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Fire management in the slash pine ecosystem
| Author: |
Wade, D.D. |
| Date: |
1983 |
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In: Stone, E.L., ed. The managed slash pine ecosystem: Proceedings of a symposium. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida |
| Abstract: |
Evidence of a long history of recurrent fire is the vegetation itself. Most of the species endemic to the pine forests of this region are tolerant of fire, and many actually depend upon it for their existence--an evolutionary process that takes considerable time to develop. Without continued disturbance, the majority of these seral species will dominate a particular vegetative strata for a single generation, then rapidly decrease in importance and disappear from the community. This may take only a year or two for many of the herbaceous species or several hundred years in the case of overstory trees such as
pine or cypress. |
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