A four year study of the effect of fire on the vegetation in two fields, Saratoga National Historical Park (SNHP), New York
Stalter R and Schaberl J. 1993. A four year study of the effect of fire on the vegetation in two fields, Saratoga National Historical Park (SNHP), New York. Pages 80-83. In Proceedings of the Northeastern Weed Science Society
An experiment was designed to evaluate species composition on burned (experimental) and unburned portions of 2 fields, Freeman's Farm Overlook and The Great Redoubt, Saratoga National Historical Park, New York (SNHP). During the growing season of 1988, permanent line transects were established on both fields. Permanent quadrats (20x100cm) were established on the transects, and vegetation within these quadrats was sampled in July and August 1988. Frequency data for each species occurring in the quadrats were calculated. The burned fields were sampled in August, 1992, and the vegetation on burned sites was compared with that on the preburned (1988) data. Fire apparently had little influence on the total numbers of species in both fields. The total number of woody species on the Freeman Farm Field decreased from 9 to 4 and from 12 to 7 on the Great Redoubt Field. Thirty nine percent of the species in these fields are not native to the United States.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Stalter, R.; Schaberl, J.
- Units
- SARA
- Keywords
- Exotic Species, Fire Effects, Freeman's Farm Overlook Field, Great Redoubt Field, Plant Communities, Plant Studies, Revegetation, Woody Plants