This tissue is filled with dormant buds that resprout. Moderate fires may kill seedlings and saplings, but older trees usually survive. Fire-damaged surviving trees are susceptible to disease and insect attack. However, trees did not sprout following the burn. Crooked trees may be killed more easily than straight trees if the crooked trees are leaning towards the flames.
Fire appears to affect acorn crops only in that, dying trees tend to produce a massive crop.
Swamp white oak stems can resprout following fire. Fire can also reduce stocking rates of other species, allowing oak species to increase in basal area. Ecological species groups of oak ecosystems of southeastern Michigan. The effects of beaver in riverbank forest succession. Canadian Journal of Botany.