Rangeland resilience is influenced by a variety of ecosystem properties that fall into two broad categories, 1) abiotic and 2) biotic.
Although important to consider in land management planning, abiotic properties cannot be directly influenced with management. In contrast, biotic properties of the ecosystem can be readily influenced by management.
The formula for robust biotic resilience to wildfire and resistance to invasive annual grasses in the northern Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem is about maintaining and promoting perennial bunchgrasses.
The management system must be resilient if we hope to promote ecosystem resilience in an everchanging risk, seedling recruitment, and recovery environment. A successful strategy for promoting ecosystem resilience will require securing a resilient management system, and a shift in paradigm from random acts of opportunistic restoration to a sustained, organized, process-based approach for promoting ecosystem resilience.
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24 June 2022
Ratcheting up Resilience in the Northern Great Basin
Dustin Johnson,
Chad Boyd,
Rory C. O'Connor,
Dustin Smith
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Rangelands
Vol. 44 • No. 3
June 2022
Vol. 44 • No. 3
June 2022
adaptive management
degraded sagebrush
invasive annual grass
perennial bunchgrasses
resilience
sagebrush rangeland