Source: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA submitted to NRP
ECOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND RESTORATION OF RANGELANDS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1017007
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
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Proposal No.
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Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Oct 1, 2018
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2023
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
888 N EUCLID AVE
TUCSON,AZ 85719-4824
Performing Department
Natural Resources & the Environment
Non Technical Summary
Importance of the Problem to the Agriculture and Rural Life of Arizona or the WestHuman and natural systems are inextricably linked at diverse scales of space and time (NSF 2018). Each has its own dynamics and properties. The natural system affects the human system via a variety of processes and the human system, in turn affects the natural system. Our team seeks to improve our understanding of both the natural system and human systems and how their interactions are manifested in the provision of ecosystem services: the benefits humans receive from ecosystems such as food, erosion control, air quality and water quantity and quality, recreation and aesthetics. We use the concept of ecosystem services as a means to link humans to the world they live in and to organize and evaluate the complex interactions between ecosystems, the services they provide, and human well-being.This project focuses on the rangeland component of dryland ecosystems and their ability to provide services need by society. Rangelands comprise 70% of Arizona and the western USA and over 40% of the terrestrial biosphere and support nearly 40% of the human population (Safriel and Adeel 2005). They support a majority of livestock production, provide critical wildlife habitat, and are integral in global carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles (Reynolds et al. 2007). Globally, these ecosystems are expected to expand 12-23% in the 21st century (Huang et al. 2015). While rangelands provide a myriad of ecosystem services contributing substantial value to socioecological systems, an estimated 10-20% of drylands globally have undergone degradation due to changes in climate, land cover, or land use, and this number will likely increase as climate changes and populations grow (Reynolds et al. 2007).Rangeland ecosystem services are embedded in complex, social-ecological systems. Their sustained provisioning will require coordination among private, state, and federal land managers, organizations and agencies. Conflicts between nature and humans often results from the lack of understating the needs of all stakeholders, and how these can be aligned to create more sustainable management practices (e.g., Soto et al. 2016, Kreye et al. 2017, Susaeta et al. 2017). We aim to improve our understanding of these conflicts and develop solutions that balance conservation priorities with socioeconomic realities in Arizona and the Western USA.The proposed project will address three interrelated components of sustainable dryland management: 1) the mechanisms of rangeland degradation, 2) the development of approaches for mitigating land use impacts, 3) and improving our capacity to restore the capacity for damaged ecosystems to provide the ecosystem goods and services that people depend on. Effectively addressing these components and implementing our findings will require an improved understanding of the perspectives, priorities and constraints associated with diverse stakeholder groups. Given the global importance of arid and semi-arid rangelands, the information generated by the proposed project will have broad applicability.Reasons for doing the work, such as the needs the project will fill and the importance of doing the work now Societies based in arid and semi-arid rangelands are facing unprecedented environmental challenges to their well-being due to myriad anthropogenic effects on ecosystems including the loss of biodiversity; climate change; overexploitation of water, maintaining wildlife corridors, and other natural resources; erosion, invasive species; and habitat fragmentation. The proposed program will (1) conduct research that will help us understand and anticipate the nature of these challenges on rangelands; (2) contribute to collaborative decision-making processes for natural resource governance and policy that spans local to global scales, and natural to social sciences and (3) train diverse scientists, rangeland resource managers, citizens, and decision-makers to address the challenges that confront society and the ecosystems that support us.This program will focus on the coupling between natural and human systems -- beyond the traditional academic silos of individual disciplines -- to examine natural resource science, conservation and management from multiple vantage points. This approach is timely, given the relative maturation of traditional disciplines and the fact that environmental challenges tend to be increasing in complexity. Team approaches have potential for advancing natural resource science and management in ways not possible with traditional, individual investigator-based research progrWays in which public welfare or scientific knowledge will be advanced Climate and land use interact to influence natural and working landscapes in the southwestern US and the ability of those landscapes to supply key ecosystem services (ES) (Mooney et al. 2009, Peters et al. 2013). Understanding how ES vary at scales relevant to natural resource management and policy is critical for decision-making if the needs of diverse user groups are to be addressed (Willcock et al. 2016). Yet, ensuring the provision of multiple ES in spatially heterogeneous landscapes, such as rangelands, is an ongoing challenge due to the complex and unexpected ways their behavior is driven by climate, land cover and land use (Bennett et al. 2009) and policy (Lien et al. 2015). Our team will address these challenges by applying state-of-the-art technologies, methodologies, concepts and theory. Quantifying ES spatially is critical for identifying tradeoffs (e.g. Zheng et al. 2016), location of provisions, and change in value under new conditions. Although spatial accounting at scales relevant to decision-making would make land use decisions more effective, efficient and defensible, data of this nature are lacking (Nelson et al. 2009), especially in the context of restoration planning (Bullock et al. 2011). The proposed project will address these data and knowledge gaps. Furthermore, our current understanding of ES supply is far more developed than that of demand (Yahdjian et al. 2015). Accordingly, we will seek to balance these perspectives so as to provide a more comprehensive basis for setting resource management priorities and goals over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Collectively, the advancement of our ability to manage rangeland resources for diverse interest groups will require integration of earth systems, ecological and social sciences. The team assembled in this proposal covers this range of disciplinary expertise.We will empower citizens, NGOs and agencies to advance the conservation of rangeland resources and the provision of ES by providing information that can be used to minimize or prevent land degradation and facilitate the re-establishment of ecosystem processes needed for the recovery of lost services. This will span a range of basic research (e.g. range grass genetics, dehydration tolerance, reproductive ecology; habitat suitability modeling, biodiversity conservation, primary production and carbon cycling) and applied research (shrub, weed and invasive species management, grazing management, mine land reclamation, restoration ecology) directed by and conducted in the context of societal priorities, preferences, needs and socioeconomic constraints (as informed by surveys, workshops, etc.).
Animal Health Component
70%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
20%
Applied
70%
Developmental
10%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
12107991070100%
Knowledge Area
121 - Management of Range Resources;

Subject Of Investigation
0799 - Rangelands and grasslands, general;

Field Of Science
1070 - Ecology;
Goals / Objectives
Develop an ecosystem services framework that explicitly incorporates interactions among climatic, ecological, social and economic drivers in the management of livestock grazing, non-native vegetation and noxious weeds and woody plants on western rangelands.
Project Methods
Our approaches will center around our previous experiences in research and outreach. We will incorporate novel data resources, tools, technologies and research as they come available and as they might provide new insights or perspectives on old questions or identify new areas of investigation. We will continue to maintain and develop web-based resources, enter into collaborations needed to bring new tools and perspectives to bear on research questions, and pursue disciplinary and interdisciplinary research grants.Our research will take advantage of outdoor field laboratories managed by the University of Arizona (e.g. Santa Rita Experimental Range, V Bar V Ranch), New Mexico State University (College Ranch) and USDA-ARS cooperators (Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed; Jornada Experimental Range). Many of the sites available have well-known and contrasting land use histories and disturbance regimes dating back decades. Knowledge of these historical legacies provide novel opportunities to assess rangeland processes over time-scales relevant to management (e.g. Browning and Archer 2011) and to put projections of future change into a broader context that might help account for what might otherwise be seeming contradictions (Bestelmeyer et al. 2018). We will also continue to cultivate relationships that enable us to conduct small plot-to-watershed scale field research on properties managed by NGOs, producers, private sector companies and County, State and Federal agencies.Studies focused on rangeland plant communities and grazing ecology and management will quantify trends in vegetation composition/diversity and seasonal/interannual variation in cover, production, available forage and its level of utilization and regeneration using standard plot/transect and repeat photography methods in a spatially distributed fashion (e.g. Mashiri et al. 2008, McClaran et al. 2010, Browning and Archer 2011). These traditional methods will be complimented by high resolution, broad-scale geospatial assessments made with emerging technologies associated with sensors and instrumentation on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (e.g. Swetnam et al. 2018) and up-scaled to landscape and watershed scales using satellite remote sensing tools (Moran et al. 2009, Swetnam et al. 2018). These broad-scale efforts will be facilitated by collaboration with colleagues in the Arizona Remote Sensing Center (https://snre.arizona.edu/facilities/arsc), the Advanced Research Technology Lab (https://snre.arizona.edu/facilities/art-lab), and CyVerse (http://www.cyverse.org/). Effects changes in vegetation composition and biomass on soils will be assessed as per our past studies (Wheeler et al. 2007, McClaran et al. 2008, Throop and Archer 2008, Throop et al. 2012). Precipitation effects on plant establishment will be assessed with rainout shelters (Yahdjian and Sala 2002). Livestock movements and distributions patterns will be tracked with GPS technologies. These data will be used to inform the extent the relative importance of nature-nurture factors (animal genetics and social learning) and how they might be manipulated to produce desired distribution outcomes that could maintain rangeland health and aid in management noxious weeds, endangered species and wildfire risk (Howery and Bailey 2018).To better meet the citizen and stakeholder needs related to vegetation management and rangeland restoration, land managers (e.g. private ranchers, agencies [BLM, FWS, NP, FS], NGOs [e.g., Borderlands Restoration, Sky Island Alliance], and members of special interest groups [e.g. Southwest Vegetation Management Association, Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest chapter will be surveyed to identify vegetation management priorities related to brush management, native plant seeding, management for drought, and erosion control. These surveys will clarify key knowledge gaps, research and outreach needs and priorities and constraints to adoption and implementation. Practitioner perspectives on using non-native plants for revegetation (Gornish et al. 2016) will be incorporated in stakeholder-driven experiments aimed at addressing various, and potentially conflicting, long-term multiple ecosystem service goals (e.g., Eastburn et al. 2018). Field experimental approaches (plot-to-landscape scales) will be used in conjunction with complimentary controlled environment trials to elucidate mechanisms, identify bottlenecks to restoration success and test new approaches for vegetation management on arid lands. Field-scale seed production and stand-establishment of native grasses under minimum-input landscape conditions will be emphasized. We will also initiate a coordinated series of distributed experiments across ecoregions (e.g. Fraser et al. 2012) with the aim of identifying emergent properties that contribute to restoration success or failure. Demographic and matrix modeling approaches will be used to track and project plant population growth rates. Effects of changes in plant composition and abundance on infiltration, runoff, erosion and soil nutrient pools will be assessed using standard methodologies (Herrick et al. 2018).A suite of different modeling activities will be employed as a means to synthesize existing data and extend predictions to broader temporal and spatial scales. Research models for biogeochemical (CENTURY) and hydrologic (tRIBS) modeling (Hibbard et al. 2003) (Pierini et al. 2014) will be used as investigative tools to synthesis the field data to examine underlying processes. The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment decision support tool (AGWA) will be used for hydrologic and erosion modeling. AGWA is a user-friendly, GIS-based interface that supports hydrologic and erosion modeling for resource management decision-making (Goodrich et al. 2012). Matrix projection, niche and habitat suitability models will be used to project demographic changes and likelihood of plant spread (e.g. Caswell 2001, Schussman et al. 2006).Investigators on the team have broad experience and established collaborations with these approaches.Human dimension of natural resource management, societal perspectives on the supply of and demand for various ecosystem services and identification of the basis for environmental conflicts (real or perceived) will be assessed via interviews with land owners and land managers, along with questionnaire surveys to general and targeted populations. Stated preferences (Louviere et al. 2000) and Best-Worst Choice (Soto et al. 2018) survey methodologies that consider the livelihood and institutional preferences of rural and urban populations will be used to assess 'willingness to pay' and to identify land management and conservation practices palatable to specific segments of society. Our survey protocols will include: 1) collaboration with natural scientists to identify possible solutions to natural resource problems; 2) identification of stakeholders; 3) conduct preliminary assessments (e.g., focus groups) of stakeholder preferences for mechanisms that incentivize improvements in natural resource management and practices; 4) administer a survey to a representative sample of the targeted population in order to make statistical inferences on institutional preferences; and 5) collaborate with natural and social scientists to interpret results from multiple vantage points and generate policy suggestions. Analyses and policy suggestions will include economic assessments of how society, or the targeted populations, value ecosystem services. The valuation will be accomplished by carefully making statistical inferences on the general population (dollars per person) and multiplying this by the corresponding population number to quantify aggregate worth.

Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20

Outputs
Target Audience:Range managers, ranchers, watershed managers, natural resource managers, plant ecologists, soil scientists, ecosystem scientists, social scientists interested in natural resources, restoration ecologists Changes/Problems:Numerous workshops and local, regional and national meetings were cancelled because of COVID-19; others were held via Zoom, but necessitated adaptations to accommodate virtual presentations and interactions. COVID-19 essentially eliminated all face-to-face extension programming for 2020 and participation in local, regional and national meetings and workshops were relegated to Zoom and teleconferencing. We are assuming that in-person activities will begin ramping up in 2021 and are planning accordingly. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The faculty on this project has been major advisor or co-advisor of 12 PhD and 6 MS students. In addition, the faculty on this project have served in an advisory capacity on the graduate committees of 13 PhD and 11 MS students. We have also supported 6 post-doctoral research associates and 8 technicians/research associates. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Please see entries in the "Publications", "Presentations" and videos in the "Other Products" sections of this report. Additional disseminations include: • New "Public Lands Grazing" and "Large Landscape Conservation" sections of the Rangelands Gateway website that contain information targeting ranchers, agricultural producers and the general public. • Public access to video interviews with producers, extension personnel, and agency personnel via the Rangelands Gateway website • Presentations at the Arizona Land and Water Trust weekly conservation happy hour series on invasive species research • Leadership in planning the presentation of research results and extension products at the upcoming (2021) Soc. Range Management Arizona Section meetings in Prescott, AZ. • Santa Rita Experimental Range website updates on weather, vegetation monitoring and grazing management plans What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?• Continue to support Adaptive Management on the Santa Rita Experimental Range livestock grazing program through data collection and collaborative decision making • Initiate research/extension programs on virtual fencing on the Santa Rita Experimental Range • Initiate a Russian knapweed bio-control monitoring program in SE Arizona • Initiate research/extension programs on the Deep Well Ranch in Prescott, AZ (supported, in part with funding from the Harold James Family Trust and the Deep Well Ranch • Continue to inform the development of an ecosystem services framework - focusing on coupled natural human systems and natural resources management in western rangelands. • Continue monitoring spatially distributed weather stations, ground photo points, and vegetation transects on the Santa Rita Experimental Range and make data available on the SRER web site • Initiate field work in Paraguay with support from the Tinker Foundation, a Rufford Small Grant and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center's Natural Resources Workforce Development • Host the 17th Annual Research Insights on Semi-Arid Ecosystems Symposium on the U Arizona campus

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Please see entries in the "Publications", "Presentations" and "Other Products" sections of this report.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Epstein, G, TH Morrison, AM Lien, GG Gurney, D Cole, M Delaroche, S Villamayor Tomas, NC Ban, M Cox. 2020. Historical legacies and the diagnosis of complex social-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Espinosa, N.J., D.J.P. Moore, C. Rasmussen, J.S. Fehmi, and R.E. Gallery. 2020. Woodchip and biochar amendments differentially influence microbial responses, but do not enhance plant recovery in disturbed semiarid soils. Restoration Ecology 28:S381-S392. DOI: 10.1111/rec.13165
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Fehmi, J.S., C. Rasmussen, and R.E. Gallery. 2020. Biochar and woodchip amendments alter restoration outcomes, microbial processes, and soil moisture in a simulated semi-arid ecosystem. Restoration Ecology 28:S355-S364. DOI: 10.1111/rec.13100
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Hale, SL, JL Koprowski, SR Archer. 2020. Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) reintroduction can limit woody plant proliferation into grasslands. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 17: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00233
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Kariuki, S., R.E. Gallery, J.P Sparks, R. Gimblett, and M.P. McClaran. 2020. Soil microbial activity is resistant to recreational camping disturbance in a Prosopis dominated semiarid savanna. Applied Soil Ecology. 147: 103424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.103424
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Farrell, H., A. Barberan, R. Danielson, J.S. Fehmi, and E. Gornish. 2020. Disturbance is more important than seeding or grazing in determining soil microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland. Restoration Ecology 28:S335-S343. DOI: 10.1111/rec.13156
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Kleeman, J, M Schr�ter, KJ Bagstad, C Kuhlicke, T Kastner, D Friedman, CJE Schulp, S Wolff, J Mart�nez-L�pez, T Koellner, S Arnhold, B Martin-Lopez, A Marques, L L�pezHoffman, J Liu, M Kissinger, CA Guerra, A Bonn. 2020. Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services  a case study for Germany. Global Environmental Change 61:102051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102051
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Leal-Sandoval, A, A Tepatl�n-Vargas, G L�pez-Segoviano, OO Linares-Holgu�n, P Sanchez-Pe�a, L L�pez-Hoffman. 2020. Acoustic records of Promops centralis (Thomas, 1915) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in corn agroecosystems of northwestern Mexico. Check List 16:1269-1276. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1269
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Farrell H, L�ger A, Breed MF, and Gornish ES (2020) Soil microbes and soil processes in restoration. Restoration Ecology 28: S307-S310
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Gornish ES, Rowe J, Franklin K, and Barber�n A (2020) Buffelgrass invasion and glyphosate effects on desert soil microbiome communities. Biological Invasions 22: 2587-2597
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Levi, EM, SR Archer, HL Throop, C Rasmussen. 2020. Soil-litter mixing promotes decomposition and soil aggregate formation on contrasting geomorphic surfaces in a shrub-invaded Sonoran Desert grassland. Plant and Soil (In Press). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04508-1
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Li M, and Gornish ES (2020) General attributes and practice of ecological restoration in Arizona and California, USA revealed by restoration stakeholder surveys. Restoration Ecology 28: 1296 1307
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Li YM, Roche LM, and Gornish ES (2020) Bridging the research-implementation gap in weed management on California rangelands. Rangeland Ecology & Management DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2020.01.007
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Liang M, Feng X and Gornish ES. (2020) Rainfall pulses mediate long-term plant community dynamics in a semi-arid rangeland. Journal of Applied Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13780
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Lien, AM. 2020. The Institutional Grammar Tool in Policy Analysis and Applications to Resilience Research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.02.004
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2020 Citation: Lien, AM, T Dew, G Ruyle, N Robbins Sherman, N Perozzo, M Miller, L L�pez-Hoffman. In press. Trust plays an essential role in implementation of adaptive management on public lands. Rangeland Ecology and Management
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Mattsson, BJ, J Devries, JA Dubovsky, DJ Semmens, WE Thogmartin, JJ Derbridge & L L�pez-Hoffman. Sources and dynamics of international funding for waterfowl conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America. Wildlife Research 47:279-295. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR19100
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Noelle, S., Lyons, T., Gorlier, A., McClaran, M.P., Nichols, M., and Ruyle, G. In press. How long before a second defoliation of actively growing grass plants in the Desert Grassland? Frontiers in Veterinary Science, section Animal Behavior and Welfare. 7, 1023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.600734
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Mattsson, BJ, J Devries, JA Dubovsky, DJ Semmens, WE Thogmartin, JJ Derbridge & L L�pez-Hoffman. 2020. Linking landscape-scale conservation to regional and continental outcomes for a migratory species. Scientific Reports 10:4968. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61058-3
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Qingzhu G, Gornish ES, Schwartz M, Fan W, Ganjurjav H, Zheng H, and Yue L (2020) Warming and precipitation addition interact to affect plant spring phenology in alpine meadows on the central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 287: 107943
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2020 Citation: Smart, A.J., K. Harmoney, J.D. Scasta, M.B. Stephenson, J.D. Volesky, L.T Vermiere, J.C. Mosley, K. Sedivec, M. Meehan, T. Haigh, J.D. Derner, and M.P. McClaran. In press. Critical decision dates for drought management in Central and Northern Great Plains Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Management.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Schohr T, Gornish ES, Woodmansee G, Shaw J, Tate KW, and Roche LM (2020) Practitioner Insights into Weed Management on California's Rangelands and Natural Areas. Environmental Management 65: 212-219
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: N��ez-Regueiro, M.M., Branch, L.C., Derlindati, E., Gasparri, I., Marinaro, S., Nanni, S., Godoy, C.N.*, Piquer-Rodr�guez, M., Soto, J.R. and T�lamo, A., 2020. Open Standards for conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, pp.6-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.03.001
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: N��ez-Regueiro, M.M., Hiller, J., Branch, L.C., Godoy, C.N.*, Siddiqui, S., Volante, J. and Soto, J.R., 2020. Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of Payment for Ecosystem Service Programs in Argentina. Land Use Policy, 95, p.104596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104596
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Ojima, DS, R Aicher, SR Archer, DW Bailey, SM Casby-Horton, N. Cavallaro, JJ Reyes, JA Tanaka, RA Washington- Allen. 2020. Climate change indicators for rangelands and pastures of the United States. Climatic Change https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02915-y
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Pierce, C. F., S. E. Speidel, S. J. Coleman, R. M. Enns, D. W. Bailey, J. F. Medrano, A. C�novas, P. J. Meiman, L. D. Howery, W. F. Mandeville, M. G. Thomas. 2020. Genome-wide association studies of beef cow terrain-use traits using Bayesian multiple-SNP regression. Livestock Sci. 232:1-10.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Shaw JA, Roche LM, and Gornish ES (2020) The use of spatially patterned methods for vegetation restoration and management across systems. Restoration Ecology 28: 766-775
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Throop, HL, Archer, SR, McClaran, MP. 2020. Soil organic carbon in drylands: shrub encroachment and vegetation management effects dwarf those of livestock grazing. Ecological Applications 30 (7), e02150, doi.org/10.1002/eap.2150
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Adams, D.C., Soto, J.R., Lai, J., Escobedo, F.J., Alvarez, S. and Kibria, A.S., 2020. Public Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Invasive Forest Pest Prevention Programs in Urban Areas. Forests, 11(10), p.1056. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11101056
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Baccei, J.S., M.P. McClaran, T.J. Kuhn, and S.C. Hart. 2020. Multi-scale drivers of soil resistance predict vulnerability of seasonally wet meadows to trampling in the Sierra Nevada, USA. Ecological Processes. 9:32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00236-7
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Gornish ES and Howery L. Non-native, invasive plants of Arizona. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication AZ1482. pp26
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Hall A, Gornish ES, and Ruyle G (2020) Poisonous plants on Arizona rangelands. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication AZ1828. pp 10. https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1828- 2020.pdf
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2020 Citation: Bean T, Davy J, Kyser G and Gornish ES (Accepted) Integration of grazing and herbicide application to manage Barb Goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis L.) and Medusahead (Elymus caput medusae L.) in pasture and rangelands. California Agriculture


Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience: Range managers, ranchers, watershed managers, natural resource managers, plant ecologists, soil scientists, ecosystem scientists, social scientists interested in natural resources, restoration ecologists Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? We supervised 10 PhD students, 4 MS students, 8 Post-doctoral research associates and 2 research associates/technical staff. In addition we involved ~ 33 undergraduate students (part-time, hourly wages) in our research. Organized 3-d, 25th Annual Southwestern Noxious, Invasive Plant Short Course (July 23, 24, and 25, 2019) in Farmington, NM; trained ~85 private and public southwestern land managers. BLM Pesticide Management Training resulted in ~100 BLM managers becoming certified pesticide applicators. Introduced high school students (mostly from rural communities) attending the annual U Arizona Career Development Event (CDE) to range ecology and management Conducted ~20, weekly 2-hour study sessions with 11 undergraduate students (~400 student contact hours) from late August 2019 through mid February 2020 to prepare them for the competitive Undergraduate Range Management Exam (URME) was given at the annual SRM meetings Denver, CO (the team won the competition). During 2018/19, the same study regimen was conducted with 9 undergraduate students (~380 student contact hours) from late August 2018 through early February 2019 to prepare them for the URME in Minneapolis, MN. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?In addition to the journal publications, presentations and audio/video products listed in the earlier section we also engaged in the following outreach activities: Gornish ES (2019) Seed ball strategies for gardening and restoration in arid landscapes. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication AZ1797. pp2 Gornish ES. Biotic response - Caring about the environment in a changing climate. Sky Islands School, Tucson, AZ, invited oral presentation. 01/2019 Gornish ES. Diversity and inclusion in science: What are we doing and what can we do better? Sky Islands High School. Tucson AZ, invited oral presentation. 08/2019 Gornish ES. Seedball production and use for gardens and rangeland restoration. Family Day at Cochise County Master Gardeners Discovery Gardens. Sierra Vista AZ, oral presentation. 04/2019 Muller P, Mendivil E, and Gornish ES. Seedball composition effects on Plains Bristlegrass (Setaria vulpiseta) germination. Tucson High School Science Fair. Tucson AZ, poster presentation. 02/2019 Gornish ES, Johnson M, and Caballero-Reynolds M. Using a bike to make seed pellets for ecological restoration. Tucson High School Science Night. Tucson AZ, oral presentation. 02/2019 Gornish ES. Novel approaches to restoration challenges in the southwest. Science Night. BisbeeAZ, invited oral presentation. 08/2019 Gornish ES. Seedball production and use for gardens and rangeland restoration. Bisbee ScienceLab. Bisbee AZ, oral presentation. 08/2019 Gornish ES. Seedball production and use for gardens and rangeland restoration. Borderlands Restoration Field School. Patagonia, AZ, oral presentation. 07/2019 Gornish, E. S., and L. D. Howery.2019.Non-Native, Invasive Plants or Arizona.Peer-reviewed Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication.#AZ 1482.https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1482-2019.pdf Gornish, E.S. 2019. Arizona land managers UA Coop Ext Handout: Non-native, invasive plants of Arizona. Editor Barton D., and L. D. Howery.2019.Pointleaf manzanita ('little apple')Arctostaphylos pungens.Peer-reviewed Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication.#AZ 1791.https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1791-2019.pdf. Howery, L. D., B. Hutchinson, A. Lien, J. Conley, C. Burleson, W. Gray, G. Ruyle, A. Brischke, J. Grace, A. Hall, K. McReynolds, J. Schalau, P. Sundareshan.2019.Public Land Grazing and NEPA: A Multimedia Educational Program for Arizona Cooperative Extension and Beyond Tucson, AZ. Gornish (organizer/presenter): 04/2019 Albuquerque, NM, Forest Service Workshop Seed ball making. Organizer/ Presenter, 12 attendees 09/2019 Tucson, AZ National Public Lands Day Workshop Seed bike demonstration. Organizer/ Presenter, 70 attendees 10/2019 Tucson AZ, Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival 2019 Workshop Seed bike demonstration. Organizer/ Presenter, 250 attendees 11/2019 Tucson, AZ Cross Watershed Working Group Workshop Grassland Restoration. Organizer/ Presenter, 120 attendees 11/2019 Tucson AZ, Restoration practitioners and researchers Meeting Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter annual meeting. Organizer/ Presenter, 200 attendees What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are submitting this report retroactively, as it was inadvertently overlooked and not submitted on-time. The activities that would normally have been memtioned in this section will be summarized in the 2020 annual report.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Please see entries in the "Publications", "Presentations" and "Other Products" sections of this report for additional material. A large Western SARE funded project linking plant traits, plant demography and restoration outcomes. The large experiment is being conducted in collaboration with two ranchers on ranch in the states of AZ and CA. A field tech and a postdoc were hired for this project. A large cross-state experiment, in collaboration with USGS and funded by the CALS Innovation Venture Investment to understand linkages between soil microbial communities and rangeland restoration outcomes. An experiment to assess effective restoration techniques in Lehmann lovegrass infested rangeland after a fire, in collaboration with Audubon and funded by Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. Organized DNA Symposium at the Annual SRM meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (included speakers from 6 universities) Conducted 21, 2-h study/exam sessions with undergraduate or high school students in 17 different communities across Arizona and the western and midwestern US (e.g., Arizona, California, Idaho New Mexico, and Minnesota) final report on "The effects of managed grazing on the habitat of the endangered southwest willow flycatcher" submitted to the NRCS Organized 3-day Southwest Noxious, Invasive Plant Short Course Invited contributions to BLM Pesticide Management Training in Boise, ID, and Albuquerque, NM Chaired Range Management Exam given during Career Development Day (formerly FFA Day).High school students who participate inCDE Day are tested on their skills concerning rangeland ecology and management principles, plant ID Skills, and quantifying forage utilization by herbivores. 2019 was the final year of a NIFA-funded project, Measuring Ecosystem Services and Socio-economic Benefits Provided by Adaptive Management in Southwestern Rangelands. MS student Natalya Robbins Sherman presented some of her work on that project at the Arizona and New Mexico Joint Society for Range Management winter meeting. A NSF-funded project, A telecoupling model to account for spatial subsidies of ecosystem services provided by transboundary migratory species in North America, entered its final year. Two new papers from that project were published and a symposium at the The Wildlife Society Annual Conference was hosted. The NSF-RIDIR-funded NEPAccess project, now in its second year, continued to make progress towards developing a knowledge and discovery platform the provides access to and analysis tools for decades of documents and data created during environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act. A diverse team of researchers in the fields of data science, law, government & policy, and natural resources management is engaged. Updated long-term records on the Santa Rita Experimental Range, including: 1) Monthly Precipitation for 25 gauges that have been monitored since 1922, 2) repeat photography for 22 historic ground-based photo stations, and 3) monthly livestock grazing in pastures/allotments that have been monitored since 1916.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: James JJ, Sheley RL, Leger EA, Adler PB, Hardegree SP, Gornish ES, and Rinella MJ (2019) Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration. Journal of Ecology 56: 2609-2619
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Liang M, and Gornish ES (2019) Rainfall regulation of grazed grasslands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 23887-23888
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Farrell HL, and Gornish ES (2019) Pennisetum ciliaris: a review of treatment efficacy, competitive traits, and restoration opportunities. Invasive Plant Science and Management DOI: 10.1017/inp2019.28
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Ganjurjav H, Zhang Y, Gornish ES, Hu G, Li Y, and Gao Q (2019) Differential resistance and resilience of functional groups to livestock grazing maintain ecosystem stability in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management 251: 109579
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES, Arnold H, and Fehmi J (2019) Review of seed pelletizing strategies for arid land restoration. Restoration Ecology 27: 1206-1211
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Liang M, Chen J, Gornish ES, Mariotte P and Liang C (2019) Foliar nutrient contend mediates effects on species dominance and plant community biomass. Rangeland Ecology & Management 72: 899-906
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES, Shaw J, and Gillespie B (2019) Using strip seeding to test how restoration design affects randomness of community assembly. Restoration Ecology 27: 1199-1205
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Dechen Silva A, Roche LM, and Gornish ES (2019) The use of strip-seeding for management of two late-season invasive plants. Heliyon 5: e01772
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Jennings LJ, Ossana L, Fontana C, Farrell H*, Kline A, Gornish ES, Neilson J, and Maier RM. Biotic potential of degraded soil development on reclaimed mine tailings in Southern Arizona. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, poster presentation. 12/19
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. Heterogeneity as a tool in dryland restoration. Society of Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter annual meeting. Tucson AZ, invited oral presentation. 11/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Kline AA, Porensky L, Perryman BL, Leger EA, and Gornish ES. Using native grass seeding and targeted grazing to modify plant biomass in Nevada rangeland. Society of Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Annual Meeting. Tucson AZ, poster presentation. 11/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Farrell HL, Barber�n A, Gornish ES. How does restoration impact the soil organisms and properties of a disturbed semi-arid grassland? Society of Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter annual meeting. Tucson AZ, oral presentation. 11/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: McCormick ML, Munson SM, Laushman KM, Havrilla C, Butterfield BJ, Balazs K, Duniway M, Mann R, Bradford JB, Hartsell J, Cooper H, Newell S, Talkington N, Mike J, Gornish ES, and Fisk T. Connecting science and land management to enhance Southwest ecosystems  examples from the USGS Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest (RAMPS). Society of Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter annual meeting. Tucson AZ, oral presentation. 11/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. Unexpected drivers of native plant community dynamics in the low Arizona desert. Arizona Native Plant Society meeting. Tucson AZ, invited oral presentation. 11/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Teller N, Bean T, Gornish ES, and Larios L. Integrated weed control and trait-screened seed mixes to reduce the risk of postfire type conversion from coastal sage scrub to annual grassland. California Invasive Plant Council Annual Meeting. Riverside CA, oral presentation. 10/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. Its not what you think! What really drives plant community dynamics at the Santa Rita Experimental Range. RISE Symposium. Tucson AZ, oral presentation. 10/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Howery, L.D., and D. W. Bailey. 2019. What is the basis for grazing distribution: Nature vs Nurture? Abstract submitted and accepted in 2018 and paper was presented at a Symposium during the 2019 International Society for Range Management Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Bailey, D. W., T. Mercado, M. Gannon, M. G. Thomas, S. E. Speidel, J. F. Medrano, R. M. Enns, C. F. Pierce and L. D. Howery. 2019. Selection for Grazing Distribution, Difficulties and Opportunities. International Society for Range Management Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Stephenson, M. B., D. W. Bailey, R. A. Bruegger, L. D. Howery. 2019. Factors affecting the efficacy of low-stress herding and supplement placement to target cattle grazing locations. International Society for Range Management Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Rao DR, and Gornish ES. Tumbleweed control using grazing, herbicide, and seeding. Rangeland Management and Erosion Prevention Workshops. Paso Robles CA, oral presentation. 09/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. REAL co-production of science: Examples and recommendations from Cooperative Extension. Biennial Conference for Science and Management. Flagstaff AZ, oral presentation. 09/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. Constructing and operating a bicycle powered seed pelletizing machine for use in gardening and ecological restoration projects. University of Arizona Annual Extension Conference. Tucson, AZ, poster presentation. 08/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Snell L, Little JM, Gornish ES, Lile D, Hogan SD, Jin Y, and Roche L. Post-wildfire livestock grazing on public lands in northern California. University of California Fire Workshop. Davis, CA, poster presentation. 04/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Snell L, Little JM, Gornish ES, Lile D, Hogan SD, Jin Y, and Roche L. Post-wildfire livestock grazing on public lands in northern California. California Rangeland Conservation Coalition annual meeting. Susanville, CA, oral presentation. 01/2019
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gornish ES. Relationships between grass and mesquite cover based on long-term data: Implications for restoration opportunities. Malpai Borderlands Group Science Conference. Rodeo, NM, oral presentation. 01/2019
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Weiser, EL, Diffendorfer, JE, Grundel, R, L�pez-Hoffman, L, Pecoraro, S, Semmens, D, Thogmartin, WE. 2019. Balancing sampling intensity against spatial coverage for a community science monitoring programme. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56:22522263.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Koellner, T, Bonn, A, Arnhold, S, Bagstad, KJ, Fridman, D, Guerra, CA, Kastner, T, Kissinger, M, Kleeman, J, Kuhlicke, C, Liu, J, L�pez-Hoffman, L, Marques, A, Mart�n-L�pez, B, Schulp, CJE, Wolff, S & Schr�ter, M. 2019. Guidance for assessing interregional ecosystem service flows. Ecological Indicators. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.04.046
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Lien, AM, Ulibarri, C, Ruyle, G, Bonar, S, Vanasco, W & L�pez-Hoffman, L. 2019. Opportunities and barriers for endangered species conservation using payments for ecosystem services. Biological Conservation. 232:74-82. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.01.017
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Mattsson, BJ, L�pez-Hoffman, L, Semmens, D, Diffendorfer, J, Thogmartin, W, Lien, AM, Huang, TK, Haefele, MA, Loomis, J, Bagstad K & Derbridge, JJ. 2019. Using the spatial subsidies framework for conservation of transboundary ecosystem services from migratory species. Symposium. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Reno, NV.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: L�pez-Hoffman, L, Emerson, K, Baldwin, E & Rodr�guez-McGoffin, MS. What happened when NEPA ended at the border? The end of environmental law: a multi-disciplinary conference. 18 January 2019. James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Robbins Sherman, NC, Lien, AM, L�pez-Hoffman, L & Ruyle, G. Forty years of Learning by Doing: An on-the-ground look at Adaptive Management. Arizona and New Mexico Joint Society for Range Management winter meeting. January 2019.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Smart, A.J., K. Harmoney, J.D. Scasta, M.B. Stephenson, J.D. Volesky, L.T Vermiere, J.C. Mosley, K. Sedivec, M. Meehan, T. Haigh, J.D. Derner, and M.P. McClaran. 2019. Critical decision dates for drought management in Central and Northern Great Plains Rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2019.09.005
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Gillan, J., M.P. McClaran, T. Swetnam, and P. Heilman. 2019. Estimating forage utilization with drone-based photogrammetric point clouds. Rangeland Ecology and Management 72:575-585.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Weston, J., M.P. McClaran, R.K. Whittle, C.W. Black, and J.S. Fehmi. 2019. Satellite Patches, Patch Expansion, and Doubling Time as Decision Metrics for Invasion Control: Pennisetum ciliare Expansion in Southwestern Arizona. Invasive Plant Science and Management 12:36-42.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Robbins Sherman, N.C. 2019. Forty years of Learning by Doing: An on-the-ground look at Adaptive Management. Masters Thesis. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Rodriguez-McGoffin, M.S. 2019. Waiving Nepa to Build A Border Wall: From Conflict to Collaboration on the Arizona-Mexico Border between 1990 And 2017. Masters Thesis. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Johnson, M.K. 2019. Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge: Barriers, Integration, Policy, and Outreach. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Pierce, N, SR Archer, BT Beltelmeyer, DK James. 2019. Grass-shrub competition in arid lands: an overlooked driver in grassland-shrubland state transition? Ecosystems 22(3):619-628.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Pierce, N, SR Archer, BT Bestelmeyer. 2019. Competition suppresses shrubs during early, but not late, stages of arid grassland-to-shrubland transition. Functional Ecology 33:1480-1490
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Zhou, X., Watts, SE, Boutton, TW, Archer, SR. 2019. Root density distribution and biomass allocation of co-occurring woody plants on contrasting soils in a subtropical savanna parkland. Plant and Soil 438:263-279.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Rutherford, WA, SR Archer, L Weber-Grullon, OE Sala. 2019. Shrub recruitment in Sonoran grasslands: grass utilization is of little consequence to intra-seasonal precipitation variation. Soc. Range Management Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, MN (poster)
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Johnson, J, CJ Williams, DP Guertin, SR Archer, FB Pierson. 2019. Brush management of a whitethorn acacia-encroached grassland enhances resource-conserving shrub islands. 16th Annual RISE Symposium, Univ Arizona, Tucson, Oct 20, Tucson, AZ (poster).
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Jones, S, WA Rutherford, SR Archer. (2019) Evaluating Woody Plant Encroachment in Sonoran Grasslands for Brush Management Planning. Oral presentation (co-presented by Jones and Rutherford); Science on the Sonoita Plain Symposium, Sonoita, AZ.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Weston, J.D., M.P. McClaran, R.K. Whittle, C.W. Black, and J.S. Fehmi. 2019. Satellite patches, patch expansion, and doubling time as decision metrics for invasion control: Pennisetum ciliare expansion in Southwestern Arizona. Invasive Plant Science and Management 12:36-42. DOI: 10.1017/inp.2019.3
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Abercrombie, S., J.L. Koprowski, M.H. Nichols, and J.S. Fehmi. 2019. Native lagomorphs suppress grass establishment in a shrub-encroached, semi-arid grassland. Ecology and Evolution 9:307-317. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4730
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Espinosa, N., D.J. Moore, C. Rasmussen, J.S. Fehmi, and R.E. Gallery. Buried woodchips or biochar as a means of soil restoration: Effects on microbial activities, soil carbon cycling and plant cover in a semiarid ecosystem. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2019 (Poster Presentation).
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Adams, D.C., Susaeta, A., Soto, J.R., Rossi, F., de Grammont, P.C., Messina, W.A., Koch, F.H., Gomez, D. and Hulcr, J., 2019. A bioeconomic model for estimating potential economic damages from a hypothetical Asian beetle introduced via future trade with Cuba. Journal of Bioeconomics, 22(2020): 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-019-09289-x
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Pienaar, E.F., Soto, J.R., Lai, J., and Adams, D.C., 2019. Would County Residents Vote for an Increase in Their Taxes to Conserve Native Habitat and Ecosystem Services? Funding Conservation in Palm Beach County, Florida. Ecological Economics, 159: 24-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.011
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Tanner, S., Escobedo, F., and Soto, J.R., A., and Allen, D., 2019. Preferences for Longleaf Pine Restoration in the U.S. Southeast. University of Arizona Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Department Seminar, Tucson, Arizona.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Soto, J.R., Adams, D.C., Lai, J., Susaeta, A., and Allen, D., 2019. Payments for the Managing Forests for Water Production: Institutional Preferences of Forest Landowners in Florida, USA. II Congreso y Exhibici�n Internacional: Agua para el Futuro, Mendoza, Argentina.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Soto, J.R., 2019. The Path to Sustainability: Conflicts and the Importance of Drivers and Preferences. IBIGEO - Instituto de Biologia y Geociencias del NOA, Faculty Research Seminar, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Soto, J.R., 2019. Lessons and Tips for STEM Careers in Academia: Research & Perspectives from a 1st Generation Bordertown Journey. Duke SPIRE STEM Seminar, Duke University, Durham, N.C.