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Abbott, B.N., Grice, A.C. Bastin, G.N. 1999. Low-level aerial photography can detect infestations of the invasive woody vine Cryptostegia grandiflorain northern Australia, pp. 602-603 In: People and Rangelands: Building the Future (Eldbridge, D. & Freudenberger, D., eds.). Proceedings, VI International Rangeland Congress, Vol. 2., Townsville, Australia.

Abrams, M. D. 1986. Historical development of gallery forests in northeast Kansas. Vegetatio 65:29-37.

Acocks, J. P. H. 1964. Karroo vegetation in relation to the development of deserts. Pages 100-112 in D. H. S. Davis, ed. Ecological studies of southern Africa. Dr. Junk Publishers, The Hague.

Adamoli, J., E. Sennhauser, J. M. Acero, and A. Rescia. 1990. Stress and disturbance: vegetation dynamics in the dry Chaco region of Argentina. Journal of Biogeography 17:491-500.

Ambrose, S. H. and N. E. Sikes. 1991. Soil carbon isotope evidence for Holocene habitat change in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science 253:1402-1405.

Anderson, J. E., and K. E. Holte. 1981. Vegetation development over 25 years without grazing on sagebrush-dominated rangeland in southeastern Idaho. Journal of Range Management 31:25-29.

Ansley, J. A., W. E. Pinchak, and D. N. Ueckert. 1995. Changes in redberry juniper distribution in northwest Texas (1948-1982). Rangelands 17:49-53.

Ansley, R.J., X.B. Wu and B.A. Kramp. 2001. Observation: Long-term increases in mesquite canopy cover in North Texas. Journal of Range Management 54:171-176.

Archer, S., C. J. Scifres, C. R. Bassham, and R. Maggio. 1988. Autogenic succession in a subtropical savanna: conversion of grassland to thorn woodland. Ecological Monographs 58:111-127.

Archer, S. 1989. Have southern Texas savannas been converted to woodlands in recent history? American Naturalist 134:545-561.

Archer, S. 1994. Woody plant encroachment into southwestern grasslands and savannas: rates, patterns and proximate causes. Pages 13-68 in M. Vavra, W. Laycock and R. Pieper, eds. Ecological implications of livestock herbivory in the West. Society for Range Management, Denver, CO, USA.

Archer, S. 1995. Tree-grass dynamics in a Prosopis-thornscrub savanna parkland: reconstructing the past and predicting the future. Ecoscience 2:83-99.

Archer, S., and C. J. Stokes. 2000. Stress, disturbance and change in rangeland ecosystems, pp. 17-38. In: Rangeland Desertification (O Arnalds and S Archer, eds). Advances in Vegetation Science Vol. 19, Kluwer Publishing Company.

Archer, S., D. S. Schimel, and E. A. Holland. 1995. Mechanisms of shrubland expansion: land use, climate or CO2? Climatic Change 29:91-99.

Archer, S., T.W. Boutton, and K. A. Hibbard. 2000. Trees in grasslands: biogeochemical consequences of woody plant expansion. Pages in press in E.-D. Schulze, S. Harrison, M. Heimann, E. Holland, J. Lloyd, I. Prentice and D. Schimel, eds. Global biogeochemical cycles in the climate system. Academic Press, San Diego.

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Arno, S. F. and G. E. Gruell. 1986. Douglas fir encroachment into mountain grasslands in southwestern Montana. Journal of Range Management 39:272-276.

Arno, S. F., M. G. Harrington, C. E. Fiedler, and C. E. Carlson. 1995. Restoring fire-dependent ponderosa pine forests in western Montana. Restoration and Management Notes 13:32-36.

Arnold, J. F. 1950. Changes in ponderosa pine bunchgrass ranges in northern Arizona resulting from pine regeneration and grazing. Journal of Forestry 48:118-126.

 

 


Bachelet, D., R.P. Neilson, J.M. Lenihan, and R.J. Drapek. 2001. Climate change effects on vegetation distribution and carbon budget in the United States. Ecosystems 4:164-185.

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Bahre, C. J. 1991. A legacy of change: historic human impact on vegetation of the Arizona borderlands. Univ. Arozna Press, Tucson.

Bahre, C. J. and M. L. Shelton. 1993. Historic vegetation change, mesquite increases, and climate in southeastern Arizona. Journal of Biogeography 20:489-504.

Baker, W. L. and P. J. Weisberg. 1997. Using GIS to model tree population parameters in the Rocky Mountain National Park forest-tundra ecotone. Journal of Biogeography 24:513-526.

Barker, P.J. and C.A. Booth. 1980. A Report on inedible shrub invasion in the north-west corner of N.S.W. Soil Conservation Service, New South Wales Western Area Technical Bulletin 16.

Barton, A. M. and M. D. Wallenstein. 1997. Effects of invasion of Pinus virginiana on soil properties in serpentine barrens in southeastern Pennsylvania. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 124:297-305.

Batianoff, G.N. and W.H. Burrows. 1973. Studies in the dynamics and control of woody weeds in semi-arid Queensland. 2. Cassia nemophilia and C. artemisioides. Queensland Journal of Articultural and Animal Science.

Beeston, G.R. and A.A. Webb. 1977. The ecology and control of Eremophila mitchellii. Technical Bulletin No. 2. Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane.

Beilmann, A. P. and L. G. Brenner. 1951. The recent intrusion of forest in the Ozarks. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 38:261-282.

Bellingham, P. J. 1998. Shrub succession and invasibility in a New Zealand montane grassland. Australian Journal of Ecology 23:562-573.

Ben-Shaher, R. 1991. Successional patterns of woody plants in catchment areas in a semi-arid region. Vegetatio 93:19-27.

Berlow, E.L., C.M. D'Antonio, and S.A. Reynolds. 2002. Shrub expansion in montane meadows: the interaction of local-scale disturbance and site aridity. Ecological Applications 12:1103-1118.

Betancourt, J. L. 1996. Long- and short-term climate influences on southwestern shrublands, Pages 5-9 in J. R. Barrow, E. D. McArthur, R. E. Sosebee and R. J. Tausch, eds. Proceedings, Shrubland ecosystem dynamics in a changing environment, Intermountain Research Station, Las Cruces, NM.

Bews, J. W. 1917. Plant succession in the thorn veld. South African Journal of Science 4:153-172.

Bidwell, T.G., D.M. Engle, M.E. Moseley, and R.E. Masters. 2000. Invasion of Oklahoma rangelands and forests by eastern redcedar and ashe juniper. Oklahoma State University, Coop. Ext. Serv., Stillwater. Circular E-947.

Binggeli, P. 1996. A taxonomic, biogeographical and ecological overview of invasive woody plants. Journal of Vegetation Science 7:121-124.

Binnington, K. 1997. Australian Forest Profiles 6. White Cypress Pine. National Forest Inventory-BRS, Canberra.

Blackburn, W. H. and P. T. Tueller. 1970. Pinyon and juniper invasion in black sagebrush communities in east-central Nevada. Ecology 51:841-848.

Bock, C. E. and J. H. Bock. 1997. Shrub densities in relation to fire, livestock grazing, and precipitation in an Arizona desert grassland. Southwestern Naturalist 42:188-193.

Bock, J. H. and C. E. Bock. 1984. Effect of fires on woody vegetation in the pine-grassland ecotone of the southern Black Hills. American Midland Naturalist 112:35-42.

Bogusch, E. R. 1952. Brush invasion of the Rio Grande Plains of Texas. Texas Journal of Science 4:85-91.

Bond, B.J. 2000. Age-related changes in photosynthesis of woody plants. Trends in Plant Science 5(8):349-353.

Bond, W. J., W. D. Stock, and M. T. Hoffman. 1994. Has the Karoo spread? A test for desertification using carbon isotopes from soils. South African Journal of Science 90:391-397.

Bond, WJ, and GF Midgley. 2000. A proposed CO2-controlled mechanism of woody plant invasion in grasslands and savannas. Global Change Biology 6:865-869.

Booth, C.A. 1986. The effect of microtopography and woolybutt (Eragrostis eriopoda) competition on the survival of hopbush (Dodonaea attenuata) seedlings. Pages 32-33 in P.J. Joss, P.W. Lynch and O.B. Williams, eds. Proceedings, 2nd International Rangeland Congress, Adelaide, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra/Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Booth, C.A. and P.J. Barker. 1979. Inedible shrub regeneration in the northwest corner of New South Wales. Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales Research Bulletin 13.

Booth, C. A. and P. J. Barker. 1981. Shrub invasion on sandplain country west of Wanaaring, New South Wales. Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales 37:65-70.

Booth, C.A., G.W. King, and F. Sanchez-Bayo. 1996a. Establishment of woody weeds in western New South Wales. 1. Seedling emergence and phenology. Rangeland Journal 18: 58-79.

Booth, C.A., F. Sanchez-Bayo, and G.W. King. 1996b. Establishment of woody weeds in western New South Wales. 2. Growth and competition potential. Rangeland Journal 18: 80-98.

Bosch, O.J.H. 1989. Degradation of the semi-arid grasslands of southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 16:165-175.

Bossard, C. C. 1991. The role of habitat disturbance, seed predation and ant dispersal on establishment of the exotic shrub Cytisus scoparius in California. American Midland Naturalist 126:1-13

Bossard, C. C. and M. Rejmanek. 1994. Herbivory, growth, seed production, and resprouting of an exotic invasive shrub. Biological Conservation 67:193-200.

Boutton, T. W., S. R. Archer, A. J. Midwood, S. F. Zitzer, and R. Bol. 1998. 13C values of soil organic carbon and their use in documenting vegetation change in a subtropical savanna ecosystem. Geoderma 82:5-41.

Bowman, D.M.J.S., Panton, W.J. & McDonough, L. 1990. Dynamics of forest clumps on chenier plains, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Botany, 38: 593-601.

Bowman, D. M. J. S. and W. J. Panton. 1995. Munmarlary revisited: Response of a north Australian Eucalyptus tetrodonta savanna protected from fire for 20 years. Australian Journal of Ecology 20:526-531.

Bowman, D.M.J.S, A. Walsh & D.J. Milne. 2001. Forest expansion and grassland contraction within a Eucalyptus savanna matrix between 1941 and 1994 at Litchfield National Park in the Australian monsoon tropics. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 10: 535-548.

Bragg, T. B. and L. C. Hulbert. 1976. Woody plant invasion of unburned Kansas bluestem prairie. Journal of Range Management 29:19-24.

Branscomb, B. L. 1958. Shrub invasion of a southern New Mexico desert grassland range. Journal of Range Management 11:129-132.

Bray, W. L. 1901. The ecological relations of the vegetation of western Texas. Botanical Gazette 32:99-123:195-217; 262-291.

Bren, L. J. 1992. Tree invasion of an intermittent wetland in relation to changes in the flooding frequency of the Murray River, Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 17:395-408.

Brener, A. G. F. and J. F. Silva. 1995. Leaf-cutting ants and forest groves in a tropical parkland savanna of Venezuela - facilitated succession. Journal of Tropical Ecology 11:651-669.

Briggs, J. M. and D. G. Gibson. 1992. Effects of burning on tree spatial patterns in a tallgrass prairie landscape. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club 119:300-307.

Brotherson, J. D., Carman, J. G. & Szyska, L. A. 1984. Stem-diameter age relationships of Tamarix ramosissima in central Utah. Journal of Range Management 37: 362-364.

Brown, A. L. 1950. Shrub invasions of southern Arizona desert grasslands. Journal of Range Management 3:172-177.

Brown, D. 1995. The impact of species introduced to control tree invasion on the vegetation of an electrical utility right-of-way. Canadian Journal of Botany 73:1217-1228.

Brown, J. H., T. J. Valone, and C. G. Curtin. 1997. Reorganization of an arid ecosystem in response to recent climate change. Proceedings National Academy of Science 94:9729-9733.

Brown, J. R. and S. Archer. 1989. Woody plant invasion of grasslands: establishment of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa) on sites differing in herbaceous biomass and grazing history. Oecologia 80:19-26.

Brown, J. R. and J. Carter. 1998. Spatial and temporal patterns of exotic shrub invasion in an Australian tropical grassland. Landscape Ecology 13:93-103.

Bruce, K., G. Cameron, and P. Harcombe. 1995. Initiation of a new woodland type on the Texas coastal prairie by the chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum (l) Roxb). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 122:215-225.

Bücher, E. H. 1982. Chaco and Caatinga-South American arid savannas, woodlands, and thickets. Pages 48-79 in B. J. Huntley and B. H. Walker, eds. Ecology of Tropical Savannas. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Bücher, E. H. 1987. Herbivory in arid and semi-arid regions of Argentina. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60:265-273.

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Burkhardt, J. and E. W. Tisdale. 1976. Causes of juniper invasion in southwestern Idaho. Ecology 57:472-484.

Burrows, W.H. 1972. Productivity of an arid zone shrub (Eremophila gilesii) community in southwestern Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 20: 317-29.

Burrows, W.H. 1973a. Regeneration and spatila patterns of Acacia aneura in South West Queensland. Tropical Grasslands 7:57-68.

Burrows, W.H. 1973b. Studies in the dynamics and control of woody weeds in semi-arid Queensland. 1. Eremophilia gilesii. Queensland Journal of Agricultutral and Animal Sciences 30: 57-64.

Burrows, W.H. 1974. Trees and shrubs in mulga lands. Queensland Agricultural Journal 100: 322-330.

Burrows, W.H. 1996. Queensland's grazed woodlands-an enormous anthropogenic carbon sink demanding recognition. Technical Report 'Vegetation Thickening' Workshop, DEST International Panel Review, Canberra.

Burrows, W.H. 1999a. Carbon sequestration in forests and woodlands (savannas). Pages 65-79 in Practical Rangeland Ecology Professional Workshop (D.M. Orr, ed.), Proceedings, VIth International Rangelands Conference, Townsville, QLD Australia.

Burrows, W.H. 1999b. Tree clearing: rehabilitation or development on grazing land? Pages 24-41 in Practical Rangeland Ecology Professional Workshop (D.M. Orr, ed.), Proceedings, VIth International Rangelands Conference, Townsville, QLD Australia.

Burrows, W.H., I.F. Beale, R.G. Silcock, and A.J. Pressland. 1985. Prediction of tree and shrub population changes in a semi-arid woodland. Pages 207-211 in J.C. Tothill and J.J. Mott, eds. Ecology and management of the World's savannas. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra.

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Burrows, W.H., J.O. Carter, J.C. Scanlan, and E.R. Anderson. 1990. Management of savannas for livestock production in north-east Australia: contrasts across the tree-grass continuum. Journal of Biogeography 17: 503-512.

Burrows, W. H., J. O. Carter, J. C. Scanlan, and E. R. Anderson. 1990. Management of savannas for livestock production in north-east Australia: contrasts across the tree-grass continuum. Journal of Biogeography 17: 503-512.

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Burrows, W.H., B.K. Henry, , P.V. Back, M.B. Hoffman, L.J. Tait, E.R. Anderson, N. Menke, T. Danaher, J.O. Carter, and G.M. McKeon. 2002. Growth and carbon stock change in eucalypt woodlands in northeast Australia: ecological and greenhouse sink implications. Global Change Biology 8: 769-784.

 

 


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