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Creator:: Messier, Michael S.
Abstract:: Fire exclusion has been associated with structural and compositional changes in many upland forests of the western United States, but little is known about the impacts on riparian forests, portions of the landscape protected for habitat and water quality. For this study, I characterized the historic disturbance and tree recruitment...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fires occurring as often as every 15 years, or perhaps as long as 100 years (Arno et al., 2000; Taylor

Creator:: Zophy, Kelley T.
Abstract:: Juniper is a native species to Oregon and confers ecological benefits to wildlife when it is at savannah and transitional densities. Its range and extent have fluctuated with climatic change, but the current range expansion is unprecedented in its extent. The range expansion has been associated with the degradation of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: advantageous to herbs or shrubs as long as the trees remain in place, and that soil resource availability

Creator:: Pendergrass, Kathy L. (Connelly)
Abstract:: Fires set by Native Americans were important in shaping and maintaining Willamette Valley prairie plant communities. With fire exclusion after Euro-American settlement in the 1840's, composition of the remaining prairies shifted toward shrub and tree dominance with a concomitant decline in endemic prairie plant populations. I hypothesize that by restoring...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: well as exotic species increased in frequency or cover with burning. Eight native perennials and

Creator:: Ben-Thlija, Abdellaziz
Abstract:: Little is known about cactus nutrients, their proportions in different species and the variability of these proportions with season. In the scant literature available on Opuntia species, no systematic survey has been published to document and compare the nutritional qualities of different species. Also, no studies have been done to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Differences in nutrient content were detected between the species included in the analyses, but no single or

Creator:: Wrobleski, David W.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: possible to conduct a fully randomized, management scale prescribed fire study. Many a long, hot day

Creator:: Harris, Norman Rex
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , sixty or more years until harvest, requires a long-term commitment and a major investment of money

Creator:: Raven, Karen A.
Abstract:: Since the 1930's, many fields on the Crooked River National grasslands have been seeded to crested wheatgrass (Agropyron desertorum). While some of these fields remain dominated by crested wheatgrass others had a greater presence of deep rooted native perennial grasses such as bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata). Twenty eight fields previously...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ). Both plants are adversely affected by very early season grazing or season long defoliation but crested

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