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Hanging garden plant communities form at seeps on cliffs. A given community may include common riparian species, disjunct populations, and species endemic to hanging gardens. What structures hanging harden communities, and how they respond to disturbance are poorly understood. In 1989, fireworks ignited a hanging garden in Knowles Cañon, destroying aboveground vegetation. Permanent plots were established in July 1993 to monitor changes in vegetation and soil biota. Revegetation of the garden has been limited to grasses, forbs, and ferns where water was present at the soil surface, and shrubs and trees sprouting from surviving rootstocks. Water drips from the overhanging cliff in the central area, where plant cover...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Conference Citation;
Tags: Colorado Plateau,
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area,
National Park Service,
Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau,
fire, All tags...
hanging garden,
soil bacteria,
soil fungi,
soil nematodes,
succession, Fewer tags
Hanging garden plant communities form at seeps on cliffs. A given community may include common riparian species, disjunct populations, and species endemic to hanging gardens. What structures hanging harden communities, and how they respond to disturbance are poorly understood. In 1989, fireworks ignited a hanging garden in Knowles Cañon, destroying aboveground vegetation. Permanent plots were established in July 1993 to monitor changes in vegetation and soil biota. Revegetation of the garden has been limited to grasses, forbs, and ferns where water was present at the soil surface, and shrubs and trees sprouting from surviving rootstocks. Water drips from the overhanging cliff in the central area, where plant cover...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Conference Citation;
Tags: Colorado Plateau,
Glen Canyon NRA,
National Park Service,
Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau,
fire, All tags...
hanging garden,
soil bacteria,
soil fungi,
soil nematodes,
succession, Fewer tags
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