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Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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Description
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Submodel
Mechanism
Excessive defoliation (i.e., areas of heavy animal concentration,) will convert the plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Cropped go-back land with continuous grazing will convert this plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Mechanism
Excessive defoliation (i.e., areas of heavy animal concentration,) will convert the plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Cropped go-back land with continuous grazing will convert this plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Mechanism
Excessive defoliation (i.e., areas of heavy animal concentration,) will convert the plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Cropped go-back land with continuous grazing will convert this plant community to the Annual/Pioneer Perennial Plant Community or Active Blowout.
Mechanism
Removal of disturbance followed by long-term prescribed grazing, including adequate rest periods, will move this community through the successional stages, and may eventually lead to the Prairie Sandreed/Needleandthread/Sand Bluestem or associated successional plant communities assuming an adequate seed/vegetative source exists. This process will likely take a long period of time (25+ years).
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