Assessing Postfire Vegetative Changes and Implications for Management in a Northeast Florida Coastal Strand Ecosystem
| Autor: | Barbara I. Blonder, John M. Wooldridge, Mary B. Garrard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Estuary Plant Science Ecological succession 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Geography Disturbance (ecology) Threatened species Ecosystem Significant risk Fire history geographic locations 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Castanea. 83:104 |
| ISSN: | 0008-7475 |
| DOI: | 10.2179/17-127 |
| Popis: | Coastal ecosystems face numerous well-documented threats that pose significant risk of reduction in the ability of these ecosystems to persevere. Although coastal disturbance processes related to maritime exposure are relatively well known, the past and potential impacts of fire in these ecosystems have not been well studied. Because fire plays such an important role in so many other southeastern ecosystems, and because the areal extent of coastal strand ecosystems has been much reduced, it is important to resolve the role of fire for management of these threatened communities. In 2014, prescribed fire management was undertaken in a protected and relatively intact, 55-ha remnant section of coastal strand in the Guana Tolomato National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR) adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean in northeast Florida, USA. The fire history for this area was unknown. We compared burned samples to unburned samples to test whether there were differences in patterns of vegetative response to th... |
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