Comparative Effects of Fire on Trees in a Midwestern Savannah and an Adjacent Forest
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
- Vol. 110 (1) , 87-90
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2996523
Abstract
Trees in a savannah and adjacent closed forest in the Midwestern USA had a differential response to a prescribed burn. Forest trees suffered heavy mortality (47.6%) within 3 yr after the burn. Trees in the savannah suffered essentially no fire damage. Reduced availability of fuel is 1 factor considered to be of significance to survival of savannah trees.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Presettlement Vegetation of Two Prairie Peninsula CountiesBotanical Gazette, 1979
- Tropical Savanna Vegetation of the Llanos of ColombiaEcology, 1967