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Range Resource Publications

Publications

Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years (716.37 KB)
Anti-Quality Factors in Rangeland and Pastureland and Forages (1.41 MB)
Grazing Management and Soil Health (8.46 MB)
Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health, Version 5 (9.64 MB)
Introduction to Microbiotic Crusts (1.93 MB)
Inventorying, Classifying, and Correlation of Juniper and Pinyon Communities to Soils in Western United States (4.41 MB)
Managing Grasslands For Profit (8.75 MB)
Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland and Savanna Ecosystems: Core Methods (Volume 1, 2nd edition) (1.82 MB)
Monitoring Manual Volume One: Core Methods (reduced to 3MB) (3.37 MB)
National Forage Quality and Animal Well-Being (1.08 MB)
Rangeland Cover Types of the United States (3.05 MB)
Sampling Vegetation Attributes (2.16 MB)
Utilization Studies and Residual Measurements (2.11 MB)
Working Trees for Livestock (1.07 MB)

 

KES Recent Publications

  • Spaeth, K.E., P. J. Barbour, R. Moranz, S. J. Dinsmore, and C. J. Williams. 2020. Asclepias dynamics on rangelands in the United States: Implications for conservation of monarch butterflies and other insects. Ecosphere. In Review.
  • McGwire, K., M. Weltz, S. Nouwakpo, K. Spaeth, M. Founds, and E. Cadaret. 2020. Mapping Erosion Risk for Saline Rangelands of the Mancos Shale Using the Rangeland Hydrology Erosion Model. Land Degradation and Development 19pp.
  • Spaeth K.E. 2020. Rangeland ecohydology. Chapter 7. National Range and Pasture Handbook. CNTSC, Fort, Worth, TX.
  • Spaeth K.E. 2020. Ecological Sites and Descriptions. Chapter 2. National Range and Pasture Handbook. CNTSC, Fort, Worth, TX.
  • Spaeth K.E. 2020. Ecological sites, state & transition models and converted states. Chapter 1. National Range and Pasture Handbook. CNTSC, Fort, Worth, TX.
  • Spaeth, K.E., M.A. Weltz, D.P. Guertin, J. Qi, G. Henebry, J. Nesbit, T. Yespolov and M. Beksultanov. 2019. Hydrology and Erosion Risk Parameters for grasslands in Central Asia. In Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in Drylands of Eurasia. eds. G. Gutman, J. Chen, G. M. Henebry, and M. Kappas. Springer, In Press.
  • Spaeth, K.E. 2019. Grazing Land Resources. Chapter 1, National Range and Pasture Handbook. CNTSC, Fort, Worth, TX.
  • Hernandez, M. M.A. Nearing, O.Z. Hamdan, F.B. Pierson, G. Armendariz, M.A. Weltz, K.E. Spaeth, C.J. Williams, S.K. Nouwapko, D.C. Goodrich, C.L. Unkrich, M.H. Nichols, C.C.D. Holifield. 2017. The rangeland hydrology and erosion model: a dynamic approach for predicting soil loss on rangelands. Water Resources Research 53:9368–9391.
  • Gonzalo, M., M.A. Weltz, F. Pierson, K. Spaeth, and Y.A. Pachepsky. 2017. Scale effects on runoff and soil erosion in rangelands: Observations and estimations with predictors of different availability. Catena 151:161-173.
  • Al-Hamdan, O.Z., Pierson, F.B., Nearing, M.A., Williams, C. J., Hernandez, M., Boll, J.,Nouwakpo, S.K., Weltz, M.A., and Spaeth, K. 2017. Developing a parameterization approach for
  • soil erodibility for the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). Transaction of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 60: 85-94.
  • Al-Hamdan, O.Z., F.B. Pierson, M.A. Nearing, M.A., C.J. Williams, M. Hernandez, M., J. Boll, S.K. Nouwakpo, M.A. Weltz, M.A., and K. Spaeth. 2017. Developing a parameterization approach for soil erodibility for the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). Transactions of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 60: 85-94.
  • Williams, C.J., F. B. Pierson, K. E. Spaeth, J. R. Brown, O. Z. Al-Hamdan, M. A. Weltz, M.
  • Nearing, J. E. Herrick, J. Boll, P. R. Robichaud, D. C. Goodrich, P. Heilman, D. P. Guertin, M. Hernandez, H. Wei, V. O. Polyakov, G. Armendariz, S. K. Nouwakpo, S. P. Hardegree, P. E. Clark, E. K.