| Description |
1 online resource (70 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
General technical report RMRS ; GTR-338 |
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General technical report RMRS ; GTR-338.
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| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 4, 2015). |
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"July 2015." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-43). |
| Summary |
This field guide provides a framework for rapidly evaluating post-fire resilience to disturbance, or recovery potential, and resistance to invasive annual grasses, and for determining the need and suitability of the burned area for seeding. The framework identifies six primary components that largely determine resilience to disturbance, resistance to invasive grasses, and potential successional pathways following wildfire, as well as the information sources and tools needed to evaluate each component. The components are: (1) characteristics of the ecological site; (2) vegetation composition and structure prior to the wildfire; (3) fire severity; (4) post-wildfire weather; (5) post-wildfire management, especially grazing; and (6) monitoring and adaptive management. The tools provided are: (1) a conceptual model of the key components that largely determine resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses of the burn area, (2) a guide to evaluate post-wildfire severity, (3) indicators to estimate pre-wildfire plant composition and structure if not known, and (4) an evaluation score sheet to rate an area's potential post-wildfire resilience to disturbance, resistance to invasive annual grasses and, thus, the need for seeding and probability of success. |
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Post-fire forest management -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Steppe plants -- Effect of fires on -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Invasive plants -- Effect of fires on -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Rangelands -- Revegetation -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Fire ecology -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Vegetation dynamics -- Great Basin -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Added Author |
Chambers, Jeanne C., author.
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Pellant, Michael L., author.
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Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), issuing body.
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| Added Title |
Evaluating resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasive annual grasses and predicting vegetation response |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Richard F. Field guide for rapid assessment of post-wildfire recovery potential in sagebrush and Piņon-Juniper ecosystems in the Great Basin (OCoLC)924876897 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0083-B-06 (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
A 13.88:RMRS-GTR-338 |
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