2003 Prescribed Burn Effect on Chihuahuan Desert Grasses and Shrubs at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: Grass Recovery Study (2003-2012)

Authors

Esteban Muldavin

Date

2-29-2016

Abstract

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife's plan to apply a prescribed burn to a large portion of Mckenzie Flats was deemed an opportunity to study the effects of fire on vegetation at the boundary between shrubland and grassland. This study actually was undertaken on an area that had prescribed fire applied to 8 of 16 (300 m x 300 m) plots 10 years before in 1993. This previous study had also examined the effects of fencing to exclude the indigenous prong-horn antelope. In the 2003 study the prescribed fire was applied to the northeastern half of the 16 plots while the southwestern plots were intentionally protected. Sampling prior to the prescribed burn included quantification of cover of grass species in quadrats within all of the 16 plots. Measurements were made using "niner" quadrat frames that are 30 cm x 30 cm frames that are divided into 9 1-decimeter squares. Counts of grass species were made just prior to the June 2003 burn. Following the prescribed burn, quadrats were remeasured in the fall of 2003 to quantify mortality of grass species. These measurements were taken through the fall of 2012

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/1928/30075

Other Identifier

SEV148

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) Identifier

knb-lter-sev.148.131885

Document Type

Dataset

Comments

This dataset was originally published on the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Data Portal, https://portal.lternet.edu, and potentially via other repositories or portals as described. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the source data package is doi:10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9, and may be accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9. Metadata and files included in this record mirror as closely as possible the source data and documentation, with the provenance metadata and quality report generated by the LTER portal reproduced here as '*-provenance.xml' and *-report.html' files, respectively.

Rights

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Publisher

Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project

Source

http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9

Temporal coverage

2003-06-09 - 2012-10-23

Spatial coverage

McKenzie Flats is located within the northeastern section of the Sevilleta NWR, encompassing an area from Black Butte south to Palo Duro Canyon and east to the Los Pinos.

DOI

doi:10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9

Permanent URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9

Recommended Citation

Muldavin, Esteban (2016-02-29): 2003 Prescribed Burn Effect on Chihuahuan Desert Grasses and Shrubs at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: Grass Recovery Study (2003-2012). Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/989b7fbdf3db93a61d1fb7f5f26916a9