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dc.contributor.authorDye, K. L.
dc.contributor.authorUeckert, D. N.
dc.contributor.authorWhisenant, S. G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-23T18:44:47Z
dc.date.available2020-09-23T18:44:47Z
dc.date.issued1995-03-01
dc.identifier.citationDye, K. I., Ueckert, D. N., & Whisenant, S. G. (1995). Redberry juniper-herbaceous understory interactions. Journal of Range Management, 48(2), 100-107.
dc.identifier.issn0022-409X
dc.identifier.doi10.2307/4002794
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/644455
dc.description.abstractBasal cover, density, biomass, and species richness of the understory were measured in concentric zones from the stem bases of large redberry juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.) trees to 6 m beyond their canopy edges on a shallow, rocky soil and 2 deep soils in the northern Edwards Plateau of Texas. The juniper-driven successional processes of tree dominance, debilitation of understory dominants, influx of subsidiary species, and the general reduction in diversity, density, and biomass of the herbaceous species were evident on all 3 sites. Juniper interference intensified with increasing proximity to the stem bases. Biomass and basal cover of the herbaceous understory responded to a greater extent than did density and species richness 2 years after large redberry junipers were killed with soil injections of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid). Herbaceous biomass responses after junipers were killed indicated that the sphere of influence of large junipers was more extensive on the shallow soil than on the deep soils. Herbaceous biomass in the presence of interference by large junipers on the Kimbrough, Angelo clay loam, and Tulia loam soils was 1,300, 1,780, and 1,290 kg ha-1, respectively, compared to 2,140, 2,140, and 1,560 kg ha-1 2 years after the junipers were killed on the 3 sites, respectively. Projected herbaceous biomass when juniper populations on the sites develop into closed-canopy woodlands was 320, 880, and 270 kg ha-1 for the Kimbrough, Angelo clay loam, and Tulia loam soils, respectively.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSociety for Range Management
dc.relation.urlhttps://rangelands.org/
dc.rightsCopyright © Society for Range Management.
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dc.subjecttextural soil types
dc.subjectclay loam soils
dc.subjectJuniperus pinchotii
dc.subjectsoil depth
dc.subjectplant interaction
dc.subjectunderstory
dc.subjectspecies diversity
dc.subjectecological succession
dc.subjectforbs
dc.subjectshrubs
dc.subjectTexas
dc.subjectbiomass
dc.subjectcanopy
dc.subjectgrasses
dc.titleRedberry juniper-herbaceous understory interactions
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dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Range Management
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dc.eprint.versionFinal published version
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dc.source.volume48
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.beginpage100-107
refterms.dateFOA2020-09-23T18:44:47Z


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