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A Technique for Estimating Rangeland Canopy-Gap Size Distributions From High-Resolution Digital Imagery

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A hybrid approach for predictive soil property mapping using conventional soil survey data

scientific article published in July 2020

A test of critical thresholds and their indicators in a desertification-prone ecosystem: more resilience than we thought

scientific article

Adapting management to a changing world: Warm temperatures, dry soil, and interannual variability limit restoration success of a dominant woody shrub in temperate drylands

scholarly article

Addressing barriers to improve biocrust colonization and establishment in dryland restoration

Scientific article published in November 2019

An alternative to soil taxonomy for describing key soil characteristics

article by Michael C. Duniway et al published December 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Assessing Impacts of Roads: Application of a Standard Assessment Protocol

article by Michael C. Duniway & Jeffrey E. Herrick published May 2013 in Rangeland Ecology and Management

Assessing Transportation Infrastructure Impacts on Rangelands: Test of a Standard Rangeland Assessment Protocol

article by Michael C. Duniway et al published September 2010 in Rangeland Ecology and Management

Assessing vegetation recovery from energy development using a dynamic reference approach

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Assessment of rangeland ecosystem conditions in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona

scientific article published in 2020

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2018

Biocrust and the soil surface: Influence of climate, disturbance, and biocrust recovery on soil surface roughness

scientific article

Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2023

Bridging the research-management gap: landscape science in practice on public lands in the western United States

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Carbonates: Water and

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

scientific article

Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands.

scientific article

Cross-system comparisons elucidate disturbance complexities and generalities

scientific article published in 2011

Decline in biological soil crust N-fixing lichens linked to increasing summertime temperatures

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

scientific article

Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

scientific article published in 2015

Digital Soil Mapping in the Absence of Field Training Data: A Case Study Using Terrain Attributes and Semiautomated Soil Signature Derivation to Distinguish Ecological Potential

Disturbance automated reference toolset (DART): Assessing patterns in ecological recovery from energy development on the Colorado Plateau

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Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem

scientific article published in 2021

Ecohydrological role of biological soil crusts across a gradient in levels of development

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Ecological site-based assessments of wind and water erosion: informing accelerated soil erosion management in rangelands

scientific article published in 2014

Ecological site‐based assessments of wind and water erosion: informing accelerated soil erosion management in rangelands

scientific article published in January 2014

Ecosystem resilience to invasion and drought: Insights after 24 years in a rare never‐grazed grassland

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of Ungulate Disturbance and Weather Variation onPediocactus winkleri: Insights from Long-Term Monitoring

Elevated aeolian sediment transport on the Colorado Plateau, USA: The role of grazing, vehicle disturbance, and increasing aridity

scientific article published in 2018

Enhancing Wind Erosion Monitoring and Assessment for U.S. Rangelands

Erratum to: Scale-Dependent Feedbacks Between Patch Size and Plant Reproduction in Desert Grassland

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Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land-treatments

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Exposure Pathways and Biological Receptors: Baseline Data for the Canyon Uranium Mine, Coconino County, Arizona

scholarly article by Jo E. Hinck et al published December 2014 in Journal of fish and wildlife management

Fine-Resolution Repeat Topographic Surveying of Dryland Landscapes Using UAS-Based Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry: Assessing Accuracy and Precision against Traditional Ground-Based Erosion Measurements

Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Generalizing Ecological Site Concepts of the Colorado Plateau for Landscape-Level Applications

Grazing-Induced Changes to Biological Soil Crust Cover Mediate Hillslope Erosion in Long-Term Exclosure Experiment

scientific article published in January 2020

Guiding principles for using satellite-derived maps in rangeland management

Hierarchical analysis of vegetation dynamics over 71 years: soil-rainfall interactions in a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

scientific article published in April 2012

Human Land-Use and Soil Change

Hydrologic function of rapidly induced biocrusts

Identifying optimal remotely-sensed variables for ecosystem monitoring in Colorado Plateau drylands

scientific article

Image Interpreter Tool: An ArcGIS Tool for Estimating Vegetation Cover From High-Resolution Imagery

Image Interpreter Tool: An ArcGIS Tool for Estimating Vegetation Cover From High-Resolution Imagery

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Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty

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Improving the Effectiveness of Ecological Site Descriptions: General State-and-Transition Models and the Ecosystem Dynamics Interpretive Tool (EDIT)

Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands

scientific article published in 2018

Induced biological soil crust controls on wind erodibility and dust (PM10) emissions

scientific article published in 2019

Inoculation and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture

scholarly article

Insights from Long-Term Ungrazed and Grazed Watersheds in a Salt Desert Colorado Plateau Ecosystem

scientific article published in 2018

Interpretation of high-resolution imagery for detecting vegetation cover composition change after fuels reduction treatments in woodlands

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Landsat time series analysis of fractional plant cover changes on abandoned energy development sites

scientific article

Legacy effects in linked ecological–soil–geomorphic systems of drylands

scientific article

Life history characteristics may be as important as climate projections for defining range shifts: An example for common tree species in the intermountain western US

scientific article published in 2018

Machine learning for predicting soil classes in three semi-arid landscapes

scholarly article by Colby W. Brungard et al published February 2015 in Geoderma

Microsite enhancements for soil stabilization and rapid biocrust colonization in degraded drylands

Scientific article published in December 2019

Modeling vegetation heights from high resolution stereo aerial photography: an application for broad-scale rangeland monitoring

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Natural and anthropogenic processes affecting radon releases during mining and early stage reclamation activities, Pinenut uranium mine, Arizona, USA

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Potential Impacts of Overlapping Land-Use and Climate in a Sensitive Dryland: A Case Study of the Colorado Plateau, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Potential impacts of overlapping land-use and climate in a sensitive dryland: a case study of the Colorado Plateau, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Pulse-drought atop press-drought: unexpected plant responses and implications for dryland ecosystems

scientific article

Rangeland Monitoring Reveals Long-term Plant Responses to Precipitation and Grazing at the Landscape Scale

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Rangeland and pasture monitoring: an approach to interpretation of high-resolution imagery focused on observer calibration for repeatability

scientific article published on 23 July 2011

Reducing sampling uncertainty in aeolian research to improve change detection

Relative prediction intervals reveal larger uncertainty in 3D approaches to predictive digital soil mapping of soil properties with legacy data

scholarly article

Salinity Yield Modeling of the Upper Colorado River Basin Using 30‐m Resolution Soil Maps and Random Forests

scholarly article

Scale-Dependent Feedbacks Between Patch Size and Plant Reproduction in Desert Grassland

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Seasonal and individual event-responsiveness are key determinants of carbon exchange across plant functional types

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Seasonal drought treatments impact plant and microbial uptake of nitrogen in a mixed shrub grassland on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2024

Shrub persistence and increased grass mortality in response to drought in dryland systems

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Small-scale barriers mitigate desertification processes and enhance plant recruitment in a degraded semiarid grassland

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Soil Processes and Properties That Distinguish Ecological Sites and States

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Soil Processes and Properties That Distinguish Ecological Sites and States

Soil depth and precipitation moderate soil textural effects on seedling survival of a foundation shrub species

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Soil surface treatments and precipitation timing determine seedling development across southwestern US restoration sites

scientific article published in 2023

Soil water dynamics at 15 locations distributed across a desert landscape: insights from a 27-yr dataset

scientific article published in 2018

Spatial and temporal patterns of water availability in a grass-shrub ecotone and implications for grassland recovery in arid environments

Spatial and temporal variability of plant-available water in calcium carbonate-cemented soils and consequences for arid ecosystem resilience

scientific article

Spatially Explicit Rangeland Erosion Monitoring Using High-Resolution Digital Aerial Imagery

scientific article published in 2016

Temporal and abiotic fluctuations may be preventing successful rehabilitation of soil‐stabilizing biocrust communities

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Testing the apparent resistance of three dominant plants to chronic drought on the Colorado Plateau

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The Automated Reference Toolset: A Soil-Geomorphic Ecological Potential Matching Algorithm

scholarly article

The High Water-Holding Capacity of Petrocalcic Horizons

The National Wind Erosion Research Network: Building a standardized long-term data resource for aeolian research, modeling and land management

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Transient population dynamics impede restoration and may promote ecosystem transformation after disturbance

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Ultra‐high‐resolution mapping of biocrusts with Unmanned Aerial Systems

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Using Very-Large-Scale Aerial Imagery for Rangeland Monitoring and Assessment: Some Statistical Considerations

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What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios

scientific article published in 2022

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

scientific article published in 2019

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