Pioneer Species

My pioneer species is the Sweet Birch. Sweet Birch is a tree. It is also called black birch and cherry birch. They live in damp and very cold areas. Their are three types of soils they usually live in Spodosol,Inceptisols, and Ultisols. They reproduce with seeds during mid September to November. The seeds usually spread through wind over crusted snow. They are flower seeds.The tree's have to endure snow storms. The trees are vulnerable to ground fires because they have really thin bark. Light scorching the bottom of the tree can lower resistance to bugs or diseases. Several leaf eating bugs infest on the sweet birch. The most common ones are the tubemaker, birch skeletonizer, oriental moth, gypsy moth, and dusky birch sawfly. Things made of sweet birch are furniture, cabinetes boxes, wood ware, and millwork. The sweetbirch is a land plant. They live on solid ground with grass so its on land.