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FIRE HISTORY, STAND ORIGINS, and the Persistence of MCNAB CYPRESS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA Fire Ecology Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009 Mallek: McNab Cypress Fire History doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0503100 Page 100 RESEARCH ARTICLE FIRE HISTORY, STAND ORIGINS, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF MCNAB CYPRESS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA Chris R. Mallek Graduate Group in Ecology and Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA Tel.: 001-530-752-2644; e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Despite their substantial contribution to the uniqueness and diversity of the California Flo- ristic Province’s flora and vegetation, surprisingly little is known about the region’s native cypress species (genus Hesperocyparis Bartel & R.A. Price). Current ideas about the fire regimes that maintained these species in the past are based largely or solely on assump- tions about the expression and function of life-history characteristics. Empirical studies of fire history are generally lacking. I used a combination of dendrochronological meth- ods, field observations, and contemporary fire records to investigate the history of fire and its role in stand development in McNab cypress (Hesperocyparis macnabiana [A. Murray bis] Bartel), an uncommon serotinous cypress endemic to northern California. Although even-aged stands were present within all 20 populations surveyed, 4 populations also con- tained stands exhibiting uneven age structure. Fire records and field observations con- firmed that even-aged stands originated following stand-replacing fires, but no link be- tween fire and recruitment was found for uneven-aged stands. Rather, trees within un- even-aged stands were generally older, larger, and exhibited higher rates of senescence than those found in even-aged stands, suggesting that inter-fire tree mortality and inter-fire establishment may be linked. When aggregated, the dates of stand-replacing fires (de- rived from stand recruitment dates and fire records) revealed that relatively few stand-re- placing fires occurred in McNab cypress populations during the 50 yr period between 1940 and 1989 (1 fire per decade) compared to either the previous 100 yr period (at least 3 fires per decade) or the subsequent 20 yr period (3.5 fires per decade). This suggests that short fire return intervals do not appear to be a significant threat to McNab cypress persis- tence at the present time, and there is little ecological justification for fire exclusion. Keywords: age structure, California Floristic Province, fire history, fire regime, Hesperocyparis macnabiana, McNab cypress, northern California, serotiny, serpentine Citation: Mallek, C.R. 2009. Fire history, stand origins, and the persistence of McNab cypress, northern California, USA. Fire Ecology 5(3): 100-119. doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0503100 Fire Ecology Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009 Mallek: McNab Cypress Fire History doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0503100 Page 101 INTRODUCTION and vegetation. Although a lack of consensus regarding cypress taxonomy has traditionally Recurrent fire imposes strong selection on precluded definitive statements about the geo- plants such that the evolution of plant traits graphic distribution of intrageneric diversity, and the distribution of plant species are pro- most of the recent treatments of the group rec- foundly shaped by variation in fire regimes ognized 16 distinct species, including 13 na- (e.g., Clark 1996, Schwilk and Ackerly 2001). tive to the CFP, 12 of which are endemic (Min- Thus, a change in fire regime, depending on its nich 1987, Hickman 1993, Little 2006, Adams magnitude and rapidity, can have severe con- et al. 2009). Cypress species in the CFP ex- sequences for species persistence. This has hibit highly fragmented distributions, which major implications for fire management in the partly reflect their tendency toward poor soils California Floristic Province (CFP), a region or otherwise marginal habitats. However, at known for its exceptional levels of plant spe- the local scale, they typically dominate the cies diversity and endemism (Myers et al. vegetation to form distinct communities that 2000), where recurrent fire has featured promi- are both unique to and rare within the region nently for millennia (Swetnam 1993, Mohr et (Minnich 1987, Sawyer et al. 2009). As the al. 2000, Wathen 2006, Beaty and Taylor defining species for over 2 % of the recognized 2009). In many ecosystems throughout the vegetation types in alta California alone (Saw- CFP, factors such as fire exclusion, climate yer et al. 2009), yet comprising only about change, land-use change, and invasive species 0.19 % of the vascular flora (Hickman 1993, have driven fire regimes outside of their his- Adams et al. 2009), cypress species contribute toric ranges of variability (Sugihara et al. disproportionately to the state’s high vegeta- 2006, Westerling et al. 2006, Miller et al. tion diversity. 2009), and pressure from these factors is likely The paucity of fire history information is to continue. This elevates the importance of most conspicuous for McNab cypress (Hes- fire history studies because they aid in the de- perocyparis macnabiana [A. Murray bis] Bar- velopment of ecologically appropriate fire tel) because (1) it is arguably the most wide- management goals by providing information spread and abundant cypress species in the about: (1) fire regimes that supported species CFP (yet still uncommon) (Griffin and Critch- in the past, and (2) if and how those regimes field 1972, Vogl et al. 1977), and (2) there is a have changed (Swetnam et al. 1999, Millar et critical need for responsible management of al. 2007). The need for this information is par- remaining populations in the face of increasing ticularly acute for species that are both global- anthropogenic threats (C.R. Mallek, University ly rare and locally dominant because when of California, Davis, personal observation). these species are affected, the consequences McNab cypress occurs in portions of the North for ecosystem composition, structure, and Coast Range, southern Cascade Range, and function, as well as regional and global biodi- northern Sierra Nevada surrounding northern versity, can be especially severe (Ellison et al. California’s Sacramento Valley, typically on 2005). The cypress species (Hesperocyparis ultramafic substrates between 300 m and 1100 Bartel & R.A. Price) of the CFP fit these crite- m elevation. This relatively low elevation ria well. range places approximately half of the species’ The scarcity of fire history studies pertain- distribution on private land where it is increas- ing to cypress species in the CFP is surprising ingly impacted by development and other hu- given their considerable contribution to the man activities. One of the largest populations uniqueness and diversity of the region’s flora was destroyed in the early 1960s with the cre- Fire Ecology Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009 Mallek: McNab Cypress Fire History doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0503100 Page 102 ation of Whiskeytown Lake and National Rec- lowing fires of varying severities and, in some reation Area (Griffin and Critchfield 1972), cases, in the absence of fire altogether (Brose but, in recent years, public land management and Waldrop 2006). Moreover, the degree to agencies have started to express interest in which serotiny is expressed can vary among maintaining McNab cypress populations and serotinous species (McMaster and Zedler the plant communities that they dominate 1981, Bond 1985, Cowling and Lamont 1985), (Keeler-Wolf 2004; J. Gibson, National Park can vary spatially and temporally within spe- Service, personal communication; L. Hanson, cies (Givnish 1981, Borchert 1985, Cowling Forest Service, personal communication; J. and Lamont 1985, Gauthier et al. 1996, Weigand, Bureau of Land Management, per- Schoennagel et al. 2003), and can vary with sonal communication). factors not associated with fire (e.g., predisper- Current understanding of historic fire re- sal seed predation; Benkman and Siepielski gimes in McNab cypress populations are based [2004]). Serotinous taxa also differ with re- largely on assumptions about the species’ life- spect to the type of proximal cue required to history traits. Like all cypress species within initiate seed release (Zedler 1986). In light of the CFP (except San Pedro Matir cypress (H. these complications, conclusions about historic montana [Wiggins] Bartel), McNab cypress fire regimes and the development of fire man- retains seeds within persistent closed cones for agement strategies should, to the greatest ex- a year or more following seed maturation, a tent possible, integrate inferences derived from trait typically referred to as serotiny. McMas- multiple lines of evidence rather than rely on ter and Zedler (1981) proposed that serotiny is assumptions based on life-history characteris- most strongly favored under a regime of large, tics alone. Importantly, with the notable ex- spatially uniform, stand-replacing (i.e., very ception of giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron gi- high severity, sensu Romme [1980]) crown ganteum [Lind.] J. Buchholz) (Swetnam 1993), fires occurring at intervals longer than the assumptions about historic fire regimes have mean juvenile period and shorter than the not been rigorously tested for any of the mean potential life-span of the species. For world’s ≈30 serotinous species in the Cupres- serotinous species incapable resprouting, these saceae (Lamont et al. 1991; D.P. Little, New fires are expected to cause complete mortality York Botanical Garden, unpublished data). in the parent generation, induce seed release The goal of this study was to improve un- from
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