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

400 With the existing data available to land managers and the STSM framework as a tool to investigate alternative scenarios and ...

401 PDSI becomes smaller (more evapotranspiration). The coefficients 1.5 and −0.15 are fitting constants we iteratively selected ...

402 Annual Grass Invasion and Tree Invasion Disturbances The temporal multipliers for invasive annual grass expansion and tree e ...

403 where MaxFire = 1547 hectares and is 10 % of the area sum of all shrubland–wood- land ecological systems. Equation 13.6 comb ...

404 Briske DD, Bestelmeyer BT, Stringham TK et al (2008) Recommendations for development of resilience-based state-and-transitio ...

405 Halofsky JE, Hemstrom MA, Conklin DR et al (2013) Assessing potential climate change effects on vegetation using a linked mo ...

406 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (1969) Enacted by the senate and house of representa- tives of the United States of ...

407 Taylor AH, Beaty RM (2005) Climatic influences on fire regimes in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Lake Tahoe Basin, Ne ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 409 M.J. Germino et al. (eds.), Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid E ...

410 the costs of a species’ continued presence and spread—including not only eco- nomic impacts but also less easily quantifi ed ...

411 14.2 Beliefs , Attitudes , and Behaviors A common topic for researchers who study the human dimensions of natural resource m ...

412 14.2.1 Beliefs about Exotic Invasive Plants and Management Options Some scholars have argued that exotic invasive species im ...

413 moderate to severe problem, and just 6 % felt it was not at all a problem. The extent to which ranchers perceived B. tectoru ...

414 agreed than disagreed. However, he also found that respondents believed control should only be attempted if the control meth ...

415 and wildfi re pose threats to rangelands. They also were more likely to hold utilitarian versus protectionist values toward ...

416 Another approach to measuring attitude change is to assess attitudes expressed by the same individuals at two points in time ...

417 those interested in education also tended to be more knowledgeable, with at least one university degree; those interested in ...

418 policy scientists and sociologists also have provided valuable insights that help us understand the human dimensions of inva ...

419 product that can directly or indirectly injure or cause damage to crops (including nursery stock or plant products), livesto ...

420 for example, a publication downloaded in February 2014 from the University of Missouri Extension website notes that B. inerm ...