Subject: Fire Ecology and Oak Savannahs

From: [email-masked] (Lee Herrin & Laurie Miller)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 22:35:17 -0400

Here is a query for any information, current studies or other useful
tidbits which might relate to the fire ecology of oak savannahs in
Southern Ontario and related parts of the U.S.

What studies are people aware of?  What, if any, restoration attempts
involving the re-introduction of fire into such landscapes have been
conducted?  Is there a good, overall, *current* text on the subject of
fire ecology which makes explicit reference to North America (vs the
tropics say)...

and finally, what sorts of information and/or studies are people aware of
that relate specifically to the reconstruction of fire histories (in any
ecosystem) using palynological data or any other technique...

Specific articles with journal titles and contact names of people engaged
in this research would be most relevant...I am also interested to see some
discussion of the effects of attempting to reintroduce fire into
disturbance dependent landscapes.

(I have also posted this in sci.bio.ecology)

-- 
Laurie Miller
Graduate Student
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University