期刊
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
卷 257, 期 8, 页码 1725-1731出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.031
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Fire management; Fire season; Seed bank; Fitness; Prescribed fire; Annual plant
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- Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial planning (FORMAS)
The seasonal distribution of fires is one fire regime variable which has received little attention with regard to its effects on plants. For species with a short life-span that recruits after fire, the seasonal timing of a fire can be expected to be important due to effects on potential growth period and reproduction. We observed phenology and reproductive output in two annual and fire-dependent Geranium spp. in the southern part of the European boreal forest. In a garden experiment with the two species under two levels of nutrition, we established cohorts of seedlings at several dates over three summers. Time from germination to flowering and first mature seed differed little between the two species and levels of nutrition; i.e. plant size or level of nutrition had almost no effect on phenology. However, emergence time controlled the timing of reproduction. Most plants emerging before the second week of July in the garden experiment bolted the same year. Plants emerging later behaved as winter-annuals and started to flower in June the following year, A similar dichotomy was observed for populations of Geranium spp. at a number of burnt forest sites that differed in date of fire. This response is likely controlled by photoperiod. Nevertheless, at sites that burnt early some plants did not bolt in the same season; probably an effect of variable seedling emergence dates in the populations. In both the field and garden experiment, there were plants entering reproduction too late to produce mature seeds. Our results indicate that management fires should be conducted either very early, or during July and August to achieve a high seed production in these rare forest plants. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V, All rights reserved.
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