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|a Fire Effects of Flowering and Fruiting Patterns of Understory Plants in Pinelands of Everglades National Park |h [electronic resource] |b Report SFR-83/04 |y English. |
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|a Homestead ; |a Florida : |b National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, |c 1983-08. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Studies of the phenologic patterns of flowering and fruiting form a component of
the knowledge about the reproductive strategies of individual plants and plant
assemblages. This information, when combined with seed dispersal mechanisms,
germination requirements, and other regeneration modes, can provide insight into
observed distributions of plant species.
Loope (1980) characterized flowering and fruiting activity in the pinelands of
Everglades National Park (EVER). He stated that some pineland species were
probably stimulated to flower and fruit by fire, but found no system level fire
effects. He also found that the number of species reproductively active remained
fairly constant throughout the year, a pattern not attributable to annual f luctuations
in climate.
This study was aimed primarily at evaluating post-fire flowering and fruiting
patterns of understory species in the pinelands of Everglades National Park.
Although Loope (1980) included some of the data in his analysis, this study added
another year of observation and a more intensive look at individual and group
patterns. Secondarily, this study attempted to correlate observed flowering and
fruiting patterns with annual climatic fluctuations. Documented fire effects on
reproductive activity can have direct implications to management strategies. If
certain species, or groups of species, can be shown to benefit or suffer from
certain prescribed fire treatments, then management actions can be modified to
select for or against these species or groups. For example, a reduction of
hardwood shrub species may be one management objective. If a certain fire regime
were to impair flowering or fruiting patterns, then this fire regime may be
implemented to help contain hardwood population expansion. Or, if a "window" of
low flowering or fruiting activity was found for the understory assemblege, then
burning prescriptions may be modified to take advantage of a "dormant1' period. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |c South Florida Natural Resource Center, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a South Florida Natural Resource Center. |
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|a SuDoc number: I 29.95: SFRC- 83/04 |
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|a Everglades National Park (Fla.). |
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|a South Florida Natural Resources Center/South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park. |
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|a Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades. |
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|a South Florida Collection. |
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|a Federal Documents Collection. |
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|a dpSobek |c Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI83256347/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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