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Ecosystems | 2012

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Production Can Be Used to Detect State Change Across an Arid Landscape

Jeb C. Williamson; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer; Debra P. C. Peters

Methods to detect and quantify shifts in the state of ecosystems are increasingly important as global change drivers push more systems toward thresholds of change. Temporal relationships between precipitation and aboveground net primary production (ANPP) have been studied extensively in arid and semiarid ecosystems, but rarely has spatial variation in these relationships been investigated at a landscape scale, and rarely has such information been viewed as a resource for mapping the distribution of different ecological states. We examined the broad-scale effects of a shift from grassland to shrubland states on spatiotemporal patterns of remotely sensed ANPP proxies in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. We found that the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), when averaged across an eight-year period, did not vary significantly between these states, despite changes in ecosystem attributes likely to influence water availability to plants. In contrast, temporal relationships between precipitation and time-integrated NDVI (NDVI-I) modeled on a per-pixel basis were sensitive to spatial variation in shrub canopy cover, a key attribute differentiating ecological states in the region. The slope of the relationship between annual NDVI-I and 2-year cumulative precipitation was negatively related to, and accounted for 71% of variation in, shrub canopy cover estimated at validation sites using high spatial resolution satellite imagery. These results suggest that remote sensing studies of temporal precipitation–NDVI relationships may be useful for deriving shrub canopy cover estimates in the region, as well as for mapping other ecological state changes characterized by shifts in long-term ANPP, plant functional type dominance, or both.


Rangelands | 2010

Vegetation Maps at the Passage of the Taylor Grazing Act (1934): A Baseline to Evaluate Rangeland Change After a Regime Shift

Rhonda Skaggs; Zach Edwards; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer; John B. Wright; Jeb C. Williamson; Phil Smith

Vegetation Maps at the Passage of the Taylor Grazing Act (1934): A Baseline to Evaluate Rangeland Change After a Regime Shift DOI:10.2458/azu_rangelands_v33i1_skaggs


Rangelands | 2016

Improving the Effectiveness of Ecological Site Descriptions: General State-and-Transition Models and the Ecosystem Dynamics Interpretive Tool (EDIT)

Brandon T. Bestelmeyer; Jeb C. Williamson; Curtis J. Talbot; Greg W. Cates; Michael C. Duniway; Joel R. Brown

On the Ground State-and-transition models (STMs) are useful tools for management, but they can be difficult to use and have limited content. STMs created for groups of related ecological sites could simplify and improve their utility. The amount of information linked to models can be increased using tables that communicate management interpretations and important within-group variability. We created a new web-based information system (the Ecosystem Dynamics Interpretive Tool) to house STMs, associated tabular information, and other ecological site data and descriptors. Fewer, more informative, better organized, and easily accessible STMs should increase the accessibility of science information.


Rangelands | 2016

Generalizing Ecological Site Concepts of the Colorado Plateau for Landscape-Level Applications ☆

Michael C. Duniway; Travis W. Nauman; Jamin K. Johanson; Shane Green; Mark E. Miller; Jeb C. Williamson; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

On the Ground Numerous ecological site descriptions in the southern Utah portion of the Colorado Plateau can be difficult to navigate, so we held a workshop aimed at adding value and functionality to the current ecological site system. We created new groups of ecological sites and drafted state-and-transition models for these new groups. We were able to distill the current large number of ecological sites in the study area (ca. 150) into eight ecological site groups that capture important variability in ecosystem dynamics. Several inventory and monitoring programs and landscape scale planning actions will likely benefit from more generalized ecological site group concepts.


Archive | 2006

Methods and compositions for filtration media

Jeb C. Williamson; Eric Rominger; Mark Miller


Archive | 2006

Gravitational separator and apparatus for separating floating particulate and volatile liquids from a stormwater stream adaptable for inline usage

Jeb C. Williamson; Eric Rominger


Land | 2017

Rangelands: Where Anthromes Meet Their Limits

Nathan F. Sayre; Diana K. Davis; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer; Jeb C. Williamson


Ecological Indicators | 2016

Can ecological land classification increase the utility of vegetation monitoring data

Jeb C. Williamson; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer; Mitchel P. McClaran; Dan Robinett; David D. Briske; X. Ben Wu; Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez


Natural Resources and Environmental Issues | 2011

Reinterpreting Historical Data for Evidence-Based Shrubland Management

Jeb C. Williamson; Laura M. Burkett; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer


Oecologia | 2018

Soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation in residential lawns of the Salt Lake Valley, Utah

Rose M. Smith; Jeb C. Williamson; Diane E. Pataki; James R. Ehleringer; Philip E. Dennison

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Michael C. Duniway

United States Geological Survey

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Curtis J. Talbot

New Mexico State University

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Debra P. C. Peters

New Mexico State University

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Greg W. Cates

United States Department of Agriculture

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Jamin K. Johanson

Natural Resources Conservation Service

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