Generalizing ecological site concepts of the Colorado Plateau for landscape-level applications
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Abstract
- Numerous ecological site descriptions in the southern Utah portion of the Colorado Plateau can be difficult to navigate, so we held a workshop aimed at adding value and functionality to the current ecological site system.
- We created new groups of ecological sites and drafted state-and-transition models for these new groups.
- We were able to distill the current large number of ecological sites in the study area (ca. 150) into eight ecological site groups that capture important variability in ecosystem dynamics.
- Several inventory and monitoring programs and landscape scale planning actions will likely benefit from more generalized ecological site group concepts.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Generalizing ecological site concepts of the Colorado Plateau for landscape-level applications |
| Series title | Rangelands |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.rala.2016.10.010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Southwest Biological Science Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 342 |
| Last page | 349 |