Short-term effects of burning wyoming big sagebrush steppe in southeast Oregon

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 515-522

  Davies, Kirk W ^a,c   Bates, Jonathan D ^a   Miller, Richard F ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis; Cover; Fire; Prescribe burning; Production; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INVASIVE SPECIES; PHYTOMASS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHRUB; STEPPE; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; COLEOPTERA; POACEAE;

EID: 35348981354     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2007)60[515:SEOBWB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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