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SPECIES: Viburnum edule | Highbush Cranberry
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : Fire top-kills highbush cranberry. Moderate- to high-severity fires which remove soil organic layers may kill roots, underground stems, and buried seeds. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : NO-ENTRY PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : Highbush cranberry sprouts within weeks following fire [19,22] and often becomes one of the dominant postfire shrubs [22]. Low-severity fires stimulate germination of seeds stored in the soil [24,47]. Abundance of the plant may be initially reduced after fire, but an increase over prefire density may take place within the next 10 years [6,28]. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : NO-ENTRY FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : Prescribed fires of low-severity and short duration are recommended for the management of highbush cranberry. Fires of this type favor the germination of buried seeds and sprouting of vegetative structures [6,22,47].

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