Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Version of Record
Publication Date
2-2016
Abstract
On the Ground
- Maintaining cattle and prairie dogs on rangelands is important ecologically, economically, and culturally. However, competition between these species, both actual and perceived, has led to conflict.
- We explored the effects of short-term (2-year) cattle exclusion on plant communities both on and off prairie dog towns and among three common ecological sites.
- Plant communities were different between on-town and off-town plots and among ecological sites but were similar between cattle-excluded and nonexcluded plots.
- Plant community composition did not differ between rangeland targeted for moderate forage utilization and that in which cattle had been excluded for 2 years.
Publication Title
Rangelands
Volume
38
Issue
1
First Page
34
Last Page
37
Pages
4
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.rala.2015.11.004
Publisher
Elsevier
Rights
Copyright © the Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Field, Aaron; Sedivec, Kevin; Hendrickson, John; Johnson, Patricia; Geaumont, Benjamin; Xu, Lan; Gates, Roger N.; and Limb, Ryan, "Effects of Short-Term Cattle Exclusion on Plant Community Composition: Prairie Dog and Ecological Site Influences" (2016). Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications. 194.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nrm_pubs/194
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Comments
This work was published in Rangelands (2016) 38:1.34-37. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2015.11.004