Fire and Ice: North Meets South: Klemme

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Klemme

Klemme Range Research Station in Western Oklahoma where my good friend and fellow grad student Emily Hiatt is doing her Master's research on patch burning.
http://www.oaes.okstate.edu/field-and-research-service-unit/marvin-klemme-range-research-station-1

Out on the range with Sam, Emily and Isis.

Incredible cacti!

Bouteloua sp. - Grama grass

Canadian wildrye - Elymus canadensis

Anemone

One of the larger lakes at Klemme - strong contrast of the red dirt and the redcedar.

Emily Hiatt, Graduate Research Assistant and MS student also working with Sam.

Transition zone between riparian and mixed grass prairie.

Emily and Sam discussing sampling methods and experimental design.

Nightshade!!!!!

Isis in the tallgrass

Windpower down here as well.

Sam, Emily and I out at Klemme.

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http://fireecology.okstate.edu/patch_burning__pyricherbivory.html

Pyric herbivory: grazing driven by fire (Fuhlendorf, Engle, Kerby and Hamilton - 2009)

"A new focus on the ecological interaction of fire and grazing in which each disturbance is spatially and temporally dependent on the other and results in a landscape where disturbance is best described as a shifting mosaic (a landscape with patches that vary with time since disturbance) that is critical to ecological structure and function of many ecosystems...the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing, where positive and negative feedbacks promote a shifting pattern of disturbance across the landscape... For ecosystems across the globe with a long history of fire and grazing, pyric herbivory with any grazing herbivore is likely more effective at restoring evolutionary disturbance patterns than a focus on restoring any large vertebrate while ignoring the interaction with fire and other disturbances..."