Energy-extraction results in significant disturbance to rangelands in Wyoming and other western US states. Although reclamation is required by law, US General Accounting Office reports from 1999 and 2005 are clear that affected government agencies have--over much of the past decade--had difficulty accomplishing mandated environmental monitoring of extraction-related disturbance. We evaluated tw...

In the literature, there is substantial evidence presented of enhancement of vegetation growth and regrowth with rainfall. There is also much research presented on the decline in rainfall with land clearance. This article deals with the well documented decline in rainfall in southwest Western Australia and discusses the literature that has been presented as to the rationale for the decline. The...

Aims The area influenced by road construction is large, and measures to re-establish vegetation in disturbed areas are routinely carried out reduce impacts on biodiversity. However, goals of mitigation often unclear, the effects biodiversity rarely monitored. We assessed different revegetation treatments (natural revegetation, seeding, planting) development along highways, wildlife crossings ag...

Revegetation is regarded as an effective means to improve the ecological environment in deserts and profoundly influences potential functions of soil fungal community. Therefore, Illumina high-throughput sequencing was performed characterize diversity community composition at two depths (0–10 cm 10–20 cm) with four revegetation durations (natural grassland, half-mature, nearly mature, mature Pi...