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

61. Dow, D. D., and A. L. Frick. 1987. Impact of coastal wetland loss and burning 
         on net above ground primary production at Grand Bayou, LA. Bull. Ecol. 
         Soc. Am. 68:294. (Abstract only)

The estimated annual net aboveground primary production loss of marsh macrophytes due to controlled burning between 1978 and 1985 was comparable to the annual loss in production accompanying land loss: 6 x 106 kg carbon/year. [From authors' abstract]

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