effects of soil temperature during fire on seed survival in florida sand pine scrub土壤温度的影响在佛罗里达海滩的沙子松树种子生存开火擦洗.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Forestry Research Volume 2010, Article ID 402346, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/402346 Research Article Effects of Soil Temperature during Fire on Seed Survival in Florida Sand Pine Scrub Mary E. Carrington Science Division, Governors State University, University Park, IL 60484, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Mary E. Carrington, m-carrington@ Received 21 July 2009; Accepted 22 December 2009 Academic Editor: Terry L. Sharik Copyright © 2010 Mary E. Carrington. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Soil temperatures recorded with thermocouples and temperature-sensitive paints were quantified during Florida sand pine scrub prescribed fires at Ocala National Forest and Archbold Biological Station in May 1993. Thermocouples and glass petri dishes painted with temperature-sensitive paints and containing seeds of Eriogonum floridanum were placed at 0 cm and 2 cm depth, and in vegetated and open microsites. Maximum temperatures were higher and peak temperature durations shorter at 0 cm than at 2 cm depth. Temperatures did not differ between microsites during the Ocala fire, but were higher in open microsites during the Archbold fire, probably due to combustion of well-aerated litter. Maximum temperatures of petri dishes were lower than those of adjacent thermocouples due to time required to melt paints. All Eriogonum seeds recovered from petri dishes after the Archbold fire failed to germinate. Germination was quantified for Eriogonum floridanum and Garberia heterophylla seeds heated to 100◦C ◦