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FIRE ECOLOGY

SPECIES: Prunus emarginata | Bitter Cherry
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : Bitter cherry sprouts vigorously following fire [19,64,79,97,134]. Approximately 15 to 50 sprouts per plant were produced after a prescribed fire in northern Idaho [66,67]. Postfire regeneration also includes germination from on-site seed [57,88,116], and probably also from off-site seed dispersed by birds and mammals. Prefire canopy coverage is attained about 30 to 40 years following fire [97]. In ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of eastern Washington and the northern Rocky Mountains, where bitter cherry occurs, fire return intervals of 6 to 22 years [131] and 6 to 11 years (range of 2-20 years) [4] have been described. In western Montana at the Burdette Creek winter range, Losensky [75] describes mean fire-free intervals of 37 years. POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : Tall shrub, adventitious-bud root crown Small shrub, adventitious-bud root crown Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community) Secondary colonizer - off-site seed

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