Search MSU RSIS Range Science Information System
89 result(s) for black grama
View next 5 results-
Flora and fauna associated with prairie dog colonies and adjacent ungrazed mixed-grass prairie in western South Dakota
Date: 1986
Authors: W. Agnew, D. W. Uresk, and R. M. Hansen
Summary: Authors measured vegetation and rodent and bird populations in prairie dog towns, where prairie dogs maintain patches of lower vegetation height and percent mulch cover. Plant canopy cover was greater outside prairie dog towns in late spring and late ...
Keywords: black-tailed prairie dog, cynomys ludovicianus, ecosystem regulator, habitat, species richness, abundance
Citation (full site) -
Rates of vegetation change associated with prairie dog (<em>Cynomys ludovicianus</em>) grazing in North American mixed-grass prairie
Date: 1987
Authors: S. Archer, M. G. Garrett, and J. K. Detling
Summary: Expansion of a 6-year old prairie dog colony to a previously uncolonized site resulted in loss of perennial grasses and their replacement by annual forbs within 3 years. Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), needleandthread grass (Stipa comata), and g ...
Keywords: black-tailed prairie dogs, cynomys ludovicianus, agropyron, bouteloua, detrended correspondence analysis, diversity, ecotype, herbivory, stipa, structure
Citation (full site) -
Increase in number of dominant plants and dominance-classes on a grassland in the northern Chihuahuan Desert
Date: 1987
Authors: R. P. Gibbens, and R. F. Beck
Summary: Permanent quadrats were established inside and outside of grazing exclosures on various vegetation types in the Jornada Experimental Range between 1915 and 1932, in order to measure shifts in dominant species composition. Between the establishment o ...
Keywords: black grama, bouteloua eriopoda, tobosa, hilaria mutica, burrograss, scleropogon brevifolius, shrub invasion, jornada experimental range, new mexico
Citation (full site) -
Long term grazing influences on Chihuahuan desert rangeland
Date: 1994
Authors: J. L. Holechek, A. Tembo, A. Daniel, M. J. Fusco, and M. Cardenas
Summary: The authors evaluated changes in plant composition and forage productivity on two Chihuahuan Desert ranges with different grazing histories and different histories of woody plant control. A major focus of this study was the influence of stocking rat ...
Keywords: key forage species, chihuahuan desert, grazing, mesa dropseed, sporobolus flexuosus, black grama, bouteloua eriopoda, honey mesquite, prosopis glandulosa
Citation (full site) -
Effects of fire, grazing, and the presence of shrubs on Chihuahuan desert grasslands
Date: 2001
Authors: P. B. Drewa, and K. M. Havstad
Summary: Drewa and Havstad examined the responses of herbaceous and suffrutescent species to fire, grazing, and presence of Prosopis glandulosa, in a Chihuahuan desert grassland in southcentral New Mexico. Following fires in June 1995, unfenced plots were ex ...
Keywords: honey mesquite, prosopis glandulosa, black grama, bouteloua eriopoda, population dynamics, livestock, diversity, drought, prescribed fires
Citation (full site)