Annotated Bibliography of Fire Literature

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

141. Rains, J.R., C.E. Owensby, and K.E. Kemp. 1975. Effects of nitrogen fertilization, burning, and grazing on reserve constituents of big bluestem. J Range Manage 28:358-362.

Effects of burning, grazing, and fertilization (0, 40, and 80 lb N/acre) on total nonstructural carbohydrate and nitrogen reserves of big bluestem in the Kansas Flint Hills. Grazed native tallgrass range was burned in spring 1971 and fertilized in 1972; analyses were conducted biweekly during the 1972 growing season and monthly during the 1973 dormant season.

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