A method for landscape-scale vegetation assessment: Application to Great Basin rangeland ecosystems

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 209-217

  Forbis, Tara A ^a   Provencher, Louis ^a   Turner, Lee ^b   Medlyn, Gary ^c   Thompson, Julie ^d   Jones, Gina ^b  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b Ely Bureau of Land Management ^*

^c BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^d Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological condition; Landscape ecology; Monitoring; Reference condition; Sagebrush semidesert; Thresholds; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GRASS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RANGELAND; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; SPRING VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA VASEYANA; COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; POACEAE;

EID: 34249783920     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2007)60[209:AMFLVA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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