[ECOLOG-L] interesting flowering following a California fire last year

2014-05-15 Thread David Inouye
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/After-inferno-Mt-Diablo-bursts-with-long-hidden-5475899.php After inferno, Mt. Diablo bursts with long-hidden flowers

Re: [ECOLOG-L] interesting flowering following a California fire last year

2014-05-15 Thread Mike Nolan
Thank you for this. Here is a good generalized article on the very misunderstood ecology of fire, appropriately named, /_The Ecology of Fire_/: The ecology of fire by: C. F. Cooper http://www.citeulike.org/group/10326/author/Cooper:CF /Scientific American/, Vol. 204, No. 4. (1961) Thank you.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] interesting flowering following a California fire last year

2014-05-15 Thread Martin Meiss
I wish the article had addressed the issue of seed dormancy. Had those fire-flower seeds been waiting their chance in-place for forty years, or were they somehow transported into the burned zone after the fire? Martin M. Meiss 2014-05-15 10:34 GMT-04:00 David Inouye ino...@umd.edu: