FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Fendlera rupicola | Fendlerbush 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Information was not available regarding the immediate effects of fire on
fendlerbush.  Fendlerbush is probably top-killed or killed by most fires.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
In Mesa Verde National Park, 4 years after a July/August, 1959 natural
fire in a pinyon-juniper community, fendlerbush had no significant
cover.  Fendlerbush frequency was 2 percent.  Twenty-nine years
following a July fire in a nearby pinyon-juniper community, fendlerbush
made up 1 percent of the cover and had 6 percent frequency.  Fendlerbush
maximum cover and frequency was not reached until almost 80 years after
a pinyon-juniper fire in Mesa Verde National Park.  At this time
fendlerbush made up 14 percent of the cover and had 48 percent frequency
[7].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Fendlera rupicola | Fendlerbush