Cover variables included percent tree cover (cumulative percent tree cover derived from line intercept) and percent cover of Buffaloberry.
016) predicted deer feeding and moving locations but not bedding locations, while Buffaloberry (Z = 3.
Sand dunes: At Ridges Sanctuary, average amino sugar N concentration of soil beneath speckled alder was greater than both the adjacent and Canada buffaloberry soil averages for amino sugar N concentrations (Table 2).
A possible explanation for this is that buffaloberry shrubs were small (< 2m in height) relative to alder trees at the same location and occurred on wind-exposed, dry dune ridge tops and upper slopes rather than on moister lower slopes and swales where alder occurred.
mean number of seeds/fruit x number of whole fruits) was 416 seeds in the buffaloberry trials, 450 seeds in the serviceberry trials, and 1840 seeds in the huckleberry trials (Fig.
Whole-fruit trials had the lowest germination of all treatments with no germination in the whole buffaloberry and serviceberry treatments and two germination events (0.
Native species include blueberry, chokecherry,
buffaloberry, gooseberry, raspberry, saskatoon, pincherry, cranberry, and plum.
Native species included green ash, American elm (Ulmus americana), boxelder (Acer negundo) and
buffaloberry (Sheperdia angustifolia).
We continue on the trail, as Davies points out
buffaloberry getting ready to bloom and clumps of fragile cryptobiotic soil, a building block for desert plants.
Birch Samaras 33 Betula glandulosa Dwarf birch Samaras 32 Shepherdia canadensis
Buffaloberry Achenes 1 Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnick Seeds 9.
And they had to be relatively easy to care for as well as attractive, a quality that eliminated such otherwise drought-resistant plants as the scraggly
buffaloberry shrub and the messy and bug-infested boxelder tree.
