FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Tortula ruralis | Twisted Moss 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Rangeland fires can severely damage all components of soil crusts,
including T. ruralis [22].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Information on the response of T. ruralis to fire is sparse.  One study
in Scotland reported that T. ruralis was present in burned heaths within
the first few years following fire [20].

Following a 1975 fire in a shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia)-black
greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) community in Camp Floyd State Park,
Utah, an unnamed Tortula species was absent from burned sites for at
least 7 years.  The species had an average cover in unburned controls of
7.2 and 6.1 percent in 1980 and 1982, respectively [23].



DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Tortula ruralis | Twisted Moss