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Soils were mapped on the 22,533 ha Desert Experimental Range, Utah, to determine the kind, extent, and distribution of major soils and soil groups, the type of vegetation associated with each soil group, and the correlation between herbage production and soil groups. The results indicated that Desert Experimental Range soils are primarily Haplocalcids, Torriothents, and Torrifluvents. They occur within the Temperate Desert and Temperate Steppe climatic types. Annual herbage production averages 250 kg per ha per year. High production years yield twice the average, often with many annual herbs, while low production years yield less than half the average. Species composition differs greatly on dissimilar soils and over time, but total production is similar for Haplocalcids, Torriothents, and Torrifluvents.
The 53 papers in this proceedings include a section celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory (4 papers), three sections devoted to themes, genetics, and biodiversity (12 papers), disturbance ecology and biodiversity (14 papers), ecophysiology (13 papers), community ecology (9 papers), and field trip section (1 paper). The anniversary session papers emphasized the productivity and history of the Shrub Sciences Laboratory, 100 years of genetics, plant materials development for wildland shrub ecosystems, and current challenges in management and research in wildland shrub ecosystems. The papers in each of the thematic science sessions were centered on wildland shrub ecosystems. The field trip featured the genetics and ecology of chenopod shrublands of east-central Utah. The papers were presented at the 11th Wildland Shrub Symposium: Shrubland Ecosystem Genetics and Biodiversity held at the Brigham Young University Conference Center, Provo, UT, June 13-15, 2000.