Postfire succession in big sagebrush steppe with livestock grazing

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-110

  Bates, Jonathan D ^a,d   Rhodes, Edward C ^b   Davies, Kirk W ^a   Sharp, Robert ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDI/Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunchgrass; Idaho fescue; Prescribed burning; Secondary succession; Thurber's needlegrass; Utilization; Wyoming big sagebrush

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CANOPY; CROP YIELD; DICOTYLEDON; FORAGE; GRASS; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; BOS; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 61949171504     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/08-096     Document Type: Article

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