Predicting Grassland Recovery with a State and Transition Model in a Natural Area, Central Alberta, Canada

Autor:	Peggy Ann Desserud, M. Anne Naeth
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Topsoil geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology business.industry Agroforestry Fossil fuel food and beverages Plant community Introduced species Forestry Grassland Disturbance (ecology) Grazing Environmental science business Conservation grazing Nature and Landscape Conservation
Zdroj:	Natural Areas Journal. 34:429-442
ISSN:	2162-4399 0885-8608
Popis:	Temperate grasslands worldwide have been reduced to remnants as a result of urban, rural, and oil and gas activities. One of the largest remaining tracts of temperate grassland is located in central Alberta, Canada: a provincial protected natural area known as Rumsey Block. Although Rumsey Block has been protected from urban and rural development, oil and gas activities have been allowed. We analyzed the change in plant communities from several oil and gas disturbances over an eleven-year period. We developed a state and transition model displaying consequences of disturbances from grazing and oil and gas development on rough fescue grassland, considered the reference stable state. Transitions were no, light, or moderate grazing and minimum oil and gas disturbance, such as plow-in pipelines, small area well sites (
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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