Abstract
The discovery that smoke is an important stimulus of seed germination was made during a comprehensive study by Hannes de Lange on a threatened species in the Bruniaceae, Audouinia capitata. The role of fire in regeneration was one of the subjects investigated. Official approval was given for a controlled burn in the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve in an area containing one of the A. capitata populations. At 20 stations in this area of 4000 m3, heat-sensitive labels were buried at a depth of 10 mm prior to the burn. These labels were also buried at the same depth at four different spots 10 m outside the perimeter of the area to be burned.
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Claim · model-written summary
Smoke was identified as a stimulus of seed germination in Audouinia capitata.
- Taxon
- Audouinia capitata
Audouinia capitatae0 - Treatment
- smokee0
- Outcome
- stimulus of seed germinatione0
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Verbatim
e0“smoke is an important stimulus of seed germination was made during a comprehensive study by Hannes de Lange on a threatened species in the Bruniaceae, Audouinia capitata”