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  • The Colorado Plateau VI: Science and Management at the Landscape Scale
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  • Edited by Laura F. Huenneke, Charles van Riper III, and Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin
  • 2015
  • Published by: University of Arizona Press
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Covering 130,000 square miles and a wide range of elevations from desert to alpine in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau has long fascinated researchers. The Colorado Plateau VI provides readers with a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions currently surrounding the region.

The Colorado Plateau VI’s contributors show how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau. The volume’s chapters fall into five major themes: monitoring as a key tool for addressing management challenges, restoration approaches to improving ecosystem condition and function, collaboration and organizational innovations to achieve conservation and management objectives, landscape-scale approaches to understanding, and managing key species and ecological communities.

Focusing on the integration of science into resource management issues over the Colorado Plateau, this volume includes contributions from dozens of leading scholars of the region. The Colorado Plateau VI proves a valuable resource to all interested in the conservation management, natural history, and cultural biological resources of the Colorado Plateau.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction to the Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference
  2. Laura F. Huenneke, Charles van Riper III, and Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin
  3. pp. 3-6
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  1. Part I. New Approaches to Monitoring Populations and Communities
  1. 1. Challenges to Establishing Baseline Conditions for Long-Term Vegetation Monitoring in National Parks on the Southern Colorado Plateau
  2. James K. DeCoster, Jodi Norris, and Megan C. Swan
  3. pp. 9-22
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  1. 2. Cross-Jurisdictional Monitoring for Nonnative Plant Invasions Using NDVI Change Detection Indices in Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona, USA
  2. Hillary L. Hudson, Steven E. Sesnie, Ronald D. Hiebert, Brett G. Dickson, and Lisa P. Thomas
  3. pp. 23-40
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  1. 3. New Methods and Hierarchical Models for Estimating Intensity of Diurnal Habitat Use by Merriam’s Turkeys in Managed Forests of Northern Arizona
  2. Brett G. Dickson, Vincent J. Frary, Steven E. Sesnie, Jill M. Rundall, and Michael F. Ingrald
  3. pp. 41-59
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  1. 4. Planning and Implementing Landscape-Scale Arthropod Inventory and Monitoring Projects
  2. David C. Lightfoot
  3. pp. 60-78
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  1. Part II. Biology of Key Species and Targets of Management
  1. 5. Hybrid Poplar for the Colorado Plateau: NMSU Poplar Research, Farmington, New Mexico
  2. Michael K. O’Neill, Robert F. Heyduck, Samuel C. Allen, Kevin A. Lombard, Dan Smeal, and Richard N. Arnold
  3. pp. 81-94
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  1. 6. Age and Sex Composition of Harvest and Timing of Birth Frequency for Arizona Mountain Lions
  2. Brian F. Wakeling, Ronald L. Day, Amber A. Munig, and Jack L. Childs
  3. pp. 95-101
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  1. 7. Evaluating the Effects of Management Actions on Razorback Sucker Recovery in the San Juan River Basin
  2. Scott L. Durst
  3. pp. 102-119
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  1. 8. Effects of Introduced Bison on Wetlands of the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona
  2. Evan Reimondo, Thomas Sisk, and Tad C. Theimer
  3. pp. 120-135
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  1. 9. Survival, Spring Hunting, and Cause-Specific Mortality for Male Merriam’s Turkeys in North-Central Arizona
  2. Brian F. Wakeling and Rick Langley
  3. pp. 136-141
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  1. 10. Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima Torr.): State of Our Knowledge and Future Challenges
  2. Rosemary L. Pendleton, Burton K. Pendleton, Susan E. Meyer, Bryce Richardson, Todd Esque, and Stanley G. Kitchen
  3. pp. 142-156
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  1. Part III. Landscape-Scale Research and Management
  1. 11. Bee Diversity and Abundance Along an Elevational Gradient in Northern Arizona
  2. David R. Smith, Jacob Higgins, Jacob Burton, and Neil S. Cobb
  3. pp. 159-189
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  1. 12. Spatial Factors Influencing High-Probability Areas for Nuisance Black Bear Complaints in Arizona, 2000–2010
  2. Daniel P. Sturla, Brian F. Wakeling, and Michael J. Rabe
  3. pp. 190-208
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  1. 13. Ant Community Structure in Salt Creek, Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Changes at Four Sites in June Samples, 2000–2007
  2. Tim B. Graham and Evelyn Cheng
  3. pp. 209-240
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  1. 14. Associations of Elevation, Vegetation Type, and Land Use with the Distribution of the Wupatki Pocket Mouse (Perognathus amplus cineris)
  2. Jean Marie Loverich Rieck, Sharalyn K. Peterson, and Tad C. Theimer
  3. pp. 241-250
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  1. 15. Beetle Diversity of Three Management Zones in Salt Creek Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
  2. Louis L. Pech and Timothy B. Graham
  3. pp. 251-269
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  1. 16. Distance to Standing Water is Negatively Correlated with Invertebrate Biomass, Nestling Feeding Rate, and Productivity in Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus)
  2. D. Peterson, A. R. Pellegrini, M. A. McLeod, and Tad C. Theimer
  3. pp. 270-278
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  1. 17. Plant Community Responses to the Coupled Effects of Dust on Snow and Warming in Alpine Environments, Southwestern Colorado
  2. Michael Remke, Julie Korb, and Heidi Steltzer
  3. pp. 279-288
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  1. 18. The Influence of Tamarix ramosissima Defoliation on Population Movements of the Northern Tamarisk Beetle (Diorhabda carinulata) Within the Colorado Plateau
  2. Levi R. Jamison, Charles van Riper III, and Dan W. Bean
  3. pp. 289-300
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  1. Part IV. Collaboration and Education as Core Strategies
  1. 19. The Value of Field Courses and Service-Learning Projects to Environmental Conservation on the Colorado Plateau: A Call for Collaboration
  2. Angela B. Moline
  3. pp. 303-312
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  1. 20. Community Collaborations for Increasing Native Seed Availability and Research on the Colorado Plateau
  2. Rachel A. Ostlund, Patricia A. West, and Megan Haidet
  3. pp. 313-319
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  1. 21. Collaborative Rehabilitation of Pakoon Springs in Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Arizona
  2. Kelly J. Burke, Kathleen A. Harcksen, Lawrence E. Stevens, Robert J. Andress, R. J. Johnson
  3. pp. 320-336
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  1. Part V. Restoration of Ecological Systems
  1. 22. Expected Wildfire Suppression Costs for Proposed 4FRI Treatment Areas
  2. Ryan Fitch, Yeon-Su Kim, and Amy Waltz
  3. pp. 339-346
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  1. 23. The Escalante River Watershed Partnership: Conservation of an Endangered Riparian Ecosystem
  2. John R. Spence and Linda Whitham
  3. pp. 347-360
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  1. 24. Colorado River Riparian Ecosystem Rehabilitation in Glen and Grand Canyons, Arizona
  2. Lawrence E. Stevens, Kelly J. Burke, John R. Spence, Lonnie Pilkington, and Christopher Hughes
  3. pp. 361-384
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 385-390
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 391-395
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