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Long-Term Monitoring Research
Dr. Jim Peek, University of Idaho
Monitoring of nonforested plant communities from 1988 to present.
Dr. Jim Peek has conducted long term monitoring of nonforested plant communities from 1988 to the present. Permanent transects were established in bunchgrass, sagebrush, mountain mahogany, and ninebark vegetation. Each summer undergraduate students learn plant identification and field techniques using transects and plots to measure annual plant production. The Diamond Point Fire in 2000 burned all transect sites. Post fire vegetation production will be compared with the 13 years of pre fire data.
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