| Plant Fire Studies | ||||||||||
Country and Region |
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| United States: | ||||||||||
| Alaska | Pacific Northwest | California | Southwest | Great Basin | ||||||
| Northern and Central Rockies | Northern Great Plains | Great Lakes | Northeast | South-central US | ||||||
| Southern Appalachians | Southeast | |||||||||
| Canada: | ||||||||||
| Western Cordillera | Prairie Provinces | Canadian Shield and Lowland | Atlantic Region | |||||||
| Other: | ||||||||||
| Mexico | Scotland | |||||||||
| Study author(s) | Focus species or plant community | Fire study title | ||||||||
| United States: | ||||||||||
| Alaska | ||||||||||
| Dyrness and Norum 1983 (FCS) | fire moss (Ceratodon purpureus) | The effects of experimental fires in an Alaskan black spruce forest on fire moss | ||||||||
| Dyrness and Norum 1983 (FCS) | Marchantia polymorpha, a liverwort | The effects of experimental fires in an Alaskan black spruce forest on Marchantia polymorpha | ||||||||
| Viereck and others 1979 (FCS) | black spruce (Picea mariana) | Black spruce experimental summer fires near Fairbanks, Alaska | ||||||||
| Viereck and others 1979 (FCS) | mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) | Short-term effect of summer prescribed fires on mountain cranberry growing in an Alaskan black spruce forest | ||||||||
| Pacific Northwest | ||||||||||
| HJ Andrews 1965-2006 (RPS) | coast Douglas-fir-western hemlock (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii-Tsuga heterophylla) understory communities | Plant succession following clearcutting and slash burning in the western Cascade Range, Oregon | ||||||||
| Minore and others 1979 (FCS) | big huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) | Effects of fall burning on a big huckleberry shrubfield near Mount Adams, Washington | ||||||||
| Woodard 1977 (FCS) | Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) | Prescribed crown fire study on Table Mountain, Washington | ||||||||
| Woodard 1977 (FCS) | dwarf bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) | Effects of a prescribed crown fire on dwarf bilberry on Table Mountain, Washington | ||||||||
| Woodard 1977 (FCS) | subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) | Effects of a prescribed crown fire on Table Mountain, Washington, on subalpine fir | ||||||||
| Martin 1982 (PDF) | Pacific ponderosa pine/snowbrush ceanothus-antelope bitterbrush/western needlegrass (Pinus ponderosa var.
ponderosa/Ceanothus velutinus-Purshia tridentata/Achnatherum occidentale); mixed-conifer/snowbrush ceanothus/long-stolon sedge (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa-P. contorta var. contorta/Ceanothus velutinus/Carex inops subsp. inops) |
Shrub control by burning before timber harvest (Pringle Falls Experimental Forest, Oregon) | ||||||||
| California | ||||||||||
| Champlin 1982 (FCS) | Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda) | Prescribed fire effects on Sandberg bluegrass in a mountain big sagebrush community in Lava Beds National Monument, California | ||||||||
| Weatherspoon 1985 (FCS) | snowbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus) | Effects of a preharvest burn in Lassen National Forest, California, on snowbrush ceanothus | ||||||||
| Finney and Martin 1991 (FCS) | redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | Prescribed underburning in young-growth redwood forests | ||||||||
| Hastings and DiTomaso 1996 (FCS) | yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) | Effects of prescribed burns in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, California, on yellow starthistle | ||||||||
| Allen-Diaz and Bartolome 1992 (FCS) | blue oak (Quercus douglasii) | Blue oak seedling response to fire and grazing on the Hopland Field Station, California | ||||||||
| Hansen 1986 (PDF) | annual grassland (Bromus hordeaceus-Hordeum depressum) |
The effect of fire and fire frequency on grassland species composition in California's Tulare Basin | ||||||||
| Moghaddas 2006 (PDF) | Sierran mixed conifer (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa-P. lambertiana-Quercus kelloggii-Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii-Calocedrus decurrens-Abies concolor) |
A fuel treatment reduces potential fire severity and increases suppression efficiency in a Sierran mixed conifer forest | ||||||||
| Kauffman and Martin 1990 (RPS) | Jeffrey pine-California black oak (Pinus jeffreyi-Quercus kelloggii) community | Research Project Summary: Plant response to prescribed burning with varying season, weather, and fuel moisture in mixed-conifer forests of California | ||||||||
| van Wagtendonk 1972 (RPS) | Ponderosa pine-incense-cedar (Pinus ponderosa-Calocedrus decurrens) community | Research Project Summary: Fire effects and a refined fire prescription after low-intensity spring fires in low-elevation mixed-conifer forests of Yosemite National Park, California | ||||||||
| Parsons and Stohlgren 1989 (PDF) | blue oak (Quercus douglasii) | Effects of varying fire regimes on annual grasslands in the southern Sierra Nevada of California | ||||||||
| Haggerty 1994 (PDF) | blue oak (Quercus douglasii) woodland | Damage and recovery in southern Sierra Nevada foothill oak woodland after a severe ground (surface) fire | ||||||||
| Mutch and Parsons 1998 (PDF) | Sierran mixed conifer (Sequoiadendron giganteum-Pinus lambertiana-Abies magnifica-A. concolor-Calocedrus decurrens) |
Mixed conifer forest mortality and establishment before and after prescribed fire in Sequoia National Park, California | ||||||||
| Mutch and Parsons 1998 (FCS) | white fir (Abies concolor) | Effects of a prescribed burn at Tharp's Creek, Sequoia National Park, on white fir | ||||||||
| Kilgore 1973 (FCS) | Pacific ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa) | Impact of prescribed burning on Pacific ponderosa pine in a sequoia-mixed conifer forest in Kings Canyon National Park, California | ||||||||
| Kilgore 1973 (FCS) | giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | Impact of prescribed burning on a sequoia-mixed conifer forest Kings Canyon National Park, California | ||||||||
| Narog and others 1991 (RPS) | canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) | Research Project Summary: Prescribed fire effects on canyon live oak and invertebrates in a southern California forest | ||||||||
| Martin and Lathrop 1982 (RPS) | Ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir-incense-cedar (Pinus ponderosa-Pseudotsuga menziesii-Calocedrus decurrens) community | Research Project Summary: Response of vegetation to prescribed burning in a Jeffrey pine-California black oak woodland and a deergrass meadow at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California | ||||||||
| Brooks 1999 (RPS) | creosotebush-white bursage/brome-schismus
(Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa/ Bromus-Schismus spp.) community |
Research Project Summary: Nonnative annual grass fuels and fire in California's Mojave Desert | ||||||||
| Brown and Minnich 1986 (FCS) | brittle bush (Encelia farinosa) | Brittle bush response to fire in creosotebush scrub of the Sonora Desert, California | ||||||||
| Southwest | ||||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (FCS) | common juniper (Juniperus communis) | Common juniper effect on fire behavior in a quaking aspen community on Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Prescribed fire behavior and quaking aspen recovery on Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (RPS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetation changes following prescription fires in quaking aspen stands of Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Delafield 1997 (FCS) | needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata) | Needle-and-thread grass regeneration after prescribed fire in Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado | ||||||||
| Harrington 1985 (FCS) | Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) | Gambel oak recovery after prescribed burning in a Colorado Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine stand | ||||||||
| Harrington 1987 (FCS) | interior ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum) | Interior ponderosa pine mortality from seasonal prescribed fires in southwestern Colorado | ||||||||
| Zimmerman and others 1990 (FCS) | Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) | Prescribed fire for lodgepole pine dwarf-mistletoe control in Colorado | ||||||||
| Vose and others 1991 (FCS) | mutton grass (Poa fendleriana) | Postfire regeneration of mutton grass on the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, Arizona | ||||||||
| Vose and others 1991 (FCS) | mountain muhly (Muhlenbergia montana) | Effects of prescribed fires on mountain muhly on the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, Arizona | ||||||||
| Vose and White 1991 (FCS) | bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) | Bottlebrush squirreltail postfire response in a ponderosa pine forest of Arizona | ||||||||
| Wienhold and Klemmedson 1992 (FCS) | shrub live oak (Quercus turbinella) | Effects of prescribed fire on the Battleflat Watershed, central Arizona, on shrub live oak< | ||||||||
| Pase and Lindenmuth 1971 (FCS) | desert ceanothus (Ceanothus greggii) | Effects of prescribed fire on desert ceanothus in Arizona's oak-mountain mahogany chaparral | ||||||||
| Cave 1982 (FCS) | yellow paloverde (Cercidium microphyllum) | Effects of prescribed fire on yellow paloverde on the Tonto National Forest, Arizona | ||||||||
| Cave and others 1984 (FCS) | triangle bursage (Ambrosia deltoidea) | Effects of prescribed and wildfires on triangle bursage on the Tonto National Forest, Arizona | ||||||||
| Harrington 1981 (FCS) | Arizona pine (Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica) | Fuel reduction in Arizona ponderosa pine in southeastern Arizona | ||||||||
| Horton 1988 (RPS) | Arizona pine (Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica) | Research Project Summary: Effects of understory fire on cavity-nesting birds in Arizona pine forests |
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| Smith and others 1993 (RPS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetation changes following prescription fires in quaking aspen stands of Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1987 (RPS) | semidesert grassland, oak (Quercus arizonica, Quercus emoryi) savanna, and Madrean oak woodland communities | Research Project Summary: Effects of prescribed fires in semidesert plant communities in southeastern Arizona | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1987 (FCS) | Arizona white oak (Quercus arizonica) | Prescribed fire effects on Arizona white oak in Lyle Canyon, Arizona | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1987 (FCS) | Emory oak (Quercus emoryi) | Prescribed fire effects on Emory oak in Lyle Canyon, Arizona | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1987 (FCS) | alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana) | Response of alligator juniper to burning in an Arizona shrub oak ecosystem | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1987 (FCS) | curlymesquite (Hilaria belangeri) | Response of curlymesquite to burning in two Arizona desert ecosystems | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1992 (FCS) | plains lovegrass (Eragrostis intermedia) | Plains lovegrass response to prescribed fire in an oak/grass woodland in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona | ||||||||
| McDaniel and others 1997 (FCS) | broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) | Controlling broom snakeweed with fire in New Mexico | ||||||||
| Great Basin | ||||||||||
| Youngblood and others 2006 (RPS) | Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) and Pacific ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa) communities | Research Project Summary: Changes in stand structure and composition after thinning and burning in low-elevation, dry ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of northeastern Oregon | ||||||||
| Wrobleski 1999 (FCS) | greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) | Effects of prescribed fire on Wyoming big sagebrush communities: implications for ecological restoration of greater sage-grouse habitat in Oregon | ||||||||
| Adams 1980 (FCS) | bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata) | Prescribed burning for rangeland and wildlife habitat improvement on the Fort Rock Ranger District, central Oregon: effects on bluebunch wheatgrass | ||||||||
| Sapsis 1990 (RPS) | basin big sagebrush/Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass (Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata/Festuca idahoensis-Pseudoroegneria spicata) community | Research Project Summary: Effects of fall and spring prescribed burning in sagebrush steppe in east-central Oregon | ||||||||
| Sapsis 1990 (FCS) | basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata) | Spring and fall prescribed burning in basin big sagebrush in east-central Oregon. I. | ||||||||
| Sapsis and Kauffman 1991 (FCS) | basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata) | Spring and fall prescribed burning in basin big sagebrush in east-central Oregon. II. | ||||||||
| Sapsis 1990 (FCS) | broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) | Spring and fall prescribed burning of broom snakeweed in basin big sagebrush in east-central Oregon | ||||||||
| Sapsis 1990 (FCS) | western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) | Spring and fall prescribed burning of western juniper in basin big sagebrush in east-central Oregon | ||||||||
| Young 1986 (FCS) | Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) | Effects of prescribed burns on Canada thistle at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | ||||||||
| Young 1986 (FCS) | hardstem bulrush (Schoenoplectus actus) | Fire effects on hardstem bulrush on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon | ||||||||
| Champlin 1982 (FCS) | Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda) | Prescribed fire effects on Sandberg bluegrass in a mountain big sagebrush community in Lava Beds National Monument, California | ||||||||
| Wright and Klemmedson 1965 (FCS) | Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda) | Response of Sandberg bluegrass from an Idaho big sagebrush community to a burn chamber experiment | ||||||||
| Blaisdell 1953 (FCS) | needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata) | Effects of prescribed fire on needle-and-thread grass in a Idaho big sagebrush/bunchgrass community on the Snake River Plains | ||||||||
| Blaisdell 1953 (FCS) | bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata) | Effects of a prescribed burn on an Idaho sagebrush/bunchgrass site on bluebunch wheatgrass | ||||||||
| Clifton 1981 (FCS) | Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) | Wyoming big sagebrush response to burning in a Wyoming big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass habitat type in Idaho | ||||||||
| Astroth and Frischknecht 1984 (FCS) | Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) | Burning for Utah juniper control on the Benmore Experimental Forest, Utah | ||||||||
| Zschaechner 1985 (FCS) | Utah serviceberry (Amelanchier utahensis) | Response of Utah serviceberry to severe prescribed fire in Nevada | ||||||||
| Zschaechner 1985 (FCS) | rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) | A preliminary study on the effects of severe fire on rubber rabbitbrush in Nevada | ||||||||
| Brooks 1999 (RPS) | creosotebush-white bursage/brome-schismus
(Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa/ Bromus-Schismus spp.) community |
Research Project Summary: Nonnative annual grass fuels and fire in California's Mojave Desert | ||||||||
| Brown and Minnich 1986 (FCS) | brittle bush (Encelia farinosa) | Brittle bush response to fire in creosotebush scrub of the Sonora Desert, California | ||||||||
| Northern and Central Rockies | ||||||||||
| Armour and others 1984 (FCS) | Columbia brome (Bromus vulgaris) | Effects of low- and high-intensity understory burning on Columbia brome in Benewah County, Idaho | ||||||||
| Armour and others 1984 (RPS) | ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) community | Research Project Summary: Understory recovery after low- and high-intensity fires in northern Idaho ponderosa pine forests | ||||||||
| Leege 1979 (FCS) | Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) | Prescribed fire effects on Saskatoon serviceberry in a northern Idaho rangeland | ||||||||
| Gucker and Bunting 2011 (RPS) | bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass-arrowleaf balsamroot (Pseudoroegneria spicata-Poa secunda- Balsamorhiza sagittata) habitat type | Research Project Summary: Changes in grassland vegetation following fire in northern Idaho | ||||||||
| Merrill and others 1980 (FCS) | western yarrow (Achillea millefolium) | Effects of a wildfire on western yarrow at White Cap Creek, Idaho | ||||||||
| Lyon 1971 (FCS) | bristly black currant (Ribes lacustre) | Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, prescribed fire study: effects on bristly black currant | ||||||||
| Lyon 1971 (FCS) | pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens) | Pinegrass development following prescribed burning of Douglas-fir in south-central Idaho | ||||||||
| Lyon 1966 (PDF) | Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) community | Initial vegetal development following prescribed burning of Douglas-fir in south-central Idaho | ||||||||
| Kurth and Benson 1995 (FCS) | Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) | Effects of prescribed fire in Glacier National Park prairies on lodgepole pine | ||||||||
| Noste and others 1989 (FCS) | Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) | Effect of fire severity and phenological stage on Saskatoon serviceberry on the Lolo National Forest, Montana | ||||||||
| Noste 1982 (FCS) | arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) | Arrowleaf balsamroot response to spring and fall burning for wildlife habitat improvement in western Montana | ||||||||
| Noste 1982 (FCS) | orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata) | Orchardgrass response to spring and fall burning for wildlife habitat improvement in western Montana | ||||||||
| Noste 1982 (FCS) | snowbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus) | Effects of the O'Keefe Creek wildlife habitat improvement burn, southwestern Montana, on snowbrush ceanothus | ||||||||
| Keane and Arno 2001 (FCS) | whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) | Prescribed fire and silvicultural treatments to promote whitebark pine in western Montana | ||||||||
| Shearer and others 1982 (FCS) | grand fir (Abies grandis) | Natural and artificial regeneration of grand fir after prescribed burning clearcuts on Newman Ridge, western Montana | ||||||||
| Shearer and others 1982 (FCS) | western larch (Larix occidentalis) | Prescribed fire and wildfire in western larch forests on Miller Creek-Newman Ridge, Montana | ||||||||
| Shearer and others 1989 (FCS) | Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) | Prescribed fire and wildfire in a western larch/Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir stand on Miller Creek-Newman Ridge, western Montana | ||||||||
| Norum and others 1977 (FCS) | Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) | Prescribed fire in a western larch/Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir stand on the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, western Montana | ||||||||
| Metlen and others 2006 (RPS) | ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir (Pinus ponderosa-Pseudotsuga menziesii) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetation response to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir forests of western Montana | ||||||||
| Miller 1977 (FCS) | big huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) | Underburning effects on big huckleberry in a Douglas-fir/big huckleberry community on the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Montana | ||||||||
| Norum and others 1989 (FCS) | western larch (Larix occidentalis) | Western larch/Douglas-fir prescribed fire on the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Montana | ||||||||
| Nimir and Payne 1978 (FCS) | shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora floribunda) | Prescribed burning of shrubby cinquefoil on mountain range of the Gallatin National Forest | ||||||||
| Keown 1977 (FCS) | shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora floribunda) | Shrubby cinquefoil response to prescribed burning in light, flashy fuels of Blacktail Hills, Montana | ||||||||
| Redfern 1984 (FCS) | shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora floribunda) | Prescribed burning of shrubby cinquefoil stands in the Little Belt Mountains, Montana | ||||||||
| Noste 1982 (FCS) | pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens) | Pinegrass response to spring and fall burning for wildlife habitat improvement, west-central Montana | ||||||||
| Bartos and others 1994 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Quaking aspen sprouting density and elk use after prescribed fire in Wyoming | ||||||||
| Cook and others 1994 (FCS) | bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) | Effects of prescribed fire on antelope bitterbrush in south-central Wyoming | ||||||||
| Bartos and others 1994 (RPS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetation recovery following a mixed-severity fire in quaking aspen groves of western Wyoming | ||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (FCS) | common juniper (Juniperus communis) | Common juniper effect on fire behavior in a quaking aspen community on Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Prescribed fire behavior and quaking aspen recovery on Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Smith and others 1993 (RPS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetation changes following prescription fires in quaking aspen stands of Colorado's Front Range | ||||||||
| Covington and others 1983 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Prescribed fire in an Arizona quaking aspen/bunchgrass type | ||||||||
| Sackett and others 1996 (FCS) | interior ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum) | Natural interior ponderosa pine regeneration following prescribed fire in north-central Arizona | ||||||||
| Northern Great Plains | ||||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1984 (FCS) | interior ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum) | Effects of fall and spring fires on interior ponderosa pine on the pine-grassland ecotone of the southern Black Hills | ||||||||
| Gartner 1975 (FCS) | western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii) | Prescribed burning on a ridge and meadow in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: effects on western wheatgrass | ||||||||
| Schripsema 1978 (FCS) | western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii) | Burning in bluestem and mixed-grass prairies in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: effects on western wheatgrass | ||||||||
| Easterly and Jenkins 1991 (FCS) | buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides) | Buffalo grass production after spring burning in Custer State Park, South Dakota | ||||||||
| Whisenant and others 1990 (FCS) | Japanese brome (Bromus japonicus) | Prescribed Fire control of Japanese brome in Badlands National Park, South Dakota | ||||||||
| Engle and Bultsma 1984 (FCS) | green needlegrass (Nassella viridula) | Effects of spring and summer fires on green needlegrass on the Samuel H. Ordway Memorial Prairie, north-central South Dakota | ||||||||
| Gartner and Lindsey 1986 (FCS) | needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata) | Needle-and-thread grass response to spring burning in western South Dakota | ||||||||
| White and Currie 1983 (FCS) | silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana) | Seasonal effects of prescribed burning in eastern Montana on silver sagebrush | ||||||||
| Great Lakes | ||||||||||
| Perala and others 1995 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Quaking aspen productivity after harvest and repeat prescribed fire in Minnesota | ||||||||
| Shubat 1983 (FCS) | low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) | Burn pruning of low sweet blueberry in Minnesota | ||||||||
| Axelrod and Irving 1978 (FCS) | American hazelnut (Corylus americana) | Effects of repeated prescribed fires at Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota | ||||||||
| Johnson 1974 (FCS) | northern red oak (Quercus rubra) | Effects of prescribed burning on northern red oak in Wisconsin | ||||||||
| Bowles and others 2007 (PDF) | bur oak-white oak/American hazelnut (Quercus macrocarpa-Q. alba/Corylus americana) | Long-term changes in an oak forest’s woody understory and herb layer with repeated burning | ||||||||
| Howe and others 2002 (RPS) | central tallgrass prairie (Sorghastrum nutans-Panicum virgatum-Andropogon gerardii) | Research Project Summary: Herbaceous responses to seasonal burning in experimental tallgrass prairie plots in Illinois and Wisconsin | ||||||||
| Neumann and Dickmann 2001 (RPS) | red pine-eastern white pine (Pinus resinosa-P. strobus) community | Research Project Summary: Effects of surface fires in a mixed red and eastern white pine stand in Michigan | ||||||||
| Glasgow and Matlack 2007 (RPS) | mixed-deciduous forest (oaks (Quercus spp.), hickories (Carya spp.), and maples (Acer spp.)) | Research Project Summary: Effects of experimental burning on understory plants in a temperate deciduous forest in Ohio | ||||||||
| Northeast | ||||||||||
| Landis and others 2005 (FCS) | pitch pine (Pinus rigida) and bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia) | Pitch pine recruitment following crown fire in pine barrens of Long Island, New York | ||||||||
| Dunwiddie 1998 (RPS) | little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) grassland and heathland (Ericaceae) communities | Research Project Summary: Vegetation change in grasslands and heathlands following multiple spring, summer, and fall prescription fires in Massachusetts | ||||||||
| Burgason 1976 (RPS) | hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) and speckled alder (Alnus incana subsp. rugosa) shrublands | Research Project Summary: Use of prescribed fire to manage hawthorn and speckled alder in a Pennsylvania floodplain | ||||||||
| Flores 2003 (RPS) | saltgrass-smooth cordgrass (Distichlis spicata-Spartina alterniflora) community | Research Project Summary: Vegetative response to fire exclusion and prescribed fire rotation on two Maryland salt marshes | ||||||||
| South-central US | ||||||||||
| Ortmann 1995 (FCS) | eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) | Prescribed fire to control eastern redcedar on Nebraska rangeland | ||||||||
| Ewing and Engle 1988 (FCS) | big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii) | Effects of different fuel loads on big bluestem in an Oklahoma prescribed fire | ||||||||
| Probasco and Bjugstad 1977 (FCS) | tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus) | Tall fescue response to prescribed fire on the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri | ||||||||
| Ewing and Engle 1988 (FCS) | little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) | Effects of late summer fire in a tallgrass Oklahoma prairie on little bluestem | ||||||||
| Wink and Wright 1973 (FCS) | Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei) | Effects of fire on Ashe juniper in northern Texas | ||||||||
| Steuter and others 1983 (FCS) | Pinchot juniper (Juniperus pinchotii) | Fire-induced mortality of Pinchot juniper in northwestern Texas | ||||||||
| Ansley and others 1998 (FCS) | honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa ) | Impacts of herbaceous fuel, weather, and fire temperature on honey mesquite in north-central Texas | ||||||||
| Heirman and Wright 1973 (RPS) | tobosa (Pleuraphis mutica) and buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides) | Research Project Summary: Effects of a spring prescribed fire and chaining on tobosa and buffalo grass in Lynn County, Texas | ||||||||
| Wink and Wright 1973 (FCS) | vine-mesquite (Panicum obtusum) | Effects of fire on vine-mesquite in a northern Texas mixed-grass community | ||||||||
| Ansley and others 2008 (PDF) | honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) | Mesquite, tobosagrass, and common broomweed responses to fire season and intensity (central Texas) | ||||||||
| Hutcheson and others 1989 (RPS) | plateau oak-post oak (Quercus fusiformis-Q. stellata) savanna | Research Project Summary: Response of herbaceous vegetation to winter burning in Texas oak savanna | ||||||||
| White 1969 (FCS) | Texas persimmon (Diospyros persimmon) | Fire temperatures and the effect of burning on Texas persimmon on the Welder Wildlife Refuge, south Texas | ||||||||
| White 1969 (FCS) | Berlandier wolfberry (Lycium berlandieri) | Fire temperatures and the effect of burning on Berlandier wolfberry on the Welder Wildlife Refuge, south Texas | ||||||||
| Martin 1982 (PDF) | groundsel-tree (Baccharis halimifolia) and Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) | Effects if prescribed fire in the coastal prairies of Texas | ||||||||
| Southern Appalachians | ||||||||||
| Wendel and Smith 1986 (PDF) | chestnut oak-hickory (Quercus prinus-Carya spp.) community | Effects of a prescribed fire in a central Appalachian oak-hickory stand (West Virginia) | ||||||||
| Welch and others 2000 (RPS) | Table mountain pine-pitch pine (Pinus pungens-Pinus rigida) community | Research Project Summary: Early postfire response of southern Appalachian Table Mountain-pitch pine stands to prescribed fires in North Carolina and Virginia | ||||||||
| Elliott and others 1999 (RPS) | red maple-hickory (Acer rubrum-Carya spp.) community | Research Project Summary: Early postfire effects of a prescribed fire in the southern Appalachians of North Carolina | ||||||||
| Waldrop and others 1999 (RPS) | Table mountain pine-pitch pine (Pinus pungens-Pinus rigida) community | Research Project Summary: Early postfire response of Georgian Table Mountain pine stands burned under prescription at varying intensities | ||||||||
| Southeast | ||||||||||
| Wade and Ward 1973 (FCS) | pond pine (Pinus serotina) | Effects of a pocosin wildfire in Dare County, North Carolina, on pond pine | ||||||||
| Brender and Cooper 1968 (FCS) | loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) | Hardwood control for loblolly pine seedbed preparation in Georgia | ||||||||
| Lippincott 2000 (FCS) | longleaf pine/cogon grass (Pinus palustris/Imperata cylindrica) | Imperata cylindrica in a Florida sandhill longleaf pine community | ||||||||
| Canada: | ||||||||||
| Western Cordillera | ||||||||||
| Vihnanek and Ballard 1988 (FCS) | salal (Gaultheria shallon) | Effects of slash burning on salal on eastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia | ||||||||
| Thomson 1988 (FCS) | Saskatoon serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) | Prescribed fire effects on Saskatoon serviceberry in a British Columbia rangeland | ||||||||
| Lafferty 1972 (FCS) | salal (Gaultheria shallon) | Salal response to clearcutting and spring or fall burning in a Douglas-fir-western redcedar-western hemlock forest, western British Columbia | ||||||||
| Lafferty 1972 (FCS) | dwarf Oregon-grape (Mahonia nervosa) | Dwarf Oregon-grape response to clearcutting and spring or fall burning in a Douglas-fir-western redcedar-western hemlock forest, western British Columbia | ||||||||
| Feller 1988 (FCS) | Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) | Fuel properties and slash-burning-induced nutrient losses in a western hemlock forest in British Columbia | ||||||||
| Hamilton and Peterson 2003 (RPS) | subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) community | Research Project Summary: Revegetation in a subalpine forest after logging and fire in central British Columbia | ||||||||
| Hamilton 2006a (PDF) | subalpine fir-hybrid spruce (Abies lasiocarpa-Picea glauca × P. engelmannii) community | Vegetation development and fire effects at the Walker Creek site: comparison of forest floor and mineral soil plots (British Columbia study) | ||||||||
| Hamilton 2006b (PDF) | hybrid spruce (Picea glauca × P. engelmannii) community | Fire effects and post-burn vegetation development in the sub-boreal spruce zone: Mackenzie (Windy Point) Site (British Columbia study) | ||||||||
| Prairie Provinces | ||||||||||
| Gerling and others 1995 (FCS) | plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii) | Alberta plains rough fescue prescribed fire study | ||||||||
| Johnston and Woodard 1985 (FCS) | red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) | Effects of prescribed fire on red raspberry on Elk Island, Alberta | ||||||||
| Quintilio and others 1991 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Overstory mortality of quaking aspen after repeat spring prescribed fire in central Alberta | ||||||||
| Quintilio and others 1991 (RPS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) community | Research Project Summary: Understory recovery after burning and reburning quaking aspen stands in central Alberta | ||||||||
| Bailey and Anderson 1980 (FCS) | quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) | Prescribed fire temperatures and effects in a central Alberta quaking aspen forest | ||||||||
| Archibold and others 2003 (RPS) | plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii) community | Research Project Summary: Seasonal fire effects in a Saskatchewan plains rough fescue prairie | ||||||||
| Chrosciewicz 1988 (FCS) | jack pine (Pinus banksiana) | Jack pine regeneration after prescribed fire in a seed-tree system in central Saskatchewan | ||||||||
| Canadian Shield and Lowland | ||||||||||
| Chrosciewicz 1976 (RPS) | black spruce (Picea mariana) | Research Project Summary: Black spruce experimental fires on lowland sites in Manitoba | ||||||||
| Ball 1984 (RPS) | cattail (Typha spp.) community | Research Project Summary: Winter fire in a marshland in St Clair National Wildlife Area, Ontario | ||||||||
| Van Wagner 1963 (RPS) | red pine-eastern white pine (Pinus resinosa-P. strobus) community | Research Project Summary: Prescribed burning experiments in red and eastern white pine forests of eastern Ontario | ||||||||
| Smith and James 1978 (FCS) | tussock sedge (Carex stricta) | Effect of prescribed burning on tussock sedge in quaking aspen woodlands in southern Ontario | ||||||||
| Atlantic Region | ||||||||||
| No Fire Studies at this time | ||||||||||
| Other: | ||||||||||
| Mexico | ||||||||||
| Ibarra-F. and others 1996 (RPS) | buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) | Research Project Summary: Effects of June fires in shrubland converted to buffelgrass pasture in Sonora, Mexico | ||||||||
| Martin-R. and others 1999 (RPS) | buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) | Research Project Summary: Effects of summer prescribed fires on buffelgrass and spittlebug in Sonora, Mexico | ||||||||
| Scotland | ||||||||||
| Hobbs and Gimingham 1984 (FCS) | heather (Calluna vulgaris) | Heather response after moderate to severe fires on Scottish heathland | ||||||||
| Animal Fire Studies (arranged geographically from north to south) | ||||||||||
| Study author(s) | Focus species and habitat | Fire study title | ||||||||
| Ball 1984 (RPS) | mallard (Anas platyrhynchos); cattail (Typha spp.) habitat |
Research Project Summary: Winter fire in a marshland in St Clair National Wildlife Area, Ontario | ||||||||
| Bock and Bock 1981 (FCS) | American bison (Bos bison); ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) habitat |
Improving bison forage with fall prescribed fire in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota | ||||||||
| Wrobleski 1999 (FCS) | greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus); Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) habitat |
Effects of prescribed fire on Wyoming big sagebrush communities: implications for ecological restoration of greater sage-grouse habitat in Oregon | ||||||||
| Horton 1988 (RPS) | various cavity-nesting birds; Arizona pine (Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica) habitat |
Research Project Summary: Effects of understory fire on cavity-nesting birds in Arizona pine forests | ||||||||
| Grace and others 2005 (PDF) | sedge wren (Cistothorus platensis), several rail (Rallidae) species, and several sparrow (Emberizidae) species; gulf cordgrass-saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina spartinae-S. patens) and saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) habitat |
Effects of prescribed fire in the coastal prairies of Texas | ||||||||
| Martin-R. and others 1999 (RPS) | spittlebug (Aeneolamia albofasciata); buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) pasture |
Research Project Summary: Effects of summer prescribed fires on buffelgrass and spittlebug in Sonora, Mexico | ||||||||
| Management Project Summaries | ||||||||||
| Study author(s) | Focus species | Management project title | ||||||||
| Caribbean Fire Invasives Learning Network 2011 (MPS) | Bambusa vulgaris (common bamboo), Leucaena leucocephala (white leadtree), Melinis repens (Natal grass) | Management Project Summary: Fire effects on three subtropical invasive plants in Florida and the Caribbean—Natal grass, common bamboo, and white leadtree | ||||||||
| Reemts 2012 (MPS) | post oak-Ashe juniper (Quercus stellata-Juniperus ashei) woodland community; bastard oak (Quercus sinuata var. breviloba)-Ashe juniper woodland or shrubland communities |
Management Project Summary: Response of woody species to crown fires in oak-juniper woodlands (Texas) | ||||||||