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Disturbance characteristics, vegetation and biocrust cover from the northern Great Basin (USA) 2012-2013

October 25, 2018

Fifteen fires from the Chronosequence dataset (see Knutson et al. 2014) were visited in 2012 and 2013 and surveyed for cover of lichens and mosses. Fires were selected to cover the range of average precipitation for each of three water years following fire, fire severity, time since fire, season of ignition, total acres burned and grazing intensity. Cattle grazing was characterized by distance from water sources for cattle, cow dung density counts and Animal Unit Months from the Rangeland Administration System of the Bureau of Land Management. Fire was characterized by whether or not a site burned, time since fire, the area burned, and an estimated amount of shrub cover consumed by the fire as compared to seemingly comparable unburned sites. In total, 99 plots were surveyed. Knutson, K.C., Pyke, D.A., Wirth, T., Arkle, R.S., Pilliod, D.S., Brooks, M.L., Chambers, J.C., Grace, J.B., 2014, Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems: Journal of Applied Ecology, v. 51, no. 5, p. 1414-1424, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12309.

Publication Year 2018
Title Disturbance characteristics, vegetation and biocrust cover from the northern Great Basin (USA) 2012-2013
DOI 10.5066/F72Z14S7
Authors Lea Condon
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) Headquarters
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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