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Plant Community Response To Disturbances In Nebraska Sandhills Upland Prairie, Josiah D. Dallmann
Plant Community Response To Disturbances In Nebraska Sandhills Upland Prairie, Josiah D. Dallmann
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Historically, disturbances shaped prairie ecosystems both directly through events like fire and soil moving by animals, as well as indirectly through dynamic rainfall patterns and periodic flux in seed availabilities. We hypothesized that the implementation of several distinct disturbance events in Nebraska Sandhills upland prairie would have measurable effects on plant community composition. We implemented mid-spring fire, soil disturbance in the form of disking, seed addition of native forbs on disked plots, as well as early summer supplemental watering (to mimic minor rainfall events during abnormally dry periods) during 2016 and 2017. Plant community response during the first and second …