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    New concepts for assessment of rangeland condition

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    Adams, D. C.
    Short, R. E.
    Pfister, J. A.
    Peterson, K. R.
    Hudson, D. B.
    Issue Date
    1995-05-01
    Keywords
    rangeland soils
    terminology
    soil erosion
    ecological succession
    sustainability
    rangelands
    
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    Adams, D. C., Short, R. E., Pfister, J. A., Peterson, K. R., & Hudson, D. B. (1995). New concepts for assessment of rangeland condition. Journal of Range Management, 48(3), 271-282.
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    Society for Range Management
    Journal
    Journal of Range Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/644429
    DOI
    10.2307/4002433
    Additional Links
    https://rangelands.org/
    Abstract
    Range condition score or classification does not tell us, in a general sense, much of what managers and the public want to know about rangelands. Range condition is not a reliable indicator, across all rangelands, of biodiversity, erosion potential, nutrient cycling, value for wildlife species, or productivity. Succession, the basis for the current concept of range condition is not an adequate yardstick for evaluation of rangelands. The Society for Range Management (SRM) established the Task Group on Unity in Concepts and Terminology which has developed new concepts tor evaluation of the status of rangelands. These concepts are based on the premise that the most important and basic physical resource on each ecological site is the soil. If sufficient soil is lost from an ecological site, the potential of the site is changed. The Task Group made three recommendations, which were adopted by the SRM: 1) evaluations of rangelands should be made from the basis of the same land unit classification, ecological site; 2) plant communities likely to occur on a site should be evaluated for protection of that site against accelerated erosion (Site Conservation Rating, [SCR]); and 3) selection of a Desired Plant Community (DPC) for an ecological site should be made considering both SCR and management objectives for that site.
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    en
    ISSN
    0022-409X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.2307/4002433
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