Native bunchgrass response to prescribed fire in ungrazed mountain big sagebrush ecosystems

Fire Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 86-96

  Ellsworth, Lisa M ^a   Kauffman, J Boone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tridentata; Bromus tectorum; Bunchgrass; Cheatgrass; Fire return interval; Mountain big sagebrush; Prescribed fire; Pseudoroegneria spicata; Rangeland restoration

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; FIRE; GRASS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RANGELAND; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; LAVA BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACHNATHERUM THURBERIANUM; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA VASEYANA; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; COLEOPTERA; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ELYMOIDES; PIPERACEAE; POA; POA SECUNDA; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 78650477772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0603086     Document Type: Article

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