Annotated Bibliography of Fire Literature

Relative to Northern Grasslands in South-Central Canada and North-Central United States

54. Dziadyk, B., and G.K. Clambey. 1980. Vegetation studies in the prairie-forest transition region. IV. Effects of burning on net production of a western Minnesota tallgrass prairie. Proc N Dakota Acad Sci 34:21.

Effects of a fall wildfire on basal cover, above-ground biomass, and root mass in six herbaceous plant communities of tallgrass prairie. Net production was reduced during the first postburn growing season, and this was attributed to a cool, wet spring coupled with fire damage to crowns of bunch grasses.

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