{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"submitter":["McGlinn DJ"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Patch-burn management approaches attempt to increase overall landscape biodiversity by creating a mosaic of habitats using a patchy application of fire and grazing. We tested two assumptions of the patch-burn approach, namely that: (1) fire and grazing drive spatial patch differentiation in community structure and (2) species composition of patches change through time in response to disturbance.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed species cover data on 100 m<sup>2</sup> square quadrats from 128 sites located on a 1 × 1 km UTM grid in the grassland habitats of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. A total of 20 of these sites were annually sampled for 12 years. We examined how strongly changes in species richness and species composition correlated with changes in management variables re"],"journal":["PeerJ"],"pagination":["e6738"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6503835"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Examining the assumptions of heterogeneity-based management for promoting plant diversity in a disturbance-prone ecosystem."],"pmcid":["PMC6503835"],"pubmed_authors":["Palmer MW","McGlinn DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Examining the assumptions of heterogeneity-based management for promoting plant diversity in a disturbance-prone ecosystem.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Patch-burn management approaches attempt to increase overall landscape biodiversity by creating a mosaic of habitats using a patchy application of fire and grazing. We tested two assumptions of the patch-burn approach, namely that: (1) fire and grazing drive spatial patch differentiation in community structure and (2) species composition of patches change through time in response to disturbance.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed species cover data on 100 m<sup>2</sup> square quadrats from 128 sites located on a 1 × 1 km UTM grid in the grassland habitats of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. A total of 20 of these sites were annually sampled for 12 years. We examined how strongly changes in species richness and species composition correlated with changes in management variables re","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019","modification":"2025-04-26T19:25:20.643Z","creation":"2019-06-06T23:28:19Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6503835","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31110916"],"doi":["10.7717/peerj.6738"]}}