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

441 rangeland that has been invaded by exotic annual invasive grasses, lower trea tment costs and/or improved treatment success ...

442 rangeland ecology with economic models. This approach is used by Epanchin-Niell et al. ( 2009 ) and Taylor et al. ( 2013a ). ...

443 cost savings associated with rehabilitation are not suffi cient to justify the high per acre treatment costs and low restora ...

444 contains a variety of approaches to spatial bio-economic modeling of landscape- level economic decision-making problems that ...

445 and alternative suites of management actions for each location. For large landscapes, the process of measuring benefi t–cost ...

446 15.5.2 Spatial Interdependency of Biophysical Processes Spatial interdependencies in exotic annual invasive grass management ...

447 and Cacho and Hester ( 2011 ) use simulation models to compare decision heuristics about where to search for and control a r ...

448 effi cacy by reducing the rates of local reinvasion, and inducing control by a wider set of managers (Wilen 2007 ; Fenichel ...

449 how private decision-makers are likely to adjust their management in response to counterfactual changes in policy and to eva ...

450 15.6.2 Roles for Incentives and Coordination to Enhance Management Existing studies suggest how to design public programs an ...

451 15.7 Research Needs This fi nal section of the chapter discusses areas where further research into the eco- nomics of Bromus ...

452 Further work is needed that compares the performance of ranch-level models that assume profi t maximization and perfect for ...

453 whether strategic interactions between neighboring decision-makers can result in ineffi ciently low levels of Bromus managem ...

454 Brock W, Starrett DA (2003) Non-convexities in ecological management problems. Environ Resour Econ 26:575–602 Buhle ER, Marg ...

455 Hyytiainen K, Lehtiniemi M, Niemi JK et al (2013) An optimization framework for addressing aquatic invasive species. Ecol Ec ...

456 Taylor M, Rollins K, Kobayashi M et al (2013a) The economics of fuel management: wildfi re, invasive plants, and the evoluti ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 457 M.J. Germino et al. (eds.), Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid E ...

458 Bio-economic models development , 430 simulation and optimization , 430 Biological crusts , 291–292 Biological invasions and ...

459 investigations , 218 landscape-level approach , 220 life cyle , 216 litter dynamics , 218 management implications , 219–220 ...

460 Climate change ( cont. ) semiarid ecosystems , 262 snowmelt/spring rains , 262 wet winter/spring conditions , 262 GAP analys ...