Title:

Vegetation structure and composition in the Shoshone Mountains and Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges, Nevada (3rd Edition)

Author(s):

Fleishman, Erica

Publication Year:

2025

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Fleishman, Erica. 2025. Vegetation structure and composition in the Shoshone Mountains and Toiyabe, Toquima and Monitor ranges, Nevada. 3rd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0007-3

Abstract:

These data document vegetation structure (trees, shrubs, and ground cover), composition of trees and shrubs (in most cases, ground cover is differentiated by functional group but not by species), and presence or absence of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in canyons throughout four mountain ranges in the central Great Basin (Lander, Nye, and Eureka counties, Nevada): the Shoshone Mountains, Toiyabe Range, Toquima Range, and Monitor Range. Vegetation data were collected between 2002 and 2013 and in 2023 or 2024 at locations where annual point-counts of breeding birds were conducted or at the ends of 100-meter transects along which we searched for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) scats. Data on presence or absence of cheatgrass were gathered annually from 2006 through 2014. We measured vegetation structure and composition at the majority of locations in at least three years. The year in which vegetation structure and composition first was measured at a given location varied; vegetation structure and composition was remeasured at virtually all locations in 2013 and either 2023 or 2024. Vegetation structure and composition generally was measured more frequently at locations that were treated with prescribed fire or wildfire, or that served as controls for studies on responses of plants and animals to fire, than at other locations.

Keywords:

biota; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Animal ecology; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Prescribed fire; Forest & Plant Health; Botany; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Wildlife (or Fauna); Birds; Habitat management; vegetation; plants; trees; shrubs; grasses; forbs; riparian; upland; wildfire; time series; breeding birds; Greater Sage-Grouse; Centrocercus urophasianus; land cover; JFSP; Joint Fire Science Program; SERDP; Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program; central Nevada; Nevada; Great Basin; Shoshone Mountains; Toiyabe Range; Toquima Range; Monitor Range; Lander County; Nye County; Eureka County

Related publications:

• Fleishman, Erica. 2013. Vegetation structure and composition in the Shoshone Mountains and Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges, Nevada. 1st Edition. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0007
• Fleishman, Erica. 2015. Vegetation structure and composition in the Shoshone Mountains and Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges, Nevada. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0007-2
• Fleishman, Erica. 2019. Detections of breeding birds in the Shoshone, Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges, Nevada. 4th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 28 February 2025. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2011-0002-4
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