Progress 11/19/14 to 09/30/19
Outputs Target Audience:The target audience includes private ranchers, conservationists, and land managers, as well as scientists, natural resources, and agricultural agencies of Oklahoma and the United States. Collectively, this work has led to the development of a working group that meets annually and this year met in Kansas. This Patch Burn Grazing working group includes ranchers, employees from state and federal agencies, and university representatives from 11 states. Our work has received additional funding from state and federal agencies. This work also has been integral to the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative through the NRCS. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The patch-burn working group continues to meet annually and met again this year in Texas. It is a group of researchers and managers that meets once a year to determine progress and challenges associated with their efforts. This working group was put together based on the seminal research connected to this project and includes representatives from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and other areas. We conducted extension workshops to educate professionals on rangeland management appropriate for wildlife conservation for USDA_NRCS and WAFWA. This project contributed to my personal development by continuing to get me invited to give presentations and interact with people from many different communities. The latest is a strong interest in many western states where this research is being applied to government and private land on diverse rangelands of the US. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We continue to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Articles have been written about our work in International and other more regional outlets. Our extension partners continue to develop outreach material that are based on this research What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Our previous work (Fuhlendorf et al. 2012) argued that natural resource science and management should embrace a broader conservation perspective using biodiversity and ecosystem processes as primary guiding principles while recognizing that livestock production, a service that results from healthy rangelands, will not be the primary driving factor in management decisions. Therefore, we are following hypothetical principles of rangeland conservation of pattern and process. We recognize that these principles need to be tested and we do not consider them to be exhaustive. Instead, I am using these principles to serve as an initial starting place for developing a research program capable of leading to a new conservation paradigm for rangelands. The principles that we tested include the following 1. Maintenance of large continuous tracts of rangelands is critical for the conservation of patterns and processes so that disturbance processes can interact with complex landscapes and form multi-scaled mosaics. 2. Grazing intensity (i.e. stocking rate) is the primary factor influencing the effect of grazing on rangeland, but no single grazing intensity is "proper". 3. Obtaining uniform distribution of grazing in time and space across a landscape is neither possible nor desirable. Managing grazing distribution for heterogeneity as a shifting mosaic across the landscape should be the goal. 4. Shifting mosaics are necessary for maintaining ecosystem structure and function and achieving multiple objectives. Managing for a single condition, state, phase, or successional stage might maximize and sustain livestock production, but will not be capable of promoting biodiversity or multiple uses. 5. The conservation of rangelands ultimately should consider all species of animals and plants. Individual species and groups can be used as diagnostic indicators of response to management, but plants and animals should not be considered "sacrifice species" or "management objectives" across an entire landscape. 6. Disturbance regimes, such as fire and grazing, are as vital to ecosystem structure and function as climate and soils. They must be viewed as interactive processes if we are to have any hope of maintaining biodiversity. From these proposed principles and subsequent publications we have developed several principles that should be applied for rangeland conservation. We have used a combination of studies focused on multiple spatial and temporal scales and focused on landscapes, vegetation, fire, and wildlife. Specifically we found that (1) economically and ecologically important wildlife populations can be maintained on heterogeneous landscapes and these populations can be maintained by applying spatially variable fire and grazing to large landscapes that are unfragmented. And, (2) wildlife habitat, livestock production, fuels management, and brush control can all be simultaneously enhanced through the use of spatially and temporally variable fire and grazing management. Our results suggest that rangelands can be managed for livestock production and with appropriate efforts the fire-grazing interaction can lead to improved biodiversity, ecosystem function, livestock production, and fuels management. Several of our studies include the impacts of energy development and land management on lesser and greater prairie-chickens and bobwhite quail and the integration of fuels management and wildlife management on complex landscapes. The greatest challenge in accomplishing this is that agricultural education and agricultural culture have promoted homogeneity in land management that is counter to conservation practices and many landscapes are experiencing energy development that resembles industrialization of agricultural landscapes. We acquired grants from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and continue to work on grants through The Nature Conservancy, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the National Science Foundation. We completed a project on the effect of energy development on Lesser prairie-chickens, grazing and fire on Greater prairie-chickens, and several other projects on the management of bobwhite quail. We completed a project on coyote behavior in response to livestock management, prescribed fires, and energy development. We also completed a funded by joint-fire sciences that was focused on using grazing and prescribed fires to manage fuels that limit wildfire and maintain wildlife habitat. Since January 1, 2016 we have published 64 peer-reviewed publications and many local, regional, and national presentations.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Kauffman, K., R.D. Elmore, C.A. Davis, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and L. Goodman. 2019. Multi-scale thermal selection of nesting scaled quail. The Wildlife Society & American Fisheries Society Joint Annual Conference. Reno, Nevada, USA.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Kauffman, K., R.D. Elmore, C.A. Davis, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and L. Goodman. 2019. Thermal ecology and habitat selection of scaled quail. Oklahoma Natural Resources Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Tanner, EP, J Polo, SD Fuhlendorf. 2019. Quantifying spatio-temporal variability in thermal landscapes through a fiber optic distributed temperature sensing system: implicaitons for thermal ecology research. Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico Wildlife Society Meeting.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
HD Starns, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore, D Twidwell, ET Thacker, TJ Hovick, B Luttbeg. Recoupling fire and grazing reduces wildland fuel loads on rangelands. Ecosphere 10 (1), e02578.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Wonkka,CL, D Twidwell, BW Allred, CH Bielski, VM Donovan, CP Roberts, SD Fuhlendorf. 2019. Rangeland vulnerability to state transition under global climate change. Climatic Change 153 (1-2), 59-78
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Carroll JM, RD Elmore, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf 2019. Propagation of Shinnery Oak as a Framework for Restoration. Rangeland Ecology and management 72 632-634.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
CA Duquette, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore. 2019. Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) space use minimally affected by oil and gas development. Rangeland Ecology & Management 72 (3), 484-491
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Londe, DW, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore, CA Davis. 2019. Landscape heterogeneity influences the response of grassland birds to energy development. Wildlife Biology 2019
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
CA Duquette, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore. 2019. Associations between oil and gas wells and arthropod and vegetation communities in the Southern Plains. Rangeland Ecology & Management 72: 749-756.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Twidwell, D, CL Wonkka, H Wang, WE Grant, CR Allen, SD Fuhlendorf, AS Garmestani, DG Angeler, CA Taylor Jr, UP Kreuter, WE Rogers. 2019. Coerced resilience in fire management. Journal of Environmental Management. 240: 368-373.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Tanner, EP, JP Orange, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2019. Behavioral modifications lead to disparate demographic consequences in two sympatric species. Ecology and evolution 9 (16), 9273-9289.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, 2019. Saving Graze: Forage or fuel and other paradoxes of conservation. Natural History. 127, 14-16.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Joshi, O, NC Poudyal, JR Weir, SD Fuhlendorf, TO Ochuodho. 2019. Determinants of perceived risk and liability concerns associate with prescribed burning in the United States. Journal of Environmental Management 230: 379-385.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Rakowski AE, RD Elmore, CA.Davis, SD.Fuhlendorf. M Carroll. 2019. Thermal refuge affects space use and movement of a large-bodied galliform. Journal of Thermal Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.12.024
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Londe, DW, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore, CA Davis, J Rutledge. 2019. Female Greater Prairie?Chicken response to energy development and rangeland management. Ecosphere 10(12) e002982.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Tanner, AM, EP Tanner, M Pape?, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore, CA Davis. 2019. Using aerial surveys and citizen science to create species distribution models for an imperiled grouse. Biodiversity and Conservation, 1-20.
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Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs Target Audience:The target audience includes private ranchers, conservationist and land managers, as well as scientists, natural resource and agricultural agencies of Oklahoma and the United States. Collectively, this work has led to the development of a working group that meets annually and this year met in Colorado. This Patch Burn Grazing working group includes ranchers, employees from state and federal agencies, and university representatives from 11 states. Our work has received additional funding from state and federal agencies. This work also has been integral to the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative through the NRCS. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The patch-burn working group met again this year in Colorado. It is a group of researchers and managers that meet once a year to determine progress and challenges associated with their efforts. This working group was put together based on the seminal research connected to this project and includes representatives from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and other areas. We put on extension workshops to educate professionals on rangeland management appropriate for wildlife conservation. I participated in workshops on wildfires, a Grassland Summit and a Fire Summit. This project contributes to my personal development by continuing to get me invited to give presentations and interact with people from many different communities. Currently, our research in Oklahoma is being applied through the Great Plains. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We continue to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Articles have been written about our work in International and other more regional outlets. Our extension partners continue to develop outreach material that are based on this research What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are starting up 3 graduate students on a new bobwhite quail study funded by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation to integrate land management for livestock production and for wildlife management. The focus of this project will be trying to optimize woody plant potential for both objectives. We have also recently received support for a Ph.D. student that will be initiating research on managing fire and invasive species for livestock management and biodiversity.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Our appeal presented in previous work is that natural resource science and management should embrace a broader conservation perspective using biodiversity and ecosystem processes as primary guiding principles (Figure 1; Table 1; Fuhlendorf et al. 2012) while recognizing that livestock production, a service that results from healthy rangelands, will not be the primary driving factor in all management decisions. Therefore, we are following hypothetical principles of rangeland conservation of pattern and process. We recognize that these principles need to be tested and we do not consider them to be exhaustive. Instead, I am using these principles to serve as an initial starting place for developing a research program capable of leading to a new conservation paradigm for rangelands. The principles we are testing include the following 1.Maintenance of large continuous tracts of rangelands is critical for conservation of patterns and processes so that disturbance processes can interact with complex landscapes and form multi-scaled mosaics. 2 .Grazing intensity (i.e. stocking rate) is the primary factor influencing the effect of grazing on rangeland, but no single grazing intensity is "proper". 3.Obtaining uniform distribution of grazing in time and space across a landscape is neither possible nor desirable. Managing grazing distribution for heterogeneity as a shifting mosaic across the landscape should be the goal. 4. Shifting mosaics are necessary for maintaining ecosystem structure and function and achieving multiple objectives. Managing for a single condition, state, phase, or successional stage might maximize and sustain livestock production, but will not be capable of promoting biodiversity or multiple uses. 5. Conservation of rangelands ultimately should consider all species of animals and plants. Individual species and groups can be used as diagnostic indicators of response to management, but plants and animals should not be considered "sacrifice species" or "management objectives" across an entire landscape. 6. Disturbance regimes, such as fire and grazing, are as vital to ecosystem structure and function as climate and soils. They must be viewed as interactive processes if we are to have any hope of maintaining biodiversity. From these proposed principles I have developed several objectives that will evaluate the relative importance of several of the principles over the next several years. I will use a combination of studies focused on multiple spatial and temporal scales and focused on landscapes, vegetation, fire, and wildlife. Specific objectives that I am currently working on include: 1. Evaluate the response of economically and ecologically important wildlife populations to heterogeneous landscapes as influenced by agricultural management, fire, energy development, and global change. 2. Evaluate vegetation responses as fuel for fires, forage for livestock and habitat for important wildlife populations to agricultural management, fire, energy development, and global change. Our results suggest that rangelands can be managed for livestock production and with appropriate efforts, the fire-grazing interaction can lead to improved biodiversity, ecosystem function, livestock production, and fuels management. Current studies include the impacts of energy development and land management on lesser and greater prairie-chickens and bobwhite quail and the integration of fuels management and wildlife management on complex landscapes. All of these projects include graduate students that are in various phases of completion. The greatest challenge in accomplishing this is that the agricultural education and agricultural culture have promoted homogeneity in land management that is counter to conservation practices and many landscapes are experiencing energy development that resembles industrialization of agricultural landscapes. We acquired grants from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and continue to work on grants through The Nature Conservancy, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the National Science Foundation. We completed a project on the effect of energy development on Lesser prairie-chickens, grazing and fire on Greater prairie-chickens and several other projects on the management of bobwhite quail. We have recently completed projects on coyote behavior in response to livestock management, prescribed fires, and energy development, landscape fragmentation effects of large scale movements of wildlife and a joint-fire sciences funded project on using grazing and prescribed fires to manage fuels that limit wildfire and maintain wildlife habitat. Accomplishments over the past year include 15 peer-reviewed publications, outreach to the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, completion of several graduate students and acquisition of money to perform this research. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and The Nature Conservancy are using our research to manage their wildlife management areas and preserves throughout the state. Many landowners have initiated our management. Specifically, a group of land-owners equaling over 200,000 acres in Osage County have applied our approaches.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2018. The role of fire in grassland landscapes. Great Plains Grassland Summit: Challenges and Opportunities from North to South. April 10, 2018. Denver, Colorado.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2018. Socio-ecological transformation of the Great Plains through Juniperus Invasion. Symposium: Native plants as invaders. Society for Range Management Annual Meeting, Reno Nevada, USA. January 29, 2018.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Tanner, EP, SD Fuhlendorf. 2018. Impact of an agri-environmental scheme on landscape patterns. Ecological Indicators 85, 956-965
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Fogarty, DT, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, SR Loss. 2018. Variation and drivers of airflow patterns associated with olfactory concealment and habitat selection. Ecology 99: 289-299.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Leverkus, SER, SD Fuhlendorf, M Geertsema, BW Allred, M Gregory, AR Bevington, DM Engle, JD Scasta. 2018. Resource selection of free-ranging horses influenced by fire in northern Canada. HumanWildlife Interactions 12 (1), 10-18
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
R Scholtz, JA Polo, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, JR Weir. 2018. Woody Plant Encroachment Mitigated Differentially by Fire and Herbicide. Rangeland Ecology & Management 71 (2), 239-244.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
S Sharma, TE Ochsner, D Twidwell, JD Carlson, ES Krueger, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf. 2018. Nondestructive Estimation of Standing Crop and Fuel Moisture Content in Tallgrass Prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management 71 (3), 356-362
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
RL Carroll, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore, SE DuRant, JM Carroll. 2018. Avian parental behavior and nest success influenced by temperature fluctuations. Journal of thermal biology 74, 140-148
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
DA McGranahan, TJ Hovick, RD Elmore, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf. 2018. Moderate patchiness optimizes heterogeneity, stability, and beta diversity in mesic grassland. Ecology and evolution 8 (10), 5008-5015
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
CH Bielski, D Twidwell, SD Fuhlendorf, CL Wonkka, BW Allred, TE Ochsner, ES Krueger, JD Carlson, DM Engle. 2018. Pyric herbivory, scales of heterogeneity and drought. Functional Ecology 6: 1599-1608
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
R Scholtz, SD Fuhlendorf, SA Leis, JJ Picotte, D Twidwell. 2018. Quantifying variance across spatial scales as part of fire regime classifications Ecosphere 9 (7), e02343
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, CA Davis, RD Elmore, LE Goodman, RG Hamilton. 2018. Perspectives on grassland conservation efforts: should we rewild to the past or conserve to the future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, Biological Sciences https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0438
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Scholtz, R, JA Polo, EP Tanner, SD Fuhlendorf. 2018. Grassland fragmentation and its influence on woody plant cover in the southern Great Plains, USA. Landscape Ecology 33: 1785-1797.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
BP Wilcox, A Birt, SD Fuhlendorf, SR Archer. 2018. Emerging frameworks for understanding and mitigating woody plant encroachment in grassy biomes. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 32: 46-52
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Wilcox, BP, A Birt, SR Archer, SD Fuhlendorf, UP Kreuter, MG Sorice, WJD van Leeuwen, CB Zou. 2018. Viewing woody-plant encroachment through a social-ecological lens. Bioscience 68: 691-705.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Scholtz, R. SD Fuhlendorf, SR Archer. 2018. Climate-fire interactions constrain potential woody plant cover and stature in North American Great Plains grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 936-945.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Houlahan, JE, DJ Currie, K Cottenie, GS Cumming, CS Findlay, SD Fuhlendorf, P Legendre, EH Muldavin, D Noble, R Russell, RD Stevens, TJ Willis, SM Wondzell. Negative relationships between species richness and temporal variability are common but weak in natural systems. Ecology 99: 2592-2604.
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Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17
Outputs Target Audience:The target audience includes private ranchers, conservationist and land managers, as well as scientists, natural resource and agricultural agencies of Oklahoma and the United States. Collectively, this work has led to the development of a working group that meets annually and this year met in Kansas. This Patch Burn Grazing working group includes ranchers, employees from state and federal agencies, and university representatives from 11 states. Our work has received additional funding by state and federal agencies. This work also has been integral to the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative through the NRCS. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The patch-burn working group met again this year in Missouri. It is a group of researchers and managers that meets once a year to determine progress and challenges associated with their efforts. This working group was put together based on the seminal research connected to this project and includes representatives from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and other areas. We conducted extension workshops to educate professionals on rangeland management appropriate for wildlife conservation. This project contributes to my personal development by continuing to get me invited to give presentations and interact with people from many different communities. The latest is a strong interest in Montana where this research is being applied to government and private land in northern Mixed Prairie. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We continue to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Articles have been written about our work in International and other more regional outlets. Our extension partners continue to develop outreach material that are based on this research. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?I recently was awarded a grant to work on Bobwhite quail to find a way to integrate their management as an objective in woody plant management and grazing management on rangelands.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
We acquired grants from Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and continue to work on grants through The Nature Conservancy, Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the National Science Foundation. We completed a project on the effect of energy development on Lesser prairie-chickens, grazing and fire on Greater prairie-chickens and several other projects on the management of bobwhite quail. We completed a project on coyote behavior in response to livestock management, prescribed fires and energy development. We also completed a funded by joint-fire sciences that was focused on using grazing and prescribed fires to manage fuels that limit wildfire and maintain wildlife habitat. Accomplishments over the past year include 22 peer-reviewed publications, outreach to the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, completion of several graduate students and acquisition of money to perform this research.
Publications
- Type:
Book Chapters
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, RWS Fynn, DA McGranahan, D Twidwell. 2017. Heterogeneity as the basis of rangeland management. Rangeland Systems Edited by David D. Briske.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD 2017. A hierarchical perspective to woody plant encroachment for conservation of Prairie-chickens. Symposium on Grouse Conservation and Management. January 30, 2017. Society for Range Management annual meeting in St. George, Utah.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Scholtz R., Fuhlendorf S.D., Archer S.R. 2017. Social and ecological challenges in understanding fire dynamics and woodland expansion in the Great Plains. Savanna Science Network Meeting, Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Scholtz R., Fuhlendorf S.D., Archer S.R. 2017. Social and ecological challenges in understanding fire dynamics and woodland expansion in the Great Plains. Society of Rangeland Management, St. George, UT, USA
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Scholtz R., Fuhlendorf S.D., Leis S.A., Picotte J.J. 2016. Spatiotemporal patterns of fire behavior in the Great Plains, USA. Seminars in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Scholtz R., Polo J.A., Fuhlendorf S.D., Engle D.M., Weir J.R. 2017 Herbicide and fire have mixed effects on reducing woodland expansion in an experimental rangeland. EPSCoR Symposium, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Carroll, JM, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Response of Northern Bobwhite movements to management driven disturbance in a shrub dominated ecosystem. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 70:175-182.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, TJ Hovick, RD Elmore, AM Tanner, DM Engle, CA Davis. 2017. A hierarchical perspective to woody plant encroachment for conservation of prairie chickens. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 70: 9-14.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Tanner, EP, RD Elmore, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Wintering bird responses to the presence of artificial water in a semi-arid rangeland. Wildlife Biology, wlb 00315.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Elmore, RD, JM Carrol, EP Tanner, TJ Hovick, BA Grisham, SD Fuhlendorf, SK Windels. 2017. Implications of the thermal environment for terrestrial wildlife management. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41: 183-193
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Leis, SA, CE Blocksome, D Twidwell, SD Fuhlendorf, JM Briggs, Larry D. Sanders. 2017 Juniper invasions in grasslands: Research needs and intervention strategies. Rangelands 39: 64-72.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2017. Heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management. Keynote address: Grassland Society of Southern Africa. July 25, 2017. Hoedspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Tanner EP, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, C Davis, DK Dahlgren, JP Orange. 2017. Extreme climatic events constrain space use and survival of a ground-nesting bird. Global Change Biology: 23: 1832-1846.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Leverkus, S, SD Fuhlendorf, M Geertsema, RD Elmore, DM Engle, Kristen Baum. 2017. A landscape disturbance matrix for conserving biodiversity. Journal of Ecosystem Management. 17.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Krueger, ES, TE Oschner, SM Quiring, DM Engle, JD Carlson, D Twidwell, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Measured soil moisture is a better predictor of large growing season wildfires than the Keetch-Byram drought index. Soil Science Society of America journal 81 490-502.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Hovick, TJ, JM Carroll, RD Elmore, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Restoring fire to grasslands is critical for migrating shorebird populations. Ecological Applications: 1805-1814.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Becerra, TA, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore. 2017. Preference for grassland heterogeneity: Implications for biodiversity in the Great Plains. Society & Natural Resources 30: 601-612.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Scholtz, R, JA Polo, SD Fuhlendorf, GD Duckworth. 2017. Land cover dynamics influence distribution of breeding birds in the Great Plains, USA. Biological Conservation 209: 323-331
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Tanner, EP, M Papes, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, CA Davis. 2017. Incorporating abundance information and guiding variable selection for climate-based ensemble forecasting of species' distributional shifts. PloS one 12: e0184316
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Carroll, JM, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Using a historic drought and high-heat event to validate thermal exposure predictions for ground-dwelling birds. Ecology and Evolution 7: 6413-6422
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Carroll, JM, TJ Hovick, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Reproductive plasticity and landscape heterogeneity benefit a ground-nesting bird in a fire-prone ecosystem. Ecological Application 27: 2234-2244.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Joshi, O, TA Becerra, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore. 2017. Factors affecting public preferences for grassland landscape heterogeneity in the Great Plains. Environmental Management 60: 922-930.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Hovick, TJ, DA McGranahan, RD Elmore, JR Weir, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Pyric-carnivory: Raptor use of prescribed fires. Ecology and Evolution 7: 9144-9150
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Tanner, EP, RD Elmore, CA Davis, SD Fuhlendorf. 2017. Evidence of nest tenacity in scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) following an anthropogenic disturbance. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129: 34-359.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Davis, CA, JP Orange, RA Van Den Bussche, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, JM Carroll, EP Tanner, DM Leslie Jr. 2017. Extrapair paternity and nest parasitism in two sympatric quail. The Auk. 134- 811-820.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fogarty, DT, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, SR Loss. 2017. Influence of olfactory and visual cover on nest site selection and nest success for grassland-nesting birds. Ecology and Evolution. 7: 6413-6422.
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Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16
Outputs Target Audience:The target audience includes private ranchers, conservationist and land managers, as well as scientists, natural resource and agricultural agencies of Oklahoma and the United States. Collectively, this work has led to the development of a working group that meets annually and this year met in Kansas. This Patch Burn Grazing working group includes ranchers, employees from state and federal agencies, and university representatives from 11 states. Our work has received additional funding by state and federal agencies. This work also has been integral to the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative through the NRCS. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The patch-burn working group met again this year in Texas. It is a group of researchers and managers that meets once a year to determine progress and challenges associated with their efforts. This working group was put together based on the seminal research connected to this project and includes representatives from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and other areas. This project contributes to my personal development by continuing to get me invited to give presentations and interact with people from many different communities. The latest is a strong interest in Montana where this research is being applied to government and private land in northern Mixed Prairie. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We continue to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Articles have been written about our work in International and other more regional outlets. Our extension partners continue to develop outreach material that are based on this research. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?I plan to continue my accomplishments from this year and develop a new project focused on Sericea Lespedeza.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Accomplishments over the past year include 19 peer-reviewed publications, outreach to the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, completion of several graduate students and acquisition of money to perform this research. We acquired grants from The Nature Conservancy and the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2016. Pyric herbivory to promote livestock production and wildlife conservation. Nebraska Grazing Conference. August 9. 2016. Kearney Nebraska.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, CA Davis, T. Hovick. A phantasmagoria of heterogeneity: Fire, water and birds on a shifting landscape. Symposium: Beyond the ashes: disturbance ecology. The Wildlife Society Annual meeting Raleigh North Carolina.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2016. Conservation and Ecology of Oklahoma Landscapes. November 9, 2016. Tulsa Community College. Environmental Science Seminar series.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2016. Rangeland Phantasmagoria: Fire and grazing for rangeland conservation. Plenary Session of the Minnesota Chapter of the Wildlife Society. 2016 Annual Meeting. Mankato Minnesota. February 9-11, 2016.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD, RWS Fynn, DA McGranahan, D Twidwell. 2016. Heterogeneity as the basis of rangeland management. Symposium: Conceptual Developments of the Rangeland Profession over the past 25 years. Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management. February 1, 2016. Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2016. Rangelands as thermal landscapes: Temperature across spatial and temporal scales. Symposium: Thermal ecology in rangelands. Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management. February 1, 2016. Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
West, AL, CB Zou, E Stebler, SD Fuhlendorf, B Allred. 2016. Pyric-herbivory and Hydrological Responses in Tallgrass Prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management 69: 20-27.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
McGranahan, DA, T Hovick, RD Elmore, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, S Winter, JR Miller, DM Debinski. 2016. Temporal variability in aboveground plant biomass decreases as spatial variability increases. Ecology 97: 555-560
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Limb, RF, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, RF Miller. 2016. Synthesis Paper: Assessment of Research on Rangeland Fire as a Management Practice. Rangeland Ecology & Management 69: 415-422.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
TA Becerra, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, RD Elmore. 2016. Preference for Grassland Heterogeneity: Implications for Biodiversity in the Great Plains, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1239293
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Tanner, E.P., R.D. Elmore, S.D. Fuhlendorf, C.A. Davis, D.K. Dahlgren, and J.P. Orange. 2016. Extreme climatic events contain space use and survival of a ground-nesting bird. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13505
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Carroll, M.J., C.A. Davis, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and R.D. Elmore. 2016. Landscape pattern is critical for the moderation of thermal extremes. Ecosphere 7(7): art e01403.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Earl, J.E., S.D. Fuhlendorf, D. Haukos, A.M. Tanner, R.D. Elmore, and S.A. Carleton. 2016. Characteristics of lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) long-distance movements across their distribution. Ecosphere 7(8): art e01441.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Hovick, T.J., B.W. Allred, D.A. McGranahan, M.W. Palmer, R.D. Elmore, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2016. Informing conservation by identifying range shift patterns across breeding habitats and migration strategies. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1053-6.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Orange, J.P., C.A. Davis, R.D. Elmore, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2016. Temporary communal brooding in northern bobwhite and scaled quail broods. Western North American Naturalist 76:122-127.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Tanner, EP, RD Elmore, CA Davis, DK Dahlgren, ET Thacker, JP Orange. 2016. Does the presence of oil and gas infrastructure potentially increase risk of harvest in northern bobwhite. Wildlife Biology 22: 294-304.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Earl, JE. SD Fuhlendorf. 2016. Relative importance of climate variables to population vital rates: A quantitative synthesis for the Lesser prairie-chickens. PloS one 11 (9), e0163585
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Earl, JE, SD Fuhlendorf, D Haukos, AM Tanner, D Elmore, SA Carleton. 2016. Characteristics of lesser prairie?chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) long?distance movements across their distribution. Ecosphere 7 (8).
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Krueger, ES, TE Ochsner, JD Carlson, DM Engle, D Twidwell, SD Fuhlendorf. 2016. Concurrent and antecedent soil moisture relate positively or negatively to probability of large wildfires depending on season. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25: 657-668.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Bowman, DMJS, GLW Perry, SI Higgins, CN Johnson, SD Fuhlendorf, BP Murphey. 2016. Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs. Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society 371: 20150169.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Fuhlendorf SD, JR Brown. 2016. Future directions for usable rangeland science: From plant communities to landscapes. Rangelands 38: 75-78.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Orange, JP, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2016. Temporary communal brooding in Northern Bobwhite and Scaled Quail broods. Western North American Naturalist 76:122-127.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Twidwell, D, AS West, WB Hiatt, AL Ramirez, JT Winter, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, JD Carlson. Plant Invasions or Fire Policy: Which Has Altered Fire Behavior More in Tallgrass Prairie? Ecosystems 19 (2), 356-368
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Davis, CA, RT Churchwell, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, TJ Hovick. 2016. Effects of pyric herbivory on source-sink dynamics in grassland birds. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 1004-1012.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Carroll, JM, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2016. Response of Northern Bobwhite movements to management driven disturbance in a shrub dominated ecosystem. Rangeland Ecology & Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.006
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Progress 11/19/14 to 09/30/15
Outputs Target Audience:The target audience includes private ranchers, conservationist and land managers, as well as scientists, natural resource and agricultural agencies of Oklahoma and the United States. Collectively, this work has led to the development of a working group that meets annually and this year met in Kansas. The Patch Burn Grazing working group includes ranchers, employees from state and federal agencies, and university representatives from 11 states. Our work has received additional funding by state and federal agencies. This work also has been integral to the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative through the NRCS. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The patch-burn working group met again this year in Kansas. It is a group of researchers and managers that meets once a year to determine progress and challenges associated with their efforts. This working group was put together based on the seminal research connected to this project and includes representatives from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and other areas. This project contributes to my personal development by continuing to get me invited to give presentations and interact with people from many different communities. The latest is a strong interest in Montana where this research is being applied to government and private land in northern Mixed Prairie. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We continue to publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Articles have been written about our work in International and other more regional outlets. Our extension partners continue to develop outreach material that are based on this research What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?This projectwill continue to generatemanuscripts. Additionally, I often meet with the NRCS and state wildlife agencies to explore opportunities for outreach.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Our preliminary results suggest that rangelands can be managed for livestock production and with appropriate efforts the fire-grazing interaction can lead to improved biodiversity, ecosystem function, livestock production and fuels management. Studies that I have worked on in the past year include the impacts of energy development and land management on lesser and greater prairie-chickens and bobwhite quail and the integration of fuels management and wildlife management on complex landscapes. All of these projects include graduate students that are in various phases of completion. The greatest challenge in accomplishing this is that the agricultural education and agricultural culture have promoted homogeneity in land management that is counter to conservation practices and many landscapes are experiencing energy development that resembles industrialization of agricultural landscapes.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Carroll, M.J., C.A. Davis., R.D. Elmore, and S.D. Fuhlendforf. 2015. Proximate thermal environments constrain diurnal behavior of Northern bobwhite broods. 2015 Oklahoma Natural Resources Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Tanner, E. P., M. Pape, R. D. Elmore, S. D. Fuhlendorf, and C. A. Davis. 2015. When strongholds collapse: gains in future distributions may cost current population sources under future climate projections. The Wildlife Society 22nd National Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Tanner, E. P., R. D. Elmore, C. A. Davis, and S. D. Fuhlendorf. 2015. Predicting shifts in northern bobwhite and scaled quail distribution from climate change. Joint Meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Fisheries Society and the Oklahoma Wildlife Society, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Fuhlendorf SD. 2015. Importance of Fire to conserve and restore wildlife on working rangelands in the Northern Great Plains. Symposium: Rangeland Wildlife in the Northern Great Plains: Engaging for Success!. The Wildlife Society Manitoba Canada.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Fuhlendorf, SD. 2015. Rangeland vegetation science as usable science. 2015. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore Maryland. Symposium Usable Science on Rangelands.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Hovick, TJ, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Engle, RG Hamilton. 2015. Spatial Heterogeneity increases diversity and stability in grassland bird communities. Ecological Applications 25: 662-672.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Tanner, EP, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, CA Davis, ET Thacker, DK Dahlgren. 2015. Behavioral Responses at distribution extremes: How artificial surface water can affect quail movement patterns. Rangeland Ecology & Management 68: 476-484.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Carroll, JM, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, ET Thacker. 2015. Thermal patterns constrain diurnal behavior of a ground-dwelling bird. Ecosphere 6 (11), art222
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Hovick TJ, BW Allred, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, RG Hamilton, A Breland. 2015. Dynamic Disturbance Processes Create Dynamic Lek Site Selection in a Prairie Grouse. PloS one 10 (9), e0137882
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Winter SL, BW Allred, KR Hickman, SD Fuhlendorf. 2015. Tallgrass prairie vegetation response to spring fires and bison grazing. The Southwestern Naturalist 60 (1), 30-35
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Scasta, JD, DM Engle, JL Talley, JR Weir, SD Fuhlendorf, DM Debinski. 2015. Drought influences control of parasitic flies of cattle on pastures managed with patch-burn grazing. Rangeland Ecology & Management 68 (3), 290-297
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Allred, BW, WK Smith, D Twidwell, JH Haggerty, SW Running, DE Naugle, SD Fuhlendorf. 2015. Ecosystem services lost to oil and gas in North America. Science 348 (6233), 401-402
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Hovick, TJ, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf, DK Dahlgren. 2015. Weather Constrains the Influence of Fire and Grazing on Nesting Greater Prairie-Chickens. Rangeland Ecology & Management 68 (2), 186-193
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Carroll, JM, CA Davis, RD Elmore, SD Fuhlendorf. 2015. A Ground-Nesting Galliforms Response to Thermal Heterogeneity: Implications for Ground-Dwelling Birds. PloS one 10 (11)
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Twidwell, D, AS West, WB Hiatt, AL Ramirez, JT Winter, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, JD Carlson. 2015. Plant Invasions or fire policy: Which has altered fire behavior more in tallgrass prairie? Ecosystems 2015: 1-13.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Krueger, ES, TE Ochsner, DM Engle, JD Carlson, D Twidwell, SD Fuhlendorf. 2015. Soil Moisture Affects Growing-Season Wildfire Size in the Southern Great Plains. Soil Science Society of America Journal 79 (6), 1567-1576
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Scasta, JD, ET Thacker, TJ Hovick, DM Engle, BW Allred, SD Fuhlendorf, JR Weir. 2015. Patch-burn grazing (PBG) as a livestock management alternative for fire-prone ecosystems of North America. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-18
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Scasta, JD, DM Engle, SD Fuhlendorf, DD Redfearn, TG Bidwell. 2015. Meta-analysis of exotic forages as invasive plants in complex multi-functioning landscapes. Invasive Plant Science and Management 8: 292-306.
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