Fire moss colonises burnt areas via its light weight wind blown spores arriving to the area. Colonisation capability of this species is rapid (Ryoma and Laaka-Lindberg, 2007). Burned surfaces provide ideal conditions for the germination of fire moss spores, and this moss can often be dominant for several years following high severity fires (Tesky, 1992). This moss is unlikely to be favoured by controlled or rotational burns which will be of too low severity to provide the bare landscape that the spores would require to be able to recolonise.