Chapter 5: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Northeast bioregion

Alison C. Dibble; Kristin L. Zouhar; Jane Kapler Smith

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Chapter 5: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Northeast bioregion

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Alison C. Dibble, Kristin L. Zouhar, Jane Kapler Smith

Year:

2008

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks, Matthew L. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 61-90

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Abstract

The Northeast bioregion extends from Maine to Maryland and northern Virginia, south along the northwest slope of the Appalachians to Tennessee, and west to the ecotone between prairie and woodland from Minnesota to northeastern Oklahoma. It is composed of a wide variety of landforms and vegetation types. Elevation ranges from sea level along the Atlantic coast, to 243 to 600 feet (74 to 183 m) at the Great Lakes, to over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in the northern Appalachian Mountains.

Parent Publication

Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

Keywords

ecosystem, fire effects, fire management, fire regime, fire severity, fuels, grass/fire cycle, invasibility, invasiveness, monitoring, nonnative species, plant community

Citation

Dibble, Alison C.; Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler. 2008. Chapter 5: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Northeast bioregion. In: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks, Matthew L. Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 61-90