Cara V Applestein

Pre-fire satellite derived and field calculated functional cover across Great Basin megafires

Data includes satellite derived pre-fire functional group cover of annual and perennial herbaceous, shrubs, bareground and litter across four rangeland megafires in the Western US, as well as field estimated invasive annual grass measurements from the 2nd to 3rd years post-fire. Additional landscape and restoration treatment covariates hypothesized to influence post-fire invasive annual grass cover are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia tridentata, Botany, Bromus tectorum, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Land Use Change, Nevada, Oregon, Poa secunda, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, lichens, mosses, vegetation, Fewer tags

Head smut infections on cheatgrass cover in the first four years after the 2015 Soda Wildfire

Data includes head smut infection level (caused by the fungal pathogen, Ustilago bullata) on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and cheatgrass cover for plots measured annually during the first four years after the 2015 Soda wildfire. Additional landscape and weather covariates that are hypothesized to influence infection and host density are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Owyhee, Soda Wildfire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, cheatgrass, environment, fungal pathogens, invasive species, pathology, sagebrush steppe, Fewer tags

Ocular field estimates of exotic annual and perennial grass cover across the Soda Wildfire

Data includes functional group cover of exotic annual grasses and deep rooted perennial grasses within the first five years after the 2015 Soda wildfire across different post-fire restoration treatments. Additional landscape and restoration treatment covariates hypothesized to influence post-fire invasive annual grass and perennial grass cover are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Great Basin, Land Use Change, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, natural resource management, remediation, vegetation, Fewer tags

Abundance, cover, and root measurements of perennial bunchgrasses in the Owyhee Mountains, USA

Invasion of exotic annual grasses (EAG) and increased wildfire have led to an emphasis on managing rangeland plant communities for resistance to invasion and resilience to disturbances. In sagebrush steppe and similar rangelands, perennial bunchgrasses and particularly their roots are hypothesized to be primary contributors to the resistance and resilience. We asked how bunchgrass root abundance relates to annual grass invasion and aboveground indicators of bunchgrass vigor that are more readily measured, such as plant height. We used a standardized USDA protocol for root measurement in 445 excavations made in 2016-2018 across a topographically and ecologically varied region of sagebrush steppe burned in the 2015...

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Owyhee County, Idaho, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), annual grasses, biota, bunchgrass, environment, fire damage, fires, habitat alteration and disturbance, invasive species, remediation, restoration, roots, sagebrush steppe, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags

Presence and cover of exotic annual and perennial grass species during five years post-fire on the Soda Wildfire

Data includes cover and presence (within microsites and 13 m radius plots) of three exotic annual grass, Bromus tectorum, Taeniatherum caput-medusae, and Ventenata dubia and presence (within microsites) of four perennial bunchgrass species (Agropyron cristatum, Pseudoroegneria spicata, Poa secunda, Elymus elymoides) within the first five years after the 2015 Soda wildfire. Additional landscape and weather covariates hypothesized to influence landscape resistance to invasion are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Earth, Ecology, Idaho, Land, All tags... Land Use Change, North America, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biological invasion, biota, environment, exotic annual grass, invasive species, landscape ecology, landscape resistance, perennial bunchgrass, sagebrush steppe, shrubland ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, Fewer tags