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42. Christensen, N. L., R. B. Burchell, A. Liggett, and E. L. Simms. 1981. The
structure and development of pocosin vegetation. Pages 43-61 in C. J.
Richardson, ed. Pocosin wetlands: an integrated analysis of coastal
plain freshwater bogs in North Carolina. Proceedings of a conference
held 3-4 January 1980, at the Duke University Marine Laboratory,
Beaufort, NC, sponsored by Integrated Case Studies Program in Natural
Resource Analysis of the Duke University School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies and others.
Fire has been a prominent force in the evolution of most pocosin plants as evidenced by the production of serotinous cones by pond pine and the capacity to sprout from subterranean organs found in nearly all pocosin plants. Vegetational patterns within and among pocosins are discussed and fire effects on vegetation and environment are described. [From authors' abstract]
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