The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): a test of state-and-transition theory

Autor: Mike Pellant, David Turner, Dale W. Johnson, Steve Knick, Steve Bunting, Richard F. Miller, James D. McIver, James B. Grace, Paul S. Doescher, Eugene W. Schupp, Bruce A. Roundy, Mark W. Brunson, Nora Devoe, David A. Pyke, Frederick B. Pierson, Robin J. Tausch, Jeanne C. Chambers, Kim Rollins
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Environment and Society Faculty Publications
DOI: 10.2737/rmrs-gtr-237
Popis: The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) is a comprehensive, integrated, long-term study that evaluates the ecological effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments designed to reduce fuel and to restore sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities of the Great Basin and surrounding areas. SageSTEP has several features that make it ideal for testing hypotheses from state-and-transition theory: it is long-term, experimental, multisite, and multivariate, and treatments are applied across condition gradients, allowing for potential identification of biotic thresholds. The project will determine the conditions under which sagebrush steppe ecological communities recover on their own following fuel treatment versus the communities crossing ecological thresholds, which requires expensive active restoration.
Databáze: OpenAIRE