The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP)
Subtitle: a test of state-and-transition theory
By: [James McIver ... [et al.]]
Contributors: Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project; Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Series: General technical report RMRS -- GTR-237; General technical report RMRS -- GTR-237.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Fort Collins, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Control; Prescribed burning; Fire ecology; Sagebrush steppe ecology; Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project; Invasive plants; Restoration ecology
Description: The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) is a comprehensive, integrated, long-term study that evaluates the ecological effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments designed to reduce fuel and to restore sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities of the Great Basin and surrounding areas. SageSTEP has several features that make it ideal for testing hypotheses from state-and-transition theory: it is long-term, experimental, multisite, and multivariate, and treatments are applied across condition gradients, allowing for potential identification of biotic thresholds. The project will determine the conditions under which sagebrush steppe ecological communities recover on their own following fuel treatment versus the communities crossing ecological thresholds, which requires expensive active restoration.
Notes: "April 2010."

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