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- Library Collection RecordFrequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production,…Publication Date 2016
- burn season
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordFrequent burning is a crucial ecological and economic component of the Kansas Flint Hills. Although burning is important for the preservation of tallgrass prairie and improving livestock production,…Publication Date 2016
- burn season
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- tallgrass prairie
- Library Collection RecordFire is an important disturbance process historically present across the northern Great Plains. Previous research from northern dry mixed-grass prairie suggests that C4 (warm season) grasses replace…Publication Date 2014-05
- Dry mixed grass
- fire ecology
- plant functional type
- rangeland
- succession
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1991-04-01
- savannas
- cerrado
- plant-water relations
- woodland grasslands
- fire ecology
- wetlands
- Bolivia
- range management
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1995-06-01
- grazing
- prescribed burning
- botanical composition
- fire effects
- fires
- wildfire management
- fire ecology
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1987-06-01
- prescribed burning
- California
- ecological succession
- land management
- chaparral
- fire ecology
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Rangelands…Publication Date 1987-12-01
- reproductive efficiency
- nutritive value
- Bromus secalinus
- fire ecology
- plant competition
- plant ecology
- introduced species
- forage
- ecological succession
- livestock
- Nevada
- rangelands
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPrescribed fire and/or mechanical methods can be used to modify the quantity, continuity, and/or spatial arrangement of flammable fuel. Yet the consequences of fuel management, both in terms of…Publication Date 2010-09-01
- Eucalyptus
- fire ecology
- fire management
- mallee
- prescribed burning
- resprout
- Library Collection RecordIn March 2006 the East Amarillo Complex (EAC) wildfires burned over 367 000 ha of short and mixed grass prairie of the southern High Plains, USA. We studied EAC wildfire effects on perennial grass…Publication Date 2011-01-01
- East Amarillo Complex
- fire ecology
- perennial grasses
- plant mortality
- post-fire management
- primary production
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of how tallgrass prairie vegetation responds to fire in the late growing season is relatively sparse and is based upon studies that are either spatially or temporally limited. To gain a…Publication Date 2008-09-01
- burn season
- fire ecology
- grassland vegetation
- growing-season fire
- Library Collection RecordInvasion of rangeland by exotic forage species threatens ecosystem structure and function and can cause catastrophic economic losses. Herbicide treatments often are the focus of management efforts to…Publication Date 2007-05-01
- Chinese bush cloer
- disturbance ecology
- fire ecology
- grazing
- management
- heterogeneity
- herbivory
- invasion
- macro-ecology
- Sericea lespedeza
- Library Collection RecordAn experimental design required burn treatments for 10-m2 circular plots. We constructed a fire enclosure for the plots using sheetmetal, electrical conduit, and other commonly available materials.…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- peak temperature
- experimental rigs
- field experimentation
- soil temperature
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- range management
- botanical composition
- Nevada
- Utah
- fire
- Great Basin
- sagebrush
- burn barrell
- temperature
- temperature monitoring
- Library Collection RecordChanges in soil nutrient pools and microbial activity due to fire are important for understanding the availability of nutrients to plants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of…Publication Date 2003-05-01
- Actinomycetales
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- soil bacteria
- carbon
- soil nutrient dynamics
- Paspalum
- grasslands
- soil fertility
- fire ecology
- nitrogen
- prescribed burning
- phosphorus
- biomass
- range management
- seasonal variation
- Argentina
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- fire
- microbial biomass
- soil nutrients
- flooding pampa
- Library Collection RecordWildfires commonly occur in the Fescue Prairie of Alberta, but little information exists to provide a basis for making grazing recommendations after burning. A wildfire in April 1999 provided an…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- seasonal development
- flowering
- grazing management
- Festuca altaica
- primary productivity
- harvest date
- Festuca campestris
- fire ecology
- Alberta
- tillering
- precipitation
- biomass
- range management
- defoliation
- defoliation intensity
- deferment
- etiolated growth
- herbage yields
- resilience
- tillers
- Library Collection RecordIn many riparian corridors of the semi-arid west, stream incision has resulted in lowered water tables, basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata Nutt.) encroachment and the loss of…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- Lupinus argenteus
- soil nutrients
- soil enzymes
- Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata
- Carex douglasii
- semiarid soils
- soil organic matter
- enzyme activity
- soil depth
- ash
- nutrient content
- water table
- riparian areas
- Carex
- grasslands
- soil pH
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- Artemisia tridentata
- semiarid zones
- land restoration
- biomass
- plant litter
- Nevada
- invasive species
- restoration
- riparian ecosystems
- water table depth
- Library Collection RecordSage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus and C. minimus) historically inhabited much of the sagebrush-dominated habitat of North America. Today, sage-grouse populations are declining throughout most of…Publication Date 2004-01-01
- population dynamics
- habitats
- fire ecology
- livestock grazing
- herbicides
- landscape ecology
- Library Collection RecordSand shinnery oak (Quercus havardii Rydb.) communities are shrublands extending from northern Texas and western Oklahoma southward into the Chihuahuan Desert. They are dominated by sand shinnery oak…Publication Date 2001-11-01
- brush control
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- Quercus havardii
- prescribed burning
- Oklahoma
- plant communities
- shrubs
- range management
- botanical composition
- plant competition
- canopy
- plant height
- lesser prairie-chicken
- northern bobwhite
- prairies
- shrublands
- succession
- stability
- vegetation structure
- woody plants
- Library Collection RecordIn the northwest Great Basin, western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis subsp. occidentalis Hook.) is encroaching into aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) communities. There is a concern that aspen…Publication Date 2001-11-01
- ecological succession
- Populus tremuloides
- fire ecology
- Juniperus occidentalis
- invasion
- soil test values
- population structure
- prescribed burning
- Oregon
- plant communities
- browsing damage
- plant density
- plant litter
- plant competition
- canopy
- altitude
- Juniperus occidentalis subsp. occidentalis
- Populus tremuloides
- succession
- age structure
- disturbance
- Library Collection RecordInformation on the response of the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus Mearns) to range management, especially prescribed fire, is needed to determine…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- ammodramus savannarum
- territory
- endangered species
- wild birds
- population density
- fire ecology
- reproductive performance
- Florida
- prescribed burning
- seasonal variation
- rangelands
- Ammodramus savannarum floridanus
- Florida prairie
- prescribed fire
- Library Collection RecordTraditional perception of how tallgrass prairie responds to fire at times other than late spring is either anecdotal or extrapolated from studies that lack spatial or temporal variability. Therefore…Publication Date 2003-03-01
- burn season
- fire ecology
- grassland vegetation
- Library Collection RecordThis study documented the long–term (> 10 years) impact offire on sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte) nesting and brood–rearing habitats on the Upper Snake River Plainin southeastern…Publication Date 2000-11-01
- grouse
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- invertebrates
- food plants
- site requirements
- nesting
- wildfire management
- habitat selection
- species diversity
- ecological succession
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- prescribed burning
- Idaho
- Artemisia tridentata
- wildlife management
- canopy
- brood-rearing
- Centrocercus urophasianus
- nesting
- sagebrush
- Library Collection RecordA fire scar chronology was constructed from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) and Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum Sarg.) trees within the 70 km2 Rochelle Hills Area of the…Publication Date 2000-11-01
- history
- Juniperus scopulorum
- fire scars
- fire intervals
- understory
- frequency
- grasslands
- Pinus ponderosa
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- Wyoming
- plant litter
- seasonal variation
- canopy
- fire intervals
- Library Collection RecordNatural fires on the native grasslands of Oklahoma and Kansas were important for maintaining ecosystem structure and function. Today, land managers largely conduct prescribed fires in the late…Publication Date 2001-01-01
- tallgrass prairie
- Great Plains states of USA
- mixed prairie
- forage legumes
- seasons
- seral stages
- wildfire management
- legumes
- frequency
- Kansas
- fire ecology
- perennials
- fires
- fire effects
- stocking rate
- selective grazing
- prescribed burning
- forbs
- Oklahoma
- biomass production
- grazing intensity
- prairies
- grasses
- beef cattle
- native grasslands
- prescribed fire
- fire frequency
- fire interactions
- fire return interval
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordThis study was designed to: 1) compare the landscape distribution patterns of bison on fire-managed prairie remnants in the tallgrass (Oklahoma), and mixed prairie (Nebraska); and 2) identify the…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- edaphic factors
- tallgrass prairie
- mixed prairie
- bison
- topography
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- forage quality
- animal preferences
- selective grazing
- Nebraska
- prescribed burning
- prairies
- botanical composition
- geographical distribution
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe recent expansion of juniper into sagebrush steppe communities throughout the semiarid Intermountain West is most frequently attributed to the reduced role of fire, introduction and overstocking…Publication Date 1999-11-01
- dendrochronology
- growth rings
- artemisia arbuscula
- Festuca idahoensis
- Pinus ponderosa
- fire ecology
- Juniperus occidentalis
- rain
- stocking rate
- Oregon
- grazing intensity
- semiarid zones
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordBecause of its high palatability and sustained levels of forage quality, antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata Pursh DC) is one of the most desired shrubs on western U.S. rangelands. Bitterbrush…Publication Date 1999-03-01
- Purshia tridentata
- fire ecology
- mortality
- rain
- pastures
- selective grazing
- grazing intensity
- in vitro digestibility
- range management
- phenology
- seasonal variation
- botanical composition
- grazing
- grasses
- beef cattle
- plant height
- maturity stage
- Library Collection RecordBoth the Society for Range Management's (1995) Task Group on Unity in Concepts and Terminology (UCT) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (1997) have recommended use of the ecological…Publication Date 1999-11-01
- land classification
- semi-desert scrub
- landscape ecology
- geographic information systems
- texture
- pinyon-juniper
- semiarid grasslands
- fire ecology
- slope
- range management
- botanical composition
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordThe Lassen interstate mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) herd ranges from the northwestern area of Nevada to the northeastern corner of California along the western rim of the Great Basin. This mule…Publication Date 1997-03-01
- population decrease
- ecological balance
- grassland improvement
- body condition
- habitats
- Purshia tridentata
- browse plants
- range condition
- fire ecology
- population dynamics
- plant communities
- Odocoileus hemionus
- California
- introduced species
- Nevada
- Library Collection RecordCheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is currently and historically has been a serious point of contention among a wide variety of people interested in sagebrush (Artemisia) bunchgrass rangelands. Nowhere…Publication Date 1997-09-01
- wildfire management
- Artemisia
- crop-weed competition
- fire ecology
- Bromus tectorum
- overgrazing
- range management
- introduced species
- literature reviews
- Library Collection RecordSpring burning is used to control invasion by woody vegetation of rangelands in eastern Kansas and also of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) fields planted to native grasses. We measured the effects…Publication Date 1998-03-01
- wild birds
- nests
- Kansas
- brush control
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- Library Collection RecordChanges in woodland vegetation integrate the consequences of livestock grazing intensity, the alteration of fire regimes, and possible climate alterution, as well as other factors. Quantitative…Publication Date 1994-09-01
- pinyon-juniper
- ground cover
- understory
- species diversity
- fire ecology
- stocking rate
- range management
- botanical composition
- Utah
- grazing
- beef cattle
- Library Collection RecordAn increase in continuous fine fuels promoted by the expansion of aggressive annual exotic grasses in the Intermountain West has altered the region's fire regimes, with both ecologic and…Publication Date 1995-01-01
- fire danger
- Rocky Mountain region
- mathematical models
- prediction
- fire ecology
- rain
- Bromus tectorum
- Oregon
- California
- biomass
- range management
- climatic factors
- Library Collection RecordThis research determined the preliminary response of sandhills prairie to spring and summer prescribed burns, and their interaction with bison (Bison bison) grazing. Changes in species composition…Publication Date 1994-09-01
- bison
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- Nebraska
- prescribed burning
- prairies
- rangelands
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordLittle evidence has been found to relate fire intensity to herbaceous vegetation response. Our objective was to determine if components of post-fire herbaceous standing crop in a tallgrass prairie…Publication Date 1992-11-01
- canonical correlation
- fire behavior
- fire intensity
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- vegetation
- regrowth
- Oklahoma
- plant communities
- prairies
- rangelands
- grasses
- forage
- Library Collection RecordWe compared responses of tallgrass prairie vegetation to late spring herdfires and backfires on a moderately stocked 2.4 AUM ha-1) shallow prairie range site 15 km southwest of Stillwater, Oklahoma.…Publication Date 1990-05-01
- fuels
- seasons
- weather
- ecosystems
- fire ecology
- prescribed burning
- Oklahoma
- Poaceae
- habitat improvement
- range management
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordPlots dominated by Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus) and western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii) were burned in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in April 1983 and/or 1984. Standing crop of all…Publication Date 1990-05-01
- Bromus japonicus
- national parks
- fire ecology
- weed control
- South Dakota
- spring
- prescribed burning
- Pascopyrum smithii
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigates the potential of fire to manipulate the balance of C3 (cool-season) and C4 (warm-season) herbage in 2 northern Mixed Prairie communities. The xeric high prairie community and…Publication Date 1987-01-01
- cool-season plants
- warm-season plants
- plant-water relations
- plant community analysis
- crop quality
- fire ecology
- fires
- fire effects
- South Dakota
- crop production
- Poaceae
- prairies
- seasonal variation
- forage
- Library Collection RecordFire is an important disturbance process historically present across the northern Great Plains. Previous research from northern dry mixed-grass prairie suggests that C4 (warm season) grasses replace…Publication Date 2014-05
- Dry mixed grass
- fire ecology
- plant functional type
- rangeland
- succession
- Library Collection RecordThe use of fire in the management of grassland is a common rangeland practice in South Africa. This portends ecological implication for the sustainability of the savannah rangelands as a system. A…Publication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- management
- savanna
- grasslands
- rangelands
- Soil Condition
- plant production
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Aim Grasslands and savannas, which make up >75% of Madagascar's land area, have long been viewed as anthropogenically derived after people settled on the island c. 2 ka. We…Publication Date 2008
- Africa
- biome origin
- C4 grasses
- deforestation
- fire ecology
- grassland
- Madagascar
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary * 1Fire is important for the maintenance and conservation of African savanna ecosystems. Despite the importance of fire intensity as a key element of the fire regime, it is seldom measured or…Publication Date 2006
- fire management
- fuel loads
- Kruger National Park
- long-term ecological experiment
- fire
- fire ecology
- management
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary * 1Demographic processes, particularly the recruitment of seedlings, are critical to the long-term survival and re-establishment of plant populations. In many perennial grasslands successful…Publication Date 2008
- demography
- emergence
- full factorial experiment
- intraspecific competition
- irrigation
- recruitment limitation
- seed addition
- seedling survival
- semi-arid savanna
- Stipagrostis uniplumis
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- seeds
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- germination
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is a perception that sustained frequent fires cause nitrogen limitation over the long term (50–100 y) by volatilizing the nitrogen in soil, plant biomass and litter. Here we test this…Publication Date 2008
- soils
- fire ecology
- management
- Nitrogen cycle
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 2008
- fire ecology
- management
- conservation
- national parks
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn 18-year time series of monthly NOAA-AVHRR Pathfinder Land burned area was analyzed for the region of tropical Africa, from July 1981 to June 1999. The transition period between NOAA-11 and NOAA-14…Publication Date 2007
- Global burned area
- Southern Oscillation Index
- NOAA-AVHRR Pathfinder Land
- Forecast
- SARIMA
- fire ecology
- NOAA
- modelling
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper evaluated the capacity of SPOT VEGETATION time-series to monitor the vegetation biomass and water content in order to improve fire risk assessment in the savanna ecosystem of Kruger…Publication Date 2006
- biomass
- Fire risk assessment
- SPOT VEGETATION
- time-series
- Vegetation water content
- fire ecology
- savanna
- vegetation dynamics
- monitoring
- plant production
- national parks
- remote sensing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavanna ecosystems of southern Africa are strongly influenced by water availability and fire intensity, and this study aimed to show whether these two specific environmental variables are reflected…Publication Date 2008
- calibration
- Kruger National Park
- fire history
- quantitative analysis
- Relevant Source Area of Charcoal
- fire ecology
- palaeobotany
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFire plays a critical role in breaking hard-seeded dormancy and establishing seedlings of several Acacia species in arid and semi-arid regions. Numerous studies have reported an increase in seedling…Publication Date 2007
- Post Fire
- seedling emergence
- smoke
- stimulation
- fire ecology
- germination
- seeds
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSatellite imagery derived fire history data for the southern Okavango Delta, Botswana from 1989 to 2003 were used to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution of fires and to assess changes in…Publication Date 2007
- savanna
- fire season
- fire regime
- fire frequency
- wetland
- southern Africa
- fire
- fire ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn semiarid savannas of Southern Africa current land use practices and climate change may lead to substantial changes of vegetation structure in the near future, however uncertainty remains about the…Publication Date 2006
- Acacia erioloba
- Bush encroachment
- global change
- Grewia flava
- overgrazing
- seed dispersal
- shrub encroachment
- Southern Kalahari
- Spatial-explicit simulation model
- savanna
- land use
- grazing
- climate change
- vegetation dynamics
- cattle
- ecosystem ecology
- ecosystem dynamics
- rainfall
- fire ecology
- modelling
- conservation
- management
- carrying capacity
- biodiversity
- indigenous encroaching species
- Africa