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The authors recommend including plant fire response in fire ecosystem models.

Taxon: plante0
Outcome: including the plant fire response when modeling fire ecosystemse0

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“importance of including the plant fire response when modeling fire ecosystems”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1214–1291

Title

Fire Responses Shape Plant Communities in a Minimal Model for Fire Ecosystems across the World

Marta Magnani; Rubén Díaz-Sierra; Luke Sweeney; et al. The American Naturalist 2023. doi:10.1086/725391

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Fire elicited a greater germination response than smoke.

Taxon: treest0
Treatment: Firee0
Outcome: responsee0
Direction: greatere0
Comparator: smokee0

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“Fire resulted in greater response than smoke”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 505–549

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“trees in response to fire and smoke”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 43–78

Title

Seed germination of selected dry deciduous trees in response to fire and smoke.

Anamika Singh; Purnima Raizada JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE 2010

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Intervention effect Acana catechu had enhanced germination after fire and smoke.
Intervention effect Bauhinia variegata had enhanced germination after fire and smoke.
Intervention effect Dalbergia latifolia had enhanced germination after fire and smoke.
Intervention effect Tectona grandis had enhanced germination after fire and smoke.
Intervention effect Seedlings of all four trees had better vigor than untreated seedlings.
Recommendation The authors suggest fire and smoke can produce high quality seedlings for plantations.

Observationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Most legume species show fire tolerance or a positive response to fire in annually burned prairie.

Taxon: legume speciese4
Outcome: positive response to firee4

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“Most legume species are either fire tolerant or exhibit a positive response to fire”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1798–1881

Title

Biomass and Density Responses in Tallgrass Prairie Legumes to Annual Fire and Topographic Position

E. Gene Towne; Alan K. Knapp American Journal of Botany 1996. doi:10.2307/2445935

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Intervention effect Total legume density was higher in annually burned than in unburned tallgrass prairie.
Intervention effect Amorpha canescens, Dalea candida and Dalea purpurea had higher densities in burned than in unburned prairie.
Intervention effect Lespedeza violacea, Psoralea tenuiflora and Schrankia nuttallii had higher densities in burned than in unburned prairie.
Intervention effect Desmodium illinoense responded negatively to annual fire, the only legume to do so.
Intervention effect Total legume biomass did not differ between burned and unburned tallgrass prairie.
Intervention effect Biomass production of Dalea candida and Psoralea tenuiflora was higher in burned than in unburned sites.
Intervention effect Biomass of other legumes was similar between burn treatments.
Intervention effect Average individual stem masses of Amorpha canescens and Baptisia bracteata were greater in unburned than in burned prairie.
Intervention effect Total legume density was higher on lowland soils than on upland soils in tallgrass prairie.
Intervention effect Total legume biomass was not different between lowland and upland soils in tallgrass prairie.
Intervention effect Densities and biomasses of Amorpha canescens, Desmodium illinoense and Lespedeza capitata were higher on lowland sites than on upland sites.
Intervention effect Densities and biomasses of Baptisia bracteata and Dalea purpurea were higher on upland than on lowland soils.
Mechanism Persistence of legumes in annually burned prairie suggests they may play an important role in the nitrogen budget of this ecosystem.

Associationobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Hypodiscus striatus showed no response to fire frequency.

Taxon: Hypodiscus striatusHypodiscus striatuse0
Treatment: fire frequencye0
Outcome: response to fire frequencye0
Direction: no responsee0

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“Hypodiscus striatus , showing no response to fire frequency.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 632–692

Title

The effect of short fire cycles on the cover and density of understorey sprouting species in South African mountain fynbos

J. H. J. Vlok; R. I. Yeaton Diversity and Distributions 2000. doi:10.1046/j.1472-4642.2000.00087.x

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The authors suggest fire duration may predict red heather response.

Taxon: red heathere0
Treatment: duration of firee0
Outcome: post-fire responsee0

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“The duration of fire, rather than its presence or absence, may be an important character of the fire regime in predicting post-fire response of red heather”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 679–834

Title

The effect of fire on red heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis)

Laura L Potash; James K Agee Canadian Journal of Botany 1998. doi:10.1139/b98-005

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Intervention effect Experimental fire had a neutral to positive effect on red heather stem numbers.
Intervention effect Experimental fire generally reduced aboveground biomass production over the short term.
Intervention effect Experimental burn and clip treatments did not differ in effects.
Observation Sprouting after wildfire was vigorous at two of three sites.
Mechanism The authors suggest longer smoldering may have more damaging effects.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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All four fire-response types trace back more than 100 million years.

Outcome: fire-response typese0
Value: >100 My ago (Mya)e0

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“All four fire-response types could be traced to >100 My ago (Mya)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1133–1198

Title

Evolutionary history of fire‐stimulated resprouting, flowering, seed release and germination

Byron B. Lamont; Tianhua He; Zhaogui Yan Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2018. doi:10.1111/brv.12483

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Cornulaca alaschanica showed the opposite height response to fire from the other dominant species.

Taxon: Cornulaca alaschanicaCornulaca alaschanicae0
Treatment: firee0
Outcome: opposite responsee0

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“Whereas, another dominant species Cornulaca alaschanica appeared opposite response to fire, which was probably related to different growth characteristics of desert plants.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1090–1262

Title

Response of Desert Herb Synusia to Fire

Jieqiong Su Zhongguo shamo 2010

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Intervention effect Fire decreased herbaceous species richness during the first two post-fire years.
Intervention effect Plant abundance was higher at burned than unburned sites in the first two years, without a remarkable difference.
Intervention effect Aboveground biomass was significantly higher in burned sites in 2008.
Intervention effect Aboveground biomass did not differ remarkably between burned and unburned sites in 2009.
Intervention effect Allium polyrhizum height growth was restrained in the first year after burning and increased slightly more than the check site in the second year.
Intervention effect Cleistogennes songorica height growth was restrained in the first year after burning and increased slightly more than the check site in the second year.
Intervention effect Artemisia capillaris height growth was restrained in the first year after burning and increased slightly more than the check site in the second year.

Associationobservedoriginal resultsignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

The species differed significantly in response to fire frequency.

Taxon: BrackenPteridium aquilinumt0
Treatment: fire frequencye0
Outcome: response to fire frequencye0
Direction: differente0

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“significantly different trends in canopy cover and in response to fire frequency”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 930–1010

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“Bracken”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 30–37

Title

Coexistence of Two Species of Bracken (Pteridium) in a Narrow Zone of Range Overlap

Jeffrey Derek Dosdall; Aaron S. David American Fern Journal 2023. doi:10.1640/0002-8444-113.4.237

Other claims from this paper (5)

Observation Both bracken species co-occurred at three sites.
Association The two bracken species differed significantly in canopy cover trends.
Association The species grew at different densities.
Association The species grew at different biomass.
Mechanism The authors infer stable coexistence through distinct ecological niches.

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Claim · model-written summary

Vegetation response after fire depended on past fire frequency.

Taxon: vegetatione0
Treatment: frequency of past firese0
Outcome: reaction of the vegetation after a firee0

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“the reaction of the vegetation after a fire depends on the frequency of past fires”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 341–423

Title

Effects of fire on forest dynamics in southern Switzerland

R. Delarze; D. Caldelari; P. Hainard Journal of Vegetation Science 1992. doi:10.2307/3235998

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Fire had little effect on marsh seed banks and subsequent seedling response.

Treatment: Firee0
Outcome: seed banks and subsequent seedling responsee0
Direction: little effecte0

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“Fire had little effect on seed banks and subsequent seedling response.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 665–735

Title

The effects of disturbance on marsh seed banks

Loren M. Smith; John A. Kadlec Canadian Journal of Botany 1985. doi:10.1139/b85-301

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Observation Drawdown did not deplete germinable seed numbers.
Association Seed ingress into vegetation types may contribute to vegetation change.
Observation Open water sites had fewer germinable seeds than vegetated sites.
Observation Seeds moved across open water sites until they reached a barrier such as vegetation.

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