Despite years of accumulating scientific evidence that fire is critical for maintaining the structure
and function of grassland ecosystems in the US Great Plains, fire has not been restored …

Anthropogenic stressors affect the ecosystems upon which humanity relies. In some cases
when resilience is exceeded, relatively small linear changes in stressors can cause relatively …

… , the preservation of intact grasslands (Scholtz & Twidwell, 2022), and the protection of …
Allred conceived and designed the analysis with additional input from Dirac Twidwell and …

Fire suppression and exclusion, the historically dominant paradigm of fire management, has
resulted in major modifications of fire‐dependent ecosystems worldwide. These changes …

Addressing unexpected events and uncertainty represents one of the grand challenges of the
Anthropocene, yet ecosystem management is constrained by existing policy and laws that …

Advanced technologies in oil and gas extraction coupled with energy demand have encouraged
an average of 50,000 new wells per year throughout central North America since 2000. …

Operational satellite remote sensing products are transforming rangeland management and
science. Advancements in computation, data storage and processing have removed …

Grasslands are the most threatened and least protected biome. Yet, no study has been
conducted to identify the last remaining continuous grasslands on Earth. Here, we used World …

Rangeland management, like most disciplines of natural resource management, has been
characterized by human efforts to reduce variability and increase predictability in natural …

Restoration priorities are typically established without quantitative information on how to
overcome the thresholds that preclude successful restoration of desirable ecosystem properties …