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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Great Basin Desert"”.
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Ecosystem Consequences of Post-Fire Invasive Species in the Great Basin Desert
… adjacent post-fire communities in the northern Great Basin Desert using a gas-exchange chamber and micrometeorological techniques. Temporal and spatial patterns of NCE and ET were correlated with changes in leaf area. Net C exchange and ET in post-fire communities dominated by perennial …
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Testing assisted gene flow in restoration of winterfat, Krascheninnikovia lanata, a Great Basin desert shrub
… locations in restoration. Here, focusing on the Great Basin and Mojave deserts, we focused on restoration of a widespread shrub, winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata), asking how seedling emergence and outplant seedling survival vary among 15 populations collected across both deserts. Populations …
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A Mechanistic and Landscape Scale Approach Quantifying Habitat Suitability of Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Engineered Habitats for Great Basin Reptiles
… ecological restoration practices. In the Great Basin Desert of North America, habitat degradation has led to widespread invasion by a highly successful plant species, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). The result has been the alteration of landscape structure and ecosystem function. This novel …
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A Flora of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada
… County, Nevada, in a transition between the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. The flora of the region is influenced by the northern Mojave Desert to the south, White Mountains to the west, Great Basin Desert to the east and north, and additionally the Sierra Nevada to the west and Death Valley …
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Physiological Bases of Plant Shrinkage and Its Demographic Implications
… plants are plastic organisms and can vary greatly in size within and between years. While much attention has been paid to the factors that maximize plant growth, plant shrinkage has been bluntly overlooked. Here we study anatomy, physiology, demography and comparative biology to understand …
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Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Ecological Monitoring, Habitat Disturbance Detection, and Forensic Science in Arid Landscapes
… camera systems at study sites within the arid deserts of the western United States to demonstrate low-cost, user-defined, scientific, and civil applications. In chapter one we use a UAV-based multispectral camera to classify vegetation with a goal of detecting individual plants of the …
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Spatial Patterns and Population Performance of Mule Deer: Responses to Water Provisioning in Mojave National Preserve, California
… water developments on wildlife. In a study of desert sheep (<italic>Ovis canadensis nelsoni</italic>) in Arizona, USA, Broyles and Cutler (1999) argued that desert sheep obtained adequate water to meet metabolic demands from available forage and, thus, were not reliant on available free-water. …