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| 2009 | Bestelmeyer, B. T., Havstad, K. M., Damindsuren, B., Han, G., Brown, J. R., Herrick, J. E., Steele, C., Peters, D. C. 2009. Resilience theory in models of rangeland ecology and restoration: the evolution and application of a paradigm. In: Hobbs, J.J., Suding, K.N., editors. New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration. Washington, D.C., Island Press. p. 78-95. | |
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Bestelmeyer, B.T., Tugel, A., Peacock, G.L., Robinett, D., Shaver, P.L., Brown, J., Herrick, J.E., Sanchez, H. and Havstad, K.M. 2009. State-and-Transition models for heterogeneous landscapes: A strategy for development and application. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62(1):1-15. | |
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Eldridge, D.J. and Whitford, W.G. 2009. Badger (Taxidea taxus) disturbances increase soil heterogeneity in a degraded shrub-steppe ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments (73):66-73. | |
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CCSP, 2009: Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems. A report by the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
(Fagre, D.B., C.W. Charles, C.D. Allen, C. Birkeland, F.S. Chapin III, P.M.
Groffman, G.R. Guntenspergen, A.K. Knapp, A.D. McGuire, P.J. Mulholland, D.P.C. Peters, D.D. Roby, and George Sugihara). U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, 156 pp. |
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Godinez-Alvarez, H., Herrick, J.E., Mattocks, M., Toledo, D.N. and Van Zee, J.W. 2009. Comparison of three vegetation monitoring methods: Their relative utility for ecological assessment and monitoring. Ecological Indicators 9(5):1001-1008. | |
| Havstad, K. M. 2009. Essays of a peripheral mind: Picking up rocks. Rangelands 31(2):36-39. | ||
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Havstad, K. M., Peters, D. C., Allen-Diaz, B., Bestelmeyer, B. T., Briske, D., Brown, J., Brunson, M., Herrick, J. E., Johnson, P., Joyce, L., Pieper, R., Svejcar, A. J., Yao, J., Bartolome, J., Huntsinger, L. 2009. The western United States rangelands: a major resource. In: W.F. Wedin and S.L. Fales, editors. Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture. Madison, WI. Published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. 256 p. | |
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Laliberte, A. and Rango, A. 2009. Texture and scale in object-based analysis of subdecimeter resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 47(3):761-770. | |
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Noble, J., Muller, W., Whitford, W.G. and Pfitzner, G.H. 2009. The significance of termites as decomposers in contrasting grassland communities of semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 73:113-119. | |
| Okin, G.S., Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J., Herrick, J.E., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Peters, D.C. and Fredrickson, E. 2009. Do changes in connectivity explain desertification? BioScience 59(3):237-244. | ||
| D.C. Peters, B.T. Bestelmeyer, A.K. Knapp, J.E. Herrick, H. Monger, K.M. Havstad. 2009. Approaches to predicting broad-scale regime shifts using changing pattern-process relationships across scales. In: Miao, S., S. Carstenn, M. Nungesser, ecitors. Real World Ecology: Large-scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods. New York, NY: Springer. p. 47-72. | ||
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Peters, Debra, Gosz, James, Collins, Scott. 2009. Boundary Dynamics in Landscapes. In: Simon A. Levin, editor. The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press. 848 pp. | |
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Romme, W. H., Allen, C. D., Bailey, J. D., Baker, W. L., Bestelmeyer, B. T., Brown, P. M., Eisenhart, K. S., Floyd-Hanna, L., Huffman, D. W. 2009. Historical and modern distrubance regimes, strand structures, and landscape dynamics in pinon-juniper vegetation of the western United States. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62:203-222. | |
| Roth, G.A., Whitford, W.G. and Steinberger, Y. 2009. Small mammal herbivory: Feedbacks that help maintain desertified ecosystems. Journal of Arid Environments 73:62-65. | ||
| Ukabi, S., Whitford, W. G., Steinberger, Y. 2009. Faunalpedturbation effects of soil microarthropods in the Negev Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 73:907-911. | ||
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Utsumi, S.A., Cibils, A.F., Estell, R.E., Soto-Navarro, S.A. and Vanleeuwen, D. 2009. Seasonal changes in one seed juniper intake by sheep and goats in relation to dietary protein and plant secondary metabolites. Small Ruminant Research 81:152-162. | |
| Whitford, W.G. and Steinberger, Y. 2009. Harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) discriminate among artificial seeds with different protein contents. Sociobiology 53(2B):549-558. | ||
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Yan, L., Guodong, H., He, Z., Zhao, M., Snyman, H. A., Shan, D., Havstad, K. M. 2009. Grazing intensity on vegetation dynamics of a typical steppe in Northeast Inner Mongolia. Rangeland Ecology and Management (62)328-336. | |
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Angerer, J., Han, G., Fujisaki, I., and Havstad, K. M. 2008. Climate change and ecosystems of Asia with emphasis on Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Rangelands 30(3):46-51. |
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Barrow, J. R., Lucero, M. E., Reyes-Vera, K., and Havstad, K. M. 2008. Do symbiotic microbes have a role in plant evolution, performance and response to stress? Communicative and Integrative Biology 1(1):69-73. | |
| Beltran-Przekurat, A., Peilke, R. A., Peters, D. C., Snyder, K. A., and Rango, A. 2008. Modelling the effects of historical vegetation change on near-surface atmosphere in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 72:1897-1910. | ||
| Briske, D., Bestelmeyer, B. T., Stringham, T. K., and Shaver, P. L. 2008. Recommendations for development of resilience-based state-and-transition models. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61:359-367. | ||
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Briske, D. D., Derner, J. D., Brown, J. R., Fuhlendorf, S. D., Teague, W. R., Havstad, K. M., Gillen, R. L., Ash, A. J., Willms, W. D. 2008. Rotational grazing on rangelands: Reconciliation of perception and experimental evidence. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61(1):3-17. | |
| Brown, J. 2008. Carbon sequestration and sink resources in grazed lands. International Rangeland Congress. Pp. 240-247. | ||
| Brown, J. R., Thorpe, J. 2008. Climate change and rangelands: Responding rationally to uncertainty. Rangelands 30(3):3-6. | ||
| Brown, J. R. and Thorpe J. 2008. Rangelands and climate change: A synthesis and challenges. Rangelands 30(3):52-53. | ||
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Casanova, L. R. and Bestelmeyer, B. T. 2008. What can ant diversity-energy relationships tell us about land use and land change (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)? Myrmecological News 11:183-190. | |
| Chopping, M., Moisen, G., Su, L., Laliberte, A., Rango, A., Martonchik, J., and Peters, D. C. 2008. Large area mapping of southwestern forest crown cover, canopy height, and biomass using the NASA Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:2051-2063. | ||
| Chopping, M., Su, L., Rango, A., Martonchik, J. V., Peters, D. C., and Laliberte, A. 2008. Remote sensing of woody shrub cover in desert grasslands using MISR with a geometric-optical canopy reflectance model. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:19-34. | ||
| Czech, B., Heitschmidt, R., Brown, J., and Hild, A. 2008. Sustainable rangeland management, economic growth, and a cautious role for the SRM . Rangelands, 33-37. | ||
| Damdinsuren, G., Herrick, J. E., Pyde, D. A., Bestelmeyer, B. T., and Havstad, K. M. 2008. Is rangeland health relevant to Mongolia? Rangelands 30:25-29. | ||
| DeSteiguer, J. E., Brown, J. R., and Thorpe, J. 2008. Contributing to the mitigation of climate change using rangeland management. Rangelands 30(3):7-11. | ||
| Dewalle, D., and Rango, A. 2008. Principles of Snow Hydrology. 1-410 pp. | ||
| Estell, R. E., Fredrickson, E. L., Anderson, D. M., and Remmenga, M. D. 2008. Effects of cis-beta-sabinene hydrate, and monoterpene and sesquiterpene mixtures on alfalfa pellet intake by lambs. Journal of Animal Science 86:1478-1484. | ||
| Ginzburg, O., Whitford, W.G. and Steinberger, Y. 2008. Effects of harvester ant (Messor spp.) activity on soil properties and microbial communities in a Negev Desert ecosystem. Biology and Fertility of Soils (45):165-173. | ||
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Grimm, N. B., Foster, D., Groffman, P., Grove, L. M., Hopkinson, C. E., Nadelhoffer, K., Pataki, D. E., and Peters, D. C. 2008. The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(5):264-272. | |
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Havstad, K. M. 2008. Essays of a peripheral mind: Creative destruction. Rangelands 30(1):29-32. | |
| Havstad, K. M. 2008. Essays of a peripheral mind: Authentic frontier gibberish. Rangelands 30(2):39-40. | ||
| Havstad, K. M. 2008. Essays of a peripheral mind: The range problem in New Mexico. Rangelands 30(3):56-58. | ||
| Havstad, K. M., Herrick, J. E., and Tseelei, E. A. 2008. Mongolia's rangelands: Is livestock production the key to the future? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:386-391. | ||
| James, A.I., Edridge, D.J., Koen, T.B. and Whitford, W.G. 2008. Landscape position moderates how ant nests affect hydrology and soil chemsitry across a Chihuahuan Desert watershed. Landscape Ecology 23:961-975. | ||
| Knapp, A. K., Briggs, J. M., Collins, S. L., Archer, S. R., Bret-Harte, M. S., Ewers, B., Peters, D. C., Young, D., Shaver, G., and Cleary, M. B. 2008. Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: Shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology 14(3):615-623. | ||
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Lucero, M. E., Barrow, J. R., Osuna-Avila, P., Reyes-Vera I. 2008. A cryptic microbial community persists within micropropagated Bouteloua eriopoda (Torr.) Torr. cultures. Plant Science 174(6):570-575. | |
| Lucero, M. E., Barrow, J. R., Osuna, P., Reyes-Vera, I. 2008. Enhancing native grass productivity by cocultivating with endophyte-laden calli. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61(1):124-130. | ||
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Marshall, J.D., Blair, J.M.,Peters, D.C., Okin, G., Rango, A., Williams, M. 2008. Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(5):273-280. | |
| Martinec, J., Rango, A., and Roberts, R. T. 2008. Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) User's Manual. 175 pp. | ||
| Moran, M.S., Peters, D.C., McClaran, M.P., Nichols, M.H. and Adams, M.B. 2008. Long-term data collection at USDA experimental sites for studies of ecohydrology. Ecohydrology 1:377-393. | ||
| Northcott, J., Andersen, M. C., Roemer, G., Fredrickson, E. L., Demers, M., Truett, J., and Ford, P. 2008. Spatial analysis of effects of mowing and burning on colony expansion in reintroduced black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). Restoration Ecology 16:495-502. | ||
| Obeidat, S., Bai, B., Rayson, G. D., Anderson, D. M., Puscheck A. D., Landau, S. Y., and Glasser, T. 2008. A multi-source portable light emitting diode spectrofluorometer. Applied Spectroscopy 62:327-332. | ||
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Peters. 2008. Ecology in a connected world: a vision for a "network of networks”. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(5):227. | |
| Peters, D. C., Groffman, P. M.,Nadelhoffer, K. J., Grimm, N. B., Collins, S. L., Michener, W. K., Huston, M. A. 2008. Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:229-237. | ||
| Peters, D. C., Lauenroth, W. K., and Burke, I. C. 2008. The Role of Disturbances in Shortgrass Steppe Community and Ecosystem Dynamics. In: Long-Term Ecological Research in the Shortgrass Steppe. Pp. 84-118. | ||
| Peters, D. P. C., and Lauenroth, W. K. 2008. Simulation of disturbances and recovery in shortgrass steppe plant communities. In: Ecology of the Shortgrass Steepe: A Long-Term Perspective. Oxford Press, NY. pp. 119-131. | ||
| Rango, A., Laliberte, A. and Winters, C. 2008. Role of aerial phots in compiling a long-term remote sensing data set. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2(1):023541. | ||
| Rango, A., Martinec, J., and Roberts, R. T. 2008. Relative importance of glacier contributions to water supply in a changing climate. World Resource Review 20(3):487-503. | ||
| Reyes-Vera, I., Potenza, C., and Barrow, J. R. 2008. Hyperhydricity reversal and clonal propagation of fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens, Chenopodiaceae) cultivated in vitro. Australian Journal of Botany 56(4):358-362. | ||
| Rogosic, J., Estell, R. E., Ivankovic, S., Kezic, J., Razov, J. 2008. Potential mechanisms to increase shrub intake and performance of small ruminants in mediterranean shrubby ecosystems. Small Ruminant Research 74:1-15. | ||
| Romme, W. H., Allen, C. D., Bailey, J. D., Baker, W. L., Bestelmeyer, B. T., Brown, P. M., Eisenhart, K. S., Floyd-Hanna, L., and Huffman, D. W. 2008. Historical and Modern Disturbances Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Pinon-Juniper Vegetation of the Western U.S. Ecological Applications. 35 pp. | ||
| Schwager, M., Deweiler, C., Vasilescu, L., Anderson, D. M., Rus, D. 2008. Data-driven identification of group dynamics for motion prediction and control. Journal of Field Robotics 25(6-7):305-324. | ||
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