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Journal article
Plant succession at the edges of two abandoned cultivated fields on the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve
Northwest science., Vol.76(1), pp.85-89
2002
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/960
Abstract
How vegetation recovers from disturbances is an important question for land managers. We examined 500 m2 plots to determine the progress made by native herbaceous plant species in colonizing the edges of abandoned cultivated fields at different elevations and microclimates, but with similar soils in a big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass steppe. Alien species, especially cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and cereal rye (Secale cereale), were the major competitors to the natives. The native species with best potential for restoring steppe habitats were sulfur lupine (Lupinus sulphureus), hawksbeard (Crepis atrabarba), bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa [Stipa] comata), Sandberg's bluegrass (Poa secunda), and several lomatiums (Lomatium spp.).
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- Title
- Plant succession at the edges of two abandoned cultivated fields on the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve
- Creators
- S. A. Simmons (Author)W. H. Rickard (Author)
- Publication Details
- Northwest science., Vol.76(1), pp.85-89
- Academic Unit
- Northwest Science
- Publisher
- WSU Press
- Identifiers
- 99900502596001842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article