Shrub-steppe early succession following juniper cutting and prescribed fire

Environmental Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-481

  Bates, Jonathan D ^a   Davies, Kirk W ^a   Sharp, Robert N ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunchgrass; Cheatgrass; Juniperus occidentalis; Mountain big sagebrush; Secondary succession; Western snowberry

Indexed keywords

BUNCHGRASS; CHEATGRASS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; MOUNTAIN BIG SAGEBRUSH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; WESTERN SNOWBERRY;

FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RATING;

FIRES;

INVASIVE SPECIES; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; UNDERSTORY; WEED; WOODLAND;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BROMUS TECTORUM; CANOPY; CEANOTHUS VELUTINUS; CHRYSOTHAMNUS NAUSEOUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRASS SEEDLING DENSITY; HERB; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL BUNCHGRASS; PERENNIAL FORB; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DENSITY; POA BULBOSA; PRESCRIBED FIRE TREATMENT; PURSHIA TRIDENTATA; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SHRUB STEPPE RESTORATION; SNOWBERRY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SYMPHORICARPUS OREOPHILUS; UNITED STATES; WOODLAND PARTIAL CUTTING;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; FORESTRY; JUNIPERUS; PLANT WEEDS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; PLANTS; RATING; USA;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA VASEYANA; BROMUS TECTORUM; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; SYMPHORICARPOS OCCIDENTALIS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 79954430855     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9629-0     Document Type: Article

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