Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1992
Publication Title
Symposium on Ecology and Management of Riparian Shrub Communities
Publisher
USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station
First page number:
52
Last page number:
55
Abstract
Higher water potentials in recovering burned salt-cedar (Tamarix ramosissima) relative to unburned plants and the opposite situation in willow (Salix gooddingii) provide evidence that postfire water stress is reduced in the former but not the latter. Similarly, diurnal patterns of stomatal conductance in these taxa are consistent with the existence of more vigor in burned salt-cedar than willow. Plots of water potential and transpiration demonstrate that hydraulic efficiencies may contribute to differences in fire recovery.
Keywords
Fire management; Fire recovery; Flood plain ecosystems; Low-elevation riparian ecosystems; Lower Colorado River; Salix gooddingii; Salt-Cedar; Stomatal conductance; Tamarix ramosissima; Willow
Disciplines
Desert Ecology | Environmental Monitoring | Plant Biology | Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Smith, S. D.,
Busch, D. E.
(1992).
Fire in a riparian shrub community: Postburn water relations in the Tamarix-Salix association along the lower Colorado River.
Symposium on Ecology and Management of Riparian Shrub Communities
52-55.
USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/sls_fac_articles/69
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