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Ecosystem Response to Environment Change
item Scenarios and strategies for future-proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty (Mar 2026)
item Sustainable intensification in rangelands of the southernmost region of Chile (Feb 2026)
item Desirable seeding methods to rehabilitate degraded rangelands (Feb 2026)
item Rangeland revegetation: A closer look (Feb 2026)
item Effective weed control significantly increases soil moisture for Great Basin Rangeland restoration efforts (Feb 2026)
item Biostimulant potential of vitamins in soybean cultivation (Jan 2026)
item Multi-year drought has persistent forage quality and quantity effects that can be intensified by heavy grazing in semiarid rangelands (Jan 2026)
item UAV-based estimates of corn LAI using Hyperspectral and EnMAP spectral resolutions (Jan 2026)
item Assessing evapotranspiration in rainfed and irrigated Alfalfa in the U.S. Southern Great Plains using eddy covariance measurements and OpenET products (Jan 2026)
item Assessing day and night UAV-Based estimates of crop characterization using LiDAR (Jan 2026)
item Genetic diversity and population structure of U.S. Suffolk sheep participating in the national sheep improvement program (Jan 2026)
item Exotic and Invasive Rangeland weeds (Jan 2026)
item Long-term monitoring indicates stability of summer range forage resources at the US Sheep Experiment Station (Dec 2025)
item Simulating plastic mulching effects on the soil water balance and maize yields using the modified RZ-SHAW model (Dec 2025)
item Advanced workflows for UAV-based crop height estimation using structure from motion (SfM) point clouds (Dec 2025)
item The pyfao56 automated irrigation scheduling algorithm (Dec 2025)
item Considerations for the use of remotely sensed production (ANPP) and standing biomass products to support management of ecosystems with dynamic vegetation cover (Nov 2025)
item Local adaptation to climate has facilitated the global invasion of cheatgrass (Nov 2025)
item Interpreting Extension Professionals' Viewpoints on Agricultural Climate Change Programming (Nov 2025)
item Using respiratory gas flux and backward dietary energy partitioning to estimate energy intake by beef cattle when fed a high-concentrate diet (Nov 2025)
item Genotyping strategies for single-step genomic predictions in simulated sheep populations under different scenarios of pedigree error types (Nov 2025)
item Effects of increasing supplementation rates of extruded distillers’ grains cubes on stocker steer production grazing native range in Western Oklahoma (Sep 2025)
item Tallgrass prairie responses to weather variability and management: Analyses of vegetation dynamics and water use (Sep 2025)
item A disturbance triangle: The interactive role of prairie dogs with fire and ungulate grazing in the Great Plains (Aug 2025)
item Effects of increasing supplementation rates of extruded distillers’ grain cubes on stocker steers production grazing native range in Bessie, OK and Fort Supply, OK during the summer months in 2021 and 2022 (Aug 2025)
item Machine learning algorithms for maize yield prediction with multispectral imagery: Assessing robustness across varied growing environments (Aug 2025)
item Development of a genetic reference flock: Benchmarking of industry and U.S. Sheep Experiment Station Rambouillet sires (Jul 2025)
item Variation in patterns of production and water-use efficiency among agroecosystems (Jul 2025)
item Respiratory gas fluxes from cattle fed forage-based diets (Jul 2025)
item Genome-wide associations with body and fleece weight in United States sheep (Jun 2025)
item Measuring genetic diversity of Texas bluegrass and allele sharing with Kentucky bluegrass interspecific hybrids using genome-wide markers (Jun 2025)
item Soil health responses to long-term grazing intensity gradients in two semiarid rangelands (Jun 2025)
item Data from: Five-year timeseries of sap-flux-scaled transpiration reveals inter-annual variation between tree water use and precipitation in a pinyon and juniper woodland (Jun 2025)
item Plant production forecasting; current state and opportunities for advancing grazing land management (Jun 2025)
item Evaluation of multimodel averaging approaches for ensembling evapotranspiration and yield simulations from maize models (Jun 2025)
item Sustainable intensification of grazing operations using targeted supplementation (Jun 2025)
item Cattle performance does not differ between patch and broadcast burning (Jun 2025)
item Reducing national water degradation: Development and application of a manureshed-identification framework (Jun 2025)
item Assessing selenium fate and transport in a semi-arid river basin with and without human influence (Jun 2025)
item Influences on calf productivity during five decades of cow-calf grazing of northern prairie (May 2025)
item An innovative UAV-based approach for estimating crop stand counts amidst weed infestation (May 2025)
item When working together goes against common sense: A framework to bridge conservation and agricultural perspectives in participatory working lands research (May 2025)
item Flexible phenology of a C4 grass linked to resiliency to seasonal and multiyear drought events in the American Southwest (May 2025)
item Feed intake and behavioral responses of sheep provided phenylthiocarbamide internally incorporated into feed pellets (May 2025)
item Notice of release of USDA Gunrange germplasm eastern gamagrass (May 2025)
item Browsing promotes drought resistance of Wyoming big sagebrush in a working rangeland (May 2025)
item Five foundational tools for managing metadata from the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network (Apr 2025)
item Frequent failure of nutrients to increase plant biomass supports the need for precision fertilization in agriculture (Apr 2025)
item Comparing energy intake estimates derived from using respiratory gas flux measurements with backward dietary energy partitioning for beef cattle (Apr 2025)
item Effects of Wildfires on Antelope Bitterbrush populations (Apr 2025)
item Historical and projected changes in chill accumulation and spring freeze risk in the Midwest United States (Apr 2025)
item Species cover, community biomass, and richness in global grasslands from NutNet (2007–2023): Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands (Apr 2025)
item Quantifying the impact of climate change and land use change on surface-subsurface nutrient dynamics in a Chesapeake Bay watershed system (Apr 2025)
item Collaborative adaptive management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: A rangeland living laboratory at the US Sheep Experiment Station (Mar 2025)
item Estimation of groundwater storage loss using surface–subsurface hydrologic modeling in an irrigated agricultural region (Mar 2025)
item Predation of seeded species by Feral Horses and Burros (Mar 2025)
item Potential deficit irrigation adaptation strategies under climate change for sustaining cotton production in hyper–arid areas (Mar 2025)
item Using plant invasions to compare occurrence- and abundance-based calculations of biotic homogenisation: Are results complementary or contradictory? (Mar 2025)
item Inter-comparison of soybean models for the simulation of evapotranspiration in a humid continental climate (Mar 2025)
item Patch-burn grazing increased structural heterogeneity in southwestern North Dakota rangelands (Feb 2025)
item Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for precision agriculture information gathering to advance crop monitoring and management (Feb 2025)
item Managing European elm scale in the period of neonicotinoid insecticide resistance (Feb 2025)
item Assessing the use of alternative soil data in hydrological and water quality modeling with SWAT+: SSURGO and POLARIS at subbasin and field scales (Feb 2025)
item Soil test phosphorus predicts field-level, but not sub-field level corn yield response (Feb 2025)
item Comparison of the flocking behavior of Katahdin and Rambouillet sheep breeds in an extensive range environment using GPS technology (Feb 2025)
item Climate change exposure of agriculture within regulated groundwater basins of the southwestern United States (Feb 2025)
item Soil resource availability: The journey from cheatgrass to perennial grass dominance (Feb 2025)
item Successful Great Basin Rangeland rehabilitation: Takes more than effort (Feb 2025)
item Soil nutrient and erosion dynamics following compost application on annual grass-dominated rangelands (Feb 2025)
item Importance of improving mule deer populations (Feb 2025)
item Johnston Draw (Idaho) high resolution burn severity map 2023 (Feb 2025)
item Challenges in rehabilitating degraded Winterfat communities (Feb 2025)
item Modeling agro-hydrological surface-subsurface processes in a semi-arid, intensively irrigated river basin (Feb 2025)
item Machine learning the abiotic stressor impacts on nitrogen availability and photo energy use in dryland forage systems under different tillage and green manuring practices (Jan 2025)
item Digital mapping of agricultural soils texture of the Brazilian Cerrado biome (Jan 2025)
item Rangeland resource assessment in the Aqmola region of Kazakhstan (Jan 2025)
item Lamb survivability: A new approach to an old problem (Jan 2025)
item Estimation of leaf area index in sagebrush steppe with low cost unoccupied aerial systems (Jan 2025)
item The growing threat of multiyear droughts (Jan 2025)
item Cheatgrass fuels reduction following targeted grazing (Jan 2025)
item Precision animal husbandry: Using artificial intelligence for camera traps to optimize animal production and management decision support systems (Jan 2025)
item Using respiratory gas flux and backward dietary energy partitioning to estimate energy intake by beef cattle when fed a high-concentrate diet (Jan 2025)
item Can agricultural systems facing climate change benefit from a deeper understanding of invasive plant species? (Dec 2024)
item Evaluating machine learning algorithms to model time series of vegetation indices in tallgrass prairie (Dec 2024)
item Towards a theory of pastoralist and rancher identity: Insights for understanding livestock systems in transformation (Dec 2024)
item Benchmarking performance in Targhee sheep in development of a genetic reference flock (Dec 2024)
item The Jones Ranch: An early ranching family in the Truckee Meadows (Dec 2024)
item Data from: Assessing agronomic and physiological traits during reproductive developmental stages for breeding Upland drought tolerant cotton (Dec 2024)
item Assessing agronomic and physiological traits during reproductive developmental stages for breeding upland drought tolerant cotton (Nov 2024)
item Sheep dietary preferences in targeted grazing: Demographic, management, and weather effects in northern mixed-grass prairie (Nov 2024)
item Understanding how ranchers adaptively manage for drought in northeastern Colorado (Nov 2024)
item Modeling time series of vegetation indices in tallgrass prairie using machine and deep learning algorithms (Nov 2024)
item Legume hyperspectral and in-situ biophysical/biochemical dataset collected in the Southern Plains (Nov 2024)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning for multi-site monitoring of cotton growth (Nov 2024)
item Quantifying rangeland fractional cover in the Northern Great Basin sagebrush steppe communities using high-resolution unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) imagery (Nov 2024)
item In search of an optimal bio-logger epoch and device combination for quantifying activity budgets in free-ranging cattle (Nov 2024)
item Pathways to sustaining agriculture and communities in the Ogallala region (Nov 2024)
item Social interactions and movement patterns of rangeland-raised beef cows and their calves (Oct 2024)
item Genetic parameters for Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae nasal DNA copy number provide progress to promote domestic and bighorn sheep coexistence on public lands (Oct 2024)
item Net zero initiative in U.S. beef and dairy systems: Integrative on-farm recommendations for greenhouse gas reduction (Oct 2024)
item Exponential or unimodal relationships between nighttime ecosystem respiration and temperature at the eddy covariance flux tower sites (Oct 2024)
item Quantifying the role of calibration strategies on surface-subsurface hydrologic model performance (Oct 2024)
item River corridor beads are important areas of floodplain-groundwater exchange within the Colorado River headwaters watershed (Sep 2024)
item Evaluation of an in-pasture weighing system to measure body weight change of growing cattle grazing wheat pasture (Sep 2024)
item Maternal methane, carbon dioxide, and oxygen flux compared to progeny gas flux (Sep 2024)
item USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: depth to water table (Aug 2024)
item Calibration guide for watershed modeling with distributed groundwater modeling: Application for the SWAT+ model (Aug 2024)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning for multi-site monitoring of cotton growth (Aug 2024)
item The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at the Great Basin (Aug 2024)
item Assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of U.S. Polypay sheep from breed origins to future genomic selection (Aug 2024)
item Effects of postwildfire mechanical seeding on soil properties in Wyoming big sagebrush communities (Aug 2024)
item Investigating the impact of irrigation practices on hydrologic fluxes in a highly managed river basin (Aug 2024)
item Influence of weather variability on vegetation dynamics and eddy fluxes in tallgrass prairie (Jul 2024)
item Delivering and evaluating climate services: The North Central U.S. climate and drought webinar series (Jul 2024)
item Climate smart agriculture: Assessing needs and perceptions of California's farmers (Jun 2024)
item Johnston Draw (Idaho) high resolution pre-fire vegetation map 2023 (May 2024)
item Genome-wide associations with longevity and reproductive traits in U.S. rangeland ewes (May 2024)
item Great Basin ALMANAC (May 2024)
item Eastern gamagrass responds inconsistently to nitrogen application in long-established stands and within diverse ecotypes (Apr 2024)
item A variety-specific analysis of climate change effects on California winegrapes (Apr 2024)
item Genetic impact of external Targhee sires at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station: A case study of introgression (Mar 2024)
item The use of the Lawson Aerator on rangelands (Mar 2024)
item Eastern gamagrass model simulation parameters for diverse ecotypes: Leaf area index, light extinction coefficient, and radiation use efficiency (Feb 2024)
item Integrated cheatgrass control from herbicides to perennial restoration seeding (Jan 2024)
item A framework for parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty analysis for holistic hydrologic modeling using SWAT+ (Jan 2024)
item Forage yield and nutritive value of summer legumes as affected by row spacing and harvest timing (Dec 2023)
item Combined purebred and crossbred genetic evaluation of Columbia, Suffolk, and crossbred lamb birth and weaning weights: Systematic effects and heterogenous variances (Dec 2023)
item Mapping rangeland health indicators in East Africa from 2000 to 2022 (Dec 2023)
item Assessing the impact of groundwater saturation excess runoff on hydrologic features and processes in a watershed modeling setting (Nov 2023)
item Machine learning algorithms improve MODIS GPP estimates in United States croplands (Nov 2023)
item Diverse eastern gamagrass ecotypes: General characteristics, ploidy levels, and biogeography (Sep 2023)
item Design thinking for responsible Agriculture 4.0 innovations in rangelands (Sep 2023)
item Field scale SWAT+ modeling of corn and soybean yields for the contiguous United States: National agroecosystem model development (Aug 2023)
item Effect of ewe birth litter size and estimation of genetic parameters on ewe reproductive life traits (Jun 2023)
item Hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning to monitor legume biomass and nitrogen accumulation (Jun 2023)
item Foraging behavior of Raramuri Criollo vs. Angus cattle grazing California Chaparral and Colorado Plateau shrublands (Jun 2023)
item Cooling effects of increased green fodder area on native grassland in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (May 2023)
item Report: Climate Conversations with the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts Area Meeting Attendees (May 2023)
item Peanut seed germination detection based on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and deep learning (Apr 2023)
item Plant parameterization and APEXgraze model calibration and validation for U.S. land resource region H grazing lands (Mar 2023)
item Tropical tree simulation with a process-based, daily timestep simulation model (ALMANAC): Description of model adaptation and examples with coffee and cocoa simulations (Feb 2023)
item Assessment of aggregate stability methodologies for calcareous silty soils in Idaho's Magic Valley (Feb 2023)
item Assessment of infiltration methodologies for calcareous silty soils in Idaho's Magic Valley (Feb 2023)
item Augmenting the national agroecosystem model with physically based spatially distributed groundwater modeling (Feb 2023)
item An approach for prioritizing natural infrastructure practices to mitigate flood and nitrate risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (Jan 2023)
item Using whole genome sequence to compare variant callers and breed differences of US sheep (Jan 2023)
item Effects of two categorically differing emergent wetland plants on evapotranspiration (Jan 2023)
item Evaluation of cotton emergence using multi-band spectral imagery for organic production systems (Nov 2022)
item Using UAS-multispectral images to predict cord yield under different planting dates (Nov 2022)
item Unraveling the effects of management and climate on carbon fluxes of U.S. croplands using the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem (LTAR) network (Sep 2022)
item Clean Water Act at 50: Celebrating the golden anniversary of the blue policy (Sep 2022)
item Modeling the distribution of wild cotton Gossypium aridum in Mexico using flowering growing degree days and annual available soil water (May 2022)
item Simulation of pesticide and metabolite concentrations using SWAT+ landscape routing and conditional management applications (Apr 2022)
item Integrated assessment of nitrogen runoff to the Gulf of Mexico (Nov 2021)
item A hydropedological approach to simulate streamflow and soil water contents with SWAT+ (May 2021)