State-and-Transition Models, Thresholds, and Rangeland Health: A Synthesis of Ecological Concepts and Perspectives

By D. Briske, S. Fuhlendorf, F. Smeins. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience and Vulnerability of Arid and Semi-Arid Social Ecological Systems China's Grassland Contract Policy and its Impacts on Herder Ability to Benefit in Inner Mongolia: Tragic Feedbacks (2011, background): “Nonequilibrium models generally better explain ecological dynamics than do equilibrium-based models when rangeland is at the arid end of the gradient from dry to mesic conditions (Briske et al. 2005, Vetter 2005).”
Grazing Management in Tropical Savannas: Utilization and Rest Strategies to Manipulate Rangeland Condition (2011, background): “The application of state and transition models in Australia has been on the basis that both equilibrium (gradual change, reversible) and nonequilibrium (multiple states, thresholds, irreversible) dynamics can operate within the one model (Watson et al. 1996; Briske et al. 2005).”
Large scale experimental effects of three levels of sheep densities on an alpine ecosystem (2008, background): “…of how such environmental factors mediate the effect of herbivores on vegetation dynamics is thus essential for determining the grazing intensity thresholds that separate continuous and reversible versus discontinuous and non-reversible processes in different environments (Briske et al. 2005).”
Soil Erosion Thresholds and Alternative States in Northeastern Patagonian Rangelands (2006, background): “The site conservation threshold and the desired plant community concepts (SRM Task Group 1995) represent an alternative reference point for use in these models that are based on management as well as ecological criteria (Briske et al. 2005).”
The poverty–vulnerability–resilience nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh (2013, background): “11 Thresholds can be categorized into two general groups: structural and functional (Briske et al., 2005).”
In search of forage: predicting dynamic habitats of Mongolian gazelles using satellite-based estimates of vegetation productivity (2008, background): “There is, however, evidence for pronounced variation in plant phenology and reversible, non-equilibrium dynamics of plant communities ( Briske, Fuhlendorf & Smeins 2003, 2005 ) when measured on a temporal scale.”