Post-fire seeding on Wyoming big sagebrush ecological sites: Regression analyses of seeded nonnative and native species densities

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1320-1325

  Eiswerth, Mark E ^a   Krauter, Karl ^b   Swanson, Sherman R ^c   Zielinski, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency fire rehabilitation; Great Basin; Rangeland; Sagebrush; Seeding

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

ECOLOGICAL SITES; EMERGENCY FIRE REHABILITATION; GREAT BASIN; NON-NATIVE SPECIES; POST-FIRE; RANGELAND; SAGEBRUSH; SEEDING; SEEDING RATE; WYOMING;

FIRES;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT; RANGELAND; SEEDING; SHRUB; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; BROMUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; FORAGE; GRASS; LIVESTOCK; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVEGETATION; SHRUB; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; BROMUS TECTORUM; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; COLEOPTERA; POACEAE;

EID: 56249118672     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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