Implementation and monitoring of the NJDEP plan for protection and enhancement of certain broom crowberry populations in the South Jersey Dwarf Pine Plains: Final report
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TitleImplementation and monitoring of the NJDEP plan for protection and enhancement of certain broom crowberry populations in the South Jersey Dwarf Pine Plains: Final report
DescriptionThe purpose of this study was to collect baseline monitoring data and initiate ecological forestry / fire hazard reduction management to conserve extant populations of the state endangered plant broom crowberry (Corema conradii) and restore open-canopy dwarf pine plains habitat, in sites located in a portion of East Plains Natural Area unburned since 1971. Vegetation analysis indicated that the presence of broom crowberry is negatively correlated with presence of litter, canopy, and ericoid shrubs; lending support to the initial assumption that broom crowberry persists in the open patches produced by fire, as well as offering a mechanistic explanation of broom crowberry's failure to persist after a burned area revegetates. This also seems to suggest that clear-cutting and litter removal would reduce the factors with which broom crowberry is negatively correlated.
CollectionNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
Organization NameNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
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