land cover types (shrubs, dwarf heath shrubs, bare soil, and Inter tussock) were examined to assess their effects on hydrological processes. IR was measured using the single-ring method, and soil water repellency was evaluated