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29 June 2021 Annual and 16-Day Rangeland Production Estimates for the Western United States
Matthew O. Jones, Nathaniel P. Robinson, David E. Naugle, Jeremy D. Maestas, Matthew C. Reeves, Robert W. Lankston, Brady W. Allred
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Abstract

Rangeland production is a foundational ecosystem service and resource on which livestock, wildlife, and people depend. Capitalizing on recent advancements in the use of remote sensing data across rangelands, we provide estimates of herbaceous rangeland production from 1986 to 2019 at 16-d and annual time steps and 30-m resolution across the western United States. A factorial comparison of this dataset and three national scale datasets is presented, and we highlight a multiple-lines-of-evidence approach when using production estimates in decision making. Herbaceous aboveground biomass at this scale and resolution provides critical information applicable for management and decision making, particularly in the face of annual grass invasion and woody encroachment of rangeland systems. These readily available data remove analytical and technological barriers allowing immediate utilization for monitoring and management.

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Range Management. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Matthew O. Jones, Nathaniel P. Robinson, David E. Naugle, Jeremy D. Maestas, Matthew C. Reeves, Robert W. Lankston, and Brady W. Allred "Annual and 16-Day Rangeland Production Estimates for the Western United States," Rangeland Ecology and Management 77(1), 112-117, (29 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2021.04.003
Received: 16 November 2020; Accepted: 12 April 2021; Published: 29 June 2021
KEYWORDS
biomass
conservation
forage
primary productivity
production
rangeland management
remote sensing
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