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Restoring plant species diversity and community composition in a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem
Laughlin, Bakker, Daniels, Moore, Casey, SpringerMonitoring of ecological restoration treatments often focuses on changes in community structure and function. We suggest that long-term changes in community composition also need to be explicitly considered when evaluating the success of restoration…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Teague, Duke, Waggoner, Dowhower, Gerrard
Prescribed fire is used to reduce woody plant and cactus cover and restore degraded rangelands in the southern Great Plains, but little is known regarding the impact of summer fires. We evaluated the effects of summer fires applied as patch burns in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document