Claim · model-written summary
Management was recommended to reduce fire fuel load and stimulate new Cistus growth.
- Outcome
- reduce the fuel load in case of fire, and to stimulate growth of new bushese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Management is recommended to reduce the fuel load in case of fire, and to stimulate growth of new bushes.”
t0“Cistus”
Title
M. C. Juhren; Kenneth R. Montgomery Ecology 1977. doi:10.2307/1935114
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation Three Cistus species were satisfactory on most sites for 3 to 5 years.
- Observation Cistus stands persisted for at least 10 years on several sites.
- Observation Atriplex, Rosmarinus, and Baccharis plantings generally declined and did not reproduce.
- Association Cistus stand life depended on winter rain sufficiency and timing.
- Association Cistus declined and failed to reproduce when overtopped by tall chaparral.
- Observation Cistus seedlings required high light intensities experimentally.
- Observation Cistus grew compatibly with invading low growing native species.
- Observation Cistus seedlings competed successfully with forbs and weeds.
- Observation Cistus seedlings did not survive in thick grass.
- Observation Cistus spread aggressively over level areas with thin cover.
- Observation Cistus bushes became woody and senescent around 12 years on the hottest dry inland sites.
- Observation The cold tolerance limit of C. villosus was established at 1,790 m.
- Observation The heat and drought tolerance limit of C. laurifolius was established at 930 m.
- Observation C. laurifolius thrived at temperatures far below those of a Mediterranean climate.