Claim · model-written summary
Mean maximum temperatures of the heathland burn were about 400, 275 and 175°C at heights of 0.5, 2 and 3 m.
- Taxon
- Banksia ericifolia
Banksia ericifoliae0 - Outcome
- Mean maximum temperaturese1
- Value
- 400, 275 and 175°Ce1
- Qualifier
- at heights of 0.5, 2 and 3 me1
- Setting
- heathland burn in May 1977e1
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Verbatim
e0“Fire intensity and seasonality affected the release of seed in Banksia ericifolia L.f”
e1“Mean maximum temperatures recorded in a heathland burn in May 1977 at heights of 0.5, 2 and 3 m were about 400, 275 and 175°C respectively”
Title
RA Bradstock; PJ Myerscough Australian Journal of Botany 1981. doi:10.1071/bt9810521
Other claims from this paper (7)
- 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.
- Intervention effect A greater proportion of the seed bank emerged and established as seedlings after the fire in May than after a fire the previous February.
- 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.