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Ecology of riparian plant communities in southern Malheur National Forest

Creator:

Padgett, Wayne G.

Abstract:

Riparian communities in the southern portion of Malheur National Forest were intensively studied with the objective of designing an approach for classifying disturbed riparian areas into units of similar potential. Not all riparian community types in this portion of the Blue Mountains were sampled due to time limitations. Some of...

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Masters Thesis
Vegetation composition and response to fire of native Willamette Valley wetland prairies

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...

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Masters Thesis

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in the analysis and writing of Chapters 1, 4 and 5. Dr. Robert Frenkel, Dr. Patsy Miller, David P