作者: Paul C. Rogers , Allison Jones , James Catlin , James Shuler , Arthur Morris
DOI: 10.3375/043.035.0305
关键词: Fire protection 、 Biodiversity 、 Forage (honey bee) 、 Public land 、 Quaking Aspen 、 Ungulate 、 Agroforestry 、 Herbivore 、 Geography 、 Vegetation 、 Ecology
摘要: ABSTRACT: Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are experiencing numerous impediments across North America. In the West, recent drought, fire suppression, insects, diseases, climate trends, inappropriate management, and ungulate herbivory impacting these high biodiversity forests. Additionally, ecological tension zones sometimes created at residential-wildland interfaces with divergent management directives. For example, private conservation reserves bordering public land may be degraded from browsing where game species find refuge hunting plentiful forage. We examined putative herbivore impacts to nearly pure Wolf Creek Ranch (WCR), a sparsely developed residential landscape in northern Utah. Forty-three one-hectare monitoring plots were established measure forest attributes including site characteristics, tree vegetation condition, use. we tested ability of plot-level visual rating system characterize objective field mea...