Figure 1

Distribution of study sites (control/treatment) and successional patches (seasons postburn) within the Tatton unit during winter 2001 and 2002 on the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA. A prescribed burn was applied to the treatment sites of study areas North Aransas (NAWR) and South Aransas (SAWR), during the summer of 2001. Control fields were burned in previous years as part of Aransas’ fire management program and appear as >0 seasons patch age prior to summer 200l fires, and as zero-seasons patch age after summer 2001 fires. The three-seasons patch age plot in 2001 was burned during summer 2001, while the three-seasons patch age plot in 2002 remained unburned during the study.