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Inspire Session

Session: Where the rubber meets the road: comparing current challenges in ecological restoration across ecosystems

INS 8-8 - Considerations when implementing prescribed burns: lessons learned from Southern California grasslands

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Location: 520B

Presenting Author(s)

LL

Loralee Larios

Faculty advisor
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California, United States

Co-author(s)

SS

Stuart T. Schwab

University of California - Riverside, United States
JR

James W. J Randolph

Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
SS

Sameer S. Saroa

Irvine Ranch Conservancy
JC

Joia K. Capocchi

University of California Irvine
KW

Kendra E. Walters

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
MP

M. Fabiola Pulido-Chavez

University of California Riverside
SG

Sydney I. Glassman

Assistant Professor
University of California Riverside
Riverside, California, United States

Prescribed burns are increasingly used by land managers to clear areas dominated by non-native species, but like many management actions they can have quite variable outcomes. The efficacy of a burn may be contingent on the dominant species or seasonality of the burn. Moreover, the efficacy may be contingent on dynamics post treatment. Here we share results from two studies about the effects of prescribed burns on 1) the subsequent establishment of invasive species and 2) the recovery dynamics of the soil microbial community. Our findings support previous work suggesting the completeness and intensity of a fire affect post-management dynamics.