A study was made to determine some effects of competition for water on buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.). The primary objective of the investigation was to determine if effects of competition on buffalo grass, as determined in a...
This study was an attempt to determine soil and vegetative differences in pastures on upland and slope sites caused by different utilization rates in the past year. Soil and vegetative differences were determined with reference to the following...
A study was made to determine the average monthly and seasonally yields of seven native grasses as they grew in pure stands in an ungrazed mixed prairie near Hays, Kansas. The study was conducted for two growing seasons (1952-1953) on the upland,...
A portion of the mixed prairie was studied in an attempt to measure the effects of Japanese brome on production of native perennial grass. Vegetation was analyzed by paired foot-square quadrats. Japanese brome was removed from treated plots and...
Vegetation of Pool 3, Cheyenne Bottoms Waterfowl Management Area, was studied from March 15 to September 15, 1969. The objectives of the study were (1) to describe the vegetation in delineated plant communities, (2) to compile a species list for...
Japanese brome (Bromus japonicas) is common, cool-season, introduced annual on native rangelands in western Kansas. It is usually abundant in valleys, gully basins, and on flat locations; but rare on microridges and tops of the shallow limy range...
The soils under four small plant communities were studied to determine the cause of vegetation heterogeneity within a designed Buchloe-Bouteloua community. Sixteen relicate stands, four each of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), western wheatgrass...
The introduced shrub Tamarix ramosissima Lebed. invades riparian zones, but
loses competitiveness under flooding. This was tested in Tamarix ramosissima by
examining responses to flooding by soil type in a greenhouse setting. A field study
examined...
An ordination of stands of remnant vegetation according to soil similarities shows that water-retaining capacity and organic matter vary directly while available nutrients generally vary inversely with rock content.
The composition of dry stands...
A two-year project was initiated in 1984 to determine the distribution of Erioneuron pilosum (Buckl.) Nash (Gramineae) in Ellis County and other parts of Kansas; to describe habitat characteristics associated with the distribution of this grass;...
A study of the factors of climate and their relation to wheat and short grass yields was conducted at Hays, Kansas. Statistical correlations were made between the elements of the climate and wheat and short grass yields, also correlations between...
Herbage dynamics of three plant communities were estimated from June, 1971, to May, 1972, on a Mixed Prairie grassland in Trego County, Kansas. Specific functional attributes estimated were: (1) net primary production, (2) productivity rates, and...
A study was made to determine the effects of two soil moisture levels, field capacity and the permanent wilting percentage, on the total sugar content of the foliage of blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis), western wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii), and...
I tested four abiotic environmental factors (soil surface temperature, light, soil moisture, and soil particle size) on the habitat selection of antlion larvae (Myrmeleon immaculatus DeGeer: Myrmeleontidae). 101 larvae were maintained and tested...
A survey of the vascular plants at Lake Scott State Park, Scott County, Kansas, was conducted from 1990-92. Specimens were collected and field notes, soil maps, aerial photos, and topographic position were collated to delineate plant communities...
A playa wetland’s ability to retain moisture and water has the greatest influence on the ecological and hydrological functionality of the playa. In this project, Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite imagery was analyzed to determine whether it could be used...
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas....
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Radon is a naturally occurring inert gas produced by the radioactive decay of uranium. Uranium is found in nearly all types of rocks and sediments. Radon-222 (Rn222), the most common isotope of radon, has a half-life of four days. The health risk...
A study of burned and unburned portions of grazed and ungrazed mixed prairie revealed a significant (p<. 01) reduction in standing crop of grass on the ungrazed treatments whereas the reduction on the grazed treatments was not significant....
The purpose of this report…was to study the development of several species of perennial grasses in the mixed prairie of west-central Kansas from near the beginning of the grazing season until the grasses had reached maturity.
The study area, having a total of 434 acres, was placed in the "Soil Bank" in 1958.
A sorghum cover crop was seeded in spring of 1959 and the area was seeded to grass on November 25, 1959.
Rate and mixture of seeded grasses were as follows: three...
Salt Cedar (Tamarix gallica L.) is a phreatophyte which creates a mamor water conservation problem in the Southwest. This study, which is a portion of a study conducted by Fort Hays Kansas State College for the Bureau of Reclamation, was designed...
The purpose of this study was to inventory and analyze the compositional structure of the vegetation and also to attempt to discern causal environmental factors influencing species distributions. The present research was conducted in the loessial...
The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the distribution and vegetative composition of remnant grasslands on shale-limestone parent materials of the Central Kansas Rolling Plains Region in Kansas. The floristic composition of each stand...
The purpose of this study was to delineate communities cartographically within a 176 acre prairie in Trego County, Kansas. The communities were then characterized as to vegetational structure, underlying soils, and topographic position. An attempt...
The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the wilting coefficient, water infiltration and textural analysis of soils on clay upland, lowland, loamy upland, limy upland and break sites soils. The Briggs and Shantz (1912) method was used...
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