Operationalizing Resilience and Resistance Concepts to Address Invasive Grass-Fire Cycles
| Autor: | Brady W. Allred, Matthew O. Jones, David I. Board, Matthew L. Brooks, Matthew J. Germino, Jeanne C. Chambers, Jeremy D. Maestas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine spatial resilience high value resources lcsh:Evolution Woodland 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Shrubland 03 medical and health sciences Ecoregion resilience to fire lcsh:QH540-549.5 lcsh:QH359-425 Resilience (network) non-native invasive grasses Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Fire regime Resistance (ecology) business.industry Environmental resource management 030104 developmental biology Disturbance (ecology) Habitat lcsh:Ecology fire regimes business resistance to invasive plants |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 7 (2019) |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fevo.2019.00185/full |
| Popis: | Plant invasions can affect fuel characteristics, fire behavior, and fire regimes resulting in invasive plant-fire cycles and alternative, self-perpetuating states that can be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse. Concepts related to general resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive plants provide the basis for managing landscapes to increase their capacity to reorganize and adjust following fire, while concepts related to spatial resilience provide the basis for managing landscapes to conserve resources and habitats and maintain connectivity. New, spatially explicit approaches and decision-tools enable managers to understand and evaluate general and spatial resilience to fire and resistance to invasive grasses across large landscapes in arid and semi-arid shrublands and woodlands. These approaches and tools provide the capacity 2 to locate management actions strategically to prevent development of invasive grass-fire cycles and maintain or improve resources and habitats. In this review, we discuss the factors that influence fire regimes, general and spatial resilience to fire, resistance to invasive annual grasses, and thus invasive grass-fire cycles in global arid and semi-arid shrublands and woodlands. The Cold Deserts, Mediterranean Ecoregion, and Warm Deserts of North America are used as model systems to describe how and why resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annuals differ over large landscapes. The Cold Deserts are used to illustrate an approach and decision tools for prioritizing areas on the landscape for management actions to prevent development of invasive grass-fire cycles and protect high value resources and habitats and for determining effective management strategies. The concepts and approach herein represent a paradigm shift in the management of these ecosystems, which allows managers to use geospatial tools to identify resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive plants in order to target conservation and restoration actions where they will provide the greatest benefits. |
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