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List of works by Brandon T Bestelmeyer

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

article

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

scientific article

ANT BIODIVERSITY IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPE MOSAICS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF GRAZING VS. NATURAL HETEROGENEITY

scientific article published in 2001

APPLYING SPECIES DIVERSITY THEORY TO LAND MANAGEMENT

scientific article published in 2003

Abrupt transitions in a southwest <scp>USA</scp> desert grassland related to the <scp>P</scp>acific <scp>D</scp>ecadal <scp>O</scp>scillation

scientific article published in 2023

An Assessment of State-and-Transition Models: Perceptions Following Two Decades of Development and Implementation

article

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Ecological Sites

An Introduction to the Special Issue “Ecological Sites for Landscape Management”

Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

article

Approaches to Predicting Broad-Scale Regime Shifts Using Changing Pattern-Process Relationships Across Scales

article published in 2009

Assessing resilience and state-transition models with historical records of cheatgrassBromus tectoruminvasion in North American sagebrush-steppe

scientific article published in 2013

Assessment of USDA-NRCS rangeland conservation programs: recommendation for an evidence-based conservation platform

scientific article published on 04 August 2016

Big Questions Emerging from a Century of Rangeland Science and Management

scientific article published in 2012

Biophysical influences on the spatial distribution of fire in the desert grassland region of the southwestern USA

scientific article published in 2016

Can ecological land classification increase the utility of vegetation monitoring data?

scientific article published in 2016

Constraints and time lags for recovery of a keystone species (Dipodomys spectabilis) after landscape restoration

article published in 2014

Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events

scholarly article

Cross–Scale Interactions and Changing Pattern–Process Relationships: Consequences for System Dynamics

Deforestation of “Degraded” Rangelands: The Argentine Chaco Enters the Next Stage of the Anthropocene

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Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

scientific article published in 2015

Development and Use of State-and-Transition Models for Rangelands

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

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Documenting Risk-Avoidance in Desert Rodents Using a New Technique

scientific article published in 1998

Does desertification diminish biodiversity? Enhancement of ant diversity by shrub invasion in south-western USA

article by Brandon T Bestelmeyer published January 2005 in Diversity and Distributions

Does habitat disturbance promote geographical parthenogenesis in whiptail lizards? ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 September 2019

Does shrub invasion indirectly limit grass establishment via seedling herbivory? A test at grassland-shrubland ecotones

Earth Stewardship of rangelands: coping with ecological, economic, and political marginality

article published in 2013

Ecological Site Development: A Gentle Introduction

article

Ecological services to and from rangelands of the United States

scientific article published in 2007

Effect of Climoedaphic Heterogeneity on Woody Plant Dominance in the Argentine Caldenal Region

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Effects of exurban development on trophic interactions in a desert landscape

article

Effects of grassland restoration efforts on mound-building ants in the Chihuahuan Desert

Empirical assessment of state-and-transition models with a long-term vegetation record from the Sonoran Desert.

scientific article

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

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Fragmentation Effects on Soil Aggregate Stability in a Patchy Arid Grassland

scientific article published in 2006

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

Grand Challenges for Resilience-Based Management of Rangelands

scientific article published in 2012

Grass-Shrub Competition in Arid Lands: An Overlooked Driver in Grassland–Shrubland State Transition?

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Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States

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

scientific article

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

Influence of small-scale disturbances by kangaroo rats on Chihuahuan Desert ants.

scientific article

Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for U.S. rangelands, 1984–2017

scientific article published in September 2018

Is Rangeland Health Relevant to Mongolia?

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Is the Historical Range of Variation Relevant to Rangeland Management?

Isolation predicts compositional change after discrete disturbances in a global meta-study

article

Land Ecology Essay II: Thresholds, Novel Ecosystems, and the Sanctity of History

Land management in the American southwest: a state-and-transition approach to ecosystem complexity

scientific article

Learning Natural Resource Assessment Protocols: Elements for Success and Lessons From an International Workshop in Inner Mongolia, China

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Linking the concept of scale to studies of biological diversity: evolving approaches and tools

article

National Assessment and Critiques of State-and-Transition Models: The Baby with the Bathwater

article by Brandon T Bestelmeyer published June 2015 in Rangelands

Practical Guidance for Developing State-and-Transition Models

Quantifying long-term plant community dynamics with movement models: implications for ecological resilience.

scientific article

Rangelands: Where Anthromes Meet Their Limits

article by Nathan F. Sayre et al published 1 May 2017 in Land

Rapid genetic restoration of a keystone species exhibiting delayed demographic response

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Research Article: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Rangelands: Current Applications and Future Potentials

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

article by Rachel J. Standish et al published September 2014 in Biological Conservation

Resolving Critical Issues for the Development of Ecological Site Descriptions: Summary of a Symposium

article

Response of lizard community structure to desert grassland restoration mediated by a keystone rodent

Restoration Practices Have Positive Effects on Breeding Bird Species of Concern in the Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Savory's Unsubstantiated Claims Should Not Be Confused With Multipaddock Grazing

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

article

Scavenging ant foraging behavior and variation in the scale of nutrient redistribution among semi-arid grasslands

Shrub encroachment, productivity pulses, and core-transient dynamics of Chihuahuan Desert rodents

scientific article published in 2018

Soil Processes and Properties That Distinguish Ecological Sites and States

article

Soil-geomorphic heterogeneity governs patchy vegetation dynamics at an arid ecotone.

scientific article published in April 2006

Spatial perspectives in state-and-transition models: a missing link to land management?

scientific article published in 2011

Spatially Explicit Representation of State-and-Transition Models

scientific article published in 2012

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Production Can Be Used to Detect State Change Across an Arid Landscape

State-and-Transition Models for Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Strategy for Development and Application

scientific article published in 2009

Stress tolerance in some Chacoan dolichoderine ants: implications for community organization and distribution

The Effects of Land Use on the Structure of Ground-Foraging Ant Communities in the Argentine Chaco

article

The Savory Method Can Not Green Deserts or Reverse Climate Change

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry

scientific article published in 2022

The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales

article published in 2017

The trade-off between thermal tolerance and behavioural dominance in a subtropical South American ant community

scientific article published in 2000

Threshold Concepts and Their Use in Rangeland Management and Restoration: The Good, the Bad, and the Insidious

scientific article published in 2006

Traversing the Wasteland: A Framework for Assessing Ecological Threats to Drylands

scholarly article

Two New Mobile Apps for Rangeland Inventory and Monitoring by Landowners and Land Managers

Vegetation Maps at the Passage of the Taylor Grazing Act (1934): A Baseline to Evaluate Rangeland Change After a Regime Shift

What the novel ecosystem concept provides: a reply to Kattan et al

scientific article published in 2017

What's wrong with novel ecosystems, really?

scholarly article by James R. Miller published in May 2016

“The Range Problem” After a Century of Rangeland Science: New Research Themes for Altered Landscapes

article

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