Fire in North American Wetland Ecosystems and Fire-Wildlife Relations: An Annotated Bibliography

7. Anderson, P. B., and R. Best. 1982. Fire in Okefenokee Swamp: successional 
        response of a young cypress community. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 63:205. 
        (Abstract only)

Periodic fires are a major mechanism influencing long-term dynamics of plant community succession in Okefenokee Swamp. After a 1981 fire in a young pondcypress wetland, three species (redroot and two sphagnum peat mosses) dominated recovery in the herbaceous layer. Most shrub stems in the burned area died; regrowth and recovery were limited to less severely burned portions. A significant number of trees survived, recovering through stump resprout or resprouting from the primary bole. [From authors' abstract]

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