Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Germino, Matthew J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chambers, Jeanne C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Brown, Cynthia S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Springer Series on Environmental Management,
• Θέματα: Environment.; Biodiversity.; Landscape ecology.; Environmental management.; Environmental Management.; Landscape Ecology.

Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to the transformation of the earth’s surface. The problem is particularly notable with a suite of exotic grasses in the Bromus genus in the arid and semiarid regions that...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Environmental Impacts of Bromus Species
• Annual Brome invasions and their Impacts: Comparisons among ecoregions in the Western United States
• Impacts Impacts of Bromus tectorum and other annual bromes on ecosystem integrity
• Part II: Invasiveness of Bromus species (emphasis on biological attributes of Bromus)
• Evolutionary relationships, mating systems and genetic diversity of Bromus tectorum and other species within section Genea
• Attributes that confer invasiveness and impacts across the large Bromus genus: lessons from the Bromus REEnet database
• Part III: Understanding environmental controls and Bromus distribution (invasibility)
• Abiotic controls on annual brome distribution at the regional, landscape, local, and microsite scale
• Future range shifts of Bromus rubens and Bromus tectorum with climate change – a review of model projections
• Community ecology of fungal pathosystems on Bromus tectorum and implications for management
• Community resistance to Bromus
• Part IV: Relating the science to human uses and restoration of western rangeland landscapes
• Interactions among fire, land uses, and invasion – ecology and human dimensions
• Human dimensions of invasive grasses
• Economic modelling and the management of brome grasses: accounting for ecosystem dynamics, ecological thresholds, and spatial interdependencies
• State-and-transition models: conceptual vs. simulation perspectives, usefulness and breadth of use, land management applications
• Restoration and management tools for rangelands impacted by exotic bromes: new perspectives for the future
• Index.