• IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT
• DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT
• PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE
• DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE
• FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS

IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT:

Onespike oatgrass is probably top-killed by fire.

DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT:

PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE:

In the Gallatin National Forest of southwestern Montana, onespike oatgrass was a dominant species on a big sagebrush-grassland site prior to a spring prescribed fire. It increased in basal cover in the following summer [3,28].

Within a Sandberg bluegrass-onespike oatgrass plant association on the Wallowa Whitman National Forest, onespike oatgrass declined in coverage in postfire year 1 on 'very lightly burned' ridgetop sites. It was not determined by the author whether this loss in cover was directly related to fire or if the decline should be attributed to soil moisture loss or grazing by elk [23].

Onespike oatgrass was present in postfire years 1 and 2 on ponderosa pine plots following the 1988 Red Bench Fire in Glacier National Park, Montana [42,43].

DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE:

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FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS:

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Related categories for SPECIES: Danthonia unispicata | Onespike Oatgrass