The Colorado Plateau V : research, environmental planning, and management for collaborative conservation / edited by Charles van Riper III ... [et al.]
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xiii, 343 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Other editors are Miguel L. Villarreal, Carena J. van Riper, and Matthew J. Johnson. "This volume is based on research presented at the Tenth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau held at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, and hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center Colorado Plateau Research Station, the Miriam-Powell Center for Environment Research, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Diablo Trust, and the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Challenges and opportunities for ecosystem services science and policy in arid and semiarid environments / Ken Bagstad, Darius Semmens, and Charles van Riper III -- Reaching toward integration on the Colorado Plateau -- Administrative boundaries and ecological divergence : the divided history and coordinated future of land management on the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, USA / Christopher M. Holcomb, Thomas D. Sisk, Brett G. Dickson, Steven E. Sesnie and Ethan N. Aumack -- Assessment of mixed conifer forest conditions, North Kaibab Ranger District, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, USA -- Steven E. Sesnie, Brett G. Dickson, Jil M. Rundall, and Thomas D. Sisk -- Livestock grazing following wildfire : understory community response in an upland ponderosa pine forest / Lauren A. Mork, Thomas D. Sisk and Ethan N. Aumack -- Challenges and opportunities for ecosystem services science and policy in arid and semiarid environments / Ken Bagstad, Darius Semmens, and Charles van Riper III -- Vegetative capping of archaeological masonry walls / Patricia West, Dean Howard Smith and William Auberle -- The effects of sudden aspen decline on avian species composition and biodiversity in southwestern Colorado / Sara P. Bombaci and Julie E. Korb -- Avian community responses to vegetation structure within chained and hand-cut pinyon-juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau / Charles van Riper III and Claire Crow -- Landscape scale features predict predation and parasitism on passerine nests : a literature review / Katie J. Stumpf -- Knowing the cogs and wheels : using bioblitz methods to rapidly assess floras and faunas / Walter Fertig, Linda Whitham and John Spence -- Valuing the Verde River watershed : an assessment / Patricia West, Dean Howard Smith and William Auberle -- Vegetative capping of archaeological masonry walls / Martha E. Lee, Carena J. van Riper, Charles van Riper III and Gerald T. Kyle -- Synthesis : informing collaborative conservation and management of Colorado Plateau resources / Paul F.J. Eagles, Elke Meyfarth O'Hara and Graham Whitelaw -- Recovering endangered fish in the San Juan River using adaptive management / Mark C. McKinstry -- Spatio-temporal multi-objective decision making in forest management / Boris Poff, Aregai Tecle, Daniel G. Neary and Brian W. Geils -- Innovative planting methods for the arid and semi-arid southwest / David R. Dreesen, Gregory A. Fenchel, Danny G. Goodson, and Keith L. White -- Reaching toward the integration of research into resource management activities : a 20-year evaluation of Colorado Plateau biennial conferences / Martha E. Lee, Carena J. van Riper, Charles van Riper III and Gerald T. Kyle -- Synthesis : informing collaborative conservation and management of Colorado Plateau resources / Miguel L. Villarreal, Charles van Riper III, Carena J. van Riper, Matthew J. Johnson and S. Shane Selleck.
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