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Monday Technical Session - Ecology I

• The Importance of a Historical Perspective for Western Rangeland Restoration and Management Lesley R. Morris and Tom Monaco

• Are Historic Disturbance Regimes Appropriate in Sagebrush Plant Communities Under Modern Conditions? Kirk W. Davies, Tony J. Svejcar and Jon D. Bates

• Identifying Relationships Between Livestock Grazing, Plant Community Characteristics and Soil Attributes in Central Sierra Nevada Meadows Leslie M. Roche, K.W. Tate, A.T. O’Geen and D.J. Eastburn

• Patchiness of Mixed-Grass Prairie at Different Grazing Intensities Jack E. Norland, Ryan F. Limb, Jay M. Volk and Don R. Kirby

• Effect of Annual, Growing Season, and Spring Precipitation on Peak Standing Crop at Three Locations Gale H. Dunn, Lori Wiles, Jeff Printz, Bob Patton and Anne Nyren

• Developing New Tools to Understand Vegetation Change in the Sagebrush Steppe and Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands of the Great Basin Desert Region Lesley R. Morris, Neil E. West and Ronald J. Ryel

• Survivors of Invasion: Seed Bank Response to Juniper Expansion in the Sagebrush Steppe Corinne M. Duncan, Richard F. Miller, David A. Pyke, Jane M. Mangold and Jaime S. Ratchford

• Phenotypic Variation of Achnatherum hymenoides in Relation to Environmental Factors Michael Cashman, Richard Johnson and Linda Hardesty

• Insect Abundance and Plant Community Structure: Implications for Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Habitat Erica A. Ersch, Tamzen K. Stringham and Jeffrey Miller

• Range Scientists Should Calculate Effect Sizes, Not P-Values Matthew J. Rinella and Jeremy J. James