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FIRE ECOLOGY

SPECIES: Sassafras albidum | Sassafras
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : Sassafras is moderately resistant to fire damage to aboveground growth. It is also highly resilient to such damage; sassafras sprouts vigorously following top-kill, even after repeated fires [54]. In Indiana, sassafras occurs in black oak (Quercus velutina) stands with a mean fire interval of 11.1 years [47]. Sassafras establishment on these sites appears to be related to the frequency and severity of fire. Sassafras did not occur on sites which had burned more often (mean fire interval of 5.2 years). The stands with longer fire-free intervals burned more severely than those with shorter intervals. The more severe disturbance probably created more favorable conditions for sassafras seedling establishment [48]. An increase in the frequency of sassafras in New Jersey forests since European settlement has been attributed, at least in part, to an increase in fire frequency [73]. The bear oak type, in which sassafras frequently occurs, is a product of periodic fire and droughty soils [44]. Sassafras also occurs in the Table Mountain pine-pitch pine (Pinus rigida) type, another fire-adapted community [42]. Sassafras bark is less resistant to heat than chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), white oak (Q. alba), and northern red oak (Q. rubra); equally as resistant as hickory and red maple (Acer rubrum); and more resistant than witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana), fire cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), and bear oak [20]. POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/soboliferous species root sucker Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community) Initial-offsite colonizer (off-site, initial community) Crown residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

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