Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semiarid Ecosystems of the Western US : Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications - Germino, Matthew J.; Chambers, Jeanne C.; Brown, Cynthia S.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Part I: Environmental Impacts of Bromus Species -- Annual Brome invasions and their Impacts: Comparisons among ecoregions in the Western United States -- Impacts Impacts of Bromus tectorum and other annual bromes on ecosystem integrity -- Part II: Invasiveness of Bromus species (emphasis on biological attributes of Bromus) -- Evolutionary relationships, mating systems and genetic diversity of Bromus tectorum and other species within section Genea -- Attributes that confer invasiveness and impacts across the large Bromus genus: lessons from the Bromus REEnet database -- Part III: Understanding environmental controls and Bromus distribution (invasibility) -- Abiotic controls on annual brome distribution at the regional, landscape, local, and microsite scale -- Future range shifts of Bromus rubens and Bromus tectorum with climate change - a review of model projections -- Community ecology of fungal pathosystems on Bromus tectorum and implications for management -- Community resistance to Bromus -- Part IV: Relating the science to human uses and restoration of western rangeland landscapes -- Interactions among fire, land uses, and invasion - ecology and human dimensions -- Human dimensions of invasive grasses -- Economic modelling and the management of brome grasses: accounting for ecosystem dynamics, ecological thresholds, and spatial interdependencies -- State-and-transition models: conceptual vs. simulation perspectives, usefulness and breadth of use, land management applications -- Restoration and management tools for rangelands impacted by exotic bromes: new perspectives for the future -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental management; Biodiversity; Landscape ecology; Environmental Management; Biodiversity; Landscape Ecology