Estimating Forage Production from Shrub Ring Widths in Hot Creek Valley, Nevada
Citation
Davis, J. B., Tueller, P. T., & Bruner, A. D. (1972). Estimating forage production from shrub ring widths in Hot Creek Valley, Nevada. Journal of Range Management, 25(5), 398-402.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
Journal of Range ManagementDOI
10.2307/3896556Additional Links
https://rangelands.org/Abstract
Floristic and soil factors on 60 sites in the shadscale and sagebrush zone in Hot Creek Valley, Nevada were sampled to derive one or more equations for estimating production on those sites. The factors were analyzed by an all possible correlation followed by stepwise regression with production as the dependent variable. Many of the factors correlated significantly with production, but widths of growth rings of shrubs accounted for most of the variation in production. Thus, ring widths of big sagebrush, bud sagebrush, shadscale, common winterfat, and spiny hopsage were used to derive regression equations to estimate forage production. Big sagebrush and shadscale ring widths varied exponentially with production, while a linear relationship expressed the regression of production on ring widths for the other shrubs. The linear regression probably represents only a portion of the complete curve. The methods of collection and analysis of shrub rings to derive production estimation equations could probably be extended to other areas within the Great Basin.Type
textArticle
Language
enISSN
0022-409Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.2307/3896556