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Steven S. Seefeldt Jeffery S. Conn Mingchu Zhang Phil N. Kaspari 《Agriculture, ecosystems & environment》2010,135(1-2):119-126
Over 14 million hectares of erosion prone cropland in the United States has been converted into grasslands through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) administered by the United States Department of Agriculture, however, studies of the effects of CRP enrollment on plant communities and subsequent plant succession are largely lacking. In Delta Junction, Alaska plant communities in CRP fields are transitioning from grasslands to shrub dominated plant communities, which are resulting in compliance problems with program regulations that state “fields must be maintained in a condition that permits easy conversion to cropland”. To determine plant succession and how previous land management and soils might influence the transition, we measured plant populations in 20 CRP fields throughout Delta Junction using modified-Whittaker plots. These data were combined with data on current management practices, previous farming history, soils, soil properties, diversity indices, and time since land was cleared and analyzed with nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination to determine factors that influence plant succession. Time in the CRP was the only factor consistently influencing plant succession. As time in the CRP increased, the planted introduced grasses brome grass (Bromus inermis) and red fescue (Festuca rubra) and the native pteridophyte (Equisetum arvense) decreased, whereas a native grass (Calamigrostis canadensis), five native forb, two native shrub, and three native tree species increased. Plant diversity increased at a rate of more than 2 species per 1000 m2 per year. Regression analyses of plant species and plant groups using time in the CRP as the dependent variable resulted in the identification of outlier CRP fields with significantly more or less than expected covers of vegetation. All fields with these outliers had reasonable explanations for the differences in cover that were unrelated to the overall rate of plant succession. Current management practices will result in incompliant fields and different management practices that result in woody vegetation control is key to maintaining CRP fields in compliance. 相似文献
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Measuring Plant Diversity in the Tall Threetip Sagebrush Steppe: Influence of Previous Grazing Management Practices 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
In July 2000, a 490-ha wildfire burned a portion of a long-term grazing study that had been established in 1924 at the US Sheep Experiment Station north of Dubois, Idaho, USA. Earlier vegetation measurements in this tall
threetip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita spp. tripartita) bunchgrass plant community documented significant changes in vegetation due to grazing and the timing of grazing by sheep. A study was initiated in May 2001 using 12 multiscale modified Whittaker plots to determine the consequences of previous grazing practices on postfire vegetation composition. Because there was only one wildfire and it did not burn all of the original plots, the treatments are not replicated in time or space. We reduce the potential effects of psuedoreplication by confining our discussion to the sample area only. There were a total of 84 species in the sampled areas with 69 in the spring-grazed area and 70 each in the fall- and ungrazed areas. Vegetation within plots was equally rich and even with similar numbers of abundant species. The spring-grazed plots, however, had half as much plant cover as the fall- and ungrazed plots and the spring-grazed plots had the largest proportion of plant cover composed of introduced (27%) and annual (34%) plants. The fall-grazed plots had the highest proportion of native perennial grasses (43%) and the lowest proportion of native annual forbs (1%). The ungrazed plots had the lowest proportion of introduced plants (4%) and the highest proportion of native perennial forbs (66%). The vegetation of spring-grazed plots is in a degraded condition for the environment and further degradation may continue, with or without continued grazing or some other disturbance. If ecosystem condition was based solely on plant diversity and only a count of species numbers was used to determine plant diversity, this research would have falsely concluded that grazing and timing of grazing did not impact the condition of the ecosystem. 相似文献
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The Effects of Long-Term Grazing Exclosures on Range Plants in the Central Anatolian Region of Turkey 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Over the last fifty years, almost half of the steppe rangeland in the Central Anatolian Region of Turkey (CAR) has been converted
to cropland without an equivalent reduction in grazing animals. This shift has led to heavy grazing pressure on rangeland
vegetation. A study was initiated in June 2003 using 6 multiscale Modified-Whittaker plots to determine differences in plant
composition between areas that have not been grazed in 27 years with neighboring grazed plant communities. A total of 113
plant species were identified in the study area with the ungrazed plots containing 32 plants more than the grazed plots. The
major species were Astragalus acicularis, Bromus tomentellus, Festuca valesiaca, Genista albida, Globularia orientalis, Poa bulbosa, and Thymus spyleus ssp rosulans. Grazing impacts on forbs were more pronounced than for grasses and shrubs. Based on Jaccard’s index, there was only a 37%
similarity of plant species between the two treatments. Our study led to four generalizations about the current grazing regime
and long-term exclosures in the steppe rangeland around the study area: (1) exclosures will increase species richness, (2)
heavy grazing may have removed some plant species, (3) complete protection from grazing for a prolonged period of time after
a long history of grazing disturbance may not lead to an increase in desirable plant species with a concomitant improvement
in range condition, and (4) research needs to be conducted to determine how these rangelands can be improved. 相似文献
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Pawel Wasowicz Alexander N. Sennikov Kristine B. Westergaard Katie Spellman Matthew Carlson Lynn J. Gillespie Jeffery M. Saarela Steven S. Seefeldt Bruce Bennett Christian Bay Stefanie Ickert-Bond Henry Vre 《Ambio》2020,49(3):693-703
We present a comprehensive list of non-native vascular plants known from the Arctic, explore their geographic distribution, analyze the extent of naturalization and invasion among 23 subregions of the Arctic, and examine pathways of introductions. The presence of 341 non-native taxa in the Arctic was confirmed, of which 188 are naturalized in at least one of the 23 regions. A small number of taxa (11) are considered invasive; these plants are known from just three regions. In several Arctic regions there are no naturalized non-native taxa recorded and the majority of Arctic regions have a low number of naturalized taxa. Analyses of the non-native vascular plant flora identified two main biogeographic clusters within the Arctic: American and Asiatic. Among all pathways, seed contamination and transport by vehicles have contributed the most to non-native plant introduction in the Arctic. 相似文献
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Methods that are more cost-effective and objective are needed to detect important vegetation change within acceptable error
rates. The objective of this research was to compare visual estimation to three new methods for determining vegetation cover
in the sagebrush steppe. Fourteen management units at the US Sheep Experiment Station were identified for study. In each unit,
20 data collection points were selected for measuring plant cover using visual estimation, laser-point frame (LPF), 2 m above-ground-level
(AGL) digital imagery, and 100-m AGL digital imagery. In 11 of 14 management units, determinations of vegetation cover differed
(P < 0.05). However, when combined, overall determinations of vegetation cover did not differ. Standard deviation, corrected
sums of squares, coefficient of variation, and standard error for the 100 m AGL method were half as large as for the LPF and
less than the 2-m AGL and visual estimate. For the purpose of measuring plant cover, all three new methods are as good as
or better than visual estimation for speed, standard deviation, and cost. The acquisition of a permanent image of a location
is an important advantage of the 2 and 100 m AGL methods because vegetation can be reanalyzed using improved software or to
answer different questions, and changes in vegetation over time can be more accurately determined. The reduction in cost per
sample, the increased speed of sampling, and the smaller standard deviation associated with the 100-m AGL digital imagery
are compelling arguments for adopting this vegetation sampling method. 相似文献
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