Generalizing ecological site concepts of the Colorado Plateau for landscape-level applications

December 30, 2016

Numerous ecological site descriptions in the southern Utah portion of the Colorado Plateau can be difficult to navigate, so we held a workshop aimed at adding value and functionality to the current ecological site system.
We created new groups of ecological sites and drafted state-and-transition models for these new groups.
We were able to distill the current large number of ecological sites in the study area (ca. 150) into eight ecological site groups that capture important variability in ecosystem dynamics.
Several inventory and monitoring programs and landscape scale planning actions will likely benefit from more generalized ecological site group concepts.

Publication Year	2016
Title	Generalizing ecological site concepts of the Colorado Plateau for landscape-level applications
DOI	10.1016/j.rala.2016.10.010
Authors	Michael C. Duniway, Travis W. Nauman, Jamin K. Johanson, Shane Green, Mark E. Miller, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Publication Type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Series Title	Rangelands
Index ID	70179457
Record Source	USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization	Southwest Biological Science Center

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