Biologist
Email:
lcondon@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
541-750-1030
ORCID:
0000-0002-9357-3881
Location
1100 Valley Rd
Reno
, NV
89512
US
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Fifteen fires from the Chronosequence dataset (see Knutson et al. 2014) were visited in 2012 and 2013 and surveyed for cover of lichens and mosses. Fires were selected to cover the range of average precipitation for each of three water years following fire, fire severity, time since fire, season of ignition, total acres burned and grazing intensity. Cattle grazing was characterized by distance from water sources for cattle, cow dung density counts and Animal Unit Months from the Rangeland Administration System of the Bureau of Land Management. Fire was characterized by whether or not a site burned, time since fire, the area burned, and an estimated amount of shrub cover consumed by the fire as compared to seemingly...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
Ecology,
Great Basin,
Idaho,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Nevada,
Oregon,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
biota,
botany,
community ecology,
environment,
lichens,
mosses,
vascular plants, Fewer tags
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Twenty quadrats within the burn perimeter of a September 2021 wildfire outside of Boise, Idaho were surveyed for the abundance of fire effects, biocrusts and vascular plants immediately post-fire. The fire was too small to be named. Char was measured as a proxy for fire intensity. Biocrusts were surveyed by morphogroup (crustose lichens, cup lichens, fruticose lichens, gelatinous lichens, short moss, tall moss) and vascular plants were surveyed by functional group (annual forbs, perennial grasses). Char was measured ocularly and biocrust/plant abundance was measured via point-vertex intercept at 40 points per quadrat. These data support the following publication: Condon, L.A., Shinneman, D.J., Rosentreter, R. and...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
Great Basin,
Idaho,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota, All tags...
botany,
community ecology,
environment,
fires,
lichens,
mosses,
vascular plants, Fewer tags
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The data reflect surveys from 10-year sampling frames established as part of the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project. The project tests fuel reduction treatments on the lichen and moss components of biocrusts across the sagebrush steppe.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
Ecology,
Great Basin,
Land Use Change,
Soil Sciences, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biocrusts,
biota,
environment,
lichens,
mosses,
shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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The data were collected at Morley Nelson, Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA) where known grazing regimes, including the season of grazing, have been in practice for the last 30 years. Surveyed plots were placed to account for intensity of grazing and to avoid confounding disturbances. Data were collected on the morphogroups of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) found within the NCA, and include measurements on soils related to texture, carbon, nitrogen and the abundance of soil aggregating cyanobacteria in the soil. These data support the following publication: Condon, L.A., Rosentreter, R., Veblen, K.E. and Coates, P.S., 2024. Season of grazing interacts with soil texture, selecting for associations...
Categories: Data;
Tags: BLM AIM data,
Birds of Prey National Conservation Area,
Ecology,
Great Basin,
Idaho, All tags...
National Canservation Lands,
Rangeland Administration System,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biological soil crusts,
biota,
botany,
community ecology,
cyanobacteria,
ecology,
farming,
lichens,
mosses,
sagebrush ecosystem,
soil sciences,
soil texture,
vascular plants, Fewer tags
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