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Abstract
Emerging applications of ecological resilience and resistance concepts in sagebrush ecosystems allow managers to better predict and mitigate impacts of wildfire, invasive annual grasses, and other disturbances. Soil temperature and moisture strongly influence the kind and amount of vegetation and are closely related to sagebrush ecological resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses (Chambers et al. 2007, 2014a, 2014b). Consequently, soil taxonomic temperature and moisture regimes can be used as indicators of resilience and resistance at landscape scales to depict environmental gradients in sagebrush ecosystems that range from cold/cool-moist sites with relatively high resilience and resistance to warm-dry ecological types with relatively low resilience and resistance (see chapter glossary for definitions of terms).
Citation
Chambers, Jeanne; Campbell, Steve; Maestas, Jeremy; Cartwright, Jennifer. 2020. Sagebrush ecosystem resilience and resistance [Chapter 24]. In: Cartwright, Jennifer, ed. A guidebook to spatial datasets for conservation planning under climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. p. 196-206. Online: https://doi.org/10.5066/P92L1H7O.
