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SPECIES: Schinus terebinthifolius | Brazilian Pepper 


FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Brazilian pepper forms dense thickets that fire rarely penetrates.  It
produces new leaves throughtout the year and because its litter
decomposes quickly, very little leaf litter builds up on the forest
floor.  The high moisture content of the leaves and wood also make it
difficult to burn.  When Brazilian pepper does burn (as it frequently
does when it colonizes open pinelands), the aboveground parts are
killed, but the the tree promptly sprouts from the base [10].  Brazilian
pepper is also able to reestablish after fire from seed dispersed from
adjacent sites or stored on-site in the seed bank [7,27].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/root sucker
   Secondary colonizer - on-site seed
   Secondary colonizer - off-site seed

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