Proceedings-Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT

Abstract

The 27 papers in these proceedings are divided into five sections. The first includes an introduction to the symposium theme of Shrublands under Fire, along with a keynote address comparing ecosystem degradation in Iran with current problems in the semi-arid to arid Western United States. The next three sections cluster papers on invasive species, community dynamics and restoration, and fire recovery of shrubland ecosystems. The final section contains descriptions of two field trips; one focusing on the transitional zone between cold and warm desert systems, and the other on Great Basin shrublands and the Desert Experimental Range.

Titles contained within Proceedings-Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT

• Shrublands under fire: Disturbance and recovery in a changing world
• Shah-Kan-Daw: Anthropogenic simplification of semi-arid vegetation structure
• Cheatgrass and red brome; the history and biology of two invaders
• Invasion of the exotic grasses: Mapping their progression via satellite
• The indirect effects of cheatgrass invasion: Grasshopper herbivory on native grasses determined by neighboring cheatgrass abundance
• The effect of herbaceous species removal, fire and cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) on soil water availability in sagebrush steppe
• Controlling cheatgrass in winter range to restore habitat and endemic fire
• Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) biocontrol using indigenous fungal pathogens
• Spatial and temporal seed dispersal of squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata Lam. ssp. squarrosa (Willd.) Gugler) in west central Utah, a case study
• Medusahead: Available soil N and microbial communities in native and invasive soils
• Effects of fire and restoration seeding on establishment of squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata var. squarrosa)
• Symbiotic fungi that influence vigor, biomass and reproductive potential of native bunch grasses for remediation of degraded semiarid rangelands
• Genetic characterization of uncultured fungal endophytes from Bouteloua eriopoda and Atriplex canescens
• Wildfire rehabilitation success with and without chaining on the Henry Mountains, Utah
• Vole-driven restoration of a parariparian meadow complex on the Colorado Plateau (south-central Utah)
• Browse evaluation of tall shrubs based on the direct measurement of a management objective
• Mule deer and elk winter diet as an indicator of habitat competition
• Reproductive biology of Larrea tridentata: A comparison between core shrubland and isolated grassland plants at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
• A survey of vegetation and wildland fire hazards on the Nevada Test Site
• Trout Creek 1999 Burn
• Trend of mountain big Sagebrush crown cover and ground cover on burned sites, Uinta Mountains and West Tavaputs Plateau, Utah
• Very Large Scale Aerial (VLSA) imagery for assessing postfire bitterbrush recovery
• 20 Years of natural recovery after wildfire on northern Nevada rangelands
• Microsite and time since prescribed fire's influence on soil microbiology in a pinyon woodland
• Great Basin cold desert shrublands and the Desert Experimental Range
• Disturbance and rehabilitation of cold to warm desert transitional shrublands in southwestern Utah

Citation

Kitchen, Stanley G.; Pendleton, Rosemary L.; Monaco, Thomas A.; Vernon, Jason, comps. 2008. Proceedings-Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-52. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 190 p.