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Selected fire regimes: Historical characteristics: Southeast
| Author: |
Pyne, S.J.; Andrews, P.L., Laven, R.D. |
| Date: |
1996 |
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In: Introduction to wildland fire. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| Abstract: |
Geographically the Southeast spans three gross terranes: the coastal plains, the Piedmont, and the southern Appalachians. Their biota are complex and plastic, ready to assume many forms as a function of fire abundance and frequency. Change can be rapid. Lightning fires are prevalent in certain seasons, notably the summer, and at select places, particularly Florida. Some sites probably burned regularly; others, like swamps or deciduous forests, only after windstorms or drought first prepared them. Adaptations to fire are many, and sometimes spectacular-the celebrated case of the longleaf pine, which is susceptible to blue spot disease if it does not burn as a seedling, is a classic example. |
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