Mountain beech forest succession after a fire at Mount Thomas Forest, Canterbury, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-515

  Wiser, Susan K ^a   Allen, Robert B ^a   Platt, Kevin H ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Detrended correspondence analysis; Disturbance; Exotic plants; Fire; Forest; Nothofagus; Partial ordination; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

BEECH FOREST; FIRE; FOREST; SUCCESSION;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, CANTERBURY, MOUNT THOMAS FOREST;

AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; FAGACEAE; NOTHOFAGUS; POACEAE;

EID: 0031284628     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1987.10410174     Document Type: Article

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