Forest Structure Dynamics Following Wildfire and Prescribed Burning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Boerner RE. 1981. Forest Structure Dynamics Following Wildfire and Prescribed Burning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The American Midland Naturalist. 105(2):321-333
The New Jersey Pine Barrens mosaic is made up of species exhibiting numerous adaptations to wildfire, including the dominants Pinus rigida and several species Quercus. To evaluate community change and recovery from two disturbances intensities (wildfire and prescribed burning), a site unburned for 53 years, two sites burned by wildfire in 1977 and 1978 and two sites burned by prescription in 1977 and 1979 were examined for species composition, horizontal and vertical structure and biomass relations
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Boerner, Ralph
- Units
- PINE
- Keywords
- Ecology, Environmental Impact, Forest Communities, Prescribed Burning, Research Article, structure dynamics