Shrubland ecosystem genetics and biodiversity: proceedings

Abstract

The 53 papers in this proceedings include a section celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory (4 papers), three sections devoted to themes, genetics, and biodiversity (12 papers), disturbance ecology and biodiversity (14 papers), ecophysiology (13 papers), community ecology (9 papers), and field trip section (1 paper). The anniversary session papers emphasized the productivity and history of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory, 100 years of genetics, plant materials development for wildland shrub ecosystems, and current challenges in management and research in wildland shrub ecosystems. The papers in each of the thematic science sessions were centered on wildland shrub ecosystems. The field trip featured the genetics and ecology of chenopod shrublands of east-central Utah. The papers were presented at the 11th Wildland Shrub Symposium: Shrubland Ecosystem Genetics and Biodiversity held at the Brigham Young University Conference Center, Provo, UT, June 13-15, 2000. Keywords:

Titles contained within Shrubland ecosystem genetics and biodiversity: proceedings

• The Shrub Sciences Laboratory at 25 Years: Retrospective and prospective
• A century of genetics
• Development and use of plant resources for western wildlands
• Scientific challenges in shrubland ecosystems
• Artemisia systematics and phylogeny: Cytogenetic and molecular insights
• Chromosome races of fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens), Chenopodiaceae
• A molecular phylogeny for Cercocarpus H.B.K. (Rosaceae) using the external transcribed spacer of the nuclear ribosomal repeat
• Microsatellite markers and polymorphism in cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.)
• Biodiversity, ecology, and microelement composition of Kyzylkum Desert shrubs (Uzbekistan)
• Artemisia communities in arid zones of Uzbekistan (Central Asia)
• Kochia prostrata germplasm collection expedition to Kazakhstan
• Narrow hybrid zone between two subspecies of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata: Asteraceae): XI. Plant-insect interactions in reciprocal transplant gardens
• Use of distance measures to assess environmental and genetic variability across sagebrush hybrid zones
• Phenotypic sex ratios of Atriplex canescens shrubs in relation to cattle browsing
• Ecological and population genetics of locally rare plants: A review
• New plant releases from the USDA-NRCS Aberdeen, Idaho, Plant Materials Center
• What makes the desert bloom? Contribution of dust and crusts to soil fertility on the Colorado Plateau
• Components of spatial and temporal soil variation at Canyonlands National Park: Implications for P dynamics and cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) performance
• Equilibrium theory of island biogeography: A review
• Vegetation response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the Larrea-Ambrosia and Coleogyne shrublands
• Plant community dynamics of burned and unburned sagebrush and pinyon-juniper vegetation in West-Central Utah
• Response of residual native species after two-way chaining and seeding in Utah
• Winterfat decline and halogeton spread in the Great Basin
• Predicting first-year bare-root seedling establishment with soil and community dominance factors
• Forage kochia: Friend or foe
• Impact of tebuthiuron on biodiversity of high elevation mountain big sagebrush communities
• Factors mediating cheatgrass invasion of intact salt desert shrubland
• Sand sagebrush response to fall and spring prescribed burns
• Managing saltcedar after a summer wildfire in the Texas Rolling Plains
• Biodiversity analysis of vegetation on the Nevada Test Site
• Determination of plant growth rate and growth temperature range from measurement of physiological parameters
• Responses of plant growth and metabolism to environmental variables predicted from laboratory measurements
• Effects of salinity and temperature on respiratory metabolism of Salicornia utahensis from a Great Basin playa
• Respiratory and physiological characteristics in subpopulations of Great Basin cheatgrass
• Temperature-dependent respiration-growth relations in ancestral maize cultivars
• Calorimetric studies of cryptogamic crust metabolism in response to temperature, water vapor, and liquid water
• Microcalorimetric studies on metabolic and germination response to temperature for three populations of winterfat (Eurotia lanata)
• Composition of vegetable oil from seeds of native halophytes
• Carbon transport by symbiotic fungi in fourwing saltbush, Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt
• Nitrogen-fixing nodule characterization and morphology of four species in the northern Intermountain Region
• Total available carbohydrates in serviceberry after late dummer and fall burning
• Long-shoot/short-shoot phenomenon in woody plants
• Aerial biomass and elemental changes in Atriplex canescens and A. acanthocarpa as affected by salinity and soil water availability
• Field test of a new Australian method of rangeland monitoring
• Quantifying plant diversity in Zion National Park, Utah
• Plant diversity at Box-Death Hollow Wilderness Area, Garfield County, Utah
• Mountain big sagebrush age distribution and relationships on the northern Yellowstone Winter Range
• Mountain big sagebrush communities on the Bishop Conglomerate in the eastern Uinta Mountains
• A yellowbrush/grass community type from the Uinta Mountains and Utah Plateaus
• Rate of increase of redberry juniper (Juniperus pinchotii) canopy cover in western Texas: Ecological and economic implications
• Ecological implications of using goats for control of juniper in Texas
• Habitat improvement for wildlife in North-Central Sonora, Mexico
• Colorado Plateau chenopod field trip

Citation

McArthur, E. Durant; Fairbanks, Daniel J. 2001. Shrubland ecosystem genetics and biodiversity: proceedings. Proc. RMRS-P-21. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 365 p.