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| العنوان: |
Not all seed transfer zones are created equal: using fire history to identify seed needs in the Cold Deserts of the western United States. |
| المؤلفون: |
Barga, Sarah C., Kilkenny, Francis F., Jensen, Scott, Kulpa, Sarah M., Agneray, Alison C., Leger, Elizabeth A. |
| المصدر: |
Restoration Ecology; Nov2023, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p1-14, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NEEDS assessment, HABITATS, SEEDS, DESERTS, PROTECTED areas, FIRE management |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
Restoration planning requires a reliable seed supply, yet many projects occur in response to unplanned events. Identifying regions of greater disturbance risk could efficiently guide seed procurement. Using fire in U.S. Cold Deserts as an example, we demonstrate how historic disturbance can inform seed production choices. We compared differences in fire frequency, area burned, and percent of area burned among different management areas, identifying regions of particular need. We also present a case study focused on fire occurrence within important wildlife habitat, specifically looking at the greater sage‐grouse priority areas for conservation (PACs) within the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion. We used geospatial seed transfer zones as our focal management areas. We broadly considered generalized provisional seed transfer zones, created using climate and stratified by ecoregion, but also present results for empirical seed transfer zones, based on species‐specific research, as part of our case study. Historic fire occurrence was effective for prioritizing seed transfer zones: 23 of 132 provisional seed transfer zones burned every year, and, within each ecoregion, two provisional seed transfer zones comprised ≧50% of the total area burned across all years. Fire occurrence within PACs largely reflected the seed transfer zone priorities found for the ecoregion as a whole. Our results demonstrate that historic disturbance can be used to identify regions that encounter regular or large disturbance. This information can then be used to guide seed production, purchase, and storage, create more certainty for growers and managers, and ultimately increase restoration success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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