Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US

Springer Series on Environmental Management Matthew J. Germino Jeanne C. Chambers Cynthia S. Brown Editors Exotic Brome- Grasses ...

Springer Series on Environmental Management Series Editors Robert W. Howarth Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolu ...

The Springer Series on Environmental Management is concerned with humanity’s stewardship of the environment, our use of natural ...

Matthew J. Germino • Jeanne C. Chambers Cynthia S. Brown Editors Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Wes ...

ISSN 0172- Springer Series on Environmental Management ISBN 978-3-319-24928-5 ISBN 978-3-319-24930-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-3 ...

v Contents 1 Introduction: Exotic Annual Bromus in the Western USA ................. 1 Matthew J. Germino , Jeanne C. Chambers , ...

vi Part III Understanding Environmental Controls and Bromus Distribution (Invasibility of Landscapes by Bromus) 8 Soil Moisture ...

vii Contributors Edith B. Allen Department of Botany and Plant Sciences , University of California, Riverside , Riverside , CA , ...

viii Mark Eiswerth Department of Economics , University of Northern Colorado , Greeley , CO , USA Rebecca Epanchin-Niell Resourc ...

ix Benjamin M. Rau US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service , Southern Research Station , Aiken , SC , USA Kimberly Rollins ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 1 M.J. Germino et al. (eds.), Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Eco ...

2 1.1 The Spectrum of Exotic Annual Bromus Exotic annual grass invasions are transforming arid and semiarid landscapes world- wi ...

3 and the ma ny attempts by managers to control them, their spread and impacts con- tinue. It is noteworthy that much of the eco ...

4 Thomsen 2004 ). The environmental factors and ecosystem attributes that determine resilience of native ecosystems to stress an ...

5 attributes used to develop the ecological site descriptions and state-and-transition models that are increasingly used by mana ...

6 logical traits conferring invasiveness among all Bromus species using a database approach that incorporates many types of info ...

7 essential part of solving the ever-growing problem of Bromus invasions and the spread of annual grasses globally. Acknowledgme ...

Part I Environmental Impacts of Bromus Species ...

11 Chapter 2 Exotic Annual Bromus Invasions: Comparisons Among Species and Ecoregions in the Western United States Matthew L. Br ...

12 conceptual framework that can be used to evaluate the relative potential for invasion and ecological impact of the dominant e ...