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.
Keywords: ecosystem, fire effects, fire management, fire regime, fire severity, fuels, grass/fire cycle, invasibility, invasiveness, monitoring, nonnative species, plant community
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Contents
PDF File Size: 125 KChapter 1: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants-Introduction
Jane Kapler Smith, Kristin Zouhar, Steve Sutherland, and Matthew L. Brooks
PDF File Size: 350 KChapter 2: Effects of Fire on Nonnative Invasive Plants and Invasibility of Wildland Ecosystems
Kristin Zouhar, Jane Kapler Smith, and Steve Sutherland
PDF File Size: 1.2 MBChapter 3: Plant Invasions and Fire Regimes
Matthew L. Brooks
PDF File Size: 1.8 MBChapter 4: Use of Fire to Manage Populations of Nonnative Invasive Plants
Peter M. Rice and Jane Kapler Smith
PDF File Size: 655 KChapter 5: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Northeast Bioregion
Alison C. Dibble, Kristin Zouhar, and Jane Kapler Smith
PDF File Size: 1.3 MBChapter 6: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Southeast Bioregion
Randall Stocker and Karen V. S. Hupp
PDF File Size: 1.6 MBChapter 7: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Central Bioregion
James B. Grace and Kristin Zouhar
PDF File Size: 1.3 MBChapter 8: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Interior West Bioregion
Peter M. Rice, Guy R. McPherson, and Lisa J. Rew
PDF File Size: 1.2 MBChapter 9: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Southwest Coastal Bioregion
Rob Klinger, Robin Wills, and Matthew L. Brooks
PDF File Size: 1.9 MBChapter 10: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Northwest Coastal Bioregion
Dawn Anzinger Steven R. Radosevich
PDF File Size: 1 MBChapter 11: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants in the Hawaiian Islands Bioregion
Anne Marie LaRosa, J. Timothy Tunison, Alison Ainsworth, J. Boone Kauffman, and R. Flint Hughes
PDF File Size: 2.2 MBChapter 12: Gaps in Scientific Knowledge About Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants
Kristin Zouhar, Gregory T. Munger, and Jane Kapler Smith
PDF File Size: 645 KChapter 13: Effects of Fuel and Vegetation Management Activities on Nonnative Invasive Plants
Erik J. Martinson, Molly E. Hunter, Jonathan P. Freeman, and Philip N. Omi
PDF File Size: 245 KChapter 14: Effects of Fire Suppression and Postfire Management Activities on Plant Invasions
Matthew L. Brooks
PDF File Size: 635 KChapter 15: Monitoring the Effects of Fire on Nonnative Invasive Plant Species
Steve Sutherland
PDF File Size: 825 KChapter 16: Fire and Nonnative Plants- Summary and Conclusions
Jane Kapler Smith, Kristin Zouhar, Steve Sutherland, and Matthew L. Brooks
PDF File Size: 255 KReferences
PDF File Size: 565 KAppendix A: Glossary
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