Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs
Article Title
Abstract
Residual effects of sprinkle irrigation from 1968-1970 on populations of Mojave Desert shrub communities were observed in late 1974. The sprinkle-irrigated plots showed a residual increase in density of four species, but other species either failed to reproduce in significant numbers or lost all gains made during the years following treatment. The seven-year change for the irrigated plots was equivalent to a gain of 1178 perennial plants per ha, but the nonirrigated plots lost an average of 1050 plants per ha equivalent during the same period. The biomass gain after seven years was equivalent to 1000 kg/ha for irrigated plots and 310 for nonirrigated plots.
Recommended Citation
Hunter, R. B.; Romney, E. M.; Wallace, A.; and Kinnear, J. E.
(1980)
"Residual effects of supplemental moisture on the plant populations of plots in the northern Mojave Desert,"
Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs: Vol. 4, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbnm/vol4/iss1/3