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Indirect Effects Of Fire On The Small Mammal Community Of A Tallgrass Blackland Prairie Remnant In Texas
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Book Synopsis Indirect Effects of Fire on the Small Mammal Community of a Tallgrass Blackland Prairie Remnant in Texas by : Brianna N. Kirchner
Download or read book Indirect Effects of Fire on the Small Mammal Community of a Tallgrass Blackland Prairie Remnant in Texas written by Brianna N. Kirchner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated effects of fire on vegetation and small mammals in a tallgrass blackland prairie remnant. At Leonhardt Prairie, vegetation and small mammals were monitored from February 2007 through May 2008 with a burn occurring Fall 2007. Pre-burn, dense litter and vegetative cover accommodated two dominant species, Baiomys taylori and Sigmodon hispidus, with a relative abundance (captures/100 trapnights) of 5.85 and 4.99, respectively. Post-burn, removal of vegetation led to an increase of Peromyscus maniculatus from a relative abundance of 0.12 pre-burn to 5.23 post-burn. Baiomys taylori and Sigmodon hispidus were not captured on burned sections for 7 months, though the unburned section maintained capture rates similar to pre-burn data. Shift in species composition has occurred from Baiomys taylori and Sigmodon hispidus to Peromyscus maniculatus, suggesting short-term fire response of small mammals in tallgrass prairies. This secondary successional cycle of 7 months suggests the prairie's natural fire frequency was high.
Book Synopsis Effects of Fire and Precipitation on a Small Mammal Community in Shortgrass Prairie of the Southern Great Plains by : Whitney J. Priesmeyer
Download or read book Effects of Fire and Precipitation on a Small Mammal Community in Shortgrass Prairie of the Southern Great Plains written by Whitney J. Priesmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Fire and Other Disturbances on Small Mammals and Their Predators by : Catherine H. Ream
Download or read book The Effects of Fire and Other Disturbances on Small Mammals and Their Predators written by Catherine H. Ream and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies by : Scott L. Collins
Download or read book Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies written by Scott L. Collins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at a 1987 symposium, "Fire in North American Grasslands," cosponsored by the Ecological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America, this book represents an important contribution to key unanswered questions concerning the role of fire in grassland ecosystems: How often did fires occur in the past? Were they primarily natural or caused by humans? At what time of year did grasslands normally burn? How should fire be used as a management tool? What constitutes a proper prescribed burning regime both with and without grazing?
Book Synopsis Effects of Fire and Precipitation on Small Mammal Populations and Communities by : Mark J. Witecha
Download or read book Effects of Fire and Precipitation on Small Mammal Populations and Communities written by Mark J. Witecha and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of Fire on Vegetation and Small Mammal Communities in a Mojave Desert Joshua Tree Woodland by : Michael Stuart Vamstad
Download or read book Effects of Fire on Vegetation and Small Mammal Communities in a Mojave Desert Joshua Tree Woodland written by Michael Stuart Vamstad and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildland Fire in Ecosystems written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of Prescribed Burning on a Small Mammal Community in Post Oak Savannah, Texas by : Ramadhani Bakari Mshengeli Senzota
Download or read book Effects of Prescribed Burning on a Small Mammal Community in Post Oak Savannah, Texas written by Ramadhani Bakari Mshengeli Senzota and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effects of Experimental Fire and Nonnative Grass Invasion on Small Mammals and Insects by : Andrea Rebecca Litt
Download or read book Effects of Experimental Fire and Nonnative Grass Invasion on Small Mammals and Insects written by Andrea Rebecca Litt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To assess the interactive effects of prescribed fire on small mammals in these altered ecosystems, we performed a randomized experiment where we applied prescribed fire on 36 of 54 plots. The effects of fire on many small mammal populations and the composition of the small mammal community varied along the invasion gradient, suggesting that fire functions differently in areas dominated by nonnative plants relative to those dominated by native plants. Invasion by this nonnative grass has clearly shifted the composition of faunal communities in semi-desert grasslands and has altered ecosystem processes, therefore reestablishing fire is not likely to be an omnibus solution for restoration.
Book Synopsis Effects of Controlled Burning on Small Mammal Populations of a Restored Tallgrass Prairie by : P. Lynne Vacanti
Download or read book Effects of Controlled Burning on Small Mammal Populations of a Restored Tallgrass Prairie written by P. Lynne Vacanti and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Low-basal Area Treatment and Prescribed Fire to Restore Oak-pine Savannas Alter Small Mammal Communities by : Marie-Eve Jacques
Download or read book Low-basal Area Treatment and Prescribed Fire to Restore Oak-pine Savannas Alter Small Mammal Communities written by Marie-Eve Jacques and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following decades of fire suppression, many savanna ecosystems have changed drastically to dense forests. Restoration of these ecosystems is seen as a way to reduce woody encroachment, dangerous fuel loads, and loss of biological diversity. The management practices to achieve these goals, thinning and prescribed fire, have the potential to affect small mammal communities. Because small mammals exercise key ecosystem functions, changes in their community structure and in their habitat use through the direct and indirect effects of land management practices should be monitored carefully. The overall goal of this research was to determine the effects of low-basal area (BA) practices (thinning and prescribed fire) on small mammal communities in southeast Oklahoma. First, I determined how low-BA practices altered small mammal habitat. Low-BA practices significantly changed dominant ground covers and reduced litter and duff depths, BA of live trees, and the distance of vulnerability (DOV), a measure of understory vegetation structure and animal vulnerability to terrestrial predators. Overall, my results showed that low-BA practices increased ground layer productivity. Second, I assessed whether low-BA management practices altered the community structure of small mammal species in southeast Oklahoma. I found significant differences between the small mammal communities of thinned stands that were burned frequently (low-BA stands) and stands that were not thinned recently and not burned as frequently (high-BA stands). Significant differences in the capture rates of Peromyscus leucopus were documented and differences in the community assemblage between low- and high-BA stands were recorded. Third, I determined habitat preferences of three common small mammal species in southeast Oklahoma: P. leucopus, P. maniculatus, and R. fulvescens. All species preferentially selected low-BA stands. In low-BA stands, P. leucopus selected sites with higher volumes of coarse woody debris and longer DOV, while P. maniculatus selected sites with shorter DOV. In high-BA stands, P. leucopus selected sites with higher ground cover of down woody debris and longer DOV, while P. maniculatus did not appear to respond to those characteristics. Reithrodontomys fulvescens selected low-BA stands with shorter DOV. Knowing how low-BA practices affect small mammals can inform land managers on how to manage for small mammal diversity.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Fire on Bird and Small Mammal Communities in the Grasslands of Wind Cave National Park by : Jon D. Forde
Download or read book The Effect of Fire on Bird and Small Mammal Communities in the Grasslands of Wind Cave National Park written by Jon D. Forde and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Small Mammal Communities in Lava Beds National Monument, California by : Richard Wilmarth Frenzel
Download or read book The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Small Mammal Communities in Lava Beds National Monument, California written by Richard Wilmarth Frenzel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 areas totaling 9600 trap nights, with 1208 individuals captured 3650 times. The effects of the fires after a one year period were studied by continuous 15 day removal trapping at two burn and two control areas prior to burning and one year later. Removal trapping totaled 30, 000 trap nights with 3994 individuals captured. Results indicated that the number of individuals actually killed in the fires was insignificant. In general, the fires had no major effects on the small mammal communities in terms of species abundance, age and sex ratios, weights and reproductive condition.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Fire on Small Mammal Populations in the Sagebrush Steppe of Northern Wyoming, a Thesis by : Jaquelyn E. Klancher
Download or read book The Impact of Fire on Small Mammal Populations in the Sagebrush Steppe of Northern Wyoming, a Thesis written by Jaquelyn E. Klancher and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2007 investigation of the impact of fire upon sagebrush habitat on the resident small mammal community in the Tensleep Nature Preserve in north-central Wyoming.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Fire on Small Mammals in the Knobs Region of Central Kentucky by : William Bradley Reynolds
Download or read book The Effects of Fire on Small Mammals in the Knobs Region of Central Kentucky written by William Bradley Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small mammals were trapped on an unburned area, a recently burned area and an area burned eight years earlier (further references to the three areas will use the titles control area, new burn area and old burn area.) The study was conducted from Junethrough October 1987, near Berea, Kentucky. Live-trapping data were analyzed to estimate small mammal populations and pitfall trapping data were analyzed to compare species diversity and community similarity among the three areas. Herbacious (1 m), shurb layer (1 m, 3 m), and three layer (3 m) vegetation was sampled and compared among the three areas.
Book Synopsis The Effect of Fire on the Spider Community of a Native Tall Grass Prairie by : Jan Carole Weaver
Download or read book The Effect of Fire on the Spider Community of a Native Tall Grass Prairie written by Jan Carole Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Prescribed Fires in Different Seasons on Small Mammals in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest by : Michelle Erin Monroe
Download or read book The Effects of Prescribed Fires in Different Seasons on Small Mammals in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest written by Michelle Erin Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prescribed fire is an important management practice used to restore natural fire regimes in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests where fire has been suppressed over the last century. It is not well known, however, how the timing of prescribed fire affects wildlife species. I compared the effects of prescribed fires during the early season (spring and early summer) with those during the late season (late summer and fall) on small mammal populations using model selection and inference methods. ... Lodgepole chipmunk (Neotamias speciosus) movements differed between years, but there was no effect of prescribed fires on their movements (Chapter 1). Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) movements differed between age groups within years. Prescribed fire treatments did not affect deer mouse movements, except when only adult female deer mouse movements were analyzed. Year effects were more important than fire effects on lodgepole chipmunk densities, total small mammal biomass, deer mouse densities, and deer mouse age ratios (Chapter 2). Prescribed burning had a positive effect on deer mouse pregnancy ratios, and there was only limited support for an effect of year on these ratios. There was essentially no support for different effects of fire depending on the season of fire on total small mammal biomass and deer mouse densities, and only limited support for these effects on lodgepole chipmunk densities, deer mouse age ratios, and deer mouse pregnancy ratios. The prescribed fire treatments differentially impacted small mammal habitat components depending on the season of the fire (Chapter 3). However, there were few significant relationships between these habitat components and deer mouse densities, lodgepole chipmunk densities or small mammal species richness. Overall, year effects often had the greatest influence on the small mammal populations examined, and there were few strong differences between the effects of early season fires and late season fires on these populations."--Abstract.
