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Literature of the Month

Scientific Publications Associated with EBIPM

Literature of the Month 

January/February 2012

Comparisons orphological and Physiological Traits Accont for Similar Nitrate Uptake by Crested Wheatgrass and Cheatgrass

December 2011

Morphological and Physiological Traits Accont for Similar Nitrate Uptake by Crested Wheatgrass and Cheatgrass

Process-Based Management Approaches for Salt Desert Shrublands Dominated by Downy Brome

Land-Use Legacies of Cultivation in Shrublands: Ghosts in the Ecosystem

November 2011

Control of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) Using Timely Sheep Grazing

 October 2011

Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the Economics of Wildfire in the Great Basin (Econoics Research Bulletin)

September 2011

Land-Use Legacies and Vegetation Recovery 90 Years After Cultivation in Great Basin Sagebrush Ecosystems (Published in Rangeland Ecol. Mgmt. Sept. 2011)

Using Rangeland Health Assessment to Inform Successional Management (Published in Invasive Plant Science and Mgmt. 2011)

August 2011

Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the External Costs of Wildfire in the Great Basin: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach" (Economics publication by Kobayashi, Mimako, Kimberly Rollins, and Michael H. Taylor)

Establishing Weed Prevention Areas and evaluating Their Impact (Stephanie Christensen, Master's thesis)

July 2011

Resistance of Native Plant Functional Groups to Invasion by Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) - published in Invasive Plant Science and Management

June 2011

Nitrogen acquisition by annual and perennial grass seedlings: testing the roles of performance and plasticity to explain plant invasion

May 2011

Rangelands Feature Article: (see the press release)
Implementing EBIPM: Lessons from a Century of Demonstration Projects in Park Valley, Utah (Published in April edition of "Rangelands") 

Plant Community Diversity and Native Plant Abundance Decline with Increasing Abundance of an Exotic Annual Grass (Published in Oecologia, April 2011)

April 2011

Paradise Valley, Nevada Weed District Winter 2011 Newsletter for the Paradise Medusahead Project.

March 2011

Promoting Native Vegetation and Diversity in Exotic Annual Grass Infestations (published in "Restoration Ecology")

Principles for Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management (published in "Invasive Plant Science and Management")

Febraury 2011

Field growth comparisons of invasive alien annual and native perennial grasses in monocultures (published in Journal of Arid Environments)

January 2011

Applying Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management (published in Rangeland Ecology and Management)

December 2010

Paradise Valley, Nevada Weed District Fall 2010 Newsletter for the Paradise Medusahead Project (PMP)

November/December 2010

Science: A Devilish Grass Invades the West (PDF)
Yahoo Finance: Study: Medusahead grows faster than other grasses (PDF)

July/August 2010

A Conceptual Framework for Preventing the Spatial Dispersal of Invasive Plants 

May 2010

 Ecological Principles for Invasive Plant Management (PDF)

April 2010

Academic Posters: Establishing Weed Prevention Areas and Evaluating Their Impact
  Soil Microsite Variation of Salt Desert Shrublands Invaded by Downy Brome in Utah

March 2010

Response of Bluebunch Wheatgrass and Medusahead to Defoliation (PDF)

Functional Group Responses to Reciprocal Plant Litter Exchanges between Native and Invasive Plant Dominated Grasslands (PDF)

 February 2010