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The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) significantly affect the resultant plant community and its influence on system structure and function. Black grama demonstrated higher productivity, especially after wet years, and this species has increased its dominance during the 20-year period since livestock grazing was removed. While black grama can alter the previous pattern of overgrazing and desertification in this transition zone, our experiments demonstrated that it was...
We investigated long-term and seasonal patterns of N imports and exports, as well as patterns following climate perturbations, across biomes using data from 15 watersheds from nine Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites in North America. Mean dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) import?export budgets (N import via precipitation?N export via stream flow) for common years across all watersheds was highly variable, ranging from a net loss of ? 0�17 � 0�09 kg N ha?1mo?1 to net retention of 0�68 � 0�08 kg N ha?1mo?1. The net retention of DIN decreased (smaller import?export budget) with increasing precipitation, as well as with increasing variation in precipitation during the winter, spring, and fall. Averaged across...
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) significantly affect the resultant plant community and its influence on system structure and function. Black grama demonstrated higher productivity, especially after wet years, and this species has increased its dominance during the 20-year period since livestock grazing was removed. While black grama can alter the previous pattern of overgrazing and desertification in this transition zone, our experiments demonstrated that it was...