FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Pleurozium schreberi | Schreber's Moss 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Schreber's moss is generally killed by fire because it often lacks
connection with the substrate [31,32].  Some moss species can survive on
burned sites as fragments in the soil [1].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 



PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Schreber's moss recovery after fire is very slow [32,34].  It is not
until favorable edaphic conditions and a closed or nearly closed canopy
is established that Schreber's moss can spread and form a continuous
moss cover.  It therefore often takes several decades before Schreber's
moss will recover to preburn densities [32].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
Twenty-four years after a fire in a northern Swedish forest, Schreber's
moss was still very rare in the severely burned areas [32].  The percent
cover values of Schreber's moss in a jack pine (Pinus banksiana)-black
spruce forest in northeastern Minnesota at different intervals after
fire were as follows [1]:
                        Years after fire
               	1-4     5    10   15   20   30   50   80
% cover          0      1     2    3    3    3    9    5


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Pleurozium schreberi | Schreber's Moss