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

421 Weed programs can take on various organizational structures. Working alongside federal and state government entities and gra ...

422 activities. Strategies that directly engage learners, either through active participation or involvement in discussion, have ...

423 because of the role these species play in increasing the size, frequency, and intensity of wildfi res. The research describe ...

424 A factor that strongly infl uences citizen support for invasive plant management strategies is their trust in the organizati ...

425 nonmonetary rewards and to fi nd employees who enjoy working with citizens to achieve mutual goals. One benefi t of working ...

426 invasive by some scientists and managers while it continues to be recommended for planting by others. Further research is ne ...

427 Didier EA, Brunson MW (2004) Adoption of range management innovations by Utah ranchers. J Range Manag 57:330–336 DiEnno CM, ...

428 Pimentel D, Zuniga R, Morrison D (2005) Update on the environmental and economic costs asso- ciated with alien-invasive spec ...

429 Chapter 15 Economic Modeling and the Management of Exotic Annual Bromus Species: Accounting for Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecologic ...

430 Keywords Economics • Policy • Bromus tectorum • Invasive species • Invasive plant management 15.1 Introduction Public and pr ...

431 objective, and uncertainty about future economic and ecological conditions. The discussion examines how previous studies hav ...

432 The studies reviewed here, as well as in economics in general, use mathematics to defi ne a decision-maker’s objective funct ...

433 decision-maker forms expectations about the outcomes of his or her actions given uncertain future ecological and market cond ...

434 (i.e., the near future is discounted at a higher rate than the more distant future) pro- vides a more accurate description o ...

435 grasses because ecological thresholds, spatial dynamics, and other factors compli- cate the mathematical description of the ...

436 solutions because of their mathematical complexity. In addition, SDP offers a more tractable approach than OC alone for acco ...

437 to quantitatively match observed ranch outcomes and have typically used livestock stocking rates and the intensity of rangel ...

438 probability of a dispersal event occurring at a given point in time, originating from an infested site and spreading to an u ...

439 the ir experience, knowledge, and judgment. For example, one manager may think of a specifi c infestation as “minimal,” whil ...

440 eutrophication of freshwater lakes (Carpenter et al. 1999 ; Naevdal 2001 ; Brock and Starrett 2003 ; Mäler et al. 2003 ), in ...