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200 00$aRangeland health $enew methods to classify, inventory, and monitor rangelands /$fCommittee on Rangeland Classification, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academy Press$d1994
215   $a1 online resource (200 pages) $cillustrations
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 0 $a0-309-04879-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 158-168) and index.
327   $a""RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""STATE OF RANGELAND ECOSYSTEMS""; ""Questions About Methods""; ""Lack of Reliable Data""; ""Need to Know is Urgent""; ""PURPOSES OF NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""Standards for National Assessments""; ""DEFINITION OF RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""MINIMUM ECOLOGICAL STANDARD""; ""USE AND MANAGEMENT""; ""Categories for National Assessments""; ""METHODS TO ASSESS RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Defining Boundaries""; ""Criteria and Indicators""; ""SOIL STABILITY AND WATERSHED FUNCTION""
327   $a""NUTRIENT CYCLING AND ENERGY FLOW"" ""RECOVERY MECHANISMS""; ""Research Needed""; ""NATIONAL INVENTORYING AND MONITORING SYSTEM""; ""Minimum Data Set""; ""Standardize Indicators and Methods""; ""National Sampling System""; ""Periodic Sampling Needed""; ""TRANSITION TO RANGELAND HEALTH ASSESSMENTS""; ""Intermediate Steps""; ""Preserving Continuity During the Transition""; ""CHALLENGE TO RANGE SCIENTISTS AND MANAGERS""; ""1 Rangelands are Important ""; ""RANGELAND MANAGEMENT AND USES""; ""CONCERN ABOUT THE STATE OF U.S. RANGELANDS""; ""Federal Management of U.S. Rangelands""
327   $a""Present State of Rangelands"" ""ASSESSMENTS OF RANGELANDS""; ""DEFICIENCIES OF ASSESSMENTS""; ""UTILITY OF CURRENT METHODS AND DATA""; ""URGENT NEED FOR NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""2 Rangeland Health ""; ""GOALS FOR NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS""; ""STANDARDS FOR RANGELAND ASSESSMENTS""; ""Rangeland Health""; ""Categories for Rangeland Assessments""; ""DEFINING BOUNDARIES""; ""THRESHOLDS BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL STATES""; ""PROCESSES OF CHANGE""; ""THRESHOLD OF RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""EARLY WARNING LINE""; ""MULTIPLE STATES AND TRANSITIONS""; ""ROLE OF RANGELAND HEALTH IN RANGELAND MANAGEMENT""
327   $a""Goal of Range Management"" ""Additional Information Needed to Determine Appropriate Management""; ""Rangeland in Extreme Environments""; ""3 Current Methods of Rangeland Assessment ""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF CURRENT THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RANGELAND ASSESSMENTS""; ""Early Development Of Survey Methods""; ""Standardization of Rangeland Surveys""; ""New Theoretical Foundation for Rangeland Surveys""; ""SUCCESSION AND CLIMAX COMMUNITIES""; ""SUCCESSIONAL STAGES AND RANGELAND ASSESSMENT""; ""SUCCESSIONAL STAGES AS CONDITION CLASSES""
327   $a""ADOPTION OF THE SUCCESSION-RETROGRESSION MODEL BY FEDERAL AGENCIES""""APPLICABILITY OF THE SUCCESSION-RETROGRESSION MODEL""; ""LINKS BETWEEN OTHER BRANCHES OF ECOLOGY AND RANGELAND SCIENCE""; ""CURRENT AGENCY RANGELAND ASSESSMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE""; ""Site Classification""; ""RANGE SITE CLASSIFICATION""; ""ECOLOGICAL SITES AND TYPES""; ""Evaluation of Range Condition and Ecological Status""; ""RANGE CONDITION (SCS)""; ""ECOLOGICAL STATUS (USFS AND BLM)""; ""Trend and Apparent Trend""; ""NEW METHODS NEEDED TO ASSESS RANGELAND HEALTH""; ""Site Classification""; ""CLASSIFICATION BASED ON CLIMAX CONCEPT""
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