Recovery of vegetation following a wild fire on the margins of tidal flats, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.

From: The Texas Journal of Science | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract.--Recovery of halophytic vegetation on the margin of tidal flats following a wildfire at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, was studied for 26 months. Species richness, species diversity, species importance, evenness and vegetation abundance were evaluated. Species richness and diversity were restored within 108 days after the fire. Sporobolus virginicus was the dominant species on both burned and non-burned transects. Vegetative cover was slow to recover. It took 19 months for cover of burned areas to equal or exceed cover of non-burned areas. Biomass also was slow ...

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