Meeting name
Using a Diverse Seed Mix to Establish Native Plants on a Sonoran Desert Burn
Document Type
Poster
Meeting location
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Publication Date
12-9-2008
Publisher
Public Lands Institute
Publisher Location
Las Vegas (Nev.)
First page number:
1
Last page number:
1
Abstract
- Revegetating burned areas is a formidable challenge facing resource managers in southwestern United States arid lands.
- Natural revegetation of desert burns by native species may be slow, or dominated by exotic annual grasses that perpetuate a frequent-fire regime.
- Resource managers may have several reasons for actively revegetating burns with native species, such as for providing competition with exotic species, minimizing soil erosion and dust pollution, and improving aesthetics.
- The use of native species in revegetation has been limited by a lack of available seed and by findings that native desert species are difficult to establish (e.g., Bainbridge and Virginia 1990, Banjerjee et al. 2006).
- Seeding may be one of only a few feasible options for reintroducing propagules to large desert burns covering thousands of hectares.
- Our objective was to assess the outcome of a 28-species (all native) operational seeding project for revegetating a 2005 burn in the Arizona Upland Subdivision of the Sonoran Desert.
Controlled Subject
Desert ecology; Endemic plants; Fire ecology; Grasses; Invasive plants; North America – Sonoran Desert; Revegetation; Wildfires
Disciplines
Desert Ecology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Environmental Sciences | Life Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Plant Sciences | Weed Science
File Format
File Size
1100 KB
Rights
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Repository Citation
Abella, S. R.,
Gunn, J. L.,
Daniels, M. L.,
Springer, J. D.,
Nyoka, S. E.
(2008, December).
Using a Diverse Seed Mix to Establish Native Plants on a Sonoran Desert Burn.
Presentation at Using a Diverse Seed Mix to Establish Native Plants on a Sonoran Desert Burn,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/pli_lake_mead_fire_presentations/5
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