The apache longbow–hellfire missile test at yuma proving ground: ecological risk assessment for tracked vehicle movement across desert pavement... Water loss to desert wash vegetation was hypothesized to result from increased infiltration and/or evaporation associated with vehicle disturbances to surrounding desert pavement, potentially affecting mule deer as well as vegetation....
Relationships of exotic plant invasions with biological soil crust, desert pavement, and soil carbon in the eastern mojave desert...spp., and Brassica tournefortii, and the soil surface types were biological soil crust, desert pavement, and areas free of rock mantle and living crust that are referred to as open....
Some lizard-habitat relationships in the northern great basin... Stands, characterized by different shrub species and substrates (Budsage-Desert Pavement, Greasewood- Hard Pan, Sagebrush-Sand), were sampled monthly with random line transects for ground cover, shrub height cover, and shrub spacing....
Visual recovery of desert pavement surfaces following impacts from vehicle and foot traffic in the ross sea region of antarcticaSites of past human activity were investigated to assess the visual recovery of the desert pavement following impacts from human trampling and vehicle traffic....
