FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Celtis laevigata | Sugarberry 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
The bark of sugarberry is thin and easily damaged by fire.  When
top-killed, sugarberry will sprout from the root collar [5].

Sugarberry occurs in areas that have undergone a shift from grassland to
hardwoods (central Texas and western Oklahoma) or from pines to
hardwoods as a result of fire suppression [26].  The moist bottomlands
in which sugarberry occurs do not have frequent fire regimes.


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/root sucker
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)
   Secondary colonizer - off-site seed

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