Chapter 8: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Interior West bioregion

Peter M. Rice; Guy R. McPherson; Lisa J. Rew

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Chapter 8: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Interior West bioregion

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Peter M. Rice, Guy R. McPherson, Lisa J. Rew

Year:

2008

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks, Matthew L. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 141-174

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Abstract

The Interior West bioregion is bounded on the east by the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains from Canada south to Mexico and on the west by the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range in Washington and Oregon and the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. The bioregion includes the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave hot deserts and the Great Basin cold desert, as well as the forested Rocky Mountains and associated grasslands and meadows in the valleys, foothills, and mid-slopes.

Parent Publication

Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

Keywords

ecosystem, fire effects, fire management, fire regime, fire severity, fuels, grass/fire cycle, invasibility, invasiveness, monitoring, nonnative species, plant community

Citation

Rice, Peter M.; McPherson, Guy R.; Rew, Lisa J. 2008. Chapter 8: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Interior West bioregion. In: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks, Matthew L. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 141-174