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Category : Old growth forests
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Old-growth Forests in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions
Author: Old-growth Forests in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions
Author: Old-growth Forests in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions
Author: Merrill R. KaufmannPublisher:
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Category : Old growth forests
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Vegetation Dynamics on the Mountains and Plateaus of the American Southwest
Author: John VankatPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940076149X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The book provides information essential for anyone interested in the ecology of the American Southwest, including land managers, environmental planners, conservationists, ecologists and students. It is unique in its coverage of the hows and whys of dynamics (changes) in the major types of vegetation occurring on southwestern mountains and plateaus. It explains the drivers and processes of change, describes historical changes and provides conceptual models that diagrammatically illustrate past, present, and potential future changes. All major types of vegetation are covered: spruce-fir, mixed conifer, and ponderosa pine forests, pinyon-juniper vegetation, subalpine-montane grassland, and Gambel oak and interior chaparral shrublands. The focus is on vegetation that is relatively undisturbed, i.e., in natural and near-natural condition, and how it responds to natural disturbances such as fire and drought, as well as to anthropogenic disturbances such as fire exclusion and invasive species
General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Flammulated, Boreal, and Great Gray Owls in the United States
Author: Gregory Dale HaywardPublisher:
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Category : Aegolius funereus
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Proceedings RMRS.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Socorro Resource Management Plan Revision
Author: Mammal Community Dynamics
Author: Cynthia J. ZabelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008655
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
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Forest Reference Conditions for Ecosystem Management in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
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Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
We present the history of land use and historic vegetation conditions on the Sacramento Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest within the framework of an ecosystem needs assessment. We reconstruct forest vegetation conditions and ecosystem processes for the period immediately before Anglo-American settlement using General Land Office survey records, historic studies and accounts, and reconstructive studies such as dendrochronological histories of fire and insect outbreak and studies of old growth. Intensive grazing, clearcut logging, fire suppression, and agriculture in riparian areas have radically altered forest structure and processes since the 1880s, when intensive settlement began in the Sacramento Mountains. Present forests are younger and more dense than historic ones, and in areas that were previously dominated by ponderosa pine, dominance has shifted to Douglas-fir and white fir in the absence of frequent surface fire. Landscapes are more homogeneous and contiguous than historic ones, facilitating large-scale, intense disturbances such as insect outbreaks and crown fires.