Great Basin land management planning using ecological modeling

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-83

  Forbis, Tara A ^a   Provencher, Louis ^a   Frid, Leonardo ^b   Medlyn, Gary ^c  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b ESSA Technologies Ltd   (Canada)

^c Elko Field Office Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Federal lands; Grazing management; Great Basin; Prescribed fire; Rangeland; Resilience; Thresholds; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESTORATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VEGETATION;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FEDERAL LANDS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GREAT BASIN; PRESCRIBED FIRE; RANGELAND; RESILIENCE; THRESHOLDS; WILDFIRE;

LAND USE;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FIRE; GRAZING; LAND USE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SPECIES INVASION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PLANTS; UNITED STATES;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744737009     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0089-2     Document Type: Article

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