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FIRE EFFECTS

SPECIES: Amelanchier arborea | Downy Serviceberry
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : Fire top-kills downy serviceberry [19]. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : August burning of slash piles in the forest of lower Michigan killed most of the downy serviceberry on the site [19]. Stumps and roots sprouted the following year, but much of downy serviceberry found on the site was established from seed dispersed by birds and mammals. Studies in Pennsylvania showed contradictary results in the closely related species, Amelanchier canadensis [9]. A. canadensis was not present on burned sites until more than 15 years following fire but was prolific on unburned sites. PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : Downy serviceberry will recolonize sites following fire [18,19]. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : Following wildfire in a spruce-fir forest of Appalachia, downy serviceberry was present in stands after 30 years, but was less than 1 percent of the total basal area. Specific effects of the fire on downy serviceberry were not studied [18]. For fire information on related species, see FEIS DATABASE: AMELANCHIER ALNIFOLIA. FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : NO-ENTRY

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