Although fire can kill some plants, many plants need fires to survive and flower. Entire habitats like tallgrass prairie depend on fires, which historically burned across thousands of acres of grasslands in North America each year.
Today, fires are an important tool for managing prairies and conserving native plant diversity. On large preserves, we know that fire reduces shade, influences soil, and improvesNew research published in thelooks at how fires affect pollination in isolated remnants of prairie, which are critically important for plants and pollinators.
Summer flowering increases after spring fires regardless of the size of the prairie. In contrast, pollination and seed yield increased the most in small populations .
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