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Seed banks in desert grasslands and implications for management with an application to education and outreach.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Seed banks in desert grasslands and implications for management with an application to education and outreach./
Author:	Ortiz-Barney, Elena.
Description:	108 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: B, page: 0679.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02B.
Subject:	Biology, Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3166151
ISBN:	9780542014581

Seed banks in desert grasslands and implications for management with an application to education and outreach.
Ortiz-Barney, Elena.

Seed banks in desert grasslands and implications for management with an application to education and outreach. - 108 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: B, page: 0679.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2005.

Large areas of desert grasslands in the southwestern United States have been converted to shrublands through mismanagement. Land managers are interested in the potential for restoring these areas to grasslands. One possible source of new individuals of desirable grasses is the soil seed bank. This study was designed to investigate the quantity and spatial distribution of seeds in the soil seed bank and to estimate the possible effects of fire on the seed bank. To investigate the seed bank, soil samples were collected from sites with different vegetative cover representing a range of grassland conditions. At each site samples were collected from 3 microsites (under grasses, under shrubs, and interspaces) and separated into 3 depths (litter, 0--2 cm and 2--5 cm). Samples were grown in a growth chamber and plants were identified after emergence and flowering. To investigate the effects of prescribed burns on the seed bank, soil and surface temperatures during burns were measured at each microsite. Also, the heat tolerance of seeds of 8 species of perennial grasses was assessed by quantifying germination rates across a temperature gradient.

ISBN: 9780542014581Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017726
Biology, Ecology.

Seed banks in desert grasslands and implications for management with an application to education and outreach.
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520 $a As an application of this work to education and outreach, a lesson plan on teaching plant community succession concepts is included. The lesson consists of a board game in which each student plays the role of an imaginary plant species. They explore the dynamics of the imaginary plant community as the species respond to disturbance events and to each other. Also included are the results of an evaluation on the effectiveness of the game as a teaching tool.
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