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- Library Collection RecordMany Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. wyomingensis) communities are invaded by exotic annuals, especially cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), promoting larger and more frequent…Publication Date 2016
- competition
- exotic annuals
- fuel break
- resilience
- resistance
- Library Collection RecordObjectives of postfire seeding in the Great Basin include reestablishment of perennial cover, suppression of exotic annual weeds, and restoration of diverse plant communities. Nonconventional seeding…Publication Date 2016
- cheatgrass
- competition
- ecological restoration
- rehabilitation
- Library Collection RecordMany Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. wyomingensis) communities are invaded by exotic annuals, especially cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), promoting larger and more frequent…Publication Date 2016
- competition
- exotic annuals
- fuel break
- resilience
- resistance
- Library Collection RecordObjectives of postfire seeding in the Great Basin include reestablishment of perennial cover, suppression of exotic annual weeds, and restoration of diverse plant communities. Nonconventional seeding…Publication Date 2016
- cheatgrass
- competition
- ecological restoration
- rehabilitation
- Library Collection RecordSagebrush plays an important role in the ecological functions of sagebrush steppe plant communities and is a necessary component of habitat for a variety of wildlife including greater sage-grouse (…Publication Date 2014-05
- competition
- restoration
- sagebrush restoration
- Seedling
- survival
- 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 1981-04-01
- ranchers
- plant succession
- domestication
- consequences
- economy
- competition
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- grassland
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- 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 1983-02-01
- competition
- problems
- arrangements
- leasing
- cash crops
- private
- landownership
- fee hunting
- big game
- habitats
- wildlife populations
- hunting
- wildlife management
- production
- livestock
- Nebraska
- Library Collection RecordOn the Ground • In 1990, cattle grazed private land in Utah’s Book Cliff Mountains until late July. Elk in the area ate about 50% of the forage regrowth on this land from late July to mid-September…Publication Date 2013-02-01
- cattle
- elk
- grazing
- competition
- rancher
- wildlife
- livestock
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1981
- plant succession
- domestication
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- competition
- consequences
- economy
- grassland
- Ranchers.
- 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 1986-12-01
- grasslands
- livestock
- Wyoming
- range management
- grazing
- stocking rate
- wildlife
- competition
- forage
- mountain areas
- mountains
- highlands
- Library Collection RecordWhite-tailed deer welfare and production under various intensities of continuous-use grazing by combined cattle, sheep, and angora goats was studied in the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Under poor…Publication Date 1965-01-01
- native forage
- competition
- Food
- responses
- Central Texas
- Welfare
- white-tailed deer
- Continuous Use Grazing
- Sheep Angora Goats
- Deer Production
- Ashe Juniper Vegetative Type
- Mortaility
- rest periods
- Poor
- vegetative composition
- deer
- controlled grazing
- palatability
- livestock production
- range condition
- livestock
- cattle
- production
- Odocoileus virginianus
- feed
- Edwards Plateau
- Texas
- carrying capacity
- Library Collection RecordApplied nitrogen increased competition between cheatgrass and intermediate wheatgrass for soil moisture and resulted in death of wheatgrass. Grazing further increased this effect. Forage increases…Publication Date 1965-01-01
- cost
- mixed stand
- Forage Increases
- University of California Demonstration Range
- Agropyron intermedium
- intermediate wheatgrass
- cheatgrass
- ground cover
- competition
- precipitation
- forage production
- soil moisture
- grazing
- Bromus tectorum
- nitrogen
- fertilization
- Library Collection RecordCompositional transformation of South African semiarid grasslands and savannas owing to changes in soil nutrient status and fire-linked attributes is often reported. However, mechanisms of change are…Publication Date 2012-01-01
- competition
- growth
- nutrients
- Poacceae
- smoke constituents
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not availablePublication Date 1981
- plant succession
- domestication
- erosion
- overgrazing
- drought
- desertification
- livestock
- vegetation
- competition
- consequences
- economy
- grassland
- Ranchers.
- Library Collection RecordWithin the sagebrush steppe ecosystem, sagebrush plants influence a number of ecosystem properties, including nutrient distribution, plant species diversity, soil moisture, and temperature, and…Publication Date 2013-05-01
- competition
- crested wheatgrass
- island seeding
- restoration
- sagebrush seedlings
- survival
- wildlings
- Library Collection RecordWoody plant effects on grass production at specific points in some rangeland savannas may be a function of numerous surrounding woody plants with lateral roots that extend into those patches of grass…Publication Date 2013-11-01
- brush invasion
- competition
- lateral roots
- Prosopis glandulosa
- rangelands
- remote sensing
- Library Collection RecordThis study quantified herbaceous biomass responses to increases in honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) cover on two soils from 1995 to 2001 in north central Texas. Vegetation was sampled…Publication Date 2008-09-01
- competition
- drought
- precipitation variability
- Prosopis glandulosa
- savannas
- species composition
- woody encroachment
- woody plants
- Library Collection RecordRangeland managers often must decide whether to suppress dicotyledonous weed populations with expensive and time-consuming management strategies. Often, the underlying goal of weed suppression…Publication Date 2006-07-01
- Bayesian
- competition
- invasive species
- light interception
- model
- weed management
- Library Collection RecordHigh plant functional group diversity has been hypothesized to reduce resource concentrations based on the assumption that species from one functional group acquire resources similarly to one another…Publication Date 2007-05-01
- ammonium
- competition
- grasslands
- nitrates
- removal experience
- seasonal nutrient use
- soil nutrients
- Library Collection RecordA field study was conducted to investigate the effects of existing adult neighbors and gap size on the process of seedling establishment in Leymus chinensis. Seeds of L. chinensis were added to…Publication Date 2007-11-01
- competition
- emergence
- gap size
- restoration
- seedling growth
- Library Collection RecordBotanical composition of mule deer and elk diets in winter, spring, summer, and autumn was studied during 1998 and 1999 on woodland rangeland in north-central New Mexico using microhistological…Publication Date 2005-07-01
- rangelands
- forage
- wildlife
- competition
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe recruitment of perennial grass seedlings in degraded areas of the Patagonian Monte was analyzed. Recolonization of large bare-soil areas by dwarf shrubs or perennial grasses was hypothesized to…Publication Date 2004-03-01
- facilitation
- competition
- arid ecosystems
- soil seed bank
- patch dynamics
- water availability
- Library Collection RecordExcessive cover of juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) reduces forage production, interferes with livestock management, and diminishes the watershed and wildlife habitat values of rangelands. We…Publication Date 2001-11-01
- basal area
- Juniperus pinchotii
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- Buchloe dactyloides
- Hilaria mutica
- soil temperature
- Prosopis glandulosa
- soil fertility
- invasion
- weed control
- seedlings
- growth rate
- Texas
- botanical composition
- plant competition
- canopy
- plant height
- competition
- facilitation
- mesquite rangeland
- seedling establishment
- Library Collection RecordSquirreltail (Sitanion hystrix (Nutt. J. G. Smith), a native, cool-season perennial bunchgrass of the Intermountain West has been shown to reinvade degraded rangelands invaded by exotic annual weeds…Publication Date 2001-03-01
- sward renovation
- Elymus elymoides
- seed development
- harvest date
- seed maturation
- seed weight
- reclamation
- seed germination
- range management
- germination
- phenology
- competition
- restoration
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal diets of native Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) and exotic axis deer (Axis axis axis), fallow deer (Dama dama dama), and cattle (Bos taurus) on Point Reyes…Publication Date 1985-09-01
- coasts
- coastal plant communities
- feeding habits
- rumen contents
- California
- Cervidae
- competition
- cattle
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordSeasonal diets of native Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) and exotic axis deer (Axis axis axis), fallow deer (Dama dama dama), and cattle (Bos taurus) on Point Reyes…Publication Date 1985-11-01
- California
- diets
- Cervidae
- Cervus dama
- Odocoileus
- competition
- axis axis
- cattle
- seasonal variation
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordA plant establishment study was conducted in the oil shale region of northeastern Utah where annual rainfall averages 200 mm. Treatments consisted of annual weed removal for 2 years, for 1 year, and…Publication Date 1983-05-01
- arid zones
- Utah
- competition
- Library Collection RecordHabitat selection by feral horses (Equus caballus) and cattle (Bos taurus) was studied with a series of 16 flights, between November 1977 and April 1979, during which the locations of cattle and…Publication Date 1983-03-01
- deserts
- Wyoming
- competition
- forage
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of nitrogen addition from snow goose feces and how the uptake of that nitrogen by mosses affects nitrogen uptake in grasses and sedges were measured in two types of arctic marshes. Mosses…Publication Date 1969
- Chen caerulescens caerulescens
- competition
- lesser snow goose
- moss
- nitrogen limitation
- nutrient cycling
- Library Collection RecordCharacteristics of Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hairgrass) and Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass) were measured at 30 montane meadow sites on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (39°N…Publication Date 1969
- Poa pratensis
- water
- soil moisture
- competition
- Deschampsia cespitosa
- simulated grazing
- Library Collection RecordThe establishment of Artemisia tridentata spp. wyomingensis (Wyoming big sagebrush) when sown with three perennial cool-season native grasses; Pascopyrum smithii (western wheatgrass), Elymus…Publication Date 1969
- sagebrush
- Seeding rates
- seedling emergence
- artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis
- coal mine reclamation
- competition
- ecological interactions
- resource limitations
- Library Collection RecordNitrogen and phosphorus starter fertilizer with two levels of weed competition in seedings of five grass species were evaluated by stand counts, total sod reserves, and subsequent forage yields. Weed…Publication Date 1968-03-01
- Grass Seedlings
- tillers
- Weed Competition
- Stand Counts
- Sod Reserves
- Fertilizer Treatments
- Agronomy Field Station
- Blend Bluestem
- Improved Native Species
- Kaw Big Bluestem
- seedling vigor
- revegetation
- influence
- weeping lovegrass
- Caddo switchgrass
- weed control
- fertilizer
- switchgrass
- Indiangrass
- phosphorus
- competition
- yield
- forage yield
- nitrogen
- fertilization
- Oklahoma
- Library Collection RecordThe diet and forage preferences of the black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) were studied by stomach content analysis to determine the degree of competition between cattle and jackrabbits on…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- Black Tailed Jackrabbits
- Sandhill Rangeland
- Stomach Content Analysis
- Reseed Forage
- Seasonal Diet
- Grazing Relationships
- Forage Maturity
- preference
- sixweeks fescue
- secondary succession
- availability
- Sand Dropseed
- Sand Sagebrush
- Food Preferences
- pricklypear
- Eastern Colorado Range Station
- Lepus californicus
- western wheatgrass
- diet
- winter
- longevity
- seeds
- fall
- summer
- shrubs
- competition
- spring
- cattle
- forbs
- grasses
- Colorado
- alfalfa
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of using imazapic and seeding to control cheatgrass and annual forbs to create fuelbreaks. The study was located in a Wyoming big sagebrush…Publication Date 1969
- cheatgrass
- competition
- fuelbreaks
- Herbicide
- imazapic
- Plateau
- Library Collection RecordWinter-fallowing, planting grass into a clean seedbed, and controlling weeds during the seedling year, has been a particularly successful range-improvement practice in north-central Colorado. During…Publication Date 1968-05-01
- Post Emergence
- North Central Colorado
- Winter Fallowing
- Hand Weeding Spraying
- grass stands
- Cean Seedbed
- Fort Collins
- Sunflowers
- Salsola kali
- Belvedere summercypress
- Kochia scoparia
- Prairie Pepperweed
- Lepidium densiflorum
- Helianthus
- wind
- grass establishment
- planting
- weed control
- competition
- Russian Thistle
- precipitation
- 2,4-D
- erosion
- mowing
- Library Collection RecordRangeland users can expect to share in the growing market for beef in the next 20 years. But they may face increasing competition from other types of producers. Good range management in the future…Publication Date 1967-09-01
- beef
- Users
- Pocketbook
- Partial Ownership
- Beef Producers
- challenge
- Business
- market
- producers
- economics
- production
- rangelands
- ranchers
- competition
- nutrition
- range management
- investment
- Library Collection RecordRangeland improvement in Thal, Pakistan through reseeding was started in 1962. These operations were impressively successful on heavy soil valley flats but loose sand dunes defied all efforts of…Publication Date 1968-09-01
- sand dune
- transplants
- Thal
- rangeland improvement
- Elyonurus hirsutus
- Dhaman
- Karera
- Tuft Planting
- Thal Technique
- Planting Trees
- Earthen Tubes
- Tree Species
- planting season
- Planting Time
- Planting Site
- planting technique
- shelters
- Ber
- Active
- Southeastern Exposures
- rehabilitation
- Pakistan
- competition
- moisture
- reseeding
- growth
- vegetal cover
- exposure
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- Library Collection RecordThis study examined the effects of water-table depth, neighborhood species interactions, and herbivory on the survival, tillering, biomass, and seed production of Carex nebrascensis and Poa pratensis…Publication Date 1969
- tillering
- biomass
- clipping
- competition
- environmental gradient
- neighborhood
- Library Collection RecordThis study in Colorado examined the effects of variation in population density of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis) on the availability and use of forage resources by cattle in a…Publication Date 1969
- cattle
- grazing
- ungulates
- competition
- diet quality
- diet selection
- elk
- facilitation
- forage quality
- functional response
- net primary production
- Library Collection RecordIn a blue grama-broom snakeweed-Cooper actinea community, the presence of half-shrubs suppressed the growth of blue grama. Blue grama and forbs were increased when the half-shrubs were reduced by…Publication Date 1966-05-01
- Juniperus deppeana
- broom snakeweed
- Actinea
- Selective Herbicides
- Cooper
- halfshrubs
- Phenoxy
- Sprays
- Beaver Creek Watershed
- Coconino National Forest
- Hymenoxis cooperi
- Interspecific Relations
- bottlebrush squirreltail
- Sitanion hystrix
- responses
- juniper
- 2,4,5-T
- competition
- weight
- herbicides
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- blue grama
- growth
- forbs
- 2,4-D
- Bouteloua gracilis
- Library Collection RecordOn both dense and sparse bluebunch wheatgrass stands, cheatgrass became dominant with increasing applications of ammonium sulfate. High and repeated fertilizer applications (80 lb N/A in 4 successive…Publication Date 1966-05-01
- Stands
- retrogression
- Mixed
- Bluegunch
- Agropyron spicatum
- Lacrosse
- Dodge
- calcium sulfate
- ammonium sulfate
- Poa secunda
- Wheatgrass
- conditions
- fertilizer
- cheatgrass
- ammonium nitrate
- competition
- improvement
- yields
- nitrogen
- fertilization
- Washington
- Library Collection RecordA food habits study, in a big sagebrush-grass type in Wyoming's Red Desert, revealed very little overlap in use of native range forage by pronghorn antelope and domestic sheep. Generally, sheep…Publication Date 1967-01-01
- domestic sheep
- Native Range Forage
- Domesitc Sheep
- feeding habits
- Red Desert
- Feeding Trials
- Food Preferences
- Antelope
- Pronghorn Antelope
- needle-and-thread
- Bluegrass
- multiple use
- shrubs
- Rabbitbrush
- competition
- Winterfat
- forage production
- utilization
- sagebrush
- grasses
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordLongevity of range plantings is important to those interested in range restoration by this means. An analysis of plantings of 1945 and 1946 through 1965 provide information on longevity for four…Publication Date 1966-09-01
- success
- range restoration
- longevity
- Range Reseeding
- stand establishment
- environmental conditions
- Tonto National Forest
- Range Plantings
- Brush Mulch
- Black Hills
- Cave Creek
- Pine Creek
- buckhead Mesa
- Grazing Protection
- competition
- adaptability
- moisture
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordFor study of the effect of trees on understory vegetation a good mathematical equation is very helpful. This article presents an equation which fits overstory-understory data better than previously…Publication Date 1967-07-01
- herbaceous vegetation
- forests
- overstory
- Tree
- understory
- Computer Program
- nutrients
- equations
- light
- chemicals
- relationships
- clearing
- competition
- water
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-09-01
- Domestic Ryegrass
- Phalaris tuberosa
- tall fescue
- number of plants
- seeding rate
- Foliar Density
- annuals
- Burned Brushlands
- Festuca arundinacea
- Lolium multiflorum
- density
- Harding grass
- Smilo
- competition
- forage yield
- legumes
- Forage Supply
- yield
- reseeding
- perennials
- Oryzopsis miliacea
- grasses
- California
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1953-01-01
- Jack Rabbits
- prairie dogs
- Land Abuse
- Wild Populations
- Biological Functions
- Fundamentals
- Indicator Values
- Feeding Relationships
- Answer
- Population Mechanisms
- Biotic Community
- environment
- biology
- populations
- Pests
- overuse
- ecology
- design
- rangelands
- competition
- conditions
- communities
- control
- future
- management
- operations
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-01-01
- Ecological Knowledge
- game animals
- Renewal
- sustained yield
- Cultivated Crops
- Biotic Relationships
- range resources
- Biological Processes
- Owner
- environment
- ecology
- administrators
- timber
- soil
- competition
- improvement
- vegetation
- forage
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1963-07-01
- water requirements
- Faliures
- annuals
- water use
- top growth
- Wheatgrass
- cheatgrass
- competition
- Agropyron desertorum
- greenhouses
- root growth
- seedlings
- Bromus tectorum
- production
- perennial grass
- feed
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1963-09-01
- grass production
- brush invasion
- root distribution
- foothill range
- intermediate wheatgrass
- leaves
- Reinvasion
- Kill
- Grass Vigor
- root development
- Grass Response
- herbicides
- Seeded Grasses
- competition
- height
- soil moisture
- big sagebrush
- 2,4-D
- Artemisia tridentata
- Utah
- crested wheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1961-09-01
- Sagebrush Ranges
- drilling
- weed production
- Intermediate
- Sprayed Sagebrush
- Northeastern California
- Likely
- annuals
- Agropyron
- Wheatgrass
- desertorum
- trichophorum
- intermedium
- Pubescent Wheatgrass
- Artemisia tridentata
- Modoc County
- competition
- establishment
- big sagebrush
- 2,4-D
- California