A holistic strategy for adaptive land management

Duniway, Michael C.; Pyke, David A.; Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.; Wills, Skye; Brown, Joel R.; Karl, Jason W.; Havstad, Kris M.

doi:10.2489/jswc.67.4.105a

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“…Monitoring and adaptive management: Monitoring programs designed to track ecosystem changes in response to both stressors and management actions can be used to increase understanding of ecosystem resilience and resistance, realign management approaches and treatments, and implement adaptive management (Reever-Morghan et al 2006;Herrick et al 2012). Information is increasing on likely changes in sagebrush ecosystems with additional stress and climate warming, but a large degree of uncertainty still exits.…”

Section: Steps In the Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preemergence Control of Nine Invasive Weeds with Aminocyclopyrachlor, Aminopyralid, and Indaziflam

Sebastian

Nissen

Sebastian³

et al. 2017

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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This Report provides a strategic approach for conservation of sagebrush ecosystems and Greater SageGrouse (sage-grouse) that focuses specifically on habitat threats caused by invasive annual grasses and altered fire regimes. It uses information on factors that influence (1) sagebrush ecosystem resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses and (2) distribution, relative abundance, and persistence of sage-grouse populations to develop management strategies at both landscape and site scales. A sage-grouse habitat matrix links relative resilience and resistance of sagebrush ecosystems with sage-grouse habitat requirements for landscape cover of sagebrush to help decision makers assess risks and determine appropriate management strategies at landscape scales. Focal areas for management are assessed by overlaying matrix components with sage-grouse Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs), breeding bird densities, and specific habitat threats. Decision tools are discussed for determining the suitability of focal areas for treatment and the most appropriate management treatments.

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Section: Steps In the Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preemergence Control of Nine Invasive Weeds with Aminocyclopyrachlor, Aminopyralid, and Indaziflam

Sebastian

Nissen

Sebastian³

et al. 2017

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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“…As a result, these models largely failed to account for how changes in soil properties and especially soil hydrology can accelerate and even precede more visible changes in plant community composition (see "Developing and measuring soil indicators" below). Land health necessarily requires a broader and more holistic focus (Herrick et al 2012). …”

Section: Monitoring Land Health Instead Of Land Usesmentioning

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Monitoring Protocols: Options, Approaches, Implementation, Benefits

Karl

Pyke²

2017

Rangeland Systems

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Monitoring and adaptive management are fundamental concepts to rangeland management across land management agencies and embodied as best management practices for private landowners. Historically, rangeland monitoring was limited to determining impacts or maximizing the potential of specific land uses-typically grazing. Over the past several decades, though, the uses of and disturbances to rangelands have increased dramatically against a backdrop of global climate change that adds uncertainty to predictions of future rangeland conditions. Thus, today's monitoring needs are more complex (or multidimensional) and yet still must be reconciled with the realities of costs to collect requisite data. However, conceptual advances in rangeland ecology and management and changes in natural resource policies and societal values over the past 25 years have facilitated new approaches to monitoring that can support rangeland management's diverse information needs. Additionally, advances in sensor technologies and remote-sensing techniques have broadened the suite of rangeland attributes that can be monitored and the temporal and spatial scales at which they can be monitored. We review some of the conceptual and technological advancements and provide examples of how they have influenced rangeland monitoring. We then discuss implications of these developments for rangeland management and highlight what we see as challenges and opportunities for implementing effective rangeland monitoring. We conclude with a vision for how monitoring can contribute to rangeland information needs in the future.

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“…Furthermore, agencies tasked with managing rangelands for multiple ecosystem functions often require these data pre, post, and during the growing season, particularly for wildlife habitat assessment (Dechant et al 2002;Fisher and Davis 2010;Herrick et al 2012). Managers in North and South Dakota, USA, typically manually measure canopy height in autumn after cattle are removed to evaluate the remaining canopy structure important to rare and threatened avian species.…”

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Prediction of senescent rangeland canopy structural attributes with airborne hyperspectral imagery

Phillips

West

Saliendra

et al. 2013

GIScience & Remote Sensing

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Canopy structural and chemical data are needed for senescent, mixed-grass prairie landscapes in autumn; yet data-driven models are lacking for rangelands dominated by non-photosynthetically active vegetation (NPV). We report how field data and aerial hyperspectral imagery were modeled to predict canopy attributes post growing-season using two approaches: (1) application of narrow spectral regions with Vegetation Indices (VIs) and (2) application of the full spectrum with Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR). Analyses of the full spectrum using PLSR resulted in slightly lower root-mean-square error of prediction, as compared to VIs, which represent reflectance ratios for specific spectral bands.

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A holistic strategy for adaptive land management

Cited by 33 publications

References 43 publications

Preemergence Control of Nine Invasive Weeds with Aminocyclopyrachlor, Aminopyralid, and Indaziflam

Preemergence Control of Nine Invasive Weeds with Aminocyclopyrachlor, Aminopyralid, and Indaziflam

Monitoring Protocols: Options, Approaches, Implementation, Benefits

Prediction of senescent rangeland canopy structural attributes with airborne hyperspectral imagery

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