Claim · model-written summary
A greater proportion of the seed bank emerged and established as seedlings after the fire in May than after a fire the previous February.
- Taxon
- Banksia ericifolia
Banksia ericifoliae0 - Treatment
- the fire in Maye6
- Outcome
- seed bank emerged and established as seedlingse6
- Direction
- greatere6
- Qualifier
- 5 months after the firee6
- Comparator
- a fire the previous Februarye6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fire intensity and seasonality affected the release of seed in Banksia ericifolia L.f”
e6“A greater proportion of the seed bank emerged and established as seedlings 5 months after the fire in May than after a fire the previous February”
Title
RA Bradstock; PJ Myerscough Australian Journal of Botany 1981. doi:10.1071/bt9810521
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Mean maximum temperatures of the heathland burn were about 400, 275 and 175°C at heights of 0.5, 2 and 3 m.
- Intervention effect Release of seed from B. ericifolia bushes increased significantly after fire.
- Observation The proportion of seed released on unburnt controls stayed constant.
- Intervention effect Seeds were released earlier and quicker from cones exposed to high fire temperature maxima than from cones exposed to low maxima.
- Observation Up to 80% of the seed bank was released 95 days after the fire.
- Observation Seedling emergence and mortality were broadly related to rainfall over the period after fire.
- Observation Variability in maximum temperature depended on the age and position of B. ericifolia stands.