FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
American hornbeam is not resistant to fire damage due to its thin bark.
It probably sprouts after top-kill by fire.  It occurs mostly in
communities that rarely experience fire.

Florida swamp and hammock communities in which American hornbeam occurs
are estimated as having a fire frequency on the order of one or two
fires per century [8].  Also in Florida, American hornbeam is one of a
number of hardwoods invading longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) communities
in the absence of fire.  A community sampled 55 years after the last
recorded fire was dominated by swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii),
American hornbeam, live oak (Q. virginiana), water oak, sweetgum,
eastern hophornbeam, Carolina ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), and pignut
hickory (Carya glabra), with a few remaining large longleaf pine in the
overstory [14].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/soboliferous species root sucker

Related categories for Species: Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam