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Practical applications of disturbance ecology to natural resource management
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues • Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management. • Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances. • Management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Fire induces clonal sprouting of riparian cottonwoods
Gom, Rood
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Fire and grazing in a shrub-invaded arid grassland community: independent or interactive ecological effects?
Valone, Kelt
This study examined the response of summer and winter annuals and perennials in a shrub-invaded arid plant community to combinations of fire and grazing by cattle to determine their effects on individual abundances, species richness and diversity.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

The flora and ecology of southern Ontario granite barrens [Chapter 24]
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Pines versus oaks: effects of fire on the composition of Madrean forests in Arizona
Barton
I examined contrasts in response to moderate-intensity fire between two pine species (Pinus leiophylla Schiede and Deppe and P. engelmannii Carr.) and four oak species (Quercus hypoleucoides Camus., Q. arizonica Sarg., Q. emoryi Torr., and Q. rugosa…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

TNC Testifies Before The House Committee on Agriculture [Testimony]
Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Trial by fire: restoration of Middle Rio Grande upland ecosystems
Loftin
The majority of upland ecosystems (desert scrub, grasland, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine and higher elevation conifer forests) in the Middle Rio Grande Basin were historically dependent on periodic fire to maintain their composition, productivity,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Clearcutting and burning of northern spruce-fir forests: implications for small mammal communities
Sullivan, Lautenschlager, Wagner
1. This study was designed to test the hypotheses that (i) abundance and related demographic parameters of small mammal populations would decline after clearcutting of northern spruce-fir forest, and (ii) prescribed burning, following clearcutting,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Effect of organic matter removal, ashes and shading on Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, seedling emergence from soil monoliths under greenhouse conditions
Duchesne, MuellerRowat, Clark, Pinto
The effects of organic matter removal, ashes and shading were investigated on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) emergence using soil monoliths in greenhouse conditions. Two hundred (18 cm width x 30 cm length x 25 cm depth) soil…
Year: 1999
Type: Document

Burning: when and how to burn and what to do before and after [Chapter 41]
Savory, Butterfield
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document