Season of prescribed burns and management of an early successional species affect flower density and pollinator activity in a pine savanna ecosystem.

ABSTRACT: In the age of changing fire regimes, land managers often rely on prescribed burns to promote high diversity of herbaceous plants. Yet, little is known about how the timing of prescribed burns interacts with other ecological factors to maintain biodiversity while restoring fire-adapted ecosystems. We examined how timing of prescribed burns and removal of a dominant, early successional weedy plant yankeeweed (Eupatorium compositifolium) affect flower density and pollinator activity in an early-successional longleaf pine savanna restored from a timber plantation. During the first year of this study, plots received seasonal burn treatments, including unburned control, winter-dry, spring, and summer-wet season burns. During the second year of the study, data on flowers and pollinators we

SUBMITTER: Adedoja OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9661972 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature