Vegetational Changes on a Semidesert Grassland Range from 1858 to 1963
Buffington LC and Herbel CH. 1965. Vegetational Changes on a Semidesert Grassland Range from 1858 to 1963. Ecological Monographs. 35(2):139-164
General Land Office Survey notes made in 1858 for the 144,475 acres in the study area on the Jornada Experimental Range were analyzed and compared with vegetation maps on ocular reconnaissance range surveys for the years 1915, 1928, and 1963. Comparisons were also made among the reconnaissance surveys. Acreages covered by mesquite, creosotebush, and tarbush, and their various combinations, were studied on the basis of the soil types on which they occurred.
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- Journal Article
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- Buffington, Lee; Herbel, Carlton
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- Jornada Experimental Range (New Mexico), Map, Plant Studies, Soil Associations, Vegetation Change