Browsing by Subject "woody plant encroachment"
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(2012-07-16)Woody plant encroachment is a globally-prevalent vegetation change phenomenon that has shifted grass-dominated ecosystems to mixed grass and woody plant matrices over the last century. In the Rio Grande Plains of Texas, ...
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(2019-11-20)Evapotranspiration (ET) drives the energy and mass exchanges between ground and atmosphere. Partitioning of ET into evaporation from both bare soil (E) and vegetation interception (I) and plant transpiration (T) is essential ...
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(2011-08-08)Historically, rangelands were managed to reduce brush and increase livestock grazing habitat. As with much of the southwestern United States, the seemingly endless ―free grass‖ of Texas rangelands was overgrazed during the ...
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(2014-12-15)Reducing brush has been a major goal of rangeland restoration because of increases in densities of native woody plants in recent decades. However, land managers attempting restoration are faced with diverse socio-economic ...
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(2021-07-08)Woody plant encroachment (WPE) reduces ecosystem services and economic benefits obtained from rangelands. Prescribed fire disturbance regimes have been identified as an ecologically and economically viable management ...
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(2018-03-01)Recent global trends of woody encroachment into grass-dominated ecosystems have substantially altered soil biogeochemical cycles. However, previous studies were mostly conducted at the ecosystem level and results were not ...