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ARS Home Plains Area Fort Collins, Colorado Center for Agricultural Resources Research Rangeland Resources & Systems Research People & Locations







Melissa  Johnston
                        Rangeland Resources & Systems Research

                        




                        
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                        Phone: (970) 897-2226
                        
                        
                        Fax: (970) 897-2463(Employee information on this page comes from the REE Directory. Please contact your front office staff to update the REE Directory.)
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                                                (Clicking on the reprint icon
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                                                    will take you to the publication reprint.)Snapshot of enteric methane emissions from stocker cattle grazing extensive semiarid rangelands
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Raynor, E.J., Schilling-Hazlett, A., Place, S.E., Vargas, J.J., Thompson, L.R., Johnston, M.K., Jorns, T.R., Beck, M.R., Kuehn, L.A., Derner, J.D., Stackhouse-Lawson, K. 2024. Snapshot of enteric methane emissions from stocker cattle grazing extensive semiarid rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 93:77-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.001.Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Carroll, C., Slette, I.J., Griffin-Nolan, R.J., Baur, L.E., Hoffman, A.M., Denton, E.M., Gray, J.E., Post, A.K., Johnston, M.K., Yu, Q., et al. 2021. Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought. Oecologia. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04793-8.Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Griffin-Nolan, R.J., Carroll, C.J., Denton, E.M., Johnston, M.K., Collins, S.L., Smith, M.D., Knapp, A.K. 2018. Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands. Plant Ecology. 219(5):505-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-018-0813-7.


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