Weather Variability and Adaptive Management for Rangeland Restoration

Abstract

The Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management (EBIPM) model for restoration planning is based on a conceptual framework for understanding successional dynamics and trajectories, but with speci c guidance and tools for practical implementation.1 Weather variability impacts all aspects of the successional processes underlying the EBIPM model.2 Recent reviews have discussed the interactions of weather and seedbed prep- aration treatments on site availability and seedbed microcli- mate.2,3 In this paper we will discuss weather variability, and how local weather knowledge can be used in EBIPM plan- ning, interpretation of monitoring data, and development of adaptive management strategies for rangeland restoration. 

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v34i6_hardegree