TY - JOUR AU - Schuster, Joseph L. AB - Winter 1964 ROOT DEVELOPMENT AND GRAZING 63 --. 1958b. Summary and interpretation of under- Wiegert, R. G. 1962. The selection of an optimum ground development in natural grassland communi- quadrat size for sampling the standing crop of grasses ties. Ecol. Monographs 28: 55-78. and forbs. Ecology 43: 125-129. ROOT DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE PLANTS UNDER THREE GRAZING INTENSITIES JosEPH L. ScHUSTER Southern Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service Nacogdoches, Texas The purpose of this study was to determine the ( 1950) and Tomanek and Albertson ( 1957) found effects of various intensities of grazing upon roots that continued overgrazing not only reduces the and root systems of plants native to the ponderosa number, size, and extent of underground parts of pine zone of the Colorado Front Range. It was the individual plants, but also brings about changes designed to ascertain the root characteristics of in species composition, from tall grasses to short certain species of the plant community and any grass. changes in root distribution induced by 17 years of STUDY AREA moderate and heavy grazing by cattle. The cumu- The study area was a typical ponderosa pine- lative effects of such grazing are also illustrated. bunchgrass range located on TI - Root Development of Native Plants Under Three Grazing Intensities JF - Ecology DO - 10.2307/1937107 DA - 1964-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/root-development-of-native-plants-under-three-grazing-intensities-Gucgm0iswM SP - 63 EP - 70 VL - 45 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -