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Grassland heterogeneity and pyric herbivory: Implications for ungulate movement, biodiversity conservation, and rangeland productivity in the Anthropocene
(2022-05)
How to simultaneously manage grasslands for sustained livestock productivity and biodiversity conservation is a persistent dilemma for rangeland ecologists and conservationists. Moreover, climate change and invasive species ...
RI-PRF Crop Insurance Program Design
(2019-07)
The Rainfall Index Pasture Rangeland, and Forage (RI-PRF) crop insurance program insures revenues for producers based on rainfall, a single peril. This thesis looks for ways to improve the design of the program as well as ...
Vegetation Pattern and Response in the Context of Heterogeneous Pasture Management in Southeastern Nebraska
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)
Prior to European settlement, the interaction of fire and grazing was a dominant disturbance and driver of vegetation structure and diversity in the Great Plains. Periodic wildfires and anthropogenic fires created burned ...
Implications of pyric-herbivory on central North American grassland ecology, management and production
(2014-07)
The interaction of fire and grazing is an ecological process regulating fire-dependent ecosystems. Prior to European settlement, grasslands were regulated by fires and focal grazing by herbivores (pyric-herbivory), a ...