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Bibliography: Wild & Prescribed Fire

Allen, E.A., J.C. Chambers and R.S. Nowak. 2008. Effects of a spring prescribed burn on the soil seed bank in sagebrush steppe exhibiting pinyon-juniper expansion. Western North American Naturalist 68(3): 265-277. Full text available here.

Blank, R.R., J. Chambers, B. Roundy and A. Whittaker. 2007. Nutrient availability in rangeland soils: Influence of prescribed burning, herbaceous vegetation removal, overseeding with Bromus tectorum, season, and elevation.  Rangeland Ecology and Management 60(6): 644–655. Full text available here.

Chambers, J. C. 2005. Fire related restoration issues in woodland and rangeland ecosystems. In J. Agee (compiler). Mixed Fire Regimes Conference. 17-19 November, Spokane, WA.

Davies, K.W., R.L. Sheley and J.D. Bates. 2008. Does fall prescribed burning Artemisia tridentata steppe promote invasion or resistance to invasion after a recovery period? Journal of Arid Environments 72:1076-1085. Full text available here.

Hood, S.M. and M. Miller, editors. 2007. Fire Ecology and Management of the Major Ecosystems of Southern Utah. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-202. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 110p. Full text available here.

Johnson, D.W., R.B. Susfalk, R.A. Dahlgren and J.M. Klopatek. 1998. Fire is more important than water for nitrogen fluxes in semi-arid forests. Environ. Sci. Policy 1:79-86. Abstract available here.

Korfmacher, J. L., J. C. Chambers and R. J. Tausch. 2003. Technical Note: A devise and method for conducting small plot burn treatments. Journal of Range Management 56(3):251-254. Full text available at http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/jrm/.

Lesica, P., S.V. Cooper and G. Kudray. 2007. Recovery of big sagebrush following fire in southwest Montana. Rangeland Ecology and Management 60(3):261-269. Full text available here.

Melgoza, G. and R.S. Nowak. 1991. Competition between cheatgrass and two native species after fire: implications from observations and measurements of root distribution. Journal of Range Management 44(1):27-33. Full text available at http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/jrm/.

Mell, W., M.A. Jenkins, J. Gould and P. Cheney. 2007. A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16(1):1-22. Full text available here.

Miller, R.F. and E.K. Heyerdahl. 2008. Fine-scale variation of historical fire regimes in sagebrush-steppe and juniper woodland: An example from California, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:245-154. Full text available here.

Miller, R.F. and R.J. Tausch. 2002. The role of fire in juniper and pinyon woodlands: a descriptive analysis. Proceedings: The First National Congress on Fire, Ecology, Prevention, and Management. San Diego, CA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2000. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.

Ott, J.E., E. Durant McArthur, and B.A. Roundy. 2003. Vegetation of chained and non-chained seedings after wildfire in Utah. Journal of Range Management 56(1):81-91. Full text available at http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/jrm/.

Rau, B.M., R.R. Blank, J.C. Chambers and D.W. Johnson. 2007. Prescribed fire in a Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem: Dynamics of soil extractable nitrogen and phosphorus. Journal of Arid Environments 71: 362–375. Full text available here.

Rau, B.M. J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank and D.W. Johnson. 2008. Prescribed Fire, Soil, and Plants: Burn Effects and Interactions in the Central Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61:169-181. Full text available here.

Rau, B.M., J. C. Chambers, R.R. Blank and W.W. Miller. 2005. Hydrologic response to prescribed fire in central Nevada pinyon-juniper (Pinus monophylla-Juniperus osteosperma) woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 58(6):614-622. Full text available here.

Rau, B.M. 2005. Physical, chemical and understory plant nutritional response to pinyon-juniper encroachment and prescribed fire in a central Nevada woodland. Masters Thesis. University of Nevada, Reno. Reno, NV.

Tausch, R.J., J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank and R.S. Nowak. 1995. Differential establishment of perennial grass and cheatgrass following fire on an ungrazed sagebrush-juniper site. In: Roundy, B.A., E. Durant McArthur, J.S. Haley, and D.K. Mann, Comps. Proceedings, wildland shrub and arid land restoration symposium, 1993 October 19-21, Las Vegas, NV. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-315. USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station: 252-257.

West, N.E. and M.A. Hassan. 1985. Recovery of sagebrush-grass vegetation following wildfire. Journal of Range Management 38(2)131-134. Full text available at http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/jrm/f.

Whisenant, S.G. 1990. Changing fire frequencies on Idaho's Snake River Plains: ecological and management implications. Pages 4-10 In: McArthur, E.D., E.M. Romney, E.M. Smith and P.T. Tueller, Compilers. Proceedings: Symposium on Cheatgrass Invasion, Shrub Die-Off, and Other Aspects of Shrub Biology and Management, Las Vegas, NV, April 5-7, 1989. U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, GTR INT-276, Ogden, UT.

Zouhar, K., J.K. Smith, S. Sutherland, and M.L. Brooks. 2008. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 355 p. Full text available here.

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