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

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Vegetation structure and composition in the Shoshone Mountains and Toiyabe, Toquima, and Monitor ranges, Nevada (3rd Edition)

Summary:  View help for Summary 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.

Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-2013-0007-3

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms biota; Ecology; Ecosystems; Environment; Animal ecology; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Prescribed fire; Forest & Plant Health; Botany; Inventory; Analysis; 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

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage California, Nevada

Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 6/1/2002 – 7/1/2024

Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) observational data

Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0007-3 Authors: Fleishman, Erica Publication year: 2025 (Downloaded 2026-05-30)