Spatial and temporal effects of burning on plant community characteristics and composition in a fescue prairie
| dc.contributor.advisor | Romo, James T. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Pennock, Dan J. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hughes, Geoffrey R. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bai, Yuguang | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Archibold, O. W. (Bill) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Gross, Dale | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-06-05T13:26:51Z | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T04:35:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-06-06T08:00:00Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T04:35:59Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2005-04 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-04-22 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | April 2005 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Conserving structural and compositional diversity in Fescue Prairie requires reintroducing natural disturbances according to their historic regime. Fire is an important natural process that may be a source of spatial heterogeneity in Fescue Prairies. The effects of burning in all months of the year except January and February were evaluated in a Fescue Prairie in central Saskatchewan for 6 years following burning on 2 sites that had not been previously burned and 2 sites that had been burned 5 years earlier. Except for burning in March, burning reduced cover of litter (P | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-06052005-132651 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | disturbance regime | en_US |
| dc.subject | Elymus lanceolatus | en_US |
| dc.subject | Festuca hallii | en_US |
| dc.subject | fire return interval | en_US |
| dc.subject | grassland | en_US |
| dc.subject | heterogeneity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hesperostipa curtiseta | en_US |
| dc.subject | restoration | en_US |
| dc.subject | natural variability | en_US |
| dc.subject | canonical correspondence analysis | en_US |
| dc.subject | spatial variance | en_US |
| dc.subject | time of burning | en_US |
| dc.subject | time since burning | en_US |
| dc.title | Spatial and temporal effects of burning on plant community characteristics and composition in a fescue prairie | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Plant Sciences | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Plant Sciences | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |