Exotic brome-grasses in arid and semiarid ecosystems of the Western US : causes, consequences, and management implications /: causes, consequences, and management implications. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Exotic brome grasses in arid and semiarid ecosystems of the Western United States
• Further Information: Note: Matthew J. Germino, Jeanne C. Chambers, Cynthia S. Brown, editors.
• Editors: Germino, Matthew J; Chambers, Jeanne C; Brown, Cynthia S
• Other Names: Germino, Matthew J contributor.; Chambers, Jeanne C contributor.; Brown, Cynthia S contributor.; Allen, Edith B contributor.; Beck, Jeffrey L contributor.; Belnap, Jayne 1952- contributor.; Brooks, Matthew Lamar contributor.; Brunson, Mark W contributor.; D'Antonio, Carla Marie 1956- contributor.; Keeley, Jon E contributor.; Mack, Richard Norton 1945- contributor.; Mealor, Brian A contributor.; Monaco, Thomas A contributor.; Morisette, Jeffrey T contributor.; Pellant, Michael L contributor.; Pyke, David A contributor.; Rollins, Kimberly contributor.; Schupp, Eugene Wallace contributor.
• Contents: Part I: Environmental Impacts of Bromus Species -- Annual Brome invasions and their Impacts: Comparisons among ecoregions in the Western United States -- Impacts Impacts of Bromus tectorum and other annual bromes on ecosystem integrity -- Part II: Invasiveness of Bromus species (emphasis on biological attributes of Bromus) -- Evolutionary relationships, mating systems and genetic diversity of Bromus tectorum and other species within section Genea -- Attributes that confer invasiveness and impacts across the large Bromus genus: lessons from the Bromus REEnet database -- Part III: Understanding environmental controls and Bromus distribution (invasibility) -- Abiotic controls on annual brome distribution at the regional, landscape, local, and microsite scale -- Future range shifts of Bromus rubens and Bromus tectorum with climate change -- a review of model projections -- Community ecology of fungal pathosystems on Bromus tectorum and implications for management -- Community resistance to Bromus -- Part IV: Relating the science to human uses and restoration of western rangeland landscapes -- Interactions among fire, land uses, and invasion -- ecology and human dimensions -- Human dimensions of invasive grasses -- Economic modelling and the management of brome grasses: accounting for ecosystem dynamics, ecological thresholds, and spatial interdependencies -- State-and-transition models: conceptual vs. simulation perspectives, usefulness and breadth of use, land management applications -- Restoration and management tools for rangelands impacted by exotic bromes: new perspectives for the future -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer Science + Business Media
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 475 pages), illustrations (some color), color maps, charts (some color)
• Subjects: 363.7; Environment; Invasive plants -- Biological control -- West (U.S.); Arid regions plants -- Climatic factors -- West (U.S.); Environmental management; Bromegrasses -- West (U.S.); Bromegrasses -- Control -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.); Bromegrasses -- Climatic factors -- West (U.S.); Biodiversity; Landscape ecology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; Invasive plants -- Biological control; Arid regions plants -- Climatic factors; Bromegrasses; Environmental management; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Biodiversity; Plant ecology; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Environmental management; United States, West; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319249308; 3319249304; 3319249282; 9783319249285
• Related ISBNs: 9783319249285
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata. Updated description based on print copy (March 6, 2017).
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