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Water relations growth of Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) following spring or autumn burning in a fescue prairie
Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Tree-crown streets and wildfires in pine plantations of Australasia [abstract]
Alexander, Cheney, Trevitt
The term 'tree crown street' has been coined to describe the pattern of burned or partially burned tree crowns, aligned roughly parallel to the general direction of fire spread, that is often left in the wake of crowning forest fires. Within the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Medusahead: natural successor to the cheatgrass type in the northern grasslands
Hironaka
Medusahead (Taeniatherum asperum) has replaced cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and other annual grasses over extensive areas in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington during the past 40 years. It has low palatability, injurious, and pesky awns, and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

History and applications of the Intermountain greenstripping program
Pellant
The size and frequency of wildfires are rapidly increasing on rangelands in the Intermountain area of the Western United States. One of the major contributors to increased wildfires is alien annual grasses, primarily cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum).…
Year: 1994
Type: Document

Response of understory species to tree harvesting and fire in pinyon-juniper woodlands
Everett, Sharrow
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Year: 1983
Type: Document

Fire history and grassland vegetation: three pollen diagrams from southern British Columbia
Cawker
Recent vegetation change in the grasslands of southern British Columbia is examined using pollen analysis, and the results are compared with documentary records. The increasing dominance of the grasslands after 1890 by Artemisia tridentata and other…
Year: 1983
Type: Document

Forest fires as vectors of forest pests
Perez-Chavez
Results are presented of studies in 1979 in fired forests in the vicinity of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico. Resistance to fire damage and insect attack (reported for 5 Pinus spp.) was greatest in P. michoacana, least in P. leiophylla. Trees suffering a…
Year: 1983
Type: Document

Responses of semidesert grasses and shrubs to fall burning
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned…
Year: 1983
Type: Document