OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Rangeland Ecology & Management is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive, Multipaddock Rotational Grazing Management: A Ranch-Scale Assessment of Effects on Vegetation and Livestock Performance in Semiarid Rangeland	47
Annual and 16-Day Rangeland Production Estimates for the Western United States	47
Thinking Like a Grassland: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Conservation in the Great Plains of North America	37
Beyond Inventories: Emergence of a New Era in Rangeland Monitoring	32
Cattle Grazing Distribution Patterns Related to Topography Across Diverse Rangeland Ecosystems of North America	30
An Assessment of Production Trends on the Great Plains from 1984 to 2017	29
Fall-Winter Grazing After Fire in Annual Grass-Invaded Sagebrush Steppe Reduced Annuals and Increased a Native Bunchgrass	29
Managing invasive plants on Great Plains grasslands: A discussion of current challenges	28
Quantifying Pinyon-Juniper Reduction within North America's Sagebrush Ecosystem	28
Vegetation Canopy Gap Size and Height: Critical Indicators for Wind Erosion Monitoring and Management	26
Agrosilvopastoral Systems and Well-Managed Pastures Increase Soil Carbon Stocks in the Brazilian Cerrado	25
Virtual Fencing Effectively Excludes Cattle from Burned Sagebrush Steppe	23
A Social-Relational Approach for Analyzing Trust and Collaboration Networks as Preconditions for Rangeland Comanagement	23
Can Collaborative Adaptive Management Improve Cattle Production in Multipaddock Grazing Systems?	22
Patch-Burning Buffers Forage Resources and Livestock Performance to Mitigate Drought in the Northern Great Plains	21
Fall-Grazing and Grazing-Exclusion Effects on Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Seed Bank Assays in Nevada, United States	20
Assessing Sustainability Goals Using Big Data: Collaborative Adaptive Management in the Malpai Borderlands	19
Risk-Overgrazing Relationship Model: An Empirical Analysis of Grassland Farms in Northern China	19
Allometric Estimates of Aboveground Biomass Using Cover and Height Are Improved by Increasing Specificity of Plant Functional Groups in Eastern Australian Rangelands	18
Advancing Fire Ecology in 21st Century Rangelands	18
Energy Development and Production in the Great Plains: Implications and Mitigation Opportunities	18
Grassland Ecological Subsidy Policy and Livestock Reduction Behavior: A Case Study of Herdsmen in Northern China	18
Pollinators of the Great Plains: Disturbances, Stressors, Management, and Research Needs	17
Comparative Pasture Management on Canadian Cattle Ranches With and Without Adaptive Multipaddock Grazing	17
Effect of Plateau Zokor (Myospalax fontanierii) Disturbance on Plant Community Structure and Soil Properties in the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	17

Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Fail to Control Bromus tectorum Under Field Conditions	16
Quantifying the Dynamics of Livestock Distribution by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Case Study of Yak Grazing at the Household Scale	15
Prospects for stakeholder cooperation in effective implementation of enhanced rangeland restoration techniques in southern Tunisia	15
Challenges of Brush Management Treatment Effectiveness in Southern Great Plains, United States	15
Challenges and Potentials for Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Forage and Grazing Systems	14
Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management, Multipaddock Rotational Grazing, and the Story of the Regrazed Grass Plant	14
Ethnoindicators of Environmental Change: Local Knowledge used for Rangeland Management Among Smallholders of Patagonia	14
Ranchers and Beavers: Understanding The Human Dimensions of Beaver-Related Stream Restoration on Western Rangelands	13
Clipping by Plateau Pikas and Impacts to Plant Community	13
Using Satellite-Based Vegetation Data for Short-Term Grazing Monitoring to Inform Adaptive Management	13
Comparison of Three Machine Learning Algorithms Using Google Earth Engine for Land Use Land Cover Classification	13
Pipeline Impacts and Recovery of Dry Mixed-Grass Prairie Soil and Plant Communities	13
Water use by mature and sapling western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) Trees	13
Where There's Smoke, There's Fuel: Dynamic Vegetation Data Improve Predictions of Wildfire Hazard in the Great Basin	13
Managed Grazing on California Annual Rangelands in the Context of State Climate Policy	13
Forum: Critical Decision Dates for Drought Management in Central and Northern Great Plains Rangelands	12
Predicting Cattle Grazing Behavior on Rangeland using Accelerometers	12
Long-Term Trends in Vegetation on Bureau of Land Management Rangelands in the Western United States	12
Foraging Behavior of Heritage versus Desert-Adapted Commercial Rangeland Beef Cows in Relation to Dam-Offspring Contact Patterns	12
Recent Climate Changes Across the Great Plains and Implications for Natural Resource Management Practices	12
Restoration Practices Affect Alpine Meadow Ecosystem Coupling and Functions	12
Dormant-Season Moderate Grazing Prefire Maintains Diversity and Reduces Exotic Annual Grass Response Postfire in Imperiled Artemisia Steppe	12
Outcome-Based Approaches for Managing Wildfire Risk: Institutional Interactions and Implementation Within the “Gray Zone”	11
Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Have No Effect on Exotic or Native Plants in Sagebrush-Steppe	11
Management Innovations for Resilient Public Rangelands: Adoption Constraints and Considerations for Interagency Diffusion	11
Incorporating Land Use Changes and Pastoralists’ Behavior in Sustainable Rangeland Management: Evidence from Iran	11
Ranchers’ Use of Drought Contingency Plans in Protective Action Decision Making	11
Rapid Re-encroachment by Juniperus virginiana After a Single Restoration Treatment	11
Functional Classification of Feed Items in Pampa Grassland, Based on Their Near-Infrared Spectrum	11
Remote Sensing of Invasive Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) in Semiarid Savanna Rangeland Ecosystems of South Africa	11
Bridging the Research-Implementation Gap in Weed Management on California Rangelands	11
Slope and Aspect Effects on Seedbed Microclimate and Germination Timing of Fall-Planted Seeds	11
Post-Fire Management-Scale Trials of Bacterial Soil Amendment MB906 Show Inconsistent Control of Invasive Annual Grasses	11
Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Applied as a Spray or Seed Mixture Did Not Control Bromus tectorum	10
Tracking and sensor-based detection of livestock water system failure: A case study simulation	10
Multidecadal directional shift in shortgrass stocking rates	10
Estimates of Willow (Salix Spp.) Canopy Volume using Unmanned Aerial Systems	10
Mapping and Assessing the Transboundary Elephant Corridor in the Patharia Hills Reserve Forest of Assam, India	10
Forum: Integration of Crop-Livestock Systems: An Opportunity to Protect Grasslands from Conversion to Cropland in the US Great Plains	10
Midsummer Trophic Overlap Between Guanaco and Sheep in Patagonian Rangelands	10
Managing an Invasive Species While Simultaneously Conserving Native Plant Diversity	10
Agreement and Uncertainty Among Climate Change Impact Models: A Synthesis of Sagebrush Steppe Vegetation Projections	10
Ventenata (Ventenata dubia) Response to Grazing and Prescribed Fire on the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie	10
Historical Fire and Ventenata dubia Invasion in a Temperate Grassland	10
Trampling Disturbance of Biocrust Enhances Soil Carbon Emission	10
Salinity Reduces the Forage Quality of Forage Kochia: A Halophytic Chenopodiaceae Shrub	10
A Quantitative Soil-Geomorphic Framework for Developing and Mapping Ecological Site Groups	9
Effect of the Bioherbicide Pseudomonas fluorescens D7 on Downy Brome (Bromus tectorum)	9
Effects of Mob-Grazing on Soil and Range Quality Vary with Plant Species and Season in a Semiarid Grassland	9
Herbicide Protection Pods (HPPs) Facilitate Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Establishment under Imazapic Control of Exotic Annual Grasses	9

Retrospective Assessment of Beef Cow Numbers to Climate Variability Throughout the U.S. Great Plains	9
Grazing Effects on the Composition, Diversity, and Function of Wet Meadow Grasslands in Manitoba, Canada	9
Forb Standing Crop Response to Grazing and Precipitation	9
Synthesis of Weed-Suppressive Bacteria Studies in Rangelands of the Western United States: Special Section of Articles in Rangeland Ecology & Management Provides Little Evidence of Effectiveness	9
Effect of Tree Shade on the Yield of Brachiaria brizantha Grass in Tropical Livestock Production Systems in Mexico	9
Preemergent Herbicide Protection Seed Coating: A Promising New Restoration Tool	9
Reintroduction of Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) to Matuwa, an Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia	8
Mixed‐Prairie Well Site Reclamation with Natural Recovery, Seeding, and Grazing	8
Rancher Experiences and Perceptions of Climate Change in the Western United States	8
Moderate Grazing During the Off-Season (Fall-Winter) Reduces Exotic Annual Grasses in Sagebrush-Bunchgrass Steppe	8
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)	8
Assessing commercial and early-seral arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation to aid in restoring sagebrush steppe shrubs	8
Mitigating Human Conflicts with Livestock Guardian Dogs in Extensive Sheep Grazing Systems	8
Departures of Rangeland Fractional Component Cover and Land Cover from Landsat-Based Ecological Potential in Wyoming, USA	8
Improving Drought Preparedness Among Utah Cattle Ranchers	8
Does Grazing Affect Soil Carbon in Subtropical Humid Seminatural Grasslands?	8
Is a Prescribed Fire Sufficient to Slow the Spread of Woody Plants in an Infrequently Burned Grassland? A Case Study in Tallgrass Prairie	8
Bridging the Gap Between Spatial Modeling and Management of Invasive Annual Grasses in the Imperiled Sagebrush Biome	8
Sheep Trampling Modifies Soil and Plant C:N:P Stoichiometry in a Typical Steppe of the Loess Plateau	7
Collective Action and Invasive Species Governance in Southern Arizona	7
When do Farmers Burn Pasture in Brazil: A Model-Based Approach to Determine Burning Date	7
Pastoral Livelihood Diversification and Gender in Borana, Southern Ethiopia	7
Overlap Between Sagebrush Habitat Specialists Differs Among Seasons: Implications for Umbrella Species Conservation	7
Forage Quantity and Quality Dynamics Due to Weathering over the Dry Season on California Annual Rangelands	7
Trends, Impacts, and Cost of Catastrophic and Frequent Wildfires in the Sagebrush Biome	7
Pellet Accumulation as a Proxy for Herbivore Pressure in a Mediterranean Ecosystem	7
Targeted Grazing of an Invasive Grass Improves Outcomes for Native Plant Communities and Wildlife Habitat	7
Response of Planted Sagebrush Seedlings to Cattle Grazing Applied to Decrease Fire Probability	7
Change in Piñon-Juniper Woodland Cover Since Euro-American Settlement: Expansion Versus Contraction Associated with Soil Properties	7
Effective Management Practices for Increasing Native Plant Diversity on Mesquite Savanna-Texas Wintergrass-Dominated Rangelands	7
Socio-Ecological Factors and Risk Perception of Herders Impact Grassland Rent in Inner Mongolia, China	7
Non-Native Plant Invasions in Prairie Grasslands of Alberta, Canada	7
Effect of Simulated Tibetan Sheep and Yak Trampling at Different Periods on the Reproductive Characteristics, Underground Morphology, and Carbohydrate Content of Kobresia humilis	7
Habitat Targets for Imperiled Grassland Birds in Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie	7
Shrub cover impacts on yak growth performance and herbaceous forage quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China	7
Estimating Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) Using Landsat 8-Based Indices: A Case Study From Hir-Neur Rangelands, Iran	7
Can Targeted Grazing Reduce Abundance of Invasive Perennial Grass (Kentucky Bluegrass) on Native Mixed-Grass Prairie?	7
Trampling and Cover Effects on Soil Compaction and Seedling Establishment in Reseeded Pasturelands Over Time	7
Drought Alters The Understory of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands Indirectly through Tree Dieback	6
Effects of Mowing Frequency on Biomass Allocation and Yield of Leymus chinensis	6
An abundance estimate of free-roaming horses on the Navajo Nation	6
A Synthesis of Research on the Human Dimensions of Sagebrush Ecosystem Management	6
Ground Cover—What Are the Critical Criteria and Why Does It Matter?	6
Kentucky Bluegrass Impacts Diversity and Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Northern Great Plains Rangeland	6
What Is Driving the Proliferation of Exotic Annual Grasses in Sagebrush Communities? Comparing Fire with Off-Season Grazing	6
Effects of Defoliation, Litter, and Moss on Bromus arvensis in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie	6
Plant Community Assembly Mechanisms of a Subalpine Meadow Community Along Different Successional Time	6
Timing and duration of precipitation pulses and interpulses influence seedling recruitment in the Great Basin	6
FeatherFlame: An Arduino-Based Thermocouple Datalogging System to Record Wildland Fire Flame Temperatures in Agris	6
Future Direction of Fuels Management in Sagebrush Rangelands	6
Considering Spatiotemporal Forage Variability in Rangeland Inventory and Monitoring	6
Holistic versus continuous grazing in Patagonia: A station-scale case study of plant and animal production	6
Farmers' Behavioral Intention to Cultivate Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Farmlands: Solutions for the Conservation of Rangelands	6
A Synthesis of Ranch-Level Sustainability Indicators for Land Managers and to Communicate Across the US Beef Supply Chain	6
Vegetation and Animal Performance Responses to Stocking Density Grazing Systems in Nebraska Sandhills Meadows	6
A Multi-Scale Approach to Predict the Fractional Cover of Medusahead (Taeniatherum Caput-Medusae)	6
Biological Soil Crusts of the Great Plains: A Review	6