Seed bank response to prescribed fire in the central Appalachians /
Thomas M. Schuler [and others].

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Related Names

Schuler, Thomas M.
United States. Forest Service.

Language(s)

English

Published

Newtown Square, PA : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, [2010]

Subjects

Trees > Trees / Effect of fires on.
Trees > Trees / Seeds.
Soil seed banks > Soil seed banks / Appalachian Region.
Prescribed burning > Prescribed burning / Appalachian Region.

Summary

Pre- and post-treatment seed-bank characteristics of woody species were compared after two prescribed fires in a mesic mixed-oak forest in the central Appalachians. Nineteen woody species were identified from soil samples. Mean species richness declined but evenness did not after prescribed burning. The seed bank was dominated by black birch, yellow-poplar, blackberry, grapevine and Hercules club before burning. Following burning, the median density of seed bank propagules declined by 45 percent. Black birch, yellow-poplar, and grapevine declined by 69, 56, and 40 percent, respectively. The results illustrate the importance of the seed bank as a robust source of non-oak regeneration in mixed-oak forests and of the potential effect of fire altering it.

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Format not distributed to depository libraries.
"February 2010"--P. [2] of cover.
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9 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

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