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

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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