The Great Basin
Now you see it, now you don't: a case study of ephemeral snowpacks and soil moisture response in the Great Basin, USA
... the Great Basin, we show that ephemeral snowmelt causes a 70- days-earlier soil moisture response than seasonal ...understand Great Basin snow distribution, we used MODIS and Snow Data Assim- ...
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Modeling Climate-Fire Connections within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States
... The specific temporal patterns of an- tecedent conditions associated with fire occurrence in the Great Basin and Up- per Colorado River Basin are poorly understood. Using 25 years of com- bined fire ...
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Evidence for Late Devonian (Kellwasser) anoxic events in the Great Basin, western United States
... Figure 16: Timing of development of oxygen-poor conditions in the Great Basin (section abbreviations as in Fig. 1). Note that true palaeo-oxygenation conditions across the F-F boundary in NAR and TM ...
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Evidence for Late Devonian (Kellwasser) anoxic events in the Great Basin, western United States
... the Great Basin would occur during a major regressive interval; this is an unusual occurrence because other major anoxic events of the geological record occur during transgression or highstand ...
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Taxonomic determination, distribution, and ecological indicator values of sagebrush within the pinyon juniper woodlands of the Great Basin.
... Portions of the Great Basin where various Artemisia taxa are present or absent in the pinyon-juniper woodlands on the mountain ranges sampled... Floristic variations[r] ...
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Climatic Fluctuations in the Great Basin, 1931-56.
... Temperature Variability Although temperature differ- ences from place to place in the Great Basin appear to be min- imized when mean monthly or annual values are[r] ...
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Alien plants in the Great Basin.
... Nature of Competitive Ability During the past 35 years, range scientists have gradually compre- hended the magnitude of the in- herent competitive ability of alie[r] ...
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Downy Brome-Intruder in the Plant Succession of Big Sagebrush Communities in the Great Basin.
... Although there was a relatively dense stand of downy brome on the control plots at site 4, the seeding of additional downy brome caryopses resulted in the elim[r] ...
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Pogogyne Floribunda (Lamiaceae), A New Species from the Great Basin in Northeastern California
... The species may occur in south- eastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada, which are connected to the eastern Modoc Plateau by sagebrush scrub and juniper woodland vegetation wit[r] ...
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Forage yield and quality trends of annual grasses in the Great Basin
... Overall, yearling cattle gained 1.43 1W animal-day during the 7-month grazing period on cheat- grass at the Saylor Creek Experimental Range in south- central Idaho and 1.25 lb/animal-day[r] ...
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Comparing Locally Derived and LANDFIRE Geo-Layers in the Great Basin, USA
... This study compared locally derived Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) and Biophysical Setting (BpS) with corresponding LFNA products on a project- sized landscape, Wassuk Range, Neva[r] ...
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Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria are structured by geography in biological soil crusts across North American arid lands
... We sampled different crust types (e.g., those dominated by cyanobacteria, lichen, or moss) in a variety of geo- graphically dispersed sites (Figure 1, Additional file 1) across four distinct desert systems in the western ...
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Prehistoric Incentives to High Altitude Settlement in Wyoming’s Wind River Range
... the Great Basin and northwest Wyoming, whitebark pine nuts, both limber (Pinus flexilis) and piñon (Pinus edulis), are a traditional food source and make up the most available food source in the Wind River ...
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HOLOCENE FIRE AND CLIMATE IN RANGELAND ECOSYSTEMS OF SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO
... Dendrochronologic studies generally report that fire return intervals ranged from three to nine years in ponderosa pine forests in northern Arizona (Fule, Covington, and Moore, 1997; Fule et al., 2003). Fire scars from ...
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Book Reviews and End Matter
... and classification procedures for identifying Olivella shell beads and shell ornaments. Indeed, Chapter 1, which comprises the bulk of the publication (63 pages), consists of a synopsis of shell bead and ornament ...
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Rangeland Fertilization for Balanced Forage and Cattle Nutrition
... Limited information is available on animal performance on fertilized crested wheatgrass ranges in the Great Basin.. Sneva, et al.[r] ...
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Influence of Elevation on Carbonate Contents in Stratified Soils, Northern Great Basin and Adjacent Mountains, U S A
... the Great Basin and surroundings since the advent of white man ...the Great Basin that close to lake basins pulses of eolian deposition triggered by lake desiccation played a greater role than ...
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Sedimentation Study on Upstream Reach of Selected Rivers in Pahang River Basin, Malaysia
... a basin increased, the total suspended solid will also increase because the higher flow contains the strong energy to move the higher concentrated the suspended sediment load compared to the low ...
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Morphometric analysis of thirumanimuttar river, Tamilnadu using geographic information system
... sub basin level is essential to develop an appropriate strategy for sustainable, socially acceptable, ecologically benign and economically viable development of a river ...the basin is largely controlled by ...
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Experimental Investigation Of The Performance Of Basin Type Single-Slope Solar Still
... the basin, thereby raising water temperature compared to that of the ...the basin increases the moisture content in the enclosure which finally condenses on the underside of the cover, slips down into the ...
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