Ecological Archives E087-078-A1

Jarrod M. Thaxton and William J. Platt. 2006. Small-scale fuel variation alters fire intensity and shrub abundance in a pine savanna. Ecology 87:1331–1337.

Appendix A. One figure and one table illustrating natural fuel-load variation in longleaf pine savanna at Camp Whispering Pines in southeastern Louisiana, USA.

 
   FIG. A1. Frequency distribution of natural occurring fuel loads in unaltered control quadrats prior to 1999 fires.

Table A1. Prefire surface fuel loads, by category, prior to fires in 1999 and 2001.

 
Fuel load (kg/m2)
 
1999
 
2001
 
Fuel type
mean
SE
mean
SE
Standing woody†?
0.05
0.01
0.02
0.01
Standing herbaceous‡
0.11
0.02
0.10
0.02
Pine needles
0.50
0.02
0.52
0.04
Other litter (1 hour)§
0.20
0.02
0.15
0.01
Dead wood (10 hour)||
0.05
0.01
0.04
0.01
Dead wood (100 hour)
0.10
0.01
0.14
0.01
 
 
 
 
 
Total
1.01
0.09
0.97
0.08

† Includes live shrubs stems.

‡ Includes both live and dead grasses and forbs.

§ Includes downed dead grass, pine bark, non-pine leaves and bark, woody stems <6 mm.

|| Dead wood, 6–25 mm diameter.

¶ Dead wood, >25–76mm diameter.


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