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

94. Gunderson, L. H. 1984. Regeneration of cypress in logged and burned stands 
         at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida. Pages 349-357 in K. C. Ewel and 
         H. T. Odum, eds. Cypress swamps. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.

Cypress stands that were logged (1954), burned (1962), and logged and burned (1954, 1962) were evaluated in 1975-1979. Cypress was present and regenerating in a burned area and a logged area, but not in a logged and burned site. Coastal plain willow was dominant and regenerating on burned sites; various hardwoods were present and regenerating on the logged sites. The lack of seed sources, immobility of cypress seed, low seed viability, failure to achieve moisture requirements, as well as the existing vegetation, seemed to retard cypress regeneration. Successional schemes incorporating logging and burning are presented for south Florida cypress swamps. [From author's abstract]

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