Aerial view of the eastern border of the Parque Nacional Soberania in central Panama following a fire.

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An aerial view of the eastern border of the Parque Nacional Soberania in central Panama following a fire. The park borders on an extensive monoculture of the invasive grass Saccharum spontaneum. The fire was severe enough to kill small remnant patches of trees that remained in the monoculture, but not severe enough to enter the contiguous forest of the national park. Experimental plantings of native trees also escaped the fire and are visible in the upper right of the photograph. This photograph originally appeared on the cover of Ecological Applications (17:5) in July of 2007.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Photograph
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Format	jpeg
Temporal and geographic description	Parque Nacional Soberania in central Panama.
Ecological Core Concept	Communities -- Disturbance, assembly, and succession Communities
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	This photograph could be used to illustrate a forest and grassland after a fire.
Keywords	fire, disturbance, forest, grass, invasive species, park
Key taxa	Saccharum spontaneum
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Christian Ziegler
Primary Author Affiliation	photographer
Primary Author email	n/a
Rights	Copyright 2007 by the Ecological Society of America.
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2008-04-09

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