FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Diervilla lonicera | Bush-Honeysuckle 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Cool surface fires top-kill bush-honeysuckle [9].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Bush-honeysuckle rapidly regenerates after fire, though no sexual
structures are produced the first postfire growing season [9].  Seeds of
bush-honeysuckle were found only on old burns in Petersham,
Massachusetts, which suggested a possible period of heavy fruit
production approximately 13 years after fire [5,25].

Bush-honeysuckle abundance is usually unchanged by fire; abundance in
postfire communities is dependent on bush-honeysuckle prefire density
and the response of its competitors [3,20].  Bush-honeysuckle increased
slightly in cover (from 1 to 2.2 percent) after a prescribed fire in a
jack pine community in Minnesota [2].  In a Minnesota jack pine stand
where both logging and prescribed fire were conducted, bush-honeysuckle
frequency decreased the first postfire year but returned to prefire
levels by the second growing season.  Its frequency declined slightly in
the fourth year [1].  Following prescribed fire in a red pine-white pine
(Pinus strobus) community in Ontario, bush-honeysuckle increased in stem
number but not frequency, with an overall increase in biomass [30].

After wildfire in jack pine types in northern Minnesota,
bush-honeysuckle regenerated better on sites that had burned in summer
as compared to sites that had experienced a spring wildfire [33].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Loomis and others [26] measured the moisture content of a number of
upper Midwest understory shrubs and herbs, including bush-honeysuckle;
this information can be used for a number of fire management
considerations.

Related categories for Species: Diervilla lonicera | Bush-Honeysuckle