Nutrient availability in rangeland soils: Influence of prescribed burning, herbaceous vegetation removal, overseeding with Bromus tectorum, season, and elevation

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 644-655

  Blank, Robert R ^a   Chambers, J ^b   Roundy, B ^c   Whittaker, A ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Division of Wildlife Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutrient availability; Rangeland soils; Resin capsules

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; HERB; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RANGELAND; SEEDING; SHRUB; SOIL NUTRIENT;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; SHOSHONE MOUNTAINS; TINTIC MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM;

EID: 36749044391     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/06-120R2.1     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. ABRAMS, M. M., AND W. M. JARRELL. 1992. Bioavailability index for phosphorus using ion exchange resin impregnated membranes. Soil Science Society of America Journal 56:1532-1537.
2. ÅGREN, G. I., AND E. BOSATTA. 1996. Theoretical ecosystem ecology: Understanding element cycles. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 250 p.
3. BARBER, S. A. 2001. Soil nutrient bioavailability: A mechanistic approach. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 432 p.
4. BAZZAZ, F. A. 1996. Plants in changing environments - Linking physiological, population, and community ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 330 p.
5. BELNAP, J., AND S. L. PHILLIPS. 2001. Soil biota in an ungrazed grassland: response to annual grass (Bromus tectorum) invasion. Ecological Applications 11:1261-1275.
6. BINKLEY, D., J. ABER, J. PASTOR, AND K. NADELHOFFER. 1986. Nitrogen availability in some Wisconsin forests: comparisons of resin bags and on-site incubations. Biology and Fertility of Soils 2:77-82.
7. BLANK, R. R., F. ALLEN, AND J, A. YOUNG. 1994. Extractable anions in soils following wildfire in a sagebrush-grass community. Soil Science Society of America Journal 58:564-570.
8. BLANK, R. R., J. CHAMBERS, AND D. ZAMUDIO. 2003. Prescribed burning of central Nevada degraded riparian ecosystems: effects on soil and vegetation. Journal of Range Management 56:388-396.
9. BOWEN, G. D. 1991. Soil temperature, root growth, and plant function. In: Y. Waisel, A. Eshel, and U. Kafkafi [EDS.]. Plant roots: The hidden half. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker. p. 309-330.
10. BROOKS, M. L. 1999. Habitat invasibility and dominance of alien annual plants in the western Mojave desert. Biological Invasions 1:325-337.
11. BROOKS, P. D., M. W. WILLIAMS, AND S. K. SCHMIDT. 1996. Microbial activity under alpine snowpacks, Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Biogeochemistry 32:93-113.
12. BURKE, I. C. 1989. Control of nitrogen mineralization in a sagebrush steppe landscape. Ecology 70:1115-1126.
13. BURKE, M. J., AND J. P. GRIME. 1996. An experimental study of plant community invasibility. Ecology 77:776-790.
14. CHAPIN, F. S., III. 1980. The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11:233-260.
15. CRAWLEY, M. J. 1987. What makes a community invasible? In: A. J. Gray, M. J. Crawley, and P. J. Edwards [EDS.]. Colonization, succession, and stability. London, UK: Blackwell Science. p. 429-453.
16. CREWS, T. E. 1993. Phosphorus regulation of nitrogen fixation in a traditional Mexican agroecosystem. Biogeochemistry 21:141-166.
17. CUI, M., AND M. M. CALDWELL. 1997. A large ephemeral release of nitrogen upon wetting of soil and corresponding root responses in the field. Plant and Soil 191:291-299.
18. DAVIS, M. A., J. P. GRIME, AND K. THOMPSON. 2000. Fluctuating resources in plant communities: a general theory of invasibility. Journal of Ecology 88:528-534.
19. DAVIS, M. A., AND M. PELSOR. 2001. Experimental support for a resource-based mechanistic model of invasibility. Ecology Letters 4:421-428.
20. DAVY, A. J., AND K. TAYLOR. 1974. Seasonal pattern of nitrogen availability in contrasting soils in the Chiltern Hills. Journal of Ecology 62:793-807.
21. DEBANO, L. F., AND C. E. CONRAD. 1978. The effect of fire on nutrients in a chaparral ecosystem. Ecology 59:489-497.
22. DEBANO, L. F., D. G. NEARY, AND P. F. FLOLLIOTT. 1998. Fire's effects on ecosystems. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 352 p.
23. DOESCHER, P. S., R. F. MILLER, AND A. H. WINWARD. 1984. Soil chemical patterns under eastern Oregon plant communities dominated by big sagebrush. Soil Science Society of America Journal 48:659-663.
24. DROHAN, P. J., D. J. MERKLER, AND B. J. BUCK. 2005. Suitability of the plant root simulator probe for use in the Mojave Desert. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:1482-1491.
25. DUCHAUFOUR, P. 1977. Pedology. Translated by T. R. Paton. London, UK: George Allen & Unwin. 448 p.
26. DUDLEY, J. L., AND K. LAJTHA. 1994. The effects of prescribed burning on nutrient availability and primary production in sandplain grasslands. American Midland Naturalist 130:286-298.
27. EHRENFELD, J. G. 2003. Effects of exotic plant invasion on soil nutrient cycling processes. Ecosystems 6:503-523.
28. EVANS, R. D., R. RIMER, L. SPERRY, AND J. BELNAP. 2001. Exotic plant invasion alters nitrogen dynamics in an arid grassland. Ecological Applications 11:1301-1310.
29. FARLEY, R. A., AND A. H. FITTER. 1999. Temporal and spatial variation in soil resources in a deciduous woodland. Journal of Ecology 87:688-696.
30. GOLDBERG, D. E. 1990. Components of resource competition in plant communities. In: J. B. Grace and D. Tilman [EDS.]. Perspectives on plant competition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. p. 27-49.
31. GRIME, J. P., J. C. CRICK, AND J. E. RINCON. 1986. The ecological significance of plasticity. In: D. H. Jennings and A. J. Trewars [EDS.]. Plasticity in plants. Cambridge, UK: Society of Experimental Biology. p. 5-29.
32. GROGAN, P., AND S. JONASSON. 2003. Controls on annual nitrogen cycling in the understory of a subarctic birch forest. Ecology 84:202-218.
33. GROSS, K. L., K. S. PREGITZER, AND A. J. BURTON. 1995. Spatial variation in nitrogen availability in three successional plant communities. Journal of Ecology 83:357-368.
34. GROVER, J. P. 1997. Resource competition. London, UK: Chapman and Hall. 352 p.
35. GUO, D., P. MOU, R. H. JONES, AND R. J. MITCHELL. 2004. Spatio-temporal patterns of soil available nutrients following experimental disturbance in a pine forest. Oecologia 138:613-621.
36. GURLEVIK, N., D. L. KELTING, AND H. LEE ALLEN. 2004. Nitrogen mineralization following vegetation control and fertilization in a 14-year-old loblolly pine plantation. Soil Science Society of America Journal 68:272-281.
37. HERRON, G. J., R. L. SHELEY, B. D. MAXWELL, AND J. S. JACOBSEN. 2001. Influence of nutrient availability on the interaction between Centaurea maculosa and Pseudoroegneria spicata. Ecological Restoration 9:326-331.
38. 2-fixation) by Jarrah Forest legumes following fire and phosphate application. Journal of Applied Ecology 19:631-645.
39. HOBBS, N. T., AND D. S. SCHIMEL. 1983. Fire effects on nitrogen mineralization and fixations in mountain shrub and grassland communities. Journal of Range Management 37:402-405.
40. JACKSON, R. B., J. CANADELL, J. R. EHLERINGER, H. A. MONNEY, O. E. SALA, AND E. D. SCHULTZE. 1996. A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes. Oecologia 108:389-411.
41. JANSSEN, B. H. 1996. Nitrogen mineralization in relation to C:N ratio and decomposability organic material. Plant and Soil 181:39-45.
42. JOHNSON, D. W., P. S. J. VERBURG, AND J. A. ARNONE. 2005. Soil extraction, ion exchange resin, and ion exchange membrane measure of soil mineral nitrogen during incubation of a tallgrass prairie soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69:260-265.
43. KORFMACHER, J. L., J. C. CHAMBERS, R. J. TAUSCH, B. A. ROUNDY, S. E. MEYER, AND S. KITCHEN. 2002. Technical note: a technique for conducting small-plot burn treatments. Journal of Range Management 56:251-254.
44. LARIGAUDERIE, A., AND J. H. RICHARDS. 1994. Root proliferation characteristics of seven perennial arid-land grasses in nutrient-enriched microsites. Oecologia 99:102-111.
45. LODHIL, M. A. K. 1981. Accelerated soil mineralization, nitrification, and revegetation of abandoned fields due to the removal of crop-soil phytotoxicity. Journal of Chemical Ecology 7:685-694.
46. MARSCHNER, H. 1995. Mineral nutrition of higher plants. London, UK: Academic Press. 889 p.
47. MCBRIDE, M. B. 1994. Environmental chemistry of soils. New York, NY: Oxford Press. 416 p.
48. MISRA, M. K., K. W. RAGLAND, AND A. J. BAKER. 1993. Wood ash composition as a function of furnace temperature. Biomass and Bioenergy 4:103-116.
49. MONACO, T. A., D. A. JOHNSON, J. M. NORTON, T. A. JONES, K. J. CONNORS, J. B. NORTON, AND M. B. REDINBAUGH. 2003. Contrasting responses of Intermountain West grasses to soil nitrogen. Journal of Range Management 56:282-290.
50. NEARY, D. G., C. C. KLOPATEK, L. F. DEBANO, AND P. F. FFOLLIOT. 1999. Fire effects on belowground sustainability: a review and synthesis. Forest Ecology and Management 122:51-71.
51. NISHITA, H., AND R. M. HAUG. 1972. Some physical and chemical characteristics of heated soils. Soil Science 113:422-430.
52. PICKETT, S. T. A., AND P. S. WHITE. 1985. The ecology of natural disturbance as patch dynamics. New York, NY: Academic Press. 472 p.
53. PYNE, S. J., P. L. ANDRES, AND R. D. LAVEN. 1996. Introduction to wildland fire. 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 682 p.
54. RAISON, R. J. 1979. Modification of the soil environment by vegetation fires, with particular reference to nitrogen. Plant and Soil 51:73-108.
55. RAU, B. 2005. Soil physical, chemical and understory plant nutritional response to pinyon-juniper encroachment and prescribed fire in a central Nevada woodland [thesis]. Reno, NV: University of Nevada. 137 p.
56. ROBSON, A. D., G. W. O'HARA, AND L. K. ABBOTT. 1981. Involvement of phosphorus in nitrogen fixation by subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.). Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 8:427-436.
57. SAGGAR, S., M. J. HEDLEY, R. E. WHITE, P. E. H. GREG, K. W. PERROTT, AND I. S. CORNFORTH. 1992. Development and evaluation of an improved soil test for phosphorus, 2: comparison of the Olsen and mixed cation-anion exchange resin tests for predicting the yield of ryegrass grown in pots. Fertilizer Research 33:135-144.
58. SAS. 2001. SAS user's guide. Version 6.0. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
59. SCHAFF, B. E., AND E. O. SKOGLEY. 1982. Diffusion of potassium, calcium and magnesium in Bozeman silt loam as influenced by temperature and moisture. Soil Science Society of America Journal 46:521-524.
60. SEARLE, P. L. 1988. The determination of phosphate-extractable sulphate in soil with an anion-exchange membrane. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 19:1477-1493.
61. SHERROD, S. K., J. BELNAP, AND M. E. MILLER. 2003. Comparison of ion-exchange resin counterions in the nutrient measurement of calcareous soils: implication for correlative studies of plant-soil relationships. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 34:1981-2003.
62. STOHLGREN, T. J. 1999. The rich get richer: patterns of plant invasion in the United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:11-14.
63. STRÖM, L., T. OLSSON, AND G. TYLER. 1994. Differences between calcifuge and acidifuge plants in root exudation of low-molecular organic acids. Plant and Soil 167:239-245.
64. STROUP, W. W. 1989. Predictable function and prediction space in the mixed model procedure. In: Application of mixed models in agriculture and related disciplines. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station. Southern Cooperative Series Bulletin 343. p. 39-48.
65. TILMAN, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 296 p.
66. TISDALE, S. L., AND W. L. NELSON. 1975. Soil fertility and fertilizers. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing. 694 p.
67. TUININGA, A. R., AND J. DIGHTON. 2004. Changes in ectomycorrhizal communities and nutrient availability following prescribed burns in two upland pine-oak forests in the New Jersey pine barrens. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:1755-1765.
68. VAN RAIJ, B., J. A. QUAGGIO, AND N. M. DE SILVA. 1986. Extraction of phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium from soils by an ion exchange resin procedure. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 17:547-566.
69. VITOUSEK, P. M., L. R. WALKER, L. D. WHITEAKER, D. MUELLER-DOMBOIS, AND P. A. MATSON. 1987. Biological invasion by Myrica faya alters ecosystem development in Hawaii. Science 238:802-804.
70. WHITE, P. F. 1990. Soil and plant factors relating to the poor growth of Lupinus species on fine-textured, alkaline soils - a review. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 41:871-890.
71. WHITTAKER, A. 2006. The effect of herbaceous species removal, fire, and cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) on soil water availability [thesis]. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University. 33 p.
72. WRIGHT, H. A., AND A. W. BAILEY. 2004. Fire ecology, United States and Canada. New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience. 528 p.
73. YANG, J. E., AND E. O. SKOGLEY. 1992. Diffusion kinetics of multinutrient accumulation by mixed-bed ion-exchange resin. Soil Science Society of America Journal 56:408-414.