Effects of soil quality and depth on seed germination and sedling survival at the Nevada Test Site
Bloomquist KW and Lyon GE. 1995. Effects of soil quality and depth on seed germination and sedling survival at the Nevada Test Site. Pages 57-62. In Bloomquist KW and Lyon GE (ed): Proceedings: Wildland Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium. Las Vegas, NV. October 19-21, 1993. U.S. Department of Agriculture: Forest Service--Intermountain Research Station. Ogden, UT. General Technical Report INT-GTR-315
A study testing the effects of soil quality and depth on seedling emergence and survival using native topsoil and subsoil from a borrow pit. The subsoil had increasing densities from the deep soil depths to the shallow soil depths while the topsoil had increasing densities from the shallow soil depths to the deep soil depths.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Bloomquist, Kevin; Lyon, Glen
- Units
- DEVA
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Abundance (Biodiversity), Distribution (Biodiversity), Presence (Biodiversity), Reclamation, Revegetation, seedling density, seedling emergence, Taxa Links To Datasets, Taxa Links To References, topsoil, Yucca Mountain