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The effects of prescribed burning on small mammal communities in Lava Beds National Monument, California

Creator:

Frenzel, Richard Wilmarth

Abstract:

The effects of prescribed burning on the abundance, species composition, and reproduction of small mammals were studied over a one year period. Two burn areas were studied, one in sagebrush/ bunchgrass and one in cheatgrass. The short-term effects were studied using monthly mark-recapture trapping on two treatment and two control...

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Masters Thesis

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, CALIFORNIA Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Dr. Edward E. Starkey The effects of prescribed burning
Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Creator:

Shinn, Dean Allison

Abstract:

Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...

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Masters Thesis

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EASTERN OREGON RANGELANDS Abstract approved: Dr. Edward E. Starkey Ecological and historical