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Figure 8 | Fire Ecology

Figure 8

From: Dormant-Season Fire Inhibits Sixweeks Fescue and Enhances Forage Production in Shortgrass Steppe

Figure 8

Contrasting vegetation response in the eleventh year (2016) of this study between the annually burned treatment (left) and an unburned portion of the study area (right). The green vegetation in the annually burned treatment is the dominant C4 shortgrass, blue grama. The amber vegetation on the right is the annual grass, sixweeks fescue, which is unpalatable to cattle and interferes with their consumption of C4 shortgrasses. The tall, light tan plants are the C3 perennial bunch-grass, bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elemoides [Raf] Swezey), which was unaffected by the burn treatments.

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