Pre and post treatment (2016-2021) vegetation cover for three southwest Idaho sites treated with pre-emergent herbicides after fire
Description
Selective herbicide application is a common restoration strategy to control exotic invaders that interfere with native plant recovery after wildfire. Whether spraying with preemergent or bioherbicides releases native plants from competition with exotics (“spray-and-release” strategy) and can make communities resistant to re-invasion by exotic annual grasses (e.g., cheatgrass, medusahead), without risks to non-target native plants or secondary invasion, is a major question for land managers of semiarid plant communities.
We applied chemical herbicides (imazapic, rimsulfuron) and weed-suppressive bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens strains MB906 and D7) to three different SW Idaho sagebrush-steppe communities after fire. We measured plant cover prior to burning and for four years after treatments.
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.620adc28d34ec05caca60eb1.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P97IZJXL |
Tags
- environment
- pseudomonas-fluorescens
- bioremediation
- sagebrush-steppe
- ecosystem-resilience
- resistance-and-resilience
- biota
- usgs-620adc28d34ec05caca60eb1
- rimsulfuron
- imazapic
- fires
- cheatgrass
- d7
- weed-suppressive-bacteria
- natural-resource-management
- vegetation
- invasive-species
- restoration
- mb906
- shrubland-ecosystems
- native-species