Colorado State University. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was established on September 18, 1996 by a Presidential Proclamation under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The Proclamation identifies the Monument's important ecological values, and specifically recognizes the "extraordinary opportunity to study plant speciation and community dynamics" within its boundaries. The Monument was mandated under this proclamation to protect both its natural and cultural resources...
3) Mapping native and non-native riparian vegetation in the Colorado River watershed / Paul Evangelista
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The Colorado River is one of the most prominent and important river systems in North America. Ephemeral, seasonal, and persistent riparian habitats are found throughout the basin, which host some of the most important vegetative communities for wildlife species in the predominantly arid landscape. Despite supporting up to 80% of terrestrial animals in the western US and providing critical migration corridors, riparian ecosystems cover less than 5%...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
The goal of the Colorado Ownership, Management, and Protection (COMaP) project at the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) is to build a statewide protected areas map for Colorado. Knowing the location and pattern of various protected areas is a key piece of information to inform management of many natural resources in Colorado. It was quite challenging to synthesize data from all the various Federal, State and local agencies. Land ownership and management...
8) Integrated assessment results to support policy decisions in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) is charged with balancing the needs of Maasai inhabitants and their livestock, as well as the wildlife for which Ngorongoro Conservation area (NCA) is renowned, and the tourism industry that the wildlife supports. Thus, management of NCA represents a unique and important experiment in balancing multiple uses that has continued for more than 40 years.
Author
Series
Technical report volume no. 283
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
The work reported is basically two-fold: cleaning up the below ground herbage biomass data files and making a low resolution analysis in terms of the time series trace and associated confidence band of the data.
14) Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in grassland soil: its relationship to microbial biomass and activity
Author
Series
Technical report volume no. 224
Pub. Date
1973.
