Conservation of Pattern and Process: Developing an Alternative Paradigm of Rangeland Management

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 579-589

  Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Engle, David M ^a   Elmore, R Dwayne ^a   Limb, Ryan F ^b   Bidwell, Terrence G ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; fire; grazing; landscape ecology; pyric herbivory; shifting mosaic

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FORAGE; HERBIVORY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PARADIGM SHIFT; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 84870200207     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00109.1     Document Type: Article

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