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DOI	10.1016/j.rama.2021.01.003
	Forum: A Change in the Ecological Understanding of Rangelands in the Great Basin and Intermountain West and Implications for Management: Revisiting Mack and Thompson (1982)
	Perryman, Barry L.; Schultz, Brad W.; Meiman, Paul J.
通讯作者	Perryman, BL (corresponding author), Univ Nevada, Dept Agr Nutr & Vet Sci, Mail Stop 202, Reno, NV 89557 USA.
来源期刊	RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT
ISSN	1550-7424
EISSN	1551-5028
出版年	2021
卷号	76 期号:1 页码:1-11
英文摘要	Reevaluating assumptions about the ecology and management of sagebrush and salt desert shrub systems in the Great Basin and Intermountain West is a proper role for science. These are complex rangeland ecosystems, and our management applications need to account for this complexity. Understanding and reckoning this complexity is vital to the future existence of these rangeland systems and their ability to provide critical goods and ecosystem services to society. The most influential ecological claim of the past 40 yr is based on ideas presented by Mack and Thompson (1982), that Great Basin and Intermountain West plant communities evolved with few or perhaps no large hooved-grazing animals. Our thesis asserts that Mack and Thompson's position is based on 1) an oversimplification of complex, heterogeneous, and diverse ecosystems; 2) a poor understanding of science, both in 1982 and now; and 3) the attribution of all recent ecological changes to a single land use. We review the archaeological and historical record of vegetation and large grazing animals in the region and then revisit Mack and Thompson's (1982) interpretations of the rangeland plants and plant communities, forage quality and nutrition, and soil biotic crusts east and west of the Rocky Mountains, adding the information necessary for a more comprehensive interpretation. We finish by proposing an alternative paradigm to guide management and conservation of sagebrush and salt desert systems of the Great Basin and Intermountain West and beyond. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Range Management.
英文关键词	Ecosystem management Great Basin rangelands Intermountain West rangelands
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000643559800001
WOS关键词	BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS ; GROUSE CENTROCERCUS-UROPHASIANUS ; BLUEBUNCH WHEATGRASS ; VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS ; CRESTED WHEATGRASS ; TRANSITION MODELS ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; DEFOLIATION ; DYNAMICS
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351468
作者单位	[Perryman, Barry L.; Meiman, Paul J.] Univ Nevada, Agr Vet & Rangeland Sci, Reno, NV 89557 USA; [Schultz, Brad W.; Meiman, Paul J.] Univ Nevada, Univ Nevada Cooperat Extens, Reno, NV 89557 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Perryman, Barry L.,Schultz, Brad W.,Meiman, Paul J.. Forum: A Change in the Ecological Understanding of Rangelands in the Great Basin and Intermountain West and Implications for Management: Revisiting Mack and Thompson (1982)[J],2021,76(1):1-11.
APA	Perryman, Barry L.,Schultz, Brad W.,&Meiman, Paul J..(2021).Forum: A Change in the Ecological Understanding of Rangelands in the Great Basin and Intermountain West and Implications for Management: Revisiting Mack and Thompson (1982).RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT,76(1),1-11.
MLA	Perryman, Barry L.,et al."Forum: A Change in the Ecological Understanding of Rangelands in the Great Basin and Intermountain West and Implications for Management: Revisiting Mack and Thompson (1982)".RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT 76.1(2021):1-11.