Great Plains Fire Science Exchange Literature Searches

The Great Plains Fire Science Exchange (GPE) is partnering with FRAMES (Fire Research and Management Exchange System) to provide literature searches on topics such as patch burn-grazing and pyric herbivory. GPE is dedicated to the dissemination of fire science within the Great Plains region. Their main focus is on grasslands communities. The Patch burn-grazing: An Annotated Bibliography (GPE publication 2014-16) [PDF] summarizes many of the citations in these searches.

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Shortgrass steppe in the southern Great Plains: prescribed fire, drought, production, and grazing

Rangeland managers promoting sustainable use of semiarid ecosystems in the Southwestern U.S. face numerous complex challenges, including invasions by non-native species, the expansion of woody vegetation, altered fire regimes, and drought.
Person: Ford, Reeves, Baldwin
Created Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grassland bird response to a fire-grazing interaction in a fragmented landscape

Grassland birds have experienced widespread population declines throughout the North American tallgrass prairie region, largely as a result of habitat loss and the homogenization of remaining fragments. Recent work in relatively extensive grasslands...

Person: Pillsbury
Created Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire: plant functional types and patch mosaic burning in fire-prone ecosystems

Shared fire-survival and fire-persistence traits are found in taxonomically unrelated plant species that commonly grow in fire-prone ecosystems. Such traits include resprouting, after fire has killed the above-ground biomass, and postfire seed release...

Person: Allen
Created Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forage nutritive quality in the Serengeti Ecosystem: the roles of fire and herbivory

Fire and herbivory are important determinants of nutrient availability in savanna ecosystems. Fire and herbivory effects on the nutritive quality of savanna vegetation can occur directly, independent of changes in the plant community, or indirectly,...

Person: Anderson, Ritchie, Mayemba, Eby, Grace, McNaughton
Created Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

African grazing lawns - how fire, rainfall, and grazer numbers interact to affect grass community states

Grazing lawns are recognized as important components of many savanna ecosystems, but there is no clarity on their origin or their stability in space and time. Some researchers believe soil nutrients control grazing lawn distributions. Others believe...

Person: Archibald
Created Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Nutrition of Stone's sheep on burned and unburned ranges

Populations of Stone's sheep (Ovis dalli stonei) with and without access to burned ranges were compared. Forage quality (crude protein and acid detergent fiber [ADF]) was similar on both range types throughout the year. Levels of fecal protein...

Person: Seip, Bunnell
Created Year: 1885
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Response of bighorn sheep to clear-cut logging and prescribed burning

Prescribed burning and timber harvesting have been used to restore and maintain Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) ranges. Intensive study of a bighorn sheep herd in northeastern Utah indicated a need for range improvements. To evaluate the...

Person: Smith, Hardin, Flinders
Created Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Macropod studies at Wallaby Creek III. The effect of fire on pasture utilization by macropods and cattle

Utilisation of pasture in relation to time since burning occurred was assessed on a monthly basis for 16 months, for three species of macropodids and cattle. Utilisation by the eastern grey kangaroo, red-necked wallaby and cattle increased after...

Person: Southwell, Jarman
Created Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire incidence, but not fire size, affects macropod densities

The regeneration of plants post-fire has widely been shown to be attractive to vertebrate herbivores. However, there are few data relevant to the effect of fire size on herbivore densities. In dry eucalypt forest in one region and hummock sedgeland in...

Person: Styger, Kirkpatrick, Marsden-Smedley, Leonard
Created Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Causes of increased nutrient concentrations in post-fire regrowth in an East African savanna

The aim of the present study was to investigate the causes of increased macronutrient concentrations in above-ground post-fire regrowth in an East African savanna (Northern Tanzania). Experiments were set up to discriminate between the following...

Person: Van De Vijver, Poot, Prins
Created Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS