Competitive Response to Moisture Stress of a Winter Annual of the Sonoran Desert

1966 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel G. Klikoff
Keyword(s):  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Moisture Stress ◽  
Competitive Response ◽  
Winter Annual

scholarly journals Water and nitrogen shape winter annual plant diversity and community composition in near‐urban Sonoran Desert preserves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Wheeler ◽  
Scott L. Collins ◽  
Nancy B. Grimm ◽  
Elizabeth M. Cook ◽  
Christopher Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Composition ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Annual Plant ◽  
Winter Annual

Sustainable grazing systems for the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. 1. Agronomic implications of vegetation - environment associations within a naturalised temperate perennial grassland

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 439 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. McG. King ◽  
P. M. Dowling ◽  
D. L. Michalk ◽  
D. R. Kemp ◽  
G. D. Millar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perennial Grass ◽  
Acid Soils ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Trifolium Subterraneum ◽  
Moisture Stress ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Perennial Grasses ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Winter Annual

Temperate perennial grass-based pastures dominate the high rainfall zone of south-eastern Australia and support a major livestock production industry. This area has experienced a recent change in overall pasture condition, however, typified by a reduction in the abundance of perennial grasses and an increasingly prominent winter-annual grass weed component. Improving the condition and productivity of these pastures can be achieved by improved management but this requires better knowledge of the interactions between management options and pasture species composition and of the interaction between pasture vegetation and the complex effects of a heterogeneous landscape. This paper reports the results of an intensive survey of a 60-ha paddock that was designed to identify the species present, determine their patterns of distribution and examine the relationships between pasture vegetation and the environment. The survey of species present in late summer was supplemented by the identification of seedlings that later emerged from extracted soil cores and by soil physical and chemical analyses. Data were analysed using ordination and interpreted with GIS software so that topographic features could be considered. The most frequently identified taxa were Hypochaeris radicata, Austrodanthonia spp. and Bothriochloa spp. (in late summer) and Vulpia spp., Bromus molliformis and Trifolium subterraneum (winter-annual species). Austrodanthonia spp. were commonly found on the drier ridges and more acid soils with lower phosphate levels. These were also the areas dominated in spring by Vulpia spp. and were generally lower in plant species richness overall. The most species-rich areas occurred downslope where soil fertility was higher and less moisture stress was presumably experienced. The measured environmental factors explained a substantial proportion of the variation in the vegetation dataset, which underlined the importance of considering landscape effects in the management of typical tablelands pastures.

scholarly journals Frequency-dependent seed predation by rodents on Sonoran Desert winter annual plants

Ecology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Horst ◽  
D. Lawrence Venable
Keyword(s):  
Seed Predation ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Annual Plants ◽  
Frequency Dependent ◽  
Winter Annual

Water-use efficiency and relative growth rate mediate competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annual plants

2013 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. 2009-2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Gremer ◽  
Sarah Kimball ◽  
Katie R. Keck ◽  
Travis E. Huxman ◽  
Amy L. Angert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Water Use Efficiency ◽  
Relative Growth Rate ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Competitive Interactions ◽  
Annual Plants ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Winter Annual

Moisture Stress Effects on Biomass Partitioning in Two Sonoran Desert Annuals

1982 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan R. Szarek ◽  
Stanley D. Smith ◽  
Randy D. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Moisture Stress ◽  
Biomass Partitioning ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
Desert Annuals

Carbohydrate Cycle of Plantago insularis var. Fastigiata, a Winter Annual from the Sonoran Desert

1974 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Dina ◽  
Lionel G. Klikoff
Keyword(s):  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Winter Annual

scholarly journals High water-use efficiency and growth contribute to success of non-native Erodium cicutarium in a Sonoran Desert winter annual community

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. cou006-cou006 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kimball ◽  
J. R. Gremer ◽  
G. A. Barron-Gafford ◽  
A. L. Angert ◽  
T. E. Huxman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Use Efficiency ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
High Water ◽  
Erodium Cicutarium ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Winter Annual

Quantifying the value proposition for white clover persistence on a New Zealand summer-dry hill-country farm

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
Mike B. Dodd ◽  
Katherine N. Tozer ◽  
Iris Vogeler ◽  
Rose Greenfield ◽  
David R. Stevens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Clover ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Moisture Stress ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The North ◽  
Farm System

The improvement in forage quality and quantity of summer-dry hill country pasture resulting from the introduction of clover is well recognised. However, ensuring the persistence of the commonly availablecultivars is challenging, in the face of seasonal moisture stress, intensive grazing, competition from established well-adapted pasture species, low soil fertility and low soil pH – conditions typical of the East Coast of the North Island. Here we quantify the value proposition associated with the introduction of white clover into a case study on a Gisborne sheep and beef farm, using a six-step process. A topographically explicit approach is taken, using an understanding of the underlying spatial variability, based on a combination of soil and pasture measurements, APSIM simulation modelling of pasture growth and farm system modelling of enterprise performance. We show that from a baseline of a typical low-fertility, diverse species hill country pasture, white clover introduction can increase spring and summer forage consumption by 17%, enabling inclusion of an additional 6-month bull finishing enterprise generating a 32% greater carcass weight production and leading to a 49% improvement in farm system EBIT. This represents a positive net present value of over $360,000 for the original investment in white clover establishment into existing pastures.

EVALUATION OF CLOVERS ON SANDY COASTAL SOIL

1977 ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.M. Williams ◽  
L.B. Anderson ◽  
B.M. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Sandy Soil ◽  
White Clover ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Red Clover ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Commercial Cultivars ◽  
Mediterranean Origin ◽  
Winter Annual

In evaluations of clover performances on summer-dry Himatangi sandy soil, it was found that none could match lucerne over summer. Emphasis was therefore placed on production in autumn-winter- early spring when lucerne growth was slow. Evaluations of some winter annual clover species suggested that Trifolium spumosum, T. pallidum, T. resupinatum, and T. vesiculosum would justify further investigation, along with T. subterraneum which is already used in pastures on this soil type. Among the perennial clover species, Kenya white clover (7'. semipilosum) showed outstanding recovery from drought and was the only species to produce significantly in autumn. However, it failed to grow in winter-early spring. Within red clover, materials of New Zealand x Moroccan origin substantially outproduced the commercial cultivars. Within white clover, material from Israel, Italy and Lebanon, as well as progeny of a selected New Zealand plant, showed more rapid recovery from drought stress and subsequently better winter growth than New Zealand commercial material ('Grasslands Huia'). The wider use of plant material of Mediterranean origin and of plants collected in New Zealand dryland pastures is advocated in development of clover cultivars for New Zealand dryland situations.

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