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

298 Brooks ML, Belnap J, Brown CS et al (2015) Exotic annual Bromus invasions - comparisons among species and ecoregions in the ...

299 DeFalco LA, Bryla DR, Smith-Longozo V et al (2003) Are Mojave Desert annual species equal? Resource acquisition and allocati ...

300 Harper KT, Marble JR (1988) A role for nonvascular plants in management of arid and semiarid rangelands. In: Tueller PT (ed) ...

301 Kotanen PM, Bergelson J, Hazlett DL (1998) Habitats of native and exotic plants in Colorado shortgrass steppe: a comparative ...

302 semiarid ecosystems of the Western USA: causes, consequences, and management implica- tions. Springer, New York, NY (Chapter ...

303 Pyke DA (1987) Demographic responses of Bromus tectorum and seedlings of Agropyron spica- tum to grazing by small mammals: t ...

304 Wikeem B, Pitt M (1992) Diet of California bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis californiana , in British Columbia: assessing opti ...

Part IV Relating the Science to Human Uses and Restoration of Western Rangeland Landscapes ...

307 Chapter 11 Land Uses, Fire, and Invasion: Exotic Annual Bromus and Human Dimensions David A. Pyke , Jeanne C. Chambers , Jef ...

308 preparation for revegetation in most ecosystems where Bromus is a signifi cant problem. Once Bromus dominates, breaking annu ...

309 Over the last century and a half, Bromus has colonized, established, and become dominant over large expanses of the western ...

310 needs are focused on gaining a better understanding of early-warning indicators for effective adaptive management of land us ...

311 to fi re as infl uenced by the reference communities’ fi re regime without Bromus (Brooks et al. 2015 ). Ecoregions with the ...

312 levels exceed Bromus tolerances on the cold and wet end of the climate spectrum (Fig. 2.2 in Brooks et al. 2015 ). Land uses ...

313 sensitive to browsing, were likely reduced when wildlife populations were high and Native American populations were low resu ...

314 lands. These acts gave federal lands for settlement and required farming or ranching on a portion of those lands, but restri ...

315 both never cultivated and previously cultivated areas, but noted their result was an anomaly relative to similar studies in ...

316 free forage on many of their lands. However, Bromus species are not represented as part of the minimum standards for weed-fr ...

317 new standards for rangelands that followed recommendations of a National Academy panel of experts (National Research Council ...

318 The geographic center of evolution for the Bromus species that are invasive in the Western USA is between the Middle East an ...