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Invasion of perennial sagebrush steppe by shallow-rooted exotic cheatgrass reduces stable forms of soil carbon in a warmer but not cooler ecoregion

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outline of fire perimeter, purple strips show where 2 herbicides were applied, brown stripes show where indaziflam only

Map of herbicide treatment experiment in Idaho
Photography
a person pressing a long metal device into the ground, the plot of soil is bare but outside the plot there is green grass

Field technician collecting a soil core
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Post-fire management targeting invasive annual grasses may have inadvertently released the exotic perennial forb Chondrilla juncea and suppressed its biocontrol agent

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Patterns of post-fire invasion of semiarid shrub-steppe reveals a diversity of invasion niches within an exotic annual grass community

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Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)

The Effect of Pre-Emergent Herbicides on Soil in The Sagebrush Steppe

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Annual grass invasions and wildfire deplete ecosystem carbon storage by >50% to resistant base levels

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Weed-suppressive bacteria have no effect on exotic or native plants in sagebrush-steppe

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Sagebrush surrounded by cheatgrass

Weed-Suppressive Bacteria have no Effect on Exotic or Native Plants in Sagebrush Steppe

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Risks and rewards of pre-emergent herbicide (indaziflam) to defend core sagebrush-steppe ecosystems under suboptimal precipitation

Data Release
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Early estimates of Annual Exotic Herbaceous Fractional Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem, USA, May 2020

Technical Announcement
Cheatgrass in the Santa Rosa Range, Nevada.

New Invasive Annual Grass Book Addresses Critical Questions for the Western U.S.

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Use of seeded exotic grasslands by wintering birds

Center News
Sagebrush surrounded by cheatgrass

A Chemical and Bio-Herbicide Mixture Increased Exotic Invaders, Both Targeted and Non-Targeted, Across a Diversely Invaded Landscape After Fire

Research
two scientists setting up an experiment in an area dominated by cheatgrass

Weed-Suppressive Bacteria – Testing a Control Measure for Invasive Grasses in the West

Center News
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FORT researchers publish annotated bibliography of science on the invasive annual grass, medusahead

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Ecosystem impacts of exotic annual invaders in the genus Bromus

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Introduction: Exotic annual Bromus in the western USA

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Plant species richness at different scales in native and exotic grasslands in Southeastern Arizona

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Soil biota can change after exotic plant invasion: Does this affect ecosystem processes?

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Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: Are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?

Photography
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Sagebrush landscape
Data Release
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Fractional estimates of invasive annual grass cover in dryland ecosystems of western United States (2016 - 2018)

Photography
three people standing on a slope in a grassy field, one is rolling up a tape measure, two are holding clippers, sky is cloudy

Vegetation monitoring in Idaho
Center News
Bureau of Land Management truck sprays herbicide in southwestern Idaho as part of a restoration effort. 

Restoration Variability and Herbicide-Weather Interactions in Severely Invaded Rangeland

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Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Plant cover, density, and growth measurements from burned and unburned plots treated with indaziflam four years after the Soda fire

Center News
half of a field is covered in sagebrush, half is bare dirt and mowed brown grass, a road is in the distance to the left

Edge effects along roadside fuel treatments in sagebrush steppe

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Soil biota in an ungrazed grassland: Response to annual grass (Bromus tectorum) invasion

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Hakalau Forest NWR Litterfall, Decomposition, Soils, and Seedling Survival Data 2019

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