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Author(s):
Mark W. Brunson, John A. Tanaka
Year Published:

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Topic(s):
Fire Ecology
Fire & Economics
Invasive Species
Fire Effects
Ecological - Second Order
Ecosystem(s):
Sagebrush steppe

NRFSN number: 11463
FRAMES RCS number: 11000
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Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rather than human dimensions of these environmental processes. We offer a synthetic perspective on economic and social aspects of wildfire and invasive plants in American deserts, focusing on the Great Basin because greater research attention has been given to the effects of cheatgrass expansion than to other desert wildfire/invasion cycles.

Citation

Brunson, Mark W.; Tanaka, John. 2011. Economic and social impacts of wildfires and invasive plants in American deserts: lessons from the Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 64(5): 463-470.

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