Gullies are sources and reservoirs of sediments perform as efficient transfers runoff sediments. In recent years, several techniques technologies emerged to facilitate monitoring gully dynamics at unprecedented spatial temporal resolutions. Here we present a detailed study valley-bottom in Mediterranean rangeland with savannah-like vegetation cover that was partially restored 2017. Restoration ...

The importance of equity has been emphasized in climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and ecosystem restoration. However, implications are rarely considered explicitly restoration projects. Although the role studied context conservation environmental governance, variables often ignored studies, spatial analyses lacking. To address these gaps, we use a mixed methods approach, inte...

The main objective of an ecosystem sustainable management is to preserve itscapacity to respond and adapt to current disturbances and/or future changes, and maintain theprovision of environmental goods and services. Two very important properties linked to thisobjective are the ecosystem resilience and resistance to disturbance factors. The objective ofthis paper is to recommend conceptual modif...

In this study, a land use/land cover change analysis method was developed to examine patterns of land use/land cover conversions of cropland to urban uses and conversions of rangeland to cropland uses in the United States (US) Midwest region. We used the US 2001 and 2006 National Land Cover Datasets (NLCD) for our spatial analyses of these conversion trends. Our analysis showed that the eastern...

CARMA (CAse-based Range Management Adviser) is a system that integrates case-based reasoning with model-based reasoning for rangeland pest management. CARMA’s predictions of rangeland forage loss by grasshoppers were compared to predictions by 15 expert entomologists using either global or case-specific adaptation weights. Under both conditions, CARMA’s predictions were more accurate than CARMA...

Rangeland vegetation in the Great Basin, United States, is frequently disturbed by natural- and human-caused wildfires that facilitate establishment dominance of introduced annual weeds such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) medusahead wildrye (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski). Ecological resilience resistance native seeded-non-native plant communities this region, however, appear to follo...