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Mapping fire history and quantifying burned area through 35 years of prescribed fire history at an Illinois tallgrass prairie restoration site using GIS.

Published online: 02 Jul 2022

Authors: Rowland-Schaefer, E. G. & Bach, E. M. & Kleiman, B. P. & Jones, H. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Fire was important to pre-colonization prairies. In today's remnant and reconstructed prairies, managers frequently employ prescribed fire, a historic...

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Conservation genetics of two co-dominant grass species in an endangered grassland ecosystem.

Published online: 16 Jun 2004

Authors: Gustafson, D. J. & Gibson, D. J. & Nickrent, D. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Global habitat fragmentation and loss of undisturbed grasslands has led to the use of non-local seed and cultivars in restoration. There is concern th...

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Strategies to reintroduce prescribed fire as a grassland management process on the Canadian prairies.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Gross, D. V. & Lamb, E. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Prescribed fire is a land management practice utilized in fire-adapted ecosystems to reduce wildfire risks, control invasive, exotic and woody plan...

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Assessing grassland restoration success: relative roles of seed additions and native ungulate activities.

Published online: 11 Apr 2007

Authors: Martin, L. M. & Wilsey, B. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grassland restorations often lack rare forb and grass species that are found in intact grasslands. The possible reasons for low diversity include seed...

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Effects of timing of prescribed fire on the demography of an invasive plant, spotted knapweed Centaurea maculosa.

Published online: 30 Mar 2005

Authors: Emery, S. M. & Gross, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Prescribed burning is a key tool used in prairie and savanna restoration projects. The timing and frequency of prescribed fires are important variable...

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Where should they come from? Where should they go? Several measures of seed source locality fail to predict plant establishment in early prairie restorations.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Pizza, R. B. & Foster, J. & Brudvig, L. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

During the "decade on restoration", we must understand how to reliably re-establish native plant populations. When establishing populations through se...

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Influence of temperature regimes and water stress on the germination of three range grasses and its possible ecological significance to a shortgrass prairie.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Bokhari, U. G. & Singh, J. S. & Smith, F. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A germination response study using mannitol was conducted in growth chambers. The highest rate of germination in Agropyron smithii (western wheatgrass...

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Vulnerability assessment of the multi-sector North American bison management system to climate change.

Published online: 25 Aug 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Martin, J. M. & Zarestky, J. & Briske, D. D. & Barboza, P. S.

Content type: Blog

A vulnerability assessment of the "Bison Management System" (BMS) to increasing climate variability was conducted to further clarify the challenges th...

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Temporal patterns in recruitment from the seed bank during drawdowns in a prairie wetland.

Published online: 26 Apr 1989

Authors: Welling, C. H. & Pederson, R. L. & Valk, A. G. van der

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Temporal patterns in seedling recruitment of seven wetland plant species in a Canadian prairie marsh are described. Recruitment occurred during artifi...

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Decomposition of tall fescue (Festuca elatior var. arundinacea) and cellulose litter on surface mines and a tallgrass prairie in central Missouri, U.S.A.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Wieder, R. K. & Carrel, J. E. & Rapp, J. K. & Kucerna, C. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In studies on decomposition of 14C-labelled and unlabelled tall fescue, and of pure cellulose litter on non-vegetated and vegetated coal surface-mine ...

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