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

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Schuler, Thomas M.

United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station

Series:

Research paper NRS ; 9.

Research paper NRS ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prescribed burning--Appalachian Region.

Prescribed burning.

Soil seed banks--Appalachian Region.

Soil seed banks.

Trees--Seeds.

Trees.

Trees--Effect of fires on.

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (9 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 9, 2010).

"February 2010"--Page 2 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-9).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Seed bank response to prescribed fire in the central Appalachians

OCLC:

655411416

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