Vegetation Recovery following a High Elevation Fire in the Dominican Republic<sup>1</sup>

Horn, Sally P.; Kennedy, Lisa M.; Orvis, Kenneth H.

doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2001.tb00228.x

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“…There is growing evidence that fire has profound implications for shaping ecological patterns and processes in the ecosystems of the Neotropical mainland (Horn et al, 2001). These fire impacts come associated with unaccounted for biomass burning emissions that we claim to be regionally important.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Therefore, even if TMCFs were able to quickly respond to climatic pressures and effectively migrate upwards, this process would be -and it currently is -jeopardized by downward fires (Cavelier et al, 1998;Young and León, 2000). There is clear evidence that fires are widespread in TMCFs: Mexico (Asbjornsen et al, 2005), Africa (Hemp, 2005), South America (Bush et al, 2005), the Caribbean (Horn et al, 2001;Martin et al, 2007), Costa Rica (Islebe and Hooghiemstra, 1997), and Indonesia (Hope, 2001).…”

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confidence: 94%

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Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Roman-Cuesta

Salinas

Asbjornsen

et al. 2011

Forest Ecology and Management

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Roman-Cuesta

Salinas

Asbjornsen

et al. 2011

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…& Schult. is known to compose high-elevation vegetation following recovery after fires (Horn et al, 2001). Although the pollen from other tree species is present in zone TCC1-I, the low percentages of these types and the fact that they are from trees that produce large quantities of pollen that travels long distances (Traverse, 1988) suggests that it is unlikely they were ever present at Twin Cays.…”

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“…yr BP, Table 1). Some Myrsine species are known to exist in vegetation succeeding after hurricanes (Pascarella, 1998a,b) or vegetation fires (Horn et al, 2001). The increased peat accumulation rate could therefore be related to the accumulation of material felled during previous hurricanes.…”

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Mangrove ecosystem dynamics and elemental cycling at Twin Cays, Belize, during the Holocene

Wooller

Behling

Smallwood

et al. 2004

J Quaternary Science

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Existing at the transition between the terrestrial environment and hydrosphere, mangroves are sensitive to environmental change (e.g. sea-level rise). We present pollen and stable isotope data from a core (TCC1) of continuous (10 m) mangrove peat from Twin Cays, $ 12 km off of the coast of Belize, Central America. Radiocarbon dates on fragments of mangrove leaves preserved in TCC1 show that the core provides an 8600 14 C year record of mangrove ecosystem changes. Variation in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition ( 13 C ¼ $À30 to À25%; 15 N ¼ $À6 to 2%) of mangrove leaves imply that the stand structure and nutrient status of the mangroves at the site have changed during the Holocene. Pollen data from the same core show that the floral composition of the site has changed at points during the Holocene, most notably a brief ( $ 240 years) switch at $ 3860 14 C yr BP to dominance by a species of Myrsine (not currently present at the site). Our results are consistent with significant environmental changes (either marked disturbance from hurricanes or fluctuations in sea-level) through the Holocene.

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“…Nuees ardentes have caused extensive forest fires on the volcanic slopes which may have changed the successional trajectory to more open grassland or savanna (Sutomo & Fardila, 2013;Sutomo et al, 2015). Recovery of the montane forest following fire is usually slow (Horn et al, 2001). Fire destroys the aboveground part of shrubs and some surviving species may be covered with ash, and with the characteristics of young volcanic soils this could slow down or even arrest the rate of the secondary succession (Whitten et al, 1996;Antos & Zobel, 2005;Walker & del Moral, 2009).…”

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Spatial and temporal patterns of fires in tropical savannas of Indonesia

Sutomo

Etten

2018

Singap J Trop Geogr

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This paper examines spatial and temporal patterns of large to medium‐sized fires across the Indonesian Archipelago using remote sensing, particularly the MODIS fire products, over a 14 years period (2000–13 inclusive) in conjunction with climatic and land data in a GIS. Results showed fires (burned area and number of fires) were detected the most in year 2002 and least in 2010. The extent of burning was correlated with the annual Southern Oscillation Index with most burning occurring during times of sustained negative SOI values, which generally means drier conditions across the region. Most of the detected fires occurred in the middle of the dry season and in drier eastern Indonesia. Across Indonesia, approximately 1.5 per cent of available open vegetation area burned, whereas only 0.5 per cent of forest area burned. Most open vegetation burning was detected in the savanna with an area equivalent to 11.1 per cent of its extent being burned over the 14 years. On Sumba Island, where the pronounced dry season extends for at least four months, open vegetation is the most common land cover type, of which 99 per cent burned by area over the study period making it the island with the most burned areas in the Indonesian Archipelago.

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Vegetation Recovery following a High Elevation Fire in the Dominican Republic¹

Cited by 17 publications

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Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Mangrove ecosystem dynamics and elemental cycling at Twin Cays, Belize, during the Holocene

Spatial and temporal patterns of fires in tropical savannas of Indonesia

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Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

Mangrove ecosystem dynamics and elemental cycling at Twin Cays, Belize, during the Holocene

Spatial and temporal patterns of fires in tropical savannas of Indonesia

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Vegetation Recovery following a High Elevation Fire in the Dominican Republic¹