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Filtering by: Creator Wiles, Lawrence E. Academic Affiliation Animal and Rangeland Sciences License Attribution 3.0 United States

Predicting foundation bunchgrass species abundances: model-assisted decision-making in protected-area sagebrush steppe

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Rodhouse, Thomas J., Irvine, Kathryn M., Sheley, Roger L., Smith, Brenda S., Hoh, Shirley, Esposito, Daniel M., and Mata-Gonzalez, Ricardo

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Foundation species are structurally dominant members of ecological communities that can stabilize ecological processes and influence resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasion. Being common, they are often overlooked for conservation but are increasingly threatened from land use change, biological invasions, and over‐exploitation. The pattern of foundation species abundances over...

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