FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Lonicera utahensis | Utah Honeysuckle 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Fire often injures Utah honeysuckle, and results in temporary reductions
in cover and frequency [10,19,31].  Utah honeysuckle sprouts from the
root crown after top-kill by fire [8,11,18,31].

For some of the communities that Utah honeysuckle occurs in, such as
grand fir/queencup beadlily in northwestern Montana or mixed-conifer
subalpine forests of the southern and central Rocky Mountains, fire-free
intervals or stand-destroying fires occur on average every 150 years
[2,10].
  


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Small shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)
   Secondary colonizer - off-site seed

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