Fire in a Thermic Oak-Pine Forest in Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, North Carolina: Importance of the Shrub Layer to Ecosystem Response

From: Castanea | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Dumas, Shay; Neufeld, Howard S; Fisk, Melany C | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

In the fall of 2000, a ground fire burned much of the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, North Carolina, providing an opportunity to study the effects of fire on an oak-pine forest that had not been burned in 50 years. There was no immediate overstory mortality in our study plots. Most aboveground stems of Kalmia latifolia were killed back, but most survived and subsequently re-sprouted. Fire reduced surface organic horizons by nearly 50%, and increased light penetration ~15%, re...

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