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Green deserts and dead gardens

Description of botanical collecting trip to south Florida in 1921.
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Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, deserts, distribution, droughts, everglades, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire resistant plants, Florida, hardwood hammocks, histories, humus, lakes, land management, marshlands, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), Nyssa biflora, organic soils, pine forests, Pinus, plant communities, prairies, Quercus nigra, Quercus virginiana, rivers, Sabal palmetto, sand dunes, scrub, soil moisture, soil nutrients, south Florida, species diversity (plants), succession, Taxodium distichum, vegetation surveys, xeric soils

Management of prescribed burns in fen and sedge meadow wetlands

Wetlands dominated by flora of the Gramineae and Cyperaceae, such as fens and sedge meadows, have been shown to be fire dependent or fire related in their natural history as well as their community composition and structure. Prescribed burning is therefore a useful and often…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Alnus rugosa, Betula sandbergii, bogs, burning intervals, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex stricta, community ecology, conservation, Cornus stolonifera, Cyperaceae, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Gramineae, grasslike plants, ground cover, histories, humidity, ignition, introduced species, invasive species, land management, Larix laricina, moisture, mortality, natural areas management, openings, overstory, plant communities, public information, resprouting, Salix, season of fire, shrubs, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, water, wetlands, wildlife refuges, wind, Wisconsin, woody plants