• FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS
• POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY

FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS:

Fire does not harm mat muhly to any great extent because the rhizome buds are insulated by soil [4]. There is a greater than 65% chance that at least 50% of the plants in a population will survive a fire [42].

Mat muhly occurs in upland plant communities with a variety of fire regimes. The range of fire intervals reported for some species that dominate communities where mat muhly occurs are listed below. To learn more about the fire regimes in these communities, refer to the FEIS summary for that species, under "FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS."

Community dominant    Range of fire intervals 
                      (years)										

Utah juniper          10-30 
  (Juniperus osteosperma) 
ponderosa pine        30-41
  (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum}
quaking aspen         7-10
  (Populus tremuloides)
Engelmann spruce      >150
  (Picea engelmannii)

POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY:

Rhizomatous herb, rhizome in soil
Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

Related categories for SPECIES: Muhlenbergia richardsonis | Mat Muhly