FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Ribes cereum | Wax Currant 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Wax currant regeneration is favored by short-duration, low-severity fire
because soil-stored seed requires scarification to germinate.  Most wax
currant plants are severely damaged or killed by fire.  The ability of
wax currant to sprout after fire is described in the literature as
"weak" [6,7,11].

Germination after severe fire is described for one site containing wax
currant in the Stanislaus National Forest, California.  Except for two
or three wax currant plants, all Ribes were R. roezli.  Ribes spp.
developed more rapidly and fruited earlier on "intensely burned" areas
than in partially burned thickets [32].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Shrub without adventitious-bud root crown
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

Related categories for Species: Ribes cereum | Wax Currant