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1. Approximately 15,000 ha of mixed coniferous forest in the northern Sierra Nevada of California were burned during the Donner Ridge Fire in 1960. 2. Two areas were compared in the burnt forest that had received different management: one area was planted with Pinus jeffreyi Grev. and Balf. and sprayed with 2, 4, 5-T for shrub control; the other area was allowed to follow a natural post-fire succession. 3. Similar numbers of P. jeffreyi occurred on both sites, but shrubs and herbs were greatly reduced on the planted area and grasses increased. 4. Only Ribes cereum Dougl. which is normally a minor component of the natural shrub community, flourished in the planted area. 5. The ecological effects of conifer plantations in the northern Sierra Nevada are discussed.©1978 British Ecological Society. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Cataloging Information
- Abies spp.
- artificial regeneration
- Castanopsis sempervirens
- coniferous forests
- fire suppression
- forest management
- grasses
- herbaceous vegetation
- herbicides
- litter
- Nevada
- pine forests
- Pinus jeffreyi
- Pinus murrayana
- plantations
- population density
- post fire recovery
- Ribes
- Ribes cereum
- seedlings
- shrubs
- Sierra Nevada
- site treatments
- species diversity (plants)
- statistical analysis
- succession
- wildfires
- Wyethia mollis
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