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- Library Collection RecordDetling reviewed studies of plant and soil response to grazing by prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), bison (Bison bison) and wild horses (Equus caballus) in Wind Cave National Park (South Dakota),…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- Equus caballus
- Bison bison
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- exclosures
- feral horses
- nitrogen cycling
- prairie dogs
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Day and Detling evaluated the influence of natural and simulated urine deposition by a native herbivore, American bison (Bison bison), on plant biomass, species composition, and N…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- defoliation
- nitrogen
- Poa pratensis
- Schizachyrium scoparium
- urine
- Bison bison
- Grazing Preference
- photosynthetic pathways
- Root
- Shoot
- Library Collection RecordDamhoureyeh and Hartnett measured the growth and reproduction of five forb species in tallgrass prairie pastures in Kansas that were grazed by bison or cattle, and burned every year or every four…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- bison
- cattle
- fire
- forbs
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordA study conducted at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, following preliminary assessments of bison (Bison bison) use of prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns, found that midsummer was when…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- herbivory
- grazing
- Bison bison
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- forage interactions
- habitat use patterns
- mixed-grass prairie
- prairie dogs
- Library Collection RecordCoppock and Detling observed bull and cow-calf bison (Bison bison) herd selection of feeding sites on a prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colony, before and after a prescribed burn on a nearby…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- burning
- grazing
- Bison bison
- black-tailed prairie dog
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- Wind Cave National Park
- Library Collection RecordCoppedge and Shaw examined the effects of bison (Bison bison) horning and rubbing behaviors on woody vegetation, over a two-year period on a tallgrass prairie site. Horning and rubbing activity was…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- Bison bison
- horning
- Rubbing
- tallgrass prairie
- woody vegetation
- Library Collection RecordTwo long-term field experiments were performed in native tallgrass prairie grassland to assess the effects of fire, nitrogen addition, and grazing or mowing on plant species diversity. In the…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- species diversity
- mowing
- burning
- Bison bison
- fertilizer
- habitat fragmentation
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordCollins and Barber measured the effects of grazing, fire, buffalo wallows, and prairie dog towns on grassland plant community dynamics in an area of mixed-grass prairie, in southwestern Oklahoma.…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- Oklahoma
- buffalo wallows
- disturbance
- diversity
- fire
- grassland
- prairie dog town
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, authors applied a gap dynamics conceptualization of succession to a semiarid grassland, by focusing on gaps produced in the belowground resource space by death of an…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- Aboveground Biomass
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this Colorado study, Coffin and Lauenroth evaluate the effects of interactions among disturbance characteristics on the successional dynamics of small scale disturbances in shortgrass steppe plant…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- animal burrows
- ant mounds
- disturbance
- grassland
- succession
- Library Collection RecordCoffin and Lauenroth evaluated the effects of spatially-explicit processes on the recovery of Bouteloua gracilis after disturbances using a modification of a gap dynamics simulation model, developed…Publication Date 1969
- Bouteloua gracilis
- blue grama
- disturbance
- gap dynamics
- grassland
- simulation model
- succession
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), bison (Bison bison), or both were excluded from a mixed grass prairie in southwest South Dakota for two years. Only modest vegetational changes…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- Bison bison
- black-tailed prairie dog
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- grazing patterns
- mixed-grass prairie
- nitrogen concentration
- release from grazing
- Vegetation Response
- Library Collection RecordLesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) disturb aquatic and semi-aquatic plant species while foraging in the saltmarsh regions of La Perouse Bay, on the Hudson Bay coast. The production…Publication Date 1969
- foraging
- Chen caerulescens caerulescens
- clonal reproduction
- disturbance
- lesser snow geese
- saltmarsh graminoids
- vegetative propagules
- Library Collection RecordThe role of cattle in facilitating the ingress and establishment of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) has broader implications with regard to the conversion of grasslands to woodlands. On the site with…Publication Date 1969
- dung
- grazing
- mesquite
- disturbance
- Prosopis glandulosa
- Rio Grande Plains
- succession
- Library Collection RecordBeever et al. examined disturbance created by feral horses (Equus caballus), in 9 mountain ranges of the western Great Basin, USA, in Nevada, using plants, mammals, ants, and soil compaction, as…Publication Date 1969
- Equus caballus
- grazing
- monitoring
- Nevada
- broad spatial scales
- disturbance
- feral horses
- Great Basin
- landscape ecology
- reciprocal averaging
- semiarid ecosystems
- TWINSPAN
- Library Collection RecordDepending on the scale of observation and on the factors that determine animal distribution, grazing patterns may be stronger or weaker than vegetation patterns, or may mirror the spatial structure…Publication Date 1969
- herbivory
- competition
- disturbance
- spatial dependence
- spatial heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordOver the past dozen years, the population of bison (Bison bison) on the northern winter range of Yellowstone National Park has expanded from the traditional core along the lower Lamar River, occupied…Publication Date 1969
- bison
- distribution
- group size
- forage
- Bison bison
- population counts
- range expansion
- Yellowstone National Park