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The point data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Point Data.csv") includes 2016 vegetative cover values of exotic annual grass and perennial grass measured within three different types of plots for 75 pastures in the Soda Fire, which burned in 2015: 6m² plot using a grid-point intercept photo software, SamplePoint (Booth et al. 2006), 1m² quadrat using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field, 531m² circular plot using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field. Smaller plots were nested within larger plots. The pasture data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Pasture Data.csv") includes pasture level metrics of area, elevation, precipitation, slope, heatload, soils, and herbicide...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Botany,
Ecology,
Idaho,
Idaho BLM,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Malheur County,
Oregon,
Owyhee County,
Soda Wildfire,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
exotic annual grass,
fires,
grid point intercept,
perennial grass,
sample size,
vegetation,
vegetation cover, Fewer tags
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Snags provide critical habitat for nearly one-third of wildlife species in forests of the Pacific Northwest, so historic declines in snags are thought to have had a strong impact on biodiversity. Resource managers often create snags to mitigate the scarcity of snags within managed forests, but information regarding the function and structure of created snags across long time periods (>20 years) is absent from the literature. Using snags that were created by topping mature Douglas-fir trees (Pseudotsuga menziesii) as part of the OSU College of Forestry Integrated Research Project, we measured characteristics of 731 snags and quantified foraging and breeding use of snags by birds 25-27 years after their creation....
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
CFIRP,
Douglas fir,
Ecology,
Forestry, All tags...
Oregon Coast Range,
Pseudotsuga menziesii,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Biology,
cavity-nesting birds,
created snag,
silviculture,
snag persistence, Fewer tags
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Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Lincoln County, Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon Coast Range,
Pacific Northwest,
Polk County, Oregon, All tags...
Tillamook County, Oregon,
Yamhill County, Oregon,
biodiversity,
cervidae,
community,
deer,
early-seral,
elk,
forage,
forestry,
herbicides,
herbivory,
management,
plantation,
silviculture,
trophic,
ungulate, Fewer tags
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The dataset supports a larger study that examined the impacts of three tackifiers (guar, psyllium, and polyacrylamide) on growth of two dryland mosses (Bryum argenteum and Syntrichia ruralis). Moss fragments were grown in petri dishes and subjected to individual tackifiers in one of three possible concentrations (0.5x, 1x, or 2x) of the respective manufacturer's recommended application rate. Distilled water was used as a control treatment, giving a total of ten treatments (nine tackifier-concentration combinations and a water control). Bryum fragments were watered four times daily for six weeks and Syntrichia fragments were watered twice daily for five weeks, after which the experiments were concluded. Shoot length,...
Tags: Botany,
Bryum argenteum,
Great Basin,
Intermountain West,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Oregon,
Syntrichia ruralis,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biocrust,
biological soil crust,
bioremediation,
biota,
desert ecosystems,
ecological restoration,
environment,
farming,
mosses,
natural resource management,
remediation, Fewer tags
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Monthly Standardize Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), Daily soil-water potential (MPa) and soil temperature (degree C) data for plots from SageSuccess. The SageSuccess Project is a joint effort between USGS, BLM, and FWS to understand how to establish big sagebrush and ultimately restore functioning sagebrush ecosystems. Improving the success of land management treatments to restore sagebrush-steppe is important for reducing the long-term impacts of rangeland fire on sage-grouse and over 350 other wildlife species that use these habitats.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
Climatology,
Ecology,
Great Basin,
Land Use Change, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
droughts,
ecological drought,
fire,
sagebrush,
water deficit, Fewer tags
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