Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines

• Published in: Oikos Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 326 - 336
• Main Authors: Schwilk, Dylan W., Ackerly, David D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copenhagen Munksgaard International Publishers 01.08.2001; Munksgaard International Publishers, Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: ALTURA; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; ARBOLES; ARBRE; BARK; Biological and medical sciences; Biological taxonomies; Correlations; CORTEZA; Demecology; DISEMINACION DE SEMILLAS; DISSEMINATION DES GRAINES; ECORCE; ELAGAGE NATUREL; EPAISSEUR; ESPESOR; Evolution; FEUILLE; FILOGENIA; Fire ecology; Flammability; FUEGO GRIEGO; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; HAUTEUR; HEIGHT; HOJAS; INCENDIE SPONTANE; LEAVES; MADUREZ; MATURITE; MATURITY; NATURAL PRUNING; Phylogenetics; PHYLOGENIE; PHYLOGENY; Pinus; PINUS STROBUS; Plants; Plants and fungi; PODA NATURAL; SEED DISPERSAL; Seedlings; Taxa; THICKNESS; TREES; WILDFIRES; Seeds; Bark; Environmental factor; Natural forest regeneration; Woody plant; Pinus; Plant emergence; Survival; Natural selection; Gymnospermae; Softwood forest tree; Population recruitment; Flammability; Coniferales; Spermatophyta; Vegetation fire; Pine seed; Adaptation

Fire may act as a selective force on plants both through its direct effects by killing or wounding susceptible individuals and through its effect on the environment: the post-fire environment may select specific physiological traits or life histories. We used phylogenetic independent contrasts to te...