- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
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Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush: an Introduction to the Landscape
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Chapter One Historical Development, Principal Federal Legislation, and Current Management of Sagebrush Habitats: Implications for Conservation -
Chapter Two The Legal Status of Greater Sage-Grouse: Organizational Structure of Planning Efforts -
Chapter Three Characteristics and Dynamics of Greater Sage-Grouse Populations -
Chapter Four Characteristics of Greater Sage-Grouse Habitats: A Landscape Species at Micro-and Macroscales -
Chapter Five Molecular Insights into the Biology of Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Six Predation on Greater Sage-Grouse: Facts, Process, and Effects -
Chapter Seven Harvest Management for Greater Sage-Grouse: A Changing Paradigm for Game Bird Management -
Chapter Eight Parasites and Infectious Diseases of Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Nine West Nile Virus Ecology in Sagebrush Habitat and Impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse Populations -
Chapter Ten Characteristics of Sagebrush Habitats and Limitations to Long-Term Conservation -
Chapter Eleven Pre-Euro-American and Recent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems -
Chapter Twelve Ecological Influence and Pathways of Land Use in Sagebrush -
Chapter Thirteen Influences of the Human Footprint on Sagebrush Landscape Patterns: Implications for Sage-Grouse Conservation -
Chapter Fourteen Influences of Free-Roaming Equids on Sagebrush Ecosystems, with a Focus on Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Fifteen Greater Sage-Grouse Population Dynamics and Probability of Persistence -
Chapter Sixteen Connecting Pattern and Process in Greater Sage-Grouse Populations and Sagebrush Landscapes -
Chapter Seventeen Influences of Environmental and Anthropogenic Features on Greater Sage-Grouse Populations, 1997–2007 -
Chapter Eighteen Factors Associated with Extirpation of Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Nineteen Greater Sage-Grouse as an Umbrella Species for Shrubland Passerine Birds: A Multiscale Assessment -
Chapter Twenty Energy Development and Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Twenty-One Energy Development and Conservation Tradeoffs: Systematic Planning for Greater Sage-Grouse in their Eastern Range -
Chapter Twenty-Two Response of Greater Sage-Grouse to the Conservation Reserve Program in Washington State -
Chapter Twenty-Three Restoring and Rehabilitating Sagebrush Habitats -
Chapter Twenty-Four Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse: A Synthesis of Current Trends and Future Management - Literature Cited
- Index
- Studies in Avian Biology
Pre-Euro-American and Recent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems
Pre-Euro-American and Recent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems
- Chapter:
- (p.185) Chapter Eleven Pre-Euro-American and Recent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems
- Source:
- Greater Sage-Grouse
- Author(s):
William L. Baker
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems are under threat from a variety of land uses, disturbance, and invasive species, and are also thought by some to have been affected by fire exclusion and require burning as a part of restoration. To better understand the historical range of variation (HRV) of fire in sagebrush ecosystems and whether sagebrush fire regimes today have too much or too little fire, a study was conducted to estimate fire rotation (expected time to burn the area of a landscape) in sagebrush ecosystems under the HRV. Landscape dynamics under the HRV were likely dominated in all sagebrush areas by infrequent episodes of large, high-severity fires followed by long interludes with smaller, patchier fires, allowing mature sagebrush to dominate for extended periods. Fire rotation, estimated from recent fire records, suggests that fire exclusion had little effect on fire in sagebrush ecosystems. Instead, cheatgrass, human-set fires, and global warming may have led to too much fire relative to the HRV in four floristic provinces within the range of sagebrush in the western United States.
Keywords: Artemisia, fires, fire exclusion, fire rotation, landscape dynamics, sagebrush, sagebrush ecosystems, historical range of variation, cheatgrass, global warming
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
-
Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush: an Introduction to the Landscape
-
Chapter One Historical Development, Principal Federal Legislation, and Current Management of Sagebrush Habitats: Implications for Conservation -
Chapter Two The Legal Status of Greater Sage-Grouse: Organizational Structure of Planning Efforts -
Chapter Three Characteristics and Dynamics of Greater Sage-Grouse Populations -
Chapter Four Characteristics of Greater Sage-Grouse Habitats: A Landscape Species at Micro-and Macroscales -
Chapter Five Molecular Insights into the Biology of Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Six Predation on Greater Sage-Grouse: Facts, Process, and Effects -
Chapter Seven Harvest Management for Greater Sage-Grouse: A Changing Paradigm for Game Bird Management -
Chapter Eight Parasites and Infectious Diseases of Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Nine West Nile Virus Ecology in Sagebrush Habitat and Impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse Populations -
Chapter Ten Characteristics of Sagebrush Habitats and Limitations to Long-Term Conservation -
Chapter Eleven Pre-Euro-American and Recent Fire in Sagebrush Ecosystems -
Chapter Twelve Ecological Influence and Pathways of Land Use in Sagebrush -
Chapter Thirteen Influences of the Human Footprint on Sagebrush Landscape Patterns: Implications for Sage-Grouse Conservation -
Chapter Fourteen Influences of Free-Roaming Equids on Sagebrush Ecosystems, with a Focus on Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Fifteen Greater Sage-Grouse Population Dynamics and Probability of Persistence -
Chapter Sixteen Connecting Pattern and Process in Greater Sage-Grouse Populations and Sagebrush Landscapes -
Chapter Seventeen Influences of Environmental and Anthropogenic Features on Greater Sage-Grouse Populations, 1997–2007 -
Chapter Eighteen Factors Associated with Extirpation of Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Nineteen Greater Sage-Grouse as an Umbrella Species for Shrubland Passerine Birds: A Multiscale Assessment -
Chapter Twenty Energy Development and Greater Sage-Grouse -
Chapter Twenty-One Energy Development and Conservation Tradeoffs: Systematic Planning for Greater Sage-Grouse in their Eastern Range -
Chapter Twenty-Two Response of Greater Sage-Grouse to the Conservation Reserve Program in Washington State -
Chapter Twenty-Three Restoring and Rehabilitating Sagebrush Habitats -
Chapter Twenty-Four Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse: A Synthesis of Current Trends and Future Management - Literature Cited
- Index
- Studies in Avian Biology
