Fire severity and vegetation response in the boreal Swedish forest

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1436-1450

  Schimmel, Johnny ^a   Granström, Anders ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Burn depth; Deschampsia flexuosa; Disturbance; Fire intensity; Regenerating strategies; Seed bank; Vaccinium myrtillus; Vaccinium vitis idaea

Indexed keywords

BILBERRY; BOREAL FOREST; COWBERRY; FIRE; WAVY-HAIR GRASS;

SWEDEN;

DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; ERICACEAE; POACEAE; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

EID: 0030437288     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265541     Document Type: Article

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