Landowner perceptions of woody plants and prescribed fire in the Southern Plains, USA.

ABSTRACT: Grassland environments face a number of threats including land use change, changing climate and encroachment of woody plants. In the Southern Plains of the United States, woody plant encroachment threatens traditional agricultural grazing economies in addition to grassland dependent wildlife species. Numerous studies have examined the physical drivers of conversion from grassland to woodland but social drivers may be equally important to understanding the causes of and prescriptions for environmental degradation. In this paper, we report the results of a survey of landowners in the Southern Plains of Texas and Oklahoma in which we asked participants to estimate the current amount of woody plant cover on their land, their preferred amount of woody plant cover and about their perspectives re

SUBMITTER: Stroman DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7478812 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature