Effects of seedbed preparation, irrigation and water harvesting on seedling emergence at the Nevada Test Site
Winkel VK, Ostler WK, Gabbert WD, Lyon GE. 1995. Effects of seedbed preparation, irrigation and water harvesting on seedling emergence at the Nevada Test Site. Pages 135-141. In Roundy BA, McArthur ED, Haley JS, Mann DK (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
Study to determine adaptable plant species, methods to prepare seedbeds for direct seeding and water harvesting, and proper irrigation rates for revegetation at the Nevada Test Site where plutonium contamination is present in the upper 10 cm of topsoil. In a year of above-average precipitation, irrigation did not generally aid germination and emergence of seeded species and only slightly increased densities of species from the native seedbank.
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- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Winkel, Von; Ostler, W.; Gabbert, Warren; Lyon, Glen
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- DEVA
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Abundance (Biodiversity), Distribution (Biodiversity), Great Basin Desert, irrigation treatment, Land imprinting, Mojave Desert, nuclear testing, pitting, plutonium, Presence (Biodiversity), Revegetation, seedbed modification, straw mulching, Taxa Links To Datasets, Taxa Links To References