[RWG] PUBLICATION: Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

[Olivia Kwong]

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Publication Information

Title: Wildland fire in ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants

Author: Zouhar, Kristin; Smith, Jane Kapler; Sutherland, Steve; Brooks, 
Matthew L.

Date: 2008

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 6. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 355 p.

Station ID: GTR-RMRS-042

Description: This state-of-knowledge review of information on 
relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants can 
assist fire managers and other land managers concerned with prevention, 
detection, and eradication or control of nonnative invasive plants. The 16 
chapters in this volume synthesize ecological and botanical principles 
regarding relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive 
plants, identify the nonnative invasive species currently of greatest 
concern in major bioregions of the United States, and describe emerging 
fire-invasive issues in each bioregion and throughout the nation. This 
volume can help increase understanding of plant invasions and fire and can 
be used in fire management and ecosystem-based management planning. The 
volume's first part summarizes fundamental concepts regarding fire effects 
on invasions by nonnative plants, effects of plant invasions on fuels and 
fire regimes, and use of fire to control plant invasions. The second part 
identifies the nonnative invasive species of greatest concern and 
synthesizes information on the three topics covered in part one for 
nonnative invasives in seven major bioregions of the United States: 
Northeast, Southeast, Central, Interior West, Southwest Coastal, Northwest 
Coastal (including Alaska), and Hawaiian Islands. The third part analyzes 
knowledge gaps regarding fire and nonnative invasive plants, synthesizes 
information on management questions (nonfire fuel treatments, postfire 
rehabilitation, and postfire monitoring), summarizes key concepts 
described throughout the volume, and discusses urgent management issues 
and research questions.

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