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Post-fire succession and carbon storage in the northern Everglades
| Title: | Post-fire succession and carbon storage in the northern Everglades. |
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| Name(s): |
Reger, Lisa Marie Benscoter, Brian Graduate College |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Abstract | |
| Date Created: | 2014 | |
| Date Issued: | 2014 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 1 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This research will provide documentation of the trajectory of plant community succession and carbon accumulation post-fire as well as a comparison between the effects of natural versus prescribed fires on recovery trajectory. This study will take place in the A.R.M Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Historical fire records will be used to select sites along a chronosequence of time since the most recent occurrence of fire as well as sites differing in the source of ignition naturally ignited vs. prescribed burns. Vegetation surveys will be performed to assess the pattern of community change through succession. Aboveground plant biomass will be estimated non-destructively at each site and soil cores from each plot will be used to quantify soil accretion and soil quality across the chronosequence. Additionally, monitoring control points will be established within both historically burned and new prescribed burned sites in the Refuge. These control points will be revisited in subsequent intervals to document short-term vegetation recovery. Results of this study will provide quantification of the effectiveness of fire management practices in the maintenance and restoration of quality habitat in the northern Everglades as well as provide further insight into how fire severity affects the trajectory of habitat recovery. | |
| Identifier: | FA00005850 (IID) | |
| Collection: | FAU Student Research Digital Collection | |
| Note(s): | The Fifth Annual Graduate Research Day was organized by Florida Atlantic University’s Graduate Student Association. Graduate students from FAU Colleges present abstracts of original research and posters in a competition for monetary prizes, awards, and recognition | |
| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005850 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
