Rangeland Ecosystem Goods and Services: Values and Evaluation of
                        Opportunities for Ranchers and Land Managers

Maczko, Kristie A.; Tanaka, John; Breckenridge, Robert P.

doi:10.2458/azu_rangelands_v33i5_maczko

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“…We demonstrate that it is possible to quantify in dollars rangeland EGS from each of these three categories using economic methods applied to a scientifically valid ecological framework that focuses on transitions between states. In so doing, we add support to the argument by Maczko et al 5 that monetizing the diverse benefits that flow from rangeland ecological processes is technically feasible and should be on the agenda of applied agricultural and resource economists.…”

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“…Maczko et al 5 describe three categories of rangeland EGS. "Tangible extracted goods" are defined as productive inputs, such as forage, food, and fiber, which become available through extractive economic activities and are then combined with other inputs to generate goods with market value.…”

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“…All three projects quantify the economic benefits of EBIPM in terms of improvements in each of the three categories of rangeland EGS described in Maczko et al: 5 1) "tangible extracted goods." such as forage for livestock; 2) "tangible in situ services (and disservices)."…”

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The Economics of EBIPM on Great Basin Rangelands

Rollins

Taylor

2012

Rangelands

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The Economics of EBIPM on Great Basin Rangelands

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Taylor

2012

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“…The sagebrush steppe ecosystem provides many valuable ecosystem services, including wildlife habitat for rare species, food, water infiltration, carbon sequestration, and recreation (Maczko et al. ). Thus, understanding the relative importance of drivers of community structure could have direct implications for the management of this system and the types and quantities of services provided.…”

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Relative importance of abiotic, biotic, and disturbance drivers of plant community structure in the sagebrush steppe

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Bakker

Vincent

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Abiotic conditions, biotic factors, and disturbances can act as filters that control community structure and composition. Understanding the relative importance of these drivers would allow us to understand and predict the causes and consequences of changes in community structure. We used long-term data (1989-2002) from the sagebrush steppe in the state of Washington, USA, to ask three questions: (1) What are the key drivers of community-level metrics of community structure? (2) Do community-level metrics and functional groups differ in magnitude or direction of response to drivers of community structure? (3) What is the relative importance of drivers of community structure? The vegetation in 2002 was expressed as seven response variables: three community-level metrics (species richness, total cover, compositional change from 1989 to 2002) and the relative abundances of four functional groups. We used a multi-model inference framework to identify a set of top models for each response metric beginning from a global model that included two abiotic drivers, six disturbances, a biotic driver (initial plant community), and interactions between the disturbance and biotic drivers. We also used a permutational relative variable importance metric to rank the influence of drivers. Moisture availability was the most important driver of species richness and of native forb cover. Fire was the most important driver of shrub cover and training area usage was important for compositional change, but disturbances, including grazing, were of secondary importance for most other variables. Biotic drivers, as represented by the initial plant communities, were the most important driver for total cover and for the relative covers of exotics and native grasses. Our results indicate that the relative importance of drivers is dependent on the choice of metric, and that drivers such as disturbance and initial plant community can interact.

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“…Good condition (i.e., minimal invasive grasses and a robust native herbaceous understory) ecosystem patches of Wyoming big sagebrush are increasingly recognized as critical for sage grouse ❖ www.esajournals.org habitat as well as for the multitude of other goods and services provided by these ecosystems (Maczko et al 2011). These areas likely have more post-fire resilience and resistance to invasive species (Wrobleski and Kauffman 2003, Chambers et al 2014b) than that often described for the xeric end of the sagebrush steppe (Brooks et al 2004(Brooks et al , 2015.…”

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Ecosystem resilience is evident 17 years after fire in Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems

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Abstract. Recent policy has focused on prevention of wildfire in the sagebrush steppe in an effort to protect habitat for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Historically, fire return intervals in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis) ecosystems were 50-100 yr or more, but invasive species, climate change, and a legacy of intensive grazing practices have led to degraded rangeland condition, altered fire regimes and fire effects, and declines in sagebrush cover. Little is known about the long-term impacts of fire in this ecosystem in areas where grazing pressure has been removed, few invasive species exist, and fire return intervals are maintained. In this study, we quantified vegetation composition prior to prescribed burning, 1 year following fire, and 17 years after fire in a native-dominated Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystem at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon, United States. Seventeen years following fire, the ecosystem was dominated by native herbaceous vegetation, with 8.3% cover of broad-leaved forbs and bunchgrasses in the understory, compared to just 3.8% cover of native herbaceous vegetation in unburned controls. Invasive annual grass cover ranged from 0.2% to 8.4% across all treatments and years (P = 0.56). One year following fire, the distance from a randomly located point and the nearest mature sagebrush was 16.6 m, but by 17 years after the fire, that distance had decreased to 2.5 m. Seventeen years after fires, shrub cover was 0.4-4% in burned plots compared to 13-24% in unburned controls. Collectively, these data demonstrate that good condition ungrazed Wyoming big sagebrush plant communities exhibited resilience following fire and maintained a native-dominated mosaic of shrubs, bunchgrasses, and forbs. Further, unburned control plots were dominated by woody vegetation and exhibited losses in herbaceous understory, possibly indicating that they are outside of their natural fire return interval. Our results illustrate that management of all habitat components, including natural disturbance and a mosaic of successional stages, is important for persistent resilience and that suppression of all fires in the sagebrush steppe may create long-term losses of heterogeneity in good condition Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems.

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Rangeland Ecosystem Goods and Services: Values and Evaluation of Opportunities for Ranchers and Land Managers

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The Economics of EBIPM on Great Basin Rangelands

The Economics of EBIPM on Great Basin Rangelands

Relative importance of abiotic, biotic, and disturbance drivers of plant community structure in the sagebrush steppe

Ecosystem resilience is evident 17 years after fire in Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems

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