FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Quercus grisea | Gray Oak 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Gray oak is codominant or present in Mexican pinyon habitat types.  The
fire chronology of Mexican pinyon types, in which gray oak occurs,
indicates numerous separate fires.  Fire-produced scars on Mexican
pinyon occurred in intervals from 9 to 60 or more years [42].  Naturally
caused fires were probably less frequent and greater in size and
severity before the settlement of this area than in more recent times [15].

No fire ecology information on gray oak was found in the literature.
The shrubby growth form of gray oak, which produces numerous ramets, may
sprout after being top-killed by fire.  Oaks generally survive
low-intensity, fast fires.  Fires that occur in closed-canopy oak
woodlands are probably high-intensity, stand replacement fires [39].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/soboliferous species
root sucker
   Tall shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
   Secondary colonizer - off-site seed

Related categories for Species: Quercus grisea | Gray Oak