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Fire prone INVASIVE grasses common in the old cane fields.

Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel grass)

https://doi.org/10.1079/cabicompendium.14502
Melinis repens and Melinis minutiflora (molasses grass)

Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea grass)

#IAS #maui #fireprone

See old field boundaries in this Google map.

Intraspecific variability of #serotiny in #Pinus banksiana

Rear-edge populations (with low #fire frequency) are less serotinous & more variably than range-core #fireprone pops where serotiny is more uniformly high, by Pelletier et al
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14041 #JEcol

That is, results for Pinus banksiana (boreal) are quite similar to those for P. halepensis & P. pinaster (mediterranean species).
-https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb.1300182
-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1360138515000539

#fireecology @wildfirescience #trees #pinaceae