FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Pleuraphis  mutica | Tobosa 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Tobosa has been widely cited as being stimulated by fire [3,5,34,53].
This warm season, sod forming grass has well developed rhizomes that are
deep enough in the soil that they are protected from fire.  It is from
these rhizomes, and basal root crowns that resprouting occurs following
fire.  Recovery is dependent upon moisture and season of burning.
Spring burns followed by sufficient precipitation produce the most rapid
recovery, when production often exceeds 2-3 times that of unburned
stands by the end of the first growing season [5].  In southern New
Mexico where there is only 9 inches (22.8 cm) of precipitation annually,
there is no increase in tobosa yields the first year after burning, no
matter what season the burning occurs [15].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Rhizomatous herb, rhizome in soil

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