FIRE FREQUENCY ON AN OAK-HICKORY RIDGETOP IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS

Authors
CUTTER BE GUYETTE RP
Citation
Be. Cutter et Rp. Guyette, FIRE FREQUENCY ON AN OAK-HICKORY RIDGETOP IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS, The American midland naturalist, 132(2), 1994, pp. 393-398
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology
Journal title
The American midland naturalist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00030031
Volume
132
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
393 - 398
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-0031(1994)132:2<393:FFOAOR>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Wedges taken from 24 post oaks (Quercus stellata Wang.) growing on a r idge in an oak-hickory stand were used to reconstruct the fire history in the Houston Ranger District in Missouri's Mark Twain National Fore st. A chronology was constructed dating from 1734 to 1991. Fire freque ncy was greatest between 1740 and 1850 with a mean return interval of 2.8 yr. After 1850, the fire return interval increased to 24 yr. This change in fire return regimes is coincident with settlement of the are a by Anglo-Americans.