Reduction of Un-Grazed Mixed Prairie to Short Grass as a Result of Drought and Dust

Authors

F. W. Albertson, Fort Hays, Kansas State College
J. E. Weaver, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

10-1946

Comments

Published in Ecological Monographs, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 1946), pp. 449-463. Copyright 1946 Ecological Society of America. Used by permission.

Abstract

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Soil and Soil Moisture
Vegetation
Early Results Of Drought
Alternating Moist Periods And Drought (1935-1939)
Period Of Most Critical Drought
Beginning of Dominance of Short Grasses
Spreading Of Short Grasses (1941)
Continued Spreading of Short Grasses and Consolidation of the Cover
The Record From Quadrats
Literature Cited