Keyword: rangeland

Selecting native plants for restoration using rapid screening for adaptive traits: Methods and outcomes in a Great Basin case study

Partnerships between researchers and restoration practitioners can improve restoration outcomes, which is especially important for restoration in challenging settings. Here, we describe one such partnership in the Great Basin, United States, which used trait‐based methods and practitioner knowledge to identify the most promising seed sources for restoration.

An assessment of production trends on the Great Plains from 1984 to 2017

Throughout the Great Plains, aboveground annual net primary productivity (ANPP) is a critical ecosystem service supporting billions of dollars of commerce and countless stakeholders. Managers and producers struggle with high interannual change in ANPP, which often varies 40% between years due to fluctuating precipitation and drought.

Aerial color and color infrared photography - some applications and problems for grazing resource inventories

Rangelands in the contiguous United States include over 1 billion acres that are not suitable for cultivated crop production. These lands, however, produce native forage for domestic and wild grazing animals. They also provide recreational and intangible natural beauty benefits and circumscribe the drainages of many river systems from which domestic and commercial water supplies are derived.

Identification and measurement of shrub type vegetation of large-scale aerial photographs

Important range-shrub species were identified at acceptable levels of accuracy on large-scale (1:600 to 1:1,500) 70 mm color and color infrared aerial photographs (positive transparencies). Identification of individual shrubs was significantly higher, however, on color infrared. Eight of 11 species were identified correctly more than 80 percent of the time on color infrared and two species were correctly identified 100 percent of the time.