FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Fire generally kills aboveground portions of red baneberry.  The caudex
appears to survive many fires, although information on the effects of
differing fire severities is lacking.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
During a study of early postfire recovery using the same plots over
time, red baneberry sprouted, grew vigorously, and produced fruit the
first year after fire.  However, no seedlings were observed during the
next 5 years [14,42].  Permanent plots were used to follow recovery
after the Sundance fire in northern Idaho [73]; here seedlings of red
baneberry were found in the fifteenth postfire growing season [Peter
Stickney, pers. comm. 1990].  In British Columbia's subboreal spruce
zone, cover of red baneberry increased in first year plots following
either fire or mechanical site preparation [33].  Following clearcutting
and burning in north-central Idaho, red baneberry had higher cover
values in first and third year plots [85].  A northern Idaho study found
little difference between red baneberry cover on undisturbed sites,
piled and burned sites, and sites with single or multiple broadcast
burns [56].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry