Changes in understory vegetation following prescribed fire in maritime pine forests☆
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2018, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :However, heat-stimulated germination of non-sprouters can lead to their expansion, e.g. Cistus spp. in P. pinea and P. halepensis stands (Legrand, 1992, 1993; Bertrand et al., 1991); other species germination has been found to be enhanced by PUB, namely Erica arborea (Catalanotti et al., 2010) and Teline microphylla (Arévalo et al., 2014b). Conversely, obligate seeders without such adaptation recover slowly, e.g. Calluna vulgaris and Erica umbellata in P. pinaster stands (Rego, 1986; Rego et al., 1991). Disturbance to floristic composition is in general short-lived (Gillon et al., 1987; Rego et al., 1991; Arévalo et al., 2014a, 2014b) or non-existent (Esposito et al., 2014; Fuentes et al., 2018).
Short-term effects of spring prescribed burning on the understory vegetation of a Pinus halepensis forest in Northeastern Spain
2018, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :No relevant changes were observed in the floristic composition, as shown by the high value of the Sørensen's Index. This is in accordance with other studies documenting that the post-fire succession model in Mediterranean forest understories is mostly determined by the pre-fire plant community composition (Rego et al., 1991; Trabaud, 1994; Kazanis and Arianoutsou, 1996). In our case, all the species dominating the understory before the burning have co-evolved with fires developing either a high post-fire resprouting ability, or a fire-stimulated germination (Papió, 1994; Keeley et al., 2006), which generally guarantees their successful recruitment after a fire.
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Research was partly funded by the US Agency for International Development and the Direccao Geral dos Servicos Florestais. University of Idaho, Forest, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station Contribution No. 520.